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[Rachel]

Is there any way to have two Barbara Camerons with the same name but not merge them together? I've seen a few pages where it's said "There are two people called Tom Smith. Click here to see Tom Smith, writer of golf books" or something like that. Is there anything on the Librarians group? Don't worry, Barbara, we'll sort it out somehow so your fans know which books you've written :)

In other news, I just started Plain Perfect by Beth Wiseman and I'm loving it! Lilly is such a hilarious character, totally not your typical Amish heroine. I hadn't got around to reading her books yet as I have so many other Amish ones to read but a friend from church leant it to me. I'll definitely be getting more of her books after this :)

[Barbara]

Glad you can change it. I don't ever use a middle initial -- it's not even on my driver's license.

BTW, I checked the bookshelf and there are a number of titles listed under my name that were written by other Barbara Camerons: Turning the Tables, Predictive Planetary Periods, Mabote, Once is Not Enough, and the two The Alternative Shopping Guide(s)...can someone delete these? I know that except for the Alternative Shopping Guides those Barbara Camerons doesn't use a middle initial, either...

[Janet]

I just started
Courting Miss Amsel
By: Kim Vogel Sawyer

[Camille]

One thing that may help, Barbara, is if you take over your own author profile. Then you would be identified as a GoodReads authors, but also then it is a lot easier for you to edit your own profile and keeps other from editing things on your profile. Now I'm not 100% sure how you go about doing that, but I do know it can be done. :)

[Barbara]

I'm spread too thin right now with a deadline to do that. Can whoever changed it fix it?

[Camille]

I'm working on it, but it keeps merging the profiles together, and is very difficult to figure out how to have multiple authors with the same name separated from one another. So, it might be a while before I can get it sorted.

[Camille]

Ok Barbara, I think I successfully did it. However, when someone enters a new book by the author "Barbara Cameron" it may default to another profile than the one featuring your books. When you aren't spread so thin, I recommend joining the GoodReads author program so that you can better be sure that only books by you are featured. :)

[Barbara]

Thanks for fixing it.

[Rachel]

Camille, you're a GoodReads whizz - impressed that you fixed this so quickly! I'm sure we'll let you know if we notice any errors that come up in new books from Barbara.

[Rachel]

Also, finished Plain Perfect by Beth Wiseman and adored it, definitely at least 9/10. Will review soon :) Will be back in St. Andrews tomorrow and get started on The Fine Art of Insincerity: A Novel by Angela Hunt for review.

[Courtney]

I just started reading an Amish series called Sisters of the Quilt by Cindy Woodsmall. Such a great series! I have read books 1 & 2 and will be reading book 3 this week. I posted my review on my blog:

http://courtney-courtneyschitterchatt...

[Tia]

Courtney wrote: "I just started reading an Amish series called Sisters of the Quilt by Cindy Woodsmall. Such a great series! I have read books 1 & 2 and will be reading book 3 this week. I posted my review on my b..."

I loved that series. I cried when reading it.

[Courtney]

I cried too! It was so emotional! There were a lot of times I just wanted to put the book down and walk away but I just had to keep finding out what was going to happen. I have yet to read the third book and the suspense of waiting it hard!

[Tia]

Courtney wrote: "I cried too! It was so emotional! There were a lot of times I just wanted to put the book down and walk away but I just had to keep finding out what was going to happen. I have yet to read the thir..."<

Yes, the bad thing was that I did not know that it was going to be a series and read the first and purchased the second and third book when they came out and it was such a lengthy time between the two that I had to go back and read the first again.

[Lorie]

I'm starting Lilly's Wedding Quilt. I think several of you all have already read it.

[Camille]

It's great Lorie! You will probably love it!

[Rachel]

I'm reading What the Heart Sees: A Collection of Amish Romances by Kathleen Fuller on my Kindle and The Fine Art of Insincerity: A Novel by Angela Elwell Hunt on paperback. The first is three Amish romance novellas - I really enjoyed the first but the second is just so-so. The second book is Christian Southern chick-lit (I guess that's the best way to describe it!) and quite enjoyable so far. My first book from this author.

[Rachel]

I finished The Fine Art of Insincerity: A Novel very quickly and I'm now on to Lady in the Mist by Laurie Alice Eakes.

[Gail]

I am reading "A Creed in Stone Creek" by Linda Lael Miller and getting close to reading "The Outsider"!

[Susan]

I am reading An Amish Christmas: December in Lancaster County by Beth Wiseman...its actually four stories and I am loving this book!!!

[Rachel]

Okay, major geek moment here. I'm currently reading Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later by Francine Pascal. Did anyone else read these books as a teenager? This is such brain candy but I love it.

[Diane U]

Rachel wrote: "Okay, major geek moment here. I'm currently reading Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later by Francine Pascal. Did anyone else read these books as a teenager? This ..."

OMG, I remember reading Sweet Valley High when I was a teenager. Flashbacks!!!

[Diane U]

I just finished A Time to Heal by Barbara Cameron last night. I was a little bummed when it said "The End" when I was only at 83%. I was hoping for some more! The rest of a preview of book #3.

So I started The Outsider: A Novel by Ann H. Gabhart. It is quite interesting!

[Tia]

I am reading Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer.

[Camille]

Tia, I read that book and I loved it. It is truly fascinating and heartbreaking.

