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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 9:20 pm 
Finished The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty and I liked it very much.. not a cookie cutter plot at all. I think this is the second of her books I've read and she's a good writer. and I got it for $2.99.. back up to over $12 ...
Now starting a book by a local columnist here in Orange County.. Notorious OC by Larry Welborn..
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, July 16, 2012 - 7:01 am
Two questions -
Did someone here mention "Gone?" What did you think about it?
"The Paris Wife" has been proposed for our book club. It is about Hemingway's first wife. I don't usually care for non-fiction. Any opinions?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, July 16, 2012 - 7:12 am
I think it's a fictional take on Hemingway's first wife. I have it on my TBR pile. I think Escapee read it and disliked it.
I am reading The Age of Miracles. I've only heard raves about it.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Monday, July 16, 2012 - 8:15 am
The Paris Wife drug on. It wasn't exciting.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, July 16, 2012 - 4:36 pm
Thanks, Escapee! I will lobby for a mystery book alternative!!
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Monday, July 16, 2012 - 5:21 pm
I am almost caught up with the Mary Daheim Alpine series. She started out with Alpine Advocate and went on down the alphabet. I am on Alpine Uproar. Then comes Alpine Vengeance and she better get busy and write the next one! Of course it is a cozy mystery about a single mother who bought a small local newspaper in Alpine, WA. Lots of characters and lots of scenery. It is fun to have places that I am familiar with be written in the books.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 11:23 am
HI Gang! I haven't been around in a while and have really enjoyed catching up with all that you are reading!
Lately, I've read "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou and loved it. Then "The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" and REALLY LOVED IT!!! Then "Motor City" by Bill Harris (?) and liked that a lot. Then one of those books I was always going to read "some day" "Tales of the South Pacific" by James Michener (the book that South Pacific the musical is based on) and really loved that one as well.
I didn't want to leave the South Pacific Islands just yet so I looked around to see what else I might have and found a book that Heyitslori sent me awhile back called "Neptune's Inferno" a non-fiction book about the battle of Guadalcanal (which is right up my military history loving alley)...so I am presently learning a lot about that event and enjoying it very much.
I am doing well and enjoying the summer. Keep on reading! Miss you guys!
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 12:04 pm
I read the Maya Angelou book years ago...it was marvelous. I got to see her speak once live too and she was (and I am sure still is) an amazing woman.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 3:18 pm
Oh, Superg! I think you have given me a whole new LONG series to read! Such a gift!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 4:14 pm
Hi, Mary! Great to see you and no surprise you are still reading!
I've read that Maya Angelou and also listened to her reading of it, though that was abridged, which is absurd.. but still, fabulous with her reading it.
Maya had a PBS program on KQED in San Francisco in the sixties and we used to watch it the year I was up there as a married student and had a tv. She already had a great speaking voice, but was much younger, of course.
I finished Notorious OC and it was okay and I was familiar with many of the cases, the discussion of each was pretty brief.
Now readina a novel Out of Time by Deborah Truscott, which I got recently when it was free; it is back up to $2.99 now.
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 2:46 pm
Just started "Inside Out Girl" by Tish Cohen
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Happymom
Member
01-20-2003
| Friday, July 20, 2012 - 9:45 pm
Almost done with Catching Fire and have book 3 of the trilogy waiting. can't wait to see how all this will turn out. Liked Hunger Games book better than the movie. (saw movie first)
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 8:26 am
I am soooooooooo loving this book. Savouring it. A few pages a day.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, July 23, 2012 - 8:05 am
Finished Out of Time by Deborah Truscott and enjoyed it very much.. time travel involved (there is a series by another author with the same name, but this is not it) and she is writing a sequel.
I got it when it was free but the regular $2.99 price is well worth it.
And, it is lendable on kindle, if anyone is interested.
Now starting A Thousand Voices by Jen Parker. Also got this one when it was free; back up to $9.99 now (though it is on the free for Prime list).
No verdict yet, but when I'm done, this book is also lendable.
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Landileigh
Member
07-28-2002
| Monday, July 23, 2012 - 12:21 pm
Just finished The Help and loved it. I had seen the movie, but wanted to read the book. Now to find something new!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, July 23, 2012 - 12:50 pm
I just finally saw the movie yesterday, loved the book!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, July 23, 2012 - 1:06 pm
Landi - any chance you've also read Poisonwood Bible? My son is in my AP class, and since he took a College English class last year, he's already read PB. The rest of the class hasn't, so I was thinking of the Help as a substitute for him. He's very interested in history, so I don't think he'll mind that it's a "chick flick" kind of book.
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Monday, July 23, 2012 - 1:42 pm
I loved the Inside Out Girl by Tish Cohen. A really good read.
Started The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H Cook.
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Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Monday, July 23, 2012 - 1:43 pm
Has anyone read any of Patrick Taylor's books? If so what did you think of them?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, July 23, 2012 - 2:38 pm
I did not like The Age of Miracles. Yet another book that didn't live up to it's hype for me.
I am now reading Jennifer Weiner's new one, The Next Best Thing.
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Landileigh
Member
07-28-2002
| Monday, July 23, 2012 - 3:35 pm
Teach, I haven't read that book. It isn't free as an Amazon Kindle selection, or in my local library's kindle books. I'll keep looking unless anyone has a copy I can kindle borrow?
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, July 23, 2012 - 4:15 pm
Landi,
I have it on Kindle, but it's not lendable.  Nuts! I have about 20 copies at school, but not a single one at home that I could even pop in the mail to you! (although, if you're like me, I rarely read dead tree books any more! LOL)
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Landileigh
Member
07-28-2002
| Monday, July 23, 2012 - 5:31 pm
you're right Teach, i don't seem to read books that aren't on the kindle. I never seemed to get around to reading the paperbacks I would buy, but the kindle goes EVERYWHERE with me!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, July 23, 2012 - 6:43 pm
Exactly! I have at least 40 books between two nightstands, but I read from my Kindle constantly. Since there are 400 books there, it may be a year or two after I retire before the other 40 books get read! LOL
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, July 23, 2012 - 7:56 pm
I still have a couple hundred books that I haven't read that are not kindle and I just keep reading on my kindle.. I do read dead tree books if I'm in a bookcrossing bookring or bookray, but that's it.
I get and read a ton of books when they are free, but do pay for books as well.. just not that many and not the expensive ones so much.
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