Topic 2 of 57: What I'm reading right now

Mon, Nov 4, 1996 (07:56) | Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
What are you reading right now? What do you like/dislike about
it? Would you recommend it? How did you find out about it?
How far have you gotten into it?
367 responses total.


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 Response 1 of 367: Mika-Petri Lauronen  (Mixu) * Wed, Nov  6, 1996 (07:43) * 6 lines

Well, the book I am reading at the moment is not new - it is a leather bound
collection of all the Sherlock Holmes stories. I read them about 10 years
ago, and try to refresh my memory...

They are a good read, even when you know the plot... I especially like the
narration of Victorian Era England. And the language is hilarious, I´d say...


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 Response 2 of 367: David D.  (sfpclot) * Thu, Nov 14, 1996 (21:35) * 1 lines

Out of Control by Kevin Kelly. I just started it. I *think* it's about consciousness emerging from complex processes/structures. The first 65 pages are good. This morning I was reading about the intregral part wildfires play in balancing prairie ecological systems.


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 Response 3 of 367: Amy Bellinger  (Amy) * Thu, Nov 21, 1996 (20:28) * 2 lines

"Creating Cool Databases on the World Wide Web"


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 Response 4 of 367: Ann Rydberg  (Ann2) * Fri, Nov 29, 1996 (00:34) * 6 lines

Actually I am searching for the 'austen read line'. But I can tell you that I am just finishing Smiley's A thousand acres. I came across the title through my
interest in actor Colin Firth, who is/has just finished filming that story.
Rather interesting story based on the old King Lear theme - A father giving his 'kingdome' away to his three daughters. And then it all starts to fall apart,
families, properties,the love they thought they shared... Sad tale of our
loneliness actually.


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 Response 5 of 367: Amy Bellinger  (Amy) * Fri, Nov 29, 1996 (08:23) * 4 lines

Ann2: glad to see you finally here. Are you also reading -- or have you already read -- the other originals that spawned new adaptations featuring Firth: Nostromo and The English Patient?

Amy


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 Response 6 of 367: Mika-Petri Lauronen  (Mixu) * Mon, Dec  2, 1996 (02:52) * 5 lines

Finished the Sherlocks, and read some Wodehouse. At the moment I am tackling
(not counting Malleus Maleficarum and several scientific journals for my
studies) LeGuin's "Tehanu", and then I'll attack the Gormenghast-trilogy...

I guess it is my fantasy period once more...


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 Response 7 of 367: kathleen  (elder) * Thu, Dec  5, 1996 (19:14) * 3 lines

No new reading until after final exams are given and graded, thank you. But I bought The English Patient for the plane ride to San Diego for the holidays. The cover pic is the advert w/ Kristin Scott Thomas & Ralph Fiennes. I also found some new books about Jane Austen that I shall dig into over semester break.


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 Response 8 of 367: Mika-Petri Lauronen  (Mixu) * Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (09:30) * 3 lines

I am in the middle of the 1st book of Peake's Gormenghast, Titus Groan.
I have to say I am very impressed. The Brits really know how to write
(among with the Russians and some American eccentrics).


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 Response 9 of 367: mich  (mich) * Wed, Dec 11, 1996 (22:53) * 2 lines

I'm just starting The English Patient. I'm having a hard time getting into the rhythm of it. Should I see the movie before or after I read the book?


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 Response 10 of 367: Myretta Robens  (mrobens) * Thu, Dec 12, 1996 (10:10) * 4 lines

Mich,

I read the book before I saw the movie. I loved both. They share the rhythm, but use it in different ways. The movie is very faithful to the spirit and poetry of the book. The director has interpreted rather than mirrored the book
and done it very well. I think you could either see the movie or read the book first and not lose. Enjoy.


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 Response 11 of 367: Allison Allen  (Allison) * Thu, Feb  6, 1997 (16:20) * 2 lines

I am presently reading a collection of short stories called "Revenge". All the stories are written by women and are all about revenge. It is really great and very creative. Gives me all sorts of ideas. I highly recommend it, but not suitable for those of you prone to nightmares. So far, none of the stories have been gruesome, just rather disquieting. The editor of this collection is Kate Saunders. My personal favorite at this time is "Why Herbert Killed His Mother". It is a comical tale rather than
haunting.


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 Response 12 of 367: chen jiaxin  (chenjiaxin) * Thu, Mar 13, 1997 (06:54) * 7 lines

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 Response 13 of 367: chen jiaxin  (chenjiaxin) * Thu, Mar 13, 1997 (06:54) * 7 lines


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 Response 14 of 367: Michelle   (Lecteur) * Thu, Aug 14, 1997 (19:59) * 1 lines

This week I have read: Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris and Symposium by Muriel Spark. I am beginning Kinds of Minds by Daniel Dennett.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 15 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Aug 14, 1997 (22:55) * 1 lines

All fiction? What are they about?


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 Response 16 of 367: Kaye Erickson  (Mkaye) * Sat, Aug 16, 1997 (17:27) * 2 lines

I read voraciously, constantly and with an eye toward help in my own writing. I did not, do not, can not understand nor apppreciate The English Patient. A friend says it is all about the state of the world--the burned man is the whole of humanity suffering, the nurse is the small fation of people trying to save mankind, the east Indian bomb defuser is the larger faction trying to prevent the demise of the world. Even this erudite friend of mine can't decide what the other guy was all about. And I can'
help but wonder where the nurse got her eternal, unending supply of morphine. Symbolically--TV, drugs, alcohol, etc whidh keep us all sedated in this world. I think it is pretty far fetched but certainly better an anlysis than mine which is----well I just don't get it. Help!!


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 Response 17 of 367: Kaye Erickson  (Mkaye) * Sat, Aug 16, 1997 (17:29) * 1 lines

Pooy typing, sorry. I should proof read but these tri-focals of mine let me down and I can't read what I have just typed. Shocked to see it come up in big type.


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 Response 18 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Aug 16, 1997 (22:17) * 2 lines

If you check in to the austenarchive, you'll find a discussion of the English
Patient with quite a few comments.


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 Response 19 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (10:02) * 1 lines

A completely "out of character" book for me, but the novel I'm presently reading is "The Horse Whisperer." Horses have never really done much for me, nevermind a story centered around one. But this is beautifully written, surprisingly exciting and has pulled me in completely.


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 Response 20 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct 30, 1997 (12:51) * 2 lines

who's the author?


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 Response 21 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (13:50) * 5 lines

Nicholas Evans, isn't it?

I just finished a terrific book by Elizabeth Berg, "Pull of the Moon." Definitely a chick book, but she expresses so well the inner discord a woman can feel when she is so focused on others that she isn't really (dare I say it?) "in touch" with her own identity. I plan to re-read it when I'm menopausal (hopefully no time soon!!)

Just started "Mrs. deWinter," the so-called sequel to Daphne DuMaurier's classic thriller/romance "Rebecca". It's slow going, a bit Dickensian in its descriptiveness, but I'm plodding through it.


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 Response 22 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Oct 31, 1997 (16:49) * 3 lines

Yes, Nicolas Evans.


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 Response 23 of 367: Martha Livingston  (arthamom) * Sun, Jan  4, 1998 (11:33) * 2 lines

I'm supposed to be reading Thoreau's "Walden" for my book group. It was my suggestion, but I'm not getting very far. I've read it a couple of times in high school and college, so I thought it would be familiar enough to be comfortable mid-winter reading, and a change from the women's voices that completely dominate our group, but I can't focus on it. I think I may have lost some brain cells in childbirth...and maybe there's a reason I don't read the famous dead guys anymore; I don't expect Thoreau to b
a feminist, but it's hard for me to listen to someone who doesn't appear to know women exist! Anyway, it will give us something to talk about at book group besides "yeah, I liked it", and "yeah, me too."


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 Response 24 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Sun, Jan  4, 1998 (14:51) * 32 lines

thoreau's dealings with/attitude toward women
does seem rather twisted, especially taken within
the context of modern attitudes (though applying
that standard would seem to negate the work of
nearly every male writer of any antiquity at all,
i should think)... perhaps he idealized them, in
his way... it is probable that the 3 closest re-
lationships of his life were with women (his mother,
sister, and lydian emerson, wife of waldo, whom he
probably loved)... seem to recall that he received
a proposal of marriage from a concord schoolteacher,
who was somewhat older than he, and his response to
have been something along the lines of "i never expected
to encounter such a foe, at this stage in my career"...
regardless of his peculiarities (or maybe because of
them, because they are certainly an aspect of what makes
him such a compelling personality), perhaps one should
attempt to approach his work from a "sexless" point of
view... even read 150 years later, his words still have
vigor, and many of his ideas still seem provocative,
stirring, and i would think they apply to everyone...
"The greater part of what my neighbors call good, i
consider in my soul to be bad, and if i repent of anything,
it is likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed
me that i behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing
you can, old man- you, who have lived seventy years, not
without honor of it's kind- I hear an irresistable voice
that calls me away from all that. One generation abandons
the enterprises of another like so many stranded vessels..."
that moves me still, and it will always be true (and sorta
reads like abby hoffman, when you think about it... anybody
read "steal this book"?)...


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 Response 25 of 367: Martha Livingston  (arthamom) * Sun, Jan  4, 1998 (16:00) * 2 lines

You're absolutely right, of course, about context. Nothing frustrates me more than when a conversation about a book gets stopped in its tracks by a stubborn readers' inability/unwillingness to consider the times the author was writing in and his/her world view. My beloved Virginia Woolf has been shot down twice as an elitist (and a bore, but that's another story) by book groups I otherwise loved and agreed with most of the time. I know I'll be defending Thoreau, too. I'm probably just mad because it's ge
ting harder and harder for me to focus on a book that doesn't start with a dead body and/or have a foil cover. You're right--Thoreau was a revolutionary, and his views on living a simple life are probably more applicable to my life than anyone he knew in Concord. I'll try again.


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 Response 26 of 367: Wolf  (Wolf) * Sun, Jan  4, 1998 (20:48) * 9 lines

Well, this has nothing to do with Thoreau, but i'm reading Kathleen Woodiwiss'
new novel Petals on The River. so far so good. fell in love with her stuff as a
teenager and still like it (even though I'm not a professed romance novelee). I
like that her stuff is full of details of historical reference. Of course the story line is
good IMO. My absolute fav is A Rose in Winter. (the masked character was
such a....hmmmm, can't say it here, I don't think).

Oh, and another of my favs is Amy Tan. She can really move me and I have
learned much from her pieces. Can't wait until a new one comes out.


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 Response 27 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jan  5, 1998 (10:33) * 1 lines

Tell us more about Amy Tan if you will.


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 Response 28 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Mon, Jan  5, 1998 (18:10) * 1 lines

I liked Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" but absolutely loved the movie. One of those rare instances where I preferred the film to the book (others include Forrest Gump and The Heart is a Lonely Hunter).


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 Response 29 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Mon, Jan  5, 1998 (20:09) * 3 lines

"the graduate" (better movie
than book, i mean... extremely,
excruciatingly rare occurence)


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 Response 30 of 367: Wolf  (Wolf) * Mon, Jan  5, 1998 (21:18) * 7 lines

Amy Tan writes historical Chinese/American fiction. Her characters are so real
and vivid. She just reaches out and grabs my attention and my heart. Have
read all her stuff (save the children's books) and my favorite was "The Hundred
Secret Senses." Watched the Joy Luck Club and I cried the whole thing
through. Couldn't even get through the book. Forrest Gump was good, of
course I bawled. (yeah, I'm a wimp, cry at everything). ET was a better book
too.


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 Response 31 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Wed, Jan  7, 1998 (12:28) * 1 lines

Never read "The Graduate"--and now I won't bother! Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock is one of the few actors I "firth" (synonym for drool now!) over!


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 Response 32 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan  7, 1998 (12:57) * 5 lines

Essential Zen
Men are from Mars-Women are from Venus
Shaping a personal myth to live by
Life 101
(concurrently although not simultaneously)


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 Response 33 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Wed, Jan  7, 1998 (13:19) * 1 lines

Wow, lighten up, wer! (just kidding! :) Maybe there should be a top 10 category in the Philosophy conference! No Celestine Prophecy? You can borrow mine if you like--I got it for xmas 2 years ago and haven't opened it yet, but it came highly recommended. You don't like any fiction?


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 Response 34 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan  7, 1998 (14:11) * 5 lines

I love fiction, go back and look at my
top ten, or maybe I should go post a new
one...1998 is turning into a very wierd
year for me, and I felt that I needed
some outside perspectives...


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 Response 35 of 367: Wolf  (Wolf) * Wed, Jan  7, 1998 (21:21) * 1 lines

and it's early, yet, wer!


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 Response 36 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jan  8, 1998 (00:57) * 4 lines

I know, Iknow!
Everyone keep your fingers crossed,
my mom is having her triple bypass
on Friday...


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 Response 37 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Thu, Jan  8, 1998 (21:18) * 1 lines

I will keep a good thought for her, and you, wer.


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 Response 38 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Thu, Jan  8, 1998 (21:28) * 2 lines

yeah, me too, wer (she'll
be in my prayers...)


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 Response 39 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jan  8, 1998 (22:29) * 2 lines

Prayers for you mom, wer.


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 Response 40 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jan  8, 1998 (23:08) * 1 lines

Gracias, mi amigos.


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 Response 41 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Sat, Jan 10, 1998 (16:04) * 1 lines

Well, wer, how did her surgery go? I'm eager to hear the good news...(thinking positively)


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 Response 42 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jan 10, 1998 (21:54) * 6 lines

It went exceedingly well, and I thank
everyone here for their good thoughts
and wishes...Now, if you've got any
left *wink* send a couple to my Dad,
he might be in worse shape than her
right now...Thanks again, my friends!


