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Not1worry
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 6:46 am
Mak, try Steal Away and Margaret's Peace. Those are the two Hall books I've read and enjoyed. I picked up one called (I think) Songbird but couldn't get past page 3. Then I read that people under 50 years old are supposed to give a book 50 pages before giving up. So maybe I gave up too soon. It was written in a kind of hillbilly dialect as narrative. That got on my nerves quickly. Be prepared to read all the A.M. Smith books! They are terrific.
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Seamonkey
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 10:35 am
Well, even though it seems to have a following of sorts, I would avoid The Stones of Summer.. long, long, circular, self-absorbed, angry.. bleh.. I ended up skimming over much toward the end. So my reward: Amy Tan's The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. Loving it.
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Twiggyish
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 11:43 am
Kady, I've just finished The Five People you meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, too. A wonderful book!! I loved the character development in the book. Also, the author cleverly invokes the sights, sounds and smells of various places visited. The lessons in the book are wonderful, too. The main twist isn't evident until nearly the end. (ironic) Can you tell I LOVED this book? I'm going to read Tuesdays with Morrie next.
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Mamie316
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 12:45 pm
Five People is a wonderful book! The hands that got him really got to me! I am finally finishing Cold Mountain and though it was dragging at first, it really has pulled me in with all the people and things that Inman meets on his journey.
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Egbok
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 2:00 pm
Mamie, I'm on the chapter titled "exile and brute wandering". Isn't it a good read?!! I'm hoping to finish it by this weekend and then I want to go see the film with Nicole, Jude and Renee.
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Marysafan
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 2:23 pm
I have Cold Mountain "On deck" and hope to start reading it soon. Am I the only Big Brother geek who remembers that Cold Mountain was one of the books that Jamie brought into the Big Brother house back before books were banned from the Big Brother House. I remember that Eddie had borrowed the book, but found it "boring". I had just bought the book, but after Eddie's "review", I put it aside until now. Why did I ever listen to Eddie? I didn't even like him all that much! lol!
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Egbok
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 3:59 pm
Marysafan, I didn't know that Jaime had read Cold Mountain while in the BB house, but that's probably because I didn't keep up with all the threads at the time. Interesting to know though...so thanks! Now you said that Eddie found it "boring" and I say that's really ashame. I find it fascinating in the colorful words used to express the storyline and I'm also learning how people lived back in that time period....truly lived and how they did daily chores in order to survive and exist in that lifestyle and time period during the Civil War. A southern perspective anyway. I'm really enjoying this book and look forward to getting some free time to read the next chapter! I hope you pick it up soon and let me know what you think of it too...
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Kady
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 4:31 pm
Twiggy...we read them opposite. I read Tuesdays first. I would love a movie made of it. I really really loved it and couldn't wait to start Five People. I loved the books so much that when Mitch Albom comes out with a new one...I will be in line to buy it the first day. That says alot for me to pay full price for a book...I usually look over the used sites for deals.
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Mamie316
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 6:15 pm
I finally finished Cold Mountain and I can't say how I feel about the ending. Eg, we can discuss it when you are done! I'm am now starting a chick book "True Blue" by Luann Rice.
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Grannie
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 6:52 pm
I would like to know what Ms. Eggie and Mamie thought of Cold Mountain also. I saw the movie only -- have not read the book.
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Wink
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 6:54 pm
Kady there was a movie done about Tuesday's with Morrie. Hank Azaria played Mitch Albom and Jack Lemmon was Morrie.
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Mak1
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 7:31 pm
Thanks for the recommendations, Not1. I've added them to my ever-growing wish list. I had never heard the saying about people under 50, but since I turned 50 this year, I don't need to suffer through 50 pages of hillbilly dialog, right? Phew! I loved the movie Tuesdays with Morrie!
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Not1worry
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 7:50 pm
Mak, I just read this in Reader's Digest. My grandparents got me a subscription for Christmas, bless them. Too bad they didn't leave it at that, you can't imagine the shirt they got me also. Anyway, the formula was: if you are under 50, you should read 50 pages of the book before you give up on it. If you are older than 50, you subtract you age from 100 and read that many pages. So if you are 85, you only have to give it 15 pages. This is some librarian saying this, not any scientific survey. 50 pages could be a lot if the book really does stink. But I can see her point, sometimes I've want to quit on a book but didn't have anything else to read. So I kept going with it and it ended up okay.
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Egbok
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 9:35 pm
Okay Maime, I hope to finish it by this weekend....and I'm not looking forward to the ending...I think!
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Curious1
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 9:48 pm
I too just finished "the five people you meet in heaven" and truly loved it. "Tuesdays with Morrie" was also a favorite and I even got my husband to read it (he doesn't read much due to lack of time) and he loved Tuesday's too. I highly recommend it to everyone, it only took me about 3 nights cuddled up in bed to read it. I think I remember the movie they did on Tuesdays with Morrie too, but it was a made for TV movie right?
