Book Journal Week 8

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Book Journal Week 8
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Mon, 02-20-2006 - 11:05am

What's everyone reading this week?


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Mon, 02-20-2006 - 11:30am

I read #1 in Ann Ripley's gardening mystery series, Mulch.

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Mon, 02-20-2006 - 1:56pm

Library trip today after the doctor's appointment!

Took back most of the books that were due the 27th except for three: Linda Fairstein's Final Jeopardy which I'm in the middle of now (it's actually very good, and I'm going to look for more mysteries/thrillers by this author), Diana L Paxson's Golden Hills Of Westria, and Margaret Atwood's The Penelopiad.

Today I picked up a LOT of mystery/thrillers:

The Next Accident, Gone, and The Survivor's Club all by Lisa Gardner. They look pretty good too.

Dance For The Dead and The Face Changers, both by Thomas Perry. They're from his Jane Whitefield series. I read the first one, Vanishing Act, and loved it, so we'll see.

Drop Dead Blonde, a mystery anothology with stories by Victoria Laurie, Nancy Martin, Elaine Viets, and Denise Swanson. I read the second in Victoria Laurie's Psychic Eye series, Better Read Than Dead, recently and it was terrific. I'd forgotten how much I liked the first one.

Silver May Tarnish (a Witch World novel by Andre Norton and co-author Lyn McConchie)

The Wizard Of London (fantasy by Mercedes Lackey)

You guys who are interested in demons, vamps and werewolves might like the other two I picked up: Carolyn Jewel's A Darker Crimson and Keri Arthur's Full Moon Rising. In Crimson, policewoman Claudia Donovan has to search among the demons to find her kidnapped daughter. Can she trust the vampires to help her? In Full Moon, half vamp half werewolf Riley, a secretary for Melbourne's Directorate Of OTher Races, has to search for her missing twin brother Rhoan. Who will help her, the vamps or the werewolves? Stay tuned, same supernatural creature channel, same supernatural creature station.

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Mon, 02-20-2006 - 6:25pm
I am reading PS I LOVE YOU which i am enjoying it's sweet and funny,and a little sad everything i like in a story.She ia a new to me author as well.Next will be Case Histories which is another new author.Sounds good will let you all know.

 

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Mon, 02-20-2006 - 6:46pm
I'm reading The Traveler, by John Twelve Hawks.

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Mon, 02-20-2006 - 7:04pm

I'm re-reading Raymond Chandler's "Farewell, My Lovely" (this is my favorite Phillip Marlowe mystery). Also reading Charlotte Hughes new contemporary romance "New Attitude" and mystery writer Leonard Chang's "Underkill", the second Allen Choice book.

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Mon, 02-20-2006 - 10:53pm
I'm reading Amazing Gracie. I have about 40 pages left to go and I'm really enjoying it. I'm a dog lover, so I'm sure that helps. After that I'm going to start Island of the Sequined Love Nun. I have recently added about 10 books to my TBR list but am waiting until my existing pile goes down a bit before buying new books.
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Tue, 02-21-2006 - 7:42am

I am reading The Other Side Of The Story by Marion Keys. This is the first I've read her and hear she's great but I'm just not getting into the book. I'm trying though. It might get put aside though since I have four books coming to me!


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Tue, 02-21-2006 - 8:51am
Crossing one title off my TBR pile for 2006. Just finished "Memoirs of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden. It was not quite what I expected but I enjoyed every page of it! Now I am almost done with Leslie Glass' lates April Woo book "Clean Kill." Not sure what my next bookstore book will be- perhaps a non-fiction.
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Tue, 02-21-2006 - 11:35am

Hi Sarenna ~


~ears perking up~ Did you say "dog"?

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Tue, 02-21-2006 - 12:14pm

Hey Teri!

It's non fiction written by Dan Dye and Mark Beckloff. They founded the Three Dog Bakery and it's basically their story of how the bakery came to be. It's also about the bond between the author Dan and his dog Gracie who is a deaf albino Great Dane. I finished it last night and bawled my eyes out (it was a good cry). It's a quick read and I really enjoyed it.

From the dust jacket:

"It was love at first sight. Amid the frenzied barking and prancing of a house full of Great Danes, one pup was shivering in the corner, Gracie. But when Dan Dye reached her, she struggled to her feet like a clumsy fool, raised her forehead to his, and announced, as clearly as if she had actually spoken the words, You know I'm the one. Now get me outta here.

By turns funny, moving, tender and inspiring, Gracie's tale is a treat for every dog lover. There is Gracie's first morning, racing around Dan in the snowy yard. Gracie's determination to prove to her step sisters, Dottie the dalmation and Sarah the Black Lab, that she's "one of the girls." Gracie's defiant romance with a pint-size charmer named Byron, a Boston Terrier from the wrong side of the fence.

Then born of necessity, the eureka moment: When Gracie's delicate consitiution starts turning into anorexia, Dan teaches himself how to cook, and in three days is baking her the cookies that will spur her appetite, launch Three Dog Bakery, and transform their lives forever."

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