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Twinkie | Saturday, November 16, 2002 - 03:21 pm     I hadn't noticed that OM but hubby got it at Sam's club anyway for #7.99 and its over 400 pages so still a bargain in my mind. I'm enjoying it just wish I spent more time reading instead of being here but its hard to break this habit!! LOL |
Seamonkey | Sunday, November 17, 2002 - 02:53 pm     Finished Blue Latitiudes.. loved the whole thing! Great mix of humor and history and exploration. I think I'll get another of his books, Baghdad Without a Map. Next will be Stephen King's From a Buick 8 for a definite change of pace. |
Marysafan | Sunday, November 17, 2002 - 03:05 pm     I finally finished Family Pictures by Sue Miller. I like Sue Miller's writing...but came to care less and less about this family. I was glad it was finally over. I found it very depressing. Needing something a little more uplifting...I chose Herman Wouk's "City Boy". I am totally smitten with young Herbie Bookbinder. He is eleven years old living in the Bronx before World War II. Herman Wouk is one of my very favorite authors...you may know him from The Caine Mutiny, Winds of War, or War and Rememberance. Last year I read his "Inside, Outside" and loved it...this book reminds me a lot of the early chapters of Inside, Outside. I know I am going to to thoroughly enjoy this read. |
Ophiliasgrandma | Monday, November 18, 2002 - 09:10 am     Seamonkey: I have a favor to ask: Would you go to my site in 'Members Room' and tell me whatever happened to the cat in "The Cat from Hue'? I thought by doing it that way it wouldn't spoil the story for those who might yet want to read it. I managed to get through 400 of the 800 plus pages before I called it quits. Thanks, OG |
Weenerlobo | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 12:19 pm     Am currently reading Silas Marner and just finished Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Anybody read old classics? |
Crazydog | Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 12:31 pm     I usually read two books at once. One is a normal everyday book that I read on the train, etc. The other is a classic that I take to the gym and read in the whirlpool and steamroom (they are inexpensive paperbacks so I don't care if they get ruined, I usually throw them out when I am done reading). It usually takes me a very long time to read the gym book because I only get maybe 10 minutes or so at most three days a week. Currently I am reading "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad. The one I read just before that was "The Three Musketeers". Not too impressed with Secret Agent, sadly. It's a little slow. The other book I am reading is called "The Archer's Tale" by Bernard Cornwell. I have never read anything by Cornwell - he writes the Sharpe's series but I really like the time period the book is set in. It's the Hundred Years War. The imagery is very vivid. |
Jazzcat | Wednesday, November 20, 2002 - 01:37 am     i am halfway thru 'live from new york' the uncensored history of snl. it is a fast read and very interesting in that juicy, gossip sort of way......! |
Pixichik | Wednesday, November 20, 2002 - 06:38 pm     Anyone here an Andrew Vachss fan? I'm currently on a "Burke" binge and wonder if I'm the only one half in love with the character. |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, November 20, 2002 - 07:06 pm     Finished the Stephen King and just starting to read Pat Conroy's biography, My Losing Season (Conroy wrote The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, etc..) |
Fluffybbw | Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 02:27 pm     Hi, I'm more than halfway through a very exciting book by James Holloway: "Subterranean", I'm really enjoying it. It's very exciting and fast paced! Also my car book is: "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" I keep a book in the car to read when I'm waiting at a restaurant for my meal to be served, or for a doctor's or dentist's appt. etc. I started the Holloway book, the first one I've ever read of his, yesterday and havn't been able to put it down since. My weekend book is Robert Mcmammon's book, "Swan Song", which I am also having a great time reading. All these books are great and I got all of them based on suggestions from several contributors to this thread, thanks very much. |
Fluffybbw | Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 02:29 pm     I'm sorry I misspelled Robert McCammon's name in my remarks above, I can read I just have trouble writing once in a while! |
Sia | Thursday, November 21, 2002 - 03:37 pm     Fluffybbw, where have you been, dear? I've missed you!!! Hello!  |
Seamonkey | Sunday, November 24, 2002 - 01:40 pm     Finished the Conroy book.. very very steeped in basketball, but also insightful about the author growing up. Next book: Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan, by Bruse S. Feiler. This was an earlier book; he taught in Japan for a year. Looks interesting. Opening anecdote: he is taken to a communal bath in a cave.. he disrobes, looks up and sees lots of round eyes looking at him.. all of the Japanese men have a little towel held in front of their privates; he doesn't.. so he gets a towel.. when they are in the pool, they put the towel on their head.. Anyway his insight is that this is why they bow because if you let go of the little towels to shake hands, eyes will widen  |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, November 27, 2002 - 10:35 am     That was a most excellent book It was written circa 1991 and I would love to see an updated report, but of course Bruce Feiler has gone on to write about other places. Next book is Kitchen Confidential by.. um.. (quickly surf to bn.com) Anthony Bourdain, executive chef at Las Halles restaurant.. anyway looks to be a wickedly delicious read, and, Max.. if he is the reader on the audio version, and I think he is, I suspect that would be a great way to enjoy this one. |
