Beach Runner said:
Good idea...done.
Best book you've read this year
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I just finished," The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom. I loved it. Very thought provoking. Easy read as well.
"The Kite Runner"
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It is so beautifully written and evokes a place and an age so vividly that you feel as though you have lived it with the author. It's set in Afganistan before the war that tore it apart. The funny thing is that the author is not a very admirable character, yet somehow you cannot help but have empathy for him all the way through.
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It is so beautifully written and evokes a place and an age so vividly that you feel as though you have lived it with the author. It's set in Afganistan before the war that tore it apart. The funny thing is that the author is not a very admirable character, yet somehow you cannot help but have empathy for him all the way through.
Cil
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I read and enjoyed this book.Mermaid said:
Another one I recently finished:How To Be Lost by Amanda Eyre Ward. Sometimes flashbacks bother me but these were very good.
It's a real page-turner.
Whoever said that they couldn't finish The Sunday Wife, well I am there with you. I wanted to like this book but the characters were unappealing and the story just bogged down. I don't have to like characters, but I have to at least care what happens to them.
I did have Mama Sis record all (many) of "her" stories going back to her Father and all of our childhoods. They are so cute and funny and to hear her voice telling them is the great thing. She has a way! I wanted to publish them in book form also but that may be a pipe dream.Ocean Lover said:If your parents don't like to write maybe you could record their stories with a voice recorder and you could write it later. Many MP3 players come with one. I used to write funny things down in the kids baby books. Like when my daughter ran into the living room yelling..the pot is bleeding ....the pot is bleeding!! I rushed into the kitchen and water was boiling over. LOL I think she was 3 or 4. One of the funniest things Dylan said was about a year ago. He was in the bathroom and he ran out of toilet paper. He yelled out for someone to get him some. My husband said.."there's tp on the back of the toilet..can't you see it?" Dylan said..."I don't know....I'm not an owl!"
I told you he was a little different. Makes us laugh though.
I've read all of Lamott's books except her new one just out. Taveling Mercies is great. In it someone ask's her if she's a "born again Christian" and she thinks "yeah, but I'm the kind of Christian who would think about what its going to do to my lease if I put one of those silver fish on my car."peapod1980 said:
And I liked what she said about prayer, the two she seems to pray the most are "help me, help me, help me" and "thank you, thank you, thank you.
My husband and I have both enjoyed the Alexander McCall Smith series, beginning with "The #1 Ladies Detective Agency," set in Botswana, Africa. Both of us raced through all six in record time. Husband hijacked one while we were in New Zealand and was so desperate for the next in the series that he paid hardback UK prices 
for it. This is very extreme behavior for frugal hubby. They are simple stories with intriguing plots and many smiles, extremely well written. He has started a new series that I hope to begin during Christmas vacation at Grayton. (Fortunately, the house has lots of hiding places!)
for it. This is very extreme behavior for frugal hubby. They are simple stories with intriguing plots and many smiles, extremely well written. He has started a new series that I hope to begin during Christmas vacation at Grayton. (Fortunately, the house has lots of hiding places!)
That's why I asked if you'd read them--I get the idea you'd really enjoy them. I'm a big fan of hers!jdarg said:
Mine's a two way tie "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire" and "The DaVinci Code".