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Post by Babs on Jul 28, 2009 22:01:19 GMT -5
Later, at the Bar sounds interesting!
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Post by justme on Aug 1, 2009 7:55:54 GMT -5
Just finished
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp - wonderful insight into someone's descent into alcoholism
If You Could Hear What I see by Kathy Buckley - the story of a hard of hearing commedienne - very inspirational
Baby Blues - Ten Years & Still in Diapers - made me laugh so hard one night my husband woke up and said (groggily), "you're shaking the bed!" I still couldn't stop. I still wonder how those guys get into my house for their material.
Now reading - Kathy - a storry about a girl who was hit by a car and lost use of her legs but recovered. So far, a really good read.
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Post by spastikcomma on Aug 3, 2009 7:33:25 GMT -5
I loved "Drinking: A Love Story." That was a fabulous book. I'm not alcoholic, but I do have some other problems that it was very helpful with.
I'm reading "Life of Pi" and I don't know why people went crazy over this book. It's ok, but I don't think it will change my life.
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Post by justme on Aug 3, 2009 10:58:39 GMT -5
Kathy was ok, a little trite - just skimmed the surface, I think. A "Hallmark"-type story!
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Post by Tookie on Aug 3, 2009 13:36:50 GMT -5
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing.
Story of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew who were stranded for two years while on an expedition in 1914 to the South Pole.
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Post by Babs on Aug 3, 2009 18:43:11 GMT -5
When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin. My sister-in-law loaned to me. Really good!
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Post by Babs on Aug 10, 2009 15:26:35 GMT -5
That was a very good book! Now I'm reading something Felix found for me on his shelves. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank. Takes place in Paris. This writer who lives in Paris walks by a piano shop and is mesermised by it. It is like a Babettes Feast of pianos. It's non fiction and not about men and women or courage, but just the enjoyment of music and beautiful pianos and the histories of individual ones. Sounds boring, but I have never owned a piano and can't play one, but I am half way through this since I started it this morning after working all night. I'm going back to read some more now. It is really that good!
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Aug 10, 2009 20:02:39 GMT -5
"Derailed" by James Seigel
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Post by spastikcomma on Aug 12, 2009 10:50:04 GMT -5
I ended up loving "Life of Pi". The ending is fantastik and I can't stop thinking about it.
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Post by el Gusano on Aug 21, 2009 1:12:01 GMT -5
Guess what I found in a used book store in Eagle River? An autographed copy of "Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way".
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Post by Babs on Aug 21, 2009 12:59:18 GMT -5
I read two James Patterson books this week-Beach House and something else I can't remember the name of. Really good books, but I'm looking for something a little deeper. I may re-read Watership Down. It's been about 20 years since I read it. I like the thought of going into "tharn".
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Post by Babs on Sept 7, 2009 16:01:27 GMT -5
Read Big Cherry Hollow. Sort of like a Bridges of Madison County. Just finished today Montana 1948 by Larry Watson. One of the best books I have ever read. Felix had it. He's re-reading now, as he read it so long ago, he has forgotten a lot of it. It's like To Kill A Mockingbird. The boy's dad is the sheriff of a small town, a position he doesn't use for a power trip. Something happens, and his own brother, a doctor, tells his nephew that a good sheriff sees some things and doesn't see others, and his daddy doesn't seem to know that.You can read it in a day or two. REALLY good. I didn't want to finish it so soon, but I couldn't help it.
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Post by spastikcomma on Sept 8, 2009 11:35:42 GMT -5
"The Magicians" by Lev Grossman. Really good not quite fairy tale for adults book.
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Post by Warkitty on Sept 29, 2009 13:36:27 GMT -5
Gus, GREAT book!
I've decided to re-read Call of the Wild and White Fang. Interesting how much I'm already getting out of it that I didn't get out of it when reading as a kid.
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Post by goomba on Sept 29, 2009 18:47:42 GMT -5
just started reading:
The American Satesmen Series : George Wahington, by Henry Cabot Lodge
first published in 1898
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Post by justme on Oct 5, 2009 11:40:27 GMT -5
Just finished
Centennial by James Michener (again).
Just started
The Magician's Nephew at my 12 year old's insistence.
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Post by el Gusano on Oct 5, 2009 13:41:58 GMT -5
Just finished "Marxism" by Thomas Sowell. Concise, yet complete, without having to wade through the entire thing again.
Reminds me how ironic that the result of Marxism is almost the opposite of the philosophy of Marxism. It's all about fear, envy, and greed, and fear and greed always have dire consequences.
Used to be that envy and greed were two of the deadly sins. Today, liberals have turned them into political virtues.
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Post by snarkalicious on Oct 7, 2009 10:56:15 GMT -5
The latest book in Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series, An Echo in the Bone
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Post by Babs on Oct 7, 2009 13:07:05 GMT -5
I'm on a James Patterson/Alex Cross binge.
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Post by SKB on Oct 20, 2009 8:24:40 GMT -5
Waking Up Screaming-HP Lovecraft stories.
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Post by Babs on Nov 3, 2009 17:37:24 GMT -5
Reading today's "Just Busted". It's amazing how you see some of the people we know in there!
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Post by Tookie on Nov 4, 2009 15:28:21 GMT -5
Where do you get those, Babs?
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Post by Babs on Nov 5, 2009 9:58:11 GMT -5
Convenience stores, Walgreens. They're one dollar.
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Post by Warkitty on Nov 17, 2009 12:13:36 GMT -5
Recently finished Dragon Champion by E. E. Knight. Now reading East of the Mountains by David Guterson
This current one is kinda raw. Protagonist has colon cancer, so he's decided to go east of the Cascades and end his own life. There's memories of his past and encounters with people in the present and.... well he ain't dead yet.
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Post by Babs on Nov 22, 2009 8:59:05 GMT -5
Cross Country by James Patterson. Love his books!
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Post by el Gusano on Nov 23, 2009 13:59:11 GMT -5
"The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy - If We Let It Happen" by Arthur B. Laffer Ph.D., Stephen Moorer, and Peter J. Tanous.
Very informative, yet written in an easily readable manner, even with some humor thrown in for good measure.
Should be required reading for high school students and anyone who wants to vote.
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Post by daworm on Nov 23, 2009 15:00:53 GMT -5
Just finished the first Tom Corbett Space Cadet book, and am now re-reading E.E. 'Doc' Smith's Skylark of Space.
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Post by Warkitty on Nov 24, 2009 22:25:23 GMT -5
Just finished Tim Dorsey's "Torpedo Juice" which had me thinking randomly of Longshot, now reading Carl Hiassen's "Nature Girl" to round out my Crazy Floridian Writer's mood.
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Post by okz on Nov 24, 2009 23:07:49 GMT -5
Just finished Tim Dorsey's "Torpedo Juice" which had me thinking randomly of Longshot, now reading Carl Hiassen's "Nature Girl" to round out my Crazy Floridian Writer's mood. Have you checked out Charles Willeford? He kinda started the whole strange mystery Florida stuff that Hiassen, Leonard, Dorsey and the others ran with. He wrote Miami Blues that the movie was based on. All great stuff. I'm on the new Jonathan Lethem book Chronic City, It's much better than his last one but they are all pretty good. www.jonathanlethem.com/index.html
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Post by spastikcomma on Nov 25, 2009 11:15:49 GMT -5
Just finished "Sharp Teeth" by Toby Barlow. It's a book about werewolves written in blank verse. I thought it sounded awful, but ended up not being able to put it down. A great book.
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