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Tess
| Monday, October 06, 2003 - 10:47 pm
Stone Kiss by Faye Kellerman. I'm a book behind with her. I love the mysteries and I love learning about a different religion/culture. Just got caught up on the Prey series by John Sandford and the alphabet series from Sue Grafton. Last week was King of Torts by John Grisham. I'm am eagerly awaiting a new book from one of my very favorite mystery writers, Stephen White.
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Azriel
| Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 12:23 am
Max, the Bookcrossing.com is COOL! I joined and put you as my reference. I'm trying to decide now which of my treasured books will be the first to be released in the wild Thanks for passing this site on to us.
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Max
| Tuesday, October 07, 2003 - 8:56 am
Cool, Azriel! I just released my first book into the wild at a Starbucks this morning. Another is going tonight at, of all places, the bowling alley! I figure a Stephen King novel is just right for there. Hope you have fun with it.
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Slothkitten
| Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 12:18 pm
Max..Bookcrossing site is way cool!I've dropped off paperbacks at laundrymats for years(long story). Couldn't finish Dorothy Dandridges Bio..the writer was too dry for me..going to look for another bio on her. Finally read Kate Remembered..loved it..I've read K.Hepburns own books before..her Making of the African Queen is a wonderful little volume. My monster-sized library does not have some of the books recommended by all of you,I'll try the used book stores. Am reading " Ball of Fire "..about Lucille Ball..so far very well written with a couple of new things about her. Trying not to be so impatient for release of Anne Rices-Blood Canticle-10/28 and Stephen Kings -Wolves of the Calla-11/4.....oh,forgit it!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!LOL! no,really!
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Seamonkey
| Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 5:36 pm
Finished The Lost Children of Wilder: The Struggle to Change Foster Care,by Nina Bernstein, which was informative and interesting and very very frustrating and sad. I read Random Family some time ago. Love Elisabeth Berg's writing. Now reading a book about the huge hurricane that hit New England in the 1930's, will post the name later.. Katharine Hepburn even has a bit part in that her family's beach house was destroyed in this monster storm and she drove a hole-in-one that day at golf ..
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Slothkitten
| Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 3:45 pm
Finished Ball of Fire..about Lucy.Pretty well written,but as most books about Lucy..sad in many ways..her hurt turned to bitterness.I loved Desi Arnez's "A Book"..read about 20 years ago..very much his own voice. Now starting..My Just Desire..bio about Bess Ralegh,wife of Sir Walter.And..The Apprentice,My life in the Kitchen..by a chef I've never heard of..Jacques P'epin. Best line in Lucy book(so touching) Desi said " I lOVE LUCY was never just a title."
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Lizajane
| Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 3:49 pm
I just finished Joy Fielding's "Whispers and Lies". What a freaky book that is! Didn't like it nearly as much as some of her others. Now I'm into Jane Heller's Sis Boom Bah, a "chick lit" book about sibling rivalry. Pretty good so far.
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Knightpatti
| Thursday, October 09, 2003 - 8:32 pm
I am reading Whispers and Lies. I have never read any of Joy Fielding's books before. SO far I am liking it!
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Mak1
| Friday, October 10, 2003 - 12:28 pm
I finished Murder Off Mike, which was a very engrossing mystery...so many suspects, so little time, lol. Now I'm reading Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman.
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Lizajane
| Friday, October 10, 2003 - 2:01 pm
Patti, I liked it at first too, changed my mind about 3/4 quarters thru. BIG TWIST! I won't say anymore in case you haven't gotten there yet.
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Seamonkey
| Friday, October 10, 2003 - 4:24 pm
Finished Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 by R. A. Scotti.. At the ragtag end of summer, a strange ochre light came off the ocean, and an eerie siren filled the air. Those who heard this wordless chantey would never forget it, as with it came a wave that would wash their world away. Gripping! Will be starting what might look to be a novel, but is instead a memoir, A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance by Marlena de Blasi. Sounds great; includes recipes.
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Mamie316
| Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 6:22 pm
I just started reading The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. It looks like a very quick read. So far, so good.
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Marysafan
| Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 6:39 pm
Mamie, I'll be really interested in your comments on that book. It sounds intriguing, but seems to be getting mixed reviews.
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Mamie316
| Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 8:18 pm
Well Mary (great name by the way, it happens to be mine too!) I finished this book in one day. It was a very fast read. And there were times that I thought, well, this is just okay. But it does make you think and the end just pulls you in and gets you. I'm a crier and I do get very emotional but I think the ending will get anyone who reads it.
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Babyruth
| Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 8:40 pm
Just started The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown. I love it already!