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 Response 43 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Sat, Jan 10, 1998 (22:32) * 1 lines

What a load off, I'm sure! However, worrying can bring on that urge to smoke...did you succumb? Or should I say how much?


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 Response 44 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Sun, Jan 11, 1998 (00:44) * 3 lines

Actually, due to the nature of the weekend,
it's help curb the urge somewhat...Thanks
for all the support, Autumn.


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 Response 45 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Mon, Jan 12, 1998 (17:40) * 1 lines

You're welcome--supportive people can be a blessing or a nuisance, I know...I live with one!


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 Response 46 of 367: kay  (kay) * Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (11:45) * 1 lines

The book i just finished readingis Marcovaldo of the seasons in the city by Italo Calvino. a bit heavy for this romance addict. I felt like the girl in the movie The truth about cats and dogs who had to have a dictionary to understand the book? any way its a strange book and i sure had too deep of a sub meaning for me to gather. but it was fun reading it.


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 Response 47 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (20:00) * 1 lines

I am making a note of it & will check the library for it after I finish this 700 page monster I've been working on.


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 Response 48 of 367: Lorie Scafaro  (LorieS) * Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (14:55) * 5 lines

I'm almost afraid to mention it in this esteemed group of readers, but I just finished a collection of Shirley Jackson short stories that was wonderful (mostly unpublished, altho some were simply published long ago in long-defunct magazines). The collection is called An Ordinary Day (sorry, still don't know how to put that in italics).

And in a similar vein, I bought a Dave Barry collection today. Any fans of the absurd out there?

Or just short-story lovers?


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 Response 49 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 21, 1998 (15:31) * 5 lines

Like this,
<em>An Ordinary Day</em>
or
<i>An Ordinary Day</i>


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 Response 50 of 367: LS  (LorieS) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (11:55) * 5 lines

Thanks, wer. May I call you wer? I've read so many of your posts, I feel like I know you. So, to experiment.

Yesterday, after reading here, I went out and bought a second Shirley Jackson short story collection, The Lottery and Other Stories. So I guess the short fiction kick continues.

So, now we'll see if I can post this and the italics come out right.


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 Response 51 of 367: LS  (LorieS) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (11:57) * 3 lines

Wee! That's fun. I wonder what I was doing wrong, 'cause that looks like what I tried in the past that never worked and always brought up error messages.

Thanks again!


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 Response 52 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (17:43) * 7 lines

What I'm reading right now...
my grade book -- report cards go out tomorrow!

Read The Story of Ruby Bridges to my kids today. We had an insightful and productive discussion on racism today (most specifically segregation).
I'd love to get into some smut novels but I haven't had the time! *grin*

Read a few essays by Ayn Rand the other day. On selfishness. A lesson we should all take -- how to truly be selfish!


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 Response 53 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (17:43) * 27 lines

read rand pretty extensively, long ago... her intelligence is captivating,
and her ideas almost persuasive, by virtue of their clarity, alone... that,
however, is because they are as old (and persuasively clear) as hell... it
was the influence of rand (and scott fitzgerald, though for different reasons,
obviously) that led me to become a marxist... objectively, what difference
is there between the ideology of rand, and nietzsche (for example)? seems
to me that beyond differing experience (and a little more intellectual honesty,
on his part), there is none... one is an extension of the other...
and really, don't you find the suggestion that human beings require any
(further) justification for their selfishness a little disingenuous? akin to
tigers "celebrating their claws", as nietzsche might say? bourne out by nature,
and experience (and sort of redundant)?
(sigh... i oughta stop here, but i'm not... nothing personal, but i'm really pissed off tonight, and ayn rand seems as hospitable a host for that as any)
the thing that irritates me most about the rand crowd (of which the esteemed
alan greenspan is a charter member/thug) is the attempted intellectualizing
(even idealizing) of ideas with roots in the most primitive, most bestial
aspect of human behavior... it is, i think (using the words marx used for a
more benign transgressor, thomas malthus) a "libel on mankind"... or so it
is my everlasting wish to believe...(and "objectivism", in my judgement, and
within the context rand suggested, is as "libelous", and dishonest a conclusion
regarding human potential as i know)...
anyway... since i'm really pissed off (seething) at ken starr, maybe i oughta
take this over to politics... and, to tell the truth- though i stand by every
word i said- all in all, i think ayn rand was a great old broad... (even though
i didn't buy a word she said, could always count on her to get the juices flowing... she did not shy from controversy)...


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 Response 54 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (09:04) * 9 lines

That settles it, Nick, definitely want you
on my side in any conquest tour...

Yes, Lorie, you may call me wer, in fact
I've grown quite accustomed to it here.
And, in reality when I've met Spring folks,
wer sounds more natural than William when
spoken by them.
*wink-ta-you-know-who*


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 Response 55 of 367: LS  (LorieS) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (15:01) * 4 lines

Nick, it's great to hear someone else who likes Rand's writing (she's interesting, after all, and sometimes that's so hard to find) but discounts her "philosophy." Have lately had her work foisted on me by some huge fans, and since I hadn't read it since high school (terribly long ago), I gave her another shot. In fact, I was looking at a collection of previously unpublished stuff just the other day, but I passed on it to buy some more fictional fiction. After all, there are days when you just don't wa
t to think so much.

At least, I have days like that.


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 Response 56 of 367: Wolf  (Wolf) * Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (19:06) * 1 lines

me too, like today.


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 Response 57 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Jan 26, 1998 (18:00) * 3 lines

I had a heady-thinking weekend.
And enjoyed every minute of it.
Okay... maybe not EVERY minute!


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 Response 58 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jan 26, 1998 (22:09) * 1 lines

So, what did ya think about?


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 Response 59 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Tue, Jan 27, 1998 (01:32) * 9 lines

(was reading "the making of the president 1960"...a third
of the way through, skipped to near the end... the part
describing kennedy's waterbury speech, near election day...
made me so sad, i just said to hell with it... jack kennedy
really is dead, and he's deader every day... and the american
century is nearly over, and soon no one will care too awfully
much about that, either (or even remember what the fuss was
all about)... and aren't we closing it out in fine fashion?
yeah... some days it's best to just not think at all...)


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 Response 60 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Jan 27, 1998 (01:32) * 2 lines

thought about happier days... past and future. Thought about how the only one that can make me happy is myself. Thought about how inconcievable it is that I could 'save the world' but how very possible it is for me to make a difference in the life of another. Thought about things that make me smile, thought about smiling... the way it is contagious toward the rest of my body...
And then I just reflected on what a complex being means...


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 Response 61 of 367: Wolf  (Wolf) * Tue, Jan 27, 1998 (01:32) * 1 lines

man, Stacey, you need to take a break (but what you said is soooo true) *smile*


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 Response 62 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Tue, Jan 27, 1998 (01:32) * 1 lines

Days of inward reflection are important,no? But they leave you feeling so raw afterwards.


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 Response 63 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Jan 28, 1998 (08:59) * 4 lines

this is often true.
Colorado sunshine and warm weather helped!
I feel pretty good now.
Finally able to enjoy fresh outdoors instead of just the stuffy gym.


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 Response 64 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 28, 1998 (15:18) * 1 lines

good, good, good...


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 Response 65 of 367: gena  (zx6rider) * Sat, Feb 28, 1998 (08:28) * 1 lines

Hi all. Good to see a book group here at the Spring. I just finished Funerals For Horses by Catherine Ryan Hyde. It was a random pick off the shelves at my local library. I couldn't put it down. It is a story of a family, centrally the youngest girl and her on-again-off-again fight against insanity... Findit. Read it.


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 Response 66 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (11:38) * 8 lines

Read "A Hundred Brothers" by I don't know who: thought provoking, idiotic, brownish feeling, scattered.

(BTW that is read as in I "red" not as in you should read!)

Also read "Rent Boy" by Gary Indiana: graphic depiction of the life of a 'rent boy' (homosexual male prostitute) through letters to an unnamed loved one. Very graphic! I enjoyed the perversity and honesty of this one.

Am now reading "The Dark Rivers of the Heart" by Dean R. Koontz: been a Koontz fan for almost ten years and this is similar in style to all the rest of his novels. Chilling, well-researched, technical, complicated.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 67 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (23:37) * 3 lines

i've read 7 or 8 of koontz's books... along with sue grafton, prob.
my favorite "mind candy" books (that i read just for the sheer enjoyment
of it)...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 68 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (01:17) * 4 lines

Can't get into Koontz...don't know why, either...
Enjoyed Whispers but the other two or three I read
have kept me from reading any more...
I likes Ellison for Mind Candy...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 69 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (09:21) * 2 lines

finished Dark Rivers last night and am beginning A Confederation of Dunces.
Sadly enough (to some) this is my first reading of it.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 70 of 367: gena  (zx6rider) * Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (18:55) * 5 lines

Just finished John Grisham's THE PARTNER. Pretty interesting... remind me to call Grisham if I ever need a lawyer. His characters never lose.

Am also reading Jackie Joyner-Kersee's autobiography.

Have a visit to library in my near future.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 71 of 367: Doug Larue  (doug) * Sun, Apr  5, 1998 (06:25) * 103 lines

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 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 72 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Sun, Apr 19, 1998 (17:04) * 1 lines

My tastes are pretty divergent right now. I just finished "Prince of Tides", which was a little too dysfunctional and poignant for me. So when in the library I picked up "Healing Foods", "1001 Pitfalls in English Grammar," and (of all things), "The Rules" (wanted to see if I did it right!) I guess after "Prince" I need a break from fiction for a while.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 73 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Apr 20, 1998 (00:14) * 1 lines

reading "She Loves Me" --- I'll let you all know...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 74 of 367: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Sat, Jul 11, 1998 (19:42) * 3 lines

i have just read "The Essence of the Thing" by Madeleine St. John. brilliant book. made me cry, which is the first time in ages.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 75 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Sun, Jul 12, 1998 (06:35) * 1 lines

*smile*


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 76 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Fri, Jul 17, 1998 (21:04) * 1 lines

(scribbling the title on my reading list)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 77 of 367: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Sat, Jul 18, 1998 (08:27) * 3 lines

damn. i bought twenty-five pounds worth of books, and read all four in under a week. i've got too much time on my hands, obviously. now i'm stuck again, and have no money to buy anything new :-((


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 78 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (11:46) * 1 lines

Don't you have a library???


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 79 of 367: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Sun, Jul 19, 1998 (17:55) * 2 lines

only a college library, which isn't the most prolific fiction establishment, as you may imagine :)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 80 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Mon, Jul 20, 1998 (22:31) * 1 lines

In addition to all the faculties' boring doctoral theses, I bet they have a lot of the classics in their lit section, anyway...Come on, a little Jane Austen and you'll be drooling with the best of them!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 81 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sat, Aug  1, 1998 (17:41) * 3 lines

ok, i read, in two sittings, The Horse Whisperer. It was well-done and not
based on the movie (the other way around, actually). Some parts seemed rushed,
but i was captured anyway. good read. glad i haven't seen the movie (yet)...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 82 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (18:07) * 3 lines

I read that one in the springtime, Wolf. I'm glad you enjoyed it, but I didn't like it. For one thing, I absolutely hated the arrogant, pushy heroine, which really violates my first rule for a good novel. As for the rest, the characters just didn't hold my interest. I realize I am the lone dissenting opinion on this book, because everyone I know liked it!

I've been working on "Miserly Moms" and "Tightwad Gazette" these days for thrifty ideas--I need some fresh inspiration!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 83 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Sun, Aug  2, 1998 (23:08) * 1 lines

Ever read "Living Cheaply With Style"?


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 84 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Mon, Aug  3, 1998 (09:16) * 1 lines

autumn: i didn't like her much either until i understood what her major malfunction was.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 85 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Tue, Aug  4, 1998 (21:41) * 1 lines

What was it? I forget already! Wer, thank you for the recommendation. I will check the library for it tomorrow. The one I just finished included recipes for for making your own Grape Nuts and baby wipes! Geez, I don't think I'm THAT frugal...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 86 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, Aug  4, 1998 (21:59) * 10 lines

autumn: she was a control freak and when the bad stuff happened, it threw her
out of whack and even though she knew she couldn't control it, she tried. the
book focused more on her and the whisperer than the horse and the girl. the
changes in their behavior (everyone's) was too abrupt. it was a good story and
perhaps i'll read his next one (think it's The Loop) just to see.

the frugal stuff is in Woman's Day or Family Circle. they're good ideas but i
guess i'm too lazy to incorporate most of them. but look at her now! kinda like
Martha Stewart. speaking of her, does she have any other job? (she's a
perfectionist too, you know)....


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 87 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Tue, Aug  4, 1998 (22:03) * 1 lines

Ha ha! I'm imagining Martha Stewart playing the role of Annie in the "Horse Whisperer!!" LOL! I consider myself a very frugal person (e.g. I made all my own baby food), but there's no way I'm saving cereal boxes and using them for storage containers!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 88 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (00:08) * 1 lines

cereal boxes do make cool postcards, though...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 89 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Aug  5, 1998 (04:19) * 2 lines

... and something to read if a newspaper isn't handy.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 90 of 367: Stacey Vura  (stacey) * Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (17:05) * 3 lines

I use cereal boxes all the time in my classroom. Only problem is I have to bribe others to eat cereal quickly because I refuse to buy it at all.

