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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 1:36 pm
I have loads and loads of books. I average 3 to 4 books a week. My daughter loves to read, my son, not so much. I've noticed that males don't read as much as females do. Roxip, my nephew is dyslexic and went to a wonderful school for a while. He's now in junior high and doing wonderfully. He's never liked reading so I don't know how that's changed for him or not.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 5:28 pm
my dh has read 2 books in 20 years. 'patriot games' and the 'hunt for red october'...and do you know, i could not get into either book, although i loved the movies with harrison ford! i absolutely could not finish one book about 'jack'....
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 6:02 pm
My husband has just gotten into reading. So of course, I've gone crazy getting him some books. He loves the biographies, or any book to do with sporting figures. He's into the Koontz and King too.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 7:03 pm
My DS loves to read -- he and DH raced through the newest Harry Potter in two days! (DS was only 10.) I think a lot of it has to do with 1. his natural aptitude for language and 2. his wonderful babysitter who did so much reading with him. We read constantly at home (and he still likes to be read to before bed -- it's just that now it's the Sword of Shannara series, not Thomas the Tank!LOL), and he was reading at an 8th grade level by his second grade year. I've always felt very lucky that he enjoys reading so much because I know that makes school SOOOO much easier! Kids that struggle in reading typically struggle in almost everything because of the reading involved.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 7:38 pm
You are lucky. I've read to my kids from the first time they picked up a book and stuck it in their mouths! I joined every book club available. We've always had a library going. My son just isn't into reading. Every once in a while, he'll pick up a book. He has to read for school but he doesn't for pleasure. I do daycare and I have two brothers that I watch. One loves to read, the other does it because he has to. I've gotten the reader into the Chronicles of Narnia books and he's now on The Silver Chair. He loves it and will discuss it forever afterwards.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 10:37 pm
Wonder if it has anything to do w/"first" kids -- I loved to read, my middle brother didn't until he got older (out of school). My DS is an "only" kid, so I suppose that's a "first." My SIL's oldest is a girl who reads voraciously, but her 2nd child, a boy my son's age, HATES reading. Funny thing -- almost every person in our family asks for Barnes and Noble gift card for presents -- each of us can spend hours in bookstores and consider it an "outing"!LOL Don't give up Mamie -- your DS may just be waiting until he's out of school to decide he loves reading.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 12:14 pm
Since he's in college, I won't hold my breath! LOL He might turn into a reader as he gets older. It took my husband turning 50 to get to reading. In my family, my sister and I are the readers. My youngest brother does like to read Grisham though. My other brother, not a reader. My mother wasn't the one to read to us, it was my father. He was the reader of the family. My father-in-law was a voracious reader. Even when he was incapacitated with a stroke, he had the books on tape.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 7:46 pm
i need to get some more books on tape. i listened to one on the way between my two homes and it lasted the entire way--almost 5 hours. they used to be so expensive, but now that so much is on CD's, i may be able to find cassettes cheaper. the library up north had them for 25 cents a tape at their feb book sale. my 4-cassette book on tape cost me a dollar! i'm sure it was 25 bucks new. i need to get back to their march sale and see if they have other books on tape.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Saturday, February 25, 2006 - 10:59 pm
I have found some great deals at the book stores in the outlet malls. They will sell unabridged books on tapes for as low as $10.00.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Sunday, February 26, 2006 - 5:23 pm
Just finished Size 12 is Not Fat by Meg Cabot. What a cute book! Of course, I love the fact that it is the first in a series she is writing about this character, who is a former pop star who is now working as the assistant resident hall director at a college and gets involved in mysteries. The next one doesn't come out until next January....I hate that!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 2:55 pm
i am looking for books on tape that are under one dollar LOL
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 2:57 pm
Are you lifting up dollar bills and looking under them? You might get luckier that way!
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 7:07 pm
Well...another idea is to check them out from the library and "time shift" them. You can copy them onto cd or tape...for your use only.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 9:41 pm
Um -- that would be rather blatant copyright infringement. Buying a CD book and making a backup copy for your use only is one thing -- but using a library copy to do that isn't legal. Way cool though is that many libraries (even in our rural neck of the woods) are placing downloads on their websites. They automatically expire after 3 weeks, but can be listened to on ipods, etc. during that time. I haven't had the pleasure of checking it out yet, so I don't know if they encrypt them in some way so it can't be burned to a CD as well or not.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, March 03, 2006 - 4:07 pm
i will wait to go to the little library in the town of 1,000 where our other house is. they DO have books on tape for 25 cents per cassette. if i had gone on day one, rather than day five, i would have had a lot to choose from! their brand new hardbacks which sell for up to 30 bucks, are only 3 dollars and their other books are anywhere from 25 cents to a dollar. i love small towns sometimes! you all would love the grocery store. you can buy snow shovels and bags of cement and ping pong balls. you can buy plumbing items. you can buy tools. they have a little deli-restaurant inside. i have purchased pvc pipe, a reuben sandwich, a paperback book, toilet paper, wine, snow gloves, teflon tape and slippers there!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 10:21 am
I just finished The Little Lady Agency by Hester Browne. What fun! I really recommend it. Very much in the same style as Sophie Kinsella's books.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 2:23 pm
I just started Mary,Mary by James Patterson. Wow it grabs you right away. I've already read a fourth of the book. It is a nasty rainy windy day here at the beach and I am going to crawl back on the bed and read...now if only my DH didn't think he has to eat three times a day...
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 2:25 pm
Whoops..this book is not in the "Chick Lit" genre! Sorry..I got in the wrong thread!
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 4:45 pm
no problem, cause now i'll be looking for that book. i love james patterson, although i wish they would quit using that old guy, morgan freeman, for the main character when they make a movie...i picture the guy as 40, not 60!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 10:18 am
I finished Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah, which I totally enjoyed. I am now going to read Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik. How can you not love the title?!
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Jewels
Member
09-23-2000
| Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 12:28 pm
I just finished The Kite Runner and I loved it! Highly recommend it. 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, April 04, 2006 - 1:09 pm
I just finished a really fun cozy called Dying In Style by Elaine Viets. I've really enjoyed both books that I have read of hers. I am now reading The Nine Month Plan by Wendy Markham. It seems like it's going to be fun as well.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, April 10, 2006 - 11:41 am
I am reading The Next Big Thing by Johanna Edwards. It's about a woman who joins a reality tv show about being overweight. It's very funny.
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Hussy
Member
08-06-2004
| Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 10:58 pm
Anyone reading the Sisterhood Series by Fern Michaels? I missed the first book but just won it on Ebay..yipee. Have read two others and I am loving it.Let me know what you think. Cin
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, May 22, 2006 - 7:33 am
Which books are the sisterhood books? I just started The Debutante Divorcee bt Plum Sykes. Fun so far.
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