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Old 02-14-2009, 03:12 PM   #1351
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SPOOK by Mary Roach. I liked her STIFF. Was hilarious - about what they do with 'donated to medical science/medical schools' bodies. Some of us will end up at the Body Farm, some of us will be in vehicle safety testing...some of us will be getting posthumous facelifts...
I liked that too. what's Spook like?
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Old 02-15-2009, 11:41 PM   #1352
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Indian Captive - Lois Lenski

1942 Newbery Honor book for older children. It's the story of a captive of the Seneca around the time of the French and Indian Wars. Dated, but more sensitive than one would expect. I did find myself wanting to know more than just her first two or three years with the tribe.

#6 The Ersatz Elevator - Lemony Snicket
#8 The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket

Terribly fun. Thank you mysterious stranger who abandoned them in my mailroom. I hope the library stocks them.
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Old 02-16-2009, 08:24 AM   #1353
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A Clash of Kings - George R R Martin.
That was recommended to me yesterday. Looks like I should get on board.
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Old 02-16-2009, 12:57 PM   #1354
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That was recommended to me yesterday. Looks like I should get on board.
Just in time: the long-awaited fifth book finally has a release date this fall.
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Old 02-16-2009, 01:36 PM   #1355
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Indian Captive - Lois Lenski

1942 Newbery Honor book for older children. It's the story of a captive of the Seneca around the time of the French and Indian Wars. Dated, but more sensitive than one would expect. I did find myself wanting to know more than just her first two or three years with the tribe.

#6 The Ersatz Elevator - Lemony Snicket
#8 The Hostile Hospital - Lemony Snicket

Terribly fun. Thank you mysterious stranger who abandoned them in my mailroom. I hope the library stocks them.
All mentioned have been burned through by my girls. The Snickets should all be in the library. They are wildly popular.

Maybe I should wait for Martin to close the cycle? I hate getting ahead of the author.
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Old 02-16-2009, 01:48 PM   #1356
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#10 The Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket

Continuing to be delightful. What other children's book series contains a direct reference to C.M. Kornbluth?
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Old 02-16-2009, 01:51 PM   #1357
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Old 02-17-2009, 12:57 PM   #1358
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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink.

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It deals with the difficulties of subsequent generations to comprehend the Holocaust; specifically, whether a sense of its origins and magnitude can be adequately conveyed solely through written and oral media. This question is increasingly at the center of Holocaust literature in the late 20th and early 21st century, as the victims and witnesses of the Holocaust die and its living memory begins to fade.
Because it has been made into a movie starring Kate Winslet, it's everywhere. Mom loaned it to me. I'm only about halfway through but it's very interesting.
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Old 02-17-2009, 01:49 PM   #1359
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The Reader was an Oprah Book.

momwolf decided she wanted it.

Outside of cookbooks, momwolf is not a terribly big reader. At least not a reader of linear stories. She's more of a browser than a reader. Wanders around a book, dipping into bits and pieces. I really need to get her books made of assemblages of little pieces, like the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, only with more content. She did like Do as I Say, Not as I Do.

So, anyway, she read The Reader and was unimpressed.

I read The Reader and was also unimpressed, but it was long enough ago that I don't remember all of the details. Probably got weirded out by the age disparity between the characters and the situation and all that.

I remember not liking it much.

I finished #11 The Grim Grotto - Lemony Snicket.

I need to get to the library for the rest of them, but I'll probably wait until after my conference.

Just started Another Life - Andrew Vachss.

Talk about contrast from what one last read ...
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Old 02-17-2009, 02:24 PM   #1360
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I am always apprehensive about Oprah books.

I tend to read more slice o' life type stories, paying close attention to writing style. I had no idea what this one was about...so I was like "oh..." when I started. Now I'm in part II at the trial, and I'm finding the story interesting. Not so much a great book, but keeps me interested. Of course, I was nodding out reading last night, so i probably missed something important.
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Old 02-17-2009, 02:28 PM   #1361
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wolf reads so much I swear she must work third shift.

I'm reading Confederacy of Dunces, The Last Madame (about Norma Wallace in the French Qtr) and Bre'r Rabbit.

I'm still in de souf.

Oh, when Oprah called White Oleander "liquid poetry" I knew she was an idiot.
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Old 02-21-2009, 01:49 PM   #1362
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wolf reads so much I swear she must work third shift.
Second, actually.

I don't get to do all that much reading at work, either. I'm lucky if I get in a page here or a page there, usually while I'm out on the veranda, attending to another important need.
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Old 02-22-2009, 10:33 AM   #1363
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The River Why? - D J Duncan
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The Siege of Vienna by John Stoye
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Old 02-22-2009, 11:21 AM   #1364
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Toward 2012: Perspectives on the New Age - Daniel Pinchbeck, ed.
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Old 02-22-2009, 11:59 AM   #1365
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How are things looking for 2012? Do I need to put up more goat fence?
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