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> "Just Take My Heart" by Mary Higgins Clark. When will I learn to stop > Next Up: "The Other Side of the Moon, the Life of David Nivin" by > And while at the library I will browse the rental shelf and grab one > Joan Joan in GB-W wrote: Let me know what you think of "The Thirteenth Tale", Joan. I listened
> "Losing Mum and Pup" by Christopher Buckley - about his famous parents,
> William and Patricia Buckley. There was poignancy and sadness to those
> who deal with the death of their parents--the book covers a period of
> about a year, with many flashbacks to younger family days. BUT, in
> spite of reading it and liking it and learning stuffs about William
> Buckley . . . there was the unkindness factor. There were things we do
> not need to know about the Buckley's. Why do kids of famous parents
> have to trot out family tales that are nobody's business but their own.
> reading her. I found it a little boring at the beginning, and
> implausible, and the bad guy stuck out so much I thought I must be wrong
> and he was just there to throw readers off the track. Not so. The guy
> you disliked from the start was . . . well, was the bad guy. Also the
> thing with the heart was so unbelievable I can't believe editors let it
> get through. But then, this is Mary Higgins Clark and I doubt her story
> lines are ever tampered with.
> Sheridan Morley, and "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield (if I
> can rescue it from the shelving cart at the library.
> from there.
to it on tape while mowing, over a period of 3 weeks, and liked it a
lot. I'll have to actually read it one day.
Sue