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Not1worry
| Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 6:48 pm
I finally read the "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" and have to agree with whoever said it was great. I loved it. I have all the other books in the series on hold at my library and I can't wait till they come in! All the books I have gotten from the library this week are real duds. I haven't gotten past the 2nd chapter on any of them. I'm headed to the used book store tomorrow and maybe I'll have better luck.
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Marysafan
| Friday, July 18, 2003 - 9:46 am
Just Finished "The Day Diana Died" bu Christopher Anderson. I found it to be believable...and for me that is saying something.
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Seamonkey
| Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 9:09 am
Superstar, when you return, scroll up.. I did put in a recommendation for you.. Finished Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story, which was compelling and well done.. interesting for me partly because of locale (SoCal) and university (Berkeley, tho he was 20 years later) and opposites (black, straight, male vs mottledpink, not so straight, female). Also he's a writer/poet/journalist/ and, well.. best to just read it for yourself. Finished this last night and immediately started a slim volume of nonfiction/psych by Jonathan Kellerman, Savage Spawn: Reflections on Violent Children, which for me (was a psych major, sexual assault counselor, personally interested in psych issues/diagnoses/recovery} is very thought provoking as well as chilling.
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Heyltslori
| Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 9:20 am
I just finished Night by Elie Weisel. I read it because it was mentioned in the "...changed my life" thread, and I can certainly see why. It is a very vivid account of a man's experience during the Holocaust. Well worth reading.
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Lizajane
| Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 3:46 pm
Seamonkey, I love Alex Delaware too. A new one just came out, "A Cold Heart". At least I think it just came out. I have it requested at the library but I'm number 34 so I'll be waiting awhile. Have you read it?
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Seamonkey
| Sunday, July 20, 2003 - 5:26 pm
Yeah, I've read that.. sigh.. have to wait til next year for another Alex Delaware.. <pout>
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Calamity
| Monday, July 21, 2003 - 1:56 pm
Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin Just checked this book out of the library. It's a collection of short stories that are connected by an intriguing idea... a woman waiting at an airport discovers that she can "change planes" - not airplanes but planes of existence - and travel to other worlds.
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Chai
| Monday, July 21, 2003 - 4:05 pm
Right now I just finished Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama. Great book, although sad at times. Now I'm reading The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman. Another great book! This one is so unique! Not1worry - That was me that was singing the praises of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency!! Glad you liked it!
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Lizajane
| Monday, July 21, 2003 - 4:34 pm
Oh sorry Seamonkey, I thought I had good news for you. Oh well, I know how you feel anyway, whenever I finish one of his books I wish I read slower, LOL
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Seamonkey
| Monday, July 21, 2003 - 6:28 pm
Chai, I read Women of the Silk and there is a followup to that with the same main character that was also very good. The same author wrote other books.. I read one that is contemporary, takes place in N. Calif. Sorry can't think of the name right now, but it was really good and very different. Good author! LJ.. yeah I've been a Jonathan Kellerman fan for years so I tend to grab each new book asap.
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Seamonkey
| Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 9:23 am
Finished up the Kellerman (very interesting about young psychopaths and how our system and our sympathy just doesn't work) and jumped from this slim 120 page volume (plus refs and index) to one with 711 pages of text, plus refs, index, pictures.. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963 by Robert Dallek. Just started it but so far, very good.
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Honey51
| Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 12:26 pm
Just started Janet Evanovich's "To the Nines." It's going to be wonderful. Her novels just keep getting better and better. Does anyone else read the Stephanie Plum series?
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Not1worry
| Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 2:04 pm
Honey51, I can't wait to read that one too. Thanks for reminding me to put in on my library's hold list. I think the 8th book was my favorite yet. I went back and reread the volume of the first 3 a few months ago, I just missed Stephanie!
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Mak1
| Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 6:10 pm
I'm up to the 7th Stephanie Plum. I love them!
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Egbok
| Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 6:40 am
(Eggie gently places both hands on her velvet blue hat to make it sit squarely on top of her head...the one with with the wide, floppy brim filled with colorful silk flowers and flowing ribbons...) I'm just back from vacation and I got to read The Secret Lives of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. I absolutely loved it and found that certain passages connected with my heart as I found myself relating my own feelings about my father as Lily felt about her mother. (No, I didn't do to my father what Lily accidently did to her mother-LOL) This book opened my eyes and I saw my father's absence in my life in a different light. Bees gave me an opportunity to forgive. A wonderful book to read if you haven't read it yet!
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Calamity
| Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 10:06 am
Chai, I also thought The Golden Compass was fascinating. And quite disturbing, as well. Pullman's dæmons are simply among the most startling original concepts in all of Western literature. Simply genius. I think I may have enjoyed the second book in the series, The Subtle Knife, even a little more than TGC. It seems a lot of people did not like the final book, The Amber Spyglass. I admit I wasn't entirely satisfied with it but still think it was a very good book.
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Mak1
| Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 1:42 pm
Woohoo, Eggie's home! Didn't you just love the wonderful characters in SLOBees, Eggie? And the hats, oh my goodness, the hats! I seldom read a book a 2nd time, but I know I will read this again.
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Seamonkey
| Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 4:31 pm
I loved the hats!! And the characters! I think it would be a most excellent movie.. And yes, i can see reading Bees again and that is a rarity for me. So many books, so little time..
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Egbok
| Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 8:24 pm
Hi Mak, Hi Seamonkey! Yes, I absolutely loved all the characters in SLOBees and especially the hats!! I look forward to reading this book again and again. Also, I would love to see a movie made but I'd be picky that the screenplay stayed true to the storyline.
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Honey51
| Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 5:23 am
Hi, Just finished To The Nines. It had me laughing out loud. Evonovich just gets better and better. Started The Devil Wears Prada. Seems like it's going to be a good summer read.
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Not1worry
| Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 5:47 pm
Finished "The Probable Future", by Alice Hoffman. Very good. Each generation, the women of the Sparrow family are gifted with an unusual talent on their 13th birthday. One woman can cook delicious food from meager ingredients, one needs no sleep, one can see dreams, one can discern lying, etc. The book focuses on the 13th generation, Stella Sparrow, as she reaches her 13th birthday. She can tell how people will die. This was an ignore-the-housework-stay-up-late book for me.
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Mak1
| Tuesday, July 29, 2003 - 6:45 pm
Ohhh, it sounds like a good one, Not1worry. I'm glad to hear Evanovitch has another hit, Honey51. I need a Plum fix soon. I ration them, so that she can have another written before I've caught up to her, lol. Yea, I know that's weird.
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Not1worry
| Wednesday, July 30, 2003 - 6:02 am
Mak, that's no weirder than going and rereading the previous one in the series. Then reading the latest, so I feel like I've rationed them. Plus, I refresh my memory on what happened in the last book.
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Mak1
| Friday, August 01, 2003 - 10:16 am
LOL, thanks for the support, Not1worry! Now I know I'm not weird all by myself. I forgot to mention I'm reading Never Say Die by Tess Gerritsen. It's pretty good. There's so much suspense in it, I'll need to read something light next.
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Azriel
| Sunday, August 03, 2003 - 9:25 am
I just got through reading 'I Capture the Castle' by Dodie Smith. The book is set in the 1930s. Two sisters living in an old castle and dreaming of men to sweep them up and out of poverty. It has the feel of a Jane Austen novel. It was a great book and I can't wait to see the movie now.
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