What good books have you read lately?
07-20-2010, 03:29 AM
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I started Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman..really cute book about little girl who goes to live with a rich great aunt in Savannah...not finished yet but really is cute..enjoying it very much
07-21-2010, 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Rosyhf
I am still reading Catherine Cookson. I think I have read 24 so far, nine of them being movies. I got six more from the library yesterday....
07-21-2010, 09:03 AM
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I am just about to finish rereading Leif Enger's "Peace Like a River." Excellent both the first and second time around. Next I am going to try some historical fiction--Sharon Kay Penman's "Here be Dragons." Hope it's good. Right now I can't really remember why I picked it up to read!
07-21-2010, 12:41 PM
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Now I'm reading "To Kill a Mockingbird". It's pretty much required reading for high school students but somehow I never read it. This year is the 50th anniversary. I never saw the movie either... it came out in 1962 when I was in 1st grade.
07-21-2010, 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by charmpacksplus
Now I'm reading "To Kill a Mockingbird". It's pretty much required reading for high school students but somehow I never read it. This year is the 50th anniversary. I never saw the movie either... it came out in 1962 when I was in 1st grade.
07-21-2010, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by redkimba
I just finished Homeland : a novel by Barbara Hambly. It's letters between two women - one in Maine and one in Tennessee/Georgia (she moves a lot) - during the US Civil War.
This is an excellent book; I totally recommend it.
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I'm about to start Sex Wars by Marge Piercy. Book's plot: set in post–Civil War New York stars a true-life cast of characters that includes Victoria Woodhull, the spiritualist turned first woman to run for the U.S. presidency; passionate suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton; the aged Cornelius Vanderbilt, who sits atop a $100-million fortune as he tries to make contact with his dead son; and Anthony Comstock, a crusading moralist who dedicates his life to outlawing pornography and "obscene objects made of rubber." As they each vie for different kinds of sex-based power, the consequences of their actions echo from the halls of Congress to Manhattan's back alleys.
This is an excellent book; I totally recommend it.
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I'm about to start Sex Wars by Marge Piercy. Book's plot: set in post–Civil War New York stars a true-life cast of characters that includes Victoria Woodhull, the spiritualist turned first woman to run for the U.S. presidency; passionate suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton; the aged Cornelius Vanderbilt, who sits atop a $100-million fortune as he tries to make contact with his dead son; and Anthony Comstock, a crusading moralist who dedicates his life to outlawing pornography and "obscene objects made of rubber." As they each vie for different kinds of sex-based power, the consequences of their actions echo from the halls of Congress to Manhattan's back alleys.
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