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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, October 21, 2007 - 7:26 pm
I just ordered Clapton.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 9:35 am
Just finished The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell. Very good book, very gothic feeling. I'm starting The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold. It's going to be a hard book to read, I think, with a topic like someone killing their own mother.
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Merrysea
Member
08-13-2004
| Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 9:59 pm
I'm reading Where Have All the Leaders Gone? by Lee Iacocca. Man, I wish we had people like him in charge of things!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 8:34 am
Home Before Dark by Susan Wiggs - It's an engrossing novel. About a gal whose sister and bil are raising her daughter who they adopted at birth, and she's lived overseas for 16 years, but has come home. They don't know (yet) that she's dying. So far I am really into it. Much meatier than the previous 3 novels of hers that I read and enjoyed.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 8:49 am
I thought it was just okay, Mame. It started out well for me and just fizzled. I hope you enjoy it all the way through.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 2:50 pm
I enjoyed Iacocca's book, too, Merry. He makes so much sense, doesn't he? I also liked Jimmy Carter's book "Our Endangered Values."
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Msbullwnkl
Member
08-16-2005
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 6:33 pm
I am trying to read Wicked, but am having a hard time enjoying it. Does it get better after the first couple of chapters?
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 7:06 pm
YES!! I loved Wicked, Msbullwnkl. The connections between the book and the Wizard of Oz, especially the snide comments, made me laugh out loud at times. It is definitely darker, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I ended up listening to it b/c I didn't have time to sit down and read, and the narrator took a bit of getting used to. However, once I did, I sailed through it. Son of a Witch is good as well.
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Smartypants
Member
03-09-2007
| Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 7:33 pm
I loved Wicked also, it has been awhile since I read it but if I remember correctly it does pick up more in later chapters!! Don't give up on it yet. I bought Son of a Witch earlier this year and still haven't found the time to read it, but one of these days.
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, October 26, 2007 - 9:10 am
White Lines by Tracy Brown
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, October 26, 2007 - 9:24 am
I finished The Almost Moon. I don't know what I felt about it. It was creepy and yet at times, very poetic. I think it really was about one screwed up family. I am going to start Sweet Revenge by Diane Mott Davidson.
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Sunday, October 28, 2007 - 10:27 am
I loved Wicked too!!! Just finished Dean Koontz, Strangers. Now I'm reading Broadway Nights, Seth Rudeskty (he's a dj on sirius satellite radio's Broadway station.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 4:45 pm
I'm just starting Amy Grant's book Mosaic. It's very melodic, rather like her songs.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 7:05 pm
Boberg - generally I like Iris Johansen as well, I don't really have a good thing to say about Stalemate though, it just seemed, well, stupid. As I read it nothing seemed plausible, lots of questions and plot holes and the language seemed off, I don't remember much swearing in any of her prior books. I'm not a prude and have a boss who swears like a trucker so it's nothing I've not heard or read before, it just seemed so unneccesary and out of place.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Monday, October 29, 2007 - 7:05 pm
PS - Guardian Angel - Julie Garwood - I love her romances.
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 5:21 pm
Just finished Water for the Elephants by Sarah Gruen. Loved it! I am starting a book club and this is our first book. I was a little nervous that I may have picked a boring book, but it is not boring at all!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 6:52 pm
Water for Elephants is a wonderful book! Didn't the ending just make you gasp?! I'm reading Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl.
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Knightpatti
Member
12-06-2001
| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 9:32 pm
Marmie, loved the ending. Now I want to go see if an elephant can smile.
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Rissa
Member
03-20-2006
| Friday, November 02, 2007 - 5:23 am
Just finishing The Last of the Hitlers by David Gardner. Gardner is a British journalist who has tracked down the grandsons of Hitler's brother Alois. The four men live in the USA and have made a pact to not have children so the family line will end with them. I was a little disapointed that the book is more about the journalist's journey to locate the family (who is living under an assumed name in an undisclosed location in NY state) then about the family itself. But there are a lot of transcriptions of gov't files and family letters about Hitler that shed light on his personality. He spent a lot of energy trying to have the world believe he had no family when in fact he had quite a lot. The book also deals with the Jewish connection and also with a murder that Hitler most likely committed just before WWII. Definately will be an interesting read for anyone with a hankering for history.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 5:07 pm
Reading The Edge Of Winter by Luanne Rice. Her last few books bored me to tears but I'm really enjoying this one.
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Anniem
Member
05-21-2006
| Sunday, November 04, 2007 - 9:47 pm
SaxyWild, I loved Dean Koontz, Strangers. One of my all time favorites. I like his early books, but he has definately gotten stranger as he has gotten older....kinda like me maybe!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 10:14 am
Run by Ann Patchett
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 10:31 am
Little House on the Praire (helping Kota with a book report.)
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 12:44 pm
Just finished The Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver. For fans of Deaver this is a great book making the main character a woman kinesics specialist,who had worked with Lincoln Rymes in his last novel. You will not be disappointed!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, November 05, 2007 - 4:59 pm
Just started A Stupid, Unjust and Criminal War by Andrew Greeley. Fortunately it's a collection of Greeley's editorials, so I can read it in small chunks (no time to breathe, let alone sleep lately). It starts Sept. 12, 2001 and continues through April of 2007.
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