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Calamity | Monday, January 27, 2003 - 09:47 am     I finished the moving and engaging memoir 'Rocket Boys' last week. For all its optimism and humor, the story was really rather bittersweet. I got misty-eyed several times and even cried a bit. I read a magazine review of Pete Hamill's 'Forever' a couple weeks ago and the premise really intrigues me. This type of story is right up my alley. I was thinking of waiting until my library gets a copy but I might not be able to hold out that long! Must keep reminding myself of all the other books I should read before this one... |
Djgirl5235 | Monday, January 27, 2003 - 11:25 am     FluffyBBw - Thank you for suggesting Jeffery Deaver. I sped through "Coffin Dancer" in about 4 hours this weekend, and had to take a break from reading to clean the house, an am now happily nestled into "The Empty Chair"... I'm loving them! Once I get done "Chair" I'm moving onto the Hobbit for a different paced adventure. |
Seamonkey | Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 12:52 pm     Finished Forever, all 600 wonderful pages! I'm already mourning the loss of it. Highly recommended! I'm going to start on a book of short stories by Elizabeth Berg, Ordinary Life later today. |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 07:26 pm     Finished the short stories and now starting a novel by Zakes Mda, Ways of Dying, which is set in South Africa, written in '91. |
Seamonkey | Friday, January 31, 2003 - 05:55 pm     Finished the above book, it was just a couple hundred pages.. culturally and stylistically interesting, but not current. Starting Asa, As I Knew Him, a slim novel by Susanna Kaysen (whose memoir was Girl, Interrupted) |
Seamonkey | Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 09:37 am     Finished the Kaysen book (it was ok) and am reading Officially Osbourne: Opening the Doors of the Land of Oz, strictly for Osbourne fans, lots of pictures. |
Mak1 | Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 11:50 am     Finished I Don't Know How She Does It and Two for the Dough (2nd Stephanie Plum mystery). Now I'm reading Three to Get Deadly (S.Plum's 3rd) and The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart, the first in her series about Merlin and King Arthur. |
Seamonkey | Monday, February 03, 2003 - 06:47 am     Calamity.. the author of Rocket Boys was one of many interviewed since the shuttle crash.. of course it touched him greatly and he's one who wants us to continue exploration of space.. anyway I thought of you.. that's a book I'm sure I'll read at some point. I finished the Osbourne book and am now starting a first novel by Emily Jenkins, Mister Posterior and the Genius Child, which is about an 8 year old daughter of a divorced mom in Cambridge, Mass in 1970.. From the intro: I remember how it was to be eight. I remember the playground rhymes, the fierce cliques, and the girls we called "The F**kers." That year was the year my mother adopted an unprecedented number of cats and dated an ardent nudist. I finally found out the truth about my father and his anti-vegetarianism; and my only close friend became a person i didn't know. It was also the first time i was conscious of myself as a person with secrets; as a freethinking human being with something to say. Something not everyone wanted to hear. The year I was eight, i became the most notorious child in the history of the Cambridge Harmony PTA. I figure this will take me closer to starting the next TVCH book club book.. I already have the Fisher book and the Fannie Flagg, and I think I have read and own the Amy Tan (but fear it may be hard to locate) and I've ordered American Patriots but it hasn't shipped yet (and I found out that the author of that is the daughter of Lena Horne.. I ordered her book about that family too).. |
Denecee | Monday, February 03, 2003 - 01:41 pm     Mak1, don't you just love Stephanie Plum & gang? I've read thru book 8 including "Visions of Sugarplums" - all very fun reading. Seamonkey- you convinced me to go check out "Forever". |
Mak1 | Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 03:25 pm     Yes I do, Denecee, and her grandmother makes me laugh right out loud! I have a feeling Ms. Plum will never really excel in this job, but it's fun watching her try. I think she'd be a good private investigator. |
Seamonkey | Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 12:34 pm     Mister Posterior and the Genius Child was a hoot, happy/sad, loved it.. Now starting the second novel by Jennifer Weiner, In Her Shoes.. |
