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gumpbowl
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161st Post Tue Feb 5th, 2008 05:04 am | |
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| Good luck with it.
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stemyn
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162nd Post Tue Feb 5th, 2008 05:31 am | |
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| Finished reading The Appeal last night. Okay to a point.
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Benbrook Susie
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163rd Post Tue Feb 5th, 2008 07:12 am | |
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For the past 3 election cycles, I've been seriously tempted to write-in Jack Ryan for president............... 
Oh, I'm currently reading Larry Miller's Spoiled Rotten America, a collection of cranky essays ---- his description, not mine ---- I would call them witty, clever, insightful, and laugh-out-loud-worthy.  Got a new vocabulary word from him I can't wait to try out in over in Word Game.
Last edited on Tue Feb 5th, 2008 07:16 am by Benbrook Susie
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albertmorris
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164th Post Tue Feb 5th, 2008 08:37 pm | |
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Benbrook Susie wrote: For the past 3 election cycles, I've been seriously tempted to write-in Jack Ryan for president...............
Oh, I'm currently reading Larry Miller's Spoiled Rotten America, a collection of cranky essays ---- his description, not mine ---- I would call them witty, clever, insightful, and laugh-out-loud-worthy. Got a new vocabulary word from him I can't wait to try out in over in Word Game.
I like Larry Miller a lot....he is one funny guy!
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165th Post Tue Feb 5th, 2008 10:49 pm | |
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| agreed
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albertmorris
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166th Post Thu Feb 7th, 2008 11:47 pm | |
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Read an excellent book yesterday....Snow by Orhan Panuk....started and could not put it down.....highly recommend....
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Benbrook Susie
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167th Post Fri Feb 8th, 2008 07:29 am | |
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Okay, now I'm reminded of The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. I don't own a copy............must visit the Children's Section at the library soon. 
And a Simpsons episode I happened to flip through this week had a take-off on Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are.
I gotta reread Where the Sidewalk Ends ( present from my fellow Education Major roommate when we were at UT ).
This board often evokes images of Shel Silverstein and the other two authors mentioned...........
Thanks for the tangential trip down memory lane, Albert.
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FORpattieNEY
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168th Post Fri Feb 8th, 2008 02:59 pm | |
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albertmorris wrote: Read an excellent book yesterday....Snow by Orhan Panuk....started and could not put it down.....highly recommend....
Putting it on 'the list'.....been in a book "drought" lately, so I'm due for a "can't put it downer"......
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albertmorris
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169th Post Fri Feb 8th, 2008 04:25 pm | |
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Benbrook Susie wrote:
And a Simpsons episode I happened to flip through this week had a take-off on Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are.
This board often evokes images of Shel Silverstein and the other two authors mentioned...........
Thanks for the tangential trip down memory lane, Albert.
Where the Wild Things Are - a forgotten memory of reading to son....thanks.....
"tangential" - There is a reason why I always read your posts!
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Burley Glen
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170th Post Tue Feb 12th, 2008 01:52 am | |
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Ric wrote: Ludlum was always too..... detailed for my taste....
it's OK, I balance it out with anything Janet Evanovich writes...
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171st Post Tue Feb 12th, 2008 04:11 am | |
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| Ha!
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stemyn
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172nd Post Wed Feb 13th, 2008 08:52 am | |
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Burley Glen wrote: Ric wrote: Ludlum was always too..... detailed for my taste....
it's OK, I balance it out with anything Janet Evanovich writes...
How is her stuff? Is there another author you would compare her to? I have thought about looking at some of her stuff, just never done it.
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Benbrook Susie
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173rd Post Wed Feb 13th, 2008 08:57 am | |
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Janet's stuff is formulaic but highly entertaining.
You could start off with the Stephanie Plum series ( easy to tell the order ---- the first one has "One" in the title, the 2nd has "Two" etc. ).
Or maybe start with Metro Girl then Motor Mouth.
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klh6656
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174th Post Wed Feb 13th, 2008 01:31 pm | |
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| Evanovitch is a little too light for me. Not surprising since I like the blood & guts, spare no characters author Karin Slaughter...
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marti
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175th Post Thu Feb 14th, 2008 02:19 am | |
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| Did you read Karin's last book? I didn't cause it got such a bad review. Usually she writes such wickedly good gross books!
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klh6656
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176th Post Thu Feb 14th, 2008 04:25 am | |
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| I like intense thrillers, which hers tend to be. Ummm, I can see why people got all bent about the last book - and it's not her best - but I wouldn't skip it. I'm just waitin' for the next one. I'm not saying she's the BEST writer on the planet - just one of the most thrilling and high on entertainment value if you tend toward the extreme.
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FORpattieNEY
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177th Post Thu Feb 14th, 2008 03:26 pm | |
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klh6656 wrote: Evanovitch is a little too light for me. Not surprising since I like the blood & guts, spare no characters author Karin Slaughter...
I just started my first Karin Slaughter last night.....Kisscut....
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marti
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178th Post Fri Feb 15th, 2008 01:49 am | |
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so,K, KS latest book is worth buying?
oh, I Janet Evanovitch....makes me lol.
I'll go from an intense thriller to her and back to blood and gore!
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marti
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179th Post Fri Feb 15th, 2008 01:51 am | |
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so,K, KS latest book is worth buying?
oh, I Janet Evanovitch....makes me lol.
I'll go from an intense thriller to her and back to blood and gore!
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klh6656
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180th Post Fri Feb 15th, 2008 02:41 am | |
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FORpattieNEY wrote: klh6656 wrote: Evanovitch is a little too light for me. Not surprising since I like the blood & guts, spare no characters author Karin Slaughter...
I just started my first Karin Slaughter last night.....Kisscut....
I can't remember the titles (that one was particularly gruesome, though, if I remember right). I love Lena - she's such a freaking MESS! Give me a complex, imperfect, angst-ridden character any day. There are so many mysteries/police procedurals where the heroine's are either air-heads or have huge STICKS up their asses.
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