(Too much sugar, too many preservatives, too expensive... AND I prefer eggs and hash browns for breakfast (even if it means I have to get up WAY early!)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 91 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (17:13) * 5 lines

Same here, eggs, hash browns and toast are my breakfast, very rarely do I
eat cereal. I used to be into Total, Shredded Wheat, Raisin Bran and
Wheat Chex. Oh, and I forgot, Grape Nuts. My grandpa used to eat
nothing but Grape Nuts around the clock.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 92 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Thu, Aug  6, 1998 (21:25) * 1 lines

s'mores poptarts and splash V-8 juice (at least of late)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 93 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Mon, Aug 10, 1998 (23:09) * 2 lines

ah, that explains it...
the food conference moved to books!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 94 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Tue, Aug 11, 1998 (15:21) * 1 lines

ha ha, we have so much overlap here at the spring, don't we? None of us is ever able to remain on topic!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 95 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 12, 1998 (02:37) * 4 lines

I don't know, as Stacey said, you can pretty much count on food
or sex being representative of our discussions...
maybe should just get rid of the all the conferences
except those two...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 96 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Fri, Aug 14, 1998 (21:20) * 1 lines

If we restricted ourselves to those two, we'd probably start talking about music and films!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 97 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Fri, Aug 14, 1998 (21:25) * 4 lines

picked up a couple more Belva Plain books (the continuation of Evergreen, only
i don't know which one starts first, so i bought both-good excuse, eh?)

hi Autumn!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 98 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (09:34) * 1 lines

been reading a lot of safety manuals, guidance documents and OSHA regulations as of late... (newest second(third)job)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 99 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (10:32) * 2 lines

ooh, ooh...
does that mean there's gonna be a Safety Stacey doll?


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 100 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (11:14) * 3 lines

So, what's the new job? I am intrigued...

Just finished Alice Walker's "Possessing the Secret of Joy", about female circumcision amongst African women. Heady stuff.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 101 of 367: Leplep le Plep  (jgross) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (11:40) * 4 lines

That happened to me once.
But I just talked to the elders of my tribe, and they gave it back.
OH!!! You said f e m a l e.....
Anyway, even so, it was pretty heady stuff.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 102 of 367: Leplep le Plep  (jgross) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (11:53) * 7 lines

The Manor Road Coffee House, here in Austin
had a benefit for African women who have
suffered the fate (infection or death or ?) of
female genital hacking (or whatever the word is that's used).
That coffee house isn't there anymore, but the benefit raised $500.
A good good thing.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 103 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (12:17) * 1 lines

This book made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 104 of 367: Leplep le Plep  (jgross) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (12:32) * 7 lines

She's got a vast readership.
The consciousness on the issue is rising.
So the power structure of the culture wants to maintain its grip on the ways
of its culture, but change can force its way through, even from
outside the culture.
But I wonder how world influence actually gets into the culture
and evolves it, like with this whole scenario.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 105 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (12:45) * 1 lines

remembering that evolution can be a painstakingly slow process with many malformations of the eventual end result (stop time pic)... yes.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 106 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (12:46) * 5 lines

oops!
you asked HOW.

Geez.
Lemme gather my typing strength... (much easier to discuss over coffee)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 107 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (13:17) * 5 lines

world influence arrives through either
the free flow of information or the
forced flow of information...
either the culture becomes inquisitive because of incidental contact,
or an unwanted intrusion disrupts it


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 108 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (14:41) * 2 lines

what about the trickle of information that's not really free flowing but certainly not forced?
kinda like a human rights pamphlet that blows across the boundary of a country to a young soul who never knew she had so much freedom of mind and body and emotion and... (oh yes, did I mention the pamphlet happened to be in a language she understood? Well, it was.)... anyway, how bout that trickle?


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 109 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (14:41) * 1 lines

Let's hear it for trickles!!!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 110 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (14:42) * 1 lines

yea, incidental contact!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 111 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (14:52) * 3 lines

*kick*
different idea all together WER!
*smile*


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 112 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:12) * 4 lines

I gots different ideas as well and, btw,
that kick was not incidental contact...

(did kinda turn me on, though...)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 113 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:14) * 1 lines

What is also thought-provoking is the author's assertion that the reverse can take place, in this case, that some Southern white women (American) had the same thing done to their daughters.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 114 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:19) * 2 lines

WHY, WHY, WHY????????
(and if someone says 'religious reasons' I shall just go off on my whole religious arguement-- UGLY scene!)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 115 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:22) * 4 lines

(she's telling the truth, too...)
but chastity would be the number one reason, Stace

(gonna get kicked again, aren't I?)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 116 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:25) * 1 lines

Not to mention stopping them from masturbating.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 117 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:32) * 1 lines

extreme chastity, then...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 118 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (15:37) * 2 lines

*frown*
... guess the old standby 'you're gonna go blind' just doesn't cut it anymore...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 119 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (22:15) * 5 lines

ohmygosh! this is terrible. don't they do something similar in india? oh, wait,
where's the place where they actually make them smaller? didn't know that was
practiced here in the states (and how southern are we talking?). not trying to
say that the US hasn't done it's share of unthinkables but THAT? wasn't the
syphyllus thing bad enough?


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 120 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (15:06) * 1 lines

Um, the book made reference to Louisiana, Wolf...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 121 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (20:35) * 1 lines

where? plantation homes, i'll bet. good thing i didn't grow up here *whew*


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 122 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (00:09) * 1 lines

you're *gasp* not a born-in-da-bayou babe?


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 123 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (08:17) * 2 lines

sorry to burst your bubble, wer, nope, this gal is from everywhere. just been
here the longest!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 124 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Thu, Sep  3, 1998 (21:37) * 1 lines

So where all you been, Wolfie?


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 125 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (02:08) * 2 lines

Yeah,
where, where?


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 126 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (11:40) * 1 lines

uh-oh, i gotta go look and see what i had said *grin*


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 127 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (11:47) * 35 lines

ok-how far back do you want me to go?

germany (several times)
france
spain
newfoundland
desertland
texas
california
pennsylvania
delaware
vermont
connecticut
louisiana
kansas
florida
georgia
alabama
mississippi
missouri
ohio
virginia
w. virginia
n & s carolina
kentucky
tennessee
washington d.c.
arizona
rhode island
massachusetts
new york
new jersey

(some of the places are from my Army brat days, others are from personal travel,
and still others are due to my current job for schools or temporary duty)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 128 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus  (terry) * Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (19:04) * 1 lines

Now, wolf, can you give us a list of books you have read organized and sorted by place?


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 129 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Fri, Sep  4, 1998 (22:30) * 1 lines

Wolf, if you ever feel the need to add Maryland to that list, you come stay with me, you hear?


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 130 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Sep  5, 1998 (11:07) * 1 lines

Same here, for Texas. How did you manage to miss Texas?


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 131 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Sat, Sep  5, 1998 (12:17) * 1 lines

she didn't...on her list it's between desertland and california...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 132 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sat, Sep  5, 1998 (16:56) * 3 lines

terry: no
autumn: thanks
wer: yup


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 133 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (01:02) * 2 lines

OK Tell us about Texas, wolfie.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 134 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (12:04) * 11 lines

like, what don't you already know about texas? places i've been to? ok,

Dallas
Houston
Corpus Christie
San Antonio
Austin
Laredo
Brownsville
Harlingen
and all the little towns up and down the highway to all of those places!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 135 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (12:05) * 5 lines

Wait!

McAllen
Pharr
Edington or Edmonton or something like that (it's where the Pan American University is)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 136 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (17:06) * 2 lines

Wow, you been to more places in Texas than me! Ever been to Bastrop?


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 137 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (20:13) * 1 lines

probably!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 138 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Sun, Sep  6, 1998 (21:32) * 1 lines

Just finished "Gone South" by Robert McCammon, which takes place in the bayou of Louisiana with some pretty interesting swamp folks! It was OK.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 139 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (07:33) * 2 lines

Whta to you find interesting about these folks?


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 140 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (10:35) * 1 lines

was it southern louisiana or northern? cuz the worlds are completely different..


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 141 of 367: Leplep le Plep  (jgross) * Mon, Sep  7, 1998 (16:28) * 25 lines

What was your favorite alligator's breath like when she talked to you?
What was her name?
Was she the main character?
Could she play football as good as Mark McGuire?
Was she the ghostwriter of the book?
Have you started reading it again back at the beginning?
When did Squidboy come in?
I heard it was towards the middle.
Did his bike have cards flappin' the spokes?
Were there alotta words on each page?
Did any of the words give ya trouble?
Did you meet any of the characters in real life yet?
How soon will the sequel come out?
Did the library not want you to read it?
Did the librarians make faces at you when they saw what you were gonna check out, or did they treat you okay?
Why oh why are you always asked so many questions, Autumn?
Did you learn to read at an earlier age than your daughters did?
Can your daughters read better'n me?
I still read one word at a time and I look every word up in the dickshunairy.
Some of the words look vaguely familiar because I remember them from long ago.
Those are words that I like to keep under my pillow without ever taking them out to look at them, because they enter into my dreams better that way, and they continually improve my Sleepasaurusness.
I hope the book you are reading now likes you as much as I do.
If it doesn't, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
I have alotta authors' phone numbers.
If you ever want me to request your favorite writer to rewrite a book that you're reading that doesn't really seem to like you, no problem, just let me know, Autumn.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 142 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (20:32) * 3 lines

Ha-ha, there are quite a few that could stand to be rewritten, Jim!! Could you please just start with Edith Wharton and have her change "Age of Innocence" so Newland and Ellen get to spend at least one night with each other? Just like an hour. I'd really appreciate it.

Just finished "A Drinking Life" by Pete Hamill. This is a memoir by a well-known (not by me!) newspaper columnist about the role alcohol played in his life and influenced him. I'm not big on biographies, but this was quite interesting from an historical perspective, especially growing up in the 30s and 40s.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 143 of 367: Leplep le Plep  (jgross) * Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (12:21) * 7 lines

I would call Edith, but she's busy, I know, lyin' around underground.
Pete's 61, still kickin', just got a job as editor of the New York Daily News, so you want me to call the Mr. Hamill and ask him to rewrite the part where Ellen and Newland meet in Boston and have him have them consummate like crazy
night after night until they get extraordinarily sick of each other?

I dunno who yer favorite author is.....living favorite author. I bet whoever it is would do anything at all for you. Rewriting a passage you'd like rewritten would be a, well, a labor of love.....any passage in anybody else's book.....nuthin' to it.

I could call Autumn Moore and ask her to rewrite it. She's a writer you should really get to know. She even lives where you live. In fact she lives in your body, so take care.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 144 of 367: Ray Lopez  (ratthing) * Fri, Sep 25, 1998 (22:41) * 18 lines

the book i am reading right now:

How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci

this is a fantastic book, one that gives you tools for self-exploration. the whole premise of the book is that Leonardo (probably the greatest genius of all time) seemed to base his genius on seven general priniciples that can be understood and cultivated in all of us. these principles are:

1) Curiosita: an insatiably curious approach to life and an unrelenting quest for continuous learning
2) Dimostrazione: a commitment to test knowledge through experience, persistence, and a willingness to learn from mistakes.
3) Sensazione: the continual refinement of the senses, esp sight, as the means to enliven experience
4) Sfumato: a willingness to embrace ambiguity, paradox, uncertainty
5) Arte/Scienza: the development of the balance between science and art, logic and imagination. "whole brain" thinking
6) Corporalita: the cultivation of grace, ambidexterity, fitness, and poise.
7) Connessione: a recognition of and appreciation for the interconnectedness of all things and phenomena. systems thinking.

this philosophy of living meshes well with many other "good ways" of living, such as those espoused by two of my other favorite role model/heroes: Ben Franklin and Aristotle. i strongly recommend this bood to anyone who is wanting to expand their lives and experience of life!


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 Response 145 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Sat, Sep 26, 1998 (22:29) * 1 lines

Wow, what a great recommendation. I know a few Renaissance men who might like that book...


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 Response 146 of 367: Stacey Vura  (stacey) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (18:21) * 4 lines

Hey Wolfie...
Colorado was absent from your list...

Come give it a visit sometime... we"ve PLENTY of room!


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 Response 147 of 367: Stacey Vura  (stacey) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (18:22) * 4 lines

Ooops!
Forgot.
I am currently reading Travels With Charley (Steinbeck)
Trying to curb some of my own wanderlust reading about others...


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 Response 148 of 367: Stacey Vura  (stacey) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (18:23) * 4 lines

Hey Wolfie...
Colorado was absent from your list...

Come give it a visit sometime... we"ve PLENTY of room!


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 Response 149 of 367: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (18:25) * 2 lines

I am currently re-reading "Blue Mars" by Kim Stanley Robinson, and re-reading "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance"
oh, and lots of very dry physics books :-/


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 Response 150 of 367: Stacey Vura  (stacey) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (18:31) * 2 lines

How in the heck did that get posted twice?!?!
Especially when I submitted something after it?!?!


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 Response 151 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (21:01) * 1 lines

something in your magic fingers?


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 Response 152 of 367: Ray Lopez (ratthing) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (21:26) * 8 lines

huh-huh-huh huh huh....

...magic fingers...

...huh huh huh-huh


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 153 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Wed, Sep 30, 1998 (22:00) * 1 lines

Just finished "She's Come Undone" by Wally Lamb. It dealt with a lot of sad themes in a very humorous fashion. It's hard to believe it was written by a man.


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 Response 154 of 367: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Thu, Oct  1, 1998 (18:18) * 1 lines

nice Beavis n Butthead, Ray :-)


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 Response 155 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Oct  7, 1998 (00:08) * 1 lines

Just finished Deja Dead and All That Begins, Begins With Blood.


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 Response 156 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Oct  7, 1998 (10:50) * 1 lines

do tell...


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 Response 157 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Oct  8, 1998 (13:24) * 2 lines

Written by?


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 Response 158 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Fri, Oct  9, 1998 (16:28) * 1 lines

ack...so many questions...will look when I get home...


