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Dawn wrote: "Hey girls ! I told Mike yesterday !! I was trying to see if we could get the go ahead to have July declared Harper Lee Month early and everyone group read this one automatically !!! I say preorde..."
I feel the same it s like a long lost treasure and a dream come true !
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I told Mike yesterday !! I was trying to see if we could get the go ahead to have July declared Harper Lee Month early and everyone group read this one automatically !!! ..."
Dawn wrote: "Hey girls !
I told Mike yesterday !! I was trying to see if we could get the go ahead to have July declared Harper Lee Month early and everyone group read this one automatically !!! I say preorde..."
Hey, Girls? *Ahem* Man on the floor! Yes, I'm excited about the upcoming release, too. Personally, I've always felt there was more than the one novel. According to the unauthorized biography by Charles Shields, Msn. Lee worked on the story of an Alexander City, Al, preacher who poisoned his grandchildren for insurance proceeds. Her publisher told her it was too dark too sell. Her "good friend" the attorney who recovered the manuscript...I wonder what else she's found. Shame on me.
Hey girls and Mike ;) and all the guys in the group too ,oops .I would like to read a biography of Lee - yes, I am getting swept along in all this justified,"madness" any recommendations please?
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Of course! Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee by Charles J. Shields. :)
That s what I thought I m off to order it ....;)
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Finished A Slant of Lighthttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and started Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League.
I just stopped mid way withA Good Fall.
I was so bad with not being written well and it was lacking what makes a good book.
I was so bad with not being written well and it was lacking what makes a good book.
Diane S. wrote: "Finished A Slant of Lighthttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and started Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League."really want to read Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League did you write a review?
Haven't finished it yet, will when I am done and will post it here, but I am over third done and it is very good, but heartbreaking too.
Diane S. wrote: "Haven't finished it yet, will when I am done and will post it here, but I am over third done and it is very good, but heartbreaking too."Sounds good!
Finished Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Started God Help the Child.
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I know what you mean and I am adding it right now !! Thanks y'all ! Dawn
Too funny Laura and Monica but thanks.
I seem to be on a reading role, two very good books in a row,Finished God Help the Child
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
for who ever read a member of wedding I have a quick question page 86 frankie said something that looked like french . Was that french or something made up ?
No idea, but if you type the words into Google Translate (or post here), you'll know what she said.
Diane wrote: "Leanne, I think you'll love Harold Fry and his pilgrimage. I think it's a book that can only be appreciated by people old enough to have some regrets in their lives, I've noticed that a lot of you..."Just finished it. After blowing my nose and washing my hands, I had to immediately get on here and thank you for the encouragement to read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Diane, you are absolutely right about feelings of regret probably not resonating with those who haven't lived long enough to accumulate a few. Beautiful story.
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I'm so glad you liked it. It is such a beautiful book. Now you must read The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy by the same author. It will be published in the U.S. on March 3rd (I may have the exact date wrong). I swear it's even better. She wrote the books simultaneously, and you will fall in love with Queenie.
Oh, my goodness! What a wonderful surprise - thank you!
for who ever read a member of wedding I have a quick question page 86 frankie said something that looked like french . Was that french or something made up ?
merci a la parlez
merci a la parlez
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by John Boyne. Love this author and so far I'm just getting acquainted with the characters. After this I will head into
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons.
Okay, I just finished my second review for "A Death in the Family." So I am six or seven months late for this second review. I have been working on this for a long time and this second review is written with some comments added about the second publication of "A Death in the Family" which was named "A Death in the Family: A Restoration of the Author's Text" (Collected Works of James Agee) and published by Michael A. Lofaro on Dec. 30, 2007. I have most of my review written and I will post it in a few days and tell you why I think the second version is bogus and why? Ron Wright
Go Set a Watchman there s a bookshop in Monroeville who will sell the book with an embossment and a certificate saying it is from Monroeville Alabama Ol' Curiosities and book shoppe pre orders http://ocbookshoppe.com/
Jane wrote: "http://deepsouthmag.com/2014/09/2014-... Suggestions from Deep South magazine" and this makes dream http://deepsouthmag.com/2015/03/liter...
Jane wrote: "http://deepsouthmag.com/2014/09/2014-... Suggestions from Deep South magazine"Great list of books, Jane!
I wish I lived closer to Key West so I could attend the Tennessee Williams events listed in your last message. He's one of my favorites.
Connie wrote: "Jane wrote: "http://deepsouthmag.com/2014/09/2014-... Suggestions from Deep South magazine"Great list of books, Jane!
I wish I lived closer to Key West so I could attend th..." me too, sigh.
Well, y'all could entertain visiting New Orleans at the end of this month! The Tennessee Williams literary festival is March 25-29.http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/
Also for your convenience, here is the mobile event program. Weather is gorgeous this time of year - hawthornes and azaleas and jasmine are popping!
http://www.pageturnpro.com/New-Orlean...
