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  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 471
    edited January 2011

    voracious

    Thanks for the synopsis.  I was not (am not ) TZ watcher, but that's a riot.  Good thing  for cheap readers!! 

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited January 2011

    Youtube posted the episode of Time Enough at Last from the Twilight Zone.  Enjoy!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FUI90HIQt8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FUI90HIQt8

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CtNoNcg9RU&NR=1&feature=fvwp

  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 471
    edited January 2011

    Bummer.  Poor Henry.  Thanks for posting :>)

  • Bukki
    Bukki Member Posts: 103
    edited January 2011

       Thank you ladies for all the new suggestions for books to read. I am a junky when it come to reading....love the murder mysteries, but read all kinds of books. I am readind "Ezkial's Code" now....my kindle is wonderful.

  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 471
    edited January 2011

    I've done something that I have NEVER done before.  I was reading a book and was more than half way through.  I began to like it less and less, so I decided to skip to the last page which told me everything I needed to know.   The best part was that I didn't feel guilty!!   On to "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet...

  • Kitchenwitch
    Kitchenwitch Member Posts: 80
    edited January 2011

    Wenreb, My mother (who taught me to love reading) always said life's too short to finish a book you don't like. She skipped to the end on occasion. One of her gifts to me was never feeling guilty for not finishing a bok. It's not a marriage vow!

    Happy new year, all, and I hope to be on here now and then. I finished "Still Alice" about a week ago - very sad, but beautiful and realistic portrait of woman with Alzheimer's. Think I will read something a little cheerier next.

  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 471
    edited January 2011

    Thanks Kitchenwitch for the reenforcement !!  Having cancer has made me start doing crazy things :>)

  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited January 2011

    I went to Costco today and picked up some new books and can't wait to get started on them.  I really think they have good prices there.  I got Gone for Food, The Broker, The Red Door, and Hannah's Dream... I know I like John Grisham,but the others I got just because they were a good price and the synopsis and comments on the cover made me think I would like them.  I have not yet started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo which I got for Xmas so I will be busy for awhile.  I am just now finishing Look Me in the Eye( am really enjoying it) since I got sidetracked with the Nora Ephron book ( was disappointed) .  Did not get Sarah's Key or The Help since someone I know said she would lend them to me. 

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,701
    edited January 2011

    'The Good Wives' just arrived, I believe I will like it very much Smile!

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited January 2011

    Layne - There was a little controversy after the New York Times published it's review of Proofiness.

     http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/books/review/Letters-t-PROOFINESS_LETTERS.html

     http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/books/review/Strogatz-t.html?_r=1&ref=review

    Please let us know how the book is.  Thanks.  I think there can never be enough books published about statistics.

  • AnneW
    AnneW Member Posts: 612
    edited January 2011

    wenweb, I'm about in the middle of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. At first I thought I'd just give it up, but now I'm getting into it more. I'm finally starting to like it and have no clue where it's going to take me.

    WildRocky (love it, L!) take your time on that review. It'll be ages before I'll ever get to it!

    Anne

  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 471
    edited January 2011

    AnneW  Thanks for the heads up.  I've only been into reading books that I can totally get into and enjoy since my BC DX, and now some family stressors.  Luckily, I have only downloaded a sample of it onto my Kindle.  If I find myself unsure by the time I am done with the sample, then I'll get it from the library.

  • pattih
    pattih Member Posts: 31
    edited January 2011

    Marybe - I really enjoyed Look Me in the Eye. I have a son who may or may not have Aspergers - he tested low on the scale but that was several years ago. He has a lot of social problems and is obsessed with all things electric. Of course he won't read the book because I suggested it.  That is typical boy stubbornness. Anyway, I was fascinated with the viewpoint of the author as it it so very hard to understand a person with Aspergers. His explanation about not understanding why people wanted him to look at people in the eye really helped me back off from constantly telling my son to "Look Me in the Eye."

    I just read The Book Thief and Malcolm Gladwell's "What the Dog Saw."  WDS can be a hard read but I have the time. TBT I found in the young adult section but I think it is easily for adults also.

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited January 2011

    Pattih - Malcolm Gladstone's book, What the Dog Saw is terrific.  I went on his website and read most of his work that appeared in the New Yorker, which his book and his other books are based on.

    http://www.gladwell.com/archive.html

    I also read Look Me in the Eyes because I have a family member who has undiagnosed Asperger's Syndrome.  I admire the courage of the author at being so forthright and yet tender.  Despite his lack of emotional IQ, he did a splendid job of describing his life with Asperger's.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,701
    edited January 2011

    I liked  Eleanor and Franklin, What The Dog saw is fasinating & I will have to check out Look Me in the Eye. So many great books!!!!!

  • hbcheryl
    hbcheryl Member Posts: 4,164
    edited January 2011

    Marybe "Gone For Good" is my all time favourite Harlan Coben it is such a twister/turner I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

  • arby
    arby Member Posts: 27
    edited January 2011

    My all time favorite series was by Dee Henderson, an Orphan series with lots of current day action.  ALso Dorothy Gilman's Mystery series Mrs. Pollifax.....  Her books include intrique in foreign countries like China and Albania, Sicily, etc.  The star in all the adventures is a 65 yr old garden club devotee from New Jersey who is competent in karate and goes undercover for the CIA.  They are entertaining reads, good for a Sunday afternoon. (the only fiction I've ever read twice!)  A couple of the stories were combined into a made for tv movie with Angela Lansbury. I even used one of the stories to launch a home school project with my son.  I like fiction that offers a geography lesson.  Thomas Cahill writes thoughtful, captivating history.  I always get his latest books at Barnes and Noble.  This is a great ideas exchange! Thanks you all for many wonderful suggestions. 