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 Response 159 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sat, Oct 10, 1998 (20:19) * 6 lines

am still reading The Golden Cup by Belva Plain. the reason it's taking me sooooo
long is that the only chance i get is one hour on wednesday nights while my
daughter practices gymnastics.

yeah, will have to visit colorado-never been there or driven through it.....hmmm
how can i add that to my itinerary to S.A.???


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 160 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Mon, Oct 12, 1998 (20:34) * 1 lines

Just finished "Boy's Life" by Robert MacCammon and thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a little bit childhood innocence, folklore, mysticism and murder mystery rolled into one.


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 Response 161 of 367: Leplep le Plep  (jgross) * Mon, Oct 12, 1998 (21:37) * 4 lines

I'm reading his "Girl's Life". I'm 3 fourths thru it, but it's got me
bug-eyed. It's got some stale beer, shopping after midnight, sphincters,
and some dilapidated Vichy sidestreets all sloshed into one big grotesque
crime thriller. I can't put it down, and am reading it as I write this.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 162 of 367: Autumn Moore  (autumn) * Mon, Oct 12, 1998 (23:19) * 1 lines

ROTFLMAO!!!! (Love those vignettes in Vichy's slums!)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 163 of 367: Leplep le Plep  (jgross) * Tue, Oct 13, 1998 (12:19) * 6 lines

Lydia turned me on to that book.
She mentioned it to me during "The Parent Trap".
That night I bought it on the black market in the backstreets of Austin.
Talk about a page-turner....didn't have to use my fingers---the pages seemed
to turn by themselves....good thing, too, cuz I couldn't put that book
down till I got thru it all. That Lydia has really good taste in books.


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 Response 164 of 367: Stacey Vura  (stacey) * Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (12:34) * 2 lines

Brandon is out of town (STILL) and I bought some mind candy to occupy the evenings. I am reading Dragon Tears by Dean R Koontz. Typical reality fiction with some sci-fi thrillerness to it. The psychological thrillers are my favorites, the ones that intensify every tiny creak in your own house, while you're reading.
I also bought an erotic thriller but forgot the title... let you know later.


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 Response 165 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (14:45) * 1 lines

Erotic thriller, cool!


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 Response 166 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Oct 14, 1998 (15:03) * 7 lines

let me guess...the title is
"Little Stacey's Spice Cake"

Kathy Reichs wrote Deja Dead

Read Robin Cook's "Fatal Cure" and am currently reading
Laura K. Hamilton's "Blue Moon"...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 167 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Thu, Oct 15, 1998 (20:19) * 2 lines

oh, did i mention i'm still reading Belva Plain's The Golden Cup? well, i am, but
actually got a couple hours worth of reading done thanks to jury selection all week long!


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 Response 168 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (03:53) * 7 lines

since my last post above, I finished "Blue Moon"
and have read these Laura K. Hamilton books as well
"Guilty Pleasures"
"The Laughing Corpse"
"Circus of the Damned"

(can anyone tell that my escapist drug of choice is reading?)


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 Response 169 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (21:08) * 1 lines

who's isn't???


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 Response 170 of 367: Leplep le Plep  (jgross) * Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (23:31) * 7 lines

I like to put on a horse costume and
run around in the pasture in the rain.
When a horse strides up to me in the mood to mate or
whatever ya call it, I take off my horse costume and
start mooing real real loud in its face.
The horses don't like that.
Good thing.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 171 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Oct 18, 1998 (21:31) * 10 lines

anyway....i finished The Golden Cup (thanks to being sick with a cold). and to
any of you who may have been listening awhile back as i labored over which book
to read next (after Evergreen), i chose correctly. so any of you belva plain
readers who read evergreen and want to know the rest of the story begin with
The Golden Cup then move to Tapestry. when i'm done with Tapestry, i'll find
out if there are any more in the series. OK?

and as to your horse thing, you were the guy on discovery stealing bull semen dressed
as a cow, huh? always wondered who'd dress up as a cow in estrus and trick a
full (and ready) bull into copulation. now i know. i can sleep better at night.


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 Response 172 of 367: Kristen Baker  (kristen) * Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (06:05) * 1 lines

I'm rereading Illusions, by Richard Bach. It's one of my favorite books, but I always rush through it. This time I'm slowing down.


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 Response 173 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (06:48) * 5 lines

I'm reading "Inside Windows NT Infrastructures" by David Iseminger. Wiley
& Sons. ISBN 0-471-24276-4. About scaleup, cabling, performance
tradeoffs, remote access, and nuts and bolts technical issues like
choosing the best domain model, switches vs. hubs, backbones, etc.


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 Response 174 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Mon, Oct 19, 1998 (11:38) * 1 lines

that'll cure your insomnia, riette *grin*


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 Response 175 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (19:58) * 2 lines

reading tim pat coogan's bio of michael collins...
(tremendous)


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 Response 176 of 367: Stacey Vura  (stacey) * Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (20:12) * 7 lines

Finished Dragon Tears.
Reread Microserfs (Douglas Coupland)
Reading Hideaway (Koontz)

I was all set to try the horse thing Leplep but the sky refuses to rain here.
I kinda did a runthrough, dress rehersal with my kitties in the basement though.
They were into it.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 177 of 367: Leplep le Plep  (jgross) * Tue, Oct 20, 1998 (20:42) * 12 lines

Rafikki has a regular horselaugh that
gets me gigglin', but all she does is
look at me with those eyes that say:
"c'mon, Jim, hey! that's no horselaugh!!"
when she took off her palomino costume, she gave
it to me to put on, and then proceeded to
show me some remarkably executed bronc bustin'
---she is really good at that
---I wouldn't let her try and swap that costume with
any trick-or-treaters, come Halloween, or some
kids are gonna....uh, you'll have some pretty scared ones on your hands
---she'll just bust 'em


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 178 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Nov 10, 1998 (08:54) * 3 lines

(we had TONS of trick or treaters!)
Finished The Hot Zone by Richard Preston


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 179 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Nov 10, 1998 (09:18) * 3 lines

Reminds me, time to run Leightons Halloween party video as the spring.net
slideshow.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 180 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (09:50) * 1 lines

finished Random Winds....what to read next??? have to go pick something out tonight!


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 Response 181 of 367: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (13:27) * 1 lines

If you like mysteries, " Bad Chemistry " by gary krist is a good one.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 182 of 367: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (13:31) * 1 lines

"The Bitch Factor" is also an excellent book. I forget who the author is. Have fun hanging on to the book though. My copy is making the rounds of my friends.


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 Response 183 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (13:57) * 1 lines

haha!!


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 Response 184 of 367: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Tue, Nov 17, 1998 (19:59) * 1 lines

the book is about a female PI turned bounty hunter who ends up stranded by a blizzard with a prisoner. It's very good.


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 Response 185 of 367: Riette Walton  (riette) * Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (03:10) * 4 lines

The BITCH FACTOR? Ha-ha! If I'd written a book, I call it that too!

Currently reading 'Hitler's Willing Executioners' (David Goldhagen), 'Blood, Tears and Folly' (Len Deighton) and 'Shetl' (Eva Hoffman). I feel the need to read the last two parallel to Goldhagen's book to keep perspective - he is the angriest man I've read in a long time (understandibly so).
The most profound book I've ever read is one I finished a month ago - 'Holocaust', by Martin Gilbert.


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 Response 186 of 367: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Wed, Nov 18, 1998 (04:53) * 2 lines

The title comes from a saying that says something about a woman being 51% sweetheart and 49% bitch. And, something about not pushing your luck.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 187 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sat, Nov 21, 1998 (20:44) * 3 lines

picked up Daydreams today (another Belva Plain)...am waiting for a new one by Amy Tan.
absolutely love her work. she takes me into a world and culture of which i know
nothing about. and her characters move me so....


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 188 of 367: Tim Guenther  (TIM) * Sun, Nov 22, 1998 (00:32) * 2 lines

another good book that I've recently read:
Hardrock Stiff by THOMAS ZIGAL


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 Response 189 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Nov 22, 1998 (12:19) * 1 lines

*blush* i did it again--it should've read daybreak not daydreams!!!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 190 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Mon, Dec 14, 1998 (20:44) * 13 lines

update on daybreak. i'm a little over 3/4th's of the way through and i tell
you, it has been tough. the book explores anti-semitism and bigotry through
some of the characters. i'm not jewish nor am i african american, but this
really ticked me off. not at any fault of belva plain, but just the characters
she created. everything is working out now but there for awhile, boy, it was
hard. hating people who are different is stupid. you'd have to hate everybody
because we are all different. well, anyway, don't want to get on a soap box,
but for those of you sensitive to this issue, i figured i'd warn you before you
dive into this book. but it is good and the twist of fate works out
wonderfully! (even though one of the characters pays dearly).

does anyone participate in a reading group? i wondered how it works and who gets
to pick out the reads.......


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 Response 191 of 367: T Patrick McCourt  (PT) * Tue, Dec 15, 1998 (12:15) * 1 lines

I think that a reading group is a wonderful idea.


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 Response 192 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Jan  4, 1999 (11:41) * 1 lines

I picked up a book yesterday at a little coffe shoppe in Indian Peaks called SMACK. Forgot the author but the first 30 pages have kept me rapt.


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 Response 193 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jan  4, 1999 (11:42) * 2 lines

What's it about, someone on heroin?


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 Response 194 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Jan  4, 1999 (11:45) * 1 lines

a child that gets involved with that scene when he runs away from a bad home life...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 195 of 367: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Thu, Feb  7, 2036 (03:41) * 1 lines

I'm still reading "Timequake", by Kurt Vonnegut. I've nearly finished it but I still don't really know what's going on...I'm hoping there's a big revelation at the end :-)


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 Response 196 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Thu, Feb  7, 2036 (02:21) * 2 lines

'the essential lenny bruce' (last night)
'dear theo' (tonight)(if i feel like it)


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 Response 197 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Jan  6, 1999 (19:33) * 1 lines

"lenny bruce is not afraid.."


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 Response 198 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Sun, Jan 10, 1999 (23:41) * 7 lines

yup
and it's the end of the world
(as we know it)

(though a few years cohabitation with
leonid, leonard and lester may've tempered
lenny's bravado just a little)


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 Response 199 of 367: T Patrick McCourt  (PT) * Wed, Jan 13, 1999 (15:58) * 1 lines

Red Phoenix


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 Response 200 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 13, 1999 (18:10) * 1 lines

A Whisper of Blood


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 Response 201 of 367: Adam C. Lipscomb  (AdamLipscomb) * Tue, Jan 19, 1999 (12:47) * 4 lines

Just picked up _The Transparent Society_ by David Brin. Brin takes on the privacy issue with a fascinating twist: he proposes that what is needed is not ironclad privacy for everyone, but reciprocal transparency, especially as it relates to governments and corporations. The government already has huge databases on every American citizen - nothing Orwellian here, it just happens as part of a system of record-keeping. Despite all of this data, Americans are still among the most free people on the planet
with only the Scandanavian Social Democracies above us on that list, and the Scandanavian governments have, in addition to the type of data our government has, socialized health care systems too! The problem is not that these records exist, but that we don't know who's looking at them. Brin recommends ensuring that there is a constantt bidirectional flow of information, that we have a right to know wht's going on in the corridors of power as much as, if not more than, they have a right to monitor us.

Anyway, it's a pretty cool book.


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 Response 202 of 367: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Jan 19, 1999 (17:26) * 1 lines

I@m re-reading "The Essence of the Thing" (Madeleine St. John) and with every page I think it hurts me a little bit more. Such a sad, sad book...and so real-life, too. That's probably the worst thing about it.


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 Response 203 of 367: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Jan 19, 1999 (17:27) * 1 lines

and of course it's the best thing, too...confusing :-)


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 Response 204 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Wed, Jan 20, 1999 (19:46) * 14 lines

the idea of 'reciprocal transparency' is an interesting one... what is
troubling, immediately upon consideration of it, though, is the evolution
of the idea, the mutations likely to arise from it... once the notion of
privacy is obsolete, all kinds of unpleasant scenarios come to mind,
especially in the kind of moral climate existing now (and into the future
forseeable, i'd guess)... privacy is the only protection available to
the radically different, and as long as absolutists congest the thinking
of the human race, is a commodity to be protected at all costs, i would
think... there's also the potential for abuse, unequal inevitably, because
of the power issues involved... the idea of 'i'll show you mine if you'll
show me your's' isn't as compelling when one considers the institutional
paronoia endemic to government (coupled, of course, with disproportionate
measures of power)...
sounds like a fascinating book, gonna look it up...


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 Response 205 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jan 20, 1999 (22:43) * 3 lines

think it would make a great topic here on the Spring,
as well...
suggestions as to conference, anyone?


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 Response 206 of 367: Adam C. Lipscomb  (AdamLipscomb) * Thu, Jan 21, 1999 (00:29) * 8 lines

Sounds like an interesting conference topic.

Brin does not gloss over the problems inherent in his proposal - he's very honest about both possible problems with Transparency, as well as the existence of unforseen problems also.

I'm about halfway through the book now, but one example Brin gives is the use (already occuring) of CCTV cameras in public, high crime areas. It is a fact that the presence of these cameras acts as a deterrent to street crime. Thh problem any sane person has is, how do I know if I'm being spied upon for something other than legitimate law-enforcement reasons? Brin's solution? Not only are all citizens able to dial into the feed from any of these cameras, but they can also dial in to a camera placed in
the Police Department's monitor room. Who watches the Watchmen? We all do.

I'm not sure I'd like to live in a completely Transparent society - I'm still prone to scratch my butt and pick my nose when I think I'm not observed (like right now, for example), and the last thing I want to do is scare the children.... ;-)


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 Response 207 of 367: Stacey Vura  (stacey) * Mon, Jan 25, 1999 (19:50) * 5 lines

just finished The Color of Water by James McBride.
Typically I do not enjoy biographies but this one grabbed me and kept me rapt until I was done.

