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Archive through June 03, 2003

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Kimmo

Monday, May 12, 2003 - 11:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree, MyJH-- I thought it would be a quick read, but I don't even know if I've gotten past 50 pages yet (and I started the book over a week ago). It's very slow-going. But, it probably doesn't help me that I am only reading it on my coffee breaks. I certainly don't feel driven to read more than 15 minutes at a time! Mary, I'll let you know more when I finish it.

I remembered a book I just finished and wanted to share-- "Blue Angel" by Francine Prose. It's about an aging, small-town college professor who gets involved with his talented, outcast creative writing student-- Mixed with the atmosphere of political correctness, in the university environment, the professor's midlife crises and feelings of impotence in terms of his writer's block and aging-- And how they all collide in this awful manner. But it's totally funny/ satircal as well! It ends kind of abruptly, and may read a little labored at times, but it was a real page-turner almost all the way through. Fun read.

Zachsmom

Monday, May 12, 2003 - 11:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am half way through "Up Country"..it's very well written and I just adore Paul Brenner..gosh he's a hoot.

I am having a problem, well maybe problem isn't the word, but the content is so disturbing. War is so ugly. It's a very good book.

Seamonkey

Wednesday, May 14, 2003 - 9:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I enjoyed Life of Pi very much!! Very different, witty, fanciful and thoughtful.

New book, nonfiction, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, her first book, Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx.

It promises to be in-depth, well-researched and a look where people usually want to look away. Great reviews and one is by Tracy Kidder, one of my top ten authors of all time.


(I'm pumped! Got this in a yummy box which also brought Louise Erdrich's second and third novels, Jonathan Kellerman's new book, two memoirs, a book about an epidemicof plague in Victorian San Francisco, new Anita Shreve novel, book about Kraatoa eruption and season one DVDs of Six Feet Under)

Marysafan

Friday, May 16, 2003 - 6:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finished Nelson Demille's Spencerville last night. What an intense read! I found it difficult to put it down and couldn't stop thinking about it when I did manage to put it down. Sometimes, it got so intense that I had to put it down for my own good.

I decided that it would be a good idea for the next selection to be a bit more calm...I looked over the seven remaining books in my new Nelson Demille collection and decided that Word of Honor might fit the bill. I have no idea what I may be getting myself into knowing that I will be revisiting The Battle of Hue in 1968 with a protagonist who was there back then....but I am looking forward to the journey.

Mak1

Saturday, May 17, 2003 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just started Midnight Rain by Dee Davis.

Egbok

Saturday, May 17, 2003 - 3:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hello everyone! I finally finished reading The Sculptress. I just couldn't get into this book and made myself read it hoping that something would click for me, but it never did. I'm glad I finished it though. Now I'm going to start a book my friend recently gave me called Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews. I'm not sure what I'm in for but since my friend was kind enough to get it for me, I will begin reading it.

Seamonkey

Sunday, May 18, 2003 - 1:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Finished Random Family.. I was really gripped by this fascinating and detailed account of a ten year period in the lives of this group of related, quasi-related and unrelated people.. wow.

Next book.. to be determined as soon as I take out the trash and head upstairs for the night.

Seamonkey

Sunday, May 18, 2003 - 2:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
New book: The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco by Marilyn Chase. In light of SARS.. rather timely, even pre-Golden Gate Bridge.

Sia

Sunday, May 18, 2003 - 9:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm reading "Household Gods," which is co-authored by Harry Turtledove. I like his si-fi/time-travel stuff. It's interesting so far. I love historical fiction.

Seamonkey

Monday, May 19, 2003 - 7:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Done with the Plague.. what a time that was, included the huge earthquake that leveled SF in 1906, which allowed rats, fleas and plague to really take hold.

Another non-fiction now.. Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883, by Simon Winchester.

Squaredsc

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 10:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
im reading a book by my new favorite author laurell k hamilton called "narcissus in chains". it a book with preternatural creatures like vamps and lycanthropes and other were-animals. i love it. i plan on getting all of her book eventually.

Tashakinz

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 12:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Squared - those are the books with Anita somebody as the central protagonist? If it's the same characters that I'm thinking of, I've read one of her short stories that came in an anthology with one of my J.D. Robb "___ In Death" stories. It was interesting.

