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Ophiliasgrandma

Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 10:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Seamonkey, on your recommendation I am reading The Kite Runner. It sure gets ones mind to question the way the world is going. The way so many of the people of the world are suffering is scary. Where is all going to end?

Slothkitten

Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 11:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Snoopy!
Times two, aww:.)Mak1
Almost finished with SLOB - it's wonderful.
The story, the words, the charactors.
In my profile , you'll see I collect vintage
hats, Seamonkey, have one picked out to wear for the final chapter,lol.

Zachsmom, I liked The Johnstown Flood,too.
Another one along the same vein is Issac's Storm,
about the devastating hurricaine that hit
Galvaston,Tx around the turn of the century.

Tashakinz - I read and posted on Stephen Kings
'Wolves' a week or so ago . . would be happy to
discuss with you.

Seamonkey

Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Slothkitten, I hadn't noticed that you collect vintage hats!! But the hats described in SLOB do require one to at least think about wearing one.

OG, I agree with you.. that book really works on the mind.. I don't know that things are worse, or just that they stay the same over the ages.

Z-mom, I agree, reading a series of books that take place in the late 1800's as you just did.. I also read those and some others from that era kind of together and it really makes me appreciate some of the things we do have now.

Reading now back in the 1600;s about the plague, but the book The Barbary Plague, which I think you may have, showed that, while knowledge of the plague had increased, people were still fairly helpless, in part because the self-serving instincts kick in, to the ultimate detriment of the many.

Remember, Z-mom, in that stack of books there is a novel set with the Johnstown Flood as the background that is much more interesting after having read the McCullough book. Snort! Not that you even have to read it, of course.

As for where I browse.. well I get some great recommendations here in this thread and I poke around at www.bn.com for the most part. Let me loose in a bookstore and I just wander and graze.. biography, current events, general non-fiction, gay/lesbian/women's issues, you name it.. lit and fiction too.

Zachsmom

Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 4:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The Barbary Plague was a VERY good book! I don't know if you noticed, but I passed 2 of the books on (Barbary & Johnstown) to a friend at work. She updated the site and I recieved an email that she registered or "found" the books!

I think out of all of those books that I "found" I have 2 of them left to read. Secrets of the Flesh and The Future Homemakers of America

I started The Future Homemakers of America but I couldn't really get into it. I am going to hold off reading it until the mood strikes me. If I restart it and still can't get into it, I'll pass it along.

I think part of the problem at the bookstore yesterday was I had Zachary with me. I couldn't really focus and there were tons of people in the store.

Zachary found a cute bookset. It's a book on making those animal balloons. It has long ballons, a pump to blow the balloons and a book on how to create the animals. He stated "Mommy, I think we should get this book, it will come in very handy" A little old lady thought that was the funniest thing. I don't know where he gets his phrases at times!

Seamonkey

Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 4:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How adorable!! I'm sure he WILL find it very handy.. Yes.. I love the children's section..

Does he have the book and music to Chicka-Chicka-Boom-Boom?? I adore that!!

Slothkitten

Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 10:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finished The Secret Lives of Bees a little
while ago.
It moved me deeply. Some of the passages made
me cry, touched me. It's a book that makes you think and look anew at the human race . .
love and forgiveness . . I'm bawling again . . thank all of you that shared, I will pass this one on to others. (Hat- big, wide brimmed blue (navy, alas)with blush roses.)

Seamonkey

Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 12:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah, it is a wonderful book. Properly casted, it could be a wonderful movie too.

Mamie316

Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 3:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Loved that book!

Mak1

Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
SLOBees is one of my all-time favorites!

Now I'm reading Mariner's Compass by Earlene Fowler. This is the first of her books I've read and I'm enjoying her writing, the characters, setting and mystery.

Midlifer

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 9:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Me, too, me too! I call The Bees a cross between To Kill a Mockingbird and the Ya-ya Sisters.

Slothkitten

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 6:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Me too!
Since finishing SLOBees, none of the books
I'm trying to read are doing it,lol.

Re-reading East of Eden this week.
Steinbecks writing is deceptively simple,
but so effective. Great storyteller.

Sillycalimomma

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 6:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
To anyone that has a baby or knows someone that is expecting I think that a really GREAT book is
If You Were My Bunny by Kate McMullen
I am not a singer at all, but I picked this book up often and my daughter loved it. As she got older she picked it out night after night as her bedtime book and although she is almost 7 now it still sits in her bookshelf- she refuses to let it go. I gave it out as a gift at a few baby showers as well and the mothers (wether they were singers or not) loved it as well.
Just thought I would share!

Seamonkey

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 6:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Very effective, I agree..

Finished Year of Wonders.. loved it.. read a novel, The Year of Ice: A Novel by Brian Malloy and now starting a bio of eminem.. Whatever You Say I Am; the life and times of eminem by Anthony Bozza.. interesting so far, lots of pictures, large print..

Azriel

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 7:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Last week I finished reading The Davinci Code. I liked it, but worried that a bolt of lightning was going to hit me any minute while I was reading it.

I just finished reading Timeline by Michael Crighton. It was excellent. It's a different take on time travel. If you like history and science fiction you will probably love it.

Kady

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 8:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have Timeline sitting right over there on my bookshelf. I bought it for a $1 at the paperback exchange but I haven't read it yet.

kady is wondering if you plan on bringing home The Davinci Code?

Mak1

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 9:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved Timeline! The movie just came out last weekend. I hope it does justice to the book.

Azriel

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 9:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kady, my bf is reading Davinci Code right now. If he finishes it before I leave, I'll bring it. Tell Matthew to read Timeline. I bet he would like it!

Azriel

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 10:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mak1, I keep noticing that we seem to like the same kind of books. I'm going to start paying good attention to what you say you are reading and what you like and get it! :)

Seamonkey

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 10:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved Timeline and just recently read DaVinci Code as well..

Zachsmom

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 10:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am really enjoying Persuasion by Jane Austen. Times sure have changed! LOL!

Slothkitten

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 10:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I want to read Timeline. :.)

Very curious about eminem's bio.
He's intriguing. Hope it's a good one.

Tashakinz

Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 9:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Slothkitten: I'm about sixty percent done with "Wolves" - this book is doing what no other has ever done before...I have to stop and walk away every 50 or so pages. He's throwing so much imagery that I have to stop and digest before I can continue.

I'm going to have to go back and read Salem's Lot and It. It makes me wonder if the bear got sick (and ultimately died) because the turtle died (in It).

I'm scared for Susannah.

Slothkitten

Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 11:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tasha- I hear ya,lol.
That book is stuffed with references and clues.
I don't want to say too much until you finish
reading it, I'm afraid I'll spill the beans.
My email address is in my profile, feel free to
email me, I'd be glad to discuss. ( Or maybe we should start a Dark Tower thread ( spoiler ):.)

It's exciting that we can expect the last 2 installations this year, yay!

Trishan

Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 1:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Zachsmom, Persuasion is one of my very favorite books--I even bought the movie from bn.com & watch movie & re-read book at least twice a year.

Currently reading Villette by charlotte Bronte...I quite like it so far.

Seamonkey

Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 1:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I haven't read any of King's Dark Tower books..

I worry about him; he's been hospitalized lately, not well at all.. he is such a talent and I liked his honesty about his own life in his book on writing.