Adam,
Sounds like a fascinating read... I'll have to pick it up!


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 208 of 367: Adam C. Lipscomb  (AdamLipscomb) * Mon, Jan 25, 1999 (20:05) * 5 lines

The COlor of Water - who's it about?

THe last good bio I read was _Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton_ - really enjoyed it, but then, I'm a Burtonphile. _Edgar A. Poe: A Mournful and Never Ending Remembrance_ is very good too.

In the mystery department, anyone else read the Tubby Dubonnet series by Tony Dunbar? They're pretty good - they're set in New Orleans, and the main character is a borderline seedy lawyer. They give a very good feel of the unique character of the City of N'awlins. There's also some really good descriptions of cajun cuisine, which just makes me want to go out and eat a ton or so of boiled crawfish.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 209 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Jan 26, 1999 (13:18) * 3 lines

The Color of Water is written by a black man for and about his white mother. the chapters alternate from his point of view and narration to her words when questioned by him as an adult.
Lots of color/race/whoami issues.
THe title comes from his mother's explanation to the question, "well if God's not white or black, what color is he>"


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 Response 210 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Feb  9, 1999 (17:23) * 3 lines

reading mind candy!!!
John Saul's Brain Child.
Gotta love a book you can finish in two sittings without trying and stretching your imagination with horrible visages of otherworldly evil!!!!


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 Response 211 of 367: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Tue, Feb  9, 1999 (19:54) * 1 lines

reading "My Legendary Girlfriend" by Mike Gayle.....it's pulp :(


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 Response 212 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, Feb  9, 1999 (20:43) * 1 lines

i'm still reading belva plain's whispers. of course, i only have time to read it during my stationary bike ride 30 mins two times a week. right now one of the characters is really getting on my nerves. yeah, i know, it's just a book but it just goes to show how belva is able to draw you in.


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 Response 213 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Tue, Feb  9, 1999 (21:59) * 1 lines

just finished Violin by Anne Rice...


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 Response 214 of 367: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Wed, Feb 10, 1999 (05:37) * 1 lines

what's that about, wer?


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 Response 215 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Thu, Feb 11, 1999 (18:05) * 9 lines

girl meets guy
guy is a ghost who plays a violin
girl has always wanted to be able to play violin
ghost is sadistic
girl is strong and more "messed in the head" than the ghost anticipated
(insert bunch of stuff here)
everyone lives/dies happily ever after

it's a good read if you like her super descriptive period type pieces...


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 Response 216 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Wed, Feb 17, 1999 (20:15) * 3 lines

reread 'all the president's men' last night...
part of 'the final days', too... (saw ben bradlee
on larry king, made me nostalgic)


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 217 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Thu, Feb  7, 2036 (01:30) * 7 lines

flannery o'connor, complete stories
this new edition i bought contains several stories i hadn't read
previously (written in the forties, when she was a graduate student),
and they are wonderful...a little different from those i've grown
familiar with...more open-ended, for one thing... even a little less
developed, but in some way i find them even more satisfying...she was
such a tremendous, unique talent, and always worthwhile...


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 218 of 367: Mike Griggs (mikeg) * Sat, Mar  6, 1999 (15:43) * 1 lines

"Philby", Phillip Knightley. life and times of a russian spy.


 Topic 2 of 57 [books]: What I'm reading right now
 Response 219 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Sat, Jul  3, 1999 (22:59) * 5 lines

just finished "Fault Lines" by Anna Salter and
"The Street Lawyer" by John Grisham...still
muddling through "Virtual Reality" by Howard
Rheingold and rereading "UNIX in a Nutshell"
as well...


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 Response 220 of 367: Autumn   (autumn) * Sun, Jul  4, 1999 (00:10) * 1 lines

I recently enjoyed Poisonwood Bible, Colony and Chocolat. However, I was disappointed in Midwives, which had come so highly recommended, and am ready to give up on Accordion Crimes after one more chapter.


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 Response 221 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Sun, Jul  4, 1999 (01:10) * 1 lines

don't you hate that!


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 Response 222 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Jul  4, 1999 (23:27) * 1 lines

working on belva blain's promises. yeah, i know, i have a whole library of her books. am still waiting for amy tan to publish another one (luv her work).


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 Response 223 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Mon, Jul  5, 1999 (01:10) * 2 lines

yeah, I'm waiting on the next
Laura K. Hamilton one to come out...


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 Response 224 of 367: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Mon, Jul  5, 1999 (04:59) * 5 lines

I read the letter - especially the youthful love letters - of Franziska zu Reventlow.

Born a countess in Husum (coast of the North Sea) around 1870, she was quite the bohemian, living from around 1893 to her untimely death 1911 in the famous bohemia of Schwabing, a part of Munich.

In my early youth, I guess I was much in love with her. I read all that was just being put in print - republished novels and essays, but most of all her diaries, unpublished before. What an extraordinary person! I can't describe it all to you, I just thought she was the most adorable person I ever heard of, read about or met.


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 Response 225 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Mon, Jul  5, 1999 (14:47) * 1 lines

so how do we get a hold of her diaries?


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 Response 226 of 367: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Tue, Jul  6, 1999 (04:47) * 7 lines

Don't know if anything is available in English. Sorry.

She was such a complex person, constantly in opposition with her own urges and needs. Very liberal for that time... A person with much love, but never sure for whom.

All so difficult to express for me without making her seem an easy gal or cheap. Especially since she was not famous, but infamous, and had at times to resort to strange means to support herself, especially after she had a son (whose father was NEVER disclosed by her, not in letters nor diaries I've read).

Hard to describe... Let's put it this way: patterns in live pretty much spread these days - not neccessarily all desirable - were lived by her over hundred years ago in the rigid society of Wilhelminian Germany, deep when it was an Imperial state, and state-service, military and order were the basis of the society. She was the prototypical nonconformist. Died for it, too, in the end.


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 Response 227 of 367: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Tue, Jul  6, 1999 (04:57) * 17 lines

Just checked Amazon... There are books on theology by a Henning Graf Reventlow, doubtless a relative, and one title that discusses several women of late-19th century Germany (book in German, sorry):

Übergangsgeschöpfe: Gabriele Reuter, Hedwig Dohm, Helen Böhlau, und Franziska von Reventlow

by Ludmila Slavova
Our Price: $43.95

Hardcover (October 1998)
Peter Lang Publishing; ISBN: 0820439622

Book Description

Im Weiblichkeitsdiskurs um 1900 wurde die Frau weitgehend als Sinnbild der Sexualitt oder als sprachloses Objekt dargestellt. Man sprach den Frauen schpferische Fähigkeiten ab. Dieses Buch befaßt sich mit der Problematik weiblicher Sprachlosigkeit und Kreativitt in ausgewhlten Frauenromanen der
Jahrhundertwende. Es untersucht die ambivalente Haltung dieser Autorinnen zu ihrem Geschlecht sowie die Frage, inwieweit ihre Werke von den standartisierten Weiblichkeitsbildern der Zeit beeinflußt wurden.

BOOK SYNOPIS IN ENGLISH The discourses on femininity in nineteenth-century
Germany considered women as speechless objects and as incarnation of sexuality. The discursive practices denied women creative capabilities. This book focuses on female speechlessness and creativity in selected novels by four turn-of-the century women writers. The study examines the ambivalent attitude of these authors towards their gender and the question of how their works were influenced by the prevalent images of femininity.


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 Response 228 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Sun, Jul 25, 1999 (22:44) * 3 lines

Wenesday, Thursday and Friday I read Jean M. Auel's
The Clan of the Cave Bear and
The Mammoth Hunters


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 Response 229 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Jul 26, 1999 (12:17) * 1 lines

reading another Koontz... "Sieze the Night"


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 Response 230 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Aug  8, 1999 (18:14) * 1 lines

my mother forbade me from reading that book (clan of the cave bear) while i lived in her house. and you know, i haven't read it since moving out on my own! saw the movie, though.


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 Response 231 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Mon, Aug  9, 1999 (00:05) * 5 lines

finished the fourth in the series, also, and read Almost Adam
by Petru Popescu last week...

My Mom never forbid me to read any book although she asked me
to wait until I was older to read The Exorcist...


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 Response 232 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Mon, Aug  9, 1999 (19:46) * 1 lines

she was afraid the sexual scenes would frighten me....


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 Response 233 of 367: wer  (KitchenManager) * Mon, Aug  9, 1999 (23:47) * 2 lines

in the first book? okay, I can see that...the rest have way more
explicit scenes, though...


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 Response 234 of 367: Stacey Vura  (stacey) * Wed, Aug 18, 1999 (13:12) * 4 lines

Finished HANNIBAL (follow-upto Silence of the Lambs)
Fantastic!

Reading "The Informers" now...


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 Response 235 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Aug 22, 1999 (20:51) * 1 lines

they do? golly, maybe i oughta...hmmmmmmm *grin*


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 Response 236 of 367: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Tue, Oct  5, 1999 (15:54) * 5 lines

Just finished "Where the Heart Is"
loved the story and became quite fond of the characters...
Started "Louisiana Fever" last night
cross between "The Hot Zone" and a Nancy Drew novel..
gotta love mind candy!


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 Response 237 of 367: Amy Keene  (Irishprincess) * Wed, Oct 27, 1999 (10:49) * 2 lines

I'm reading "The Queen's Bastard" by Robin Maxwell, and I can't put it down! It involves Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley having a secret child, and this child is switched at birth (on purpose, of course) with a stillborn child. The Queen's baby is given to commoners to raise, and he never knows until he's grown that he was the son of the Queen. The romantic scenes between Elizabeth and Robert are really beautiful--not tasteless at all, but speaking of two people who, if circumstances were different, woul
have been married.


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 Response 238 of 367: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (16:12) * 1 lines

....when she should be reading Mary Stewart's Merlin Trology!


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 Response 239 of 367: Amy Keene  (Irishprincess) * Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (16:17) * 1 lines

Come on now--I'm not supposed to be reading anything at all! I'm supposed to be grading these analyses of "Valmont" and writing a paper!


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 Response 240 of 367: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (16:34) * 2 lines

How bac can THAT be??? Make the little trolls give the actor a good report
if nothing else =) I thought you got an extension on that papaper!


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 Response 241 of 367: Amy Keene  (Irishprincess) * Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (16:57) * 3 lines

I did get an extension on that paper, but I was supposed to turn it in today, which isn't going to happen! I haven't gone to the library yet, either! I've fallen into full-scale slacker mode!

And believe me, these "Valmont" essays are not that exciting to read...no one has said much of anything about Colin Firth!


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 Response 242 of 367: Marcia (MarciaH) * Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (21:36) * 2 lines

Make them watch it again for your own enjoyment. Too bad you did not have a room full
pf Droolians to teach. Can you imagine the essays we would have created for your enjoyment!


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 Response 243 of 367: Amy Keene  (Irishprincess) * Fri, Oct 29, 1999 (21:38) * 1 lines

Nah, I couldn't do that--it took 3 class periods to get all the way through it, and we're running out of time in this semester! I can say that most all of them did like it, though.


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 Response 244 of 367: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Oct 30, 1999 (00:17) * 1 lines

I still think you should be teaching it to Droolians for a truly edifying experience *grin*


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 Response 245 of 367: Alexander  (aschuth) * Tue, Nov  2, 1999 (14:52) * 2 lines

"Dear Boy", the biography of Keith Moon, one of the greatest drummers ever. When he died, the Who were history.
superstar will review this very substantial book, published by Omnibus Press, UK.


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 Response 246 of 367: Stacey Tinianov  (stacey) * Wed, Dec  8, 1999 (10:17) * 2 lines

Just finished Moo by Jane Smiley
enjoyed it... enjoyed the characters... full of quaint little commentaries on life, real life and fantasy lives that we would all love to lead at times


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 Response 247 of 367: Alexander  (aschuth) * Fri, Dec 10, 1999 (04:10) * 1 lines

The Keith Moon-thing was really heavy reading. John B. oughta take a look at this. Extremely good coverage of Sixties and early seventies music scene.


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 Response 248 of 367: Alexander  (aschuth) * Fri, Dec 10, 1999 (04:14) * 1 lines

Current read: The Johnny Cash-autobiography in German.


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 Response 249 of 367: Alexander  (aschuth) * Tue, Mar 14, 2000 (13:21) * 3 lines

I'm currently yawning my way through that guy Guralnick's 2-volume Elvis-bio.

While obviously a labor of love with infinite detail fans will love, much of the detail is made up, as he admits to in the endnotes. Weeeeell.


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 Response 250 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Tue, Mar 14, 2000 (16:02) * 3 lines

Cannot believe anything Elvis could ever be a yawn for you, Alexander!

I am plowing through the Hawaiian Creation Myth: "The Kumulipo" which is a translation done be Liliuokalani of Hawaii, the Queen. It is rough going since it was translated into Victorian English and is full of allusions to other things which must be looked up before continuing. The second book I am reading is "Legends and Myths of Hawaii" written in story form by Kalakaua of Hawaii, the King. (These two monarchs were not consorts; each ruled in his/her own right.)


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 Response 251 of 367: Alexander  (aschuth) * Wed, Mar 15, 2000 (14:17) * 8 lines

See, Marcia, Guralnick goes like "Then then he and all the guys went there and there, ate this 'n' that. Elvis wore ....", all tremendously generic crap, and then he tell you in the end note, that Elvis was dressed like this AROUND that time, it's documented, yes, but IT IS NOT DOCUMENTED FOR THE DESCRIBED EVENT.

He's discussing stuff IN DETAIL which he guesses at, generalizes things, and knows how people feel EXACTLY. That's making it all so very exciting. [yawn]

The only Hawaii thing I eyer read were the tales by Jack London.


