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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - 3:47 pm
Thanks to Prisoner and everyone who gave Left Behind input. I just can't decide if I want to go there. Gravelight sounds better to me!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - 4:04 pm
Hermione: I enjoyed Gravelight better...but it is also a totally different genre. I would say, read Left Behind and Tribulation Force. If you are still enthusiastic after those two, then continue. I will say this: Consider the Adult Left Behind series as mosaic tiles, while the Teen Left Behind series is mortar. They do interlock; for example, in the first book, one of the main adult characters is calling people in his address book. He reaches a boy whose family has been raptured, but he has been left behind. We learn, in reading the Teen series, that the boy is a major character in that series. The Teen series tends to add a little lagniappe to the reading. (And maybe that's why I stopped enjoying the read as much; after book 21 of the teen series, I stopped reading them.)
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Tuesday, July 20, 2004 - 7:40 pm
I"ve been doing the teen Left Behind series on dramtic audio - and I have to say so far I've loved them more than the adult series.
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Tashakinz
Member
11-13-2002
| Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 8:26 am
I've just started "Blood Canticle" by Anne Rice. It's the first first-person Lestat book since "Memnoch" and even only 30 pages it is quite good. The brat prince appears to be in fine form after being silent for so long.
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Grandmato2
Member
07-16-2004
| Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 2:28 pm
Reading The Last Juror by John Grisham. Does anyone keep lists and annotations of the books they read?
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 8:57 pm
Grandmato...I was given a book journal when I first started teaching 12 years ago. For whatever reason, I did not use it, and now I wish I had. Part of my problem is that when I read books, I usually read fast, and don't want to take time to "write" about them (my pleasure reading...all my "school" reading I HAVE to write about). I'm thinking of starting now, though...if for no other reason than to keep track of what I've actually read! LOL Just finished The Cassandra Compact (second in Ludlum's Covert One series). Found it to be too similar to the first one (Hades Factor), but still fun and easy read. If I'd read them two or three months apart, it would have been OK. I'm also halfway through The Last Girls and am truly enjoying it!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 8:59 pm
I was wondering about The Last Girls, TM. I kept seeing it in my book clubs for a really good price but I didn't know if it was any good. Good to know!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Wednesday, July 21, 2004 - 9:10 pm
GrandmaTo2: I do, as you know, but Seamonkey put together an AWESOME list of what we have been reading. Check out Books We've Read.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 7:11 am
Currently reading Susan Grant's The Legend of Banzai MacGuire and Jonathan Kellerman's Over the Edge.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 9:11 am
I'm currently reading Brick Lane by Monica Ali.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, July 22, 2004 - 1:18 pm
I am now reading Multiple Choice by Claire Cook about a mother and daughter both attending college.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, July 23, 2004 - 5:32 pm
Mamie...I finishedd the Last Girls and really enjoyed it. It's a "chick flick" waiting to be made into a movie. Just started Mists of Avalon. Have a feeling it will take me longer than my last three or four have. I'm hoping to finish it in time to also read The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Anna Karenina and Portrait of a Killer before school starts (Aug. 25). Wish me luck! LOL
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, July 23, 2004 - 6:17 pm
I finished Multiple Choice. It was a very quick read and a very cute book. Especially for women trying to figure out what to do when the kids fly the coop. I started The Jane Austen Book Club.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Monday, July 26, 2004 - 7:46 am
Let's see...where am I at? I finished Adriana Trigiani's Milk Glass Moon, as well as her The Queen of the Big Time and Lucia Lucia. Those were about a week or so ago, and this morning I just finished Just Friends by Robyn Sisman. I liked it- it was a fun book all the way through- very Chick-Lit with the British woman in NYC thing going on.
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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Monday, July 26, 2004 - 7:58 am
I read a lot this summer and after a couple of weeks of a break, I'm ready to pick up another book. I've got a copy of Corrections by Jonathon Franzen. Recommendations? Read it immediately or don't bother?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, July 26, 2004 - 8:15 am
I was disappointed in The Corrections but that doesn't mean that you won't like it.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, July 26, 2004 - 10:26 pm
I am on a roll with my reading lately. Finished The Jane Austen Book Club and it was good but not something that I would probably reread. I have started The Art Of Mending by Elizabeth Berg. It's the first book I have ever read of hers and I really like it so far.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 5:41 am
I read Elizabeth Berg's Open House. I liked it- it was more "grown up" than the typical chick-lit book, but it had a bit of the feel of it. It's just the woman in that one was actually raising a child and divorced. Pretty good. I'm on a roll too- I found a book I had started reading a few months ago and only got like 20 pages into in my glovebox (does anyone store gloves in there??) yesterday.... so now I'm reading "Girl's Poker Night" by Jill Davis. So far so good.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 6:45 am
I'm STILL reading Vanished Man by Jeffrey Deaver. I swear I have become ADHD in my 30s. My mind is rarely still enough for me to read the way I used to read.
