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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited March 2014

    We Were There by Dr. Allen Childs, a collection of firsthand accounts from the doctors and staff on scene at the hospital where President Kennedy was taken after he was shot in Dallas. Very sentimental and emotional look back at that day and its aftermath.

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited March 2014

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited March 2014

    Speaking of book signings, last year I was delighted to meet one of my favorite authors, Jonathan Trooper.  I'm delighted that his book, This is Where I Leave You is being made into a film staring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey and Jane Fonda.  Keeping my fingers crossed that the movie is a success.

    My favorite author, Geoff Dyer's new book will be released on May 20th.  Can't wait for his book tour so I get to meet him again.  Arguably, Britain's best living writer!

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited March 2014

    P.S......Rowling is Britain's most commercially successful writer!

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  • Jelson
    Jelson Member Posts: 1,535
    edited March 2014

    just finished Liane Moriarty's The Last Anniversary.enjoyed it as much as the other two of her's which I have read. laughed out loud, exciting plot twists, unexpected but good resolutions to different characters' issues.

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  • ginadmc
    ginadmc Member Posts: 263
    edited March 2014

    VR- I've read a few Jonathan Tropper books on your recommendation and have loved them! He is so clever and his dialog is so witty. I hope the movie is half as good as the book!

    Anita Shreve has a newer book out, Stella Bain that I just got at the library. It takes place during WWI. I have read almost all of her books. I have liked some more than others, I think Resistance and Fortune's Rocks are my favorites. I'm reading In a Perfect World by Laura Kasischke. It's ok but I'll be able to put it down while I read Stlla Bain.

    Gina

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  • Elizabeth1889
    Elizabeth1889 Member Posts: 1,036
    edited March 2014

    Gina, I like Anita Shreve's books,too, especially The Pilot's Wife.

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  • sandra4611
    sandra4611 Member Posts: 2,913
    edited March 2014

    I'm a failure. I can't seem to get into The Goldfinch so it's going back to the library tomorrow. I usually give a book 100 pages before I decide to throw in the towel, but I didn't get that far. Maybe I'll try it again in six months.

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  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 1,107
    edited March 2014

    sandra,  I try and do the same thing myself, but sometimes it's not possible.  I read the "Goldfinch" upon the recommendation, "I can't get anything done because all I want to do is just read this book!!"  While, I did enjoy the book, I found that the author used too many words (if that's possible when writing a book!!) for some of her descriptions, most especially at the beginning and then again at the end, so I know what you mean!!  Life is too short to read books that we aren't really enjoying!!

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  • bc101
    bc101 Member Posts: 1,108
    edited April 2014

    I sort of felt the same way when reading The Museum of Extraordinary Things. I tried, but just wasn't into it. I think I had that same experience with another Alice Hoffman book. Oh well...

    You're so right wenweb - life is too short! 

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited March 2014

    Here is an interesting question:

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  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 7,496
    edited March 2014

    I'm a family law personal attorney... Non fiction book... Of course.  But from reading the book, she seemed to raise some interesting dilemmas, so I'd say, I'm more of a philosopher than an attorney!

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited March 2014

    If it is the book I'm reading right now (for my Book Club), I am either a burnt out Danish police detective or a woman politician being held captive by a psychopath. I have also been reading non-fiction accounts of the lives of pioneer women. Of the three choices, I will choose to be the detective.

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  • Moonflwr912
    Moonflwr912 Member Posts: 6,856
    edited March 2014

    Oh boy. You caught me. I am the heroine leader of the local smuggling ring who is engaged to the Magistrate for the region I smuggle in. Sigh. DONT JUDGE ME! LOL Does it help that I am actually a government agent? LOL

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  • bc101
    bc101 Member Posts: 1,108
    edited April 2014

    My name is Lily Melissa Owens - I am a fourteen-year-old white girl. When I was four, I accidentally killed my mother. I grew up on a peach farm in South Carolina, but ran away because my father beat me. I am a beekeeper and I love to write. I hope to one day become a writer .... 