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 Response 252 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Wed, Mar 15, 2000 (14:59) * 3 lines

Michener is good on Hawaii, as is Robert Louis Stevenson. And, Mark Twain

Sounds like a really worst-case read, at best. Soulda named it "Elvis: The Trivia Continues..."


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 Response 253 of 367: Maggie  (sociolingo) * Sun, Apr  9, 2000 (03:02) * 8 lines

I read Michener on Hawaii a long time back. Forgotten most of it!

I've just finished the two books of the Stephen Lawhead Arthurian trilogy that I have. Must find the third sometime.

I'm now well in to Bruce Chatwin's travelogue, The Songlines, about the ancient invisible pathways connecting up all over Australia, ancient tracks made of songs which tell of the creation of theland. It's another old favourite and I'm 'comfort reading'.

What I'm supposed to be reading is a brand new book by Birgit Brock-Utne, Whose education for all?? The recolonization of the African mind. Since 1990 when the phrase 'education for all' was first coined at the World Bank conference in Jomtien, a battle has raged over the its meaning and impact on education in Africa. The argument goes that education for all really means western primary schooling for some and none for others, robbing Africans of their indigenous knowledge and language which then starves highereducation in Africa and perpetuates western dominance. OK, I'm off my hobby horse! It's a good read though if I can concenrate.


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 Response 254 of 367: Alexander  (aschuth) * Sun, Apr  9, 2000 (12:58) * 9 lines

CHATWIN!!!!!

Great author if there ever was one!!! Wot a shame he's dead. Positively LOVE that book, even if some stuff has since been shown to be not as factual as it appears in his writing...

If you're deep in the book, you'll notice it's not about the Songlines at all, but about the "where I come from, where me go to"-thang. And then, looking at the species he actually explores himself.


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 Response 255 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Sun, Apr  9, 2000 (13:03) * 2 lines

Maggie, I expect a full report on Geomythology creation legends...*grin*
Capital letters?! Must hunt up a copy... (Aloha, Alexander!)


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 Response 256 of 367: Maggie  (sociolingo) * Sun, Apr  9, 2000 (14:14) * 5 lines

Do find one Marcia. I got it originally from the library and it took me ages to find a second hand copy to own.

Alexander - have you read in Patagonia? I have it on tape not paper.

I love Chatwin's humanity and searching which shine through. I like the way he realtes to people as people not just objects of research.


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 Response 257 of 367: Alexander  (aschuth) * Mon, Apr 10, 2000 (14:29) * 4 lines

Chatwin - got the whole load of them! Incl. the photo book which only has a introduction by him, his book with Theroux, the novels (Utz, made a movie with Armin Müller-Stahl, and the other thing, filmed with Klaus Kinski, can't think of the name). Patagonia I read auf deutsch, but nearly all the rest I ordered in his tongue.

Loved his "What am I doing here", which he compiled through all the in and out of hospitals, what was at the end what he was busy with: dying, and editing scraps, essays and articles for that MARVELOUS and WONDROUS tome.


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 Response 258 of 367: Maggie  (sociolingo) * Mon, Apr 10, 2000 (17:33) * 1 lines

Oh alexander i am jealous!! I still keep my out in the second hand shops, but as i said only found songlines recently.


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 Response 259 of 367: Maggie  (sociolingo) * Tue, Apr 11, 2000 (14:22) * 1 lines

Alexander have you read Chatwin: Anatomy of Restlessness:selected writings 1969-1989???


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 Response 260 of 367: Alexander  (aschuth) * Wed, Apr 12, 2000 (13:15) * 4 lines

No, haven't heard of it. Must be a post-humous collection of stuff he did for mags and papers.

I got most of my Chatwin stuff for Christmas or birthday from people who know my tastes.


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 Response 261 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Wed, Apr 12, 2000 (15:38) * 1 lines

....and from people who actually know when your birthday is...!


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 Response 262 of 367: Maggie  (sociolingo) * Wed, Apr 12, 2000 (16:13) * 3 lines

Talking of that ....... Has to be May or June Marcia (you I mean not Alexander)

Yes the Anatomy of Restlessness book is post-h. There's a chapter in songlines which is journal jottings, and I keep looking at where to post some of them!


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 Response 263 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Sun, Apr 16, 2000 (20:07) * 1 lines

I was fishing for Alexander's, of course. We all know when the rest of ours is from Paraspring conference...


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 Response 264 of 367: Maggie  (sociolingo) * Tue, Apr 18, 2000 (03:43) * 4 lines

You may, but i don't

More comfort reading
Elizabeth Goudge, Herb of Grace


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 Response 265 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr 18, 2000 (15:49) * 1 lines

I need something comfort - maybe the book you sent will finally be opened and read - ahead of the others waiting for my attention...


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 Response 266 of 367: Maggie  (sociolingo) * Tue, Apr 18, 2000 (17:43) * 1 lines

Please do I think it will help. HUG!


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 Response 267 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Tue, Apr 18, 2000 (18:26) * 1 lines

Thanks, Maggie. I really need something other than crying.


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 Response 268 of 367: Maggie  (sociolingo) * Wed, Apr 19, 2000 (01:06) * 1 lines

Have another hug, and cuddle up with it.


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 Response 269 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Wed, Apr 19, 2000 (17:03) * 1 lines

* H U G S *


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 Response 270 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Wed, Apr 19, 2000 (17:45) * 1 lines

Oh Wow...*sniff* that is so special...thanks for the support. It means so much right now!


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 Response 271 of 367:  (sprin5) * Wed, Apr 19, 2000 (20:23) * 1 lines

Wow, what book? Did you dig in to it?


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 Response 272 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Wed, Apr 19, 2000 (22:45) * 1 lines

Maggie had Amazon.com send me Hinds' Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard and I have not looked past the cover. I shall this evening. My soul is sore and needs the comfort, even though things are cool here again this evening. I'll be happy to report on it as soon as I can - even in parts!


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 Response 273 of 367: _cosmo_  (aa9il) * Tue, Apr 25, 2000 (20:44) * 16 lines

Greetings all

Reading some of the postings provoked me to pull a book
from the back of the queue to open up:
"Wireless Imagination - Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde"
(Dada Radio -or- Radio Dada?)

Also, currently on the reading list is:
"The Legacy of Luna" (in progress...)

Im suddenly finding fractions of free time here and there
which is good since I can read more but then I start
too many parallel reading projects.

Mike aka _cosmo_


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 Response 274 of 367: bookspring (sprin5) * Tue, Apr 25, 2000 (21:13) * 1 lines

What'What's the Legacy of Luna about?


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 Response 275 of 367: bookworm  (MarciaH) * Fri, Apr 28, 2000 (14:21) * 1 lines

Mike, I can relate to multiple reading projects underway. I have three books going plus a stack of journals waiting for me. *sigh*


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 Response 276 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Fri, Apr 28, 2000 (14:21) * 1 lines


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 Response 277 of 367: bookspring (sprin5) * Sun, Apr 30, 2000 (10:26) * 1 lines

Which books and which journals?


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 Response 278 of 367: bookworm  (MarciaH) * Sun, Apr 30, 2000 (14:54) * 16 lines

Journals:
*Archaeology
*Biblical Archaeology Review
*Archaeology Odyssey
*Antiquity and other British Archaeology publications(online)
*Various Geological tech journals forwarded by my son
*Astronomy

Books:
*In Gardens of Hawaii - Marie C. Neal (THE reference book for green and growing)
*Sarum - Rutherford (the only fiction)
*Norma Lorre Goodrich books on Arthurian characters
*The KUMULIPO - Queen Liliuokalini of Hawaii
* Maggie's book

All but the latter and Sarum are reaearching for Geo and other conferences on Spring. I Love doing research - it is like treasure hunting!


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 Response 279 of 367: _cosmo_  (aa9il) * Sun, Apr 30, 2000 (22:27) * 15 lines

Greetings all

"Legacy of Luna" is the story of Julia Butterfly Hill
and her efforts to stop clear cutting of the old growth
redwoods in Northern California.

The Radio book is another facet of my inquiry into
the fact that there were (and are) unique radio broadcasts
out there aside from the rubbish that the media conglomerates
are spewing out.

Fight for Free Radio!

Mike aka Cosmo


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 Response 280 of 367: bookworm  (MarciaH) * Mon, May  1, 2000 (00:03) * 1 lines

Believe it, Mike! I am am also a DX-er of some devotion and swl with great regularity logging in the new, the ephemeral and the truly weird. What can we do to help? My son lives in North-central California, and we are truly dedicated to outdoors and preserving it (he is a geologist).


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 Response 281 of 367: Maggie  (sociolingo) * Mon, May  1, 2000 (00:14) * 12 lines

I'm still into Elizabeth Goudge, and ploughing through the copies I borrowed from a friend.
Have finished 'Herb of Grace' (it's on it's way marcie to join your pile when I get to the Post office!)
Have just (last night) finished 'the White Whitch' (set in my area of the Chilterns)
Am now starting a real old favourite 'City of bells'
Also re-reading Paul Gallico's 'Jennie'

Academically I have such a long list of books I'm working on which have to go back to Uni library next week that I'm ashamed to put them in here. Should have finished working on them ages ago!

Journals:
*journal of multilingual and multicultural development
*prospects (UNESCO)
*international journal of educational development


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 Response 282 of 367: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Tue, Feb  6, 2001 (13:53) * 1 lines

I'm starting to get into "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", by Louis de Bernieres. Bit of a slow starter but I'm enjoying it now!


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 Response 283 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Thu, Mar  1, 2001 (14:20) * 17 lines

reading 'autobiographies', from yeats collected works series...
really astonishingly good... vivid, honest portrayals of many
of his contemporaries (esp. wilde, morris, shaw, mde. blavatsky)...
highly recommended reading, to anyone interested...

re-read frank dobie's 'tales of old-time texas' other night...
(for probably the twentieth time)...
combine that with the damn earthquake... and the bluebonnets,
indian paintbrushes that'll be showing up along the highways
all over texas any day now...
and the fact that NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY it is not
possible to find any real mexican food in this damn place-
or a real chicken-fried steak, or even a damn hamburger, for
that matter-
(plenty of frigging lattes, though, if you're of a mind)
-and i'm really really homesick...
(i think i even miss the scorpions)


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 Response 284 of 367: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Sun, Mar 25, 2001 (06:51) * 1 lines

I finished "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", by Louis de Bernieres. Fantastic book!!!!! Buy it immediately it is absolutely wonderful. One of the finest pieces of literature I have e.ver read


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 Response 285 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, May 22, 2001 (17:47) * 1 lines

i am reading BB&H (thanks to marcia for sending me such a wonderful gift). let me paraphrase the title: Fatherless Sons, Female Dogs, and Heros. didn't want to offend anyone with the actual language though it is appropriate. anyway, am roughly half-way through it and am touched by the whole thing.


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 Response 286 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Wed, May 23, 2001 (23:06) * 3 lines

Wolfie!!! That is the most wonderful book. I want to create a topic for it and encourage others to read what it was like being innocent victims of WW2 from a highly unusual source. The book is subtitled "A Memoir" and is by Herman I. Neuman. More about the book can be read at http://herobooks.com/

Links at the bottom will lead you onward. The author has become a good friend and I treasure knowing him. It is a book not only of great courage, but in true survival and creating Heroes where none wanted to exist.


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 Response 287 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Wed, May 23, 2001 (23:12) * 6 lines

Terry, I note that I cannot create a topic in here. Might you please do so for me?! Title: BB&H - A Memoir by Herman I. Neuman

Text area: BB&H is a book not only of great courage, but in true survival and creating Heroes where none wanted to exist.

Thanks!!!


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 Response 288 of 367: Herman I Neuman  (HeroBooks) * Thu, May 24, 2001 (09:03) * 3 lines

Hi Marci, Terry and Wolfie,
I am excited to meet you here. Thank you, Marcia, for inviting me. Looking forward to many visits.
Herman


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 Response 289 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, May 24, 2001 (09:26) * 1 lines

It's great you're here, we'd love to have you visit us as many times as you like!


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 Response 290 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Thu, May 24, 2001 (15:14) * 6 lines

Terry, This man is my favorite person on the entire globe. Welcome and Aloha, Herman. And, a big welcoming *HUG* from la lady who lives on /\~~~ (which did not work last time I tried to change my login name to this.) Herman, I still think your creasted just for me volcano is adorable, and I use it every chance I get. Wolfie has her homework to finish on the book. She is about 2/3 through where Maxo enters your life. More as we trade thoughts on this most wonderful book.

Btw, I was just writing you a letter to tell you how to login. I see you did not need my advice! Happy me to find you here. May we do your most excellent book justice - it is both inspirational and healing for those who are trauma-scarred - and who amongst us is not?!

Again, Aloha and *GREAT BIG WARM HUGS*
/\~~~


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 Response 291 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Thu, May 24, 2001 (18:55) * 5 lines

hi herman!! so glad to meet you and find you here to boot!!!!! i must say, i am so glad you found the courage (perhaps reluctantly/accidently?) to write your story.

well, i've made it to the escape with much relief! and the pictures are great, i think i spent more time looking through them than reading last night!

marcia, again, thank you for sending me this book--you ARE my twin!! *HUGS*


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 Response 292 of 367: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Fri, May 25, 2001 (06:38) * 1 lines

OK, my interest is piqued...what is all this about girls?


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 Response 293 of 367: Herman I Neuman  (HeroBooks) * Sun, May 27, 2001 (09:06) * 10 lines

Dear Marcia /\~~~, Wolfie, Terry and Mike,

I can hardly wait for /\~~~ to start a topic for my memoir. I admire her warm heart and inquisitive mind. And judging by her hand writing, she is also very artistic.