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Mamie316
| Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 8:44 pm
Babyruth, I was the same way reading that book. You are going to love it. I really like his writing!
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Marysafan
| Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 9:20 pm
Babyruth, I have heard LOTS of people talking about how good this book is. It is officially on the wish list.
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Egbok
| Monday, October 13, 2003 - 9:48 am
Although with taking my night class, I'm on reading material overload, I have taken the time to start a new book called Bookends by Jane Green. The start is kind of slow but it's okay because I can only pick it up and read spurts at a time. I hear that it only gets better and I won't be able to put it down. I'll let you know!
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Kimmo
| Monday, October 13, 2003 - 11:26 am
Slothkitten, I love Jacques Pepin! He has (had?) a show on PBS. His latest series was one he did with Julia Child; before that, his daughter Claudine. Finished Tolkien's "The Silmarillion," now reading "The Book of Lost Tales Vol. I" of Tolkien...This is getting to be too much background for me (it is heavily annotated and cross-referenced), so I will go back to "Motherless Brooklyn" after I slog through "Lost Tales I".
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Seamonkey
| Monday, October 13, 2003 - 11:39 am
I finished Marlena de Blasi's A Thousand Days in Venice: The Unexpected Romance last night.. enjoyed it thoroughly and hope she writes a sequel memoir. Started last night and finished this morning: another memoir Ambulance Girl: How I Saved Myself by Becoming an EMT by Jane Stern.. also enjoyed this one. Each of these women are writers and cooks but one writes of taking a leap of faith by leaving the US to live in Venice with a "stranger", and of marrying this stranger. The second takes her leap close to home, breaking through her many phobias and depressions to madly push her envelope and become an EMT in her rural Connecticut town. Next book, also a memoir, by a chef: California Dish: What I Saw (and Cooked) at the American Culinary Revolution by Jeremiah Tower. Another common thread: James Beard.. one of DeBlasi's book's was a James Beard Foundation award finalist, one of Stern's books won a James Beard Award for Lifetime Achievement and Tower seems to be a friend of James Beard, even has pictures of him in his book.
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Slothkitten
| Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 3:11 pm
Kimmo-NOW I know who Jacques P'epin is! After reading his book,I love him,too!Wonderful story,his daughter Claudine's stories,also. Seamonkey,thanks for the heads up on Stern's and de Blasi's memiors...reserved both and am really looking forward to reading them.I've actually read a couple of Jane Stern's previous books..about American dining,etc. Read this book a while back..Tony Horowitz's..A Confederate in the Attic....nonfiction about the civil war re-enacters..the various degrees,from the whimps to the super hardcore ones...hilarous in parts..deep and provocative in others,btw,Horowitz is married to another writer..Geraldine Brooks.
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Not1worry
| Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 8:00 pm
Even if you aren't into Christian fiction, I finished a really good book called Steal Away by Linda Hall. It didn't have any overt redemption theme to it, just a good story with no cursing or graphic sex. I figured out most of the mystery, but it was still great reading it unfolding. I had been slogging my way through a historical, based on fact, novel about a women who tries to teach the Seminole Indians in Florida English in the early 1900s. My high school was in Seminole, Fl, so I thought I would enjoy the history. Plus, the author had written a series I loved. Finally, I couldn't keep going and flipped through to see who died, who fell in love, etc. No wonder it was on the sale table.
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Marysafan
| Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 6:51 am
I have about 150 pages left to read in "Charleston" which I am enjoying...but it is falling short of the other Jakes epics I have read. Part of this has to do with my expectations, he seems to skim some of the things I thought he would spend more time on...like Fort Sumpter. Perhaps he felt he had covered it in previous books and didn't want to revisit it. Last night, hubby came home and said to me..."If you can guess what book I am holding behing my back...you can have it." With a hopeful voice and big questioning eyes...I guessed, "The DaVinci Code???" and I was right!!!! Now I am in a mad dash, to finish "Charleston" so I can start it. I am taking a trip this weekend and am taking BOTH books with me...as there will be lots of time to read in the airport and in the air!!! Woohoo!!
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Azriel
| Saturday, October 18, 2003 - 6:26 am
I just got through reading 'Lucky' by Alice Sebold. I had really liked her writing style in the 'The Lovely Bones' and saw that she had written 'Lucky' as a memoir about her own rape case. I was curious to read it and it sure explained how she was able to write in such detail about such a horrible event in 'The Lovely Bones' I highly recommend both of these books.
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Cablejockey
| Saturday, October 18, 2003 - 7:51 am
I finished The Da Vinci Code--great story and amazing history information--and went on to an earlier book by Dan Brown, Angels and Demons.
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