Laura's comments
(member since May 07, 2009)
Laura's comments from the 50 Books A Year group.
(showing 1-10 of 10)
A: Agee, John - Smart Feller Fart Smeller and other Spoonerisms (3 stars)
Allred, Wayne - The Disgusted Driver's Handbook-Instructions on Surviving on Roads Infested with Idiots (3 stars)
B: Berg, Elizabeth - True to Form (3 stars)
Berg, Elizabeth - We Are All Welcome Here (4 stars)
Bluper, Liz - Mothers-in-Law Do Everything Wrong: M.I.L.D.E.W. (4 stars)
Buchanan, Sue - Duh-Votions (3 stars)
C: Chattanoga Bakery - 100 Years of Nostalgic Southern Folklore: A Book of MoonPie Memories (4 stars)
Curtis, Jamie Lee - Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born (5 stars)
D: DeBartolo, Tiffanie - God Shaped Hole (just started)
Delinsky, Barbara - The Secret Between Us (2 stars)
Delinsky, Barbara - Facets (3 stars)
Doucette, Jenn - The Velveteen Mommy (4 stars)
Ducornet, Rikki - Gazelle (4 stars)
E: Edgerton, clyde - Raney (4 stars)
Eldridge, Sherrie - Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (2 stars)
F: Fieker, Sharon - I Choose This Day: Mournings and Miracles in Adoption (3 stars)
Flory, Kitty Burns - Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences (3 stars)
Fowler, Karen Joy - The Jane Austen Book Club (3 stars)
Friedrich, Molly - You're Not My Real Mother (4 stars)
G: Girard, Linda Walvoord - Adoption is for Always (4 stars)
Grenville, Kate - Dreamhouse (3 stars)
H: Hudler, Ad - Househusband (3 stars)
Hyde, Catherine Ryan - Chasing Windmills (3 stars)
I:
J: John, Paul Brett - On Top of Spaghetti (5 stars)
Jones, Merry Bloch - Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories (2 stars)
K: Katz, Karen - Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale (5 stars)
Kingsbury, Karen - A Treasury of Adoption Miracles: True Stories of God's Presence Today (4 stars)
L: Levin, Mark - Rescuing Sprite (2 stars)
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild (4 stars)
M: McCarthy, Cormac - No Country for Old Men (4 stars)
Miller, Rebecca - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (3 stars)
Monroe, Mary Alice - The Book Club (3 stars)
Munsch, Robert N. - Love You Forever (5 stars)
N: Nash, Jennie - Raising a Reader: A Mother's Tale of Desperation and Delight (4 stars)
O: Oates, Joyce Carol - First Love (2 stars)
Oates, Joyce Carol - Gravedigger's Daughter (3 stars)
O'Farrell, Maggie - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (4 stars)
O'Nan, Stuart - The Good Wife (3 stars)
P: Pearl, Nancy - Book Lust (4 stars)
Piper, John - Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (currently reading)
Q: Quindlen, Anna - Rise & Shine (3 stars)
R: Roche, Nancy Maguire - Adoption is Another Word for Love (4 stars)
Rosenberg, Maxine - Being Adopted (4 stars)
Rosenberg, Maxine - Growing Up Adopted (3 stars)
S: Seuss, Dr. - The Cat in the Hat (5 Stars)
Sachs, Marilyn - What My Sister Remembered (3 stars)
Silber, Kathleen - Dear Birthmother (4 stars)
Sparks, Nicholas - Three Weeks with My Brother (4 stars)
Stolz, Karen - World of Pies (4 stars)
T: Trollope, Joanna - The Book Boy (3 stars)
Truss, Lynne - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! (4 stars)
U:
V: Vida, Vendela - And Now You Can Go (3 stars)
Viorst, Judith - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (5 stars)
Viorst, Judith - Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days: An Almost Completely Honest Account of What Happened to Our Family When Our Youngest ... Came to Live with Us for Three Months (3 stars)
Volk, Patricia - To My Dearest Friends (4 stars)
W: Wadia-Ellis, Susan (editor) - The Adoption Reader (3 stars)
Wolfe, Tom - I am Charlotte Simmons (currently reading)
Wolff, Jana - Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother (4 stars)
Wright, Jason F. - The Wednesday Letters (4 stars)
X:
Y: Yoshimoto, Banana - Kitchen (4 stars)
Z:
Total YTD: 60
I occasionally get recommendations from friends, but primarily I find new titles by browsing the used bookstore, noting suggestions in my online book club (yahoo group - bookgrouplist), book excerpts emailed 5 days per week from www.dearreader.com, and scanning Goodreads.
