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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, August 02, 2004 - 3:05 pm
Omigosh! LK. I remember that ordeal like it was yesterday. We were living in San Diego at the time and my daughter had gone on an outing with a summer day camp the very next week. I will never forget the stressful looks on all the parents...when the bus was 30 minutes late coming back, and we were doing our best to keep our wits about us and freak out! I watched the made for tv movie about it not too long ago. Karl Malden played the part of the bus driver. I hope it a great read for you.
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, August 02, 2004 - 5:08 pm
I remember it, too. I had an all day seminar with Lenore Terr, who wrote Strong at the Broken Places.. she interviewed all the kids in that bus over period of time.
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Monday, August 02, 2004 - 6:30 pm
I remember that too. And fyi the movie was shot north of Topeka (yes Kansas subbed for California in that movie - don't ask me why)
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 11:45 am
I just read Sela Ward's memoir, Homesick. It was nostalgic and touching. Today I started The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 4:29 pm
I'm mid-way through Children; I hope I get a vetter answer for why they did it then they have given in their preplanning. I've also decided to pick up the remainder of my Andrew Lang's Fairy Tale Books. I've been rereading them online, but it isn't the same as having them physically on hand. (Do e-books count on the what we've read list?)
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Friday, August 06, 2004 - 3:18 pm
I just finished Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life by Tracey Gold. quick read. It's on the subject of her anorexia.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, August 06, 2004 - 8:24 pm
I started "Big Chief Elizabeth" by Giles Milton, which is the "Adventures and Fate of the First English colonists in America." It is an amazing account of the people and the times. Laboriously researched and then turned into a tale that is informative, enjoyable, and even laugh out loud funny.
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Not1worry
Member
07-30-2002
| Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 7:48 pm
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult was outstanding. We just moved last week and I really should be unpacking, but I just couldn't leave this book alone. It's about Anna, a 13 yr. old girl who has always known that she was born so she could provide stem cells for her sister with a rare form of leukemia. Over the years, she has provided bone marrow and other cells to keep her sister from dying. Now her sister needs a kidney and Anna files for medical emancipation from her parents. It was very hard to read about the ordeal of a young child with a serious illness, since I have 2 little kids. I can't imagine how it affects a family. On the lighter side, Jane Heller's Best Enemies. I thought that I'd seen it recommended here or in the Chick Lit thread. It was quite entertaining.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 10:37 pm
I have My Sister's Keeper to read and I think with that glowing review, I will read it next. I am still reading the Carrie Fisher book, you'd think with all the time sitting at the hospital, I would have finished it but not yet.
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Zgoodgirl
Member
08-22-2003
| Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 11:48 am
I just got finished with "The Five People You Meet In Heaven". Starting on "The Throat" by Peter Straub. Not sure if I can into it, but I'm giving it a chance.
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Tashakinz
Member
11-13-2002
| Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 1:39 pm
I'm having a really hard time with the Cornwell Ripper book. Rather than laying out the likely suspects and then explaining why she thinks she's figured it out she immediately introduces her candidate and then goes full-out with her conjectures and suppositions. I'm not finding her argument to be particularly compelling and am thinking about putting it down - and I generally make it a point to finish books I start....
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, August 09, 2004 - 7:26 pm
Forgot my book the other day when I was waiting for DH to finish music camp, so I grabbed Laurie Notaro's new book "I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies)" Read it in two days flat and loved it! Any woman who can talk about snot balloons and bosses is a gal who can help me relieve stress! If you haven't read her "The Idiot Girls' Action - Adventure Club," I highly recommend that one as well, although I can see some improvement in her writing between the first book and this one. I've got her "Autobiography of a Fat Bride" coming from Amazon...it'll be my last "quick" read of the summer. I'm well over half done w/ Mists of Avalon, and also halfway through Personal Injuries (Scott Turow). LOVE being able to read in the summer (and only have 3 weeks left.)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, August 09, 2004 - 8:10 pm
I began My Sister's Keeper and I love it!
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 5:53 am
I'm listening to Trust Me On This by Donald E. Westlake...I've never read anything by this guy before but this book is cracking me up. The way it's being read (the voices!! heehee) is great. Aside from that, I finished "i{The Nanny Diaries} (loved it!) and I'm now reading Jane Green's Babyville. Calamity- I ended up stopping listening to On the Road after the 5th CD. I tried to stick it out but when I realized I was only halfway though...it just wasn't for me. Not terrible, but it moved waaaayyy tooooo sloooow for my liking.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 10:02 am
I'm reading Four Souls by Louise Erdrich. She is such an excellent writer! She pulls me right in with her first page, and I hate to see her books end.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 7:08 pm
My Sister's Keeper is an excellent book and I highly recommend it! I was crying so hard at the end! I am now reading something lighter, The Dog Walker.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 8:53 am
Unfortunately, I'm currently reading The South Beach Diet but I will put it down immediately when Anne Rice puts out another novel. Hurry Anne hurry!
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Grandmato2
Member
07-16-2004
| Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 9:17 am
Almost finished with The Goddesses of Kitchen Avenue by Barbara Samuel. All about different women and being strong - both physically and mentally. Also, reading The South Beach Diet
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 11:51 am
I have The South Beach Diet on my coffee table and pick it up every now and then and read a chapter, lol. I bought it because some of the recipes sound good, but I haven't tried any of them yet.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 2:35 pm
Mak, did you like The Lovely Bones?
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Monday, August 16, 2004 - 9:50 pm
I've been SO not here.. olympics, BB, travel, ack.. not even all that much time to read, which I hate. I did finish a really interesting and well-written novel, The Book of Salt by Monique Truong.. not a quick read but partly because I didn't have nice chunks of time for it. Now reading a book American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps by Philip Weiss.. very interesting and informative about the culture of the PC in the seventies, some of which I knew from my ex SIL, who was in the PC in Lesotho (and became way too involved in the politics of the place, which was quite dangerous and she had to be removed for her own safety.).. it is marred by a plethora of non-sentences, which does distract me greatly.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 5:51 am
Oooh...I loved The Lovely Bones. I have now finished Babyville on book and Trust Me on This on CD. I started in on Dave Pelzer's A Man Called Dave a few days ago. I read the other two probably a year or more ago and never had gotten to this one. Haven't gotten real far into it yet either.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 6:55 am
Hermione, yes, I did like The Lovely Bones. I had put off reading it, afraid it would be too depressing. It turned out to be heartwarming, sad and uplifting at the same time.
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Ladylove
Member
08-12-2004
| Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 9:04 am
Hello all! Is anybody else into reading Sue Grafton's books? She does each book by the alphabet and the stories are of a private investigator.
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - 12:10 pm
I've seen them. I havent read them. I have always wondered what happens when she gets to "Z". What letter is she up to now? My favorite read in recent years was a series of books by Diana Gabaldon about a woman who travels in time back to Scotland during the Jacobite period. The first book is called "Outlander". It was her first novel and she should have had a better editor but what she lacked in form she more than made up for with the character development.
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