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Reading Room:  Book Club?  |
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lareyna
True Blue Farmgirl
242 Posts
Arlene
Valley Ford
Ca
USA
242 Posts |
 Posted - Aug 25 2005 : 08:19:12 AM
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Finally not a farmgirl in training anymore!!
I am an avid reader also and wondering if you guys ever started the book club y'all were chatting about last fall, if so I would LOVE to join, I read at least two a week, more in the winter lol |
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The Handmaiden
True Blue Farmgirl
214 Posts
Kim
Shreveport
Louisiana
USA
214 Posts |
Posted - Aug 27 2005 : 6:26:55 PM
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Congratulations Arlene! I'm true blue now too!!
Two books a week! WOW! i'm impressed! Keep letting us know the ones that move you.
"Faith shall finish all that Hope begins."
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lareyna
True Blue Farmgirl
242 Posts
Arlene
Valley Ford
Ca
USA
242 Posts |
Posted - Aug 27 2005 : 8:06:09 PM
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asnedecor
True Blue Farmgirl
1054 Posts
Anne
Portland
Or
USA
1054 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2005 : 06:54:50 AM
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| I think a book club/book review would be good. I am also an avid reader. My favorite authors are - Jonathan Kellerman, Alice Hoffman, Anne Tyler. I am always open to other authors too. I just finished "The Ice Queen" by Alice Hoffman and am about to purchase another one of her books coming out in September. |
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Cindylou
Farmgirl at Heart
243 Posts
Cindylou
Moscow
Idaho
243 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2005 : 09:33:41 AM
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Good Morning Farmgirls!!
Please sign-up on the Mail List for the book club!! MaryJane is an avid reader and is thrilled that you all are, too.
Go to the Home page, click on Connect with other Farmgirls, then click on the Mail List "bubble" by the picture of the adorable little farmgirl. You will find all the mailing lists available along with descriptions.
Have any of you read "The Chalice and the Blade" by Riane Eisler? She is a feminine anthropologist. She offers a very interesting viewpoint about how our society has developed.
My other all time favorites are by Diana Gabaldon. Her Outlander series is a wonderful cross of Scottish history and time travel. A very fun read.
Well, I'm back to "work" chickadees. Have a great day!
sunnily yours,
Cindylou
MaryJane's Left-Hand Farmgirl
Cindylou
cindylou@maryjanesfarm.org |
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Canadian Cowgirl
Farmgirl at Heart
4 Posts
Tova
Grafton
Ontario
Canada
4 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2005 : 12:59:00 PM
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I'd like to join too! I'll sign up on the mail list. There is a great Canadian author named Miram Toews and I think many of you would like her books. She is from a mennonite community in Manitoba and her books are semi-autobiographical. The most famous is A Complicated Kindness and I would highly recommend it.
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connio
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
connie
springtown
texas
USA
535 Posts |
Posted - Sep 03 2005 : 4:15:51 PM
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Hey Farm Girls!!
Tova Thanks for the suggestion--sounds really interesting.
Anybody else interested in reading this author? Cindy Lou I like your ideas also.
Where do we go from here. I read about 1-3 books per weeks.
Connie
cozycottage |
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
2173 Posts |
Posted - Sep 03 2005 : 4:57:56 PM
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Let's take a TIME OUT, girls, and hang loose until further instructions arrive from the farm on the protocol of the list keeping... everyone take a deep breath. Thank you.
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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lareyna
True Blue Farmgirl
242 Posts
Arlene
Valley Ford
Ca
USA
242 Posts |
Posted - Sep 03 2005 : 11:11:38 PM
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Here's a time out for ya,,,take me off your lists,,,,all of them
I was Country before Country was COOL!!!! |
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MaryJane
Queen Bee
16441 Posts
MaryJane
Moscow
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Sep 04 2005 : 07:07:06 AM
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Lareyna,
Since it was your post August 25 that suggested we start a book club, can you give us more specifics for what you had in mind before you sign off? There are several other women signed up for the book club (the mail list sign-ups are coming to my computer for now), so within the week we'll be getting the mail lists all spelled out/ready to roll. We're close, but not ready yet. (Ugh, computer software. You should see what we go through here keeping everything running as smoothly as possible!!! I'm old enough to remember a time when all I did to communicate ideas was sharpen a pencil.) MJ |
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connio
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
connie
springtown
texas
USA
535 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2005 : 10:47:25 AM
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Hey Farm Girls!
Lareyna
I agree with Mary Jane; let's discuss this and see what we can come up with in the near future. Hoping that you will "come back".
Connie
cozycottage |
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lareyna
True Blue Farmgirl
242 Posts
Arlene
Valley Ford
Ca
USA
242 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2005 : 11:19:27 AM
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Why do we need a "LIST" for reading books lets just everybody make a list of the books they want to read, post it here, then maybe vote (on here) and I really think we are all adult enough to choose a book and then discuss it. It doesn't have to be complicated does it?
I was Country before Country was COOL!!!! |
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Carol
Moderator/MaryJane's Design Diva
452 Posts
Carol
Moscow
Idaho
USA
452 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2005 : 12:48:06 PM
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Hello girls.
Sounds like there's two ideas going on here: one is a "book club" discussion of a certain book; second is a "book exchange" where people want to pass around their books.