A: Agee, John - Smart Feller Fart Smeller and other Spoonerisms (3 stars)Allred, Wayne - The Disgusted Driver's Handbook-Instructions on Surviving on Roads Infested with Idiots (3 stars)
B: Berg, Elizabeth - True to Form (3 stars)
Bluper, Liz - Mothers-in-Law Do Everything Wrong: M.I.L.D.E.W. (4 stars)
Buchanan, Sue - Duh-Votions (3 stars)
C: Chattanoga Bakery - 100 Years of Nostalgic Southern Folklore: A Book of MoonPie Memories (4 stars)
Curtis, Jamie Lee - Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born (5 stars)
D: Delinsky, Barbara - The Secret Between Us (2 stars)
Delinsky, Barbara - Facets (3 stars)
Doucette, Jenn - The Velveteen Mommy (just started)
Ducornet, Rikki - Gazelle (4 stars)
E: Edgerton, clyde - Raney (4 stars)
Eldridge, Sherrie - Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (2 stars)
F: Fieker, Sharon - I Choose This Day: Mournings and Miracles in Adoption (3 stars)
Flory, Kitty Burns - Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences (3 stars)
Fowler, Karen Joy - The Jane Austen Book Club (3 stars)
Friedrich, Molly - You're Not My Real Mother (4 stars)
G: Girard, Linda Walvoord - Adoption is for Always (4 stars)
Grenville, Kate - Dreamhouse (3 stars)
H:
I:
J: John, Paul Brett - On Top of Spaghetti (5 stars)
Jones, Merry Bloch - Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories (2 stars)
K: Katz, Karen - Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale (5 stars)
Kingsbury, Karen - A Treasury of Adoption Miracles: True Stories of God's Presence Today (4 stars)
L: Levin, Mark - Rescuing Sprite (2 stars)
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild (4 stars)
M: McCarthy, Cormac - No Country for Old Men (4 stars)
Miller, Rebecca - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (3 stars)
Monroe, Mary Alice - The Book Club (3 stars)
Munsch, Robert N. - Love You Forever (5 stars)
N:
O: Oates, Joyce Carol - First Love (2 stars)
Oates, Joyce Carol - Gravedigger's Daughter (3 stars)
O'Farrell, Maggie - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (4 stars)
O'Nan, Stuart - The Good Wife (currently reading)
P: Pearl, Nancy - Book Lust (4 stars)
Piper, John - Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ (currently reading)
Q:
R: Roche, Nancy Maguire - Adoption is Another Word for Love (4 stars)
Rosenberg, Maxine - Being Adopted (4 stars)
Rosenberg, Maxine - Growing Up Adopted (3 stars)
S: Seuss, Dr. - The Cat in the Hat (5 Stars)
Sachs, Marilyn - What My Sister Remembered (3 stars)
Silber, Kathleen - Dear Birthmother (4 stars)
Sparks, Nicholas - Three Weeks with My Brother (4 stars)
Stolz, Karen - World of Pies (4 stars)
T: Truss, Lynne - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! (4 stars)
U:
V: Volk, Patricia - To My Dearest Friends (4 stars)
Vida, Vendela - And Now You Can Go (currently reading)
Viorst, Judith - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (5 stars)
Viorst, Judith - Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days: An Almost Completely Honest Account of What Happened to Our Family When Our Youngest ... Came to Live with Us for Three Months (3 stars)
W: Wadia-Ellis, Susan (editor) - The Adoption Reader (3 stars)
Wolff, Jana - Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother (4 stars)
