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Slothkitten

Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 9:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I worry about him, too :.(

I've read his books since the 70's, and I just
adore them. That book on his life and writing
WAS a little jewel.

He's just special!!

Zachsmom

Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 9:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Trishan --They have a movie? <off to bn.com!>

My heart MELTED when I read the letter Fredrick wrote to Anne! If any man wrote me such a letter, I would be his til the end of time <sigh> I am going to go read it again. LOL

Mak1

Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 8:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sea and Slothkitten, our local news is reporting that King is doing better. He had double pneumonia, which has "pretty much resolved itself". They are keeping him "several more days" in the hospital to work on relieving some of the lingering pain in his leg from his 1999 accident. The spokesman also said there is a direct connection between the pneumonia and his previous injuries.

Here's a link: Bangornews.com

Seamonkey

Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 9:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Mak.. yeah that accident really almost did him in.. glad he's improving.

Slothkitten

Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 10:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks alot, Mak1, good to hear he's better.
Good to know they are looking at that chronic
pain he's been living with, too.

Mamie316

Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 4:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just starting reading Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. I wanted to read the book before seeing the movie. And I have to tell you that the writing right from the start has drawn me into the book.

Mak1

Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 6:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just started The Crown of Columbus by Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris. It's hard to put down! I know you've read some of their books, Seamonkey. Did you read this yet?

Marysafan

Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 7:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mamie, I have Cold Mountain "on deck", but I probably won't get to it until after the holidays.

Slothkitten

Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 9:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mamie, so glad you are enjoying Cold Mountain!
I love that book. Mr. Frazier is working on another book, can't wait. Afraid it will be awhile, though. He said it took him 10 yrs to write C M . . the movie looks very well cast.

Finally got The Namesake from the library.

After that, a couple of new fictions.

Seamonkey

Saturday, December 06, 2003 - 9:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mak1, I have that book, not yet read; have read books by both Dorris and Erdrich and liked them..

Sasman

Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 5:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just finished Bee Season which I just loved. Started East of Eden yesterday and am enjoying it very much.

Seamonkey

Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 7:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bee Season was quite good.. I read East of Eaden awhile back and was surprised I hadn't read it back when I read most of Steinbeck, but anyway, thoroughly enjoyed it and mourned the fact that there can never be a sequel.

I finished the book about eminem and bookcrossed it in the lobby of the Marriot where we had our TVCH meeting.. it disappeared and remains to be seen if I ever hear where it went from there :)

Will be starting Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple by Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner.

All about how Newman's own salad dressing, for one, has been used to help kids ..

I figure that even if it is unreadable, it will go to benefit kids, but I'm expecting much more :)

Kimmo

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 6:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yay, I finally finished "The Fifteenth Century: The Prospect of Europe" by Margaret Aston. It was highly repetitive and was very self-consciously "poetic" at the beginning, but it ended well...But I can't say it stands out from your "usual" European history books! Oh well.

Seamonkey

Tuesday, December 09, 2003 - 7:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kimmo.. books like that are good, when you close the final cover :)

I didn't get started on the Paul Newman book (though from the humor of the liner notes, I'm looking forward to it very much) but did pick up the Better Living Through Death: Six Feet Under which is cleverly done and interesting..

Calamity

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 12:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Slothkitten: I know this is late but I’m very behind in reading posts here. Just wanted to say thanks for your nice words about my review of *A Short History of Nearly Everything. It is a great book and I highly recommend it. One thing, my library only had the large print edition so I referred to Amazon for the number of pages in the regular print version. That site listed it at 560 pages but I’ve since discovered that the actual text is only about 475 pages, the rest is notes and the bibliography. So it’s not quite as massive as it appears :) .

Marysafan

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hubby asked me what I wanted for Christmas the other night...I told him that I really would like to have "The Secret Life of Bees". He replied, "Bees have a SECRET life? How do we know this? WHO TOLD!"

I probably won't get it for Christmas (hubby always prefers to "suprise" me)...but I'll get it eventually!

Seamonkey

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 1:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mary, you will LOVE SLOB!!!

I finished the 6 feet under book.. nothing earthshattering but fills in some info for fans of that show..

Now finally getting into the Paul Newman book :)

Treasure

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 1:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi everyone,

I finally finished the second book in a series by Jane Lindskold. The first was "Through Wolf's Eyes" and this second was "Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart.

I also read J. A. Jance, Michael Crighton. Patricia Cornwell, David Webber, Anne McCaffrey, and other authors that might just be starting out but look to be interesting.

Slothkitten

Wednesday, December 10, 2003 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mary,what your husband said . . funny! :.)

Hi Calamity, thanks for the info. I'm on the list at the library for that book (hopefully will get it in Jan. . . love nature and can't wait.)

Finished The Namesake, enjoyed reading it.

Got Colleen McCullough's new novel The Touch.
Really enjoy her books, lot's of detail . . she always has her charactors suffer until the last page, though.

Can't wait for 6 feet Under ( April!!)

Seamonkey

Saturday, December 13, 2003 - 1:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Finished the book by Paul Newman, wow.. I had no idea how much they had done for kids.. I've always thought Paul and Joanne were a class act in the world of celebrities but, wow!

Now reading a book that I know was recommended by someone right here, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time; a novel by Mark Haddon. Written from the view of a 15 year old autistic boy. Pretty wonderful so far..

Seamonkey

Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 3:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That was quite well-done.. the curious incident..

Now starting a book dubbed as an historical thriller, The 6th Lamentation by William Brodrick.. sounds like it will be fascinating.. priests, Nazis, and more..

Not1worry

Sunday, December 14, 2003 - 4:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've finished Delia Ephron's Big City Eyes. She's the one who wrote Hanging Up which I'm pretty sure was made into a movie with Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, and Lisa Kudrow? Manhattan dweller moves to small town with teenage son. Son immediately shaves most of his head, leaving a "spout" on top and finds a girlfriend who speaks only Klingon. There's mystery of sorts in there, and I enjoyed the ending. It didn't work out quite like I'd expected.

Not1worry

Wednesday, December 17, 2003 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Next book - Joy Fielding's Lost. I have enjoyed all of her books and this was no exception. It's about a 20 something year old girl who disappears and her mother's attempts to cope. I wanted to so badly to sneak a look at the back pages to see what happened, but the story was so good I didn't want to wreck it for myself. To me, one of the things that makes a book really good is when the ending isn't what I expected or wanted, but I'm very satisfied with it anyway.

Seamonkey

Thursday, December 18, 2003 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Finished The 6th Lamentation.. pretty good, not my usual genre, but well done..

I have three books by Sarah Mlynowski.. reading the first written, Milk Run and it is light and I'm mostly being irritated by it.. but hope the other two books are better for me (I have hopes).. I don't relate much to this one, at any rate.

Seamonkey

Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 1:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Milk Run ran its course.. and <shrug> hard to relate.. beach book, chick lit.. not ready to read any more of her stuff just now so eagerly grabbed a book that arrived yesterday..

Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind SEGWAY and Dean Kamen's Quest To Invent a New World by Steve Kemper..

Fascinating man, Dean Kamen.. surrounded by and driven by genius.. I'm loving it right away!!