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Tashakinz
Member
11-13-2002
| Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 7:58 am
Herm - how is it? I've just started the Deaver Lincoln Rhyme series (starting with "The Bone Collector") and it's very interesting. Have you read his other Rhyme novels? Any info appreciated.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 8:12 am
Hi Tasha! I am glad you popped in here today because I just recreated your personal folder the other day! I went to leave you a message and it wasn't there so I made another one! So check your folder! I really enjoy the Deaver books, but I will tell you this... some of his twists are quite improbable. It's never taken away from my enjoyment, but I can see how it may for others. So you will have to practice "suspension of disbelief." I think he creates great stories. Vanished Man is another Rhyme one. The perpetrator in this book is a magician who uses the tricks of his trade to fool the police. Very intriguing. Let me know how you like The Bone Collector. I enjoyed it enormously, more so than the movie and I thought that the movie was pretty good!
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 9:13 am
I'm still slogging through Phoenix/Maine. Only my commitment to finish what I've started will make me finish it. It's awful! Most of the dialogue consists of soliliquies and political speeches. This woman, Nancy Payne, should write political essays instead of fiction. Actually, that's pretty much what she did do in this book. I already know that in the end all the problems will be neatly wrapped up, probably tied with pretty ribbons. Also, I hate the font used in the book. It's very light and the letters sometimes run together. The proofreader missed a few things, too. <rant over>
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 11:19 am
I just got back from the library. I picked up: Books on CD: On the Road by Jack Kerouac- I tried to read this before but it went to slow. Hopefully listening to it will work out better. Hannibal by Thomas Harris- The Books on CD selection was pretty scarce. I just wanted something! And in proper book format: The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and ?- Been wanting to read this for awhile but it's always out. Babyville by Jane Green- I've liked her other books that I've read a lot. I also just returned You Belong to Me on CD by Mary Higgins Clark. I used to read her books all the time then kind of got out of it, but they've all always been really good. I enjoyed that one as well.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 11:28 am
Well, Mak, you have given me one to avoid! It sounds dreadful. Put it down! You can do it! Put it down and step away from the book! Life is too short to read a bad book! Kaili, did you read the two books before Hannibal?
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Tuesday, July 27, 2004 - 11:28 am
Recent new reads ~ Novelties and Souvenirs: Collected Short Fiction by John Crowley - Some of the most lyrical writing and memorable (and often melancholy) stories I've read in a long time (one is a retelling of the classic folklore legend "The Green Child"); several selections are more novella-length rather than short stories. The American Fantasy Tradition edited by Brian M. Thomsen - I'm asking Santa for my own copy of this! A short story collection of fantasy tales that are uniquely American (although I noted at least one author who's Canadian). Just had to mention that I was a bit put off by a fumbling apology/justification of his selection process in the editor's introduction. 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die by Steven Jay Schneider, et al - The title's a bit morbid. Especially since the cover photo features a screaming Janet Leigh from Psycho. Inside are half-page to full-page reviews of movies - some notable for their artistic or historical significance, some for their place in popular culture. A caution though...most of the selections reveal major plot points and some of them left me wondering what the critic was smoking when he/she wrote the review. This book covers world cinema although it is dominated by US and UK films. Lyra's Oxford by Philip Pullman - This brief tale is about an episode that takes place two years after The Amber Spyglass. Alone, it's a suspenseful tale that's something of a tease - perhaps the events in it will take on greater significance when Pullman publishes his book about Dust. I was more intrigued by the book's thick fold-outs of a map of Oxford, a traveler's catalog, and a postcard from Mary Malone, as well as the author's enigmatic hints about their significance. (If you haven't read Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy none of this will make sense to you!) Grammar is a Sweet, Gentle Song: A Novel by Erik Orsenna - A parable about the joy and importance of language and words. To be sure, this short book is flawed by incomplete plotting and shallow characterizations. Still, I was quite enchanted by it. The book was originally written in French and is most easily appreciated by those who are familiar with that language. I was always good at translating and couldn't help wondering how the original text went because some of the English lines were just so good! At times the story's inherent whimsey threatened to overwhelm its message but a brilliant remark - sometimes caustic, sometimes insightful, sometimes heartfelt - would bring the tale back on track. The ending was a disappointment. The Wildlife Sanctuary Garden by Carol Buchanan - making my yard more peaceful, beautiful and eco-friendly has been a pet project of mine for a while. Each year I make another few changes. I've looked at many gardening books and this one is one of the best I've come across for practical advice on planting, water features, and hints to attract all types of wildlife. A less in-depth but more visually appealing book is the Nature Company guide Natural Gardening. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, narrated by Nathaniel Parker - Book-on-tape. An inventive, fast-paced and often very funny fantasy. I could've done without the info on male dwarves however. The narrator was absolutely excellent and Artemis is a fascinating character himself. I'm on the waiting for the other two titles in this series. Old favorites revisited ~ The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson - read during my brief convalescence. I have multiple copies of every C&H books and adore them all (along with my Bloom County/Outland, The Far Side, and Peanuts books - I'd get the For Better or Worse book about Farley except I know it'd make me cry). Hadn't looked at them in a while but I was needing something to cheer me up! I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie by Pamela Des Barres - first read this in college. It's such a fun, sweetly raunchy book. On my reading list now ~ The Miracle Detective: An Investigation of Holy Visions by Randall Sullivan The Complete Peanuts: 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz
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