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  • Groovygaia
    Groovygaia Member Posts: 5
    edited January 2007
    Oh my, I'm a huge Koontz fan as well as a fan of the Plumb series. Right now I'm all about the fluff...I am into Nora Roberts right now, and I also just finished The Friendship Cake and it's sequil (can't remember the name or the author, darn chemo) - I'm also into biographies...am waiting to start Bo Derricks and Larry Hagman (remember Who Shot J.R.?) -

    Another that just came to mind that I really truly enjoyed was Lisa Wingate's The Language Of Sycamores...very good story of sisters.

    I plan to re-read all the Harry Potter series too, I loved them and they are easy to digest.

    Isn't it great that we have this great interest in reading? I wonder if anyone else is having a problem with blurry vision with chemo? Especially with Taxol...could be the lack of eyelashes though too...Anyone?...Anyone? LOL
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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited January 2007
    My eyes were REALLY bad while on chemo. Now, 6 months post chemo it is better, but still not totally back to normal. hang in there...it will get better.

    Deb C
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  • sgwirly
    sgwirly Member Posts: 2
    edited January 2007

    i'm a very nerdy girl who usually loves to read. lots. however, what with everything i've been through, it's been harder for me to concentrate. since i love poetry, i've been trotting that out -- i can read one poem, one special poem, and it can bring me to tears. in a good way. i've been reading sharon olds' 'the unswept room.' (i think that's what it's called.) anyway, i think anything by sharon olds is wonderful. i have some of her older collections, and i love them, too. 2007 -- health, love, peace... annie

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  • sns
    sns Member Posts: 60
    edited January 2007
    Anything by Terry Pratchett is always good. He has a really warped (and very funny) sense of humor.

    Currently reading "Water Treatment Plant Operation" - the problem with having to start job hunting in a couple of weeks, get to review all kinds of boring stuff. Probably why I'm wandering around the boards currently instead of reading.
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  • PoohRN1962
    PoohRN1962 Member Posts: 241
    edited January 2007
    If anyone is interested, "The Omnivore's Dilemma" was wonderful. Really makes you think about the food we eat.

    Right now, I am in the thick of "I am Charlotte Simmons" by Tom Wolfe. So far, really good.
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  • TeddyJudy
    TeddyJudy Member Posts: 104
    edited January 2007
    If you haven't read it yet ladies, you have to read Nora Roberts Blue Smoke. Wow, what a book.

    Judy
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  • gramof4
    gramof4 Member Posts: 66
    edited January 2007
    I am reading Marley and me....good book, light, fun read.

    Joyce
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  • beth1225
    beth1225 Member Posts: 1,061
    edited January 2007

    I am reading "Bubbles All The Way" by Sarah Strohmeyer. It is a lighthearted mystery, 4th or 5th in the series. If you are from anywhere near the Philly area, it hits home.

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  • PoohRN1962
    PoohRN1962 Member Posts: 241
    edited January 2007

    Just started "For one more day" by Mitch Albom. "Marley and Me" is in my "to be read" pile. Unfortunately, my job sorely interferes with my reading time.

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  • althea
    althea Member Posts: 1,595
    edited January 2007
    I think I need to lighten up my reading material. My brother has a bunch of books on buddhism, and a title sort jumped off the shelf at me when I visited -- When Things Fall Apart. hmmm, that sounds like I book I need to read. I learned that I knew a whole lot less about buddhism than I thought. Same brother gave me two more books by the same author, and frankly I think I was getting seriously depressed the more I read.

    So then I switch to Wayne Dyer's There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem. Oh bruuther! Doncha know our problems are illusions and what we perceive as problems are happening because we're not connected enough to God. I keep thinking he's speaking metaphorically, but it doesn't come across that way.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2007

    I'm reading the second book in The Hot Flash Club series, by Nancy Thayer. Very light and fun reading. Waiting for Wendy Wasserstein's Elements of Style that I ordered from amazon. I loved her play Uncommon Women which was based on her college experiences at Mount Holyoke. I had read in the NY Times of her recent death from lymphoma and was inspired to order this book.

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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited January 2007
    I planning to read the The Sweet Potato Queen's first book again.
    My daughter knows I'm getting cabin fever staying home with dh while he's very uncomfortable and unhappy with neck rads. She has made reservations for us to attend the St Paddy's Day Parade, complete with costumes (tiara, boa, red wig, rhinestone sunglasses and T and A fringed dress with majorette boots)in Jackson, MS.
    Lots will be going on that weekend including a PJ and pearls "tea" party at a local hotel after the parade.
    Something to look forward to!
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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited January 2007
    I am a big fan of WEB Griffin and am reading his new book
    "The Hunters"
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  • iodine
    iodine Member Posts: 4,289
    edited January 2007

    I like him, too, I am reading the Marine series right now.

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  • TeddyJudy
    TeddyJudy Member Posts: 104
    edited January 2007
    I am finishing up Nora Roberts Blue Smoke (my first Nora Roberts book) then will start on The Hot Flash Club Chills Out, by Nancy Thayer. I have already read the Hot Flash Club and The Hot Flash Club Holidays also by Nancy Thayer. They were both funny and easy readers.

    Judy
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  • missesbeames
    missesbeames Member Posts: 8
    edited January 2007

    I just got done with the Red Tent by Anita Diamant and it was great I also have read The glass castle by jeanette walls and until I find you by John Irving which I thought was his best book yet.....Need new books now!!

