Tuesday Book Club
Mine was a re-read this week. Marianne Williamson’s The Gift of Change. Still so many lines I need to absorb and incorporate.
I’ll have plenty of time to read in airports and on planes, so I’m hoping for a two-fer next week.
What did you all read this past week?
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February 20th, 2007 at 7:48 am
I’ve just finished reading Finn by Jon Clinch(which I’ll be reviewing at my blog today*shameless plug*)and have been enjoying The Rabbit Factory by Marshall Karp.
TRF is a mystery novel,set in L.A.,about a series of murders tied to a Disney like entertainment company. The lead detectives in the book are known as Lomax and Biggs;another book featuring the two of them is due out this spring called Bloodthirsty. Karp’s a good writer,fast paced and witty.
February 20th, 2007 at 8:14 am
I’m finishing up Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris today.
February 20th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Hi everyone! So, I had strep throat last week and have been kind of MIA… but I did do a little reading. Because I felt sick I thought I would treat myself to all Romances!
First I read Code Name: Baby. It was okay. Nothing great.
Then I read Romeo & Julia. OMG! What a waste of time. I should have stopped a hundred pages into it, but I just kept hoping it would get better. It didn’t. What a waste. It was about a librarian who meets a younger man in the parking lot of her library and they find a kitten (Julia). All this guy wants is to be a dad and have lots of babies… and the librarian can’t have kids… so how can they be together?? Oh, and she’s always talking to her cat. I don’t know. It was bad. (I’m shaking my head, laughing at the badness of it all right now.)
Lastly, I read Surviving Demon Island! Loved it! Thank god I had one good book this week!!!! =) And I’m super excited because it’s going to be a series (I love series!).
Guess that’s about it. Robin, you’re going to NY? That’s awesome! You’ll be up around my way. I love NYC, but I’m Philly girl at heart.
February 20th, 2007 at 8:52 am
Looking good, y’all! Keep it up!
February 20th, 2007 at 9:41 am
This week, I read TRUE STORY: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by Michael Finkel, a NYT reporter who was fired for creating a composite character for a story and trying to pass it off as one individual. As his very public firing was about to be announced, he got a call from a reporter who told him a man who’d just been arrested for murdering his wife and three children had been caught in Mexico using his name (Michael Finkel’s) and passing himself off as a NYT reporter! Finkel then communicates with the guy throughout the trial. It’s a quite unique look on the nature of truth and perceptions and slippery slopes.
Christen, sorry to hear your bad experience with Romeo & Julia. I’ll send you a box of chocolates if you don’t enjoy JULIE AND ROMEO by Jeanne Ray (mother of Ann Patchett). Here’s a bit of the library journal description:
A charming, funny, and sexy story of second chances at love. Julie (Roseman) and Romeo (Cacciamani), both florists, have heard awful stories about the other’s family all their lives, although no one really knows how it all started. Romeo is a widower, running the store with his children, and Julie is divorced, running her store with the help of her daughter, Sandy, while Sandy (also divorced) and her children live with Julie. Animosity is so great between the families that, years ago, both Julie and Romeo had a hand in breaking up the romance of their respective teenaged children. When both families find that Romeo and Julie have met and want to date, everyone (adult children, an ancient matriarch, even Julie’s ex) takes extreme (and hilarious) actions to break up this romance, while the couple wonder at the grace of finding one another. Delightful and highly recommended.
Have a great week, everyone!
February 20th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Wow, Laura, I like it when one bloggie offers to send chocolate to another! And all because of a book!
February 20th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Well, I re-read an old Fantasy favorite. Started last night, finished this morning. Am reading King’s Dark Tower series now for the first time.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Still working on my book from last week. But I did get a lot of organizing done this weekend! In fact I kicked up so much dust cleaning that I now have a bothersome cough and the sniffles. Its all worth it though! Have a great week!
February 20th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I think I fell off the wagon.
I am becoming an illiterate librarian.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Danne, way to go on the decluttering! I’m working on it, too, a little here and there, so that one day soon I will be able to see the wood on my desk. Glad you’re in this with me–cross-motivation.
Molly, relax. I’ve been slacking lately, too. Let’s take a breath, have some coffee, pick up a book just because we want to, not because we have to.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Oh, is this the cleaning/organizing day thread too?
I finished re-doing my office(Nice and freshly painted crown molding and a pseudowood floor) and moved my writing desk back in and now must separate my writing computer from the internet again.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Wow, Patrick, did you take this office-cleaning thing seriously. Paint?
February 20th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Nah, I was already doing the floors because I ripped out the rug after the room flooded. And I walked through Lowes one time too many and saw the crown molding and thought I was capable of home improvement.
The office was pretty clean before I had to rip out the rug. But that got me to clean the closet out.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Patrick.
Let me know what you think about the Dark Tower Series when your done.
I just got released from jury. I guess answering hang them all to “Can you be a fair and im
February 20th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Patrick,
Please share your thoughts about the dark Tower Series when your done.
I was released from jury duty today. I guess answering “Hang them all” to “Can you be a fair and impartial juror” and “Well duh!” to “Do you dislike lawyers” would cause you to be dismissed. Ok I did not answer like that but, one person who answer yes to the second question did get picked. Figure that.
I read the paper while waiting.
February 20th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Well I have spent the last 3 days at a tech conference and I was too brain dead to read. Any free time I spent re-reading Will Richardson’s Blogs, Wikis & Podcasts.
Great book for teachers.
Not counting that I only read one book.
I came home to a clean house…ah!
February 20th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
The coffee, black, fled across the parking lot, Incredible Herb followed.
My brother, a lt col, has the best Military jury duty story.
On the military base, they have very few defense attorneys and a limited jury pool, so my brother was in a second stint in jury duty after having previously served.
When asked if he knew any members of the trial, he said “yes, I know the defense counselor from a previous trial.”
Keep in mind that prosecution was questioning him.
“And what do you think of the defense counselor?”
“I think he’s a sleazy moron and I don’t believe a word he says, but I won’t hold that against his client.”
In my brother’s defense, he was under oath…
Note: Not the brother who’s ex-wife was in Hustler…
Herb, whole series or any of the books? I have to admit, I’m not really a King reader.
February 20th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Patrick,
After the series or whenever you decide your through.
I get the feeling that there a few participants on this blog who have a JD. So I’m going resist from commenting on the profession but, heh heh that was a good story whose variation I’ve heard and read many times.
February 20th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Readerdiane, points for the clean house. Points to all of you whose houses and offices don’t look like mine right now.
I and they are a work in progress.
February 20th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Oh, that was a comment on my brother, not lawyers…Lawyers are fun!
February 20th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Well, I didn’t make it this week. I’m about halfway through The Time Traveler’s Wife and I’ve run out of time;-)
I don’t know where this past week has gone! Hopefully, I’ll finish TTW and get another read by next Tuesday!
February 20th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Kimmy, boy do I know the feeling. Let me just remind you and me and everyone else that this book club is a total non-pressure situation. If you don’t finish a book any given week, don’t feel bad or hide out. We’re all doing the best we can, and these Tuesdays are just someplace fun to check in and report.
No worries.