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a man at the flea market donates any books to the woodstock tibetans who sell them & donate the money to tibetan charities..........diane di prima has a new collection of poetry out: the poetry deal. can't wait to read it
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Finished Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington 1848-1868 by Cokie Roberts. Very good! I think you would like it even if you aren't a history person. It tells the stories of real women from their diaries, journals, letters, and some from their autobiographies (published or unpublished). One thing I didn't know before was how the Civil War advanced the cause of Women's Rights. When men went off to war, jobs and positions never before felt to be appropriate for women (such as nursing), suddenly became open, and the role of women began to change. Super good.
And if you like it, you might want to check out Cokie's similar books about the Revolutionary War Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty.
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I am almost finished with the new Lisa Genova book, Inside the O'Briens. A very interesting read about a family dealing with Huntington's Disease. I also enjoyed two of her other books, Still Alice and Left Neglected.Or maybe thought-provoking would be a better term than "enjoyed." She has an excellent writing style for fiction, even though she is a neurologist.
jane
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I am a longtime David McCullough fan. Thought I had read everything of his. NOT.
Just got The Greater Journey (about Anericans in Paris ca. 1930-1900)
His newer one, the Wright Brothers, is on my nightstand, waiting it's turn.
I love how he writes, and I always learn much more than the specific subject matter. He tells many layers of tales, as you probably already know. Finding a few I hadn't read was like finding buried treasure!
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I have The Wright Brothers coming in the mail (air mail, no doubt
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Ruth- "airmail"... Lol
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my brother sends me books from time to time. recently he's been sending me the novels of irene nemerovsky. I've not liked them magnificent as they are, creeping me out that she died in a german prison camp. (not her fault of course). & that thy're in translation. the latest he sent is called the wine of lonliness & I can no longer not like her. how did she know such thingws?? I'ts set in russio, paris & finland just before during & after the russian revolution. (the last one). the finnish section I'm now reading is so amazingly wonderful I do reccomend her works
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I've read both Suite Française and The Wine of Solitude. Both are beautifully written and astounding knowing the life of Irene Nemerovsky. For me, evidence that art triumphs over war, hatred and death.
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& knowing how old she was when she wrote the novels How did she know that stuff at that young
age??
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then there's this: stone junction by jim dodge. this novel saved a life: a man in prison for bankrobbery serving a long sentence, just back from solitary confinement, had decided to check out. then a social worker came by his cell & said: do you want a book? sure, he said. & this was the book. after a few hours reading it he no longer wanted to kill himself
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VR II, aka VR's mom, just finished reading Kent Haruf's new book, Our Souls at Night. I had recommended it to her even before I got it because the reviews were that good. I still haven't read it yet, but am now anxiously waiting for my library copy. Mom said that she read the book in a day and now wants to read the rest of his books! His writing is that good......
http://www.amazon.com/Our-Souls-at-Night-novel/dp/...=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_Blue_(TV_series)
http://www.latintimes.com/jennifer-lopez-shades-bl...
Above are links regarding the television series starring Jennifer Lopez, based on my friend, Michael Rudolph's book. I'm really excited!
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VR - thanks for sharing. It looks good.
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VR-Just put myself on the library waiting list for Kent Haruf's new one. I'm 5th in the list. No renewals when there are people waitingso 12 weeks or less it will be! Thanks for the tip and no spoilers for 12 weeks, haha.
Katy
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Hi friends - just want you to know that this thread has reawakened my love for reading. In the past couple of months I've read What Alice Forgot, the Husband's Secret, and Orphan Train. The first two were because of high recommendations here. Excellent! Orphan Train was ok but a bit shallow I think. Next up is Isaac's Storm which I just downloaded from the library.
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I now am reading the new neal stephenson I got from the cybermobile th. In it the moon has exploded from unknown causes, & mankind has 2 years to off-planet some of them before the debris makes earth uninhabitable for 10,000 years. now at 3 months past 0 there are about 100 human a month able to dock at the space station in various vehicles. the rest on earth await the end. most of the space station humans need to be pre menopausal women to accomodate wombs for the frozen embreos of some earthlings who weren't able to get a place at the station. from reviews I learn that I think the space station umans evolve intp 7 distinct races. thus the 7 even of the title
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Blazed through Dead Wake, what a good book! I'll put Devil in the White City on my TBR list but right now a third of the way through The Nightingale. Started it last night and enjoying it so much I may not get anything else done today. #14 on the wait list for the new John Sandford, Gathering Prey. Hope my turn doesn't come up while I'm on vacay next week. Happy reading!
