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Archive through July 16, 2003

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Seamonkey

Monday, June 23, 2003 - 5:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mak1, Timeline is a good one!! I think/hope there will be a movie from it.

Seamonkey

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 12:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Finished the Tom Brokaw book and now will roll into the Wally Lamb book that someone, I think Weinermr, recommended..

Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Testimonials from our Imprisoned Sisters by Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution.

Kimmo

Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 11:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Forgot-- At work I started Jonathan Kellerman's "The Web". First time reading him, really enjoying it (about 1/3 through)....

Kimmo

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 11:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Finished "The Web" (I couldn't put it down!) starting Patricia Cornwell's "Black Notice"...

Seamonkey

Friday, June 27, 2003 - 5:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kimmo.. I love all the Jonathan Kellerman Alex Delaware books!! Unfortunately I've read them all and have to wait another year now.

Seamonkey

Saturday, June 28, 2003 - 9:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Finished Couldn't Keep it to Myself: Testimonials from our Imprisoned Sisters by Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution.

More than worthy of reading!!

Starting Sue Miller's book, The Story of My Father, written after he died of Alzheimer's.

Kimmo

Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 4:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sea, I really enjoyed reading Mr. Kellerman, now I think I'll have to catch up on him! I just finished "Black Notice" and that was also excellent.

Of course starting toward the end of a series is annoying if you want to then read the whole thing, but oh well! I normally don't read "page-turners" like these, but they were great!

Now, finally and with guilt at my delay, I will resume reading "Order of the Phoenix"...Then I have these hangers-on to read:

"How the Mind Works," Stephen Pinker
"My Life and Loves," Frank Harris (I could relate in great detail why I have picked up and practically thrown this book across the room multiple times without getting beyond age 17 of this man's life story, but it would be too lengthy and agonizing...Hey, like this parenthetical statement!)

I'm not sure if I ever finished reading "The Graham Greene Film Reader," so will need to catch up on that.

Not1worry

Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 5:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finished a nice, lite read. "Step, Ball, Change" by Jeanne Ray. A sixtyish, happily married tap dance teacher and her family issues. They have a perpetual remodeling project going on, the contractor has practically become one of the family, one daughter getting married to a very rich guy, the sister's husband just left her, etc.

It wasn't the novel of the year, but it kept me up past bedtime finishing it. One of those books that after you close it, you smile and say, "That was a good book."

I had just finished Grisham's King of Torts and wasn't thrilled with it, so this was a nice surprise.

Kady

Sunday, June 29, 2003 - 10:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I need to make a list of good lite reading materials. I had just finished reading White Oleander and I swear it put me in a depressed mood. It was a good book but the subject matter was so depressing. I am reading Harry Potter right now. I had to wait for my son to finish and got my hands on it the other day. I don't see how so many people finished so fast. It will probably take me weeks. :)

Seamonkey

Monday, June 30, 2003 - 3:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finished the Sue Miller memoir about her father and eagerly snatched up to start a book by Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books.

One cover blurb:


Quote:

Anyone who has ever belonged to a book group must read this book. Azar Nafisi takes us into the vivid lives of eight women who must meet in secret to explore the forbidden fiction of the West. It is at once a celebration of the power of the novel and a cry of outrage at the reality in which these women are trapped. The ayatollahs don't know it, but Nafisi is one of the heroes of the Islamic Republic. -- Geraldine Brooks.




Mak1

Monday, June 30, 2003 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Seamonkey (and anyone else interested) - Timeline is being made into a movie! Look here http://us.imdb.com/Title?0300556 I don't have time to figure out how to do the link right now.

Egbok

Tuesday, July 01, 2003 - 9:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Mak! Fancy meeting you here.

Today our hospital's Volunteer Auxillary had a used book sale and boy!, did I indulge. Here's a sample of the books I bought:

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Good Mother by Sue Miller
Bridget Jone's Diary by Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones the edge of reason by Helen Fielding
The Nanny Diaries by McLaughlin & Kraus
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines


All for 10 buck-a-roos!! I asked if they had any Harry Potter books but I was 5 minutes late...some lady bought them all up in a single swoop. I confess, I've never read one Harry Potter book and after witnessing kids and adults sitting on the floor at Sam's Club reading the latest book, I thought I should catch the wave.

So as you can see, I'll be reading well into next year! LOL!

Mak1

Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You found some great ones, Eggie! I can't say enough good things about Secret Life of Bees. I love everything about it. My hubby was a little worried about me when I was reading The Edge of Reason because I would suddenly break out in hysterical laughter and have a hard time controlling it enough to continue reading, LOL. I thought The Hours was wonderfully written and thoroughly absorbing, although it deals with some very difficult, depressing topics. I haven't read the others (yet) but they sound good too.

