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Archive through February 23, 2005

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Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Monday, February 07, 2005 - 7:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cablejockey a private message Print Post    
I'm reading The Royals by Kitty Kelly. Its very funny with a few touches of "Oh my God, I didn't know that", and "Oh my God, I don't beleive that.".

Jasper
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09-14-2000

Monday, February 07, 2005 - 10:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jasper a private message Print Post    
Trace by Patricia Cornwell

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, February 07, 2005 - 11:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I am starting Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Monday, February 07, 2005 - 1:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
I just finished Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman. I love her writing, and this didn't disappoint! The house in the story is a farmhouse on Cape Cod. The short inter-linked stories tell about the families who lived in the house through many generations.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, February 07, 2005 - 2:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
She is one of my very favorite authors. I just put in an order for her newest book which comes out next month, The Ice Queen.

Lycanthrope
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09-19-2002

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 2:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lycanthrope a private message Print Post    
If you like crime fiction with a dash of the supernatural thrown in(not too much), then you should try John Connelly. He's got four books centered around a former NYPD detective turned Private Detective who's part detective, part psychic, and a very tortured soul.

His fifth book, 'Bad Men', is a stand alone novel that you can read without the background of his other 4 books.

It's really some very cool reading.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
Mak1...thanks for that report on Blackbird House. It sounds like it is right my alley and I will be on the look out for it.

Jen
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07-27-2003

Tuesday, February 08, 2005 - 1:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jen a private message Print Post    
I am reading Empire Falls by Richard Russo. Good book so far. It won the Pulitzer Prize. I kept seeing it at B&N and finally bought it. Small town, divorce, and other depressing things. It's good!

Wendo
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08-07-2000

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 5:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wendo a private message Print Post    
I started reading The Nuremberg Interviews, by Leon Goldensohn this weekend. Goldensohn was one of the psychiatrists to the Nazi prisoners during the Nuremburg trials. The book is an interesting and unique look at many who were part of the Third Reich. I highly recommend it for those interested in WWII history.

Yesitsme
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08-24-2004

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 7:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Yesitsme a private message Print Post    
I just finished "The Fabulist," former New Republic reporter Stephen Glass's novel based on his own experience fabricating stories and passing them off as true. This has been out for a couple of years, but I had just recently seen the movie "Shattered Glass" (about his downfall) and was curious. He writes well and I think there are a lot of issues there that are worth thinking about. For example, are we raising kids without character, kids that believe success is who people think you are rather than who you really are? What kind of power do we give the printed word? What causes us to accept what a person says without question and is this kind of blind trust impacting society in other ways? How and for how long should a person pay consequences when their lies impact lives dramatically? And how do you get over a major fall from grace? I don't have good answers, but I like that it made me ask myself these questions and more.}

Scout
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01-20-2005

Monday, February 14, 2005 - 9:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
That sounds really interesting and it definitely touches on subjects I've wondered about as well.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 - 6:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I just started reading Snobs by Julian Fellowes. Every review I've read about it has been full of very high praise. I'm enjoying it so far.

Buggles
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09-07-2002

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 - 1:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Buggles a private message Print Post    
24 Hours by Greg Iles. Its ok but doesnt measure up to his Mortal Fear, which is one of the best page-turners I have ever read. Would highly recommend it if you like intelligent psychological thrillers.

Puppylov3
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01-26-2004

Friday, February 18, 2005 - 5:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puppylov3 a private message Print Post    
Just finished The Elegant Gathering Of White Snows by Kris Radish - wonderful book about 8 women who start walking one night and the effect on themselves and those they meet.

also finished The Dirty Girls Social Club by Alisa Valdes- Rodriquez - which I didn't expect to like but wound up loving!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, February 18, 2005 - 6:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Oh good Puppylov, I had wanted to read the Radich book. Now, I certainly will.

I finished Snobs and while I did enjoy it, I didn't love it. I just started The Ivy Chronicles by Karen Quinn. It's about a woman who loses her job and husband and has to start over in life. She starts a business of helping parents get their children into the "right" schools. Very funny so far!

Puppylov3
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01-26-2004

Friday, February 18, 2005 - 6:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puppylov3 a private message Print Post    
Mamie - that books called to me from the shelf. not the first time a book has done that. and typically it's a book I love when i read it. can't explain the phenomenon just know that it's typically dead on accurate - lol.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, February 18, 2005 - 7:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I know what you mean. I've had that happen many times to me! And I also know how neat it is when you read a book that you don't really think that you will like that much and end up loving it. I read a book called The Edge of The Sky by Druscilla Campbell and thought it would be okay but I really loved it.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, February 20, 2005 - 6:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I am going to start The Same Sweet Girls by Cassandra King. I've finished 2 books over this past weekend. It's been raining and I'm on a reading tear.

Jen
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07-27-2003

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 8:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jen a private message Print Post    
Finished Empire Falls. It was excellent. It took forever to get through, but at the end I was so worried about what was going to happen. It drew me in. I really liked the author. Will probably read more by him.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 8:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Isn't Empire Falls going to be a miniseries on HBO?

Scout
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01-20-2005

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 9:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scout a private message Print Post    
Can anyone recommend some good Westerns? I want to get some for my husband and I don't really have a clue about current authors. He's read all the Louis L'Amours and the older western writers. The length of their novels is his preference.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 10:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Mamie, Empire Falls will start showing on HBO in late May. I'm really looking forward to seeing it. I loved the book, and it was filmed in a town a couple hours from here.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 12:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
There are some really great actors in it. Should be a good show.

Jen
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07-27-2003

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jen a private message Print Post    
You are kidding? I am so excited! Too bad I don't have HBO. I will wait until it comes out on DVD.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 1:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
One of Maine's cable companies is going to let their customers who don't already subscribe to HBO have a free HBO preview in order to watch the movie. Paul Newman, Ed Harris, and I can't remember who else (darn CRS) will be in it.

I've edited to add this link to IMDB.com, which lists the whole cast.IMDB.COM