Squaredsc

Friday, May 23, 2003 - 5:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
yes tasha they are, but she also writes other "other worldy" series'. in fact i found one on amazon.com about faeries, i love faeries.

Twinkie

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 5:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just got 3 new books at Media Play's discount selection. 3 hardback books for $10. Can't beat it. They are: The Psychology of The Sopranos by Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.
Quicker Than the Eye by Ray Bradbury
Cybersex- The Secret World of Internet Sex by Dr. Kimberley Young

That last one was only $.99!

Mak1

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 5:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Is Media Play a website? Those all sound interesting, Twinkie.

I just started Snagged by Carol Higgins Clark.

Seamonkey

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 8:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Twinkie, those all sound quirky and interesting and the price is right!!

I finished the book about Krakatoa, which turned out to be about history, politics, Dutch imperialism, plate tectonics and more. I got caught up in it, but I'm not sure who I'd recommend it to.

Anyway, having read about the giant Johnstown Floord, then the Plague and great earthquake in San Francisco and now volcanic eruption and tsunami waves and all in the late 1800s, now into more recent times, another non-fiction and about yet another plague: alzheimers: The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting, by Elizabeth Cohen.

Twinkie

Saturday, May 24, 2003 - 11:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mak1, Media Play is a store that has everything from music to movies to books. Its a huge chain. They probably have a website also.

Seamonkey

Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 5:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Finished The House on Beartown Road very quickly..sad/interesting..

Starting next, yet another nonfiction, The Deveil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that changed America by Erik Larson. So back to the late 1800s, where most of my book have been set of late.

Chai

Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 8:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now I'm 100 pages into "Kissed a Sad Goodbye" by Deborah Crombie. It's the first of ehr books I've read, and I love it, so far! now I want to read the entire Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James series. I just love her writing style. It's very crisp and moves along at a nice pace.

Yesterday, I finished "Rosemary Remembered" by Susan Wittig Albert. I'd forgotten how much fun her China Bayles series is. I want to read that entire series, too! Her writing style is so light; I finished the entire book in one day! (A major fete for me, even though it was only just under 300 pages.)

Kady

Sunday, May 25, 2003 - 9:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am in the middle of a really good book. It is called Cane River by Lalita Tademy.

From the book jacket....A unique accomplishment, this is history never before told, an epic novel of four generations of African-American women, a work based on one family's actual meticulously researched past--and a book with enormous implications for us all.

Mak1

Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 3:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you Twinkie. MediaPlay does have a website too!

Today I started Straight by Dick Francis.

Seamonkey

Thursday, May 29, 2003 - 4:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finished Erik Larson's The Devil in the white City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. Well I learned so much, more history of that era, the first Ferris Wheel, the birth of shredded wheat :) and the precursors to so many things.. Walt Disney's father worked on this huge fair and you can see how some of those concepts popped up 50 years later at Disneyland!.. this fair even settled the dispute between AC and DC current as a standard.

And in parallel.. this fascinating/gruesome serial killer.. wow.. .. I cannot remember now who asked about this book.. your hubby was reading it.. anyway if you haven't yet, I'd say well worth reading.

So, staying in the same timeframe, end of the 1800's.. I'm reading Patricia Cornwell's true investigation: Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed.

Marysafan

Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 12:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finished Nelson Demille's "Word of Honor" this morning. I really enjoyed this book. It wasn't as intense as the other's I have read so far, but I was thoroughly engrossed.

If John Travolta is Paul Brenner then Kevin Kostner is Ben Tyson. I just don't understand why there hasn't been a movie or perhaps a mini-series based on this book. Definitely a worthwhile read. "Powerful" is good adjective for this one.

Next up in my Nelson Demille exploration is "The Charm School". I hear it's another good one.

Seamonkey

Sunday, June 01, 2003 - 6:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Finished up reading about Jack the Ripper.. it labored a bit at times but was interesting.

And now staying in the past with a life spanning mid 19th century to mid 20th..

Secrets of the Flesh: A life of Colette by Judith Thurman.

Jedisan

Tuesday, June 03, 2003 - 3:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Seamonkey: It was me.
DH finished it - he loved it. He also loved the history aspect of it. Thanks for your thoughts.
I just started Harry Potter #1 (which should not take long) and then I am going to start Devil in the White City.