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Cancunkid
Member
10-01-2003
| Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 7:47 am
Okay I always forget this thread is here. It really helps me pick out GOOD books to read and I appreciate that. I am reading Storm of the Century about the Labor Day Hurricane in the Keys in honor of this awesome hurricane season. Since you are all readers I can use the word awesome without someone jumping about thinking the hurricanes are something cool. I have family all over in Coastal Florida, Georgia and Mississippi and houses rented for vacations on Gasparilla Island FL and Dauphin Island AL so I have been glued to information this hurricane season.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 12:37 pm
Mamie: I haven't coordinated with Potshot's ex yet to see if she picked it up or if we're getting this one. Thanks for reminding me! One of my newest purchases, that I hope arrives before the trip to Mystic is The Daily Show: America (The Book). Right now, tho, the stack of things to read is building more than I have the energy to tackle them.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 2:27 pm
I really want to read America too. Everything I've read from it and seen about it, have been very funny!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 6:38 pm
I hope so. I cannot wait to hear Stewart's take on the fall-out over Oprah's car give away. He was going nuts when it happened--I'm sure he'll cover the IRS issue. Back on topic: I'm looking at my pile of books to read, and discovering that if I separate out the ones on Witchcraft, I mostly have history/social commentary books, with some self-help--but no fiction. It must mean I'm growing up...YUCK!!!!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, September 25, 2004 - 9:56 pm
I haven't been around in here much.. and one day must seriously get back into what we've read. Nino, WELCOME!! Glad you found this area! I haven't been reading as much lately with BB and other things going on. Plus I'm taking a class with a book involved too. I did read a novel that I found by pure serendipity.. I thought I had found a new David Guterson but the author is Beth Gutcheon and turns out I probably read this years ago, but still enjoyed it. Still Missing which was made in to the film Without a Trace. I just finished a book by a 13 year old boy, Luke Jackson, who has Asperger's Syndrome, called Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome which I think should probably be read by any parent of a kid with his diagnosis and teachers and others who work with such kids. I have a friend in Australia who was recently diagnosed and will be sending this on to her in Canberra now that I've finished. Starting the new Jennifer Weiner book. She's very talented.. as one reviewer said if there is such a genre as Chick Lit, she's raising the standard. Three novels, one being made into an HBO series, one being made into a movie now and the third optioned for a feature film already .. Not bad. The book for the class is Living a Healthy Life with a Chronic Condition: Self-Management of Heart Disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Asthma, Bronchitis, Emphysema and Others by Kate Lorig, Halsted Holman, David Sobel.
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Nino
Member
09-20-2004
| Monday, September 27, 2004 - 7:21 am
Thanks for the welcome Seamonkey! I read Still Missing by Beth Gutcheon about 15 or 20 years ago. I enjoyed reading it then. I had no idea Without A Trace was taken from this book. Thanks for that tidbit!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 7:41 am
I am going to start the new Jennifer Weiner book Little Earthquakes today. I have never read her books before but I just might have to go buy the others if I enjoy this one!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 10:09 am
I finished the Jennifer Weiner book and I loved it! I will have to go and buy her other two now. I am going to start 44 Cranberry Point by Debbie Macomber next. It's the fourth in a series of the people of Cedar Cove. I've read the other three and have been waiting patiently to see what happens to these people.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 10:46 am
I am in the middle of The Devil and The White City by Eric Larson. I heard about it here and thought it sounded like a good read, and, it is. How easily the pyscho murderer, Holmes, got away with his crimes, and how sad it is to read of these real women who disappeared, never to be seen again. Reading how the Fair itself, got built, is also fascinating. All the details, the people involved and the shape of building technology, at the time, comes alive. I've looked up how the Chicago World's Fair really appeared, and what the different attractions were. It was very impressive.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 6:05 pm
I'm reading America the Book by Jon Stewart and The Daily Show Writers. It is hilarious! I am almost finished with Harm None: A Rowan Gant Investigation, the first in M.R. Sellars series. I plan on ordering the remainder. I've never seen the Craft presented so well as a side note to a great murder mystery set-up. I'm still reading Sonya Fitzpatrick's What the Animals Tell Me. (That one is in the bathroom.) Spiritual Housecleaning has been read through once, so I'll now be rereading it and doing the exercises. I've completed Chapter 1: "Spiritual Housecleaning: Making Sacred Space." I'll then do - Chapter 2: "The Hearth: Nurturing Body and Soul" as I do FlyZone #2, The Kitchen;
- Chapter 4: "A Temple in Your Bathroom" and Chapter 5: "Doubt and Failure: Lost in the Margins" as I do FlyZone #3, The Bathroom/
The Children's Rooms/Spare Bedroom or Office; - Chapter 8: "Sex and Dreams: The Santuary" as I do FlyZone #4, The Master Bedroom; and
- Chapter 3: "The Dirt You've Saved Under the Living Room Rug" as I do FlyZone #5, The Living Room.
