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bookwoman28
16 yrs ago
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I found the description of heaven very touching: teen magazines for young girls, just what they'd want! And the idea that you don't fully get into heaven until you're ready to let go of your relationships on earth. Tha…
Book Talk
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Looking for can't-put-it-down mysteries/ thrillers to build up my Wish List. Help!
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Lee Child's series about Jack Reacher
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
sure, Reacher is something of a super-hero, smart and physically powerful, who rarely loses a fight, but his disillusioned ex-military-police character really draws you into the plot.
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
Much as I love books, I have found that it is a great weight-saver to pull apart paperback travel guides and only pack the sections you will be using, discarding them as you go. If nothing else it leaves room for more '…
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
I laughed more than the kids when I first started reading "Junie B. Jones" books to them, let's see, about 9 years ago! I was always excited when the next grandkid got old enough to relate to someone in kindergarten, so…
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
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what has struck me is that the 'evil Communist regimes' in fiction (spy stories, war stories, etc.) have been replaced by 'evil American corporations' or even evil British corporations, as in 'The Constant Gardener'. Th…
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
all women, most of us with grown children. We discuss which books to read next, choosing a couple of months ahead of time. We try to avoid the hottest best-sellers, because of waiting lists at the library, and the cost…
(Not-So-) Random Acts of BookCrossing Kindness
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Holiday Gift Giving
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Re: My Wish is for my grandma to get lots of birthday email cards!
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
I'm glad I saw this in time to add another card to the celebration! The joy of my mother-in-law's life (she's now 90) is my wonderful oldest stepdaughter who calls her Gram at least weekly, keeps her laughing, takes the…
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
I've suggested this to my book club as an introduction to graphic novels - this, of course, has nothing of the sci-fi superhero in it; it is, as someone stated above, a compelling look at the childhood of a girl growing …
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
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Fun and Games
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>>>the LEAST favorite Thread <<<<
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when the alarm goes off. Least favorite holiday with family?
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
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Release Challenges
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Accomplishments for the 2005 You're Such an Animal Release Challenge
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Good karma! A catch!
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
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My #20 book, Ox-Bow Incident, was promptly caught! YAY - a karmic reward for getting a set completed!
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
it feels good to get this far even though I'm a slacker looking at some of your stats!
#20 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3206010/bookwoman28/book_-The-Ox-Bow-Incident-Walter-Van-Tilburg-Clark
Release Challenges
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one more to go for first set
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
#18 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3205988/bookwoman28/book_-My-Life,-Starring-Dara-Falcon-(Vintage-Contemporaries)-Ann-Beattie
#19 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/2968449/bookwoman28/book_-The-Swallows-of-Kabul-Ya…
Release Challenges
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a couple for the kids....
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
#16 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3266782/bookwoman28/book_-He-Bear,-She-Bear-Stan-and-Jan-Berenstein
#17 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3266727/bookwoman28/book_-The-One-in-the-Middle-is-the-Green-Kangaroo-Judy-…
Book Talk
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What local authors would you recommend?
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Lee Smith and Lawrence Naumoff, North Carolina
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
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Even though I don't live there any longer, I found a wealth of wonderful writers in NC during my five years there.
Release Challenges
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up to #15
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
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#12 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3206099/bookwoman28/book_-Boss-Dog-:-A-Story-of-Provence-M.F.K.-Fisher
#13 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3205967/bookwoman28/book_-Loon-Lake-E.L.-Doctorow
#14 http://bookcrossi…
Release Challenges
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Two more gone...
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
#10 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3206090/bookwoman28/book_-A-Few-Short-Notes-on-Tropical-Butterflies-:-Stories-John-Murray
#11 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3205992/bookwoman28/book_-The-Soul-Bird-Michael-Snuni…
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
used to be the Kellermans, Anne Tyler, Isabel Allende, Brett Lott, Dennis MacFarland...gee, no wonder my TBR pile keeps growing and growing...
Oh! how did I forget to say, Pico Iyer?!
Release Challenges
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A busy day
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
the next few releases:
#4 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3206060/bookwoman28/book_-Chicken-Soup-for-the-Girlfriends-Soul-:-Celebrating-the-Friends-Who-Cheer-Us-Up,...
#5 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3206107/b…
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
This is an amazing book about a woman who kills an abusive husband and enlists several friends and co-workers to help her cover up the murder. It is unliike anything I've ever read, gruesome in the details of the murder…
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
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Maybe because Nelson Rockefeller had been dead for five years by 1984....
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
Hmmmmmm, summa cum laude and magna cum laude from Harvard College and Harvard Law...editor of the Law Review....clerking for Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist; argued numerous cases before the highest courts.... yeah, sou…
Release Challenges
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Getting started
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
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Hope these links are done correctly!
# 1 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3206111/bookwoman28/book_-Turtle-Moon-Alice-Hoffman
#2 http://bookcrossing.com/journal/3206104/bookwoman28/book_-In-the-Skin-of-a-Lion-Micha…
Chit-Chat
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Further proof of the disparity between the haves and the have nots.
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Jeb Bush wasn't governor when Andrew hit...
bookwoman28
18 yrs ago
Andrew was in 1992; Jeb Bush became governor 6 years later. And believe me, there were massive complaints then, too. Or perhaps you meant the prompt help with last year's rash of FL hurricanes? If so, none of them wer…