  • bookart
    bookart Member Posts: 210
    edited January 2011

    Ditto on the Thomas Cahill - wasn't he the one that wrote How the Irish Saved Civilization?  good book.

  • jelson
    jelson Member Posts: 622
    edited January 2011

    Sue Townsend, author of the Adrian Mole series as well as several other great (mostly funny) books is talking on the Guardian's book club - you can listen and if more savvy than me, download? here

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2011/jan/10/sue-townsend-adrian-mole-book-club

    I am going to listen later today!

    Julie E

  • crusader1
    crusader1 Member Posts: 114
    edited January 2011

    Hi Ladies,

    Just read One Good Dog by Susan Wilson..Anyone read it? A really great read...I so enjoyed it. It was for my book club at a local library.Usually the librarian picks out books that are not that good. This was terrific.Interesting book.One chapter the man talks and the next the dog does.

    I will now read The History of Love. Has anyone read it?

    Happy New Year to all,

    Hugs,

    Francine

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited January 2011

    Just finished Fannie's Last Supper:

    http://www.fannieslastsupper.com/

    It's all about cooking during the Victorian Age and THE Victorian Age in Boston.  If you can get through the chapter on lobster without cringing, the chapter on brain balls will keep you wanting to read more!

    Before that, I read As Always, Julia... about Julia Child and her friendship with Alva DeVoto.  I hate cooking and have to say, I love reading about her!

    Started reading Swallow over the weekend and Surprise!  The New York Times wrote a review about the book yesterday as well!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/health/11swallow.html

    I also have a library copy of Good Wives.  Started skimming it!

    Also, is anyone following the controversy stirred by Amy Chua regarding her book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother?  She wrote an article in Saturday's Wall Street Journal about her Asian style of parenting:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html

    OMG!

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited January 2011

    Here's a little snippet about Chua's book and the controversy:

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/12/tiger-mother-chinese-parenting

    And, according to this article, we could look forward to a wonderful year of controversal books!  YIPPEE!  I can't wait!Kiss

  • retrievermom
    retrievermom Member Posts: 321
    edited January 2011

    Voracious:

    Thanks for posting this.  I was listening to her on Diane Rehm this morning, but didn't hear much.  Sounds really good.

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited January 2011

    retrievermom:

    Here's some more about Chua.

     http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/11/chinese-vs-western-mothers-q-a-with-amy-chua/

    Meanwhile what did she say?  I wonder with all of the controversy if her book hits the NY Times best sellers list next week when it's published.

  • retrievermom
    retrievermom Member Posts: 321
    edited January 2011

    I didn't get to hear much of the interview.  Got to work, darn it.  I just made a request that my library order the book.  This is of personal interest, since I have an Asian SIL, and my whole family wonders why my bro and SIL aren't "harder" on their kids.  We stereotype.  SIL doesn't disparage her own tough upbringing, but doesn't follow it, either--except violin & piano, and after-school math practice. 

    Which sort-of leads me to my most recent book:  The other mother by Gwendolen Gross.  The story is told in two voices--the stay-at-home mom of three (happy, harried, loving) and the new mom who is anxious to return to work (but torn).  The author does not come down on either side, and the story is engrossing.

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited January 2011

    http://thedianerehmshow.org/audio-player?nid=13578

    Retrievermom:  I'm listening to Diane Rehm's show now.

  • jelson
    jelson Member Posts: 622
    edited January 2011

    well, I am not at all sure about her child-rearing methods, but I did enjoy her book. World on Fire - How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability!!!

    and I wish Diane Rehms was carried by my local public radio station, I listen to her on Sirius Radio in the car - what a wonderful interviewer she is!

    Julie  E

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696
    edited January 2011

    Jelson - Click on the link that I provided -- I'm listening to the show from NPR.

  • carol1949
    carol1949 Member Posts: 48
    edited January 2011

    I like Susan Howatch's Cashelmara and almost anything be her.  I loved Fortune's Rocks who I think is by Anita Shreve.  Kristin Hannah's Firefly Lane is a beautiful girlfriends's story and also I enjoyed Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks.

    I also like biographies.  I picked up a real interesting book called Uncle Mame  about Patrick Dennis, author of Auntie Mame.  Quite enlightening and interesting there also.

    Better read the classics by Mark Twain because they are releasing new versions without the original language Mark Twain used.  It is so unfortunate that it is not sufficient for people to understand that history is just that!  Why rewrite history?  That is how people spoke back then.  I bet it was better than the profanity used today in the movies!

  • revkat
    revkat Member Posts: 122
    edited January 2011

    I heard the editor of the new versions of Mark Twain interviewed on NPR. He has no desire for these editions to replace the originals. He is a Twain scholar and understands all about the context, history, etc. As a Twain scholar he wanted to help school librarians and teachers keep Twain's work in the schools (Huckleberry Finn is one of the top censored books by school boards). He made the revisions in order to provide a possible alternative for schools. The introduction to the book clearly explains what has been changed and why. He's not trying to rewrite history, but to prevent one word from keeping the entire story out of the curriculum in many school districts.

    I would not like for my child to be the only (or one of a few) child of color in a classroom while the class read aloud a book where the word n***** was repeated 219 times. On the other hand, at home my kids can read anything they want and we talk about it.

    It's only an alternative edition,not a replacement. 

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