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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, May 23, 2011 - 9:01 pm 
Currently reading The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs. It's a good book but way too melancholy for me these days. The next book will have to be light and chipper.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 1:45 pm
How is it Mamie? I love him too and want to read his book if you think it is a good one.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 3:24 pm
I've enjoyed it. He's a very upbeat person. I love reading about the old TV show and Mary Poppins.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 3:48 pm
Gave up on Eva Braun (not like me), there's reason why more isn't written about her . . . there's nothing to tell. Moved on to a bio of Theda Bara, haven't learned anything new and am almost finished with it. Next up: the new Cleopatra bio and "Hitch 22," Christopher Hitchens' autobiography (should be a tough read, but worth sticking to - he's my favorite brainiac and columnist/journalist).
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 10:02 pm
This book, mentioned above, is really good and currently is only $1.91 on Kindle..
Well if anyone deserved to be given up, it is Eva..
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Landileigh
Member
07-28-2002
| Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 2:56 am
i am currently reading Roseannarchy by Roseanne Barr and All That is Bitter and Sweet by Ashley Judd. I'm very lucky that I have our local library and it carries new books! wish it had Rob Lowe's and Shania Twain's new books.
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Rissa
Member
03-19-2006
| Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 4:36 am
Finished with Judd. In an epilogue that might have been better placed at the beginning Ashley writes that parts of the book are essays and editorials both previously published and unpublished. That explains the different styles!!
Ordered GAL's recommendation and dh says he will fight me to read it first, caught his interest as well.
Currently reading: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist and often-injured runner Christopher McDougall sets out to discover their secrets. In the process, he takes his readers from science labs at Harvard to the sun-baked valleys and freezing peaks across North America, where ever-growing numbers of ultra-runners are pushing their bodies to the limit, and, finally, to a climactic race in the Copper Canyons that pits America’s best ultra-runners against the tribe. About a quarter of the way in and it's interesting enough.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 5:57 am
Oh, terrific Rissa I'm sure you'll both enjoy it. I sure did.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 5:54 pm
I'm now reading So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman. It's about the murder of a girl in a little town called Haedon and it's told in each chapter by a reporter, a mother, the actual victim and maybe? the killer. I'm not sure. I'm not that far into it yet.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 3:52 pm
I was very disappointed in So Much Pretty. Very wordy and just lacked something for me. I didn't care about the characters at all.
I'm starting The First Husband by Laura Dave and so far, really enjoying it. I loved her book, The Divorce Party.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Friday, May 27, 2011 - 10:58 am
Finished reading "Sailors to the End" which was the story of the USS Forrestal fire back in 1967. An excellent read for Memorial Day. Heroes all. I'll never forget them.
Still slogging through Dr. Zhivago. It's really good....it's just a bit s-l-o-w.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, May 27, 2011 - 3:54 pm
Finished Love in Condition Yellow: A Memoir of an Unlikely Marriage by Sophia Raday.
I thought it was excellent and had good points for how to actually listen and appreciate people with very different views..
I'm planning next to read a Kindle Short by Tim Gunn, Shaken, Not Stirred: How My Father's Habits Soothed Him -- and Drove the Rest of us Crazy.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, May 27, 2011 - 8:51 pm
I finished The First Husband and just loved it! It's chick lit but not chick lit. It's got characters that are so real and so kind. No snippy characters in this one. It left me with a few tears and a happy heart.
I'm now going to a thriller with an ARC of Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens. A woman in search of her birth parents finds out that her father raped her mother and is a serial killer called the Campground Killer. Her birth mother was his only surviving victim and he's still alive! It's like an episode of Criminal Minds.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, May 29, 2011 - 7:17 pm
Finished Tim Gunn's short about his father.. kind of sad but helps explain the way Tim is as well.
Reading a freebie that is based around a trial involving HIV/Aids.. Are You Positive? by Stephen Davis. Readable but the science is wacked..
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 10:54 am
Never Knowing was okay. Not as good as her first book and it dragged in parts but not a bad read.
I just finished a wonderfully creepy book, Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon. It kept me up late into the night reading it and I couldn't get to sleep for a bit afterward!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 1:10 pm
Picked up "Under the Banner of Heaven" from the library today. For some reason they shipped in the large print edition, so the fundies are yelling at me. Haven't really started it yet, though, still wading through the quagmire of that poorly written Cleopatra bio. Where on earth have all the decent editors gone?
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 1:14 pm
Reading the 4th book in the Game of Thrones series and then I will start The Hungar Games.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, June 01, 2011 - 3:56 pm
I stayed up until the wee hours of the morning finishing Night Road by Kristin Hannah. I had to see what happened! I enjoyed it very much though the character of Jude was getting on my nerves. I think that's the sign of a good book when you become so emotionally involved with the characters.
I'm now starting Mudbound by Hilary Jordan.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Wednesday, June 01, 2011 - 4:55 pm
Mamie - I'll be quite interested in your thoughts on Mudbound. One of my AP Teacher cyberpals is the mom of the Hilary. Hilary has a second book coming out shortly, and I'm looking forward to reading it. I enjoyed Mudbound - interesting characters and a time period I'm interested in.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, June 01, 2011 - 5:18 pm
I have that book on Kindle but haven't read it yet.. I think.. (Mudbound)
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, June 03, 2011 - 5:46 pm
I finished Mudbound. I didn't want to put it down. I was surprised by a lot of it and saddened by the way one can go and fight for our country and yet, still come back to the same prejudices. I wanted to shake a few of the characters in the book!
I'm now starting The Midwife's Confession by Diane Chamberlain.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, June 05, 2011 - 3:50 pm
The Midwife's Confession was a good one. I had a hard time caring about the midwife who kills herself in the beginning of the book but it was a good read.
I am going to start The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, June 05, 2011 - 11:33 pm
Are You Positive? well I'm not so sure the science is wacked at all, and I'll have to read more.. so this was huge food for thought.
Now I'm reading Melissa Gilbert's memoir, Prairie Tales. VERY interesting..
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Tuesday, June 07, 2011 - 4:55 pm
I enjoyed Melissa's book. I liked Alison Arngrim's even more.
I didn't really care for The Poison Tree. It was just okay for me.
I'm going for something fun now. I'm reading Gone With a Handsomer Man by Michael Lee West. I usually enjoy her books. They are always set in the South, which I love reading about.
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Wednesday, June 08, 2011 - 11:00 am
I really like Michael Lee West's books as well. Let me know how this one is.
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