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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, June 17, 2005 - 11:06 am
I bet she will. She seems to like series writing. She must enjoy her characters as much as we do.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, June 18, 2005 - 7:42 pm
I highly recommend The Wonder Spot. I really loved it! I am going to buy her first book now, The Girl's Guide To Hunting and Fishing and hope that it doesn't take her so long to write another one. I am going to start The Orange Blossom Special by Betsy Carter next.
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Saturday, June 18, 2005 - 9:30 pm
I did not like Mike, Mike, and Me. I really liked Markham's other two I had read Slightly Single and Slightly Settled, but this one was just blah to me. Finished Technical Hitch this week. I really liked it. Couldn't put it down. It alternates between two stories, and it drove me crazy at first, but then I got into it. I am now reading The Twins of Tribeca which reminds me a lot of The Devil Wears Prada (which I loved), but I don't know that this one has the heart of Prada. Right now it is all about the craziness of working in publishing. I hope something good comes out of it.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 7:46 am
Finished The Orange Blossom Special and loved it. That's 2 in a row that I was very happy with. I am now reading Mary Alice Monroe's The Girl In The Mirror which is about a woman who has plastic surgery becomes beautiful and a star. Hopefully, I will like it as much as her other books.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 8:18 am
I'm still making my way through Debbie Macomber's books. Last night I stayed up way too late finishing Changing Habits. I really enjoyed it. Three women become nuns and reevaluate that decision. I found the whole topic of building our lives on decisions we make early on in our life to be really interesting to think about, as well as the idea of what it does to a young woman to live the life of a nun, then attempt to return to the real world and even the whole idea of how people think a vocation will change who they really are and how little it generally does.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 9:08 am
I liked Changing Habits. Being raised Catholic, I had always wanted to be a nun growing up. I don't think I ever would have made it!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 1:38 pm
I am not Catholic, but that aside I definitely never would have made it as a nun....I'm a bit too rebellious for too many rules. They tend to challenge me and make me do far more than I would do if left to my own devices. Even as a kid I had that "noone has the right to tell me what to do" attitude. My poor parents! Though they dealt well with it....they didn't give me a lot of rules but taught me a lot about there being consequences for my actions and encouraging me to make good decisions for myself so I don't have to deal with those consequences. I was the only one of 5 children without a curfew and my dad said to me as an adult that it was because they knew if they gave me a curfew I would do all I could to get there either right on the dot or later and dare them to make an issue of it, but if they didn't my love of sleep and my friend's curfews would bring me home at a reasonable hour!
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Friday, June 24, 2005 - 7:06 am
I'm reading, "Table for Five" by Susan Wiggs and you were right, Mamie, it is excellent. I could not put it down last night. I was so tired I could hardly see the pages, but I just kept telling myself, one more chapter..."
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Friday, June 24, 2005 - 7:17 am
OK, if both Scout and Mamie like "Table of Five" I'm looking for it at the library.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, June 24, 2005 - 8:05 am
I am so glad when you like the books. I always worry that you are going to start reading it and wonder what's wrong with me! LOL
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Friday, June 24, 2005 - 2:46 pm
I'm reading Table for Five too! Not too far into yet, but I wish everyone would go away and quit wanting things like food and clean laundry so I could read this book! It's very good so far.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, June 27, 2005 - 8:15 am
With it raining all weekend at the beach, I read 3 books. "Charlie All Night" by Jennifer Weiner, "Angels" by Marian Keyes, and "Mrs. Miracle" by Debbie Macomber. All easy reads, and entertaining for a rainy day. Also listened to a book on tape on the way (can't remember the name, but it was a book of short stories by Maeve Binchy) and on the way home started one by Diana Mott Davidson...though I can't remember the name of that one either. This morning I started reading "The Good Wife Strikes Back" by Elizabeth Buchan, which is the story of the wife of a British politician who after around 20 years of that life questions what she had given up of herself in the process.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, June 27, 2005 - 9:31 am
I've read a few of those, Yes. I finished The Girl In The Mirro and it wasn't one of Monroe's better ones. I liked it okay but there was too much machismo going on with the main male character. I am reading A Thousand Tomorrows by Karen Kingsbury which is about a bull rider who falls in love with a girl that's a barrel racer. The girl has cystic fibrosis. It's all right but nothing that great.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 7:59 am
I really do not recommend A Thousand Tomorrows at all. It was very disappointing. I started Dying For Chocolate by Diane Mott Davidson. I thought it was the first in the Goldy Bear series but it's the second. I don't think that will throw me off though. I like her writing very much.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 8:17 am
I think Dying for Chocolate was the book that I read on my cruise. I am listening to one of hers on tape right now (started during my car trip this weekend) and while it is good, I prefer to read her stuff I think. Not sure why... maybe it is the recipes! She does describe food well, doesn't she? The book on tape starts with her making truffles...it made me so ready to eat one that I couldn't stand it!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 8:18 am
Very well. I was getting hungry reading about her brunch food!