Wright, Jason F. - The Wednesday Letters (currently reading)
X:
Y: Yoshimoto, Banana - Kitchen (4 stars)
Z:
Total YTD: 51
Agee, John - Smart Feller Fart Smeller and other Spoonerisms (3 stars)
Allred, Wayne - The Disgusted Driver's Handbook-Instructions on Surviving on Roads Infested with Idiots (3 stars)
Berg, Elizabeth - True to Form (currently reading)
Bluper, Liz - Mothers-in-Law Do Everything Wrong: M.I.L.D.E.W. (4 stars)
Buchanan, Sue - Duh-Votions (3 stars)
Chattanoga Bakery - 100 Years of Nostalgic Southern Folklore: A Book of MoonPie Memories (4 stars)
Curtis, Jamie Lee - Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born (5 stars)
Delinsky, Barbara - The Secret Between Us (2 stars)
Delinsky, Barbara - Facets (3 stars)
Ducornet, Rikki - Gazelle (4 stars)
Edgerton, Clyde - Raney (4 stars)
Eldridge, Sherrie - Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (2 stars)
Fieker, Sharon - I Choose This Day (3 stars)
Flory, Kitty Burns - Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences (3 stars)
Fowler, Karen Joy - The Jane Austen Book Club (3 stars)
Friedrich, Molly - You're Not My Real Mother (4 stars)
Girard, Linda Walvoord - Adoption is for Always (4 stars)
Grenville, Kate - Dreamhouse (3 stars)
John, Paul Brett - On Top of Spaghetti (5 stars)
Jones, Merry Bloch - Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories (2 stars)
Katz, Karen - Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale (5 stars)
Levin, Mark - Rescuing Sprite (2 stars)
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild (4 stars)
McCarthy, Cormac - No Country for Old Men (4 stars)
Monroe, Mary Alice - The Book Club (currently reading)
Munsch, Robert N. - Love You Forever (5 stars)
Oates, Joyce Carol - First Love (2 stars)
Oates, Joyce Carol - Gravedigger's Daughter (3 stars)
O'Farrell, Maggie - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (4 stars)
Pearl, Nancy - Book Lust (4 stars)
Quindlen, Anna - Rise & Shine (3 stars)
Roche, Nancy McGuire - Adoption is Another Word for Love (4 stars)
Rosenberg, Maxine - Being Adopted (4 stars)
Rosenberg, Maxine - Growing Up Adopted (3 stars)
Seuss, Dr. - The Cat in the Hat (5 Stars)
Sachs, Marilyn - What My Sister Remembered (3 stars)
Silber, Kathleen - Dear Birthmother (4 stars)
Sparks, Nicholas - Three Weeks with My Brother (4 stars)
Stolz, Karen - World of Pies (4 stars)
Truss, Lynne - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! (4 stars)
Volk, Patricia - To My Dearest Friends (4 stars)
Vida, Vendela - And Now You Can Go (currently reading)
Viorst, Judith - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (5 stars)
Viorst, Judith - Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days: An Almost Completely Honest Account of What Happened to Our Family When Our Youngest ... Came to Live with Us for Three Months (3 stars)
Wadia-Ellis, Susan (editor) - The Adoption Reader (not finished - 3 stars so far)
Wolff, Jana - Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother (4 stars)
Yoshimoto, Banana - Kitchen (4 stars)
Total YTD: 46
Bookgrouplist - yahoo discussion group
What did you think of On Chesil Beach? I found it so sad - interesting, but sad.
Mary Todd...the same Mary Todd from BGL?
