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Reading Room:  What are you reading now?  |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
 Posted - Jul 23 2009 : 11:45:30 PM
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Cherry..let me know if you want the China Bayles books! I have listed some on paperback swap...but I would just as soon send them to you!! I have the first 5 I think ready to send if you want them.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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Jennifer Mulkey
True Blue Farmgirl
59 Posts
Jennifer
Arkansas City
KS
USA
59 Posts |
Posted - Jul 24 2009 : 1:55:02 PM
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Right now, for fun I'm reading "The Seekers" by John Jakes. It's a great series. But mostly I'm reading and re-reading my gardening books. It seems I do this every summer. You would think I would have them memorized by now, but alas, the memory isn't what it used to be ;)
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Old Spirit
True Blue Farmgirl
1498 Posts
Rae
MN
1498 Posts |
Posted - Jul 24 2009 : 3:10:24 PM
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That is why it is ok for me to buy books, I can re-read them many times cause I forget 
Rae
...those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles:...
Isaiah 40:31 |
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countrykatgirly
True Blue Farmgirl
186 Posts
Hallie
Jordan
NY
USA
186 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2009 : 1:33:19 PM
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I'm reading Thomas Kinkade's Cape Light book, "A Gathering Place". I'm almost done.
**Farmgirl Sister #622**
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.”
--Laura Ingalls Wilder
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sewgirlie
True Blue Farmgirl
1894 Posts
Sheryl-lyn
Calverton
NY
USA
1894 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2009 : 3:43:35 PM
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I am reading "The Help" which is a new book by a first time author. So far, very very good. It's about the black maids who used to work in the South in the 1960s when civil rights were just beginning to be a dream.
You guys have gone and forced me to buy some more books. Just ordered Mrs. Mike and a few books by the author of Freckles (maybe I saw these on another thread!) and now I want the Thomas Kinkade books.
Last week I finished the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and have to say I loved it. I kept picking it up at Borders and then putting it down. Seeing it on this thread made me go for and and I am so happy I did. Thanks!
My quilting and life blog!!
http://downtoearthliving.blogspot.com/ |
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julia hayes
True Blue Farmgirl
1132 Posts
julia
medical lake
wa
USA
1132 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2009 : 8:11:22 PM
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I just finished a wonderful biography about Joseph Campbell. I am now reading Thomas Merton's "no man is an island." Very good and inspiring. ~julia
being simple to simply be
Farmgirl #30
www.julia42.etsy.com
www.about-aria.blogspot.com |
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Huckelberrywine
True Blue Farmgirl
1607 Posts
Michelle
Rosalia
1607 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2009 : 9:05:20 PM
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard. Breathtaking!
Several others, but this one is by far the best. Can't believe I've waited so long to get to it.
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2009 : 10:10:45 AM
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Just finished The Compassionate Carnivore and highly recommend it! Especially for farm girls. I'm reading Kathy Reichs new book "Devil Bones". She's a forensic anthropologist and writes fiction based on some of her cases. Really good books!
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - Aug 05 2009 : 11:38:14 AM
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Ooooo, Kelly, I LOVE Kathy Reichs!! Do you ever watch Bones?
~~Cherry~~
http://cherrymedarlin.blogspot.com
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Aug 05 2009 : 11:46:13 AM
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Yeah, I LOVE Bones. I started watching because of the books. Booth is pretty nice eye-candy too!
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - Aug 05 2009 : 12:36:40 PM
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You ain't kidding, girl! I might slop around in some of the nastiness they find themselves in if I could do it with HIM by my side!!
~~Cherry~~
http://cherrymedarlin.blogspot.com
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
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vintagediva1
True Blue Farmgirl
1251 Posts
Michele
Brighton
Michigan
USA
1251 Posts |
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maggie14
True Blue Farmgirl
6784 Posts
Hannah
Washington
USA
6784 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2009 : 7:01:19 PM
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I'm reading plain perfect right now by Beth Wiseman. Very good so far!
Maggie |
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Beverly Gill
True Blue Farmgirl
1114 Posts
Beverly
Marlborough
USA
1114 Posts |
Posted - Aug 13 2009 : 03:28:36 AM
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Just finished My Antonia....very good. I think I had to read this for school when I was young and did not appreciate it.....well this time I really enjoyed it. Very sweet.
Beverly[ |
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
811 Posts |
Posted - Aug 14 2009 : 09:09:22 AM
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I love My Antonia. Maybe I will read it again.
Right now I'm reading The Mummy or Ramses the Damned by Anne Rice and Atlas Shrugged....still.
It's not about being perfect, but enjoying what you do. Set aside time to be creative.
