Ann/TheoAnn's comments
(member since Apr 04, 2009)
Ann/TheoAnn's comments from the M/T Reading Friends group.
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JF Inventing Niagara Beauty, Power and Lies
NR Tears of Pearl A Novel of Suspense
or Figures in Silk
Both are due at the library next week...
What I'm watching:
Mon: House, Lie to Me, Castle (tape CSI Miami; I like Castle better)
Tuesday: DVR'd shows
Wednesday: Criminal Minds, CSI-NY
Thursday: watch Survivor (sometimes online), Fringe, The Mentalist DVR Bones, The Office and Community. CSI sadly now watching online as there are too many shows on Thursday.
Friday: Monk then usually Numbers
Saturday: DVR'd shows or Netflix
Sunday: Amazing Race, Cold Case, may check out Three Rivers
While there, I picked up a book and plan on reading it soon: Nothing Like It In The World, the men who built the transcontinental railroad 1863-1869, by Stephen E. Ambrose. Lots of great historical pictures in this one.
I just got that from Bookmooch. It looks good.
Better late than never...
Shanghai Girls - Lisa See Good book, if a little too open ended (there's a sequel coming... I hadn't read much about the early Chinese immigration to the US before.
Grave Goods - Ariana Franklin
The Chosen One - Carole Lynch Williams YA novel about a girl in a polygamous community.
Finger Lickin' Fifteen - Janet Evanovich not my favorite Stephanie Plum. I only laughed out loud once.
Cemetery Dance - Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. I just love the Agent Pendergast series.
Shom - I have several in the series; but haven't read them yet. I should dig them out...
JF Cemetery Dance
NR A Proper Education for Girls A Novel
and The Devil's Queen A Novel of Catherine de Medici which I won from BookReporter.com.
My first book signing was when I was a kid (10 or 11?) and William Armstrong, the author of Sounder, was appearing in my city, I think at the annual arts festival.
As an adult, it would have been an early signing for Michael Kimball's Firewater Pond, because there was a rumor going around that Stephen King might show up at the signing. He didn't.
Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Well this is actually a TV post but since it's based on her book I snuck it in here.
I just watched this on PBS and it was pretty creepy with a pretty high body count. I read these so long ago ..."
I fell asleep, and woke up just in time to find out who did it. I'll give it another try on Friday night, when the NH station runs it. I'll probably fall asleep then too. lol.
Sherry wrote: "Ann/TheoAnn wrote: "JF Grave Goods (before that Shanghai Girls A Novel)
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how was shanghai girls? i have it on the list- loved snowflower but didn't care for peony i..."
I liked it. I haven't read much about the experience of Chinese immigrants in the US or life in China in the 1930's.
I loved Snowflower, too, but haven't read Peony (since I heard the bad reviews, lol). I have a copy I got free, so maybe someday... Or maybe not.
I only finished 3 this month. You'd think with all the rain we had, I would have read more...
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie- Alan Bradley Fabulous mystery about an 11 year old girl sleuth in 1950's England. Promised to be the first in a series.
A Reliable Wife- Robert Goolrick Good book about a mail order bride in late 1800's or early 1900's Wisconsin (or Minnesota). I liked it, but I miss some details in audio books.
A Voyage Long and Strange Rediscovering the New World- Tony Horwitz Writer goes looking for the truth about the early explorers and settlers of America. Interesting book.
Ann wrote: "Two new shows caught my eye in the cable guide:
TNT's Dark Blue with Dylan McDermott (undercover cops) and Warehouse 13 on Sci Fi (the network will soon be called Syfy!) that one is a show about a..."
I'll watch Dark Blue. I think it will be on after Leverage, which I LOVE.
Carol/Bonadie wrote: "I'm really looking forward to the return of Hercule Poirot on Masterpiece Mystery tonite, on PBS. This episode is Cat Among the Pigeons and happily I have forgotten the plot and whodu..."
I finally got to see that last night, and I liked it, but I miss Miss Lemon, Hastings, and Chief Inspector Japp.
JF: A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz
NR: Embrace the Grim Reaper by Judy Clemens
Sherry wrote: my husband i both slept thru frost/nixon..lol
we have the two movies a month thing from netflix which works..."
We get two movies a month too, but one is mine and one is kids. I might go to three so I can have one educational for the kids. Right now I have a disc of Monk season 1 (getting caught up) that I need to watch an return. Dh hates Monk, though.
That stinks, Shom. I've never had a problem with my library. They know I come in every week, because I always have to return something, and usually pick something(s) up.
I should have just picked up my holds. And the library should not have had an entire cart labeled "Brand New Books". So it's not really my fault, right?
This is some of what I came home with:
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane - Katherine Howe
The Secret SCripture - Sebastian Barry
Grave Goods - Ariana Franklin
The King James Conspiracy - Philip DePoy
The Cruelest Month - Louise Penny (no, I haven't read the others,lol, should I care?)
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner - Fred Pearce
Sacrifice - S.J. Bolton (debut novel with a blurb by Tess Gerritsen on the cover; anyone heard anything?)
Beach Trip - Cathy Holton (yay, the women reuning in the reunion books are now my age; I have loved this genre since I read Rona Jaffe's class reunion when I was probably a teenager)
And a few others...
And that doesn't count the books I got last week either.
Recently finished A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrich on audio. Currently trying to finish A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz because it's due at the library today (I've already been, and didn't return it.).
Reading to my kids (well, mostly one of them): The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Next up: Maybe The Sign by Raymond Khoury. I have to check my library due dates and what I can't renew...
Claudia wrote: "Yay The Closer was back on last night! Good show too!"
I love The Closer! And Leverage starts July 15th.
Melodie wrote: "Ann/TheoAnn wrote: "Thanks, Shom. I watched the Pilot online yesterday, and the new epi last night. I like it. I missed the Lie to Me pilot again on Monday. I didn't know they were rerunning th..."
I think my dh even likes that show, and he doesn't really watch TV, unless there's a World's Strongest Man competition. I've missed the pilot twice now. I'll have to see if there's a DVD coming out...