[Barbara]

Thank you, Diane U., and Camille, for posting such wonderful reviews of A Time to Heal. I am so glad that you enjoyed my book. I love writing this series and recently heard there'll be another book after A Time for Peace...yay!!! It'll follow the current, new series I'm writing for release after "Peace."

[Camille]

What am I reading? Well, it is nearing that time of the semester so I am reading:

Employment Discrimination Law: Cases and Materials on Equality in the Workplace, 8th & Land Use Regulation: Cases and Materials.

Anyone jealous? ;)

[Barbara]

Just a little light reading, huh, Camille? : )

[Camille]

Oh yes. :) Just a little light reading. ;)

My goodness, finals might kill me this semester. :(

[Barbara]

I'm grading research papers as i finish up a book deadline. We both might die.

[Camille]

On the plus side, we can suffer together. :) Misery loves company, no? :)

[Barbara]

It surely does. I will be happy to do less teaching soon...too busy with writing.

[Rachel]

Fun stuff is having to take the back seat for me too, as I have to read Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and a bunch of textbooks on the post-war crisis in Modernist art. Yay! :P

Although I'm slightly worried as my first exam is in exactly one month and I still have four deadlines before then. No idea when I'm going to get the chance to study for exams...

[Diane U]

Camille wrote: "What am I reading? Well, it is nearing that time of the semester so I am reading:

Employment Discrimination Law: Cases and Materials on Equality in the Workplace, 8th & [book:Land ..."

Sounds exciting, NOT!!!! LMAO!

[Rachel]

Okay, Camille, I'm going to compete with you. In preparation for tomorrow's presentation my bedtime reading tonight is:

After Modern Art 1945-2000 by David Hopkins

Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties by Jonathan Harris

Painting, Politics and the Struggle for the École de Paris, 1944 - 1964 by Natalie Adamson

Yay? :P

[Camille]

Rachel, I think we are secretly kindred spirits. :)

We read at the same pace (as evidenced by competing for most books read in 2011) and we both have AWESOME reading right now for our classes. ;)

I'm buried in Land Use Regulation: Cases and Materials again today. Who doesn't love inclusionary zoning?

[Rachel]

Camille, we are definitely kindred spirits :) And I reckon the speed at which we devour our books is probably linked to how exciting our coursework reading is! Amish fiction is always soooo much more enticing when I have an essay due :P

Presentation over, yay! I'm going to relax this weekend before I start on my next deadline. Currently reading Lady in the Mist by Laurie Alice Eakes and loving it - definitely check it out if you like historical romance.

[Camille]

I agree. Finals are making me want to read more and more for fun, and less and less for school. *sigh*

I am reading The Red Siren and The Lightkeeper's Ball

:)

[Gail]

I am now reading "The Courtship of William and Kate" on my new Kindle which I just got this week!

[Kimberly]

Rachel and Camille-

I loved reading this interchange about wanting to read and having to study instead. I remember VIVIDLY looking with longing toward the fiction sections of bookstores and libraries while I was in undergrad and grad school, willing those books to jump into my pile so I could stop reading titles like "Bilingual eduction and the learned helplessness dilemma: Chomksy's influence on language acquisition." (Made-up title; don't try to find it for your next Good Reads pick! :) ) I assure you, the day will come when you can curl up with a good book and wile away the hours with not one research paper to write. Woo hoo!

Of course then, if you're like I was, you'll meet a man who sweeps you off your feet, you'll have pudgy babies who like Eric Carle and Elmo more than any novel you might suggest...Ah, well. You'll find time. :)

[Barbara]

I just started The Protector: Families of Honor, Book Two by Shelley Shepard Gray. I'm in chapter 7 and really enjoying it. Has anyone else read it?

[Barbara]

Barbara Ann wrote: "I just started The Protector: Families of Honor, Book Two by Shelley Shepard Gray. I'm in chapter 7 and really enjoying it. Has anyone else read it?"

I finished it before bed las night and sooo enjoyed it. The teaser for book #3 blew me away -- can't wait!

[Barbara]

Our Sunday School class is readingTwelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong. There's a lot of history -- but I keep thinking "Why not try to be more Amish?"

Has anyone else read it?

[Kristy]

I read the Sweet Valley Twins books and Sweet Valley Kids. Love those stories.

[Rachel]

I'm currently living in Essay Land right now, but as off 5pm on Monday I will have handed in my last piece of coursework! :) Then I shall start The Red Siren by M.L. Tyndall.

Right now I'm reading Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery because the short stories make it easy to pick up and put down again without being too distracted from my work.

[Rachel]

Also, I'm currently reading Ranke: The Meaning of History by Leonard Krieger. Camille, care to compete? :P

[Camille]

I'm still on the same two books. :) I will be reading (and re-reading) them until exams are over. :(

[Lorie]

I'm reading The Red Siren. I really think it's interesting so far, very different from what I usually read. I'm also reading When Calls the Heart. I love this but i always love Prairie type books.

[Barbara]

I'm reading Plain Perfect by Beth Wiseman. I'm a quarter of the way through and am really enjoying it!

[Rachel]

Right now I'm reading Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey, in between studying for my English exam on Saturday. If I'm not around a lot over the next couple of weeks, don't worry - I'm just buried up to my head in notes!