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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - 5:33 pm 
Wishing you a speedy recovery!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - 6:03 pm
Teach.. wow.. hope that retina stays in place!!
💜
That is really odd about the expiration thing..
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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - 7:34 pm
Ouch, Teach. Hopefully you're not having to read any school papers during this recovery. And thank goodness for audible books! Hope all is well for your holidays!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, December 22, 2016 - 11:46 am
Thanks, all. Doc seemed happy w/my progress yesterday. Kappy - I've got 5 sets of papers and a group of interview videos to grade by Jan. 2 - final exams were this week. Thank heavens for a wonderful sub who took great care of my HS kiddos. I'm planning on just one set a day so I don't have to read more than 2-3 hours total. Limited activity and a bit of Tylenol will get me through. 
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, December 22, 2016 - 1:24 pm
Your poor little eye. The picture you posted on Instagram looked painful.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, December 23, 2016 - 11:15 am
Fortunately, it looks worse than it feels. It gets achy if I read more than hour, but nothing that can't be alleviated by resting them for 10-15 minutes.
Fell asleep last night whilst listening to a Gabaldon novella (The Space Between), then was up from 2-4 am wide awake. Used the time to start Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl and am actually enjoying it. She does YA better than regular fiction as I really didn't like her Landline but loved Eleanor & Parker. Very thankful for font adjustment on Kindle - easier to read big fonts!
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, December 23, 2016 - 1:34 pm
Teach, I agree about Landline. I liked it but didn't love it like I loved Eleanor and Parker.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, December 23, 2016 - 10:01 pm
I am on the third of the three thru hikes with Fozzie.. so he's on the Appalachian Trail now.
At first I thought the third was a novel so I started James Michener's Alaska, which I'll read next I imagine.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Saturday, December 24, 2016 - 11:34 am
My reading has been slacking this past week. I did finish a book, How Will I Know You? by Jessica Treadway that had way too many characters telling the story and just dragged and dragged.
I am reading Lauren Graham's Talking As Fast As I Can and Amy Poeppel's Small Admissions but I have been for days now. Not that they aren't good, they are. I just haven't been into reading.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Saturday, December 24, 2016 - 2:41 pm
Coolest gift EVER!
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Saturday, December 24, 2016 - 2:42 pm
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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Saturday, December 24, 2016 - 4:49 pm
I use to teach a 3-D Art class and I loved what could be done with old tossed books!
Have a Wonderful Holiday everyone! Whether reading it or manipulating it, let a book bring you joy this week!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, December 24, 2016 - 7:58 pm
Finished Fangirl today and thoroughly enjoyed it (probably because I recently found some fan fiction I actually like ...shhhhhh....don't tell anyone I just admitted that!).
Tomorrow I'll start Tell Me Three Things - it was a Kindle deal, so I hope it's good. I'm also listening to Drums of Autumn - for at least the dozenth time - as well as Cormac McCarthy's Suttree.
I was shooting for 52 books this year, but it looks like I'll only hit 40. Oh well - None of them were under 300 pages (except 2 novellas I listened to this past week), so I don't feel too bad. If only all the hundreds of pages of essays I've read counted, too! LOL
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, December 24, 2016 - 8:58 pm
They do count, Teach, in different but important ways.
I finished the Keith Foskett trio of books on thru hiking on The Camino through France and Spain, on the Pacific Crest Trail and on the Appalachian Trail.. Well done, for the most part.
I'm going back to James Michener's Alaska for now.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, December 25, 2016 - 9:47 am
The 3D art book is very cool. Looks beautiful.
I think that 40 books, plus hundreds of pages of essays is pretty amazing, Teach! I always tell my DD's when they are writing essays that teachers appreciate quality over length.
I tried reading Michener years ago and found it tough going. Maybe I was too young?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, December 25, 2016 - 11:40 am
Teach, I loved Tell Me Three Things. Hope you do too.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, December 25, 2016 - 12:10 pm
Michener books were always slow starting, but I have enjoyed many of them. Rjght now he is back where tge mastadons arrived and tangled with sabre toothed felines.
He was famous for a very long opening sentence in Hawaii.. something like 200 words.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Tuesday, December 27, 2016 - 4:13 pm
Finished "One Last Scream" by Kevin O'Brien. It was okay for a murder mystery. A bit different.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Tuesday, December 27, 2016 - 6:15 pm
Last night I finished IQ, which is the debut novel by Joe Ide. I'd heard him interviewed on my local NPR station (because he grew up here in Los Angeles). His main character is a young man who becomes a detective as a result of losing a close family member while still a teen. He relies on his brainpower to solve the mysteries he's hired to unravel. It was an excellent first novel. I'm pretty sure we'll see more of Isaiah Quintabe (IQ) and his sidekick, Dodson, in the future.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, December 28, 2016 - 6:04 am
I'm hoping to get my hands on Nora Robert's latest book which is the third in a Trilogy I'm really enjoying. Also I want to get my hands on Carrie Fisher's books as a tribute to her. I did read Postcards From The Edge a long time ago though.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, December 28, 2016 - 2:56 pm
Not the latest memoir, but Carrie Fisher's first two memoirs are currently on sale in kindle format. Just FYI. Wishful Drinking and the next one.
I didn't buy because I'm having to be super strict at present, so avoiding purchases.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, December 28, 2016 - 2:58 pm
Oh and in Alaska I've moved through pre-history and continents moving and am into the 1700's after the death of Peter the Great in Russia.. so we are slogging across Siberia with Bering.. Michener has such a great imagination and also knowledge.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Wednesday, December 28, 2016 - 3:18 pm
I read Wishful Drinking and enjoyed it immensely. What a massive void her passing has created; she was such a super-smart and acidly incisive writer.
This morning I finished Daddy Love by Joyce Carol Oates. I hadn't read one of hers in a while and stumbled across a copy in the library. I was able to get through it (the writing is impeccable), but it was a very rough ride, content-wise.
The plot centers on a 5-year-old boy who is kidnapped by a serial kidnapper-killer. The story is extremely disturbing in a manner similar to A Little Life, but is not nearly as intense as that book was. It's still an intense reading experience and it WILL upset you if you decide to read it yourselves. (It's my duty to warn you about that.) I'm shocked Oates tackled the subject matter, but also very impressed with what she did with it.
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Wednesday, December 28, 2016 - 5:01 pm
Thanks to whoever it was that mentioned 600 Hours of Edward I just finished it and really enjoyed the book. I look forward to the next book in the series.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, December 28, 2016 - 5:24 pm
Oh I'm SO happy you liked it..
There are two more already available.. and IMO each gets better.
I adore Edward! I hope Craig Lancaster is busily writing the next book.
There is one (two?) book with Hugo as a main character and there is connection with Edward and by the third book Hugo is one of the main characters.
The book about Hugo is The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter.
But the next two Edward books are Edward Adrift and then Edward Unspooled.
I just reread all the Edward books when I got the third one.
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