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Has anyone read Prisoner of Tehran? Awesome book and I totally recommend it. My hubby bought me a Kindle e-reader for Xmas and I'm so excited! I must download some books!! Keep the reviews coming!!
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Bossypants by Tina Fey. A fun read.
Blue Nights by Joan Didion - thank for the recommends. It's a beautiful tribute.
I'm trying to decide what to start for New Year'e Eve. Has anyone read DeMille's The Lion? It's that or Katherine Graham's Personal History. Anyone read that one?
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Minustwo- I haven't read either- sorry.
Kim - I read Prisoner of Tehran and liked it alot too. Have you read Secret Daughter?
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finally finally finally..
my husband has unpacked the books, cleared out the basement and built shelves. I've been in a reading slump.. not really finding anything that attracted me. However, a couple days ago, i found a Willa Cather book I had not read and all the books that we do have. I just love her writings.
so now I am reading 3 short stories by her about old people called 'Obscure Destinies.. three stories of the West.. I'm on number two.
,,,, and looking forward to some wonderful re- reading for January.
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Apple....Mazel Tov!
Now, let me ask you a stupid question. Are the books arranged in any order? 0 -
I think so voraciousreader..... kind of a Dewey decimal system order. I'll show some pictures soon..
a den for the boys also emerged down there, with weights, a radio system, a cot and more bookshelves. I suppose I'll have to clean that too.
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OOOOHHHH.... a library AND a Man Cave!
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Laurie - I have read Secret Daughter and I absolutley loved that too! I just downloaded The Dovekeepers as it came so highly recommeneded! Looking forward in reading it!
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I had been on the library waiting list for The Dovekeepers forever. When my name finally came up, it was right before or after Christmas and with all the goings on, I forgot to pick it up. So now I'm at the end of the line ~~ #135 out of 139!! I think I'll download it to my Kindle for our ski trip next month otherwise it might be Spring before my name comes up at the library again.
Laurie, if you like it, I know I will like it. I'm still working on Cutting for Stone.
Gina
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Happy New Year everyone... enjoyed reading all the dogs as I'm thinking about getting a puppy!
So, I went back a ways but I didn't see if anyone has read The Imortal Life of Henrietta Laks ?
I might have spelled the last name incorrectly. Supposed to read it for Book Club and I still haven't acutally downloaded a book to my Kindle even though I got it on Black Friday! Actually not even sure how but need to get reading for book club. I've been reading Strong Medicine and The Bolyn Inheritance - both are fine but neither are just fabulous so hoping for something fabulous!
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Gina- that is very sweet! I am hoping to sit down and get into the book this week- I've been too distracted lately to read.
Stanzie- I read The Life of Henrietta Lacks, it was pretty good, I liked the life better then the medical talk. Where we have knowledge of cancer and treatment it is interesting, especially since we know the drugs etc. I'm glad I read it. Pushed through in a couple of places and was well rewarded, its a good book.
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Good morning, Readers, I have been really bad about reading lately....just too much going on with getting ready for the holidays, but when I have time and wake up in the middle of the night I have been slowing plowing through the Game of Thrones series. I was going to wait before going on with any of the other books until after watching another season of the series on TV, but had been reading some books that I really did not enjoy as much as the lst one so decided to get on with it. I just really like the characters and as with most things I read become involved with them and start wondering what is going on with them. I just saw where someone is reading Cutting for Stone again and that really was an excellent book IMHO.....but it really is true, it was a love it or hate it book.
I do want to get the book you had discussed a page or so back My Dog Tulip. Also I saw where it was said that someone should start a thread about pets for animal lovers....there is one that I started a few years ago and there are a lot of women on their sharing their favorite pet stories and how much the have enriched their lives and helped them through the rough times....it is called Pets are Good Therapy.
I made a trip to MI for my birthday this past month and revisited the town that my mother and maternal grandmother were raised in. They had a really great bookstore there with a huge selection of reading material as well as a coffee shop/tea room attached and a lot of rather unique gifts that pertained to books. I got some really cute magnetized book marks there for some of my friends. I was happy to find a nice thriving book shop since so many of the larger ones have been closing up here in Cincy....Borders, Barnes & Noble, Walden......some stayed open, but they have cut down on their locations. Even if I am not buying, I just love looking at books.
