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Mak1

Saturday, February 15, 2003 - 06:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Just started Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson, strange time travel humor. I'm enjoying it.

Seamonkey

Sunday, February 16, 2003 - 09:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Finished The Slynx.. read it more on a story level than the socio-political allegory level.. now on to something more down-to-earth, book recommended right here in this very thread awhile back, by Teatime: Almost Heaven: Travels Through the Backwoods of America by Martin Fletcher. He travels from Washington, DC through some of the south, across to Vegas then up to Washington.. (I've taken a longer trip than THAT and didn't get a book out of it.. harrumph.. LOL)

Calamity

Monday, February 17, 2003 - 01:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Seamonkey: I love travelogue books. Last two I read were by Bill Bryson - 'In A Sunburned Country', about Australia, and 'A Walk in the Woods', about his hiking trip of the Appalachian Trail. I like the Australia book better but both are good. Hermione's right, you do read a lot! I feel like a complete slacker compared to you :) . Wish I had seen the author of 'Rocket Boys' - thanks for mentioning it.

Djgirl5235

Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 04:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks to Fluffybbw, who turned me onto Jeffrey Deaver's books, I'm now reading "The Stone Monkey" after finishing both "The Coffin Dancer" and "The Empty Chair"... I absolutely eat these books up so we'll see how long this takes!

BTW, THANKS Fluffy

Fluffybbw

Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 04:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You are more than welcome Djgirl5235 I am glad you like them!!

Wink

Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 07:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Anna Quindlen's "Blessings" was a treasure. I was in tears as I finished.

Djgirl Jeffrey Deaver also wrote some earlier novels under the pen name William Jeffries that you would probably enjoy as well.

John Connolly is an Irish crime writer you might enjoy as well. I'm currently reading his third novel "The Killing Kind". The first two were "Every Dead Thing" and "Dark Hollow"

Seamonkey

Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 11:07 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wink, so glad to hear that someone else loved Blessings as much as I did. I was also in tears.

Calamity, I did read Bryson's Walk in the Woods and enjoyed that.. I've read an awful lot of "walk" books and almost always I'm glad I did.

Wink

Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 12:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Seamonkey that book is going on my all time favourites list, right up there with Carol Shield's "Stone Diaries" and "Unless".

Seamonkey

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 03:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Finished Almost Heaven and enjoyed the trip, though I found the author to be more than a bit condescending at times and oddly for a journalist, while it was find to use British spellings throughtout the book (he is a Brit.), he also used British spellings within quotations regarding signs or statements.. which wasn't accurate.. Not a big deal..

Next to read: Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Articstic Temperament, by Kay Redfield Jamison.

Mak1

Friday, February 21, 2003 - 05:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Finally received Finding Fish yesterday. I started this afternoon and am over 100 pages into it, a very gripping story.

Aunt_Bob

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 11:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a question: I am reading a book that I think is just awesome and I plan on entering it for the Book Club 'to read' list, but I want to share a few paragraphs from the very first chapter of "Couldn't Keep It To Myself by Wally Lamb and the women of York Correctional Institution: Testimonies from our imprisoned sisters" with you all here. Do you think that would be alright or kindasorta illegal. This is such an insightful book by an incredible author, I thought you might enjoy reading a few paragraphs and maybe want to then read (buy ) the whole book.

So if anyone thinks that I won't be breaking any copywrite laws, could you let me know. Thanks.

*Has anyone read Wally Lamb. He also did "She's Come Undone"?

Seamonkey

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 01:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've read both of Wally Lamb's novels and plan to read the new one, so put it in for the club.

Mak1

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 03:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I read "She's Come Undone" and plan to read more by Wally Lamb.

This week I read Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis (part 2 of the Chronicles of Narnia). I don't know how I missed out on this series, but wish I still had little ones to read it to.

I just finished In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan. His work is out of print but well worth finding if you like really really off-the-wall stuff written in the '60s.

Seamonkey

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 06:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Finished the book about manic-depression in families of writers, poets, musicians, etc..

