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Archive through April 27, 2004

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Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 4:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
ACK!! Bokkless!!! Too bad you don't live next door to me.. you would never never have to be bookless :-)

I'm sure your new arrivals will be happy with their welcome :-)

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 4:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I would love to live next door to the Seamonkey Library! You are always reading so many. I do have a lot of books which I have already read and I guess I could go buy some at the store but I ordered 12 new books so I think I better wait or my dh is going to kill me!

Not1worry
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07-30-2002

Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 7:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Not1worry a private message Print Post    
Oh my...I've just crawled out of 3 straight days of The Time Traveler's Wife. What a book. I was confused for much of it. When I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it. I need to go back and re-read some parts to figure them out. It was fascinating, very different. None of the other books I have look very engaging in comparison.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, April 06, 2004 - 8:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I loved it Not1. It was very different and at times a little confusing but I just couldn't put it down!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Wednesday, April 07, 2004 - 8:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Finished the Kellerman and starting on Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Sunday, April 11, 2004 - 4:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Gobbled up the Amy Tan.. and working on such a sad book based on the journals of a young woman anorexic.. Slim to None: a Journey Through the Wasteland of Anorexia Treatment by Jennifer Hendricks ("gently edited" and commentary by her father, after she lost her life at age 25.

Oh and I popped into a Barnes and Noble the other day to use up a $10 coupon and emerged with a delicious bag o books, inclouding the one I'm reading, and Sweet Caroline, as recommended above.. and much more!! Yummmmm..

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, April 12, 2004 - 12:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Finished the Jennifer Hendricks book.. just so sad .. and will be starting a biography Love at GOON Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection by Deborah Blum.

Anyone who has taken psych 101 has heard of Harry Harlow and his studies of primates.. the little monkeys who chose the soft cloth "mothers" over the hard wire "mothers", even tho the wire mothers had the milk. It sounds insightful..

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 6:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Loved Hoffman's Seventh Heaven. Now I'm reading Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore, an author recommended by Adven. The blurb on the cover describes it very well: "So delightfully warped and funny that no sane person could have written it." - Carl Hiaasen. I'm not sure if a completely sane person could enjoy it as much as I am, either.

Sea, you read some really interesting-sounding books. Will you be releasing any books in Mystic? I'll be sure to join Bookcrossings before then!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 4:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Well, that's possible.. I tend to release as I read to some extent.. but if you see something you'd like to read and I have it marked as AVL (available) on the bookcrossing site, where I am SeamonkeyofTVCH, if you let me know I can reserve it for you.

(Mystic.. yikes.. I'm totally behind in being ready for the Moon and Cowboy wedding and I leave Friday for that, and I'm planning a wonderful trip to Orcas Island for mid-May.. and that's enough at the moment.)

I have a broad taste in books except for most mystery stuff and romance stuff.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 3:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
So.. I finished the book about Harry Harlow.. very thought provoking.. very..

and now will be starting a book by Alexandra Robbins, Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Tuesday, April 20, 2004 - 8:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
(Thanks, Sea, I'll check it out before October.)

I finished the Christopher Moore book. It was LOL funny!

Today I started Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
Reading Angels & Demons by Dan Brown, love it! I read The Divinci Code last week and loved it too.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 3:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I'm still awaiting my book club order so I am just biding my time waiting for a good book.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 3:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I'm swimming in good books to read and just ordered more today!! Yeah!! <Randy Jackson fist pump>

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Aight Sea!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 3:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Yo, Yo, Mamie, wassup??

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 4:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Just sitting back, I'm feelin' ya Sea on the book thing. You're not pitchy, I think Dawg, you are the book queen! lol

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 6:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Lol, Mamie! I have a bunch here, too, and picked up 4 more at the library today. Today I started The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin. Yes, the actor/comedian. I didn't realize he was writing novels now. It's funny, when I'm reading it, I hear his voice narrating. It is starting out good.

Has anyone read his book Shopgirl? What did you think of it? The reviews sound good.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 7:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Mak, I just sent for The Pleasure of My Company, so that's good to know. I haven't read Shopgirl though I do want to. I figured that while I was reading his book, I would picture him narrating.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Reading Pleasure, I wonder if Martin has personal knowledge of obsessive-compulsive disorder or if he studied it to write the book. It would be overwhelmingly sad if he hadn't done such a good job of letting us inside the main character's mind. I really like his way of making me feel compassion, but not pity, for the character. I'm adding Shopgirl to my list now, too.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I am hoping my books come today because my dh and ds went on their annual fishing trip for the weekend and dd has a police explorer award dinner to go too and I shall be home alone in need of a good book. I may just have to run to the store. My neighbor did bring me Lost In Translation to watch so unless a book comes today, it will be movie night for me!

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 1:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
I just read But Inside I'm Screaming by Elizabeth Flock. It's the nonfiction story of a news reporter who has a breakdown on the air and ends up in a mental hospital, trying to figure out how she ended up there with "all these losers". It's interesting, though not always easy, to follow along on her journey.

I think my next will be Bel Canto by Ann Patchett.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 11:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I finished the book about Sororities.. think I'll see if my 16 year old bookcrossing buddy is interested.. she requested "Branded" about teenagers so I suspect shemight be ..

Now reading a book I learned about right here inh this thread.. Sweet Caroline: The Last Child of Camelot which is quite interesting.

I joined an online class thru BN.com to read the new Chang-Rae Lee book, "Aloft".. which I hope arrives this week.. and the author himself is one of the instructors!! I loved his book "Native Speaker" and will read his other one in time..

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 8:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Yay! I got some books...doing the new book dance! I have started Good Grief by Lolly Winston. It's about a woman who loses her husband at 36 and the stages of grief she goes through. It is very funny so far and touching. Looks like a good one!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 1:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Sounds good!! Glad you got your books.. that is always a happy day!

The ones I have coming are: Aloft, Borderlines: A Memoir,
Caddy for Life: The Bruce Edwards Story, Name All the Animals: A Memoir, Slave: A True Account of Modern Slavery, The Dirty Girls Social Club, The Song of Names, Therapy
(Jonathan Kellerman), and Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns.