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[Reggia]

It's been awhile since I've read any of the Amelia Peabody series, too, but hope to pick up someday where I left off. So many books...

2nd repair? Certainly hope you don't have to repeat it again -- wishing you a quick recuperation, Syra!

[Nicole]

Best wishes, Syra. They better get it right this time!

[[deleted user]]

The first one did arthroscopic on March 13 2009. Then I got a big tear in the tendon behind what he did so another recommended doctor is redoing it with an incision. Better fix it - it is my right arm!
Thanks for all the good wishes. Will miss this chatting and stuff.

[Reggia]

Wonder how you're doing, Syra...

I recently finished the latest installment of the #1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built -- amusing as always. Then read Henry James's Daisy Miller: A Study and not quite sure I understood it.

Now I am reading Going Back to Bisbee by Richard Shelton, a regional book full of tidbits from Tucson to Bisbee.

[Werner]

I've just started reading Orthodoxy by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. That book has been on my to-read shelf for some time (recommended by one of my Goodreads friends) and a recent discussion in one of my other groups brought it to the head of the list.

[Nicole]

I'll let everyone know how Syra is doing when I talk to her.

[[deleted user]]

i here but cant type well. Lots of pain and bruises. Stitches out Thurs. On Oxycoton 1, 2 or 3 every 3 hours (gives you some idea of the pain) and using lots of ice. Will Keep in touch.

[Werner]

Hang in there, Syra! Our thoughts and prayers are with you.

[Nicole]

Hey! Amazed that you're typing, Syra! I hope the pain relents soon.

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finger and ten mins for one word due to mistakes, Stitches out, swollen, bruised and painful. 2 more weeks in sling thn see if we can start physical therapy. Felt strange to bend elbow!

[Werner]

When I finished John Sandford's Certain Prey recently, I discovered that he ended it with a VERY big loose end. As it turns out, that thread is picked up again in the 13th Prey series installment, Mortal Prey. While I'm not really interested in reading the rest of the series in general, I am curious about the ultimate outcome of this storyline; so when I found a used copy of the sequel for sale last month, I snapped it up. I've just started reading it today.

[Reggia]

Hi Syra! Sending good wishes that the pain will ease soon -- hang in there!

I've started reading The Aspern Papers by Henry James; hopefully it'll make more sense to me than the last one.

Wondering what you thought of Orthodoxy, Werner...

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Thanks Reggia. Hope to start PT in 2 weeks. Oxycoton takes care of the pain tho I don't know why ppl get so excited about it if they dont' need it. Reading Milk and Honey by Faye Kellerman.

[Werner]

Reggia, I gave Orthodoxy five stars, so that tells you something about my reaction! :-) I reviewed it here on Goodreads, and the link to the review is: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... , in case you'd want to read it.

[Reggia]

Thanks for the linked review, Werner, I am eager to read it myself. :)

[Werner]

You're welcome, Reggia! I'll look forward to hearing what you think of it, whenever you read it.

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Chosen LifebloodKnight's Acre by Norah Lofts and 2 other books! From a friend I learned to read 3 at once. You do have to be careful doing this! Its good when I misplace a book.

[Reggia]

Hey Alice, good to see you!

Three's a charm. I'm reading two right now, and very eager to start a third. I'm going to try resisting though because it's taking me too long to even finish a book these days. And that was part of my summer plans -- get back to my reading!

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Good to see you too Reggia! I haven't been on Sparkpeople in ages have you? I crashed last December and its taken me a long time to get back to where I was online. I never used to read more than one book at once but my friend Mary encouraged me to do this as she does. My problem is as I pick up a new book I tend not to get back to the one I was reading. Does that happen to you?

[Reggia]

Yeah, that does happen sometimes. In fact, one of my reading goals for summer is to finish up some of the abandoned books that truly did interest me. (Thank goodness that books don't have feelings or they might not like be putting on the back burner when a more exciting book comes along.)

Funny you should mention Sparkpeople. I logged on there this past week for the first time in months. I did reach my goal and have been holding steady for 5 months. :D

[[deleted user]]

How wonderful you reached your goal. Sad to say I have not. I barely got out of bed yesterday so no exercise at all. Congratualtions to you!

I keep reading the books I have purchased instead of the library books which have to go back. I get annoyed with myself when I do this. I need to go to the library today to return one and pick up one.

[Reggia]

Thanks, Alice; it took a few years which makes it a good exercise in never giving up. :-)

I tend to do somewhat the opposite of you, that is, I tend to read the library books rather than the ones I buy. I guess because I feel secure in knowing they are on the shelf whenever I am ready for them. (Yeah, I know, it sounds like I am taking them for granted again. Humor attempt...) ;-)

[[deleted user]]

LOL! good humor! I tend to do the same but the thing I really like about my own books is I can underline. When a sentence really grabs me I often underline it and then I think about making it into a neverending quiz question. Sometimes I dog ear the page and then come back to it. I love it when 3 years later I read the book again and notice what I liked before. I don't do this in every book as some are too valuable but the cheaper little paper backs I get or the books I get at goodwill, etc I feel OK about doing that. Yesterday at Walmart I nearly bought some red tabs in order to tab the pages! I thought to myself I am getting carried away and need to back off.

I never give up altho sometimes I go into a deep slump and it seems like I have. Its surely good to have encouragement.

[Reggia]

"Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, give up. Never give up. Never give up. Never give up." ~Winston Churchill

Oh, I like marking a good passage! True confessions ahead: I do buy the post-it tab markers and my pages often look quite colorful when I am done reading an enjoyable book. I've been known to then type them all up, removing tabs before returning to the library. LOL, so yeah, it's not too likely that you'll hear me saying you're getting carried away.

I love quotes! I just wish I had more opportunities to use them as many writers do. I wonder if these authors save them up as they come across them for later inclusion or look them up as needed...

[[deleted user]]

They write a book of quotes!

[Reggia]

Teehee. See, that is just what I want to do! but alas, it's already been done, same with all the other books I've wanted to write.

I like how many authors start a chapter with a quote -- I just eat that stuff up.

[Reggia]

Finished The Aspern Papers -- finally, a Henry James short story that I 'got'. What a great ending!

Okay returning to Back to Bisbee for awhile but checked out some more books this afternoon: Jamie Langston Turner's Winter Birds and Marie Antoinette: The Journey (another selection from my unfinished list).

[Reggia]

Hey, Charly -- good to see you!

I will be watching for your review on Art in America as I've checked it out twice but never got around to reading it. No good reason.

I just looked up Jim Valvano -- he did say something about never giving up as well. Wise words! and I am always glad to hear them again. :-)

[[deleted user]]

Never had so much trouble reading with one hand after trying 50 different ways. Out of sling, down on drugs and start PT on Friday. Yay. Two hands now after almost 2 years!!! Thanks for all the good wishes. Glad to see all are doing well.
Reading an old Carolyn G. Hart I've had for years - Mint Julep Mystery (set at writers conference with which I am VERY familiar).

[Reggia]

After almost 2 years?! Very glad to hear that the recovery is coming along so well. :-)

Reading with one hand made me think of Barnes & Noble's 'Nook' they are now promoting. I may start a new thread about that.

I'm on the same reads but picked up some more books at the library...

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Got name of book wrong: Mint Julep Murder. Now looking for the next one to read.

[Nicole]

You go, Syra!
to Charly.

Currently reading a bonafide paranormal romance called Dogs and Goddesses. I don't think I would've bought it, but it was given to me, and so far it's pretty funny!

[Werner]

Ever since reading, and really liking, Never Ceese, my Goodreads friend Sue Dent's debut vampire/werewolf novel, I've wanted to read the sequel, Forever Richard. The BC library has had a copy (donated) for at least two years, but it's set around waiting to be cataloged and processed (we're a college library, so contemporary popular fiction has a very low priority). Yesterday, I knew I'd finish Mortal Prey after work (I did --four stars!), so wanted to check out my next read --and Forever Richard was on the cart of new books ready for shelving! So, I'm happily settled into it now.

[[deleted user]]

Went back to some of my Ed McBain collection. He has two series (police detectives in NY and lawyer Matthew Hope). Reading Another Part of the City now. He has been around for years and writes like a mad man. I think he beats Donald Westlakes's 95+ novels. McBain also writes under his real name - Book is called Dad but can't remember the name!

[Werner]

Syra, his real name is Evan Hunter. He also writes under several other pen names. (In the Library of Congress classification system, fiction by one author is always grouped together under the real name, regardless of how many pen names he/she uses --so the head cataloger at the library at Indiana State Univ., where I went to library school, told me he was one writer who about drove her crazy. :-))

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hehehe I'll bet. And thanks for getting his real name for me. Finished that book and now on to Tricks.
BTW my sister was a children's library assistant. She worked for the Herndon, VA area libraries for years and served on union committee. Quit a year or so ago...too old for politics!

[Werner]

In my Message 196 above, I forgot to mention that while on vacation, I also started reading Eragon, the first volume of Christopher Paolini's dragon-oriented Inheritance fantasy trilogy. (My wife had picked it up at our local flea market some time ago; so it's now our current book for out-loud reading on car trips.) I'm liking it heartily so far!

[[deleted user]]

Reading Yarrow by Charles de Lint and kept up to 4:30 this morning!

[Werner]

Syra, I loved Yarrow, and de Lint is one of my favorite authors!

Over the weekend, I started The Innocence of Father Brown, the first collection of mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton featuring his unassuming and mild-mannered series sleuth, Father Brown. I'm definitely enjoying it!

[[deleted user]]

Really liked Yarrow and will look for more de Lint books. Now reading Jane Austen mystery by Stephanie ???

[Nicole]

Yarrow has an interesting synopsis. I've never read any DeLint. Does anyone recommend a starting point when tackling his books?

[Werner]

Syra, the author of the Jane Austen mystery series is Stephanie Barron. An English professor friend of mine here at BC was delighted with the first one! I want to try the series someday; but I figure that I should first read all of Jane's own novels before I go on to the pastiches. (Though that's just me!)

Callista, Yarrow was my first de Lint book, so I'd say it's as good a starting point as any! If you like short fiction, his story collection Dreams Underfoot is a really good introduction to his fictional city of Newford, Canada, where much of his work is set, and some of the various interlocking characters who live there.

[[deleted user]]

Another deLint I know of is Moonheart I think recommended by YC. I think I'll check for more. Yarrow was so different, but then I've not read much sf/fan.

I'm enjoying the first Jane Austen mystery. I'm amazed at how well SB does write like JA.

[[deleted user]]

I'm currently reading Michael Crichton's 'Jurassic Park'. It's TOTALLY different to the film, and has me hanging off the edge of my seat!

[[deleted user]]

I found two books hiding at the bottom of my closet (prob. sent by my sister the semi-librarian). Reading Dog On It by Spencer Quinn. Written as mystery from dogs point of view. enjoying it so far but not very far in it. Also "struggling" through one of Shelby Foote's novels. You can tell he is a nonfiction writer because 7/8 of the book is narrative. And as we tell all out writers of fiction: Show, Don't Tell.

[Clarissa]

I am trying to read Iris Murdoch's The Bell in one day as I have to take it back to the library tomorrow!

[Clarissa]

Hi Dan, hope you're enjoying Jurassic Park, as I remember it was a lot darker whereas the film was a bit kiddified.

[[deleted user]]

The Poison Eaters: and Other Stories
I am just finishing this book of short stories which has been perfect for me lately. The stories are full of magical creatures. I think Virgin might be the best one about a possible fairy who meets a unicorn. Holly Black leaves much up to your imagination and also may leave you guessing. Its GREAT.

[Werner]

I've just started a buddy read with one of my Goodreads friends (not from this group). We're reading the first volume of Stephen Lawhead's King Raven trilogy, Hood. This will be the fifth novel that I've read by Lawhead, and I already count myself as a fan of his work; so I fully expect that I'll like this one.

[[deleted user]]

Reading Dog On It (Bernie & Chet his dog are PIs who work cases; told from dog's point of view which is really funny and a whole new perspective on how you see things.)