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I think I'll join you on this one. I'm going to try and stop by the library this weekend, to check out the book. :)
Horray! I so hope you can do it, i've been putting it off for a bit now and just got the book yesterday.
I think I can join you on reading this one...course I have to wait on reading it.
No worries, i was planning on starting the book at some point next week. You can join us whenever you can before the month is up!
I put a library request in. Unfortunately I'm fourth on the list. We'll see when it comes.
We still don't have a set date to start this one, so hopefully you'll get it before we do. So far it looks like late next week or so.
I want to set a day to start reading this one. Do you guys think you'll have a copy by the 6th of April?
I won't have it by then unless I go out and buy it somewhere. I'm #4 on the list from the library. go ahead and read it without me. Sorry.
Photojim wrote: "I won't have it by then unless I go out and buy it somewhere. I'm #4 on the list from the library. go ahead and read it without me. Sorry."Not a problem Jim, i'll write to Kristine and Tetsu and see if they can theirs by then. If not then i can wait for when we all have it.
Nope. I'm still fourth on the list. I'm believing that I'll never get it. Sometimes if the library that actually owns the book gets a local request, I may never get the book. Since it is in paperback and interlibrary loan format, this is a possibility. When it comes it comes. Sorry. Don't hold things up for me. The only Cathy Lamb I've read so far, I've hated. But I'm always willing to be proven wrong.
Then, if the others have received it we'll finish this book this month. Otherwise we'll have to postpone it for next month. I don't feel like reading it alone.LOL
Since Kristine got her copy today from the library we'll be starting the book this week. If the rest of you get your copy later on, feel free to come back here and let us know what you thought of the book. I'll be more than happy to discuss it with you even after am done!
Darn it, my library district doesn't carry it. Darn them! Have fun with this one!
Hey Kristine, did you finish the book? I'm done with mine so let me know if you did. I'm itching to discuss it!LOL
Not yet! I've gotten unexpectedly busy lately, so I've been reading little by little here and there. I'm about halfway now. Hopefully I'll be done by the end of the week!
No rush, i'm reading a bunch of books right now myself. So whenever you're done we can discuss it!
Alrighty, so i just finished a re-read of this book and loved it again. Anybody want to discuss it? I'm itching here!LOL
Not many takers!! And have you allowed enought time? Only 5 months!! Hehehe.Sorry - I had to comment given you clearly want to discuss it, and the others don't seem to be 'on board'. Unfortunately I can't help you - I haven't read it!! :)
*sobs* I know, they have desserted me on this one!LOL
Book: The Last Time I Was Me
Author: Cathy Lamb
Discussion: Can you relate to any of the characters? Why? Which scene evoked the most emotional response in you?
Duration: 1 month
Plot:
I wrapped up my grandmother's tea cup collection and my mother's china, then grabbed a violin I'd hidden way back in my closet that made me cry, a gold necklace with a dolphin that my father gave me two weeks before he died of a heart attack when I was twelve and, at midnight, with that moon as bright as the blazes, I left Chicago. When Jeanne Stewart stops at The Opera Man's Cafe in Weltana, Oregon, to eat pancakes for the first time in twelve years, she has no idea she's also about to order up a whole new future. It's been barely a week since she succumbed to a spectacularly public nervous breakdown in front of hundreds of the nation's most important advertising and PR people. Jeanne certainly had her reasons--her mother's recent death, the discovery that her boyfriend had been sleeping with a dozen other women, and the assault charges that resulted when Jeanne retaliated in a creative way against him, involving condoms and peanut oil.
Now, en route to her brother's house in Portland, Jeanne impulsively decides to spend some time in picturesque Weltana. Staying at a B&B run by the eccentric, endearing Rosvita, she meets a circle of quirky new friends at her court-ordered Anger Management classes. Like Jeanne, all of them are trying to become better, braver versions of themselves. Yet the most surprising discoveries are still to come--a good man who steadily makes his way into her heart and a dilapidated house that with love and care might be transformed into something wholly her own, just like the new life she is slowly building, piece by piece.