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Vixeninvegas
Member
10-07-2002
| Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 4:44 pm
Hi all - I haven't been by in ages but I wanted to share with you. I am a huge reader & ran across a book called A Perfect Fit by Sheridon Smythe. I love a book that makes you laugh out loud & this one does - over & over. The day after I finished that one I got on the net & bought all the books I could find by here & now have read 4 others and haven't been let down by a one of them! "Mr. Hyde's Assets" is another funny one as well as "Completely Yours" (my personal favorite). After readying Completely I was moved to drop her a line & got a return email the same day. She seems like a wonderful caring woman & it comes through in the pages of her book. I would compare her writing to Sandra Hill (LOVE those Vikings!!!)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 9:12 pm
I finished Dying For Chocolate and just loved it. I intend to read all the others in the series. I have two more here but I need to order the others. I just started Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes. Liking it so far. Has some of the same characters as in Watermelon, which I really loved.
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Thursday, June 30, 2005 - 7:28 am
Imagine that back in 1863 America was too busy with the Civil War to buy Alaska. So Alaska broke away from Russia and became it's own nation. Now, present day, they have a royalty that's unique and a little nutty, and of course a handsome crown prince. He has a minor obsession with penguins that's precluded him from finding a wife. Christine gets booted from her job on a cruise ship while docked in Juneau and next thing you know.... The Royal Treatment by MaryJanice Davidson was really funny. Although the characters have really foul mouths and the romance scenes had a bit more detail that I needed, it was a great book. As with some Chick Lit, there were a few ends left hanging and convenient plot twists, but I still recommend it. All the characters were very likeable.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Monday, July 04, 2005 - 2:34 pm
Eleven On Top by Janet Evanovich was a hoot! I laughed aloud many times. In fact my boyfriend had to go sleep in the other bedroom as I was laughing so much and reading so late. These books are not great mysteries, but they are great fun with delightful characters.
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - 4:31 pm
Just read Something Borrowed, which was good and am waiting on Something Blue from the library. Very interesting that I liked it since I have been against Carole Matthews due to her Meet you on Platform whatever number it was where she had people having an affair. I hated that book and refuse to read any more of her stuff! This book, though, I actually liked. I read up on Something Blue and it is told from a different character's point of view which has me intrigued. I wonder if she is going to write Something Old and New as well from others point of view. Anyone know? Also read My Favorite Mistake as I had heard this was seveal people's favorite book. It was good, very angsty and had me on the edge. Finished it in about 3 hours. I need to be reading books of substance, but this is all I see to be able to get through!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - 10:43 pm
I have read Something Borrowed and am going to get Something Blue but they are by Emily Giffin not Carole Matthews. I don't know if she is going to write anymore. I would assume she would follow suit. I just started Emily Ever After and I am really enjoying just the beginning. I am hoping that this book reels me in because the last few haven't.
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Jen
Member
07-27-2003
| Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 12:01 pm
I meant the book by Carole Matthews made me mad, but I knew it was a different author for the Something books. I read Emily Ever After last week. Pretty good. I didn't realize it was Christian Lit., which I like, but at times it was over the top. I thought the ending was good.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 12:17 pm
I figured that you did. I haven't read any Carole Matthews. Not that I can recall anyway. LOL
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Wednesday, July 13, 2005 - 1:07 pm
How funny, I just picked up Emily Ever After from the library yesterday! Also I got SisterChicks Down Under. I've read a few of the other SisterChicks books, and although the name makes me gag, they are pretty good books. I read a few interesting ones last week as well. Time Off for Good Behavior was excellent. This Pen for Hire had a little mystery to it. Very fun book and I'm looking forward to reading others in the series. The Monk Downstairs turned out to be a good one as well. The library says Eleven on Top is in transit...I'm so excited, I should have it in a few days.
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