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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, July 11, 2008 - 8:55 am
No One You Know by Michelle Richmond
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Friday, July 11, 2008 - 11:46 am
Tribute by Nora Roberts
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 8:09 am
I've just finished Nefertiti by Michelle Moran. I highly recommend it. Vivid description of life in the times of the egyptian queen from the viewpoint of her sister. http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780307381460.html
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 8:26 am
I loved No One You Know. It was based in the bay area so it had many places that I knew. I'm starting The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle now. It's had some amazing reviews so I hope it lives up to it.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 6:28 pm
Cable, that does sound good. I just finished "The Pajama Ladies of Lambert Square" by Rosina Lippi and enjoyed it. Has anyone read her book "Homestead" and would you recommend it?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 7:00 pm
I haven't read it, Beach, but I have read her book "Tied to the Tracks" and enjoyed it.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 8:51 pm
Beach Music by Pat Conroy - so far the perfect summer read!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 9:09 pm
Teach I LOVE Pat Conroy. One of my fave books is Conrack.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 9:17 pm
Ditto! Prince of Tides is one of my faves.
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Jodied75
Member
08-26-2004
| Saturday, July 12, 2008 - 9:59 pm
Escapee, don't forget Roger is in his 20s - and Adam Brody is 29! I think of Roger as being a young, dorky (but impossibly cute) scholarly man...who is easily intimidated by someone like Jamie Fraser! In keeping with the subject line, right now I'm reading "Diary of a Mad Mom-to-Be" by Laura Wolf. It's funny: I can't have children, and I'm not even interested in a committed relationship, but I am really getting a kick lately out of pregnancy/first-time mothers type books! I read all kinds of stuff, a wide range from chick-lit to classics, but right now these (domesticated) female-oriented books are satisfying my book preferences. I just finished "Knocked Up" and "Life with a Pint-sized Dictator" by Rebecca Eckhart. Anybody read those?
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 7:35 am
Some one here stopped reading Nora Roberts' books because of how dark they had gotten. You might want to try Tribute. While there is a mystery involved, it's much less in your face and gruesome than say, Angel Falls or Blue Smoke. I found it a very nice read. In fact, I didn't do much else yesterday, and I'm paying the price today to get caught up with my online grading!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 8:05 am
Priz, that was ME! I just googled Tribute (thanks to your endorsement!) and I have to admit it does appeal to me, even if it looks like yet another dark story.So it's on my wish list - thanks to you. I'm also waiting on the last book of her latest creepy trilogy which is due out in August I believe.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 8:06 am
Mamie, I've finished both books and should have them winging their way back to you (with extra goodies) in the next couple of weeks. Thanks again, you're an angel!
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 9:57 am
I just finished "Crazy Ladies" by Michael Lee West (who is a female). What a ride!!! I couldn't put it down. I can't wait to find more of her stuff.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 10:15 am
Mary, I read Her book, Mad Girls in Love and just really enjoyed it. I heard that Mermaids in the Basement was really good too.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Sunday, July 13, 2008 - 11:41 am
Thanks Mamie, I'll check those out. I wanted to mention that I also read Heartbreak Hotel by Anne Rivers Siddon this week. I really enjoyed it and was very impressed with her writing. I feel bad that it's been sitting on my bookshelf for about 10 ten years! Thank goodness I finally got around to it!
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Monday, July 14, 2008 - 10:27 am
Mary, I love Michael Lee West books! My favorite is "She Flew the Coop" - it is a good juicy long book.
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Monday, July 14, 2008 - 4:57 pm
Rage Therapy - Daniel Kalla
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 10:07 am
Just finished "Joy School" and "True to Form" by Elizabeth Berg. I enjoyed both immensely! I want more of Katie Nash! I love that kid. Now reading "The Other Side of the Bridge" by Mary Lawson. It is her second book, and so far is every bit as good as "Crow Lake". She is a wonderful Canadian writer. One that I hope to be reading for a very long time.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, July 15, 2008 - 10:08 am
I enjoyed The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. It was beautifully written and very descriptive. At times, a bit too descriptive but a good story. I started A Month of Summer by Lisa Wingate last night and I can tell that I'm going to love it.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, July 18, 2008 - 9:14 am
Finished "The Other Side of the Bridge" yesterday and find that I am missing it very much today. I became very emotionally invested in this book. Mary Lawson is very skillful at sucking you in and making you care. Started "Northern Lights" this morning, but it suffers by comparison.
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Jodied75
Member
08-26-2004
| Friday, July 18, 2008 - 11:35 pm
I'm re-reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Belly Laughs by Jenny McCarthy a the same time. I do that a lot: read a heavy book and a light book at the same time. Sometimes I'm too tired to fully absorb heavier stuff.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, July 21, 2008 - 7:28 am
Jodied75, I do that too! Your not going to believe this, but I am logging into the library thread from where else but the Library! That's my idea of a joke...and yes, I know I am a dork. Well, I finally finished "The Northern Lights" by Howard Norman. After three or four false starts, I think that I deserve a medal or a bowl of ice cream at least. Here's an idea for a great read...take a very private young man who doesn't think much or communicate his thoughts easily...and make him your narrator! Then put him in an isolated community waaaay up north where there aren't hardly any people, and then have them all be as uncommunicative as your lead character. No one here is a conversationalist by any stretch of the imagination. Everybodys speaks in fragmented sentences, incomplete thoughts, and no one can put more than two sentences in a row...not one. But for some reason, somehow it won a National Book award. So...it must be me. Anyway...it became a test of wills whether or not I was going to finish it...and finally I did. Now I can let it go. I just picked up an armload of books, here at the library. I promised myself that I would pick up no more than six...so of course i have seven. I have three weeks before I have to return them...so I am thinking I still have time to spare. Afterall, I still have bookcases at home full of books as a back up. I am thinking the first up will be "Jarhead" by Anthony Swofford. This was book number seven that just jumped off the shelf and into my arms. I've learned not to argue when they do that. So that one gets read first. Have a great day all! Happy reading!
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 1:48 pm
I've just finished 18 Seconds by George D. Shuman.Fascinating tale about a blind psychic who has the abilty to 'see' the last 18 seconds of a person's life before they died when she holds their hand. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/george-d-shuman/18-seconds.htm
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, July 23, 2008 - 9:46 am
Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell, though, I have to say I enjoyed the TV show better than the book right now.
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