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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Friday, August 25, 2006 - 5:01 pm
LOL on the "Carry me now" instead of "Carry me Home". I don't know where I got that from unless it was the fact that my nephew kept saying those words to me while we were walking through the store earlier in the day. Called the library and they've ordered it for me. Hope I told them the right title!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, August 25, 2006 - 6:34 pm
Mary, I read that a while back and it is just an incredible book. I love the way it was written in just how he thought.
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 10:33 pm
i just finished Dean Koontz' The Husband yesterday. (How did you like it Cable?) I decided I wanted to read the HP series again, so I started with book one. Can't believe how much I've forgotten so far.
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Gilda
Member
08-21-2006
| Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 11:04 pm
I enjoy mystery novels. Couple months ago, for the first time, I read one of Dean Koontz's books, "Shadowfires". He is a good writer but not my style...too descriptive when he describes a murder scene and in this book there was a futuristic/science fiction element....one of the characters started turning into a beast....gave me the creeps but since I had started the novel I continued to the end, but would not be interested in reading anything further by him.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Tuesday, August 29, 2006 - 2:37 pm
I like the premises of ESP detectives in Kay Hooper's books and her latest Sleeping With Fear is another good one...just too short! And you will not guess who the evil one is til the end..I betcha.
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 11:33 am
I will have to look up Kay Hooper. I just found out yesterday that Dean Koontz is coming out with a third Odd Thomas novel. His first one was Odd Thomas, then Forever Odd and now the new one, which will be out Nov 30th is Brother Odd. I think the Odd books are my favorite out of all the Koontz books I have read. So, if any of you are Koontz fans, you need to check out Odd!
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 11:33 am
I saw Coco mention The Mermaid Chair. I haven't read it, but I've seen it advertised as a movie on Lifetime. Thought that might interest you. I don't know when it is premiering though.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 11:47 am
I have 2 of her Fear books at home, read 1 and waiting to get to the other.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 2:59 pm
I am not missing in action, but just nearing the midpoint in Julia Glass's novel "Three Junes". Some books are a mindless sprint, some are a leisurely walk in the park, "Three Junes" is a mental marathon. I've since learned that Julia Glass is also a painter, which makes sense considering the way she paints pictures with words. I find myself stopping to imagine each and every scene that she so painstakingly crafts. If I am able to read 20 pages a day...that's a lot. The most I've managed so far is 35 pages in one day...and that took me nearly all day. With 350 pages in the book, I'm not going to be finished any time soon. I am slowly but surely being sucked in deeper and deeper. I found it hard to connect with characters for quite some time. They weren't people that I would encounter in my every day life. They weren't the kind of folks you would call friendly or even approachable. They would more likely push you away than draw you near. You would have to wait until they approached you. So you tend hang back, not get involved, not care about them. But slowly and ever so gradually, they let you see what's really going on behind the facade of civility. It's then that you see their human side, and only then that you can care what happens to them. They were their privacy like a suit of armor. I am just about half-way...and I am just now beginning to care. I suspect the second half may go faster. I will be carrying these folks around with me for a long, time so I am sure to remember them for a long time as well. Also, Julia Glass makes sure that I will remember them. She employs a technique reminiscent of flash cards. Going back repeatedly to a specific time and place. Characters appear and reappear and reappear throughout. There is so much bouncing back and forth in time and place, that at first I felt like one of those little white balls in a Pong video game. First it was just back and forth, back and forth, then as the tale became more complicated, I was bouncing off the top and bottom as well. More mental exercise. And it's not just the people you have to recall over and over again, but the animals as well. It isn't an effortless easy read by any stretch of the imagination...but I think when all is said and done it will be worth the effort. It's just going to take a while.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, September 07, 2006 - 9:39 pm
I've just finished the most wonderful novel called Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen. You will be transported to the circus and revel in the circus people and their life. It's one of the best things I've read in a while. I'm now reading All The Numbers by Judy Merrill Larsen. It's about a woman losing her 11 year old son to an accident at their vacation home. Very sad so far.
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Necie
Member
09-07-2006
| Friday, September 08, 2006 - 1:45 pm
Has anyone read Sue Grafton's alphabet books? Those are pretty good. They are books based on one character who is a female private investigator. She is quite a character. I also like Patricia Cornwell, LaVyrle Spencer,James Patterson.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, September 08, 2006 - 1:47 pm
I have, love her writing.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 6:02 pm
Sue Grafton does not write fast enough!! LOL
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Snee
Member
06-26-2001
| Saturday, September 09, 2006 - 10:21 pm
i love the alphabet books too!
