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Lisa. It is so nice to be here. It doesn't hurt when I use the eyes. I don't see well, but it doesn't hurt. I am very happy. Day by day things get better. Jeeze, I remember the first day......
Chrissie wrote: "Lisa. It is so nice to be here. It doesn't hurt when I use the eyes. I don't see well, but it doesn't hurt. I am very happy. Day by day things get better. Jeeze, I remember the first day......"I am glad your eyes don't hurt; that's a relief. And it's nice to know, that every day it's getting better :-)
Gundula wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Lisa. It is so nice to be here. It doesn't hurt when I use the eyes. I don't see well, but it doesn't hurt. I am very happy. Day by day things get better. Jeeze, I remember the fi..."YES!
loved that book but it's a long time ago.
My following of Kim and Jeannette's read-and-loved trail is becoming suspiciously stalker-ish. I think I'll need to let some time pass before I read My Cousin Rachel. :D
Chrissie wrote: "Lisa. It is so nice to be here. It doesn't hurt when I use the eyes. I don't see well, but it doesn't hurt. I am very happy. Day by day things get better. Jeeze, I remember the first day......"Chrissie, I'm so glad that you're not in pain. I'm glad you can see well enough to be here. I hope there is some improvement in your vision or at the very least I hope what was done will delay further deterioration of your eyesight. Crossing my fingers for you!!!
Tracey wrote: "My following of Kim and Jeannette's read-and-loved trail is becoming suspiciously stalker-ish. I think I'll need to let some time pass before I read My Cousin Rachel.
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Jemidar threw out the challenge, and I have a few days until The Hobbit, so I took it up! :)
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Jemidar threw out the challenge, and I have a few days until The Hobbit, so I took it up! :)
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Ellie wrote: "I'm reading One for the Money by Janet Evanovich. I want to read it before I go see the movie."Is a movie coming out? I'll have to keep an eye out for it. I found the first few books in this series very entertaining. But Evanovich seems to have run out of jokes. Or at least, she has kept on repeating the same jokes and a joke which is funny five or six times is rarely funny fifteen or sixteen times!
Lisa wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Lisa. It is so nice to be here. It doesn't hurt when I use the eyes. I don't see well, but it doesn't hurt. I am very happy. Day by day things get better. Jeeze, I remember the fi..."Thanks. I am just so happy that I have done what I had to do. Now we will have to wait and see the rusults. Keep those fingers crossed.
Lee, well I am back here because you started this great group!
Ellie wrote: "I'm just about to start A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. I want to read more classics in 2012."I LOVE A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I listened to it on audiobook last year and thought it was wonderful.
I'm reading Jennifer Kloester's Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller and The Floating Admiral, which was written by members of the Detection Club in the early 1930s. Each of the writers (including Agatha Christie, GK Chesterton and Dorothy L Sayers) wrote a chapter and proposed a solution to the mystery.
I've just finished listening to George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. It took me quite a while to really get into, but ultimately I fell in love with the writing and the characters. Chapter 56 contains one of the most beautiful literary love letters ever. It made me weep.
Today I will start listening to an audiobook of Anne of Avonlea, which will be rather lighter fare than The Mill on the Floss!
I read The Floating Admiral a long time ago, when I was on my big Christie kick! Now that I've read Sayers, I should read this again.
Jeannette wrote: "I read The Floating Admiral a long time ago, when I was on my big Christie kick! Now that I've read Sayers, I should read this again."I've had it sitting around in TBR for a while. I meant to read it when I re-read all of Sayers last year, but didn't quite get around to it. I thought it would be a quick read to slot in before I go away. But I also want to finish the Heyer bio before I go away, because it is way too heavy to lug around with me.
I won't. D has downloaded the audiobook from Audible and we will listen to it together while we're away. We won't have a car all the time, but we will certainly get some of it listened to before we come home.
Last night I finished Lady Chatterley's Lover and today I started The Blue Lagoon.
140 pages away from finishing The White Queen then will either read Forever or At Home in Mitford after reading a 390 page book on my nook I need something really light - easy and fast to read! As good as the book is, found out it was going to be made into a TV series a la The Tudors. I also just ordered The Street for my live book club read in Feb.
I'm starting The Hobbit, but I'm also trying to read Charlotte Sometimes and a few other books at the same time.
I absolutely adored Birds Without Wings. I believe this will be my favorite book this year! Here follows my review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...I will now start A Night to Remember. I am listening to the audiobook.
I'm reading Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke (love those recipes!) and listening to Persuasion by Jane Austen.
Ivan wrote: "A Wrinkle in Time - still reading kid lit and having a grand time."Before Goodreads I used to read that book at least once a year. It's never left my top 10 list. Since Goodreads I'm doing a lot less rereading.
Thursday, 2/2 (Groundhog Day) I'll be starting The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer. I loved her book of short stories: How to Breathe Underwater: Stories.
I am reading That Scatterbrain Booky, wow, it's a wonderful story, will try to write a review soon, as I have lots of other books to reads.
Simran wrote: "Lorraine wrote: "I'm reading Strawberry Shortcake Murder by Joanne Fluke (love those recipes!) and listening to Persuasion by Jane Austen."I read Persuasion last year for..."