Ophiliasgrandma | Saturday, November 30, 2002 - 03:36 pm     I'm well into the 'Stephanie Plum' 'Visions of Sugarplums'. It's a fairy tale, but has all the usual cast of characters and I'm enjoying it immensely, especially Grandma. She's a wowser! |
Teatime | Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 04:33 am     Seamonkey, I read Kitchen Confidential. Lots and lots of French cooking terms and foods that I was not familiar with, so the book was a chore at times. I'll be curious to hear what you think. I have a caterer friend who is a workaholic, and also a son who has worked in large fast-paced restaurants, so it was interesting to me to get a little view into their work lives. |
Seamonkey | Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 05:44 am     I finished Kitchen Confidential last last night. I took French for a couple of years and Spanish for three and yes there was a bit too much detail at times but I've learned to just read fast in parts like that (same when Oliver Sacks got a bit too deep into the periodic tables or Pat Conroy into basketball, or John McEnroe or any tennis player when they recap every stroke of some match).. and just read for their pure passion. I liked the book.. And then I started the new Michael Crichton book Prey and.. OMG.. I made myself stop and turn out the light at some point when I was over 100 pages in.. tossed and turned and eventually the light went back on and 250 pages in.. I got up to check my computers and turn over some data sets for the Seti@home program and I'm not sure I'll be able to sleep until the book is finis.. when I turned the light back on, I noticed my cat wriggled until her head was upside down, then put her paw over her eyes.. too funny (and very sweet). So.. now that I've checked four puters and TVCH.. back to bed, with book and cat. (cat is still upstairs in the bed, methinks.) My brother grew up in restaurants.. after his paperboy gigs, when he was old enough he started bussing then waiting and as an adult he went thru stockbroking, marketing for IBM, Bank manager training for BofA then programming for B of A.. and also did the management training for the Rusty Pelican/Ancient Mariner chain of restaurants and then became a part owner of a restaurant. And yep restaurant work can be all-consuming. I remember my brother talking about a regular customer at the Balboa Pavilion who came in daily, and one thing he wanted was warm milk. My brother would prepare this himself.. as he said, the chefs would have been outraged and he also said they drank thru their shifts and they had the knives, so you definitely wanted to stay on their GOOD side. I still think the audio tape of this guy reading his book would be quite amazing (but not if the Osbournes freak you out with their vocabulary). later, gators.. must get back to sleep, er reading. |
Seamonkey | Sunday, December 01, 2002 - 11:44 am     <sneaking back in after some sleep..> finished Prey.. wow.. alarming and interesting. Started a book I'd long meant to read, waited for paperback and 40% off.. Tuesdays With Morrie. I've seen the tv movie of it and the excellent set of interviews that Ted Koppel did with Morrie himself, so I have no doubt that reading the book will also be a rewarding experience. |
Ophiliasgrandma | Monday, December 02, 2002 - 09:14 am     Seamonkey, it's a good un! |
Fluffybbw | Monday, December 02, 2002 - 01:33 pm     Seamonkey, I also bought "Prey" over the weekend and could not put it down, I am so glad I had to time off, because I read it straight through, started at 11 a.m. Sunday, finished 2 a.m. this morning, great read, I am definately on an adventure book streak! I liked your mention of your cat, mine starts at the foot of the bed and ends up on my pillow, just by some kind of cat magic. I also finished "Swan Song" and "Subterranean" this weekend, now I am working on finishing "The Girl with the Pearl Erring" and I have another James Rollins book, "Excavation" waiting on my nightstand. |
Seamonkey | Monday, December 02, 2002 - 08:41 pm     OG.. yep, I knew Morrie would be good and indeed it was (and he was as well) Finished earlier today and grabbed a really short book (I usually think to check #pages but didn't), Anna Quindlan's How Reading Changed My Life which is just fine, but she's preaching to the choir in my case.. still as long as I have it, worth reading.. Fluffy.. how great to have company in the devouring of Prey!! It was just demanding that I keep reading it. In a way too bad that it is done.. who knows when Crichton will publish next.. |
Wargod | Monday, December 02, 2002 - 08:43 pm     Sea...that is a great book. Morrie that is. My mom bought it two Christmas' ago and its made its way through the family several times already. |
Seamonkey | Monday, December 02, 2002 - 09:33 pm     War.. yes, I can imagine.. I'm fighting the impulse to order dozens and hand them out, mostly because I'm sure the ones I'd give it to would have already read it.. |
Seamonkey | Tuesday, December 03, 2002 - 07:01 am     Finished that little Quindlan book which was enjoyable but too slim to warrent recommending. |
Zeno39 | Wednesday, December 04, 2002 - 01:30 pm     Well, I know my taste in books probably won't agree with anybody else. I am starting The Heart of A Woman by Maya Angelou. I also read both of Tom Brokaw's last books, The Greatest Generation and The Greatest Generation Speaks. When I want to be simply entertained and not read anything deep, I love historical romance. Leigh Greenwood writes good ones, his latest being books about the different adopted siblings of one family, and the story of each one. They are good light reading. |
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