I held the second signing for my, (as Wolfie refines it): "Fatherless Sons, Female Dogs, and Heroes." The responses has been overwhelming, and I as a mere "boat people," am not used to such recognition and adoration.

Humbly I suggest, that I have so many lessons and experiences to share, to hopefully inspire and educate others, those in the top echelon from whence guidence must flow, and those at the bottom from whence I climbed, who require hope and role models to emulate.

Thank you,
Herman


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 Response 294 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, May 27, 2001 (09:26) * 1 lines

That's great on having a topic for the /\~~~ memoir. Explain about being "boat people" ok?


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 Response 295 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, May 27, 2001 (13:49) * 1 lines

well, i have just finished this book and i am hungry for more.


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 Response 296 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, May 27, 2001 (13:51) * 1 lines

marcia, i've just opened a topic for this book. you had mentioned troubles trying to do this but it must be fixed now.


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 Response 297 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Sun, May 27, 2001 (18:23) * 6 lines

(the create topic was missing from my assortment of buttons on this conference but see it has been corrected - thanks!)

Along with BB&H, which I am finishing for the second time, I am also reading
North from the Mountains by John S. Kessler and Donald B. Ball. Subtitled A Folk History of the Carmel Melungeon Settlement, Highland County, Ohio

I have created a Melungeon topic in Cultures Conference (topic 35) because it was so new to me. There is an awakening awareness of this sub-culture which has existed in the United States perhaps longer than any other. It is also the only tri-racial group known to exist here. Surely there are others who have read about their existance? They have been in hiding for so long since they managed to be discriminated against by one segment or another of their own bloodlines for centuries. This is not only a scholarly reliable book, it is great reading, as well. More as I digest it and re-read it. And, mich more in Cultures 35 for all things Melungeon.


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 Response 298 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Sun, May 27, 2001 (18:45) * 1 lines

I have just discovered that many such mixed-blood groups existed in isolated pockets of the Eastern United States. This particular book deals with one such group.


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 Response 299 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, May 27, 2001 (20:48) * 1 lines

i've only heard of that group through you, marcia...


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 Response 300 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, May 28, 2001 (09:08) * 1 lines

I'm glad the cultures topic is getting some play, since William Meyers has vanished from the scene, that conference has been pretty moribund. Are you a host there Marci? If not, would you like to acquire hostdom there? It's hard for some people to understand what the cultures conference is all about, but there are some pretty cool topics there already.


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 Response 301 of 367: Herman I Neuman  (HeroBooks) * Wed, May 30, 2001 (10:26) * 12 lines

Dear Terry,

Explain about being "boat people" ok?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

My mother sent me to America on an ocean liner. We sailed through a hurricane, lost a propeller and were thrown off course. Within two or three hours after my 6000 mile journey to my final destination, I had to milk dairy cows. Only then did I begin to realize that I had become a slave.

But I triumphed greatly. Life is a blast!
Herman

P.S. This is an interesting, civilized and well-designed site, for that I thank you.


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 Response 302 of 367: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Thu, May 31, 2001 (16:30) * 1 lines

Sounds like an interesting story, Herman.... care to share more of it?


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 Response 303 of 367: Herman I Neuman  (HeroBooks) * Thu, May 31, 2001 (18:15) * 7 lines

Dear Mike,

There's so much that it would take hours, days. Have you looked my Web pages linked in Response 286 above? I'll be glad to anwer your quetions.

Thank you for your interest; I have learned so much from my experiences that I want to share.

Herman


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 Response 304 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Thu, May 31, 2001 (20:20) * 1 lines

mike, look in this conference under BB&H (can't remember the topic number)


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 Response 305 of 367: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Tue, Jun  5, 2001 (15:17) * 1 lines

ok, will do...


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 Response 306 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Aug 12, 2001 (20:46) * 1 lines

Joeeph Cambell's The Power of Myth.


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 Response 307 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Sat, Aug 25, 2001 (18:07) * 5 lines

Read that several times over - you'll love it, Terry.

I'm reading Tutankhamun - The Untold Story by Thomas Hoving. It was recommended to me by an archaeologist (no, not that one.) You'd be agahast how much was stolen and sold on the black market by the discoveres to maintain their elevated lifestyles.


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 Response 308 of 367: Maggie  (sociolingo) * Sun, Aug 26, 2001 (08:57) * 1 lines

Did you ever read the book/s I sent you Marcia???


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 Response 309 of 367: Mike Griggs  (mikeg) * Sun, Aug 26, 2001 (12:53) * 1 lines

Great Expecatations by Charles Dickens. Great stuff.


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 Response 310 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Sun, Aug 26, 2001 (15:16) * 3 lines

Great Expectations is a book you will read many times over your lifetime. Dickens is just like that.

I took my Tutankamun book with me last night to the volleyball game and have no clue who won. It is absolutely riveting. Not everything you thought you knew about his discovery and the final resting place for the goodies they discovered ended up where you think they did!!!


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 Response 311 of 367: nick a'hannay  (pmnh) * Mon, Oct 15, 2001 (11:13) * 3 lines

re-reading fitzgerald's short stories, a new collection (43, in all), gleaned from the many smaller collections...
haven't read these in a long time, and had forgotten how splendid... how exquisite... they are...
(urgently recommended)


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 Response 312 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Mon, Oct 15, 2001 (13:09) * 3 lines

Aloha Nick! Good to see you back at the Spring!

I'm reading 5 books at once - per uusual. "Ramapo Mountain People" I think will be the one I take on the plane.... or "Tutahnkamum: The Untold Story" by Thomas Hoving. Will note your urgent recommendation and look for it when I return from my son's wedding.


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 Response 313 of 367: Jackie2  (Jackie2) * Tue, Oct 16, 2001 (06:44) * 1 lines

I am reading Girl with Pearl earring and I recommend it.


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 Response 314 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Thu, Nov  1, 2001 (20:10) * 1 lines

i'm reading the thomas guide to L.A. and Orange Counties 2002 *laugh*


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 Response 315 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, Feb  5, 2002 (21:25) * 1 lines

ok, now that book is tabbed and tucked away in my car! now on to leisure reading---Amy Tan's newest is now out in paperback and I have it--The Bonesetter's Daughter. just started it yesterday but she is great and has taught me a lot about China and i've come to appreciate it and Asian culture (not the communism part of it mind you). her books deal with the enigma of families, particularly mother-daughter relationships of the mothers from old world china and their children who are americanized.


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 Response 316 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Mon, Apr 22, 2002 (14:42) * 3 lines

Right now i'm reading Kathy Munger's Casey Jones series. There's about 5 of them (i'm on #2) - and they're a fun easy read. Set in the South they're all about the misadventures of one Casey Jones -unlicensed PI extradinare.
First one is called Legwork. I'd recommend it if you like Southern-based mysteries with a gutsy heroine.


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 Response 317 of 367: Sam Blob  (AlFor) * Fri, Apr 26, 2002 (23:00) * 1 lines

Just finished reading an issue of Motorcyclist magazine...


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 Response 318 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Fri, Apr 26, 2002 (23:11) * 6 lines

I've been burrowing my way through Volcanoes in the Sea for a whole new topic on instructive sort (new for me) on how the Earth became inhabitable.

I'm also reading archaeological monographs because they interest me and I have a whole bunch of others I grab from time to time to graze upon like curling up with an old friend. I know the authors, and that makes them very special

Bastards, Bitches and Heroes Herman I Neuman
North from the Mountains John S. Kessler and Donald B. Ball


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 Response 319 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Fri, Apr 26, 2002 (23:12) * 1 lines

Sam, is that bathroom reading or just indulgence in your fascination with the internal combustion powered machines?


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 Response 320 of 367: Sam Blob  (AlFor) * Sun, Apr 28, 2002 (07:02) * 1 lines

Both. Had a feature on Power Cruisers (which don't impress me much) with an aside about the V-Max (which DOES!) and also featured a performance comparison of the Suzuki GSX-R1000 and the Chevrolet Corvette Z06, both piloted by motorcycle and NASCAR racer Kevin Schwantz. Advantage: GSX-R1000, in all areas of performance (then again, they probably didn't do a skidpad test; I'll have to re-read it...) They also had a biography about the former Mike Duff, who won motorcycle GP races in the Sixties.


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 Response 321 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Mon, Apr 29, 2002 (16:41) * 3 lines

i've just started a new series by Christine Feehan,
It's a vampire series, a totally new genre for me. cant decide if i like it or not~


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 Response 322 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Mon, Apr 29, 2002 (17:38) * 1 lines

you haven't read anne rice? i thought she was the vampire expert (i've not read any of her stuff either)


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 Response 323 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Mon, Apr 29, 2002 (18:16) * 2 lines

Nope, haven't read Anne Rice -i think she may be a little to creepy for me. This series (by Christine Feehan) is kinda dark, but there's a definate battle between good and evil -with good triumphing.
The vampire thing may be alittle to paranormal for me thought. not sure if i'm going to read the whole series...


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 Response 324 of 367: Sam Blob  (AlFor) * Tue, Apr 30, 2002 (20:22) * 3 lines

Read Shall We Tell The President? by Jeffrey Archer today. This was the original one, written in 1977 and set in 1983, based on the premise that Edward Kennedy had defeated Carter in the '80 Democratic Primary and the Republican cnadidate in the '80 Presidential Election, and that there was a plot to kill this second President Kennedy in 1983.

Very well done, but I can understand why Archer re-wrote it and made it the third Florentina Kane novel. It would be difficult for those weak in imagination to imagine a world in which Ronald Reagan never existed. It was a lot easier to do so in 1977 when he really didn't exist (except in California...)


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 Response 325 of 367: Sam Blob  (AlFor) * Tue, Apr 30, 2002 (20:25) * 1 lines

I guess it's time for me to try to find the rewritten Shall We Tell The President?. Then again, maybe I should read The Prodigal Daughter first. And The Fourth K, too. I can't remember who wrote The Fourth K; I think it was Mario Puzo.


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 Response 326 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Mon, Jun  3, 2002 (13:16) * 1 lines

I'm currently halfway through Nora Roberts' Face the Fire, the third book of her three sisters triology. It's a pretty good read -typical NR. I'm not that impressed with Sam (the Hero) though, or maybe it's just that Nora hasnt fully explained why he disappeared 10 years before, breaking the heroine's heart. Course, maybe i'm not supposed to, since the Heroine doesnt know why he did either(but usually the reader has some clue). Not that THAT keeps the heroine from sleeping with him. (like i said. typical NR)


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 Response 327 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Wed, Jun  5, 2002 (17:04) * 3 lines

I started Elizabeth Lowell's new hardcover, Running Scared last night. It's the sequel to Moving Target, and the second in her most recent series. I'm enjoying it, but not quite as much as her Donovan series. Although, the Donovans are secondary characters in this new antiquities series. (i'm still hopefull that Justin & Lawe will get their own books *fingers crossed*)
I have to admit that there is a natural tie-in between the two series -gems and antiquities. To be perfectly honest, i keep expecting April Joy to show up leading a FBI investigation. :-D
(anybody else read Elizabeth Lowell? ...have any clue what i'm talking about?)


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 Response 328 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Fri, Jun  7, 2002 (12:56) * 6 lines

*laughing*
was reading Running Scared again last, and who shows up leading a FBI investigation, but ...April Joy! LOL

okay - will stop my yammering re: Elizabeth Lowell books, as apparently nobody else reads them but me :-)

(yammering. Can you tell i lived in the South for 5 years?) ;-)


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 Response 329 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Thu, Jun 20, 2002 (10:49) * 7 lines

Last Night finished British Book called, Hens Dancing.

it's Diary format -smiliar to Bridget Jones, and is about a single mother of three living on a farm in the country. It's a fun read and the kids are a hoot!

I recommend it if you're a Jenny Colgan/Helen Feilding fan.


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 Response 330 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Tue, Jun 25, 2002 (16:38) * 3 lines

i'm in the middle of Completely Smitten by Kristine Grayson, it's the third in a series of romantic comedies with a fairy tale/Greek gods twist. Not a great work of literature, but still a fun read. :-)

Tonight i'll start book four (West of Bliss) in Suzann Ledbetter's series. I love her books, the kooky characters, off-the-wall mysteries and romantic relationships are as close as i've found to Janete Evanovich's books.


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 Response 331 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Wed, Jul  3, 2002 (18:29) * 1 lines

At lunch today i picked up Summertime, the sequal to Hens Dancing. Cant wait to start it! :-D


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 Response 332 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Wed, Jul 10, 2002 (19:34) * 5 lines

i'm nearing the end of Jemima J by Jane Green - which i'm finding V. amusing.
British Girl meets cute california guy on the Internet -fun fluff, just right for Lite Summer reading :-)


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 Response 333 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Tue, Aug 27, 2002 (14:27) * 2 lines

Read Purity in Death by JD Robb this weekend.
it's a great addition to the In Death series. Has anybody else read it yet? i'm dying to chat about Mavis' big news with someone, and how it will affect Eve -


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 Response 334 of 367: jeb charleu  (jebcharleu) * Mon, Sep  9, 2002 (12:52) * 14 lines

A friend of mine lent me a Steven King book on his life as a writer. It's the first thing I've read by him. I skimmed the autobiographical stuff. Most of the advice on writing comes out of Strunk and White, whom he credits. The rest of his advice is very similar to some essays on writing by Shirley Jackson.