I've read Persuasion about 4-5 times so far, but this is the first time I've listened to the audiobook. Read by Gretta Scacchi (the actress) - she does a very good job performing the different characters. This is my favourite Jane Austen and I love this story.
Lisa, I KNOW you will enjoy 'The Invisible Bridge'!Gundula, that looks like an interesting YA book. Booky, fun name! Is she a reader?
Just finished A Night to Remember, and have started Nefertiti. I wanted to try a book by this author; Michelle Moran is quite the thing these days: Why not give her a try?! Both are audiobooks.
The book about the Titanic was clear, factual and concise. It is not for those of you who want a melodramatic rendering of the facts as shown in the movie. I enjoyed it. It gave the facts and drew a picture of what really happened. There have been many false stories drawn of this event! You learn of what happened to those in steerage. You get a minute by minute account of what happened. There is an epilogue with source info.
Concerning Nefertiti: I have read that the historical details are to be accurate. Are they?
Chrissie wrote: "Lisa, I KNOW you will enjoy 'The Invisible Bridge'!Gundula, that looks like an interesting YA book. Booky, fun name! Is she a reader?
Just finished A Night to Remember, and have st..."
It's a really great YA book, very realistic, it paints a total picture of Depression era Toronto (Booky does not come off as a big reader in the first book, but she does like composition and writing much better than math, she gets strapped for bad math assignments at school). This is supposedly largely autobiographical, the realism, the voice is charming, but there are instances of the parents fighting and the father is a bit authoritarian (but a real slice of life and of history, with Toronto landmarks, roads etc. named).
I am glad you enjoyed A Night to Remember. I thought it was a really good book myself when I read it (and probably one of the facts why I never enjoyed that melodramatic Titanic movie that was made some years ago, the one that starred Leonard Di Caprio and Kate Winslett).
I'm almost finished with Forever and just started The Night Strangers so far so good, Jodi Picoult meets Stephen King. If you know what I mean.
I'm reading Until You Are Dead by Julian Sher, the true story of how Steven Truscott got a new trial
Gundula wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Lisa, I KNOW you will enjoy 'The Invisible Bridge'!Gundula, that looks like an interesting YA book. Booky, fun name! Is she a reader?
Just finished [book:A Night to Remember|228..."
Thank you for describing the Booky books further. And yeah I can understand your aversion to the Titanic movie. But the music was nice. Interesting how even the music that was played by the band, what it really played is discussed in "A Night to Remember".You get a REAL feeling of what happened. At points I got lost with all the naming of people on the boat. If I had recognized more of the "soiety names" I think I would have liked that part more.
Amazing that there had come out a fictional book a decade before about the sinking of a ship called the Titan. The similarities were astounding. What a good start to the book! Do you rmember that ?
I'm reading 2 books I started Sarah's Key yesterday I need a break from all the awful horror I've been reading and when I say "awful" I mean badly written horror stories of late and and the other is a Goodreads giveaway win Taking people with You.
Chrissie wrote: "Gundula wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Lisa, I KNOW you will enjoy 'The Invisible Bridge'!Gundula, that looks like an interesting YA book. Booky, fun name! Is she a reader?
Just finished [book:A Night..."
I had read the "Night to Remember" movie when I was a teenager and then tried to watch to blockbuster Titanic movie when it came out on DVD. It was just so different, so overdone and melodramatic that I could not bear to finish watching it (also, I don't generally like Leonardo Di Caprio). This is one of those books I would not mind rereading at some time (and I also would not mind watching the movie based on that book).
That book about the sinking of the Titan, did that come out a decade before the Titanic sank (I don't remember that part, but it sure is weird). Nomen est omen, perhaps, shiver.
I finished the first Booky book (ha, ha, that sound strange) and I think I will try to read the entire trilogy in one go.
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Gundula wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Gundula wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Lisa, I KNOW you will enjoy 'The Invisible Bridge'!Gundula, that looks like an interesting YA book. Booky, fun name! Is she a reader?
Just finis..."
The book came our a decade BEFORE the Titanic existed! I think it was actually in 1898, and if I recall correctly it was called Futility, meaning the futility of everything. Heavens, it is here on GR: :Futility or The Wreck of the Titan. Dem, a GR friend also alerted me to this book: And the Band Played on.
Oh, the author changed the story after the Titanic sunk! I would have preferred to read the original version of Futility or The Wreck of the Titan. Or have I misread this....
Just started reading "The Street by Ann Petry" for my live book club February read.
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White Gardenia was without doubt the very best. I highly recommend it. The audiobook was fantastic. Shanghai and Harbin, China were so well described. A refuge camp in the Philippines and life in Australia too! Pls read this book, and listen to it as anaudio if you can. The narrator is Desire Rubenstein, the same narrator as the audiobook Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations. I intend on reading more audiobooks narrated by this woman. You simply must chuckle at the American accents.
Well actually I have been in the hospital. With lousy vision I am trying my best to return to GR.
I will soon be starting Birds Without Wings. another audiobook. This one set in Turkey.