Agee, John - Smart Feller Fart Smeller and other Spoonerisms (3 stars)
Allred, Wayne - The Disgusted Driver's Handbook-Instructions on Surviving on Roads Infested with Idiots (3 stars)
Bluper, Liz - Mothers-in-Law Do Everything Wrong: M.I.L.D.E.W. (4 stars)
Buchanan, Sue - Duh-Votions (3 stars)
Chattanoga Bakery - 100 Years of Nostalgic Southern Folklore: A Book of MoonPie Memories (4 stars)
Curtis, Jamie Lee - Tell Me Again About the Night I was Born (5 stars)
Delinsky, Barbara - The Secret Between Us (2 stars)
Delinsky, Barbara - Facets (3 stars)
Ducornet, Rikki - Gazelle (4 stars)
Edgerton, clyde - Raney (4 stars)
Eldridge, Sherrie - Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew (2 stars)
Flory, Kitty Burns - Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences (3 stars)
Fowler, Karen Joy - The Jane Austen Book Club (3 stars)
Friedrich, Molly - You're Not My Real Mother (4 stars)
Grenville, Kate - Dreamhouse (3 stars)
John, Paul Brett - On Top of Spaghetti (5 stars)
Jones, Merry Bloch - Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories (2 stars)
Katz, Karen - Over the Moon: An Adoption Tale (5 stars)
Levin, Mark - Rescuing Sprite (2 stars)
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild (4 stars)
McCarthy, Cormac - No Country for Old Men (4 stars)
Monroe, Mary Alice - The Book Club (currently reading)
Munsch, Robert N. - Love You Forever (5 stars)
Oates, Joyce Carol - First Love (2 stars)
Oates, Joyce Carol - Gravedigger's Daughter (3 stars)
O'Farrell, Maggie - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (currently reading)
Pearl, Nancy - Book Lust (4 stars)
Rosenberg, Maxine - Being Adopted (4 stars)
Rosenberg, Maxine - Growing Up Adopted (3 stars)
Seuss, Dr. - The Cat in the Hat (5 Stars)
Sachs, Marilyn - What My Sister Remembered (3 stars)
Silber, Kathleen - Dear Birthmother (4 stars)
Sparks, Nicholas - Three Weeks with My Brother (4 stars)
Stolz, Karen - World of Pies (4 stars)
Truss, Lynne - Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference! (4 stars)
Volk, Patricia - To My Dearest Friends (4 stars)
Vida, Vendela - And Now You Can Go (currently reading)
Viorst, Judith - Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (5 stars)
Viorst, Judith - Alexander and the Wonderful, Marvelous, Excellent, Terrific Ninety Days: An Almost Completely Honest Account of What Happened to Our Family When Our Youngest ... Came to Live with Us for Three Months (3 stars)
Wadia-Ellis, Susan (editor) - The Adoption Reader (not finished - 3 stars so far)
Wolff, Jana - Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother (4 stars)
Yoshimoto, Banana - Kitchen (4 stars)
Total YTD: 41
Name: Laura
Where do you live: Tennessee
Age (Optional): 39
What are you studying/What are you working as: Mommy
What makes you happy: my hubby & kiddo, good books, good music, good food, good friends
What are you listening to now/have listened to last: currently listening to The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
An interesting fact about you: I have been skydiving, and I am a certified scuba diver
Favourite place to be: home with my hubby & kiddo
Favorite lyric: "Fat bottomed girls, they make the rockin' world go 'round." --Queen
Favourite book: so many, but most recently The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Favourite movie: Four Weddings and a Funeral
RECOMMEND TO THE GROUP
1. A film: Million Dollar Baby (super movie, which was unexpected)
2. A book: The Queen of the South by Arturo Perez-Reverte (specifically on audio cd - adds a great authentic element to the book)
3. A song: Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen (of course)
4: A band: Dave Matthews Band
Trade paperback (hands down), then mass market and/or audio, then hardback.
