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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, September 03, 2018 - 7:14 pm 
Finished The Cure of Souls by Philip Rickman - always enjoy his Merrily Watkins series. Started in on The Secret Place by Tana French and hope to get it done before tech rehearsals & performances start this coming Saturday.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, September 03, 2018 - 7:40 pm
What are you rehearsing for now, Teach?
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 8:56 pm
We're doing Disenchanted. It's the "true" story of the Disney Princesses ... totally NOT child safe! LOL (Just a few song titles: All I Wanna Do Is Eat, Insane, Big T*its ...plus we have a drunk Lil Mermaid and a Sleeping Beauty who talks in her sleep!)
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, September 05, 2018 - 9:13 pm
Sounds like fun.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - 2:54 am
Finished the Jodi Picoult.. She tackled racism. It took her years to get to this book and she was careful to do her research. Compelling read.
Now I am reading Michael Ausellio's memoir Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies, about life, his relationship,and loss of his partner (husband, at least as far as I have gotten they had rings and license) to cancer..
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - 8:57 am
Sea, loved Spoiler Alert. I was in tears and laughing all through it.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - 9:44 am
Yes, it is very personal.
I read one of Lauren Graham's memoirs awhile back and she and Michael are great friends.
Then when this book came up on sale at Bookgorilla or Bookbub, one of the blurbs was written by Lauren.
He has mentioned her as a good friend too.
Anyway, worth reading for sure.
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Wahmmy
Member
07-24-2005
| Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 1:58 pm
Fear by Woodward of course! Nothing I like better than to have insomnia and read a book that scares the hell outta me in the middle of the night. And is nonfiction!
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Jmm
Moderator
08-15-2002
| Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 6:32 pm
Just stopped in to make sure that Wahmmy found her way over here ok. Wouldn't do to have her wandering around lost.
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Wahmmy
Member
07-24-2005
| Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 7:40 pm
Aww thanks, Jmm
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Mak1
Member
08-11-2002
| Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 7:51 pm
Welcome Wahmmy! Stephen King couldn't write anything scarier, I'm sure.
I'm reading Death Dealer by Kate Flora.
I recently read Everything Happens for a Reason, and Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler. Thank you for your review of it, Ricky. It does indeed pack a wallop! I too am embarrassed to learn that I've employed minimizing when hoping to "help". Now that I know better, i will do better.
Sea, I found that Picoult book compelling too. I loved the ending.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, September 12, 2018 - 8:42 pm
Yes, the ending was very satisfying.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Friday, September 14, 2018 - 10:11 am
Wahmmy, please make a habit of sharing all of your book reviews with us -- we want to know which ones you like as well as the ones you don't!
Sea, I trust you'll end up liking the Ausiello book as much as Mamie and I did.
Mak, thanks for confirming the excellence of the Kate Bowler book - she's pretty amazing! I still can't get over that minimizing thing - we all do it (often!) without realizing how deeply unhelpful it is.
Last week I finished What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson. It was my first time reading Dyson. There's a lot of material covered, but he handles it deftly and is very educational, especially about RFK's interactions with James Baldwin and Martin Luther King.
I also finished The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie. After years and years of threatening to do so, I finally read one of her books. This is the very first book she ever published and it's also the first Hercule Poirot mystery. It was excellent, of course. Now I just have to read her 74 other books. 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, September 14, 2018 - 2:48 pm
Yes, I did. At the end, I Wish he had updated on himself a bit, but that is probably another memoir.
I am now reading Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, September 14, 2018 - 2:50 pm
Oh, Ric, and I am sure you will read themin order.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Saturday, September 15, 2018 - 9:29 pm
I might make an exception with Dame Christie (and read them out of order). ššš
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, September 15, 2018 - 10:00 pm
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Scotchbright
Member
10-05-2006
| Monday, September 17, 2018 - 10:16 am
I'm currently reading The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz which is the first in a series. I accidentally read The Crooked Staircase first, not knowing it was third in a series - and was upset I didn't know it was a series....so I'm now starting at the beginning.
FYI: They're called the Jane Hawk series and in order are:
The Silent Corner
The Whispering Room
The Crooked Staircase
The Forbidden Door
The Night Window
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, September 17, 2018 - 3:25 pm
Those sound like Nancy Drew titles!
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, September 17, 2018 - 5:00 pm
Hey I loved Nancy Drew when I was young (after Iād read all the Hardy Boys). 
The originals are a bit dated now.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, September 17, 2018 - 5:35 pm
Me too! Dated and I suppose Nancy Drew is too. š
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Wahmmy
Member
07-24-2005
| Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 11:26 am
There was a series called Ginny Gordon(en) also. I was able to grab a few of them on eBay a long time ago. Similar to Nancy Drew. Never read a Hardy Boy mystery. Always up for Christie though all her characters were great.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - 1:42 pm
I've read the Whispering Room. It was good.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - 5:46 pm
My local library had a copy of Kathleen Turner's memoir from 2007, Send Yourself Roses. In it she covers the first 52 years of her life, including her ongoing battle with rheumatoid arthritis. That section proved to be the most interesting because I knew nothing about that disease and she described it thoroughly. I had no idea what an awful condition it is.
Her recollections about the films she's done were very entertaining and informative. Turner's memoir reminded me a lot of Patti LuPone's because the two of them do NOT restrain themselves from speaking very candidly about the people they like and the people they don't like.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - 7:08 pm
A couple of titles I recently finished: Mad as Hell: The Making of "Network" and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies by Dave Itzkoff and Calypso by David Sedaris.
The Itzkoff book is excellently researched and focuses on the film "Network" and Paddy Chayefsky's role in writing it and getting it made. There's a lot about Chayefsky's history in the screenwriting business and all of it is quite interesting.
The Sedaris book is totally marvelous. I'm amazed by his seemingly endless supply of stories. This collection is devoted mostly to his family (father and siblings), his partner of 30 years (Hugh Hamrick) and their current life in the U.K. It's a quick and often-juicy read.
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