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Sat Mar-27-10 11:04 PM
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What are you reading the week of March 28, 2010? |
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Eagle Catcher by Margaret Coel
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Sat Mar-27-10 11:07 PM
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1. "The Double Bind" by Chris Bohjalian |
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Sat Mar-27-10 11:08 PM
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2. 'Baby Driver' by Jan Kerouac--(daughter of Jack) |
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Sat Mar-27-10 11:17 PM
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3. The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition) |
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Audiobook - am totally hooked on Audio reading. Can do other things at the same time.
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Sat Mar-27-10 11:17 PM
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4. Rodale's Low-Maintenance Gardening Techniques. It is pretty good |
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if you are somewhat new at gardening.
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Sat Mar-27-10 11:27 PM
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5. The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz nt |
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Sat Mar-27-10 11:55 PM
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6. I've been trying to start "Tell Me Your Dreams" by Sidney Sheldon |
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since forever!
If I get it started and finished this week, I'll let you know how it is.
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Sun Mar-28-10 12:56 AM
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7. I'm re-reading, actually. |
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"The Art of Eating," by M.F.K. Fisher. Not truly fiction, but not truly fact, either. Every so often I need to re-absorb this one. This every-so-often happens to be now...
In the fiction milieu, I'm also reading the final installment of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, which I managed to avoid for over 20 years. Not sure why I avoided it...
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Sun Mar-28-10 03:52 AM
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8. Howard Hughes and His Flying Boat |
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Quite an amazing fellow, that Hughes.
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Sun Mar-28-10 05:49 AM
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9. "Children of the Company" by Kage Baker |
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Sun Mar-28-10 07:39 AM
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10. Have to wait until my housework is done today, but |
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Tue Mar-30-10 05:51 PM
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16. I am now over 100 pages into River Wife |
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and it is very good. I'm enjoying it immensely! :hi:
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Sun Mar-28-10 09:48 AM
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11. "The Mapping of Love and Death" by Jacqueline Winspears |
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Sun Mar-28-10 12:38 PM
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12. "Watching Walter Cronkite" by Austin Ken Kutscher |
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Sun Mar-28-10 10:00 PM
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14. I'm going to finish "And Another Thing" Book Six of |
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Edited on Sun Mar-28-10 10:04 PM by vixengrl
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which I actually find I am liking. I wasn't familiar with Eoin Colfer and was worried that I'd just really not like it because, you know, he's not Douglas Adams and what the heck is he doing? But actually the characters don't feel weird in the "Kermit has a new voice" way, and his sense of humor is along the same preposterously imaginative vein. There seem to be a bit too many intrusions of the Galctic footnote sort, but I'm really not disliking it.
One of my excursions this week was this big old Discount Book Warehouse--god I love these things. I don't know if every locale has them--it's where an empty department store like a Bradlees or a Value City gets turned into a paradise of dirt-cheap books? I've got a compilation of essays from George Orwell--Facing Unpleasant Facts. The older I get, the more I like Orwell. I also found Daniel Dennet's Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Samantha Power's Chasing the Flame, Yossef Bodansky's The High Cost of Peace and Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran. I'll probably have less time for reading, so that list is like, my month of April--but I'll have to squeeze some sf in to keep from getting too serious.
My hubby got books on gardening and recipees for garden veggies--I sense projects for the "urban farm" might also be in my future.
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Tue Mar-30-10 10:10 AM
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15. The Dresden Files #6 ... |
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Tue Mar-30-10 09:32 PM
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17. Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo. n/t |
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Tue Mar-30-10 09:55 PM
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19. How are you liking it? |
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I read it a couple of years ago and am curious as to how others feel about it.
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Tue Mar-30-10 10:48 PM
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20. I tried reading it a few months ago... couldn't finish it. |
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Among the worst, most boring books I've ever attempted to read.
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Wed Mar-31-10 01:00 PM
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24. I'm about a quarter of the way through... |
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I really like it so far because of his writing style and character development...but it's moving a bit slow and I haven't figured out where it's going.
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Tue Mar-30-10 09:54 PM
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Winter Study.
I really like her books. Not only are they good mysteries but I always learn learn something about our National Parks. This one has terrifc descriptions of wolves.
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Wed Mar-31-10 06:37 AM
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21. "Private Patient" by PD James |
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Wed Mar-31-10 09:34 AM
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22. DOWN TO THE WIRE by David Rosenfelt |
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Fast-moving mystery that holds my interest - AFTER I got used to the idea that there were NO DOGS in this story. I've read all of Rosenfelt's books to date, and they were ALL about dogs. That's the main reason I keep up with him....
Oh well, he has a doggie book coming out in August...
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Wed Mar-31-10 10:25 AM
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23. The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer by David Goldblatt |
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An astonishing work. Goldblatt traces the history and development of the game in different countries and regions from a political and economic perspective. Absolutely brilliant.
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Wed Mar-31-10 09:17 PM
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25. Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver. |
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I really like Jefferey Deaver's stuff.
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Thu Apr-01-10 11:12 PM
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26. "The Queen of Bedlam" by Robert McCammon.... |
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Set in New York circa 1703...
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Sun Apr-04-10 07:29 AM
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29. This sounds really interesting, |
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as does the one preceding it. I may check these out after I finish the next round from the library. :hi:
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Mon Apr-05-10 11:01 PM
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33. You won't regret it...."Speaks the Nightbird" is an excellent look at claims of witchcraft.... |
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in colonial America. The author really helps me "see" the time period he writes of. There's a third book in the series "Mister Slaughter" which I'm greatly looking forward to.
McCammon's horror is pretty good too. "Boy's Life" is a good read, similar to Stephen King's "It" and "Swan's Way" is close in theme to "The Stand".
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Thu Apr-29-10 09:19 PM
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34. I just requested "Speaks the Nightbird" |
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Edited on Thu Apr-29-10 09:50 PM by hippywife
from my library. Really looking forward to a new author. Thanx for the rec. :hi:
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Fri Apr-02-10 10:19 PM
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27. A few weeks ago, I picked up a book that contains all three of Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials |
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I had read The Golden Compass and enjoyed it, so now I've started on the second story, after a gap of about a year.
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Sat Apr-03-10 09:38 PM
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28. THE LAST WITNESS by K.J. Erickson |
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Moves along, not bad . . .
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Mon Apr-05-10 10:19 AM
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30. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing |
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Mon Apr-05-10 03:39 PM
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31. The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson. |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.
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