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 6:18 am
I finally finished Three Junes. It was good in a way like eating vegetables that you aren't particularly fond of, but you know that they're good for you to eat...so you eat them. I failed to make an emotional bond with any of the main characters in spite of my efforts to do so. Reading Three Junes was a lot like eating a big formal dinner where you use the right forks, and spend a lot of time chewing your food properly during polite conversation. So...after such an experience, what's in order? Dessert! Not just any dessert...but your very favorite dessert. That's what The Secret Life of Bees feels like. The only problem is that I am zipping right through it! Good thing the UPS truck is on it's way with another box of books! As they say..."Timing is everything."
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 11:14 am
I just finished Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich. Glad to finally see the debt paid between Ranger and Stephanie and Oh MY! I only have 4 more of the Plum books left to read. I am now reading The Love Season by Elin Hilderbrand. It's lovely so far. I can tell the author has a wonderful love affair with food. The way she writes about it makes me hungry.
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Snee
Member
06-26-2001
| Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 9:45 pm
saxy, are the 'odd thomas' books very scary? i read one koontz that i loved and started to read one that i ended throwing across the room at a particularly scary part...
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 10:48 am
I'm reading Catherine Coulter's book, Born To Be Wild. It's about someone trying to kill a soap star and another murder that's going on in her hometown as well. Great fun so far. Lots of little tidbits about soap operas sprinkled throughout.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, September 18, 2006 - 2:23 am
The Secret Life of Bees was definitely wonderful. It was like eating your favorite dessert, which for me is strawberry rhubarb pie. Satisfying and delicious. I loved it. If The Secret Life of Bees is strawberry rhubarb pie, then "Shoot the Moon" by Billie Letts is Lorna Doones! Lorna Doones are my favorite cookie. Plain and simple, but they have lots of flavor and character, and I can't put them down. Hubby won't buy them for me and I never ask him to. I know better. I'd eat half a package before stopping. That's the way it's been with "Shoot the Moon". Straightforward, simple dialogue, great story, wonderful characters, and questions that I am dying to know the answers to. I have to make myself put the book down. The good news is that I only have about 50 pages left. Good thing! I'm tired, hungry and out of breath! I highly recommend this book. My daughter is going to LOVE this one! I can hardly wait to give it to her.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, September 18, 2006 - 7:02 am
I love the way you described them both, Mary. You put exactly into words how I felt about them.
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Scout
Member
01-20-2005
| Monday, September 18, 2006 - 7:44 am
I loved the "Secret Life of Bees", so I'll definitly look for "Shoot the Moon". I agree with Mamie - that was a beautiful description, Mary. I just finished, "Family Secrets - the Dionne Quintuplets Autobiography". I had read different books about their early years - from the father's side and his effort to regain custody, and from the doctor's side, but I'd never read anything about them later on -what happened to them after they were returned to their parents. It was really heartbreaking. Their parents abused them mentally, physically, the father sexually. The other children hated them and the mother worked them like slaves. I remember my mother telling me she was the exact same age as they were, and how she thought their fairy princess lives were so wonderful and how she wished she were one of them. One of those, "be careful what you wish for" as it turns out.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, September 18, 2006 - 8:20 pm
Not sure if this place to put this -- but I'm going to anyway. How many of you have read Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold? Now -- read this REAL news story and tell me you don't see the similarities. I kept waiting for the novel to be mentioned in the newstory b/c the similarities seemed so obvious to me. Anyway -- here's the link: http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/09/17/text.rescue/index.html
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - 5:34 am
Kay Hooper's Chilling Fear. I've had it for months and finally got to it.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - 9:34 am
Marysfan, Did Billie Letts write "Now Opening the Honky Tonk"... or some title like that? I enjoyed her writing, and I didn't want that book to end. I loved the "Secret Lives of Bees" but was disappointed w/ "The Mermaid Chair". Hopefully, her third book will be better. I read the "Three Junes" about 2 years ago, and for the life of me, I can't remember what it was about, except feeling sorry for the father at the end, for a life wasted. He reminded me of Newland Archer from Edith Wharton's novel "The Age of Innocence".
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - 9:49 am
Yes Grooch, She did write the one called "The Honk and Holler Opening Soon". My youngest daughter insisted that I read "Where the Heart Is", in fact she even gave me her copy. So I bought her that book for Christmas, knowing that she enjoyed the author so much. Now I am asking her if I can borrow it! I am dying to get my hands on it. lol! I will trade her "Shoot the Moon" so it's all good.
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