Tag: book
member name: Leslie ~ from NYC ~ R.
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November 12, 2007 05:15 PM EST --
Author: Louise DeSalvo
This book is a memoir that reads like a novel.
It is a woman's coming of age and coming to terms with society, family, career pressures.
She's an Italian-American . . . more
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June 02, 2008 06:19 AM EDT --
I was taking a break from the difficult reading I've been doing about the Chinese Cultural Revolution... whew.
This book is light fantasy. It was SO much fun. The tension builds and builds - this . . . more
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June 07, 2008 06:22 PM EDT --
Deep into my reading about China and Chinese culture..
The book goes into depth about the VietNam war - veterans telling their stories (she led an on-going writers workshop in California), people who . . . more
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September 02, 2007 10:09 AM EDT --
"A Dead-End Job Mystery"
Author: Elaine Viets
When I was in San Diego, I went to a book talk with my mother. The person who leads the talks discusses a dozen books. She mentioned . . . more
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September 09, 2007 04:29 PM EDT --
The book is enchanting. I love the author, Orson Scott Card, and have read at least 10 of his books.
This is a re-writing of the fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty, wherein the main character goes back . . . more
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October 02, 2007 10:30 PM EDT --
Author: Calvin Trillin
I've read a few books by this author before. It seems as if his marriage was so strong that he "snuck" his wife in no matter the subject . . . more
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October 03, 2007 07:26 PM EDT --
Author: Robert James
I am SO clearly not the target audience of this book!
It is one in a series directed at pre-teen boys who liked the television show.
There are alternate realities, . . . more
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September 11, 2007 05:28 AM EDT --
Author: Robert Alexander
The mystery surrounding the death of the Romanovs - the last ruling family of Russia - has intrigued me for a long time. It was sparked again a few years . . . more
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September 19, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
Author: David Williams
This book was advertised at the back of another book I was reading. It was published in 1976, but feels as if it had been written years earlier.
It is a British . . . more
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September 23, 2007 06:54 PM EDT --
Author: Steve Martin
Yes, that Steve Martin - he's an author AND an actor. I wonder, in reading this book, if he saw himself playing the "older man" lead. . . . more
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September 25, 2007 07:24 AM EDT --
Author: Robert Nye
This is a prose version of the story. It was different in feel and some details frm then verse version I'd read a few years ago.
I had found the verse version . . . more
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September 30, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
Author: W.P. Kinsella
Turns out this is the book "Field of Dreams" is based on. I thought it was a bit of a coincidence that the author's name was the name of the main character... . . . more
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October 06, 2007 04:59 PM EDT --
Author: Ann Brashares
This is basically chick lit for teenagers. The friendships are very important and while each girl goes through some harrowing, coming of age, experiences . . . more
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October 09, 2007 06:10 AM EDT --
All I remembered about this movie was the fact that it was always dark and that the two leading male characters had philosophized on the rooftop.
It was still dark; the rain was non-stop in the . . . more
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October 09, 2007 10:33 PM EDT --
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
Although the books are discussed - one each of the monthly chapters - the book is mostly about the members of the club.
There are ladies in the club and . . . more
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November 04, 2007 10:50 AM EST --
Book Review: Disclosure
Author: Michael Crichton
This is the book that the movie was based on - I believe it was with Demi Moore...
Sexual harassment from a woman at/to a man. . . . more
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June 09, 2008 05:57 AM EDT --
author Marcus Zusak
At the beginning, I am having a LOT of trouble getting "into" this book. I read 30 pages at a clip and it kept putting me to sleep.
Once I finally got into . . . more
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June 13, 2008 10:14 PM EDT --
by Amy Tan
This book has a little of everything in it:
There's mystery, politics, spiritualism, superstition, magic, eco-friendly tourism...
It's a travelogue, and a where not to travel-ogue. . . . more
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July 06, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
There's an undercurrent of tension and the foreshadowing is laid on rather thickly.
You wonder who the guardian is - her dog, her friends? Hmmmm.
The tension builds rather well. In . . . more
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July 18, 2008 09:47 AM EDT --
Author - John Wood
This is a wonderful book about a man who saw a need in the world and decided to do whatever he could to fix it.
In a trip to Nepal, he realized that although there were some abandoned . . . more
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