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Escapee
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06-15-2004

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 2:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Montana Sky is my favorite Nora Roberts, the Garden Sereies was good. I read those while I was on Maternity Leave.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 - 8:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
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.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Lol

Lycanthrope
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09-19-2002

Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 8:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lycanthrope a private message Print Post    
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.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, March 16, 2007 - 6:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
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.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, March 16, 2007 - 7:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
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...

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, March 16, 2007 - 7:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Really? I'm loving it from the start. Maybe it's the doubting Catholic girl in me.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, March 16, 2007 - 10:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
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.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Saturday, March 17, 2007 - 8:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
I started The Wicked by L A Banks along with Valley of Silence by Nora Roberts, the last of this trilogy.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 5:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
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.

Hermione69
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07-24-2002

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 12:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hermione69 a private message Print Post    
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.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 7:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
I'm re-reading Song of Solomon, Hermi - -must be Morrison week. :-)

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Monday, March 19, 2007 - 9:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
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.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 7:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
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.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 4:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
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!)

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 4:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
No I don't think I have Teach.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 7:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Lemme know if you try it. :-)

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 5:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Okies

Jhonise
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07-10-2003

Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 12:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jhonise a private message Print Post    
I'm reading Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 3:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
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.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Thursday, March 22, 2007 - 4:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Lol Mamie!

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Friday, March 23, 2007 - 4:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
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.

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 8:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cablejockey a private message Print Post    
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

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - 8:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
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.

Neko
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08-03-2001

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 10:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Neko a private message Print Post    
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.