I'm going to our library's used book sale tomorrow. I don't know where I will find room for more books, but they will be 10 cents for paperbacks and a quarter for hardcovers, so I HAVE to at least look around.


Britchick

Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 2:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm just back from vacation, where I read Frank Herbert's Dune. It is such an excellent book, I simply can't believe that I had never read it before now! I can't say enough good things about it. I also bought and read Harry Potter. Fantastic, even though a bit heavy to take in hand luggage for the plane journey home! I had to take virtually everything else out of my bag.

Now I am reading John Irving's A Son of the Circus. Set in India and full of the usual Irving madness. I don't have anything planned for my next book, though, so I'm browsing through this thread for some ideas. Thank you everyone for your posts on this topic.

Cjr

Friday, July 04, 2003 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I read When the Wind Blows by James Patterson and it was interesting and kept my interest well. I couldn't wait for the sequel, The Lakehouse, but was sorely disappointed. No plot whatsoever. Well, no plot that made sense anyway. James Patterson's worst book IMO.

I just finished reading Burning Time by Leslie Glass and was on the edge of my seat through the whole book. It is a great murder mystery. It also had a lot of laughs in it with the main character, April Woo, talking about her Chinese Mother. Great book.

I started the sequel Hanging Time, am on the 3rd chapter, and so far it seems just as intense as the first book.

Seamonkey, the book you mentioned, Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books sounds great. I am going to try for that one next.

Mak1

Saturday, July 05, 2003 - 7:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finished Crichton's Timeline, a great book! Now I'm reading How to be Good by Nick Hornby, who also wrote About a Boy and High Fidelity, among others. So far, I don't like the main couple in the book, but it's getting interesting.

Chai

Sunday, July 06, 2003 - 5:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I jsut finished Shogun by James Clavell. It's been so many years since I've read it or seen the mini-series it was like reading it for the first time all over again. You really get lost in feudal Japan with this book, and the romance is one of the sweetest I've ever read!

Now...I've got my hot little hands on my son's copy of HP5! :) It's already looking very good (Just on pg. 100), only it really is angry in tone. Everyone seems to be bickering with everyone else, and there are a lot of other dark, not-so-good things going on.

I'm not going to post any more about it...don't want to spoil it for anyone; and I'm not going to read the HP thread until I've completely finished it; probably later this week. I don't want to accidently read any spoilers, either!

Seamonkey

Monday, July 07, 2003 - 8:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I finished Reading Lolita in Tehran.. whew.. while I would wish to be more up on the literature they were discussing that was just part of it.. but excellent inside story that shows not just the author's point of view but a variety of women enduring the situation.

Next book, I think is Penelope Lively's novel, the photograph

Seamonkey

Thursday, July 10, 2003 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
All of you reading Secret Life of Bees.. remember to wear your virtual fancy HATS while reading :)

Well, I sailed through The Photograph and I was very pleased to have found Penelope Lively.. now just hope some of her other work is a compelling.. not an "action" novel at all but intiguing and very well done.

Next book, another novel (which is "novel" for me).. Unless, by Carol Shields.. looks promising.

Snee

Friday, July 11, 2003 - 3:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
just finished 'the da vinci code' by dan brown. page-turner. read it.

Seamonkey

Sunday, July 13, 2003 - 7:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ended up loving Unless and now moving on to another novel, this one was apparently a main book of the month selection and in Today's book club.. a first novel by Carolyn Parkhurst, The Dogs of Babel, where the family dog is the only witness to a woman's puzzling death and the grieving husband must learn to communicate with the dog in order to understand what happened.

Seamonkey

Tuesday, July 15, 2003 - 5:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well, the book just above, Dogs of Babel, was sad but good and definitely different..

Now back to a non-fiction. This was also a Today's Book club book, Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story", memoir by Michael Datcher.

Superstar

Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 11:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Seamonkey!! I noticed you read a wally lamb book. have you read "She's Come Undone"? excellent excellent excellent!!!!



Superstar

Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
by the way, can anyone suggest a book similar to "She's Come Undone"? i read another book by same author and was not impressed. can't remember the name of it though. Something about twins.

thanks

Seamonkey

Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 2:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yep.. I've read all three of Wally's books and liked them..

Hmm, like She's Come Undone.. well.. you might check out Jennifer Weiner's books.. Good in Bed and In Her Shoes.. I like her style.. not saying it is exactly like Wally's but, give it a try :)