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Kady
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 10:18 pm
Well I never knew there was a movie. The whole time I was reading the book I was trying to picture who could play them. Maybe I can catch it on one of the cable channels one day.
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Zachsmom
| Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - 10:36 pm
Yes, it was/is a movie. Lifetime intimate moments movie or an Oprah Winfrey movie if I recall correctly. It's been a few years since I have seen it. I believe Jack Lemmon plays Morrie. Excellent (tear jerker!!) movie!
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Mamie316
| Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 8:08 am
Hank Azaria played Mitch.
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Cindy86488
| Wednesday, December 31, 2003 - 8:36 am
Can anyone here help me locate an older fiction book I read back in high school? It was from the late seventies to early eighties. It had 'sweet dreams', 'hush' or 'goodnight' in the title. Sorry, but my C.R.S. has taken over and I can't remember the author, either. The story had something to do with this young girl who had bad memories from her earlier years. It wasn't a best seller or anything, just a very interesting book, and I'd really like to re-read it. I've tried some searches on the net, but, no luck. Thanks for ya'lls help!!
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Seamonkey
| Thursday, January 01, 2004 - 12:58 pm
I'm just stopping by to say that this Amy Tan memoir (series of essays, really) is wonderful, wonderful and more wonderful.. what a life she has had!.
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Reader234
| Thursday, January 01, 2004 - 2:12 pm
Well CIndy if its a "romance" read, many people have good luck posting on the All About Romance Reader to Reader message board... Reader to Reader Thanks Sea for the heads up!
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Lkunkel
| Thursday, January 01, 2004 - 7:45 pm
Cindy: It vaguely sounds like My Sweet Audrina. It was originally published in 1982, so it fits the timeline. Back Cover Copy: V.C. Andrews, author of the phenomenally successful Dollanganger series, has created a fascinating new cast of characters in this haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love. Audrina Adare wanted so to be as good as her sister. She knew her father could not love her as he loved her sister. Her sister was so special, so perfect — and dead. Upstairs in the locked room were her sister's clothes and dolls, her animals and games — and her sacred rocking chair, which held the secret of all her sister's gifts. Now Audrina will rock and rock and claim those gifts. Now she will come face to face with the dangerous, terrifying secret that everyone knows. Everyone except... My Sweet Audrina "No, Papa!" I screamed, panic in my voice, terror all around me. "Come back! Don't make me stay in here all by myself!" "You're not alone," he called to me from the other side of the door. "I'll stay right here, watching through the keyhole, listening, praying. Nothing but good can come from rocking in that chair…" I squeezed my eyes shut and heard the wind chimes clamoring louder, much louder now... I told myself, as I'd told myself before, that there was nothing to be afraid of. The dead couldn't harm anyone. But if they couldn't—why was I so terrified? I heard Papa's soft voice outside the locked door. "You do have her gifts, Audrina, you do…" "Papa," I wailed for one last time, "please don't make me…" "Oh," he said heavily, sighing, "why do I have to force you? Why can't you just believe? Lean back in the rocker, put your head against the high back, hold the chair arms and begin to rock. Sing if it helps to wash your mind clean of fear, of worries, of desires and emotions. Sing and sing until you become an empty pitcher…" Oh, yes, I'd heard this before. I knew what he was doing. He was trying to turn me into the First Audrina…
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Yankee_In_Ca
| Thursday, January 01, 2004 - 10:31 pm
I've just started The Lord of the Rings ... again. I'm resolved to reading the whole thing through for the 3rd or 4th time since teen-hood. For Christmas, I got a few books, though not Kite Runner (which I really wanted). While in NYC on my vacation, I made time to read both Mystic River and Whale Rider. I found the Mystic River novel to be superior to the movie (which happens often), BUT interestingly, I found the movie of Whale Rider to be more ethereal and compelling than the book. That doesn't happen very often, does it?! I also got Dude, Where's My Country? and a Salmon Rushdie nonfiction works collection for Christmas.
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Reiki
| Thursday, January 01, 2004 - 10:45 pm
Yankee, I am going to read it again too, but am gonna hold off until March so that Spy can read it along with me. We are going to set up a thread for it. I will probably start with the Silmarillion in the meantime. I have also got Jimmy Carter's book to read "The Hornet's Nest". Its a novel of the Revolutionary War from the viewpoint of the southern states.
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Lkunkel
| Thursday, January 01, 2004 - 11:22 pm
Reiki: Thanks for the head's up--I've been wanting to attempt to read the LotR series again. Maybe with your encouragement, I can pull it off.
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