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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 2:04 pm
Montana Sky is my favorite Nora Roberts, the Garden Sereies was good. I read those while I was on Maternity Leave.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 8:25 pm
Mocha, thanks. I like the way you cut to the chase, get to the point. I don't think I'll be reading any Nora Roberts. I really strongly dislike romance novels.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 6:48 am
Lol
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Lycanthrope
Member
09-19-2002
| Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 8:32 am
I've recently discovered James Rollins. His novels are fast-paced, action-packed, and full of cool speculation and mystery surrounding already known world facts. He takes established history and modern technology and crafts some of the wildest stories you'll ever read. For a good time, purchase Rollins' complete booklist, starting with Subterranean and ending with Black Order. You will be well entertained for the better part of a month, depending on how fast you read.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 6:30 pm
I just started Maeve Binchy's new book, Whitethorn Woods, and I am already just loving the characters. I hope it lasts throughout the whole book.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 7:03 pm
Mamie, I am about 3/4 of the way through Whitethorn Woods, and luving it up too! It's wonderful. BUT I admit it took me a while to get into it...
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 7:19 pm
Really? I'm loving it from the start. Maybe it's the doubting Catholic girl in me.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, March 16, 2007 - 10:08 pm
Binchey's books have a slower, more meandering, sedate tempo than my Nora Roberts books, so I have to refit my old brain when I switch authors. LOL. Binchey is more character driven, while Roberts is plot driven, IMHO. Luv 'em both tho. ETA - if you like Binchey, you will love Cathy Kelly's books. I'll even give you a money back guarantee Mamie, on your first Kelly book! grin.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 8:43 am
I started The Wicked by L A Banks along with Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts, the last of this trilogy.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 5:58 pm
I went to the Half Price bookstore today and picked up Morrigan's Cross. I don't know when I'll get to it but I'm hoping that I love it as much as you all did.
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Hermione69
Member
07-24-2002
| Monday, March 19, 2007 - 12:45 pm
I just started Beloved. A friend of mine at work wrote her graduate thesis on it and we were talking about how it is loosely based on the life of Margaret Garner.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:40 pm
I'm re-reading Song of Solomon, Hermi - -must be Morrison week. 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, March 19, 2007 - 9:27 pm
More power to yall. I've always found her writing very very hard to read. Would give me a headache and I don't like to work that hard when I'm reading for pleasure. There was another book of hers that I tried to read, Blue something, something Blue. Couldn't get into that either. Not to say she isn't a great writer cuz she is but just not for me. p.s. It's The Bluest Eye. Google is my friend lol.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 7:14 am
The Bluest Eye is the only book of hers that I enjoyed. I am reading a fun cozy, High Heels Are Murder by Elaine Viets.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 4:23 pm
Have you tried Song of Solomon, Mocha? It's actually pretty accessible (especially compared to Bluest Eye). My AP class will be reading it next week, and I think about the only thing they'll really struggle w/is a bit of the "surreal" elements associated w/the flying theme. However, since they've already read 100 Years of Solitude, Morrison will seem EASY! LOL (I love this book because it "seems" easy, but there is SOOOOO much there you can dig into!)
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 4:52 pm
No I don't think I have Teach.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 7:13 pm
Lemme know if you try it. 
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 5:13 am
Okies
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Jhonise
Member
07-10-2003
| Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 12:53 pm
I'm reading Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 3:36 pm
I read about half of Morrigan's Cross while waiting in the surgery waiting room for Mom. It's not my usual genre but I have to tell you, I love it! I will be heading back to the HalfPrice bookstore for the other two. And I know, Ladyt, hands off of Cian.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 4:40 pm
Lol Mamie!
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Friday, March 23, 2007 - 4:01 pm
Just finished The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig. Great book by a great author. He mostly writes about early life in Montana. This one is about going to a one room school house, has comedy and mystery and discriptive writing that can take you back to Montana in early 1900's. You can google for a list of his books and a bio on him. I have loved every one of his books.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 8:41 am
I have been reading All Summer Long by Bob Greene. Its a story of three high school friends who meet at their 25th reunion and yearn for those long ago days when they were teenagers so decide to spend the summer together just wandering across the country. Very good story--you feel like you were travelling along with them. http://www.amazon.com/All-Summer-Long-Bob-Greene/dp/0312262841
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 8:52 pm
I started a really fun book titled The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz. It's about a family of PI's. It's written in almost the same way as one of them writing out a report. Very funny.
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Neko
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 10:48 am
I read "The Andromeda Strain" today, and If I was going to unfairly judge Michael Crichton as a writer from one book, I'd say he's horrible! It was a very short read, which I finished in probably around an hour of so, and the ending was such a deus ex machina that it ruined any caliber that the story had in the first place. Needless to say, from it supposedly popularity back when it came out, I was expecting a lot more from it.
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