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Just finished; up next
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From: "Joan in GB-W" <jjkr...@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: Just finished; up next
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:50:33 -0500
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"Lauradog" <laura...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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
I found about "The Thirteenth Tale" in a posting you posted on January 2.
Fran had listed a handful of books she liked from 2008, and you replied with
a list of ones you liked. Both lists are in a folder I have on this site
called BOOKS TBR. Every so often I open it up and browse.
Joan
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