Book Journal Week 6

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Book Journal Week 6
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Mon, 02-06-2006 - 7:37am

Here we are in the first full week of February. Anyone have a couple of books in theie TBR list to tackle this month? If you haven't checked them out yet- try browsing through the titles of our Jeanne Ray and Jennifer Weirner-this months group read authors.

I'm still keeping my book journal up to date how about you?

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Mon, 02-06-2006 - 11:05am
this week I am going to try and get two at least 2 of my books i've had from the library for months.try and pick memory of running back up and the nanny diaries.Journal is still going strong.

 

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Mon, 02-06-2006 - 11:24am

Love your new sig, Maggie!!


Just beginning a non-f "Tyrannosaurus Sue", about the almost-complet T-Rex skeleton unearthed in So. Dakota in 1990.

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Mon, 02-06-2006 - 11:36am

I love your siggy! How cute.


Well I put Resistance down so I could start reading For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice by Sharon Rocha. Have I posted on the board already about this? I know I was talking to someone on a different board about it. Anyways, it's Laci Peterson's mom's memoir of everthing that was going on with the death of her daughter. It is absolutely heartbreaking. She describes every thought and feeling she had while her daughter was missing, when she found out for sure that her daughter and grandson has in fact been murdered, the planning of the funeral, the court trial...all of it.


It's been hard to put this book down. I have about 15 pgs left I need to read tonight. Then I'll pick Resistance by Anita Shreve back up.

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Mon, 02-06-2006 - 6:39pm

Reads for 2/6 through 2/27!

Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad. Also by Atwood, a book of short stories (her own) entitled The Tent. I guess you can call her a new to me author, since I've only ever read one thing by her and that was just before Christmas, The Handmaid's Tale.

An anthology by Joyce Carol Oates called Tales Of Mystery And Suspense: The Female Of The Species. She also is relatively new to me, if I've read anything else by her, it was long ago and far away in my salad days.

Anne Bishop's Sebastien. Not a new author to me. This is the first of a new series she's started. I didn't really care for her Fae series, but loved her Blood Jewels trilogy/Dreams Made Flesh anthology/The Invisible Ring.

Diana L Paxson's The Golden Hills Of Westria. Not a new author to me; she's written independently and coauthored stuff with another favorite of mine who's now deceased, Marion Zimmer Bradley. I haven't read any of her Westria tales before though.

Music To My Sorrow, a new Bedlam's Bard tale coauthored by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill. (Neither are new to me, nor is this particular series.)

The Well Of Tears by Cecelia Dart-Thornton, second in the Crowthistle Chronicles. Not a new author to me (I read her Ill-Made Mute trilogy) but this is a new series to me, and I'm breaking my cardinal rule. I like to read the first in a series before reading the later ones, but this one looked REALLY GOOD and I couldn't find the first one on the shelves.

Tinker, by Wen Spencer. This is a new author to me, I just discovered her with A Brother's Price in January. Unfortunately the library didn't have any of her Ukiah Oregon series, so I picked this one up. We shall see.

And last but not least, four mysteries all by new to me authors: Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein, Shadows In The Starlight by Elaine Cunningham, A Playdate With Death by Ayelet Waldman, and Witch Way To Murder by Shirley Damsgaard.

By the by, I finished Knife Of Dreams by Robert Jordan and can't wait till Book Twelve comes out! (Which will probably be ANOTHER two years from now. Sigh.)

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Mon, 02-06-2006 - 7:05pm
I actually finished a book! I'm so excited! I finished Stupidest Angel which has been on hold for about 3 months. I am getting ready to start The DaVinci Code and I want to finish Fluke as well. I also have Miriam the Medium I want to read and Watermelon. I'm hoping I can get them read. If not, they'll have to wait until March when I return to work and start riding the train again.
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Mon, 02-06-2006 - 11:17pm

Hi Sarenna ~~ !!


So nice to see you popping in again :).

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Tue, 02-07-2006 - 11:59am

I'm listening to Sandra Brown's Chill Factor and reading Elizabeth Noble's The Reading Group =)


And so far, yes, I've been keeping my list up to date

~Jackie


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Tue, 02-07-2006 - 12:17pm
My journal plans may need to be revised.

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Tue, 02-07-2006 - 2:25pm
I was reading "Saving Fish From Drowing" by Amy Tan, but I just couldn't get into it so I stopped reading. Life is too short to struggle through books!! I just started this morning, "Died in the Wool" by Mary Kruger, a new to me author. I know someone here recommended it. I keep a list of titles and authors that sound interesting when someone posts and I got this one for xmas. Gae
Gae
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Wed, 02-08-2006 - 11:26am
I finally finished Cell.Now picking back up The Memory of running.I just got twon ne books from the paperback book club i just joined.I got Memoirs of a Geisha,and The Kite Runner.

 

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