Seamonkey | Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 11:49 am     Finished In Her Shoes last night.. I had adored Jennifer's first book, Good in Bed and this one is also well done. I had such an adverse reaction to one of the characters that it was a tough go at the beginning, but I stuck with it and.. another great read! GIB has been translated into quite a few languages and it looks like it will be made into an HBO movie! Check out Jennifer's site.. she's also following some of the same shows we are.. American Idol, for instance. http://www.jenniferweiner.com And next book is.. TVCH Book Club book, Finding Fish, by Antwone Fisher and already I'm drawn right in, wanting to snatch this little guy out of foster care... |
Hermione69 | Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 05:31 pm     Seamonkey, I thought I read a lot. You read more books than anyone I have ever met in my life. I don't know how you do it. You are amazing! I am reading "The Dead House" by Linda Fairsteen. It's a high-brow mystery. She's been compared to Patricia Cornwell, but I like Pat better. I am anxious to get through it so I can start "Q is for Quarry." |
Seamonkey | Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 09:52 pm     Uh.. no kids, no grandkids.. that helps but really I just adore books. I know some people around here keep several books going at once.. I just have one book going and the daily paper, but tvholicism eats into my reading time. |
Mak1 | Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 04:54 am     I finished The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart, a great story about Merlin's young life. I'll be reading the rest of the series later. I just started The Lobster Chronicles, Life on a Very Small Island, by Linda Greenlaw. I'm enjoying her sense of humor in describing the small fishing islanders' way of life. |
Schoolmarm | Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 10:44 am     The Crystal Cave was required reading when I was in High School. I think I still have my copy. I didn't know that there were more books in the series. I'll have to look for them.....do you know the titles? |
Seamonkey | Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 11:16 am     Mak.. I read Greenlaw's book about swordfishing.. very good.. of course she was the captain of the sister boat to the one that was lost in "The Perfect Storm".. Anyway, thanks for mentioning this book.. it is now on my wish list... |
Fluffybbw | Sunday, February 09, 2003 - 01:21 pm     Schoolmarm, the other two in the series are: The Hollow Hills and The Last Enchantment. I got my set of three off of Ebay, they are not easy to find, but I have found them also at the Halfprice used book store. |
Mak1 | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 11:24 am     Schoolmarm, you can also find Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy at bn.com. It's in stock, in hardcover, for $23.96. Our local library has them, also. |
Mak1 | Monday, February 10, 2003 - 04:01 pm     I finished Greenlaw's book today and liked it so much, I've added her swordfishing book to my wish list. Seamonkey, I think you would really enjoy the Lobster Chronicles, too. Small town life, especially the politics, is sometimes almost unbelievably absurd, and it sounds even a little more so on the island. There's a lot of dry wit and love in this book......for the people, the career and the daily struggles and triumphs. This afternoon I read Visions of Sugar Plums, a very funny little story by Janet Evanovich, starring Stephanie Plum. A book with rioting elves will give me some good chuckles every time. |
Mak1 | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 04:01 am     I'm now reading The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, and waiting for my TVCH book club book to arrive. |
Seamonkey | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 11:13 am     Mak.. I think you'll enjoy the swordfishing book too.. AND Finding Fish as well.. I'm in awe of his talent in description and in bringing images to life with his words! |
Kaili | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 11:19 am     Mak- I have the swordfishing book- "The Hungry Ocean"- it's good. I heard parts of the lobster one on NPR's Chapter a Day- sounded good from what I heard of it. You can get the swordfishing one on half.com VERY cheap (around $4 including shipping). |
Mak1 | Tuesday, February 11, 2003 - 04:14 pm     I'm looking forward to it, Seamonkey! Thanks for the tip, Kaili, can't beat that price. Whenever I eat lobster from now on, I'll have a much greater respect for what the lobster fishermen go through, especially in a slow season like the one she wrote about. |
Seamonkey | Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 10:12 am     Finished the club book, Finding Fish.. pretty amazing and I loved his writing.. next book is very different.. The Slynx, by Tatyana Tolstaya.. translated from Russian.. dubbed "post-Soviet literature".. also set in post-blast Moscow? Anyway, dark themes and dark humor so far. (yes, she's descended, cousinwise, from Leo Tolstoy). |
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