> Joan in GB-W wrote:
>> "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.

>> "Just Take My Heart" by Mary Higgins Clark.  When will I learn to stop
>> 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.

>> Next Up:  "The Other Side of the Moon, the Life of David Nivin" by
>> Sheridan Morley, and "The Thirteenth Tale" by Diane Setterfield (if I can
>> rescue it from the shelving cart at the library.

>> And while at the library I will browse the rental shelf and grab one from
>> there.

>> Joan

> Let me know what you think of "The Thirteenth Tale", Joan.  I listened 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