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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 2:45 pm
Three I have read in the past week....Mine are spectacular! by the authors of the Botox Diaries, The Right Address, and An Ex to Grind by Jane Heller. All pretty fun. Mine are Spectacular! was about the lives of three friends...one engaged, one single and one married expecting her first children. All flawed and dealing with different issues. Didn't root for any of the characters in The Right Address much....this one was about society women in New York....dynamics among them all reminded me of junior high. I was glad that Jane Heller had another one that I wasn't aware of....this one is about a woman who tries to get her former football star, but now unemployed and depressed, ex to cohabitate with someone for 90 days so she can stop paying him alimony. She hires a matchmaker and the chaos begins. She almost gets rid of him but decides that she likes the guy he has become in the meantime. I enjoy most of Jane's stuff and have liked this one (should finish it tonight.) It was quite an easy read, which also appealed to me at the moment!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, January 25, 2006 - 4:11 pm
I'm reading Anyone But You by Jennifer Crusie and it is very cute! I haven't read any of Jane Heller's books but I do have Sis Boom Bah, I think it is, in my to be read pile.
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Westtexan
Member
07-16-2004
| Saturday, February 04, 2006 - 10:03 am
Has anyone read the culinary mysteries of Diane Mott Davidson? I just stumbled across them and picked up the first two in the series to read. They look like fun, escapist reading. The reviews kind of remind me of the Stephanie Plum mysteries I like so much. Any critiques?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, February 04, 2006 - 11:09 am
Westtexan, I love them! I have the whole set but so far have read 3 of them. They are a lot of fun. I love a good cozy mystery.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 9:47 am
Read The Waitress by Melissa Nathan. Very cute and easy read. Also just finished If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern. You know, I thought when I started it I wasn't going to like it, but quickly found myself enjoying it. It's about an invisible friend...sort of a fairy tale.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 9:57 am
Yesitsme - I felt the same way about "If you could see me now". It did get better, but I still didn't like it as much as her other books.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:16 am
It did take a while to get into it, didn't it? I didn't like it as much as her others but I did enjoy it. I'm reading Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak and it's a lot of fun.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:59 am
Westtexan, I love her her stuff, too. A mystery and recipes...how can you beat it? Mamie, I love that title. I will have to put it on my list if for no other reason! Now, I do think the cover of If You Could See Me Now was one of the prettiest I have seen for a while. I don't know what it was...just crisp colors, I think.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 11:28 am
I loved the cover too! The colors were kind of whimsical like the whole book. Harley is a very funny writer. She's an actress and she wrote this one and the next book called Dating Is Murder. They both follow card shop owner Wollie Shelley.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 3:07 pm
Excellent. You know how I love recurring characters/series.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 3:44 pm
I just finished the first book of the Outlander series...took forever to get interested in it but then it sucked me right in...now I have to go and get the second (and the third, fourth and however many more there are).
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 3:52 pm
Roxip, I finally bought the first book. I haven't started reading it as of yet but I'm sure that I will get sucked in as well.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 11:54 pm
i read the first book in the outlanders. she should have stopped there, IMO! i have been trying to get through the second one for months. it's boring the hell out of me. i look at book 3, which i bought together with book 2 on eBay, and just cringe. i think i'm done with outlander! the author gets into so much detail over every little thing that i find myself yawning and waiting for the substance to finally come out of the 'baffling me with bullshit' endless paragraphs. the first book was pretty good and an interesting concept, but i just can't force myself to read more than a couple of pages at a time of the dragonfly in amber. i can't believe the author dragged this story out over 6 or 7 books. my sister loves them all, but her favorite movie is 'princess bride' and it bored me, too. i like 'real' stories, not make believe or time-traveling. i hope you do enjoy the books; i know a lot of people do. they are just not fun reading for me and it's often as boring as reading a history textbook.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 11:10 am
This is not my usual kind of book to read - I like more immediate gratification myself! But my friend bought it for me to read on a cruise we were taking and while she really got into it from the get-go it took me a while longer...but I finally worked my way through book 1. Everybody says book 2 is the hard one to get through and then they get better from there...so I guess I will slog my way through that one too (too much politics is what I've heard). I am tired of poor Jaime getting the snot beat out of him all the time...LOL!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 11:18 am
Everyone raves so much about them, I'm just worried that I will be disappointed. I have such a huge TBR pile that I'm slowly getting to it. It is a big book!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 5:53 pm
They definitely aren't for everyone, but they are my absolute favorite books -- her attention to detail and description are exactly the reasons WHY I love them! I'm glad she didn't stop at Outlander, but I will be sad when the next two are written and Jamie and Claire's story is done. 
