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Archive through February 22, 2004

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Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, February 05, 2004 - 7:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Finished Driving to Detroit and now starting a slim volume, Rabbit -Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
by Doris Pilkington, whose mother and two aunts literally escaped from camps where aborigine children were taken and where they were made to forsake their own culture and become "white" and were lost to their families.

Miramax made a film of this book.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, February 07, 2004 - 12:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I have just begun reading Lost In A Good Book. I read the first in this series The Eyre Affair and really enjoyed it so I have high hopes for this one.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, February 07, 2004 - 1:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Finished Rabbit-Proof Fence and I'd say I need to read more on that subject but it was a start.

Change of pace.. Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs by Johnny Fairplay, er not.. by Cheryl Peck. The book is billed as "a gay ERma Bombeck meets A Girl Named Zippy.." a collection of humorous short stories..

Not usually a huge fan of short stories but it looks promising.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, February 07, 2004 - 2:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
That's really an interesting analogy. I've read A Girl Named Zippy and I'm trying to mix that with a gay Erma Bombeck...hmmm...

Rslover
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11-19-2002

Sunday, February 08, 2004 - 1:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rslover a private message Print Post    
Erma Bombeck, Oh, I remember her well. Read all of her funny books.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, February 08, 2004 - 6:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
These stories really are pretty funny.. more like essays than stories, actually.

The cover alone is interesting.

Buggles
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09-07-2002

Sunday, February 08, 2004 - 9:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Buggles a private message Print Post    
Anyone looking for intelligent, interesting, page-turning suspense should check out Greg Iles! I recently read Mortal Fear & now am starting on Dead Sleep. He is an outstanding writer & thinker. I'm fairly well read and most authors by comparison seem bored with the writing process & far less thoughtful, like they're on autopilot. Iles' books are true page-turners.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Finished the essays.. pretty good..

Now starting Lynne Cox's memoir, Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer, which looks like it will be quite good. She's always fascinated me.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
That sounds like a very interesting woman Sea.

Not1worry
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07-30-2002

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 8:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Not1worry a private message Print Post    
Sea, I read about her in a magazine. (Okay, it was People , I'll admit it). I was fascinated by her story also.

I read another Marian Keyes book, Watermelon that someone here recommended. I've liked her other books and this one was a great read as well.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 11:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
She's been swimming in crazy places for years:

At Age 14, she swam 26 miles from Catalina to the California mainland

At age 15 and 16, she broke the men's and women's records for swimming the English Channel -- a 33 mile crossing in 9hrs, 36 minutes

At 18, she swam the 20 mile Cook Straight between the north and south islands of New Zealand, was caught on a massive swell, after 5 hours, found herself farther from the finish than when she started, and still completed the swim.

She was the first to swim the Straight of Magellan, the most treacherous 3 mile stretch of water in the world

The first to swim the Bering Straight - the channel that forms the boundary line between the United States and Russia - from Alaska to Siberia, thereby opening the US-Soviet border for the first time in 48 years, swimming in 38 degree water in four-foot waves without a shark cage, wet suit or lanolin grease

The first to swim the Cape of Good Hope (a shark emerged from the kelp, its jaws wide open, and was shot as it headed straight for her)




Mak1
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08-12-2002

Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 7:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
On vacation last week, I finished Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins. Someone on this site recommended it. Whoever that was...Thank you! I love his writing. The story was completely bizarre in many places, adventurous in others, and deeply philosophical throughout.

Now I'm reading What's a Girl Gotta Do? by Sparkle Hayter.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, February 13, 2004 - 10:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Finished the Lynne Cox book.. she's really fascinating.

Starting a book that I think was recommended here, Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy by Carlos Eire. Non-fiction.

Puppylov3
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01-26-2004

Monday, February 16, 2004 - 9:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puppylov3 a private message Print Post    
Okay been on a bit of a readathon.

I finished Deception Point by Dan Brown,

then moved on to Mistaken Identity by Lisa Scottoline (rescued from the partially read pile)

then moved on to Liberty or Death by Kate Flora

and am now in the middle of Partner in Crime by JA Jance.

ahhhhh mysteries and thrillers - LOVE EM!!

Lycanthrope
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09-19-2002

Monday, February 16, 2004 - 12:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lycanthrope a private message Print Post    
Anyone who likes speculative fiction/alternate reality/time travel stories should check out a book called Pastwatch, The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. It's written very well, and for anyone who likes historical stuff, this will be right up their alley.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, February 16, 2004 - 6:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Readathons are such fun..

I raced through Waiting for Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy but still savored the writing, such a good writer, such a use of image and language.. excellent.

Opheliasgrandmother... OG.. I think you'd like this..

Starting a novel, a first novel, though the writer is a journalist, I believe.. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, by Elisabeth Robinson.



Not1worry
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07-30-2002

Monday, February 16, 2004 - 7:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Not1worry a private message Print Post    
I only made it to page 47 on Pearl of Kuwait. I wanted to like it, the story had promise, but I couldn't tolerate the writing. Set during the 1st Gulf War, a couple of Marines get into various crazy scrapes going after a Kuwaiti princess. I have to admit it was worth reading those bad 47 pages to read the one line saying the Marines never would gotten into such mischief except the war was so boring. The worst part was the narrator was a California surfer dude, but the writer didn't do a good job of making his way of speaking readable.

Oh well, I'll have to see what's on the back of the bookshelf until I can get back to the library.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 5:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Sounds like you made a good decision to drop that one, Not1 :-)

My novel started out sort of slow, or maybe just a letdown after a couple of excellent books, but I'm thinking it is well done and a good read in the chick lit genre too.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 1:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Finished the funny/sad novel The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters, by Elisabeth Robinson. Turns out she's not a journalist butan independent producer and screenwriter (as is the protagonist.. the novel is entirely comprised of letters, emails, etc., written by the older sister.. the younger sister has leukemia..

Starting another novel by a British author, Jim Crace, Being Dead: A Novel. Interesting structure to the short tale.


Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 1:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I just ordered the Robinson book so I am glad that I won't be disappointed.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 3:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
It is worth reading, Mamie :-)

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 11:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Finished Being Dead and it was elegant and gentle but still I don't imagine all that many people would enjoy it.. I'd say I appreciated it more than enjoyed it.

Starting on a novel, Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee.. about an immigrant from Korea..

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 2:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Finished Native Speaker, excellent!! Another book I think OG would like..

Starting an Elizabeth Berg novel, Say When.

Not1worry
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07-30-2002

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 6:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Not1worry a private message Print Post    
I hit on a good series by Sujata Massey. I actually picked up the 3rd in the series from the used book store and didn't realize it. The first few chapters were so good, I went back and luckily the had the beginning books. They center around Rei Shimura, a part Japanese, part American woman living in Tokyo. She is an antiques buyer and stumbles across murders, lies, etc. in her pursuits. The first book is The Salaryman's Wife. Even though I am totally uninterested in Japan and Japanese culture, these books are fascinating.

Puppylov3
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01-26-2004

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 6:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puppylov3 a private message Print Post    
I finished up JA Jances Partner in Crime and have moved on to Brad Metzler's Zero Game.