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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 1:43 pm
Lucky for you! I like when it's a good rainy day for a good book. I can't sit inside when it's sunny and read. I do take it outside though!
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 3:27 pm
I sat down to start reading "Rosie Dunne" and ended up reading it straight through. It was really good!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 6:14 pm
That was quick! I am just finishing it up and am going to start Once Upon A Wedding by Jean Stone. It's about a bridal planning shop. Looks like it should be a quick read.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, February 25, 2005 - 9:33 pm
The book I am reading is actually called Once Upon A Bride. The second one which I have preordered is called Twice Upon A Wedding. Rosie Dunne was wonderful!
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 8:28 am
Poor Alex, never did "no" how to spell, though! I liked how the daughter would always make the same mistake. That was the first book I've ever read by that author, but I liked the style.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 11:01 am
Meg Cabot writes in that style. I would recommend her book Boy Next Door. You should also read P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern. She didn't write her first one in the same style but I think that you will love the story.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 5:56 pm
I think I saw the "P.S. I Love You" book at the library. I'll have to check it out. Is it fairly new? I'm re-reading one of Maeve Binchy's books right now - it's an older one called, "Firefly Summer". She's one of my all time favorite authors.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 6:12 pm
I bought it last year, probably around September. I really liked Binchy's last book, Nights of Rain and Stars.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 6:20 pm
I bought that one. I don't have a lot of room to store books, so I don't buy as many as I'd like, but the ones I like to read over again, I will. I've got quite a few of Binchy's. My favorites were "Circle of Friends" (hated the movie of it - they totally changed it), "Evening Class", and "Scarlet Feather". I just love how she develops her characters.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 6:27 pm
I do love her writing also. My Mom bought me a wonderful bookcase for my last birthday but I need to find another like it. Though, I do try and get rid of books that I won't reread. There are some that I want to keep but others I can get rid of. I just got two more in the mail today and I could see my husband's face as he handed me the box. He always looks at the bookcase and says "that's a lot of books, that's a lot of money." I figure that I pay for them, if I should have any vice, books is a good one to have.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 6:40 pm
That must be fun getting them in the mail. I love getting packages, anyway, and getting books would be especially great. Although I do love to go to bookstores. We don't have any of the kinds of bookstores where you can buy coffees and sit and read, but at least we have a B. Dalton fairly close. I would never consider book-buying a vice! Besides, it's continuing entertainment as you can read them over and over. So if you pro-rate the books by the amount of times you read them, then it's actually very cheap.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 7:23 pm
That's what I say! We have Borders and Barnes & Noble close by so it's like dying and going to book heaven. Grab a coffee and browse! Our Barnes and Noble has a Starbucks right next door and our Borders has it's own coffee shop.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, February 28, 2005 - 7:38 am
Well, I have been sick since Friday with a cold and cough, so have been a bit pathetic. But I have had time to read! Right now it's Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich and I am disappointed. Not her best, for sure. I'm nearly done and don't care. You should at least get a twinge of regret as you near the end of a book!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, February 28, 2005 - 9:10 am
I never read any of her books and then I read Metro Girl and I didn't like it very much. I have heard so many good things about her other books.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, February 28, 2005 - 9:46 am
I love her Stephanie Plum books (which have one through ten in the title...read in order) and definitely recommend those. I'm not sure what it was with this one...I think maybe the characters don't drive the story enough, so you don't feel emotionally tied to them.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Monday, February 28, 2005 - 12:51 pm
I just read "The Wedding Date" (originally titled "Asking for Trouble") by Elizabeth Young. It is *much* better than the movie, IMHO, and I plan to pick up some more of her books. If they are anything like the first, I have some enjoyable reading ahead of me!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, February 28, 2005 - 2:05 pm
I am finishing up Once Upon A Bride. It's an okay read, not bad but nothing that exciting. I am going to start Bundle Of Joy by Ariella Papa.
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Monday, February 28, 2005 - 3:11 pm
My favorite Binchy book is Tara Road! I loved it. I can't wait to read her new one.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Monday, February 28, 2005 - 6:46 pm
Jen, Binchy's book, "Scarlet Feather" has some of the same characters as "Tara Road" if you haven't already read it. I thought it was really good, too.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, March 01, 2005 - 8:54 am
just read binchy's 'tara road' last week. it was in our 'lending library brown grocery bag' in the back office of the pro shop. 4 of us add and remove things from this lending bag. all of the janet evanovich books that are NOT stephanie plum novels aren't good IMO. i get a newsletter from evanovich every few months and it seems a lot of the books now coming out are really re-releases of earlier stuff because of the plum popularity. i don't like romance books that don't have a good story to go with them. i can't even get into her old stuff...but the plum books are wonderful and i would love to meet 'ranger' in my dark room late at night! or have grandma mazur to dinner, as long as she left the gun home and we didn't have to go to a viewing afterward... LOL the descriptions of what 300-pound lula wears to be 'inconspicuous', i.e., neon-orange micro skirt and leopard print halter top with a pink leather jacket and poppy red sling back heels...well the plum novels are plum full of fun!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, March 01, 2005 - 10:27 am
I love everything by Maeve Binchy. She is definitely one of my favorites and has been for years. Tabby, you are so right about the Stephanie Plum vs. others by Janet Evanovich. The Stephanie Plum novels are so good because you care about all the characters. I feel like I know them and want to hang out with them. And I, too, have a thing for Ranger, though his physical description in the past few books wasn't what was already in mind, so I had to readjust my mental images. But I did so, willingly! I love him enough to be the one to change.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 8:23 am
Finished "Name and Address Withheld" by Jane Sigaloff this morning. Has anyone read it? It's basically the story of an affair from the viewpoints of all parties involved - mistress, husband, wife, and mistress's best friend whose marriage previously ended because of her husband's affair. Left me a bit unsettled. I like to read things that show different perspectives of an event because I think so much of the world and its people is gray and it is interesting to see the same situation with different eyes. Usually I can feel sympathy for all parties. Still, I hate cheating and I don't like it when I think it is romanticized and when the author wants me to think that the wife deserved to be cheated on because she wasn't perfect and the couple deserves to be together because they are soul mates. I ended up frustrated. Especially because part of me bought it!
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 9:19 am
I've never read that one, Yesitsme, but I know what you mean about wanting to know a story from different angles. I always try to imagine how different a book, like "Gone with the Wind" for example, would have been if told from sister Suellen's perspective, or from one of the other characters.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 9:55 am
It sounds like an interesting book. I think being married, it would be hard to read the perspective of the mistress. I agree with you about cheating but then again, we never know the whole circumstances around someone else's marriage.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, March 03, 2005 - 11:29 am
In the book the mistress didn't know he was married the first few weeks they were going out, BUT once she found out that he was, she continued to sleep with him. I've always been single and generally I am hardest on the married people who have made the commitments they fail to honor...but I think if some advances were rebuffed, some people wouldn't cheat and would possibly work through their problems with their spouse. You never know what other people are going through, but I wish people would make fewer promises in life and keep the ones they make to the best of their ability.
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