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 7:19 pm
her attention to detail and description are what bore me to tears! all the political stuff is confusing me! i am probably 3/4 done with the second book and it has been going on maybe 4 months since i started it. it just doesn't have the same 'energy' as the first book. there are some truly long, boring chapters. every time i can find something else to read, i'll pick up the new book! i could read a 700 page stephen king book in one or two days. this book is like having to eat sweet potatoes. hard to get down, don't like 'em... but everyone serves them at thanksgiving! 
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 3:24 pm
Does anybody else have what I term "bathroom books?" That is - books you keep in the bathroom when you are trying to escape from kids, cats, dogs, etc.? After all, there is a place to sit...LOL!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 4:04 pm
That's where I keep my People, Us, Instyle and Entertainment Weekly. Those are my escape bathroom reads! LOL I just started reading Pretty Woman by Fern Michaels. I didn't like the last book I read from her but I'm enjoying this one very much.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 6:12 pm
I'll just agree to disagree with you Tabby -- it's almost physically painful for me to hear such a negative opinion of my favorite author. That's why there's sooooo many books in this world -- I can't stand Stephen King, so we must just have opposite tastes. Good bathroom book - -Don Quixote! LOL Lots of little adventures, but you don't have to read it all in one "sitting" so to speak! (Actually there's a lot of "bathroom" humor in it, too -- I was just recommending it to my AP English class yesterday!) Actually one of the coolest new magazines is Tin House. It's a quarterly literary journal w/a variety of poetry, prose, interviews w/authors, etc. It's the PERFECT bathroom read!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 7:38 pm
Teach, I'll let you know how I feel about Outlander after I finally get to reading it. It's in my TBR pile. I finally bought it after having so many people rave about the series. I belong to a couple of reading groups online and I've only heard a couple of negatives about them. Mostly very positive. I just finished reading an advanced copy of the book The Boy Who Fell Out Of The Sky by a brother of a someone killed in the Locherbie tragedy. I had to read it and send in my review so I wanted something very light this read.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 10:24 am
oh, teach it wasn't a negative opinion on your favorite author! it was saying her second book was boring as hell TO ME! she can write, all right, and plenty of people love her books. physically painful is pretty scary. i didn't mean to cause you physical pain! i was amazed i didn't love her books that much because i am an avid reader and will try most any author someone suggests. the raves were so high for gabaldon,i was surprised i didn't enjoy her more. i really only liked the books when claire was in the 20th century. but that's me. i am not really into time-traveler movies or books. sorry if i offended you, teach, but it wasn't my intention for you to take it 'personally'! sorry! i do know a lot of people dislike stephen king, and it doesn't bother me a bit. i'm sure both king and gabaldon sell tons of books, and not everyone likes both of them and some probably don't care for either 
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 10:55 am
No offense taken. As a lit. teacher I get a bit passionate about books -- can ya' tell? LOL It probably comes from trying so hard every day to get teens interested in reading, that I tend to not say much negative about ANY book; not because I don't have negative reactions, but because I'm always hoping that kids will conenct with any author -- whether I like them or not. Upon occasion, I think I need to crawl out of my teen-infested hole and interact with adults more! LOL 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 11:09 am
Nothing wrong with being passionate about books. It's really sad at how few kids really enjoy reading. At my kids' high school, they had mandatory reading time each day. My daughter (who is now and English major hoping to teach high school English) got so upset at what some of the kids would read. Her teacher said that at least they were actually reading.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, February 24, 2006 - 12:37 pm
I only wish my little girl could read well enough to enjoy it. We are going through dyslexia testing now and it is a long, painful process to get the local school district to get up off their behind and do it! Hopefully I will find out the results in the next week or so...and hopefully she will either pass or fail the test - whichever one will get her the help she needs! It is a struggle for me because I love to read, love to write, am passionate about proper spelling and have a hard time relating to a child who just simply CAN'T do any of those things. My house is full of books and I so looked forward to Shelby loving to read...and maybe one day she will.
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