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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, June 20, 2008 - 7:50 am
Promise The Moon by Elizabeth Joy Arnold
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Friday, June 20, 2008 - 8:05 am
Just finished A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs. Good book, but very sad.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, June 20, 2008 - 10:14 pm
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. 
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 4:51 pm
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? 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 5:16 pm
Late Night Talking by Leslie Schnur
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 10:18 am
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?
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 10:43 am
I'm guessing his name and perhaps his concept and their sweat, blood, and tears...
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 3:12 pm
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!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, June 22, 2008 - 3:20 pm
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.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Monday, June 23, 2008 - 8:53 am
I'm reading The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen. I don't like it nearly as much as I did Garden Spells.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, June 23, 2008 - 9:01 am
I liked The Sugar Queen. Both books have that magical quality. I did like Garden Spells more but they were both enjoyable.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Monday, June 23, 2008 - 6:22 pm
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.
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 7:17 am
The Other Woman by Jane Green
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 7:35 am
Mictay, I enjoyed that one. Beachcomber, I bought Dungy's book for my hsuband and he was really moved by it.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 9:39 am
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.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 11:36 am
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.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 12:18 pm
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.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 5:41 pm
Marysafan, I love his sense of humor!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 7:28 pm
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.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 7:46 pm
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
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 10:05 pm
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.
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 11:34 pm
what did he have to say about Gilda?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 7:17 am
He didn't say anything bad about her. You could tell that he loved her very much.
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Jodied75
Member
08-26-2004
| Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 7:48 pm
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!
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Jodied75
Member
08-26-2004
| Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 7:54 pm
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.
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