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Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, June 20, 2008 - 7:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Promise The Moon by Elizabeth Joy Arnold

Heyltslori
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09-15-2001

Friday, June 20, 2008 - 8:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Heyltslori a private message Print Post    
Just finished A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs. Good book, but very sad.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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Hey Mamie, I just bought AND started the first of the HOT FLASH CLUB series. Once I've finished it, I'll tackle the other two. :-)

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

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Halfway through Freedom Writers Diary (loving it) and also halfway through The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov) and NOT loving it so much. :-) I'm looking for a replacement for my AP class. This past year we read Their Eyes Were Watching God, but most thought it wasn't complex enough to be truly useful on the AP exam. I've got Babbitt, Looking Backward, Kaffir Boy, The House of the Spirits, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Invisible Man - none of which I've read yet. Anyone want to make a recommendation as to where to start? :-)

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 5:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Late Night Talking by Leslie Schnur

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 10:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
Just finished Fearless Fourteen and started Sail by James Patterson. He has been whipping them out so fast with a different co/author for each book. Wonder what's up with that?

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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I'm guessing his name and perhaps his concept and their sweat, blood, and tears...

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 3:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mak1 a private message Print Post    
Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen. It moves right along from one ridiculously funny scene/character to another.

Yesterday, I finished Stalemate by Iris Johansen. It was a tense thriller. I needed something light after all that!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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I finished Late Night Talking in a day. Good chick lit and I can definitely see a movie with Clooney in it.

I'm on to House and Home by Kathleen McLeary.

Prisonerno6
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08-31-2002

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I'm reading The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen. I don't like it nearly as much as I did Garden Spells.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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I liked The Sugar Queen. Both books have that magical quality. I did like Garden Spells more but they were both enjoyable.

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Monday, June 23, 2008 - 6:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
Great minds are thinking alike! I just finished Garden Spells and really liked it.

I am reading Tony Dungy's "Quiet Strength" and it is so inspiring.

Mictay
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09-29-2006

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 7:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mictay a private message Print Post    
The Other Woman by Jane Green

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 7:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Mictay, I enjoyed that one.

Beachcomber, I bought Dungy's book for my hsuband and he was really moved by it.

Beachcomber
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08-26-2003

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 9:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beachcomber a private message Print Post    
Mamie, I stayed up until 2 am last night to finish the book! Wow! I would recommend this book for the men in everyone's lives.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

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Mak1, I just finished "Skinny Dip" by Carl Hiassen. It was a hoot and a half! Great summertime reading.

I am currently reading "Crow Lake" by Mary Lawson. I LOVE this book! I am going to hate when it's done...so I'm trying to go slow.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 12:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Any Bitter Thing by Monica Wood is the book I've chosen to read now. Just started so can't say much about it.

I enjoyed House & Home but I found myself getting angry at the main character quite often throughout the book so it made it hard to want things to work out for her.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

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Marysafan, I love his sense of humor!

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 7:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
I just finished 3 books so far this week. A World of Good by Darlene L'Archeveque, The Hot Flash Club by Nancy Thayer, and My French Wh ore by Gene Wilder. (Yes, THAT Gene Wilder. LOL) Currently reading Wilder's 2nd novel The Woman Who Wouldn't. I've ordered his autobiography Kiss Me Like A STranger. Once I finish his 2nd novel, I have Books 2 & 3 of Nancy Thayer's Hot Flash Club that Mamie sent me. :-)

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

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Note: A World of Good is a self-published auto-bio that I was given by the award-winning author at Book Expo last week. It's a terrific page-turner that just tugs at the heart. I met Darlene and I am just bowled over by her accomplishments, and her ability to survive her miserable, abusive childhood by believing in the power of music and in her dreams. The book covers her life until the age of 17. Here's her website: www.aworldofgood.ca

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

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I read Gene Wilder's autobiography and part of me wishes I hadn't. I'd rather like to think of him more as Willy Wonka.

Landileigh
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07-29-2002

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 11:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landileigh a private message Print Post    
what did he have to say about Gilda?

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 7:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
He didn't say anything bad about her. You could tell that he loved her very much.

Jodied75
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08-26-2004

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 7:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodied75 a private message Print Post    
I go through a variety of books, from lite chick lit to heavy classics, and I just finished "Notes From the Underbelly" and its sequel, "Tales From the Crib" bu Risa Green. (The book is so much better than the tv series it's based on, Notes From the Underbelly). They were both hysterical. So now suddenly I'm salivating for funny parenthood fiction.

So I've got holds on Canadian author Rebecca Eckler("Wiped! :life with a pint-size dictator" & "Knocked up : confessions of a modern mother-to-be") and Laura Wolf ("Diary of a mad mom-to-be"). I love Amazon's function of suggesting other books that are similar to the ones you search for and/or order.

My friends think it's all too funny, me being personally anti-marriage and not being able to have children. But I guess it's all about living vicariously. These books are truly funny. I like chick-lit if it's not too dumb for me. Like, I read through the Shopaholic series, but I could never believe a character like Becky could actually exist. Nobody's that clueless!

Jodied75
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08-26-2004

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 7:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jodied75 a private message Print Post    
p.s. I just recently went through the entire collection of Judy Blume's books, all of which I hadn't read since I was 11 years old. It's weird how many things make sense now that didn't before. Like I didn't understand very much about Hitler and Judiasm, even though I read "Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself" more than a dozen times.

I love doing that - rereading books I read as a kid and now realizing what I was so ignorant of - all the things I didn't get back then.

I also reread my collection of unaltered The Brothers Grimm's fairy tales. I didn't realize just how violent and grisly they were.