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Chewpito
Member
01-03-2004
| Friday, June 12, 2015 - 3:12 pm 
I recently finished a book that was just a library grab an did not really expect to like it but took a shot. 'The old man that escaped out the window and disapeared' I loved it! A wild ride this old man has had an for him, life def does not end at 100.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, June 13, 2015 - 1:33 pm
Nice to be surprised like that!!
I finished The Story of Charlotte's Web and sorry it is over but it was a most satisfying read. E. B. White's life intersected with so many of the literary elite.. Thurber included and we have even J. D. Salinger popping into the book once.
Now reading the memoir of a skydiver
Above All Else: A World Champion Skydiver's Story of Survival and What it Taught Him ABout Fate, Adversity, and Success, by Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Saturday, June 13, 2015 - 1:42 pm
The Problem of Pain C.S. Lewis
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 6:50 pm
The book about the sky diver was interesting but not well written and at times he tended to self promote a bit more than necessary.
Then just finished a well written book The Good Luck Cat: How a Cat Saved a Family, and a Family Saved a Cat by Lissa Warren.. I'm now going to re-read the sad but sweet book about Frank Deford's late daughter, Alex: Alex: The Life of a Child. Alex had Cystic Fibrosis. There was a also a tv movie that I loved, sad as it was. This just came out on Kindle and I got it.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 9:06 pm
Frank Deford's book is a lovely testament to his daughter and being a parent. Loved it when I read it.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 10:34 pm
I decided it was worth reading again. I used to have the movie on tape.. still do but nothing to play it on. That was also really well done.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Friday, June 19, 2015 - 5:47 pm
Finished my reread of Dragonfly in Amber and am about 3 hours away from finishing a re-listen to Written in My Own Heart's Blood. I'm also thoroughly enjoying Noah Gordon's The Death Committee. I LOVE SUMMER!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, June 19, 2015 - 6:07 pm
Heh.. wallowing, are you? Such fun!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, June 20, 2015 - 1:14 pm
Wallow, wallow, wallow...
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, June 21, 2015 - 5:23 pm
Finished Alex, The Life of a Child. Frank Deford is an accomplished writer and the book is heart-wrenching but so well done. Definitely had teary times.
Now I'm starting to read Beverly Jenkins' Blessings series from the beginning and will end with the newest and sixth book (TNT.. you probably can get the new book at your library)
So that will be a six book wallow indeed!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Sunday, June 21, 2015 - 9:12 pm
We are such good wallowers! Just downloaded The Talbot Odyssey to listen to next. Hoping to finish The Death Committee by mid-week, and then I think a John Grisham book is next as I need to read an author who has the same initials I do. 
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Monday, June 22, 2015 - 11:21 am
Although I was disheartened by Gary Shteyngart's second novel (Absurdistan), I was very pleased to find that his third, Super Sad True Love Story, is a vast improvement - I enjoyed it immensely. And the word is that Ben Stiller is adapting it into a film.
I next read, finally, The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. I'm pretty sure it was Sea who turned me on to it (thanks, Sea!). Here is my very brief review of it via Twitter:
"The only review #theboysintheboat deserves: it's so good that any1 who ignores it is a complete CRACKPOT" @DJamesBrown
https://twitter.com/munoz_ric/status/
612371516160761856/photo/1
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, June 22, 2015 - 3:40 pm
Oh I'm glad you finally got to it.. I just LOVED it. I love learning of people's lives where you also get so much history at the same time.
The book about E. B. White, that I recently read, was like that, though of course he lead a much different life but so much stuff about the first quarter centery of The New Yorker and of course about Charlotte's Web, which he wrote, and his life and many other interesting people who were in his life..
Love your review!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, June 22, 2015 - 3:46 pm
In fact I just retweeted it and you have a new follower.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Monday, June 22, 2015 - 5:40 pm
Awww, thank you, Lynn! I hope it didn't come across that I was fishing for followers. The only people who follow me are my running acquaintances (and my husband, Seth, of course).
I hope you don't mind that I followed you in return! That's a nice profile photo you've got!
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Monday, June 22, 2015 - 7:02 pm
I finished reading Divergent by Veronica Roth and immediately watched the movie afterward. They were both very good. Planning to read all of them.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, June 22, 2015 - 7:05 pm
Loved the review! I am following you now too
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, June 22, 2015 - 8:33 pm
Oh I didn't think you were fishing at all.. happy to follow you. I don't really read that often but it is fun to go through now and then with interesting people..
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, June 22, 2015 - 8:46 pm
I need to change the photo. That tab didn't use to cover half the cat
She had just rolled the basket and was giving me that stare upside down..
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Monday, June 22, 2015 - 9:19 pm
Thank you Mary! I have followed you as well!
I agree, Sea, that it's fun to go through people's timelines. My aren't that interesting - just book reviews, theatre reviews and my assorted running races.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 11:40 am
Mine really aren't either .. I didn't know Amazon was tweeting when I remembered to use AmazonSmile so they would donate a tiny bit to Kids of Childhood Cancer.. but I saw that they do tweet, so I'm sure I gave permission and I adore the people who started that nonprofit in honor and memory of their son Vinny.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 6:00 pm
Every little bit helps! (As you know.)
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 6:55 pm
We had our public board meeting tonight, and I found out A Man Called Ove is our read for July. I had put a hold on it way back when you all were talking of it, but since I was 140 or so, I knew I'd never get it before July. Fortunately, they had a copy at the front desk, so I will finally get to read the book that so many of you loved!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 8:42 pm
Great choice!! I think you will love it or him, Teach.
Yes, Ric.. every little bit. These people bought a condo and they send families of kids with cancer there for respite care and rent it out other times to help pay for the mortgage and maintenance. They went there with their son and he loved it and went there after he dies. They also worked to start a Lego night at their children's hospital .. Vinny loved his legos and they found it was a therapy for lots of kids. The Lego store worked with them, bringing legos.. and I think the program has expanded to other hospitals as well.
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Uncle_ricky
Member
07-02-2007
| Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 11:59 am
What a nice story that is, as well as a nice legacy for the family to have to remember their son!
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