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M0mmyof2 I think I read 1984. I say think because I remember the basic plot, but not enough to recall it all. Gong to get Animal Farm as well.
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I had a really tough time understanding it when I had to read it in Senior English in High school. Wasn't until I picked it up in my 20's that I finally understood it. When I had to take Lit and Comp for my 1st degree I did a paper on 1984. I wrote about the political theme in the book and how it was similar to the Soviet Union back in the Cold War days. My professor was impressed by my paper. Ended up with an A
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hi all and welcome lovepugs77. Glad to have your voice here. I don't have a Kindle so no recs 4u.
M0mmy, I think there are many things we understand better with perspective of age & experience. :-)
Took Monday off work due to snow and read Death on the Prairie by Kathleen Ernst. Good book! Also very twisty. Didn't realize it was #6 in a series until I'd finished it, but that didn't detract from the readability. BTW, the author lives in WI.
Chloe Ellefson and her sister, Kari, have long dreamed of visiting each historic site dedicated to Laura Ingalls Wilder. When Chloe takes custody of a quilt once owned by the beloved author, the sisters set out on the trip of a lifetime, hoping to prove that Wilder stitched it herself.
But death strikes as the journey begins, and trouble stalks their fellow travelers. Among the "Little House" devotees are academic critics, greedy collectors, and obsessive fans. Kari is distracted by family problems, and unexpected news from Chloe's boyfriend jeopardizes her own future. As the sisters travel deeper into Wilder territory, Chloe races to discover the truth about a precious artifact―and her own heart―before a killer can strike again.
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Welcome Lovepugs77. Stay warm to all those with awful snow.
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Am discovering the readers at new job. Brought in three books to share yesterday and brought one home.
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That's great, Badger!
I've got Owen Laukkanen's new book, The Forgotten Girls. It's a page-turner. Can't put it down.
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while reading r delderfield's romantic novel diana I've been thinking what the poet diane di prima has said/hinted in a love partnership what's important isn't race or money: it's class
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Re-reading the Harry Potter series
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bump for jcn16, hope you find us!
Still on the library waiting list for Hidden Figures and should have soon. Meantime I'm going to check out the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. Caught the last few shows of season 1 on cable TV and very interesting concept - a married World War II nurse who in 1945 finds herself transported back to the Scotland of 1743, where she encounters the dashing Highland warrior Jamie Fraser and becomes embroiled in the Jacobite risings. Season 2 starts this fall and I'd like to be read up by then. :-)
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fabulous books!! I've read them all
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Just finished The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe, 2007. Just before her death, Rosamond records all of her memories on tape, starting from her removal to Shropshire as a girl to escape the Blitz. Unexpected twists & turns of three generations of extended but distant family. I was left wondering about patterns recurring. Is there such a thing as 'the sins of the mother'? "...Coe exposes the profound reserves of hope and loss within the lives of ordinary women." It was a good read.
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Came across "The Last Don" by Mario Puzo in a thrift store recently. I read the book long ago and liked it. Can't wait until I get a chance to read it again.
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Thrift shop's great place for used books. Goodwill has paperbacks for fifty cents and hardcovers for a buck.
abigail, wow there are eight Outlander books! Another's in the works, titled Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. It's currently being researched and written per her website. Pub date unknown.
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thanks for the heads p. been trying to access the tv series on line so far no luck
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seven outlander stories to be released june 27th
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I go to Goodwill and another called Savers. The selection in Savers is much better than some of the Goodwill's around here
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Went to our Indie bookstore this afternoon to hear C.J. Box read from his new book Vicious Circle, and talk about his writing process & answer questions. What a personable, interesting man. He said his books are always motivated by an "issue" which he researches in depth, and then he outlines. They are always in current time. He knows other authors who's books are driven by a character. For those of you who haven't read any of his Joe Pickett novels, this is # 17. He said he didn't believe he'd ever see # 2. The protagonist is a game warden in Montana and his family.
