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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 12:52 pm 
Thanks, all! Good suggestions, Sea!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 11:38 pm
I finished Between the Lines and I guess it was a cute story and fun for mom and daughter to write but I feel like I've encountered that plot before. I paid $1.99 but this short book is back up to I think $7.99. I like Jodi Picoult but I think all of her kindle prices are pretty high.
Uncle Ricky, that was a find. Elizabeth Smart is a remarkable young woman. I haven't read her book but would like to in time.
My next book on Kindle will be Small as an Elephant.
Still reading Revenge of my dead tree books.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, November 22, 2013 - 12:12 pm
Curently reading Nora Roberts - The Dark Witch. Just finished Penny Marshall's bio - My Mother Was Nuts
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, November 22, 2013 - 1:12 pm
I finished Between the Lines and it was okay.
I am reading Morning Glory by Sarah Jio and The Little Friend by Donna Tartt.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Friday, November 22, 2013 - 1:57 pm
Sea, her book is definitely worth reading. I finished it yesterday and was so moved by it that I immediately went to the Elizabeth Smart Foundation website and made a donation! Her (mental/emotional) strength had to have been superhuman. I'm just awestruck about how she survived - I hope the lunatic who kidnapped her NEVER, EVER gets out of prison.
I'm now reading The Summer of Naked Swim Parties by Jessica Anya Blau, her debut novel. I read her latest (3rd) book earlier this year and enjoyed it enough to check out her first one -- it, fortunately, is making me laugh a lot. 
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Scout
Member
01-19-2005
| Friday, November 22, 2013 - 3:25 pm
Uncle_ricky - I agree about Elizabeth Smart's book. It's really hard to read, and yet really inspirational. How she survived all that and then came back and rebuilt her life was truly amazing. She does have a tremendous strength.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, November 22, 2013 - 10:21 pm
I've certainly known strong survivors of abuse and torture but Elizabeth is really a triumph and I celebrate her ability to move on in her life and have the best revenge, AND to write about it for others to process.
I finished Revenge, which took a long route to a satisfying ending (true story so no problem with plot.. it really happened that way.
Starting for my paper book.. uhh.. I forget.. something about Living Backwards.. I'll check later. So far it is rather strange.
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Scout
Member
01-19-2005
| Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 1:26 pm
I just finished "Coreography - A Memoir" by Corey Feldman. I honestly didn't expect much, but it was really quite interesting and well-written.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, November 27, 2013 - 8:09 pm
That book is The Effect of Living Backwards.. strange book but moving along..
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, December 01, 2013 - 4:40 pm
Finished that book in paper, by Heidi Julavits.. and strange.. but also, for me, unlikeable.
Next in paper is Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley.. great big book.
And on Kindle, finished Small as an Elephant, by Jennifer Richard Jacobson, which was pretty good, then I read March into My Heart: A Memoir of Mothers, Daughters and Adooption, by Patty Lazarus.. a woman who had two boys but wanted a girl and their story of adoption.. it was okay.. I did get it when it was free.
Now starting on Kindle, Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz. }
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, December 01, 2013 - 5:55 pm
I loved Horse Heaven, Sea, so I hope you enjoy it as well.
Finished Running Blind - a Jack Reacher novel - and am about 4 hours of listening away from finishing The Quest by Nelson DeMille. I've enjoyed both of them, largely because they do NOT require me to grade the writing! LOL
Next up will be Wally Lamb's We are Water. I'm looking forward to total and complete freedom of reading over Christmas break. I should have NO essays to grade, and only one new syllabus to create for the dual enrollment lit. class. WOOHOO for days and days of reading time!!!
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Monday, December 02, 2013 - 6:06 pm
Finished (and really enjoyed) The Summer of Naked Swim Parties - for someone who set out to write only a short story (and expanded it to a novel at the suggestion of her writing group), it was an excellent debut.
I don't remember what possessed me to read The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth Silver, but I regret doing so as it was wildly uneven. I would recommend it to no one!
I next read Linwood Barclay's first stand-alone novel (No Time for Goodbye) and absolutely loved it. I read it in one day (can't remember the last time I did that!).
I'm 100 pages into League of Denial - The NFL, Concussions, and the Battle for Truth by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru and it is utterly riveting. As a loyal fan of the NFL these past 45 years, and as each chapter goes by, I'm getting more and more depressed (and angry) over how the league has ignored keeping their players safe.
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Dovez
Member
08-27-2005
| Monday, December 02, 2013 - 6:47 pm
finished "the goldfinch" by donna tratt and cannot praise it enough.
it takes a well-written book to get my attention and this was certainly one to fill the bill.
i've started "the luminaries" which won the booker prize recently and, again, the writing is so brilliantly unique that i can't put the book down.
i highly recommend both.
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Rieann
Member
08-26-2006
| Tuesday, December 03, 2013 - 6:53 pm
I recently got 'The Luminaries'. I'm glad to hear you are enjoying it, Dovez. I'm anxious to start it.
Right now I am entrenched in Michael Fowler's suspense novels about DS Hunter Kerr. I started the latest - Secrets of the Dead and was enjoying it so much I decided to put it down and go for the backstory in the first two novels - Heart of the Demon and Cold Death. Lol! I guess I found a winning series, huh?
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Knightpatti
Member
12-05-2001
| Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 3:50 am
Finished The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher. Loved it! Anyone else read it?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 9:25 am
Years ago and I did love it! I loved other books she wrote too.
By the way, anyone who missed the $2.99 deal on The Goldfinch, today it is $1.79 through BookGorilla (Thanks to JMM for posting about Book Gorilla)
ETA LINK REMOVED.. THE DEAL IS DONE AND THE LINK WAS LONG..
I think you need that specific link to get the deal.
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Dovez
Member
08-27-2005
| Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 11:04 am
i also read "the shell seekers" years ago. i'd forgotten how much i enjoyed pilcher's work.
i believe there were other books as well.
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Reenie
Member
06-24-2006
| Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 8:33 pm
SEA...thanks for that tip on The Goldfinch...just picked it up for $1.79 on Amazon~
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 9:53 pm
Wonder if they do the refund with digital books on Amazon like they do with prices within 30 days...
and since it was a whopping $1.20, I'm pretty sure I won't be worrying about it! LOL
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, December 05, 2013 - 10:00 pm
They might, but I'm too lazy to check..
Dovez, there were other books and there was one that was just sweet and made me want to go live there. I was hoping she would revisit the people but she passed away.
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Cablejockey
Member
12-27-2001
| Friday, December 06, 2013 - 9:27 am
I am currently reading After Her by Joyce Maynard. Its very moving in its story of 2 sisters and their complicated relationship with their father and with a serial killer thrown in!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17349250-after-her
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Loremma
Member
04-25-2004
| Friday, December 06, 2013 - 9:54 am
Teach,
I got a refund from Amazon on my purchase of The Goldfinch. Actually, I got a credit for future purchases so I say just email them.
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Dovez
Member
08-27-2005
| Friday, December 06, 2013 - 1:23 pm
Okay the bar has been raised. This is the New York Times hundred notable books of 2013 and the 10 best of 2013:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/books/review/the-10-best-books-of-2013.html?nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20131206
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2013.html?nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20131206&_r=0
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, December 08, 2013 - 8:27 pm
I read Life After Life and it was okay. Not one of my favorites this year.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, December 08, 2013 - 9:18 pm
Finished Pearl Buck's A Pavilion of Women today. I haven't read one of her stories in a long time, so it was enjoyable.
This week will be devoted to research papers, but next weekend I start reading for fun.
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