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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 8:23 pm
I just read that one, Beach. It really is a very sweet story.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 8:28 pm
I need a Pearl to come whip up my Christmas dinner! I plan on trying some of the recipes at the back of the book, have you tried any? I need to do a trial run before trying them out on Christmas.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - 8:31 pm
I just read it the other day so I haven't made any of the recipes but if I had a Pearl, I'd be eating them!
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 11:47 am
Soft Focus by Judith(Judy?) Ann Krentz(sp) As you can tell, I'm not real sure of the author but it really is a good book.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 1:27 pm
The 2 books next on my bedside pile are Golden Compass and the final Harry Potter book, both lent to my by a pal. Not sure which one to read first... I'm kinda blue this week so would rather read something breezy and cheery. Seem like my old standby Nora Roberts has gone to the dark side and is writing more like her alter-ego J.D. Robb and less like N.R. Sigh. I don't care for that stuff, wish she'd get back to those deliciously engrossing trilogies. 
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 3:56 pm
Just started Flyboys. Since I can only read in 10 to 15 min. increments because of being too busy, I expect I'll be reading it for a month to come! Interesting Japanese history to start off with, though, so I'm enjoying it.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 4:02 pm
Just last night started the new Karon - Mitford book, and have the new Jance waiting in the wings.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 8:40 pm
Has anyone read Wicked: The Lives and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire? Would you recommend it?
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 8:47 pm
Beach...just up thread 9 posts, Heyitslori talked about it. I felt as she did. Fun concept, but didn't quite pull it all the way off. And it does change your view of Oz and all that happened to Dorothy...if you let it.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, November 28, 2007 - 10:21 pm
I felt the same way as Lori did after reading it. I read it for a book group and I just didn't like it like the person who chose it did. She raved about it and it was just okay for me. Maybe I'm just too raised on the movie Wizard of Oz.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 4:02 pm
Christmas Letters by Debbie Macomber
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 6:11 pm
Beach -- I thoroughly enjoyed it and it's sequel: Son of a Witch. It's darker and not "emerald-colored glasses" - but the humor and the references to the movie thoroughly entertained me.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 6:35 pm
Thanks y'all. The musical is coming to town and I thought I would read the book before I see the show.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 6:43 pm
Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, November 29, 2007 - 9:47 pm
I totally loathed and despised Wicked. Worst book of the year for me. But I can't wait to see the show. LOL.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Friday, November 30, 2007 - 2:44 pm
Just finished Almost Moon...well that was nice and depressing. I need to start a good thriller where good is going to triumph over evil! Think I will start Double Cross by James Patterson or The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz. Love it when I have the newest best sellers to read!!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, November 30, 2007 - 2:45 pm
The Almost Moon was an interesting book, wasn't it? At times, it was almost poetic and at other times, I found myself just cringing.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Friday, November 30, 2007 - 11:44 pm
Maimie I don't care to read another book like it!! I always finish a book once I start it but this one was getting me way too gloomy and I almost quit it. I stopped reading Barbara Kingsolver books cause there are too many dips (gloomy spots). At my age I am thru with all the symbolism...I want it all laid out with the good guy always winning!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, December 01, 2007 - 10:06 am
It's not something that I'd read again. I've just started The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 3:29 am
I'm wading through the ten books that Kathy Reichs wrote (in audio). The tv show Bones is based on these books so I thought they'd be especially good. IMO they are not that great and the heroine of the book has barely any resemblance to Bones. Her name is the same and she is an anthropologist but that's about it. Nothing else is the same; no hot FBI counterpart, no Jeffersonian, absolutely no real co-worker personas. I have to wonder how they came up with the tv show from these stories. I'm on book 7 but it's hard to go on. If I had anything else I hadn't already listened to I might give them up.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 12:02 pm
Mamie, The Other Boleyn Girl is a great read. Can't wait to see the movie.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, December 02, 2007 - 3:41 pm
I finished it and really enjoyed it. I also have The Boleyn Inheritance in my TBR pile.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 11:11 am
Mame, I just finished Nora Roberts' latest trilogy starter, and it sure is dark. I liked it, though. I also just finished Lord of the Fading Lands by C. L. Wilson. Better than I thought it would be. I need to pick up the sequel, Lady of Light and Shadows. I'll probably pick up Monica Ferris' Sins and Needles next. She has a new one out today in hardcover, but I generally get hers in paperback.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 11:20 am
Prisoner which NR trilogy have you started, what's the name of the first one you just finished? I'm going to have to pop over to her site to see what new. I hate that she's really gone darker with her stories. I don't enjoy them. I like to escape into a good story, not get anxious over it. I wish she would keep her darker stuff under her pseudonym JD Robb, so I can avoid them and keep on enjoying her other stuff. Oh well.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Tuesday, December 04, 2007 - 12:50 pm
Blood Brothers -- it's the new Sign of the 7 trilogy. The premise is three boys (now men) share a common ancestor (and a common birthday of July 7th), who back in the 1600's captured a demon and bound it. The boys made a blood pact on their tenth birthday which accidentally released the demon, and wreaked havoc on their town. However, they all gained certain powers at the same time. Every seven years for seven days around their birthday, Bad Things Happen (tm). This year is their 31st birthday, and things are worse than ever. They, of course, meet three women (with similar powers, although they didn't know it) who will help them destroy the demon. I enjoyed it, but I like the spooky stuff. I do think, though, that she needs a third pseudonym to put this sort of stuff under -- it really isn't the futuristic J.D. Robb stuff.
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