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Jo_5329 | Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 05:32 am     Quote:Wink said: 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.
Linda has a new one out, The Bone Vault. BTW, Linda has retired from the DA's office and is good buds with Patricia Cornwell, helping her on her Jack the Ripper investigation. Jo |
Hermione69 | Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 06:09 am     Wink, I just finished the Dead House a couple weeks ago. Did you like it? AUNT BOB, about your copyright question, I can only answer from the educational standpoint and we are cut a lot more slack in schools than the general public is. Copyright is all about money. The biggest factor is whether by posting some paragraphs from the book, you are costing the author money? In this case, I would say no. If anything, you might pique people's interest and they would buy the book. The amount you post would have to be substantially less than the work as a whole, which obviously it would be, so you could probably post a few paragraphs and not worry. I've posted passages from the Harry Potter book and nothing has every been said. At the worst, someone might ask it to be taken down. Go for it! I've read Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone and loved it. My sister read another one of his-- I Know This Much is True-- and said it was very gripping, but very depressing and didn't recommend it to me because she thought it would upset me too much (I've been battling depression on and off for about 4 years now). I need to get to B&N today and buy me a copy of Finding Fish so I can catch up with the Book Club. Like DJGirl (imagine that, Deej!) I just finished rereading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and am going to start the Chamber of Secrets again soon. In the HP thread, we have been discussing clues about where JK might go with the next 3 books! It's been fun! |
Aunt_Bob | Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 11:53 am     Hermione,Thank you very much for the input. |
Seamonkey | Sunday, March 02, 2003 - 12:34 pm     I finished Nick Bantock's The Forgetting Room (it isn't long, only 105 pages) and started Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2011. I'd done pretty extensive reading last year of various books about the event, the aftermath and also some historical books about the building of the WTC, the controversy, the corruption, the people and neighborhoods destroyed and decided I was ready for another and so far, in the first pages, I've learned some new stories. |
Wink | Monday, March 03, 2003 - 02:08 pm     Jo thanks for the update on Fairstein. I'll put Bone Vault on my list. Hermione I liked it overall. It was fascinating to read about the history of Roosevelt Island. I didn't even know such an island existed. Love the interplay between Alex and Mike. I thought the novel ended rather abruptly and would have preferred to have some of the King's College people summarized a little more. |
Mak1 | Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 10:35 am     I'm reading Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King. |
Seamonkey | Thursday, March 06, 2003 - 04:34 pm     Finished the book of 9/11 stories.. really a varied group of people.. very good, not easy to read, but good. Starting a memoir, RunningWith Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs.. |
Seamonkey | Saturday, March 08, 2003 - 12:07 am     Just finished Running With Scissors and now have Augusten Burroughs' fictional book, Sellevision and his coming out in May continuation of his memoir, Dry on my wishlist. A memoir as memorable as that of Antwone Fisher's.. totally different kid but totally crazy childhood (bipolar divorced mom with most unorthodox therapist, father who literally shut them out, being the unofficial foster child of same therapist and his unconventional family.. not even going to school much after gradeschool . but eventual escape to NY and now the author of three books and lots more writing..) Not sure what's next, books await me upstairs  |
Hermione69 | Saturday, March 08, 2003 - 04:31 pm     I just read The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. Beautiful and evocative. I wept. Highly recommended. |
Mak1 | Saturday, March 08, 2003 - 04:43 pm     I finished Hearts in Atlantis. I liked some of it, hated other parts.....guess I've read enough of King's horror stories. Next book is Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella. The movie Field of Dreams was based on this book, and I loved the movie. |
Seamonkey | Saturday, March 08, 2003 - 06:33 pm     Hermi.. I have that book (Bees) on the way!! I started reading Enduring Patagonia by Gregory Crouch (climing in the Alps of So America) as my next book. |
Marysafan | Saturday, March 08, 2003 - 08:32 pm     I have just one question...is the Secret Life of Bees ....really about bees? |
Hermione69 | Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 07:52 am     For you, Mary: From the Publisher-- "Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, Lily Owens has shaped her entire life around one devastating, blurred memory - the afternoon her mother was killed, when Lily was four. Since then, her only real companion has been the fierce-hearted, and sometimes just fierce, black woman Rosaleen, who acts as her "stand-in mother." When Rosaleen insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily knows it's time to spring them both free. They take off in the only direction Lily can think of, toward a town called Tiburon, South Carolina - a name she found on the back of a picture amid the few possessions left by her mother. There they are taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters named May, June, and August. Lily thinks of them as the calendar sisters and enters their mesmerizing secret world of bees and honey, and of the Black Madonna who presides over this household of strong, wise women...." |
