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Sun, 11-13-2005 - 11:35am

Author's name, plot profiles, genre are appreciated .........


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Sun, 11-13-2005 - 12:00pm

Penelope Lively's 1973 "The Ghost of Thomas Kempe" was a quick and fun read.

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Mon, 11-14-2005 - 2:27am
I just finished "Evans Gate" by Rhys Bowen. It's very well written & was a real page turner. Bowen has created a series for Evan Evans a Welsh Police Constable. In this book the author intertwines the disappearance of a 2 very young children occuring 25 years apart. Altho' the circumstances are similar they are not connected but seem to be throughout the book. The little girl who disappeared 25 years earlier was a playmate of Evans along with 2 siblings & 2 cousins. While the more recent diappearance of another little girl is being investigated by Evans & his DI. Both children come from dysfunctional families making for some colorful characters. There's a little love interest.....Evan is engaged to a local school teacher. He also manages to attract the attention of 2 other women, one of whom is an agressive American forensic pathologist. Of course he's an attractive intelligent chap who has an abundance of intuition that he uses to solve his mysteries. All in all, a good book that I believe has saved me from my "blue funk" reading situation. dee
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Mon, 11-14-2005 - 4:16pm

Well, I'm down to only 80 pages left of the #6 Outlander:


 


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Wed, 11-16-2005 - 8:57am

Stephen King takes a crack at writing crime drama in the first of a new series "Hard Case Crime" (see post down in Turn the Page).

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Wed, 11-16-2005 - 9:24am

I'm reading Nicholas Sparks' At First Sight


From Booklist
The relationship between journalist Jeremy Marsh and librarian Lexie Darnell that began in True Believer (2005) has now progressed. Jeremy is moving from New York to Boone Creek, North Carolina, as they plan for their wedding and the birth of their child. A friend of Jeremy's warns him that he really doesn't know Lexie, and asks him if he's sure that he's in love. With the seeds of suspicion planted, Jeremy starts receiving mysterious e-mails that also cast doubt on their relationship. Add to that the fact that he is dealing with writer's block and that he has to come to terms with a change in lifestyle as an urbanite now living in the rural South. This is a man under duress. To avoid gossip, he and Lexie are maintaining separate residences and keeping the pregnancy a secret. Lexie is comfortable with the town's rules of behavior, but Jeremy is at a loss and finds himself tense and unsure about the future of what he thought was the perfect match. With his trademark sensitivity, Sparks delves into the nitty-gritty of relationships, and considers the sacrifices that each partner has to make in order to have a successful marriage. And readers beware: this is multiple-hankie romance. Patty Engelmann


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Wed, 11-16-2005 - 10:47am

Dating Dead Men, by Harley Jane Kozak:



From Publishers Weekly
Even Stephanie Plum's antics will seem sedate after readers make the acquaintance of Los Angeles's own Wollie Shelley, greeting card designer and small business owner. Wollie is dating 40 men in 60 days as part of a research project for a bestselling radio personality; the $5,000 fee could help her struggling store, "Wollie's Welcome! Greetings." In particular, Wollie's worried about inspections from national headquarters, who want to ensure that her franchise is up to standard. Her already full plate gets loaded up further when her paranoid schizophrenic brother, P.B., who resides at a mental hospital called Rio Pescado, phones to tell her he's witnessed a murder. The last thing Wollie wants is to call the police, so she dashes off to Rio Pescado. On the way she finds a dead body. At the hospital she picks up a charismatic stranger, "Doc," who's on the run, and Wollie can't help getting herself mixed up in his troubles as well. Juggling dates, avoiding the bad guys on Doc's trail, trying to keep her store up to snuff and figuring out what to feed the ferret Doc left in her care have Wollie hopping at a pace reminiscent of the best 1930s screwball film comedies. Kozak has struck gold first time out with a wacky, high-octane plot and characters to match.

~Jackie


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Wed, 11-16-2005 - 6:19pm
Just started The Sudden Country by Karen Fisher. Read some reviews which were quite good. The story evolves around pioneers who followed the Oregon trail from St. Joseph around 1847. It's unusually written since the prose seems to be written in the vernacular of the time. It's refreshing to me because prose written this way forces me to pay close attention & savor many unfamiliar words, expressions, & meanings. I also have to use my imagination & to really learn know these brave & strong people who settled our country. The first 2 chapters will burn in your memory especially if you are a parent. I could actually sense the cold winter snow.......I've met a couple of other characters in the book & they are nicely developed by Fisher who doesn't come off as a novice by any means. According to the reviews this is a story based on the author's great-grandmother's grandmother & tells a tale of love, forgiveness & redemption. I can tell it is going to get even better. Karen Fisher has a very interesting web site that I linked to at random.books. If I may, I'll fill in the rest when I finish it, dee
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Wed, 11-16-2005 - 8:06pm
I'm reading Metro Girl by Janet Evanovich. Not quite Stephanie Plum, but pretty funny nonetheless!! The main character is Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby. Here is a little blurb from the book: "Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, "Wild" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get Barney involved with high-speed car chases, a search for sunken treasure, and Sam Hooker, a NASCAR driver who's good at revving a woman's engine." I've enjoyed it pretty well. Gae
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Fri, 11-18-2005 - 6:55pm

I'm in the middle of Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore.

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Fri, 11-18-2005 - 7:06pm

The Women of Brewster Place - by Gloria Naylor. The genre is contemporary African-American fiction. The story is set in an old, worn out block on a dead end street in some unnamed northern American city. The book is really a series of short stories about the lives of the women on this block - who they are, why they ended up on Brewster Place, and their current struggles.

I read the book when I was in my late teens and thought I would read it again - see how my perspective has changed.

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