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Seamonkey
| Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 12:32 am
Welcome to the board!! Here's your folder: Sampatsfan I also haven't actually read the one book set in Israel, but have it. I have one of Faye's but haven't been motivated, though I don't doubt that her books are good ones. JK has a new one on the way out!!!
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Sampatsfan
| Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 1:34 am
Has anyone read Big Trouble? I think the author is Dave Barry. It has been quite a while since I read it but if you are looking for a light and funny read, I recommend it. I saw the movie recently and didn't care for it, but the book had me laughing out loud throughout. My DH was always asking me what the heck I was reading. I read a lot but rarely laugh so much while I am.
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Sampatsfan
| Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 1:40 am
Thank You Seamonkey. For the warm welcome and the link to my folder. I can't wait for JK's new book. I'm excited to find out there's a new one coming soon. Thanks for everything. I have no idea why my very long post is showing up twice but I am going to try to delete it. If I'm not successful I apologize for the mistake and for taking up so much room.
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Sampatsfan
| Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 1:53 am
Seamonkey thanks so much for the note in my folder. I have noticed that we seem to appreciate not only the same authors but the same television programs as well. My friends and family don't seem to enjoy Six Feet Under, Dead Like Me, BB, RR or Survivor as much as I do. That's one of the reasons I love it here so much. It's great to have people to discuss all the excitement with. Anyway I just wanted to say thanks again.
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Slothkitten
| Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 6:43 pm
I forgot to say to say hi to Alegria(I'm new,so that's the first time I've seen your name!) Welcome to the Library,Samspatfan!! Great to see you here.I agree,Dave Berry is a hoot,and he's written quite a few books that crack me up. Well,I'm excited again..got Stephen King's latest installment on the Gunslinger/Dark Tower series today and am loving it so far.It's a big,fat book,too. Yum. Per Seamonkey's hilarious instruction from last week...Am Wallowing,lol.
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Not1worry
| Tuesday, November 04, 2003 - 8:25 pm
Hi, Sampatsfan!! It's great to have this thread so busy. If you liked Dave Barry's Big Trouble, you just have to read Tricky Business. It is 10 times more of a hoot. I read it and got it for my brother for Christmas. He read it on the plane on the way home and claims he almost got arrested because people thought he was crazy laughing to himself the whole trip. Carl Hiaasen is also a good South Florida writer, he's got a very weird sense of humor. I enjoy Faye Kellerman's books as well, she doesn't seem very consistent. Some I love, some I get through. Has anyone read the Grisham book, Bleachers?
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Seamonkey
| Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 1:26 pm
Finished Food and Loathing: A Lament, good book. Starting Anita Shreve novel, All He Ever Wanted and must say, I'm not being dragged into it in the way I would like to be happening, but I'll give it some time.
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Alegria
| Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 9:53 pm
I really liked Shreve's book 'Fortunes Rocks' and, because I liked the first one so much, read a few of her other books . They were good but not great. I mixed Slothkitten up with Cablejockey when commenting about Mystic River. Sorry Sloth... (welcome to TVCH - it's a lovely cyberspace to call home )
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Seamonkey
| Wednesday, November 05, 2003 - 11:10 pm
Alegria I think I've read a couple of Shreve's books and also had mixed feelings.. if this one doesn't do it for me then she's OUT Too many books grabbing my attention for that.. I mean right now, I want to start Davinci Code and have the new Amy Tan, new Anne Rule, new David Guterson, new Toni Morrison, also Sting's autobiography and a gaggle of new novels just sitting on the stairs.. waiting to come upstairs to join the other books to be read, so this Shreve novel.. better entertain me Snort!
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Mamie316
| Thursday, November 06, 2003 - 12:30 am
I agree on the Shreve novels..I'm not too sure how I feel about them I just started reading Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson...I also have about 9 books stacked on a table just waiting to be read!
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Sasman
| Thursday, November 06, 2003 - 12:56 pm
I am reading 2 books, one on cosmology 'How the Universe Got its Spots' and the other Michael Moore's "Hey Dude, Where's my Country". The first was very good; learned a lot about the topology of the universe and string theory. Moore's first 50 pages or so were great - an indictment of Bush with tons of footnotes. The rest is mostly boring filler.
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Not1worry
| Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 8:25 am
I went to the library and was so excited to see the 3rd Berrybender installment (by Larry McMurtry) is out! I read a big chunk of it last night until I remembered how McMurtry tends to hack off his character's body parts or bring them to other gory ends. Not good bedtime reading. Other than that, it's a great as the first 2.
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Seamonkey
| Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 11:48 am
I finished All He Ever Wanted and found the HE/narrator to be insensitive, and a ruiner of lives. Well-written, but.. I'm done with Shreve. Starting The DaVinci Code.. engaged me immediately 
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Yankee_In_Ca
| Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 4:47 pm
I just put the following books on my holiday "wish list": Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) Brick Lane (Monica Ali) Mystic River (Dennis Lehane) Whale Rider (Witi Ihamaera) Yippee!
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Alegria
| Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 10:28 pm
I just got 'Running with Scissors'. It's a memoir that looks good. When I finish the mystery I'm reading I will be starting that one. How wonderful to have books lined up, waiting to be read. Sigh.
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Seamonkey
| Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 11:39 pm
Running With Scissors is good The Kite Runner is poignant but very very good. Brick Lane is sitting upstairs in my book pile.. such a delicious pile it is..
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Pannie
| Monday, November 10, 2003 - 7:51 pm
Seamonkey - What is the name of Amy Tan's new book? I've read 3 of her previous book circa 5-10 years ago. I'm reading Michael Moore's Dude, Where's My Country?. And finished Al Franken's Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. He's a funny scholar and advocate.
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Squaredsc
| Monday, November 10, 2003 - 8:56 pm
i just started wild orchids by jude deveraux. she's my favorite author next to anne rice.
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Seamonkey
| Monday, November 10, 2003 - 10:32 pm
Amy Tan's book is called The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings her memoir. Finished The DaVinci Code and starting on brick lane.
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Marysafan
| Tuesday, November 11, 2003 - 8:29 am
I finished "Larry Legend"...basketball fans would love it. LOTS of basketball...not so much legend. A quick read that I just finished in honor of Veteran's Day is "See Here, Private Hargrove". It was published in 1942 and was a very popular book in it's day. They even made a movie about it starring Robert Montgomery and Donna Reed which I will have to make a point of seeing some day. It was a nice look back to a simpler time. Next up is "Back When We Were Grown-Ups" by Anne Tyler. I have no idea what to expect.
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Marysafan
| Tuesday, November 11, 2003 - 8:32 am
oops...double post.
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Mamie316
| Tuesday, November 11, 2003 - 9:17 am
Mary, I read the Anne Tyler book and it was just okay I thought. There were some parts that I really liked and then other that I just thought okay. Nothing too exciting for me.
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Cindori
| Tuesday, November 11, 2003 - 9:22 am
I just started reading Midnight Voices by John Saul. Any of his fans on here?
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Seamonkey
| Tuesday, November 11, 2003 - 2:49 pm
I've read the Anne Tyler book.. and to be honest.. it isn't leaping out in my mind like, say, Accidental Tourist or Family Pictures, but in general I like her stuff. Are those orchids aubergine, by any chance, Squared???
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