Leanne wrote: "Well, y'all could entertain visiting New Orleans at the end of this month! The Tennessee Williams literary festival is March 25-29.http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/
Also for your convenience, her..." Oh Leane I have turned green ;)
Mike wrote: "I received a message from one of our members requesting a place to discuss book recommendations and reviews. So here's the spot. The books you list here need not be Southern literature. I'm sure..."How about Scorched Earth by David L. Robbins?
Started a Nuclear Power disaster. The title is "Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster". When it happened in 2011 after is was over; say two months after it was rated the second worst nuclear power abnormality since nuclear power came on the scene in the world in the late 1950's with demonstation plants. The worst was Chernobyl in the northern part of the Ukraine in 1986. It was part of the USSR at the time of the accident qnd Russia forgot to tell anyone about it until on the third day after the explosion technians at a Swedish nuclear plant report a large increas in radioactive particals in the air.The Russian reactor was built with one less containment vessel than the plants in other countries. It did not have the curved dome on the top of reactor plants. There were a minimum of 60 people killed at the accident or as a reault of Radiation Poisoning within 3 months of the accident. High estimates are 60 times that number. The third worst nuclear accident was of course Three Mile Island in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979 when there was a partial melt down of the core and the release of radioactive material in this case as in the other two, lack of training of operators was a main component causing the accidents. So far in the Fukushima accident there have just been general actions at the top of TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power Company) and the top of the nuclear industry of the Japanese government. Of couse a large part of the cause was a major earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Sendai. About a minute after the quake was first deteched 90 miles from the coast, the Japanese Meteorological Agency reported a 7.9 earthquake would hit the coast in 90 seconds. This was a subduction earthquake which tend to do more damages that the other types of quake. Within moments after the news flash, "the northern half of the island of Honshu, Japan's largest, the island was stretched more than three feet to the east, a movement of land mass so great the earth's axis shifted by several inches. The March 2011 tsunami that hit Sanrikku and areas to the south, including Fukushima Prefecture, recorded forty-five-foot waves.At 3:27 p.m., forty-one mminutes after the earthquake began, the first tsunami wave hit the seawall extending outward from the Fukushima Daiichi plant." No problem, the wwall was built to deflect thirty-three feet. "At 3:35 a second wave struck. this one was almost fifty-feet high, far higher than anyon had planned for. It destroyed the seawater pumps Yoshida, the plant manager, had worried about. The tsunami smashed the shuttered doors of the oceanfront turbine buildings, covering power panels that distributed electricity to pumps, valves, and other equipment.It flowed into the buildings basement where most of the backup generators were housed. The electrical distribution system providing power to Units 1 through 5 went down. The nuclear power plant was dark. There is now a race against time. They must get the backup generators running before the emergency batteries now powering all controls. Most of these batteries were rated eight hours. That is how long they had to get the generators running.That is as far as I have read. Iwill post more when I have read more.
Jane wrote: "Diane S. wrote: "Finished A Slant of Lighthttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and started Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League."really want to read [bo..." I have started http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... it s very good and will head over to your review soon.
Just got done with the member of wedding.
That was so good.
I am now reading gone girl
That was so good.
I am now reading gone girl
Leanne wrote: "Well, y'all could entertain visiting New Orleans at the end of this month! The Tennessee Williams literary festival is March 25-29.http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/ "
Leanne, thanks for the news on this event. I wish I could get away next week...but alas, prior commitments tether. I'm reading the John Lahr biography now, 'Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh', which provides many insights into Williams' muses, as well as the tenor and mechanics of American theater in the forties and fifties. The 2015 festival offerings suggest a rich, heady brew indeed, not unlike the best of TW drama and Lahr's approach to laying bare the emotional history of this great artist. Hope I can get down there in 2016!
Reading Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock. I love it. Not for the easily-offended!
It has been quite awhile since I've posted here.Atm I am completing Shindler's List. An enthralling story of horrific times.
A couple of things I didn't know or appreciate about the Jewish situation at that time. Madagascar was seriously considered the end point location for Jewish resettlement. Additionally, considering a history of pograms, ghettos, and repressive policies across Eastern Europe the general Jewish population entered the Nazi ghettos with hope of current hardships easing over time and that they were entering an enclave from which they might be able to take a sigh of relief and settle into existence.
Ghettos were destined to become ghost towns.
The author refers to Sophie's Choice for its authenticity in the Auschwitz camp
Oskar Shindler was an incredible person. He was arrested three times by the Gestapo for his sympathies and suspicious behavior. He greased a lot of palms. He never delivered a functioning piece of armament or weaponry.
Inside the Lodz Ghetto: photos by Henryk Rosshttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/ph...
Archaeologists: We've found 'Nazi lair' deep in jungle
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/0...
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I told Mike yesterday !! I was trying to see if we could get the go ahead to have July declared Harper Lee Month early and everyone group read this one automatically !!! I say preorder this sucker ! I am so excited I just can't stand myself !!! Leanne , have you had your book group scavenger hunt yet? Let me now when you do . ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE was my favorite new release last year. So much meaning in that book. I want to read it over!!!
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