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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 1:02 pm
Spunky, more than the movie, I'm dying to read the rest of the Golden Compass books, as I just finished the first book. Are they out yet? If so, what are their titles?
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 7:06 pm
The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass.
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Spunky
Member
10-08-2001
| Friday, January 18, 2008 - 10:12 am
The Subtle Knife has a waiting list of 35... so I'll wait a bit longer (I have to use the library, because I read too many books...) I finished Atonement... grrrr.... how frustrating... the author seemed to take a strange pleasure in making the reader wait and wait... finally the last 2 pages of the book said what I had been waiting to know for half a book at least... Still couldn't make it to the theatre for GC and I'll wait for the DVD for Atonement. There's No Place Like Here sounds a great book!!! Thanks for the suggestion, Mame, I put a hold on my library account and the waiting list is not long... 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, January 18, 2008 - 10:20 am
Spunky, it could have been better. I hope that you enjoy it more than I did. I finished reading The Boleyn Inheritance at the hospital yesterday. I really enjoyed it. Not sure what I will pick up next.
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, January 18, 2008 - 7:46 pm
I just bought "Jane Eyre" and "Pride and Prejudice", so I'm reading those both again right now.
quote:I finished reading The Boleyn Inheritance at the hospital yesterday. I really enjoyed it.
I read "The Other Boleyn Girl" and really enjoyed it, so I'm thinking about reading the other two books also...
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Aurora
Member
11-24-2006
| Friday, January 18, 2008 - 8:12 pm
I scored the other day at Goodwill and bought The Fifth Queen trilogy written in 1906 by Ford Madox Ford about Katherine Howard. I bought the 1964 edition. This book is a bit more historically accurate than the Gregory books. The only drawback is it's written in a very stilted language, not the contemporary language of the Gregory books.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 4:09 pm
Read "Some Nerve" by Jane Heller last night. Fun, lightweight read. Definitely chick lit!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, January 21, 2008 - 4:49 pm
Yes, I enjoyed Some Nerve too. I just finished The Lake Of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman. I pretty much had it figured out before even halfway through but it was a very enjoyable read. I am now reading Woman In Red by Eileen Goudge.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Tuesday, January 22, 2008 - 11:38 pm
Dark Of The Moon by John Sandford was a good read. He had a different "hero" instead of Lucas Davenport. That was fun' The library got Irish Girls About Town for me and the first story is by Marian Keyes. Delightful...I am looking forward to all the other stories in the collection. Sometimes short stories just hit the spot!!
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 12:27 pm
Thanks to my nephews, I have been totally sucked into the Men at War series by W.E.B. Griffin. I am on book four of six that have been written thus far. I sure am going to miss these fellas. When the "Men at War" get a bit too intense for my blood pressure, I have been calming myself down with "The Weight of Water" by Anita Shreeve. I must say that I have enjoyed everything else that I've read by her, but I am REALLY slogging through this one. She is driving me to distraction by jumping around in her narrative. One paragraph she's in the current time, and the next she's back in the 1800's. I don't mind her doing it from one chapter to the next...but paragraphs are a bit ridiculous...and not at all to my liking...thus it short reads only. Ten pages at best. (Good thing it's a relatively short book.) I recently finished, "Fire and Rain" which you probably guessed was a James Taylor bio. I LOVE James Taylor's music....not so nuts about his bio.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 2:36 pm
I didn't enjoy Woman In Red very much and I have enjoyed her other books in the past. I am now reading and really liking, The Crazy School by Cornelia Read. Great fun.
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 5:14 pm
I have always thought that James Taylor would be someone I like to know best through his music. Not sure why I feel that way...something about his manner when I saw him in concert, I think, make me think I wouldn't care for him in person. Still loved the concert, though! Started Plum Lucky and am enjoying it. It shouldn't take me long to get through. Sometimes I like that in a book!
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Friday, January 25, 2008 - 7:18 am
Dark Of The Moon was a good departure for Sandford, but the next "Prey" novel should be out in a few months, and I can't wait for that. If he went strictly chronologically, Davenport would be near 60 now, but he seems to stay in his 40's for every book...curious...
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 11:28 am
I'm planning on staying in my 40s, too.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 1:52 pm
Yessie, it's too late for me... sigh. 
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 1:53 pm
Mame...it's never too late. I've celebrated my 39th birthday for well over a decade now. wheeeee
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:04 pm
Aww Beeky, well I do look waaaaaaaaaay younger than my 52 (53 in April) years, so I don't mind copping to it. it never fails to tickle me when people react with disbelief at my actual age. LOL I found a pic online of my first boyfriend who is just a few weeks younger than me and man he looks like he could be my grandpa now. LOL
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:11 pm
LOL...that kind of thing sure can make your day, can't it?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:13 pm
Isn't 50 the new 40 or something like that? I say it is.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:17 pm
Well, I don't know, Mamie, but I've been 40 and I've been 50 and 40 was better. But I'm smart enough to know that when I'm 60, I'll think 50 was better so I'm going to appreciate the 50's while they're still here. Oh, yeah!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:18 pm
On the outside 50 is the new 40, on the inside it's the new 60 at least for me...
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:18 pm
I don't know. I feel that I've found my voice since I'm 50.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:22 pm
I felt that way in my early 30's professionally as a a writer, and personally in my late 30's early 40s. BUT to be honest, that may be because for once in my life I had a stable loving relationship (with DH) and FINALLY felt grounded.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:28 pm
Oh and I should have said 80 on the inside, cuz I have a dear friend who will be 75 next month and she's way more active and fit than I am. She's a slender vegetarian who is a piano teacher and she gets on her treadmill daily! She rocks!
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Yesitsme
Member
08-24-2004
| Saturday, January 26, 2008 - 2:59 pm
I say that you're pretty terrific at this age, MB! My college roommmate and I are a day apart (she's older!) and we still just celebrate our 39th birthday over and over! (We're at #8.) So maybe I should say I am going to stay in my 40s if I decide to go there. But I am with you. I have a friend in her 80s and so many of the lovely ladies that live in her retirement community make me want to be like them. I was there a while ago and one lady, who was 92, was working out in the gym and was simply a dynamo! She was on this thing that was a cross between an exercise bike and an elliptical and said she did it for 30 minutes a day. Kept up a good pace, too. What a woman!
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