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  • moogie
    moogie Member Posts: 499
    edited January 2007
    I loved that John Irving too!!!! It was certainly long but what a story! I keep seeing Nicole Kidman playing the mother in a movie version....have you read " a Prayer for Owen Meaney"? I think it is among Irving's best!!!
    Reading right now:
    An anthology of the years best short stories 2006
    Pema Chodron's 'Start Where You Are" ( wonderful!!!! a guide for better living, and very helpful dealing with all the breast stuff)
    Tricia Guild's Book' Pattern ' ( delicious eye candy for anyone that loves surface design)
    Moogie
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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited January 2007
    Hey...this is fun...my favorite book review list got moved! I have read a whole string of duds. I'm back to work which is cutting into my reading time~!

    Deb C
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  • JoanofArdmore
    JoanofArdmore Member Posts: 1,012
    edited January 2007
    Vicki, I intend to read The Omnivore's Dilemna.I love Michael Pollen, and have read everything he's writen for the New York Times.I definately believe in him.(I want to read An Inconvienant Truth, because I believe that, too.)

    Deb, I liked Memory-Keeper's Daughter.I read The Lovely Bones too.Dont know why, but reading new fiction makes me crave to reread my old books.I guess I like them even better.
    Am presently rereading The Two Mrs Grenvilles.WHAT a book!
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  • beth1225
    beth1225 Member Posts: 1,061
    edited January 2007
    Joan, you posted an avatar! Have I missed it before?

    Anyway, picked up an oldie but a goodie to reread, Marjorie Morningstar. Also, Everything but Money by Sam Levinson. My uncle has a copy of one of Alan King's books that was compiled right he died. I don't know the title but will get back to you when I get it from him.

    Larry was dusting the bookshelves and he pulled down some to take to the book swap and we uncovered a few jewels to keep.
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  • pconn03
    pconn03 Member Posts: 643
    edited January 2007
    Moogie:
    I loved '"A Prayer for Owen Meany," it was wonderful. I read it about 5 years ago - maybe time to read it again. I'm reading 'Cross" right now, by James Patterson. It's pretty good.
    Pat
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  • JoanofArdmore
    JoanofArdmore Member Posts: 1,012
    edited January 2007
    Beth--I LOVE to read Marjorie Morningstar!!That Noel Airman!!

    I had a 15 year old avatar for years.It was of me (at 50) holding 4 month puppy Rupert on my lap.He was a Labby/Golden and VERY big at 4 months!And absolutely GLOWERING at (my husband) the camera!I love that picture(maybe I'll get it back!)I had hair that wasnt fried, and relly fancy things like eyebrows and lashes.<sigh>
    Next my daughter took some portrais of me, when I turned 65.This is one.It looks a little sweet, and wistful.And I was nastier daily,from good old Femara.So I got me the grouchy smurf.
    But after a holiday from AI, I dont feel so nasty.

    And now I am sure you know much more about my avatars than you ever hoped!

    Speaking of old books, I just finished an Ira Levin festival:Boys from Brazil, Rosemary's Baby, SON of Rosemary (sounds crazy but it's GREAT!!)Stepford Wives, A kiss before Dying. I own them all, and they move everywhere with me.IL is SUCH a great writer!!
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  • acgw
    acgw Member Posts: 286
    edited January 2007

    I just finished Isabel's Bed (chic lit). I am intermittently reading The Power of Myth by Joseph Campell and Bill Myers, Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis and have just begun Of Sand and Fog. That Hot Flash series sounds fun and intreguing(sp?).

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  • MargaretB
    MargaretB Member Posts: 1,305
    edited January 2007
    I love reading. Right now I'm reading Gone by Lisa Gardner and then I will read The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls - it's supposed to be very good.

    Margaret
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  • PoohRN1962
    PoohRN1962 Member Posts: 241
    edited February 2007
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    I loved that John Irving too!!!! It was certainly long but what a story! I keep seeing Nicole Kidman playing the mother in a movie version....have you read " a Prayer for Owen Meaney"? I think it is among Irving's best!!!




    One of my FAVORITE books of all time! My copy has been read and re-read so many times...and loaned to SO many people! Love it, love it, love it!
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  • PoohRN1962
    PoohRN1962 Member Posts: 241
    edited February 2007

    So, what am I reading now? Cookbooks...I am in a cookbook phase. Trying new stuff and getting out of a rut, but who am I kidding? I read cookbooks just for fun!

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  • AlaskaDeb
    AlaskaDeb Member Posts: 2,601
    edited February 2007
    Vicki- I love cookbooks too. I have tons of them. Owen Meaney is on my all time "best" list too.

    Deb C
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  • MargaretB
    MargaretB Member Posts: 1,305
    edited February 2007
    I have tons of cookbooks too. My resolution for the year is to try to make 1 new recipe a week.

    Margaret
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  • gerbie
    gerbie Member Posts: 89
    edited February 2007
    I love cookbooks, too! Have any of you read any of Lisa Scottoline books? She writes legal mysteries. I got hooked on her since rads since I had an Hour drive every day and listened to her books on CD...Just wondering. Another I like is Stuart Woods...
    Gerbie
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  • JoanofArdmore
    JoanofArdmore Member Posts: 1,012
    edited February 2007
    Gerbie-I have all ofLisa'sbooks, up to about a year or 2 ago.(She was better when she started)
    I like her, PLUS she lives & writes about Philly & burbs.Fun!
    (About 10 years ago I met her and her daughter at our community pool.She was pretty thrilled when said "Hi,Lisa!")
    My fave? "Everywhere that Mary went".
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