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Mak1
| Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 10:01 am
Mildred Pierced was okay. There were plenty of bizarre characters and events. It was too dark, I guess, didn't really care for his style. Now I'm reading Janet Evanovitch's Hard Eight.
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Kylah33
| Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 12:34 pm
I just finished Hard Eight... I really like all her books... Right now, I am reading my Harlequin Historicals that come in the mail... I call them my easy reading and try to go back and forth between them and books with a little more substance.
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Not1worry
| Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 4:53 pm
Finally, finally got Tears of the Giraffe, #2 in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series. #s 3 & 4 have been sitting on my shelf for weeks, waiting to get that second one in. I can't wait to read all of them back to back. I also am reading a series by Catherine Palmer set in Africa, so I am really getting into the whole Africa mentality with these books. I've never thought I'd like to visit that continent, but I wish now I could go. Kylah, I always like to have a few Harlequins or something similar on hand for escapist reading!
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Ophiliasgrandma
| Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 7:51 pm
Kate Remembered (Katherine Hepburn) I have read both her autobiographies and now it's very interesting to read a bio and someone elses take on her. I am enjoying it greatly!
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Catfat
| Tuesday, September 16, 2003 - 9:26 pm
Just bought Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany. Gorgeously written, the few pages I have read.
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Not1worry
| Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 7:30 am
Cat, are they fiction? I lived in Italy for 2 years, near Venice. These sound like something I might like. I'd love to go back someday, not to live there. More like a 2 week eating tour. I miss the food most of all.
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Seamonkey
| Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 11:59 am
OG, I really enjoyed Kate Remembered!! Not1/Cat.. I loved the Frances Mayes books about her place in Tuscany.. No1, I'm SURE you'd enjoy them. I know there is now a movie out, or coming out, which, just from the previews, appears to come at it from a different angle. Mayes also has a book about cooking that is GORGEOUS.. I'm not a cook but the pictures alone are amazing!!
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Mamie316
| Wednesday, September 17, 2003 - 7:40 pm
I also just recently finished Kate Remembered. I loved it. It was great to know that she was as feisty and intelligent as the characters that she played in all those old movies that she loved. I also enjoyed her relationship with the writer. I just finished reading The Eyre Affair which I recommend. It's about being able to jump into books and the fallout of how the books change as the characters in them are kidnapped and adapt to the changes.
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Seamonkey
| Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 9:50 pm
Finished The Greatest Experiment Ever Performed on Women: Exploding the Estrogen Myth by Barbara Seaman and it is sobering and thought-provoking.. and hits home personally. Should be read by all women and their doctors as well. Starting, another non-fiction, not much just chillin': the hidden lives of middle schoolers by Linda Perlstein.
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Pannie
| Friday, September 19, 2003 - 7:49 am
Hi glad I found this Library folder! I am about to begin DA VINCI CODE. I want to ask you about a brand new book - not even published yet. Heard an interview on NPR: the title is Salam Pax. Written by an Iraqi in Bagdad this year during the bombing raids. The author is 30 years old, educated in Austria, but born and raised in Iraq. He wrote an on-line diary from Bagdad this year. An insiders view of what was and is really going on. Sounds fascinating to me. I'll let you now when it gets published. By the way, Under the Tuscan Sun is becoming a movie. (the books are not fiction, Not1worry. They are about an american buying fixer-uppers in Italia.)
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Azriel
| Friday, September 19, 2003 - 9:21 am
Pannie, we've talked about Salam Pax blog on the board in the News and Views section. Thanks for giving us the heads up about the book.
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Calamity
| Friday, September 19, 2003 - 10:43 am
The BBC recently held an interactive chat with Salam Pax. You can read a transcript here or listen to the chat itself. BBC link. BTW, the movie version of Under the Tuscan Sun will be released next Friday, Sept. 26th. I just finished Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. ***Small spoilers*** I remember finding an old paperback copy of it in our basement when I was a teen, but only skimmed the first few pages before abandoning it. Now that I've finally read the whole book, I must say it left me with mixed feelings. It is alarmingly prescient and provocative. Its description of the evolution of technology and social order were brilliant and frightening at the same time. And while the book does paint a bleakly shiny picture of its dystopian "civilization", it also highlights inequities and injustices to be found on the "savage reservations". However, I thought the book faltered after it brought John & Linda to London. It got bogged down in didactic exposition and to be blunt, I did not find the martyr-like character of John to be that sympathetic or profound. Even so, the book was well worth reading. Next up for me is Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. He's one of my favorite authors and I'm really looking forward to this book.
