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Marysafan
| Friday, April 18, 2003 - 10:58 am
Thanks Wink!!!....Neville...lol!....well I was close! Nelson DeMille ...by the time I finish this book...I won't forget his name! I am already thirsting for more of his stuff. I know Mr. DeMille knows about the names, because in the book he talks about meeting his former boss in front of the Wall at the point of the Tet offensive. You see that's the neat thing about having the names in consecutive order...you can go to a part of the wall and be at a point in time. Buddies who died together...are together on the wall. ...but I may go there just to let them know...that I noticed...and it really bugs me.
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Wink
| Friday, April 18, 2003 - 11:12 am
Mary I've yet to read a Nelson DeMille I haven't liked. Paul Brenner is a great character and I hope he does so more novels with this leading man. John Corey is another interesting character and he appears in Plum Island and I think a couple of others. Thanks for the heads up on the names at the Wall and I really think you should mail him.
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Mak1
| Friday, April 18, 2003 - 7:25 pm
I'm reading Afterimage by Helen Humphreys.
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Seamonkey
| Friday, April 18, 2003 - 7:40 pm
Mak, will look forward to your impressions.. I've read her Lost Garden and really enjoyed that. I think Helen Humphreys is quite a good writer.
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Zachsmom
| Friday, April 18, 2003 - 10:43 pm
I love getting lost in Nelson DeMille..so far my favorite has been "Charm School" Has anyone read that one? Was is so close to the truth that it's scary?
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Stacerita
| Sunday, April 20, 2003 - 9:58 pm
Right now I am reading "Jarhead" by Anthony Swofford. Great book.
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Wink
| Monday, April 21, 2003 - 4:12 am
Zachsmom, Charm School is one of my all time favourite books. Apparently that one along with Plum Island and Up Country have recently been optioned for a movie. It was the first of his books I had ever read and made me a fan for life.
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Marysafan
| Monday, April 21, 2003 - 7:46 am
I was watching MSNBC this weekend when a commercial came on. The ad was for the book "Up Country"! It was so bizarre...first of all because how often do you see an ad for a book, but then to have it be for the book I was reading....well that was just way weird! I read where Paramount Pictures has optioned the movie rights (They also did "The General's Daughter") and are in negotiations with John Travolta to reprise his role of Paul Brenner...but if it doesn't work out...Bruce Willis is their second choice. ON page 216...the following conversation takes place between Susan Weber and Paul Brenner.... She smiled. "You keep up pretty good for an old guy. Do you swim?" "Like a fish." "Hike?" "Like a mountain goat." "Dance?" "Like John Travolta" I laughed right out loud.
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Mak1
| Monday, April 21, 2003 - 6:25 pm
What an odd coincidence, Marysafan. I don't recall ever seeing a book commercial. Funny quote, too, especially when you think of Travolta possibly being in the movie.
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Seamonkey
| Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 7:25 am
I saw that same ad.. Finished Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine.. enjoyed it very much and will likely read more of her books. Starting Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent.
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Mak1
| Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 10:28 am
Love Medicine was very well written, wasn't it, Seamonkey? I finished Helen Humphreys' Afterimage and will definitely read Lost Garden. She is such a good writer, very descriptive, but not overly so. I liked the way she mixed some history of Ireland, mapmaking, and photography into the story, too. Today I'm starting High Five by Janet Evanovitch.
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Marysafan
| Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 10:54 am
Stacerita, Can you tell us was "Jarhead" is about? I am assuming US Marines...but I have been known to be wrong about these things.
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Djgirl5235
| Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 11:03 am
I just finished reading "The Breaker" by Minette Walters (who also wrote "The Sculptress"). While I truly enjoyed the book, it didn't grab me like Sculptress did. It was very well written, and the ending really got me, simply because it was sooooo obvious! I'm starting another by the same author tonight... Acid Row about a doctor who visits a patient in a low-income tenement. What the doctor doesn't know is that the home she is going to is the home of a known paedophile... The doctor gets trapped at the center of a siege when a child disappears... I'll let you know about this one when I'm done...
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Seamonkey
| Tuesday, April 22, 2003 - 1:50 pm
Mak, yes.. Love Medicine was quite well-written. Lost Garden and you are quite right.. not overwritten at all. Very sweet; I think you'll like it.
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Marysafan
| Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 10:15 am
Okay...You folks who have read "Up Country"...did you ever reach a point in the book where you just wanted to yell..."FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.....ABORT THE MISSION!!!!!" or is it just me?
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Weenerlobo
| Wednesday, April 23, 2003 - 12:06 pm
Right now I'm in between books. I got The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins for Christmas, but I haven't started it yet and I've got Silas Marner by George Eliot too. Can't decide which one I'm in the mood for.
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Mak1
| Thursday, April 24, 2003 - 12:43 pm
I'm reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
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Djgirl5235
| Friday, April 25, 2003 - 11:53 am
I finished Acid Row yesterday by Minette Walters (also wrote The Sculptress). EXCELLENT book - a definite "Can't put down", very well written and well paced! I would definitely recommend it!
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Snee
| Friday, April 25, 2003 - 12:00 pm
i'm just about to start 'the eyre affair' by jasper fforde.
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Seamonkey
| Saturday, April 26, 2003 - 11:46 am
I finished Baby Catcher last night and was sad to reach the end. I loved her stories of each unique and wonderful client.. and I also came away, again, with anger at the shut-out of midwives by the US medical power structure. She gives some really telling statistics about US rates of infant mortality, etc. Started a book recommended here, Laurie Graham's novel The future Homemakers of America which promises to draw me in.. my initial reaction is that this Brit doesn't have an ear for American speech, but that doesn't put me off from continuing to read The covers of both of these books are so appealing!! I don't judge books by their covers but often find myself really treasuring some covers over others.
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Marysafan
| Saturday, April 26, 2003 - 1:17 pm
I finished Up Country by Nelson Demille this morning and am having a hard time saying good bye to Paul Brenner. I loved his sarcastic wit and his banter with Susan Weber. In comparison to the rest of the book, the ending was a bit of a disappointment, but that's all I'm saying. I am not ready to move on, so that is making the choice of my next book rather difficult. I have a couple of Jeffrey Archer books, The Eleventh Commandment and The Fourth Estate so if anyone has read these, I would appreciate your recommendation. In the meantime, I am going to read John McCain's book "Faith of My Fathers".
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Marysafan
| Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 5:03 pm
Okay...really felt the need for more of Nelson Demille especially his character Paul Brenner so I won an ebay auction of 9 Nelsom Demille books for $10.01! I can't wait until they get here!
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Mak1
| Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 5:22 pm
Good going, Marysafan! I'm reading Hot Six by Janet Evanovich. We're going on a vacation to visit family in Baltimore tomorrow, and I'm taking Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd with me. I'm excited to get started on it because of the great reviews in this thread.
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Seamonkey
| Sunday, April 27, 2003 - 7:15 pm
Mak.. be sure to have a fun hat to wear while reading Bees.. (it can just be in your imagination, of course)..
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Bobbie_552001
| Monday, April 28, 2003 - 4:20 am
I've been absorbed in the "Left Behind" series for the last couple of months,and am currently about 1/2 of the way through #10...The Remnant. Has anyone else read the series and if so, do you have any idea when #11 is due out?? I'm afraid that I will go through withdraw!! But looks like I may have to find me a copy of Up Country. Thanks everyone for sharing.
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