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I've not read anything by Liane Moriarty but I see she has been mentioned often here.
Any suggestion in the best one or two to start with? I'm thinking I need a little fiction today.
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Ohh Badger - just purchased the Nightingale yesterday - guess I know what I'll be doing with the rest of my day (ironing can wait)!!! Read Dead Wake a while back - fascinating to finally read the real story instead of the oft told legend(s).
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Reading Gathering Prey now! Badger, will your library let you put a pause on your account during your vacation? Ours does that. Then you reactivate when you return and you basically get your spot back.0 -
glennie, good idea thx I will ask. If nothing else, I can leave my library card with DH and he'll pick it up for me.
Took a walk this morning then did nothing else but read all day and finished The Nightingale. Great read!
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abigail48- I have been reading rave reviews of the new Neal Stephenson - be sure to tell us how you like it.
Jackbirdie - some of Moriarty's books are darker than others. I started with Three Wishes, The Hypnotist's Love Story, then The Last Anniversary which were relatively light - but not lightweight. The most recent was The Husband's Secret which dealt with some heavy stuff - and which has really stayed with me - in a good way. I plan to read everything she writes, she is that good. - it just depends if you want to plunge into some difficult situations or wade in slowly!
I am now in a quandry - I took Pym by Mat Johnson out of the library because his latest, Long Day is getting rave reviews - so I figured I would check out an earlier book and wait on the newest one. It turns out that Pym is an update of sorts of a book by Edgar Allan Poe - Narrative of A. Gordon Pym - which I now feel obligated to read before Pym. Edgar Allan Poe and my older brother were responsible for my love of reading. Not only did my older brother pay me to read Tom Sawyer, but he would wake me up at night to recite Edgar Allan Poe's poetry to me - (some of which I still remember!) but my copy of Edgar Allan Poe's collected works is in tiny type which is tiring to read. Oh well - I have Pym checked out for 22 more days.......
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oh my! mantras for that older brother. my mother read me david copperfield and oliver twist before I could walk. (I actually walked very late, perhaps that was the reason. there's a lot of technical stuff in 7 eves I can't understand so skim it, the more accesable prose is very good. can't wait to discover what those 7 races are like 10000 years hence, but now only just before the white sky. there are young techies preparing to wait it out on the ground, that should be interesting as well
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Jelson- thanks so much for the recommendations. I like dark, but with the current state of affairs, I'll wade in.
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Nice to see a bunch of other people posting. Welcome.
Last week I read The Weight of Water (1997) by Anita Shreve. Story about Norwegian immigrants who came to The Isle of Shoals, an archipelago that lies in the Atlantic10 miles SE of the New Hampshire coast at Portsmouth in the late 1800s. Vivid descriptions - like the ice in the mustaches of the sailors and the wind that never stops and the isolation in the winter. The story jumps back & forth from a wife's journal of a horrendous crime in 1873 and a current news writer who is revisiting that place & crime, living on a small sailboat w/her husband, young daughter, husband's brother & his girlfriend.
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so it's year zero plus 2 and the white sky is immanent. at this late date there's political trouble. every large population has chosen 2 young people by lot to represent them. but everyone has fudged: they don't want ordinary children to be saved but exceptional ones. except the venesuelians who did choose 22 youngsters by lot, & now they've not been allowed on the shuttles because they're ordinary children. the venesuelians are furious & have blockaded the ships preventing them from leaving. & that's as far as I've read & a good place to stop with this report.
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COMING SOON: (some of my favorite authors)In the Dark Places (Alan Banks series) Peter Robinson Aug 11
X (Kinsey Milhone series) Sue Grafton (the first one that doesn't say X is for _____, all the other letters do!) Aug 25
Career of Evil Robert Galbraith (AKA JK Rowlings) Oct 22
A Banquet of Consequences (Inspector Lynley) Elizabeth George Oct 27
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These past few weeks, I've been struggling with my eyes...finally getting things under some control....have a backlog of books that need immediate attention....Enjoyed, Our Souls at Night. Not going to say it is great....however, Harug's sparse use of words pack an emotional punch.
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Just read an excellent book --great story, well written and true -- called "Boys in the Boat," about an unlikely group of college students from the University of Washington who ended up winning gold in rowing at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. I know nothing about rowing, but it was fascinating. It focuses on one young man from a horrible background, and it's set as Hitler is trying to portray Germany as a friendly host while starting his dastardly deeds.
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