Hermione69 | Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 07:59 am     Seamonkey, I can't wait to hear what you think. I couldn't put this down. Knowing how fast you read, you will probably finish it in one day. I hope you like it! |
Marysafan | Sunday, March 09, 2003 - 05:10 pm     WOW...sounds like a really good book. *Mary adds it to her already long "must read soon" list.* I had to ask...hubby once bought me the Bridges of Madison County...and I thought it was really going to be about the Bridges of Madison County seeing that they are not too far from us. (BOY was I surprised!) |
Rissa | Monday, March 10, 2003 - 07:56 am     Morning all. Haven't been in this section for awhile, too busy to read (how sad is that? LOL). Anyway, I just finished the most incredible book and had to share. It's called "Promised the Moon" by Stephanie Nolen. It's the the 'Mercury 12', the first group of women to be considered for the space program. What an absolutely amazing group of women!! And what a cold-water bath it was reading about just HOW different the 60's were for women. My DH keeps laughing at me, but I always thought that women's rights were a gradual progression and then laws brought in to reflect those changes. Nope, seems the laws had to force society into change. In honor of Black History Month, here is a woman whose name I had never heard before but we all should have: "...Bessie Coleman was extraordinary. One of thirteen children born to a Cherokee father and an African-American mother, she was working as a manicurist in Chicago at age 15 when she decided she wanted to fly. Few flying schools would teach a woman, but none would teach a black woman. So Bessie taught herself French, moved to France and earned her pilot's license in 1921, making her the only licensed black pilot in the world." Bessie went on to open a flight school for other black men and women in the US and died in 1926 during an exhibition when her plane locked into a dive. The book is just overflowing with similiar stories of incredible women and the 12 who came closest to being our first astronauts (they originally thought women would be needed to fit in the capsules). It also has some **interesting** quotes and information about John Glenn, Kennedy, Johnson and a woman named Jackie Cochran who I would like to sit down and have a very heated discussion with. LOL I am rambling now, but I really was impressed with this book. The back cover reads: "In the early 1960's, the thirteen women who called themselves the Fellow Lady Astronaut Trainees faced greater challenges then the ones the scientists threw at them. Superbly qualified pilots, they were eager to participate in the American space race. But their country wasn't ready for them: a women in space was regarded as "ninety pounds of recreational equipment" in the words of one famed physicist. And their desire to orbit the earth would never get off the ground. But those remarkable women - eleven of whom are still vibrantly alive - recall a time in the Kennedy years when everything seemd possible. Authose Stephanie Nolen reveals the little-known story of those would-be women astronauts, with its heady mix of hype and hope, of political and personal betrayals. |
Hermione69 | Monday, March 10, 2003 - 08:35 am     This sounds absolutely fascinating! Thanks for sharing, Rissa! |
Mak1 | Monday, March 10, 2003 - 11:12 am     Thanks, Rissa! I'm adding this to my list, too. |
Seamonkey | Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 10:49 am     Rissa, that sounds good! I finished Enduring Patagonia last night and immediately started Ann Packer's novel, The Dive From Clausen's Pier, which has sucked me right into the story.. well done. |
Seamonkey | Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 11:28 am     Whew!! Finished the Ann Packer book last night.. oddly, as I read it I kept thinking of how it would be discussed by people here.. there would be lots of opinions about the various characters. I kind of wanted the book to evolve in a different direction than it did and at times thought the main character was adrift, but I certainly liked the book. And next will be <drumroll Hermione> The Secret Life of Bees (see excellent discussion up thread by Hermi). Have to say that this would also have been a good club book.. paperback, and has discussion questions and author comments in the back of the book. Hermi you mentioned that it may be a fast read and I had to smile seeing one of the many blurbs/quotes by those recommending the book was a suggestion to slow down and savor it. We will see. |
Mak1 | Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 10:52 am     I just started Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich. |
Seamonkey | Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 02:19 pm     I have Love Medicine coming in an order to arrive next week, I hope. OK.. I started The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd.. what a wonderful book, loved the characters and the story.. just wonderful. I finished today in a several hour sprint, snuggled in bed, sleeping cat in the window, rain steadily drumming outside. Highly recommended. Next, I'm starting Nick Bantock's The Venetian's Wife: A strangely sensual tale of a Renaissance explorer, a computer, and a metamorphosis. short, heavily illustrated and undoubtedly quirky like all of his books.. |
Kady | Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 02:43 pm     Sea...this is totally off topic. But do you keep all the books you buy and read or trade them in at a used book store. I was just curious as to how many books you own. Gosh I wish you lived near me, I would love to go to your house instead of the library. |
Seamonkey | Saturday, March 15, 2003 - 03:52 pm     Kady, I have more books than even I can imagine.. and I gave 6 grocery bags full to the library when I moved into this place. I have no idea but easily thousands. |
Seamonkey | Sunday, March 16, 2003 - 06:00 pm     Finished the book I started yesterday, starting a memoir by Paula Fox, Borrowed Finery. |
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