Now starting Pat Shannon's Charles and Me. She was the "other woman" for the last 30 years of his life.

Wink

Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 09:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm just starting one called The Dead House by Linda Fairstein. She is the Manhattan DA who prosecuted Robert Chambers, the preppy murderer back in the eighties. She is currently head of the Sex Crimes Unit of the DA's office in Manhattan.

Fluffybbw

Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 08:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I am reading "Alias Grace" by Margaret Atwood, this is based on a real crime that took place in Canada over a hundred years ago, it is a very interesting and somewhat disturbing book. I read the first 100 pages the first night. The author writes it in several different voices, Grace, the woman who may or may not have committed a murder, the doctor working with her to try to find out the truth and even through letters written by other people like the doctor's mother, a doctor that treated Grace when she was in an asylum (sp), etc.

This is the first book I have ever read by Margaret Atwood and her storytelling has a way of drawing the reader into the the lives of all her characters, especially Grace's.

Djgirl5235

Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 09:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Fluffy - if you like Margaret Atwood, then try reading "The Handmaid's Tale". Given the society we live in today, it's a really interesting read, and one that I couldn't put down.

BTW, I finished Deaver's "The Stone Monkey" on Sunday and have just re-read Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone. I'm just about to start "Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets"... MAN! I love those books!!!

Fluffybbw

Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 01:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks very much for your advice Djgirl I will put that on my list, I am listening to "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" on tape before I go to sleep at night and I am also reading "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", I'm usually reading 3 or 4 books, I think I have readers' ADD!

The one I'm reading at work is titled: "The Sweet Potato Queens Book of Love", I read it at lunch and on my breaks, it is very funny and a light read.

Marysafan

Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 05:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Fluffy also check out "Blind Assasin" by Margaret Atwood. I came across her quite be accident having never heard of her...and now she is one of my very favorite authors. I haven't read Alias Grace yet...but I will soon.

Thanks for the words on The Sweet Potato Queens...I have had my eye on that one.

Fluffybbw

Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 06:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Marysafan, the same friend that gave me "Alias Grace" told me I should also read "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood, so I will look for more of her books when I go to the used bookstore this weekend.

Djgirl5235

Friday, February 28, 2003 - 05:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, Fluffy - "Cat's Eye" is very good. As Margaret is Canadian, we had to read some of her books in my Grade 13 English Lit class. I fell in love with "The Handmaid's Tale" and was absolutely fascinated by it.

I too usually have a couple books on the go, but my problem is that once I read them I completely forget them unless I have JUST finished reading them. I have to re-read them over and over to retain anything, that's how wrapped up in them I get! It makes for a great library for me though since I can just go back to my shelves, pick a book I've already read and feel like I'm entering a new world for the first time again!!!

Katlady53

Friday, February 28, 2003 - 10:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I've been on a true crime kick lately.

I'm reading "Fatal Justice" by Jerry Potter & Fred Bost. It's about their reinvestigation of the Jeffrey MacDonald murders. It's very interesting.

Pixichik

Friday, February 28, 2003 - 10:49 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I get such great book suggestions from y'all. I love this thread! I just, five minutes ago, finished The Haunted Air by F. Paul Wilson. It's the latest in his "Repairman Jack" novels and it was wonderful. I fudged a bit on my lunch hour just so I could finish before I came back to work. If you are unfamiliar with Repairman Jack, check out the webpage www.repairmanjack.com. You will be sooooooooooo glad you did!

Mak1

Friday, February 28, 2003 - 02:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My list grows every time I check in here!

I'm reading Be True to Your School, a memoir of Bob Greene's high school days in 1964. Someone on this board suggested it....thank you, it's great!

Seamonkey

Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I've picked up great suggestions here, and discovered authors.

Finished the book about Pat Shannon and Charles Kuralt, it went quickly. Now on to a Nick Bantock book, The Forgetting Room. Bantock books are always a feast for the eyes; he's the author of the Griffin & Sabine Trilogy (and has added to that group as well, I have an order in).