Book Lovers Club
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I heard Radium girls was good. Agree?
Since finishing my last book I paused to work on magazines and newspapers. Not sure of my next one yet.
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The Radium Girls was an excellent read.
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It was. Very eye opening and sad what happened to those women.
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I'll definitely add this to my list.
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A little bit of a side note to the Radium Girls. I live where the Waterbury Clock Company which in time became Timex operated. There is a street in the town which was never renamed but is also known as the Radium Girls Memorial Highway.
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In my latest Lit. Class I have to take for my final term for school, we have to do an analytical paper on the themes in an American novel written after 1945 by an American author that leads into a loss of innocence. The novel I chose is Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple”. I am already working on the paper even though it doesn’t get turned in until week 6. Only has to be 8-10 pages and I’m already on page 2. Also have to do a slide presentation based on the paper.
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Good for you mommy. I should probably re-read that book. Now I'll be thinking about "loss of innocence".
I just finished re-reading Dune. It first came out in 1965 and I read it within a year. Obviously 50 years later, it was an entirely different experience. Some interesting comments related to our current AI debate. I'm always open to re-reading.
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Minus, that one is one of my favorites. Have you ever read Ready Player One by Ernest Cline? That book is full of nostalgia for all things from the 80s
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mOmmy - thanks for the recommendation. I'll look for Ready Player One.
Has anyone read The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store? I see it has been chosen by several book clubs.
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I like that title, Minus. I need to make a note of it.
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Carole - let me know if you get to it before I do.
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I'll note both recommendations! Currently reading the biography of Billy Joel by Fred Schruers. I had no idea his family was so impacted by the holocaust, and by extension him and his body of work.
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No power for the last 6-1/2 days. I've been reading Val McDermid. Way to escape/
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Yikes! Hope it comes back on soon! I have been mostly reading for research, and the last couple books I've read for fun have been duds, so I can't recommend them.
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Power back - thanks Ruth.
I still usually read several books a week, but nothing monumental here. One that will keep you up all night is Harlen Coben's The Stranger. Now I need to catch up with my magazines again. really like reading The Atlantic, Harpers & The Smithsonian, as well as regional monthly magazines like Arizona Highways, New Mexico and Hawaii. I like exploring the new thoughts & ideas & changes. But I still have a daily paper thrown in my driveway - from which I don't always learn anything valuable.
It's coming up on the 1st Saturday again for the library warehouse book sale. I'll be absent and registering residents for our community pool - which is a good thing since I managed to snag 22 books in May that I haven't opened yet.
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I read Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain while I was in chemo. It's about a tuberculosis sanitarium in the Alps, and even though it was written in the early 20th century, it has some very relevant reflections on illness, death, medical science, love, friendship and time. It's a demanding read, but well worth it.
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Was going to buy the book for the Color Purple so I could do some quoting of important passages to represent the themes in the book I had chosen, but I decided to save a little money and check it out from my local library.
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A friend had an extra ticket & invited me to an Ephron play tomorrow - "Love , Loss and What I Wore". It opened off-broadway in 2008 - written by Nora & Delia Ephron. If you haven't read Nora Ephron's books - these two will make your day: "I Feel Bad About my Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman" (2006), " I Remember Nothing: & other Reflections" (2010). I was so sad when Nora died at age 71.
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I loved both those books!
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Reading a Jodi Piccoult. She's always a good read but I can't remember the name of this one & too lazy to get up & find out. More tomorrow.
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Reading Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 by R. A. Scotti about the Hurricane of 1938 that devastated New England. My step-grandmother was eight when it hit and she told me stories about it.
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It's always interesting to read about things that relatives or friends actually talked about.
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Just finished a lovely little book - "No Promises in the Wind" by Irene Hunt (1970). It's about two brothers who go "on the road" in the 1930's great depression because their family has no money to feed them. Angry, hungry people crossing the country trying to find work & food that my Mother would have called "hobos". But lots of kindness too.
Hunt also wrote "Across Five Aprils", which I read many years ago & I think is still on my shelf.
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Definitely would like to read the Hunt book. My parents stories of the great depression were gut wrenching at times. For many, the crucible of resilience. Thanks Minus.
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Reader - the oldest brother in the book is only 15 so it really pulls your heart strings. My parents also told me stores of the great depression. They certainly had grit to live through that.
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Finished the book on the ‘38 Hurricane. Was a very interesting read.
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Mommy I might pick that up also. 1938 was tough in so many ways historically then a hurricane. Wow.
Reading Lisa Jewell "None of this is True." Always gripping, and this one is delivering so far.
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It’s a very good book.
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Recently got a couple of books I can’t wait to get into. Got the books Minnesota Hauntings and Spooky Wisconsin. Plus I ordered a copy of the first book in John Jakes’s “The Kent Family Chronicles” from Amazon. Really enjoyed the first three books of the series when I read them as a teen, but Icould not really get into the fourth book or finish the series, but this time I’m gonna get the whole series and read them all. Will pick all of these up after I finish crocheting the border on my niece’s blanket.
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