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Once in a Blue Moon

October 6, 2009

Once in a Blue Moon a new book by Eileen Goudge.  Two sisters separated at a young age, put through the foster care system and reunited later in life. The fact that they don’t necessary fall into “sisterhood” right away again, but eventually stand together as sisters do is a story well told by Ms. [...]

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Momzillas

August 8, 2009

Reality?  Fiction?  Boring? Probably.  More than likely.  Definately. The premise of the story is good, a young wife and her family move to NY from SF.  She is flabbergasted by the cultural differences.  There is a whole mean girls kind of vibe.  However, there is also a sub story about her and her old art [...]

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What does one have to do to be a contributor?

September 2, 2004

I didn’t get an invitation, and there wasn’t one pending for me when I went in to set myself up. But I did it myself, and now have Amazon Readers listed on my dashboard. But I am not listed as a contributor. Hopefully since I am contributing that will change.

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Welcome to Me

September 2, 2004

Thanks to my Amazing daughters I am set up on the AmRead blog. I picked up a Laurence Sanders hardcover book at the clubhouse before dominos and when I got ready to go home someone else had taken it. So I got another Anne Rivers Siddons book called Fault Lines (paperback). I have only read [...]

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EZ Reading

September 2, 2004

Well, I decided it is never going to get easier to find time to do this so I will just jump in. I have finished just a few books since having Jackson. The first was Amy Tan’s The Opposite of Fate. This was a series of essays so it was perfect for reading while taking [...]

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Starting Over

August 27, 2004

I finished Thin Air yesterday and then read A Catskill Eagle also one of the Spenser Series, it was an earlier one that was checked out of the library when I got to it on the list. Again very easy PI read. I started that series this year and am going through them pretty quickly [...]

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DaVinci Code

August 27, 2004

OK, now I can do it. If we have to sign our posts, it also needs to be a rule that if we comment as Amazon Reader we need to sign them too. Between those two books I mentioned I also read Lost Light by Michael Connelly; a Private Eye kind of story a quick [...]

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Thin Air

August 26, 2004

I am currently reading Thin Air by Rober B. Parker. It is about 20 in the Spenser series. This series of books spawned the Spenser for Hire tv show with Robert Urich, oh somewhere in the 80′s I think. I never did watch the show but the books are pretty good. Standard PI stuff, easy [...]

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