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cookieclaygirl
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 Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject: books! |
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read any good books lately?
i'm in a fiction phase atm. however just got 'the river of doubt' about t. roosevelt. very interesting. partially thru almost noon by alice sebold because i loved 'the lovely bones' by her. man, was that a powerful book. (and i am stuck on nora roberts atm...hehe)....
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Torgo
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I'm halfway though Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle again, for the third time... Amazing historical steampunk fiction. Hard going at times, dense prose and something like 4,000 pages over three books, but it really rewards the effort.
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Laughing Man
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:03 am Post subject: |
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right now I'm reading... Giants of the Earth, Crime and Punishment, Farwell to Arms, Kinky Lullaby, Conan the Barbarian #35-40, Death of the New Gods, and rereading Catcher and the Rye.... and Through the looking glass and Wonders of the Ancient World: national Geographic Atlas of Archaeology.... I'm kind of a.d.d. with books I jump around alot until i get far enough into one to finish one off in a sitting.
All of them are gems.
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cookieclaygirl
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| i'm the same w/books...i usually have about 8 going at once. i leave them in diff parts of the house so i can read if i am in that room. hehe. been in a nora roberts phase tho. from bukowski to roberts. hum. lolz....she's fun tho. i love sonya sanchez. isabel allende, alice walker, colleen mccollough. rosamund pilcher. oh....so many more. i could go on and on and on.... |
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ANON22
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:47 am Post subject: |
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| I recently read Green River Running Red, it was really good and I just saw on t.v. that they made a movie out of it. |
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mymouth
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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Lovely bones was a good book
Last I heard it was being made into a movie.
Frank McCourts Angelas Ashes and Tis are both great books
Afraid I haven't read good book lately actually haven't read any book lately. |
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Jo
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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I just read books 1-6 in the Patterson series about the women's murder club. Good books and light enough that you can whip through them in no time at all.
Currently reading Where the Sun Now Stands about the Nez Perce relationship with the encroaching whites; Velocity by Dean Koontz; The Delaware Indians - forget the author but its an exhaustive history; Lone Survivor by Marcus Latrell.
Do you all read the magazine Mental Floss? It is great. Lots of trivia and cool information and often leads on books that are super interesting. Also, there's a book magazine I've just started getting called Bas Bleu.
www.mentalfloss.com There is currently a hair band quiz you all might find interesting based on the Hair Band topic in the other thread.
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Jo
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| mymouth wrote: | Lovely bones was a good book
Last I heard it was being made into a movie.
Frank McCourts Angelas Ashes and Tis are both great books
Afraid I haven't read good book lately actually haven't read any book lately. |
You are right - lovely bones was fantastic. The movie is not due out until next year, but is supposed to have Mark Wahlberg in it - I hope he isn't the bad guy. Did you read the Almost Moon, also by Alice Sebold? It was good, but disturbing. I haven't read Lucky yet, but I plan to.
I couldn't read 'Tis after Angelas Ashes - I was too depressed!
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.45chel
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:21 am Post subject: |
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JO!!!!!!
Where the heck ya been??!!
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Jo
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| .45chel wrote: | JO!!!!!!
Where the heck ya been??!!
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Hi ya Chel!
I've been lurking  and keeping up on things, but didn't have much to contribute until this topic came up.
Also, trying to teach dh how to keep a low profile and out of the media spotlight - ha ha 
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.45chel
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Also, trying to teach dh how to keep a low profile and out of the media spotlight - ha ha |
HA!
Good luck with that. 
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.45chel
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If you wish to lurk. Lurk.
I just missed you, is all.
Let us know you're alive every once in awhile, okay?
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Jo
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| .45chel wrote: | If you wish to lurk. Lurk.
I just missed you, is all.
Let us know you're alive every once in awhile, okay? |
Okay, sure. I can do that.
Thanks for the good luck wishes, but I think I'll need more than luck. Maybe something like duct tape and 40 feet of sturdy rope! 
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cookieclaygirl
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hiya jo 
lurkers unite!
re: books...am reading a good nora roberts (high noon)....pretty interesting so far. alsot reading a belva plain and LOTS of books for work (all pretty boring to most i imagine...all on graphic design and its history and its theories..plus some drawing books too for classes....about 10 total) fun fun.. |
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Jo
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Hi Cookie -
Did you see in the news a few weeks back about Nora Roberts property in Boonsboro going up in flames? Bummer. Went to a wedding once where the bride was her niece. Only went to see her, didn't really know the couple, but was invited through work, so what the hell. Anyway, she didn't show up and all these people left early. Pretty crappy way to pack your church on your wedding day, huh?
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