Jennifer’s Comments (group member since Dec 03, 2021)

Jennifer’s comments from the On The Same Page group.

We’ll see what it turns out to be. (Oh, the pressure!)

Me too, Dee!

Snuck it in under the wire, Denise!

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Jennifer wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I actually messed up on my shelf and picked the wrong book in the Seven Sisters trilogy, however I'm super excited to read the next one, so I shall re..."

Oh wow -- I thought it actually WAS a trilogy and I was making a joke! LOL. I didn't even notice where you said "fourth" because I was so busy with the whole "seven into three" thing. LOL!!

Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "I actually messed up on my shelf and picked the wrong book in the Seven Sisters trilogy, however I'm super excited to read the next one, so I shall read the one I should have posted, as I already r..."

"Seven Sisters Trilogy" almost sounds like four of the sisters have been short-changed LOL.

Thank you.

Re the other two playwrights, if anyone is interested:

If you happen to be an old movie buff, give "Separate Tables" a gander. That's a Rattigan play and I believe it netted David Niven an Oscar. Or if you've seen the 1999 film directed by David Mamet called "The Winslow Boy" - that's also a Rattigan play.

Re Philip Barry -- again, if you're an old movie buff, check out a couple of Katharine Hepburn's earlier movies - "Holiday" and "The Philadelphia Story."

Well, to me one of the biggest draws to sports is the lore. So this was an easy pick: A Talk in the Park: Nine Decades of Baseball Tales from the Broadcast Booth. Enjoy!

Glad to have you with us!

Welcome to the challenge, Lance!

Let me know when you're ready and how many you want, and I'll pick for you.

As a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiration and adviser for the hit Fox TV drama House, M.D., Lisa Sanders has seen it all. And yet she is often confounded by the cases she describes in her column: unexpected collections of symptoms that she and other physicians struggle to diagnose.

A twenty-eight-year-old man, vacationing in the Bahamas for his birthday, tries some barracuda for dinner. Hours later, he collapses on the dance floor with crippling stomach pains. A middle-aged woman returns to her doctor, after visiting two days earlier with a mild rash on the back of her hands. Now the rash has turned purple and has spread across her entire body in whiplike streaks. A young elephant trainer in a traveling circus, once head-butted by a rogue zebra, is suddenly beset with splitting headaches, as if someone were "slamming a door inside his head."

In each of these cases, the path to diagnosis--and treatment--is winding, sometimes frustratingly unclear. Dr. Sanders shows how making the right diagnosis requires expertise, painstaking procedure, and sometimes a little luck. Intricate, gripping, and full of twists and turns, Diagnosis puts readers in the doctor's place. It lets them see what doctors see, feel the uncertainty they feel--and experience the thrill when the puzzle is finally solved.

Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries

I read about 25 books in 2021 that were 500 + pages. I'll go for 25 again and hope to beat it.

1 The Eustace Diamonds (668 pages)
2 Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor (560 pgs)
3 Washington: A Life (930)
4 The Wars of the Roosevelts: The Ruthless Rise of America's Greatest Political Family (608)
5 Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang (512)
6 In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters (641)
7 Daughter of the Reich (560)
8 Watergate: A New History (823)
9 A Man on the Moon (607)
10 The Wire in the Blood (528)
11 Band of Sisters (524)
12 Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen (557)
13 Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife (544)
14 The Last White Rose: A Novel of Elizabeth of York (544)
15 We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (513)
16 America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System(528 pages)
17 The Nuremberg Trial512
18 The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn 544
19 The Giant Awakens 600
20 The Kennedy Men: 1901-1963 (932)
21 The Time Traveler's Wife (537)
22 George V: Never a Dull Moment(571 pgs)
23 Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (698)
24. Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition (776)
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Bill wrote: "Maugham is a great story teller."

I turned my niece onto him last year and she read all his short stories back to back. He’s pretty much tied with Galsworthy as my favorite classic author.

I totally expected to dislike Crazy Rich Asians and the next thing I knew I read the whole series. I hope you like it!

Rattigan, Maugham and Barry to start.

I like plays and epistolary novels. I have several playwrights on my challenge lists for this year (Maugham, Philip Barry, and Terrence Rattigan) so at a minimum I'll get to those three.

I'm glad you picked that for her, Gaylinn, because I looked it up and realized it's free on Kindle right now and snagged it!

Alissa wrote: "What a fun idea!!! =) ..."

Thank you. :-)

I saw you were reading that one and added it to my TBR.

My picks: