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quinnsmom
16 yrs ago
An audiobook IS a book; it's just being read to me. Even though I'm not physically handling the book or using my eyes to look at the words, I'm still as involved as if I were sitting out on my patio reading. I listen to …
quinnsmom
16 yrs ago
Not in any order, but
Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jones
The Gift of Rain, by Tan Twan Eng
Darkmans, by Nicola Barker
all were just wonderful!!!
Book Talk
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Historical Fiction Recommendations Wanted!
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Re: Historical Fiction Recommendations Wanted!
quinnsmom
16 yrs ago
If you like Japanese historical novels, you might want to try The Gift of Rain, by Tan Twan Eng. It is superb.
quinnsmom
16 yrs ago
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My pet peeve in books is when two characters are on the run in a life-or-death situation, constantly looking over their shoulders because their pursuer is right on their heels, but suddenly find enough time to have sex. …
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Lord of the Flies - Love it or hate it?
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It's one of those books I could read only once
quinnsmom
16 yrs ago
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because of the subject matter. I enjoyed reading it, but it was very disturbing.
quinnsmom
16 yrs ago
and Margery Allingham's The Fashion in Shrouds.
quinnsmom
16 yrs ago
by Charles Dickens. I absolutely love that book!
quinnsmom
16 yrs ago
I must confess to being prone to road rage at times, and I've found that if I'm busy listening while I'm driving, it tends to lessen my stress level in the car. Plus, listening to an audiobook while driving long distanc…
Conventions and Meetings
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A thank you and some thoughts on convention.
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I want to thank EVERYONE involved for the great time I had
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
I had to leave a day early and was so incredibly sad because I was having an amazingly good time. Now my only problem is getting to London next year because I hate to fly! I met so many lovely people and tried to introd…
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Favorite Historical Fiction
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This Thing of Darkness, by Harry Thompson; Heyday, by Kurt Andersen
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
I really enjoyed This Thing of Darkness, by Harry Thompson. It may be my favorite book of historical fiction ever. It's about Captain Fitzroy who commanded the HMS Beagle. I've also just finished one called Heyday, by K…
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
Your dad & I often emailed because we shared a very similar taste in books. I will miss him very much. He had a fine sense of humor and I have enjoyed our book discussions immensely over the years.
Please accept my c…
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Does listening to books decrease your reading activity?
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I listen to them ONLY in the car
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
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but I'm a very careful driver & don't get distracted. I've been listening to audiobooks in my car (and I hate to admit that I started them way way back when on cassettes) for years and years and never have had a distract…
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
I actually latched on to bookcrossing nearly 5 years ago looking for a review of a particular book, so now when I read one, I review it. I enjoy comparing what I think of a book to what others have thought of it (after I…
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What were your Top Three reads for February?
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Re: What were your Top Three reads for February?
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
oops...forgot to list my books!
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, by Jeffrey Ford
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K. Dick
The Terror, by Dan Simmons
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What were your Top Three reads for February?
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Re: What were your Top Three reads for February?
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
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I absolutely loved The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara...what a great book!
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
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It was absolutely awful. Where is the Thomas Harris from Silence of the Lambs?
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
as is The Secret River, by Kate Grenville (mentioned above). I really enjoyed Gould's Book of Fish, by Richard Flanagan, although it's a very quirky book that not a lot of people really liked. Playing Beatie Bow was fun…
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
aw, shucks, ma'am! LOL
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
The New York Trilogy was my favorite book of 2006, and his Book of Illusions was incredible. He's very existentialist, very postmodern, and not as widely read as many think he should be.
Chit-Chat
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Paypal phishing; fyi
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Re: I've gotten them from comcast and ebay and reported both to the PTB at each place
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
bless Bumma's heart! Spud! LOL That's so cute.
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
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I awoke this morning to spam which is purportedly from paypal. The email said that someone had been trying to use my paypal account from different IP address, and that it was necessary for me to contact them at a link pr…
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
I hate seeing anything going in a landfill so as I've been clearing out my home getting ready to move, I've been giving things away left and right on Freecycle. You never know what someone will take -- my daughter had a …
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is on my personal top 100 books list -- it is wonderful!
Have you read Memento Mori? It's another very good book that you may enjoy.
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Books you took a chance on, and loved.
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The Gunslinger (Dark Tower Volume I), by Stephen King
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
I have a friend who, every time I would ask him what he's been reading, would say he'd been reading one of the Dark Tower books. He would get so excited about them and talk to me about them, but I had given up on anythin…
quinnsmom
17 yrs ago
Yesterday I took a day off from packing to look at what Amazon had recommended to me. Books would pop up and I'd think "why is that one there?" So I went to the "improve your recommendations page," and started uncheckin…