Robyn Pandolph
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LauriP
True Blue Farmgirl
239 Posts
Laurianne
Hertford
North Carolina
USA
239 Posts |
Posted - Aug 14 2009 : 09:37:41 AM
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>> since I've got a lot of books, I've started re-reading some of my favorites <<
"Delta Wedding" - Eudora Welty - a wonderful look at 20's era Mississippi Plantation life -- very good, and was one of the first Welty books I read.
"Come & Go Molly Snow" - a first time author Mary Ann Taylor-Hall -- she may have more books out now, but this was one of her early works. A gut wrenching novel of a woman bluegrass singer, and the death of her child.
"Quite A Year For Plums" - Bailey White -- one of my most favorite southern writers, she's also been a longtime author/contributor to NPR -- absolutely one of the kind of books you need to read that makes you literally laugh out loud.
"The Robber Bride" -- Margaret Atwood -- I'd read this some years ago from the library in S.C., but just before we moved here, I happened to pop into a local thrift store, and happened to see an autographed first edition of this book on sale for I think $1.00 -- she's a wonderful author, an' I have another of her books, "Cat's Eye" -- almost all her work is set in her native city of Toronto. A very good read.
I'll naturally think of other books once I get off line, but these are what I'm re-reading now. Makes up for the heat and humidity!!
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Marcy
True Blue Farmgirl
2701 Posts
Marcy
Tiverton
Rhode Island
USA
2701 Posts |
Posted - Aug 14 2009 : 10:04:28 AM
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I just finished Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights for what had to be at least the twentieth time. One of my all time favorite's. I am such a sucker for anything Bronte or Austen. Or anything classic literature for that matter. I am also re-reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I read through them all once and am re-reading them all again. Later on today, I'm going through my closet of over seventy books that I have put away to read and picking something new to start. Yes, I am a book nut! Too much sometimes, I think.
Farmgirl #170
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give...Eleanor Roosevelt
http://marcysworldofcreativity.blogspot.com/ |
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forgetmenot
True Blue Farmgirl
3602 Posts
Judith
Nora Springs
IA
USA
3602 Posts |
Posted - Aug 15 2009 : 2:47:49 PM
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Just finished "The Blue Zones", Dan Buettner. A very easy reading book on living simply, healthy, and spirit-lifting. "Lessons for living longer from people who've lived the longest". ...not that I know if I want to live past 100.
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the belief that something is more important than fear." Ambrose Red Moon |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Aug 15 2009 : 5:13:03 PM
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I just bought Julie/Julia yesterday, can't wait to start that one!..and have a new one... "Sea Glass" By Anita Shreve too...that my son's fiance gave me. I have a stack of books to read after my knee surgery. I am finishing up another of the China Bayles Mysteries now..I think it is #13. I like them...easy quick cozy mysteries.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
Edited by - Aunt Jenny on Aug 15 2009 5:33:30 PM |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Aug 15 2009 : 5:32:32 PM
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I love that book Jeannie!!! Isn't it fun that alot of us have the same sort of taste in books?
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
http://www.auntjennysworld.blogspot.com/ visit my little online shop at www.auntjenny.etsy.com |
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Old Spirit
True Blue Farmgirl
1498 Posts
Rae
MN
1498 Posts |
Posted - Aug 15 2009 : 6:22:57 PM
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I just read The Noticer by Andy Andrews and it was awesome, thank you Heather for sending it to me!!!
Rae
Farm Girl #647
...those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles:...
Isaiah 40:31
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4HMom
True Blue Farmgirl
720 Posts
Kelly
Montana
720 Posts |
Posted - Aug 15 2009 : 9:16:34 PM
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I am just starting The Mists of Avalon....it'll be my evening read during the Fair so I can unwind after looonnnngggg days in the barns!
"Be the change you want to see in the world" -Gandhi |
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Marcy
True Blue Farmgirl
2701 Posts
Marcy
Tiverton
Rhode Island
USA
2701 Posts |
Posted - Aug 16 2009 : 07:33:15 AM
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Kelly,
I loved that book. Once I started it I found it so hard to put down. Then again, I love anything to do with King Arthur.
Farmgirl #170
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give...Eleanor Roosevelt
http://marcysworldofcreativity.blogspot.com/ |
Edited by - Marcy on Aug 16 2009 07:33:52 AM |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9092 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9092 Posts |
Posted - Aug 16 2009 : 08:16:05 AM
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Jenny, 'SEA gLASS' is a good read, I have it.
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
Edited by - Nancy Gartenman on Aug 16 2009 08:16:29 AM |
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