Author U R Ringing in the New Year With?

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Sat, 12-31-2005 - 12:42pm

Book title, genre, a few details are appreciated :)


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Sat, 12-31-2005 - 12:52pm

Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas.

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Sat, 12-31-2005 - 2:03pm
Hmm... I think I may finally settle into I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb) tonight. I bought it at Christmas time but haven't had the chance to really get into it yet.
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Sat, 12-31-2005 - 2:51pm

I guess I wanted to end the year with some books I knew would be good and start the new year off that way too so......

I will be finishing up The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins this afternoon.
Genre: Mystery Classic
About: Two step-sisters receive art and drawing instructions by a very good young artist. One sister shyly falls for the guy but she is already engaged to an older gentlemen whom her father approved of before he died. So obligated to the man she must go through with it. While on her honeymoon she finds that things are a bit suspicious with her husband and the step-sister overhears that the husband needs and wants the girls money. Meanwhile, a woman in white appears to several people sort of to give a warning. Read it to find out what happens!!! ;)

I am also reading Anne Frank a diary of a young girl
Genre: non-fiction
About: pages from Anne Franks diary are read describing what it was like to be hidden away in an anex in an Amsterdam warehouse during the war.

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Sat, 12-31-2005 - 4:06pm

Since my DH got TWO copies of MARLEY & ME for Christmas (from me and from my daughter/husband), we've decided to each take one and start reading it together tomorrow!!

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Sat, 12-31-2005 - 5:13pm
Started off reading The Finest Choice by Jean Rabe, but it is SUCH a rip-off of Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar, and not written half as well as her stuff either. So I put it down in favor of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale. Yes, I broke down and bought it at the bookstore after all, LOL! I also picked up At All Costs, the new Honor Harrington saga by David Weber, and Traitor To The Blood, a nice little horror/vampire tale by Barb and J C Hendee (this is #3 in a series, I've already read the other two.) I still have to check out my two remaining library books, Bear Daughter by Berman and Song of Unmaking by Brennan too.
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Sat, 12-31-2005 - 8:09pm

Mary ~


Now there's a New Year's Resolution worth making ;-)


We look forward to hearing how you like all those books you'll be reading.


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Sun, 01-01-2006 - 4:08am

I got off work at 11:45 and headed home. I got home at midnight, just as the fireworks downtown were starting. So I went upstairs and watched out the window. Even though it was a couple of miles away, I got a good view, with the leaves off the trees. I live by myself, so I called my son and wished him happy New Year. (He's a nightowl, too.)


I went digging in my TBR pile and came up with 'The Queen's Fool' by Philippa Gregory

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Sun, 01-01-2006 - 10:24am

I just started "Ireland" by Frank Delaney.


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Sun, 01-01-2006 - 10:31am
Yep, I did in fact ring in the New Year with wally Lamb's I Know This Much is True. So far it isn't the best book I've ever read, but it keeps you wanting more anyway. From what I can tell, it is a book about two brothers - twins. One is a schizophrenic, one is "normal". THe book starts out with the schizo one lopping his hand off. Not gruesome in its descriptions, just matter of fact. He did it to make a point. Now there's a whole uproar about it, about what hospital his brother will go to, etc. The "normal" brother is living with his girlfriend and she's kind of out there. Seems good. It is meant to be a serious dramatic book.
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Sun, 01-01-2006 - 12:41pm

Jackie ~


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