He talked about Lee Child being a friend and sitting next to him at a signing. Everyone ask Child - 'why Tom Cruz?'. The real answer appears to be, otherwise there wouldn't have been a movie contract, but most readers are dismayed because Cruz just isn't Reacher. For that very reason, Box & his wife pulled out of a proposed TV series. It became evident they wanted the names but wouldn't keep fidelity with the plots or the characters. I like his integrity - and that of his character.
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minus....the Reacher character's name came from British, 6'6" Lee Child's wife!
"....Grant has said that he chose the name Reacher for the central character in his novels because he himself is tall and when they were grocery shopping his wife Jane remarked: "'Hey, if this writing thing doesn't pan out, you could always be a reacher in a supermarket.' ... 'I thought, Reacher — good name.'"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Child
The DH was also dismayed when he learned Tom Cruise bought the movie rights and cast himself...then again, how many actors in Hollywood are 6'6"? I can only think of a few...
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Well I finally finished The Devil's Banker. It was a great novel, really interesting, about terrorism and financing terrorism. I looked back in this thread and see I started it Feb 26th! I don't think I've ever taken a month to read a book lol. Been doin a lot more tv watching then book reading
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Trill posted this pic on another thread and knew I had to share here for VR. Not quite Patience and Fortitude, the famed New York Public Library lions, but nevertheless, this cat dreams big.
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badger! i love it!
patience, fortitude and ......serenity
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VR, I shared that pic with a cat-loving friend and her response was #goals :-)
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Add Philippa Gregory's "Three Sisters, Three Queens" to my must read soon list. Just got the book today and I caught my hubby leafing through it before I have a chance to read it
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I just read Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. It is very well reviewed, but I thought it was weird. It is set during the Mexican Revolution (which is rarely mentioned), and mixes recipes, magic, and a twisted family story. I had to start one of the chapters over three times before I realized that the reason it wasn't making sense was because it was taking place 22 years after the previous chapter!!! What I disliked the most about the book was, as far as I could tell, none of the characters GREW as human beings over the years of the story.
I also read Bobby Kennedy~The Making of a Liberal Icon by Larry Tye, which was as ponderous as it sounds, even for a history nut like me.
Next I think I will breeze through a mindless paperback I picked up at an airport (and I do mean picked up.....someone left it behind on the seat next to where I was sitting!).
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I'm reading Deadwatch by John Sandford. It's a break from his Lucas Davenport character. Starting out great. I'm going through some of my older books. It's amazing how technology has exploded these last 10 years. I like watching how it evolves over time with different authors. They now mention social media, dark web/internet etc. Before cell phones were the big thing.
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It is complete and total fluff, but I am enjoying the Spinster Series by Becky Monson. I've read "Thirty-Two Going On Spinster" and am about halfway through "Thirty-Three Going On Girlfriend". Nice mindless reading, and a good distraction.
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Just finished Dark Matter (2016) by Blake Crouch. It's a tale of the road(s) not taken, i.e. quantum physics and the multiverse. Quick and easy read.
FINALLY got to the top of the library list for Hidden Figures. Will walk downtown and pick it up today.
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saw an ad in The Wall Street Journal for Tom Nichols's book,The Death of Expertise and placed a library reserve on the book. I am racing through it and see some similarities with Eula Biss's On Immunity. The basic premise of both books is that those who are well educated ( more than anyone else) should have an obligation to respect experts' knowledge...of course,not carte blanche..as we all should have a healthy skepticism for "experts"... and for sure ...they are sometimes wrong...but....as a society we should have some respect for experts, otherwise it can potentially be a slippery slope....experts come in many shades, whether a professor or plumber, none of us could possibly know everything...but we clearly have some dependence on these individuals and need to TRUST them...Biss, also made this important point in trying to understand why the more highly educated parents were ...the more likely they were to reject vaccinating their children...Nichols also tries to understand and explain why....both authors offer similar explanations.
Both provocative and filled with great ideas....both books make clear that intelligent or not, we all are guilty of making mistakes of judgment and are getting worse and worse at it....
A good review of the book:
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/04/07/522992...
Another good book on a similar topic
https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/winte...
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Gentle Readers, note we let another thread anniversary slip by. Happy #7 and thank you Elizabeth! ♥
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Elizabeth. She would be so thrilled to find her thread still going strong!
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