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Archive through March 29, 2005

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Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 7:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
I haven't been here since Dec. but I can't believe there isn't a thread for Nicolas Sparks books. While I was at my daughter's I read The Notebook and totally loved it. I wanted to read The Wedding next but could only find it tonight on hardcover. More expensive and harder to read in bed. So I'm waiting til they have it on sale in paperback. But I did get A Walk To Remember by him. The clerk said that his books are really selling so maybe I just missed a thread here about them. But he's now my new favorite author and I plan on reading all of his books.

Reiki
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08-12-2000

Thursday, February 24, 2005 - 8:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reiki a private message Print Post    
I just started reading Watership Down. I've never read it before and have wanted to for a long time, but somehow just never got around to it. Have to admit that my interest in the "Lost" connection is what prompted me to get the book now.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Friday, February 25, 2005 - 5:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Jasper, I used to read all of Patricia Cornwell's books. I haven't read any in a long time. Are they still just as good?

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, March 04, 2005 - 7:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I just started reading Kiss Me Like A Stranger by Gene Wilder. It's an autobiography but really told in little snippets not from birth on.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, March 04, 2005 - 3:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Just finished "Honeymoon" by James Patterson - very below par for him, starts off ok but there's hardly any suspense in it.

Now starting on "Blood Memory" by Greg Iles. I agree with Buggles above, "Mortal Fear" was definitely his best so far, but I have high hopes for this.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Friday, March 04, 2005 - 4:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
I just read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by James Haddon. Thank you to Yankee, Eeyore, and Mamie (and anyone else I may have missed) for recommending that one. I was totally wrapped up in it and found the character stayed with me for a few days after I finished it.

Just before reading that, I read Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland. It was very funny in places, quite moving in others, with some bizarre plot twists that you never see coming. I'll probably check out some more of his work.

Now I'm reading The Virgin by new TVCHer Erik Barmack. I stayed up reading it a bit later last night than I should have. I love that there's a character in it known as a "faux cowboy". I've heard it said that most novelists' first books are somewhat autobiographical. For Erik's sake, I hope that isn't true in his case, lol.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, March 06, 2005 - 10:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I finished the Wilder book and it was very interesting to learn all about little things about movie making.

I am now reading Accidental Happiness by Jean Reynolds Page. It's about a woman who is living on her boat after her husband dies and shoots at someone who comes on the boat one night, only to find out it's her husband's first wife and her daughter.

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 1:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. I stayed up until 2:20 this morning to "just read one more chapter" - and I have to get up at 6! I finally gave up but can't wake to get home to finish it off.

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Monday, March 07, 2005 - 2:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
Oh, Roxip, I know that feeling well. You don't want to put down the book, and yet you know you are going to regret it later. But if the book is really good, you never do regret it, do you? A good book is so much better than sleep!

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 7:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
So last night I finished it at around 12:20 - I've got to start reading earlier in the evening...LOL.

(But it was worth it.)

Cathie
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08-16-2000

Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 9:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cathie a private message Print Post    
Twinkie, I got The Notebook and The Wedding in paperback for my birthday and loved them both. The Wedding is available in paperback now from Amazon.com.

I am currently reading Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg and it is very good. She is the author of Fried Green Tomatoes, so if you liked that you will enjoy this one, too.

Scout
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01-20-2005

Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 10:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
Cathie - I loved "Standing in the Rainbow"! One of my favorite Fannie Flagg books!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 4:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I finished Accidental Happiness which I really liked. Had a little twist at the end that I wasn't expecting.

I am now reading The Lost Mother by Mary McGarry Morris.

Not1worry
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07-30-2002

Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 7:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Not1worry a private message Print Post    
Roxip, I think Redeeming Love might just be on my top 5 list of favorite novels ever! It's wonderful, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Try The Atonement Child and A Scarlet Thread as well.

I just read The Hot Flash Club and The Hot Flash Club Strikes Back or Strikes Again, or whatever it was. They were a hoot. Not the smoothest storyline, but I enjoyed them a bunch.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, March 11, 2005 - 12:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I've just begun The Rock Orchard by Paula Wall. I'm loving the preface!

The Lost Mother was a good read. Sad but uplifting in the end.

Spunky
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10-08-2001

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 10:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spunky a private message Print Post    
Does anyone know if there are any comments here on Memoirs of a Geisha?

I finished the book and left me wanting to know more on the subject. I did check Amazon comments but maybe I can find more here.



Landi
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07-29-2002

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 10:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
i just finished "the virgin" by one of our own erikbarmack. very interesting read. i wasn't quite expecting the ending, it was a shocker. it's about a guy who lies to get on a reality show. very cool book! thanks erik!

Roxip
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01-29-2004

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 1:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Roxip a private message Print Post    
Not1worry...I have also been told to read "A Voice in the Wind" by Francine Rivers...its the first of a 3-part series (Mark of the Lion). I can't wait to start reading more because apparently she's got quite a few novels out.

I'll add your recommendations to my list.

I loved this book from start to finish.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 4:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
landi, that was quite a shocker ending, wasn't it! I especially liked the behind-the-scenes manipulations that were going on. As a reality show watcher, I could picture most of it actually occurring. Erik said that most of it did. Did you know that Beach Girl is real? lol! OH, and didn't you love the snarky fan notes after each show? They weren't as funny as our own Bunny, of course, but they were a wonderful addition to the book.

Spunky, I think people discussed Geisha a while back, but their comments have gone into archive heaven now. I haven't read it but have heard good things about it.

Spunky
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10-08-2001

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 8:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spunky a private message Print Post    
Thanks Mak1.
I enjoyed reading the book and would love to see a movie version (there were rumors of making a movie), I hope they're true.
A bit disappointed when I discovered they were really not memoirs but just fiction based on a famous geisha who in turn wrote her own book.
Still, it was an enjoyable reading.

Puppylov3
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01-26-2004

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 9:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puppylov3 a private message Print Post    
started and finished 10 Big Ones by Janet Evanovich while on vacation.

Currently in the middle of Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich (and loving it!!)

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Friday, March 18, 2005 - 1:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
Just finishing Wicked

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, March 18, 2005 - 2:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Spunky, I just checked in IMDb and Memoirs of a Geisha is in post production to be released this year. It's being directed by Rob Marshall who directed Chicago. It's a great novel. I read it about 2 years ago. Hope the movie is just as good.

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Friday, March 25, 2005 - 11:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
For fans of Ann B. Ross, her latest Miss Julia "School of Beauty" book is out. Can't wait to see what Miss Julia is up to now!

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 3:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Ooh, I read Wicked just a little while ago. Also recently finished Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond and a re-read of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Those were rather heavy duty and/or depressing so I'm ready for a spell of fun & light reading. I dug out two of my favorite Jack Finney collections - I Love Galesburg in the Springtime & The Third Level (which has two of my very favorite stories ever, "Of Missing Persons" and "Such Interesting Neighbors").

After that I may pick up Richard Adams' Watership Down again. Although I'm still traumatized by his book The Plague Dogs.