I "think" (say think because I keep finding reasons to put it off) I am going to finally sign up for SS this month, either the regular one since I hit 62 or the disability as my onco keeps telling me I should do and IF I do then I am going to be looking for a lot of the recommendations I have seen on here. And heath permitting, then I will have time to do all the reading I want to do.....just have to be sure not to break my glasses as poor Burgess Meredith did in that Twilight Zone episode.
Happy Reading in 2012. It was so great that our dear KonaKat started this thread.
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I just finished 'After America' by Mark Steyn. He is a riot. I love his dry wit. Another really fast read was 'Zero Day' by David Baldacci. And also 'The Best of me' by Nicholas Sparks. Love his books.
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I was just thinking when I logged on this morning how sad it is that KK is not with us.We all miss her so much. Many of us share her passion for reading and beaches.
Keep those book reviews comming ladies.Happy new year.
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yeah.. i agree mumayan..... i do LOVE it tho that her smiling face beams from these pages on this thread.
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{{KK}}
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Laurie08: read and thoroughly enjoyed The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Although, towards the last 2 or 3 chapters I was getting bored with her descendants' constant complaints, whining, etc. But I highly recomend it.
I just started "Destiny of the Republic", a book about President Garfield. It received great reviews on multiple websites. I hated history in high school & college, but now I find myself reading historical non-fiction. I'm actualy enjoying hisory, as long as it is well-written and not just a bunch of dry facts. Coming from a fantasy and mystery lover, that's saying alot. I've enjoyed all of Erik Larson's books except "The Devil in the White City". His newest one about the rise of Hitler is next on my list.
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Scrabble, I just finished 'Destiny' and really enjoyed it and have read the Hitler book too (In the Garden of the Beasts)...very well done.
Here is a really sweet, tear-jerking read: The Art Of Racing In The Rain by Garth Stein
Musings on the meaning of love, life, family, and friendship that lasts through time as narrated by the (very profound) family dog. The only warning I would give is that one of the sub-plots deals with a family member's cancer; if reading 'cancer-themed' books bothers you, then it would be a hard read, otherwise it is really lovely.
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Just got Secret Sister and looking forward to reading it! My son got me Jack Kennedy a bio by Chris Mathews. I am liking it very much! Keep reading sisters! xo
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liked Jack too.
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Next week I am going to a book signing by Chris Matthews in NJ. Planning to pick it up and read it then.
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Cool! I love Chris Matthews and am watching him right now on TV.
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Where is the book signing, Kay, Maybe I could meet you there!
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It's sponsored by Michael smirconish, it's part of his book club. It costs $20, 7 pm on jan. 19 in collingswood. I can find more info for you if you want. My DH is actually a much bigger reader than i am. He heard about it on smirconish's radio program. He's a big fan of hard ball. I am still kind of struggling with attention span when I'm reading. Easy reads are fine, but I keep getting lost on more complicated books. I think it's still chemo brain. I don't think i'll have a problem with the JFK book since I will be familiar with it.
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If you like Joan Didion, which I do, or maybe even if you don't like her - there is a terrific article by Caitlin Flanagan in the Jan/Feb issue of the Atlantic titled "The Autumn of Joan Didion" - subtitled "The Writer's Work is a Triumph - and a Disaster". It's not available on line yet, but it looks like eventually the entire magazines are available. It's a dynamite article and eventually she even gets around to talking about Blue Nights. I'll try to remember to post the link down the road.
Just finished reading The Great Gatsby. I hated in in high school so I can see how much I've changed in 50 years. Love the last sentence with it's double meaning about the future: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Next up is Madame Bovary, which I never read. It's so much fun to dip into these age old books in my old age. (forgive the word play)
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Oh & Kay1963 - Happy Birthday although I think most of the wishes were on a different thread.
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minustwo- LOVE the Great Gatsby, I've read it many times. Perhaps I should read it again....it's been years now. Try Chris Bohjalain Double Bind, has a Great Gatsby element to it.
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Recently re-read Gatsby again for my Book Club. I had forgotten what a wonderful artist Fitzgerald was. I felt that Gatsby was a painting of words.0
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Happy Birthday, Kay1963. Is this your first annual 49th?0
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Thank Laurie. I've been meaning to try Double Bind as a friend's book club read it & told her to re-read Gatsby.
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