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Slothkitten
| Friday, September 19, 2003 - 4:01 pm
I recently finished 2 book's by Geraldine Brooks. Someone mentioned her on the board.. "Year of Wonders"-fictioal account of true story about the village of Eames (England) in 1666 and the Black Plague , a slim volume, great story. nonfiction- don't remember the title-it's about Islamic woman..thier lives behind the veil...ms. brooks was a reporter over in the middle east...i love her storytelling style........oh, i remember her other book....memior...enjoyed all.
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Pannie
| Friday, September 19, 2003 - 7:31 pm
Thank you Azriel and Calamity. I didn't even know about "News and Views" area yet. I check it out and the BBC link. Much appreciation. I just finished reading fictional Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamtress. Based in a rural province of China, 3 young teens grow up with Communist cultural restrictions and re-education on a farm. It's a pleasant tale and is not political; I recommend it; a quick read; good peak into the hidden orient.
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Seamonkey
| Friday, September 19, 2003 - 9:02 pm
Pannie, I read that book, perfect description,, quick read, some insight involved..
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Boberg
| Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 8:19 pm
Just finished Robin Cook's latest book, "Seizure." The story falls flat with little supspense or intrique. Extremely dissappointing, especially compared to his earlier works like "Coma."
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Seamonkey
| Saturday, September 20, 2003 - 10:32 pm
Boberg, I have felt that about the last several Cook books I've read.. I think I have it firmly in mind not to bother anymore. Sad but true.
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Mak1
| Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 11:54 am
Just started Watermelon by Marian Keyes. It has been on my to-read list for a long time.
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Seamonkey
| Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 4:32 pm
Finished with not much just chillin': the hidden lives of middle schoolers by Linda Perlstein. Wonderful in depth on children, parents, teachers at a middle school in Maryland. Next will be non-fiction book by Aphrodite Jones, Red Zone: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the San Francisco Dog Mauling.
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Slothkitten
| Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 5:07 pm
Have Red Zone on reserve @ the library..along w/ about 20 others.Rolling Stone had a indepth article a while back about this subject.
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Seamonkey
| Sunday, September 21, 2003 - 8:38 pm
I watched the trial on CourtTV and was really upset when charges were reduced. The husband gets out of prison really soon
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Slothkitten
| Monday, September 22, 2003 - 8:14 pm
Yes, Sea..I saw bit's on tv and am aware of the reduced charges..,but hope the law keeps a eye on this "couple". What I have read is chilling. I enjoy Ann Rules true-crime books very much, probably because the endings have the criminals locked up safely away,whew. lol!
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Seamonkey
| Monday, September 22, 2003 - 11:06 pm
Just as far as I've gotten, this Arayan Brotherhood in prisons and their reach inside and outside of prisons is terrifying. I hope they implant a tracking device in Noel when he walks and don't give a rat's behind if it is legal or not. Yeah, I like Ann Rule too.
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Crazydog
| Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 11:07 am
I am reading "Charleston" by John Jakes. John Jakes is the king of the historical epic. I love his attention to the detail and culture of the period he is writing in. His North and South trilogy is among my favorite books. "Charleston" follows the trials and tribulations of several generations of a prominent Charlestonian family, from the American Revolution to just after the Civil War.
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Marysafan
| Thursday, September 25, 2003 - 12:21 pm
Crazydog, I am a big John Jakes fan also. I have read the entire Kent Family chronicles, and the North and South Trilogy is among my favorites also. I just saw this book in a bookstore recently and have it on my wish list. I am glad you are enjoying it. I hoped it would be good.
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