By then, I'll be at the first of November, and Zone 1, and I can finish off the other chapters one a week. But, I'll have the rooms that I have cleaned and studied done. Not, of course, that that even puts a DENT in my my stack.
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Sillycalimomma
Member
11-13-2003
| Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 8:15 pm
I am reading The Fifth Sacred Thing for my philosophy class.....I am only on chapter 2 but it looks interesting so far!
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Tuesday, October 05, 2004 - 8:58 am
I have to tell you that The Vanished Man by Deaver completely lost me about 70 pages from the end. It just got too improbable and I found myself rolling my eyes at the plot twists. He was trying too hard and it was hard to swallow the story. If something phenomenal happens in those 70 pages, I will never know, lol! I'm reading Naked Prey by Sanford now. He is good. This one has me turning the pages. I'm also reading Darkness Visible by William Styron. It is about his own battle with depression.
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Wendo
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, October 05, 2004 - 4:46 pm
For those who are fans of Augusten Burroughs, his new book, Magical Thinking was released today.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 4:50 am
Has anyone here read The Known World by Edward P. Jones? I just finished it and it's a really great book [I haven't looked through the archives, so maybe somebody has already written about it]. It is an uncommonly great book about an African American slave owner in pre-Civil War Virginia. It plays with temporality and interweaves plot lines incredibly well. I cannot recommend it enough...but if I have to, I could point out that it won a Pulitzer, a National Book Critics Award and now a MacArthur "Genius" Grant.
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Nino
Member
09-20-2004
| Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 2:18 pm
Thanks Tishala! The Known World sounds like a book I'd really enjoy reading. I just finished Last Car to Elysian Fields by James Lee Burke. I always enjoy his books. Now I'm anxious for the next one in the series! I have 3 other books going at the same time!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 2:35 pm
I am reading Summer By The Sea by Susan Wiggs. I am really enjoying it. It is a love gone wrong story but it is packed with very delicious sounding Italian recipes throughout the book!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, October 11, 2004 - 7:47 am
I am going to start reading An Accidental Woman by Barbara Delinsky today.
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Sweetest_thang
Member
09-28-2004
| Monday, October 11, 2004 - 1:34 pm
Just started "The Red Hat Club" by Haywood Smith. Second Chapter and I am a hootin' and a hollerin'. It's too funny!
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 9:56 am
I am reading a fascinating book called Theif of Souls by Ann Benson. Its a murder mystery, but unlike one I've ever read. There are two stories going on, about two women looking for a killer of young boys. The murders are very similar, but the women are separated by time. The first woman is living in France in 1440 where she hears of many children gone missing. She begins to look for the killer and it leads her "to a dark realm of power, perversion and bloodlust." The second woman lives in Los Angeles in the year 2002. She's a detective and a mother, investigating the murder of many young boys. "Two crime sprees centuries apart. The connections between them are at once eerie and surprising."
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Tuesday, October 12, 2004 - 9:57 am
Shoot, I spelt "Thief" wrong in the title.
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Nino
Member
09-20-2004
| Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 11:27 am
I'm now reading Trace by Patricia Cornwell. It's a Kay Scarpetta book. I'm enjoying it, as I do all the books in this series. Has anyone read Double Homicide by Jonathan and Faye Kellerman? It's their first book written jointly and is the beginning of a new detective series for them! It's on my "must read soon" list!
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Saturday, October 16, 2004 - 5:36 pm
Nino: Haven't read it yet. EW gave it a mixed review, and I was try to decide which of the two authors they didn't like. On a side note, Jonathan Kellerman made a brief cameo in the Chowchilla kidnapping book I read when he was doing a trauma project at the oncology center Alex Delaware formerly worked at. He helped with the recommendations of therapists for the kids. I have started and am mostly done with Something Rotten. I don't want to finish it, but at least the book has some "extras" on the site.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 2:21 pm
Favorite pun name in Something Rotten: Adam Gnusense. (And the first name has the accent on the FIRST letter....) And, of course, after I purchased a copy of SR, DH's ex sent us a personalized and autographed copy. So I'm sending the copy I bought to a friend who has mailed us a LOT of books for keeps.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Wednesday, October 20, 2004 - 7:45 am
I just finished Between Friends by Debbie Macomber. It is a good story about best friends, following their lives from birth through 50+ years. The whole story is told through letters, journals, birth announcements, invitations, etc.
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Danas15146
Member
03-31-2004
| Wednesday, October 20, 2004 - 8:30 am
I am big on true crime type books. Any suggestions? I have a B&N gift card and am debating on getting Amy Fisher's new book. Has anyone read it yet?
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