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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Friday, August 31, 2007 - 10:57 am
Garden Spells, Sarah Addison Allen's first novel. It's a lovely, just the thing to read while making chili sauce today.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, August 31, 2007 - 11:22 am
I have that one coming, Prisoner. I've heard such wonderful things about it.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Sunday, September 02, 2007 - 10:55 pm
Anonymous Lawyer by Jeremy Blachman. So far so good -- a friend told me it's hysterically funny. I'm halfway through it, but I've not guffawed to the extent I thought I would be. Oh well.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, September 03, 2007 - 10:21 am
I just finished Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard. It had me on the edge of my seat. It follows 3 women friends and one of their daughters on a sail around St. Thomas. It doesn't go as planned and harrowing things happen. Very good read.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Monday, September 03, 2007 - 10:45 am
I've just finished Heartstopper by Joy Fielding and highly recommend it! Light and entertaining almost like watching a teen slasher movie only with more substance than gore. I was surprised at the ending. http://www.bookclubs.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385663533&view=printrg
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Monday, September 03, 2007 - 11:32 am
Mamie that is my next book...glad to hear good report on it!
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Monday, September 03, 2007 - 2:43 pm
I'm reading Heartstopper right now
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Monday, September 03, 2007 - 7:18 pm
Jasper--let us know what you think of it.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, September 03, 2007 - 8:05 pm
FINALLY finished 'The Other Boleyn Girl'! It was engrossing. I hadn't much cared for another Philippa Gregory book, The Queen's Fool. But this was MUCH better. I'm thinking of getting a couple more of her books, along the same theme. Tonight I'm starting the bio of The Golden Girls - ESTELLE GETTY...'IF I KNEW THEN WHAT I KNOW NOW...SO WHAT'. The fact that she has Alzheimers makes the title doubly sad and ironic.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Tuesday, September 04, 2007 - 4:37 am
The Other Boleyn Girl has to be one of the best books I've read this year. I went out looking for more by the author.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, September 04, 2007 - 8:31 am
I'll have to get that one. I've been looking at it and wondering if I'd like it or not. I'm reading Keeping The House by Ellen Baker. It follows a woman in the 50s who falls in love with a house and it follows the family who lived there starting at the end of the 1800's and spanning to the 50s. It goes back and forth but it flows very nicely.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 10:06 am
I finished a wonderful novel called The Long Walk Home by Will North. It's set in Wales and I can really see it being made into a beautiful film. I'm now reading Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen and just loving it!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 4:32 pm
Just finished the NOVEL, Pieces of My Sister's Life by Elizabeth Joy Arnold. I bought it yesterday afternoon and to dh's amazement I finished it this morning. LOL. I didn't find the character's that endearing, but it was a page-turner and I found myself crying at the end. So yeah, I recommend it if anyone's interested. I just prefer more likable main characters.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, September 09, 2007 - 7:59 pm
I've recently read it, Mame. I really liked it.
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Jasper
Member
09-14-2000
| Monday, September 10, 2007 - 12:42 pm
Cablejockey - your assessment of Heartstopper was bang on. I have liked all of Joy Fielding's books, I get a little thrill when she talks about TO and places I know of.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Monday, September 10, 2007 - 7:56 pm
I've read several of her books and enjoyed most of them. I've just finished A charlotte Bingham book called The Chestnut Tree that takes us back WW2 and a little English village that suffers and changes thruout the war. it.http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/charlotte-bingham/chestnut-tree.htm
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 9:41 am
I just reread "This Present Darkness" by Frank Peretti. And I cried again at the end.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 10:06 am
I'm reading Dead Ex by Harley Jane Kozak.
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 2:08 pm
I'm reading High Noon by Nora Roberts.
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Babyruth
Member
07-19-2001
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 7:19 pm
Just started Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, September 12, 2007 - 7:50 pm
Babyruth, that is a very touching memoir. Very simple and heartfelt.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 6:26 am
I'm rereading some Nora Roberts trilogies; just finished the Chesapeake Bay series, and I'm on book 2 of the Irish Trilogy.
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Grannyg
Member
05-28-2002
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 9:08 am
oh Prisoner, i loved all the series books.
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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 9:13 am
They're really good bed-reading books for me. Reading a chapter or two when I get into bed helps me relax into sleep. Now, Stephen King's Lisey's Story is my car book, the one I take when I eat out. That's not one that would help me relax...
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Heyltslori
Moderator
09-15-2001
| Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 9:31 am
I finished Dream When You're Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg. I thought it was ok. I think it was my least favorite Elizabeth Berg book. Maybe I just have really high expectations for her books. It picked up in the middle for awhile, but I didn't really like the ending. Pretty much lukewarm the whole way through for me. I know that Marysafan is reading this one right now, so I'm anxious to see what she has to say about it!
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