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  • wenweb
    wenweb Member Posts: 1,107
    edited March 2014

    I am Madame Wu, the matriarch  of the Wu family in Pearl S. Buck's Pavillion of Women.  I live in China and have just turned 40 years old.  Since I don't want to have any more children, I have decided that I no longer want to sleep with the father of my children.  I move into my own quarters of the household, and  find a concubine for my husband.  I want peace and less responsibility in my life.  The father of my children has impregnated the concubine (whom he does not love) and decides that he would rather have a young girl from a local "flower house".  Now, the father of my children has 2 other wives, I have fallen in love with a dead priest and somehow adopted 20 children who come to live at my palace that I must care for.  I somehow thought my life would get easier, but instead I have complicated it greatly.  Oy...

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited March 2014

    Oh oh.  I'm reading John Sandford Broken Prey.  So far there are no women except dead bodies. 

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited March 2014

    You don't have to be a woman! I'm a chain-smoking Danish detective with a five o'clock shadow!

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  • Moonflwr912
    Moonflwr912 Member Posts: 6,856
    edited March 2014

    Minus the Prey books are freaky good. 

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  • MinusTwo
    MinusTwo Member Posts: 16,634
    edited March 2014

    OK - I'm Lucas Davenport & I've just seen the 2nd murder that has been 'scourged' and 'displayed' - one a woman & one a man - so now I 'know' it's a serial killer but what could be the link?  He can probably go right out to eat dinner.  I'll probably wait awhile for the images to fade.

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  • tmb173
    tmb173 Member Posts: 111
    edited March 2014

    Does anyone have a pick for audiobooks?  I actually tend to listen by narrator- love Barbara Rosenblatt, Lorna Raver, Stephanie Daniel, Emily Grey, William Dufris.  I don't usually read "chick lit" but I listened to Kinsella because I enjoy the reader and thought they were a lot of fun.  I also tried the full cast reading of Ender's Game and the Shadow series and thought they were quite enjoyable.  I love audiobooks because I can clean or cook while listening.  

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  • sandra4611
    sandra4611 Member Posts: 2,913
    edited March 2014

    I'm a thirty-something no nonsense woman cop who is a lieutenant in the homicide division in New York City, circa 2060. I just closed a case where a woman kidnapped her sisters two children and forced the mother to choose which child she wanted to stay alive and which one would die.

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  • fgm
    fgm Member Posts: 831
    edited March 2014

    Just finished Hilda and Pearl by Alice Mattison. Another book I had on my shelf for years. (retirement is great!)  The book takes place in the 30's and 50's switching back and forth. It starts off through the eyes of an 11 year old girl and switches to her mother's.  Some surprises.  I liked it.

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  • ginadmc
    ginadmc Member Posts: 263
    edited March 2014

    I finished both Stella Bain and In a Perfect World and can't say I would highly recommend either of them . They were neither good nor bad. 

    If I was Stella Bain, I would be a shell shocked female ambulance driver in WWI with memory loss and mysterious leg pains. 

    I like the Lucas Davenport/Prey series, also. Not sure what I'll start next since I've made poor choices lately.   Gina

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  • sandra4611
    sandra4611 Member Posts: 2,913
    edited March 2014

    Just for fun, take this quiz and see what you get. My number is 31 out of the 100 listed. I've seen the movies of quite a few but never read the book so they don't count. Also I didn't count the ones I had to read back in high school but can't remember a thing about them now.

    http://www.listchallenges.com/kaunismina-bbc-6-books-challenge?ref=share




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  • Moonflwr912
    Moonflwr912 Member Posts: 6,856
    edited March 2014

    53. I only counted only the ones I remember the storyline. 

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  • sandra4611
    sandra4611 Member Posts: 2,913
    edited March 2014

    I bow to your superior intellect Moon.


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  • Moonflwr912
    Moonflwr912 Member Posts: 6,856
    edited March 2014

    def. NOT superior. LOL.  Just a lot of running away in books! 

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited March 2014

    I got 50.....but I counted everything I've ever read, even if I didn't remember one thing about it other than the title!

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  • fgm
    fgm Member Posts: 831
    edited March 2014

    Thanks Sandra-I got 50! I didn't count the ones I started but never finished like Ulysees.

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