For the book discussions, I think you could easily organize that right here on the forum. But scrolling through pages and pages of postings is time consuming. The trick is for people to be able to find those discussions easily. A good way to do this would be to just make a new topic each time you're discussing a new book. If you are already on a topic, say, for the "Red Tent," and you also mention her newest book, you would then have to start a new topic for that book. You can refer to it in the Red Tent topic, and could even make a link to that new topic.
But for the book exchange, you'll need a list, and one that's managed here at the farm is both easiest for you all and the most secure. Like our treasured moderator Clare said, please hang tight. (Clare spends hours on our forum out of the goodness of her heart trying to keep us all organized.) If you've sent us an e-mail about being on a certain list, rest assured we've stashed your name away for our just-around-the-corner grand opening of grander things. We're working away here. Soon!!!!!
We've been discussing books here on the forum for quite some time, and we have some ideas for how to grow into the future. We could have one place called a Book Club or Book Room where the books and the reviews are in a centralized, alphabetized place with a search function. Then, when you think, "Now where was that one book someone talked about having to do with that one guy who dances in western movies?" you could find it with some keywords or author name or title. That takes new computer software and a bit of time to set up. But it's a cool idea and other websites do some innovative things with Book Clubs. Given the number of book postings in the past in this section I think we're ready for the next step soon. I, for one, love the complicated way this forum works but given the volume of participants, we're thinking we're ready for the next level of forum software. I'm on other "forums" where it's still just a simple e-mail that goes out to everyone on the list. That gets confusing and out-of-hand quickly. So, it isn't a function of being adult. I wish it were that simple 'cause us farmgirls got that one DOWN to a T!!!!
Carol |
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
146 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2005 : 1:06:33 PM
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I agree with what Carol is saying.
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2005 : 1:36:08 PM
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Well said Carol!! Now..on with the reading!!!!
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things |
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lurban
True Blue Farmgirl
61 Posts
Vermont
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Posted - Sep 06 2005 : 2:09:22 PM
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Carol
If you ever get to the point where you can do a live chat -- say, for a couple of hours every evening -- it would be fun to schedule some book discussions to take place live. I used to work at a bookstore and I know that there are tons of great authors who would be willing to participate in discussions of their work in this way. We could schedule a book as, for example, the November 2005 book, start a thread on the board for it with people posting about it all month, and then schedule a live chat on November 28 from 9-10pm EST, 6-7pm PST with the author.
Is there a possibility of live chat being offered on the site?
Would anyone be interested in such an idea? |
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connio
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
connie
springtown
texas
USA
535 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2005 : 5:47:13 PM
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Hey Farm Girls!!!
I think that I like Arlene's idea the best in that we could submit some titles and vote to see which one we would read. We could then set a date to begin the discussion.
The live author chats would also be great, and I am very interested. However, I would think that someone at the Farm should set this up.
Thanks much for everyone's suggestions.
Connie
cozycottage |
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lareyna
True Blue Farmgirl
242 Posts
Arlene
Valley Ford
Ca
USA
242 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2005 : 6:15:17 PM
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That's great Connie, what do you want to read this fall? I need to investigate, maybe tour Barnes and Noble tomorrow, see what's new. Can't think of anything right now, anybody got anything good on their list??
I was Country before Country was COOL!!!! |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2005 : 9:35:42 PM
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What about the new book that someone mentioned called "A Sudden Country" by Karen fisher? I plan to get that one soon. Sure sounds good. I think there is a thread about it posted by I think Clare that tells alot about it..
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things |
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connio
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
connie
springtown
texas
USA
535 Posts |
Posted - Sep 08 2005 : 1:39:47 PM
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Hey Farm Girls!
Any title is fine with me. I am a librarian, and I can usually find any title(s) that I need quite easily.
Should we set the date to select and start reading as Sept 15; one week from today?
Connie
cozycottage |
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lareyna
True Blue Farmgirl
242 Posts
Arlene
Valley Ford
Ca
USA
242 Posts |
Posted - Sep 08 2005 : 11:14:08 PM
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Sudden Country sounds good to me,anybody else interested??Or have any other ideas?
I was Country before Country was COOL!!!! |
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connio
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
connie
springtown
texas
USA
535 Posts |
Posted - Sep 09 2005 : 3:41:59 PM
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Hey Farm Girls!
Sudden Country sounds great to me, too.
Connie
cozycottage |
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - Sep 10 2005 : 6:37:29 PM
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Sudden Country sounds good to me too.
Marcia
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Sep 10 2005 : 7:10:09 PM
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I am all for it!! Was going to get it on Tuesday when I go up north..now I have an excuse!!
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things |
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BlueApple
True Blue Farmgirl
430 Posts
Julia
Oregon
USA
430 Posts |
Posted - Sep 10 2005 : 11:18:07 PM
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I'd like to join in too if I could! I have requested it from my library...hopefully, I'll get it soon!
Julia
BlueApple Farm |
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Linda Houston
True Blue Farmgirl
538 Posts
Linda
Lake Charles
Louisiana
USA
538 Posts |
Posted - Sep 11 2005 : 02:04:56 AM
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Oh Goodness !!!!! I have found some soul readers...I am signing in on the book club. I love to read, have been a reader since teenage years...Carol, thanks for organizing us . You have mentioned writers that I love and some new ones I have not read, but will.
Linda H. |
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