When We Dead Awaken by Ibsen. Not the place to start if you are new to Ibsen, but for a fan it was lots of fun. The Penguin Classics edition has terrific notes that relate the play to earlier drafts and to Ibsen's life. It is one of the strangest Ibsen plays-- in the same realm of eerie strangeness as The Lady From the Sea and Master Builder, but even weirder. Those two plays are possible to picture really happening, although they are improbable and spooky. Reading When We Dead Awaken is like seeing a Gustav Moreau or Klimt painting brought to life.
It was nice getting reacquainted with Ibsen and his world. Ibsen's credo is that all revolutions are useless except an inner, individual revolution; society is changed one person at a time, and that is the only true and lasting revolution. I find Ibsen's credo in harmony with the Christian belief that individual souls are the building blocks of God's kingdom (Ephesians 2v19-22, 1st Peter 2v5) and that the individual soul is the greatest value (Mark 8v36), though I don't think Ibsen was a Christian.

The Awakening in Wales by Jesse Penn Lewis-- that's small enough to fit in my pocket and it's on a subject that intrigues me very much, mass spiritual renewal (the best book on revival is Dynamics of Spiritual Life by Lovelace).

Darkness Visible by William Stryon, a memoir of his depression. Does anyone know any other good books on this subject from a literary point of view? Darkness Visible was good but too short (tho plenty long for Stryon, I guess).

I am reading Intellectuals by Paul Johnson, just finished the chapters on Hemmingway, Tolstoy, and Ibsen. Was anyone surprised to learn that the most influential intellectuals of the past 200 years were scoundrels in their personal lives? Some of his attacks seem petty or absurd. For example, he introduces Ibsen and credits him as the inventor of modern drama, and someone who, through the writing of A Doll's House, has more than any other man put the idea of the rights of woman on the table. Then he spends several pages lampooning Ibsen because he was cold, pompous, and worst of all, liked to wear medals. He makes the case that Ibsen was a cold and inattentive father, then he makes the case that Ibsen was an over-protective and neurotically-concerned father. The former point is disproved through the examples he sites to prove the latter point.

Also: a Tin-tin adventure called the Castifiore Emerald, which is very funny; some Yeats poems; a terric journal of arts and religion called Image-- I just discovered that.

Ezekial, an Old Testament prophet, New International Version. I also have a CD of Ezekial recorded by an actor, Max McClane. Ezekial was of the priestly class and he wrote during the time when the jews were in captivity in Babylon. The book is totally absorbing. It uses bizarre and terrifying imagery to convey truths about the holiness of God, his justice and mercy and wrath, the sinfulness of man, suffering, and the alien strangeness of God's angelic creation. I am almost intoxicated by the book but it is an intoxocation that brings clarity and insight. A lot of the truths in Ezekial are stated in Paul's epistles, but Ezekial uses a purely aesthetic medium-- as opposed to Paul's logical, well-reasoned arguments interspersed with brilliant metaphors. Leland Rykken's Reading the Bible as Literature has been my guide to reading Ezekial.


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 Response 335 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Sun, Mar 23, 2003 (00:24) * 6 lines

I ma finishing Thomas Hoving (former director of the Metropolitan Museum of ART in NYC) Tutankhamun, the untold story. Don recommended it to me and it was an eye-opener but not as much as another book he has for me to read - Carter's archaeologiccal report leaving much out and even more in his own pocket.

My trip back to Louisville will include reading The Story of Yew whihc I had misplaced or it would have gone with me the first time. Moon, I'll get to it!

The book that always travels with me is North from the Mountains by
John Kessler and Donald B. Ball. I was privileged to have dinner with both of them and they signed my book. It was worth the 9 hour 6000 mile flight to accomplish!


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 Response 336 of 367: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Sun, Mar 23, 2003 (00:25) * 1 lines

Stephen King ! His day mares are worse than any night mares and I do not need more help on that score. What is his appeal?


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 Response 337 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Fri, Mar 28, 2003 (18:07) * 4 lines

(Marica) Stephen King ! His day mares are worse than any night mares and I do not need more help on that score. What is his appeal?

i can't read Stephen King either (if read even one, i'd never sleep through the night again!)
i'm enjoying re-reading Diana Gabaldon's Fiery Cross and Suzanne Brockmann's Letters to Kelly, which is a sweet story, and a particularly poignant plot. Jax -the main character was held hostage and tortured by his captors, he survives his experience by writting letters to Kelly in his mind. I love Suzanne Brockmann's books. This is a deviation from her usual stories. Jax is a journalist rather than a Navy SEAL, but it's a good one all the same :-)


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 Response 338 of 367: Stacey   (stacey) * Wed, Apr 23, 2003 (21:39) * 15 lines

I just finished:

Keeping Faith by Jodi Picoult (sp?)
Themed in mother-daughter relationships, this was an atypical read for me with the heavy religious references but I did enjoy it completely.

Second Chance by James Patterson
The book is a 'sequel' to First to Die which I've never read. I really enjoyed the plot but didn't think much of his writing ability.

Currently reading:
Super BabyFood

The Painted House by John Grisham.
I've not read but two of his previous works and am finding this book well written and engaging.

I am certianly a binge reader, devouring six or seven books in a week before finding fault with a current novel and giving up for a month or so!


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 Response 339 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Sep 14, 2003 (11:44) * 1 lines

am tackling Lord of the Rings (only because I watched the two installments and must know what happens--and like to check when movies are based on books, whether or not they stayed true)


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 Response 340 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Wed, Sep 17, 2003 (22:19) * 2 lines

What's the next movie going to be called?


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 Response 341 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Wed, Sep 29, 2004 (17:25) * 3 lines

i think we know the answer to terry's query by now (LOFR-Return of the King)....

anyway, i've actually picked up a book again -- Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth" very good book and I'm so involved with it right now.


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 Response 342 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Fri, Oct  1, 2004 (16:14) * 8 lines

I saw the reissue of "The Good Earth" at Target Wolf, and was pleased to see a classic amoungst all the new releases. :-)

I'm making my way through a stack of Katie Fforde and Jenny Colgan right now. Can't get enough British Chick Lit (reveving up for the Bridget Jones sequel to hit the theaters!)

i'm also eagerly anticipating the release of Sandra Hill's Wet & Wild.
Hill's always good for a light hearted read and She's SO FUNNY!
This book has a 10th century Viking coming forward to modern day Corondo Beach in Calif, smack dab in the middle of Navy SEAL training. The Navy things he's one of their SEAL trainees, and he thinks he's been captured by the Anglos and that their intense training is whimpy English torture methods. LOL! Can't wait! :-)


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 Response 343 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Fri, Oct  1, 2004 (18:21) * 7 lines

*LOL*

finished reading "The Good Earth" last night. left it wide open too. did you know that it is the first of a trilogy? Yup, neither did i. the trilogy is called "House of Earth." Second book is "Sons" and the last is "A House Divided" am gonna have to check them out.

i've read all of Amy Tan and was comparing the culture of PSB's novel with AT's and found that they are similar. it makes since since PSB lived there most of her life. the novel styles are similar and you can't help but to care about the characters.

esbee, thanks for letting me know the movie's at Target. will have to pick it up.


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 Response 344 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Fri, Oct  1, 2004 (19:22) * 8 lines

Ooops!
it's the book at Target not the movie Wolf -don't want to send you on a wild goose chase :-)

had no idea it was a trilogy! live and learn... Havent read Amy Tan, but know she's a popular write.

...okay, to be honest, havent read PSB either. LOL! but she's on my 'to read one day' list :-)


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 Response 345 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Oct  1, 2004 (19:51) * 1 lines

I remember picking up the Good Earth as a very young child off my mom's book shelf and it left an impression. And I too didn't realize it was part of a trilogy. What a great title.


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 Response 346 of 367: gena  (zx6rider) * Fri, Oct  8, 2004 (15:19) * 12 lines

Hi y'all.

Am reading a few things at the moment:

Trace - Patricia Cornwell
HTML for Dummies - who knows
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
Rewriting History - Dick Morris

I read alot... haven't read Good Earth though.

Love James Patterson - read The Jester a while back. It was an interesting departure from his usual murder myteries.


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 Response 347 of 367: S B Robinson  (SBRobinson) * Sat, Oct  9, 2004 (15:07) * 1 lines

Ooohh, i've been considering reading Rewriting History. what do you think so far? i primarily do fiction, (with only the occasional thought provoking tome) but i usually find my self agreeing with Dick Morris when i catch him on a talking head program -so seemed like something i might try...


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 Response 348 of 367: gena  (zx6rider) * Sat, Oct  9, 2004 (16:29) * 5 lines

Well, to tell the truth, it's in the pile... haven't turned a page yet. I think I want to read Hillary's "Living History" first, so I know what Morris is rebutting. I keep forgetting to ask my friend to loan me her copy of Hillery's. Perhaps tomorrow I'll get my hands on it and can start.

Hmmm, perhaps read them side by side... that would be an interesting trick ;-)

I am a mostly fiction grrl myself. But it is the times...


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 Response 349 of 367: Laura McCarthy  (LauraMM) * Fri, Nov 19, 2004 (08:17) * 1 lines

I am currently reading Garth Nix' Abhorsen Trilogy. I'm on the second one which is Lirael; I've been into fantasy lately!;)


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 Response 350 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Nov 21, 2004 (08:48) * 1 lines

picked up leo tolstoy's anna karenina (haven't started it yet)


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 Response 351 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Thu, Jul 21, 2005 (11:07) * 3 lines

put that one down and am reading "My Friend Leonard" by James Frey, so far so good but the writing takes some getting used to (lack of punctuation so it looks like running thoughts, probably the intent because it works).

finished reading "The Idiot Girls Action-Adventure Club" by Laurie Notaro, a columist. it's a collection of essays on her real life. this thing had me laughing outloud, something very few authors do. am going to find her other stuff to read too. something most of us gals who have felt like outsiders can really relate to.


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 Response 352 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Fri, Sep 23, 2005 (19:45) * 3 lines

James Frey--My Friend Leonard. had to get used to the writing style but once in, i was hooked. now i realize it's a sequel to A Million Little Pieces so guess what i have to go find! and i learned today that the latter is going to be made into a movie (2006).

am reading Mother of Pearl--actually, just starting it. also picked up the Dead Sea Scrolls (non-fiction) and another book (The Apothecary or something) with the removed books from the Old Testament.


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 Response 353 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Thu, Sep 29, 2005 (20:26) * 1 lines

am nearly finished with Mother of Pearl and it's great!!! can't believe it's the first book for this author, really amazing!


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 Response 354 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Sep 30, 2005 (11:14) * 1 lines

Great, can you share more?


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 Response 355 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Fri, Sep 30, 2005 (16:38) * 8 lines

let's see, it's set in the 50's in Mississippi.......a small town called Petal has its share of characters.....they all end up interacting with each other in one way or another during the course of events...what i love is the character development and the distinct personalities of each of them:

one young and one old man who discuss things at length
two young teenagers who are coming of age (one whose dad is unknown, whose mom is a wh**re, whose grandmother recently passed, and has no other siblings that she knows of)
a crazy lady who lives in the woods that can see things
a family that completely falls a part--a dad, a comatose mom, 2 crazy sons, and a housekeeper/caretaker

the story is so carefully written that you'd think this woman wrote a bunch of novels beforehand--not saying that the first one out is going to be terrible, but it's a rare thing.


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 Response 356 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sat, Oct 15, 2005 (20:23) * 3 lines

finished "mother of pearl" and loved it! didn't want it to end....in fact, hoping for a sequel.

picked up "a million little pieces" by james frey--the prequel to "my friend leonard" read an interview somewhere and these stories are at least semi-autobiographical which is amazing to me that he survived all of it.


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 Response 357 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, Oct 18, 2005 (12:19) * 1 lines

ok, am waiting to read "a million little pieces" for the plane so in the mean time, i picked up Laurie Notaro's "We Thought You Would Be Prettier". this woman knows me, i think. her essays are classic and everyone of us "dork girls" can totally relate!!


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 Response 358 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Oct 30, 2005 (08:35) * 3 lines

finished "a million little pieces" and i could just hug the author. i could feel his pain during recovery, just amazing. also was thinking about a movie and who would play him....was thinking christian bale (because of his acting in the machinist)......

have picked up Amy Tan's newest--Saving Fish From Drowning. have only started it so will let you know. also picked up a Karen Slaughter book and Nabokov's "Lolita".


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 Response 359 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 31, 2005 (12:50) * 3 lines

We just had a big book festival in Austin, Bill Clinton was the big speaker and he was a big hit at the fest.

Wow, wolf, you have some reading to do. How's it going with these books?


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 Response 360 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Mon, Oct 31, 2005 (20:32) * 1 lines

trying to balance reading with homework (college), cross stitching, family, and here! (oh, did i mention work too?)


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 Response 361 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Oct 31, 2005 (21:25) * 1 lines

I didn't know you were going to college!


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 Response 362 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, Nov  1, 2005 (19:50) * 1 lines

oh yeah, taking on-line courses (have to write a ton of papers for each course). thankfully, the profs are flexible! working on my BSBA (got a long way to go too)...


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 Response 363 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Nov  1, 2005 (19:54) * 1 lines

BS in Baseball?


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 Response 364 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, Nov  1, 2005 (19:57) * 1 lines

as in a Bull-S Business Admin degree *laugh* (really, though, a Bachelor's--have 2 Associates awarded). still don't know what i want to be when i grow up.


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 Response 365 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Nov  1, 2005 (20:21) * 1 lines

You're smart to go for the business degree. You'll be rich someday.


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 Response 366 of 367: Wolf  (wolf) * Wed, Nov  2, 2005 (20:02) * 1 lines

nah, not interested in the corporate world....wanna do my own thing but a business background will help....


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 Response 367 of 367: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Nov  3, 2005 (03:32) * 1 lines

It will really help, you're making a very good move. Why did I get a BUP (urband planning) degree instead of a MBA? I guess because I didn't know any better at the time and didn't take the time to hang out with my grandpa Ed and Cousin Barney more as a kid.

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