lucy
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Post by lucy on Jan 26, 2017 8:52:06 GMT -5
I have several books going.
From the library - I have a book called I Dare Me. A lady who said her life was in a rut, she was 53, and decided to do something new each day. 365 new things. Some are silly, fun, important, small, but a fun thing to read. she has a point, when you are young, you have your first day of school, first day of summer, first day of camp, first day jr high, first day of highschool, first kiss, first boy friend, first date, first to college, first job..... 50 yrs later, you eat at the same place, eat the same meals, watch the same shows, do the same thing, hang with the same people.....
Also from library confederates in the attic. A travelog author spends a year researching the civil war, and writes about it. Wow. Lots of knowledge. I will be a PHD of civil war by the time the book is over. I have this on cd in my car.
I just finished a star trek trilogy (i know, nerd here)....but I did the first book, captain to captain on audio - then realized it was a set of 3 and had to finish them
Then I have started, but need to finish, book 3 of the One Day After series.
What are you reading?
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Post by kidsandpets on Jan 26, 2017 10:32:33 GMT -5
I'm in the middle of a book called "Looking Like the Enemy" by Mary Matsuda. Its about an autobiography of a 17 year old Japanese-American girl and her family who were sent to an interment camp during WWII. This particular family lived on the same island in Puget Sound that I grew up on.
I'm finding this book strangely personal to me. The internment of Japanese-Americans has always been a significant part of history because it affected my own home town, people I actually knew in my lifetime. One particular passage in this book struck me. She described driving through town towards the ferry dock as they were taken away on army trucks - she mentions some of the same buildings and businesses that were still there 40+ years later when I was growing up, even an elementary school I went to. The reality of the fear and hatred they were the victims of that they were powerless to do anything about...After the internment, many families returned to the island - but not all. Sometimes I have wondered if there were kids I would have grown up with (grandkids of this author's generation) had their families not been forced to leave many years before...
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Post by purpleowl on Jan 26, 2017 11:09:29 GMT -5
I'm reading Francis Schaeffer's How Should We Then Live?. I know plenty of people think it's the Best Book Ever. I am finding it...fine. Not intolerable, not amazing. We'll see as I get further in.  I just finished reading my friend Kristi Ann Hunter's latest book, An Uncommon Courtship, and rereading The Hobbit. |
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Post by kidsandpets on Jan 26, 2017 11:11:52 GMT -5
I'm reading Francis Schaeffer's How Should We Then Live?. I know plenty of people think it's the Best Book Ever. I am finding it...fine. Not intolerable, not amazing. We'll see as I get further in. I just finished reading my friend Kristi Ann Hunter's latest book, An Uncommon Courtship, and rereading The Hobbit. I read it for a class in our old church several years back. Interesting book. But I don't remember it being spectacular either. Although it was also the "textbook" for the class so... |
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Laney
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Post by Laney on Jan 26, 2017 16:42:50 GMT -5
I'm in the middle of a book called "Looking Like the Enemy" by Mary Matsuda. Its about an autobiography of a 17 year old Japanese-American girl and her family who were sent to an interment camp during WWII. This particular family lived on the same island in Puget Sound that I grew up on. I'm finding this book strangely personal to me. The internment of Japanese-Americans has always been a significant part of history because it affected my own home town, people I actually knew in my lifetime. One particular passage in this book struck me. She described driving through town towards the ferry dock as they were taken away on army trucks - she mentions some of the same buildings and businesses that were still there 40+ years later when I was growing up, even an elementary school I went to. The reality of the fear and hatred they were the victims of that they were powerless to do anything about...After the internment, many families returned to the island - but not all. Sometimes I have wondered if there were kids I would have grown up with (grandkids of this author's generation) had their families not been forced to leave many years before... I read a Dear America book with my girls about the same time period and area and it really affected me! I was surprised how much I got out of the book. |
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Post by kidsandpets on Jan 26, 2017 16:49:29 GMT -5
I'm in the middle of a book called "Looking Like the Enemy" by Mary Matsuda. Its about an autobiography of a 17 year old Japanese-American girl and her family who were sent to an interment camp during WWII. This particular family lived on the same island in Puget Sound that I grew up on. I'm finding this book strangely personal to me. The internment of Japanese-Americans has always been a significant part of history because it affected my own home town, people I actually knew in my lifetime. One particular passage in this book struck me. She described driving through town towards the ferry dock as they were taken away on army trucks - she mentions some of the same buildings and businesses that were still there 40+ years later when I was growing up, even an elementary school I went to. The reality of the fear and hatred they were the victims of that they were powerless to do anything about...After the internment, many families returned to the island - but not all. Sometimes I have wondered if there were kids I would have grown up with (grandkids of this author's generation) had their families not been forced to leave many years before... and it really affected me! I was surprised how much I got out of the book. I just looked up that series of books. They look very good. |
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Post by Laney on Jan 26, 2017 16:53:37 GMT -5
I read a Dear America book with my girls about the same time period and area and it really affected me! I was surprised how much I got out of the book. I just looked up that series of books. They look very good. We've enjoyed them! We've also enjoyed the Sisters in Time books. |
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Post by kidsandpets on Jan 26, 2017 16:58:26 GMT -5
Those look good too. DS likes a series of books on a similar line of "Sisters in Time" - except that the hero is a time-traveling golden retriever! But still, the basis of the stories is similar.
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Post by footballbella on Jan 26, 2017 20:54:10 GMT -5
real estate online school stuff and books about real estate
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Post by LisainMN on Jan 26, 2017 21:31:16 GMT -5
A Little Love Story by Roland Merulo - stayed up too late reading last night. I guess that means I'm enjoying it
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Post by Laney on Jan 27, 2017 0:44:49 GMT -5
I've got a huge stack of books I bought at the library sale the other day but I haven't started any of them. I'm reading Magnolia Story when I have a chance to sit down and read which seems to be rare these days. I've been working on 2 baby blankets for the last month (and 2 Christmas blankets before that)so any spare time I have I've been crocheting to get that stuff done.
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bookie
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Post by bookie on Jan 28, 2017 7:36:00 GMT -5
Kate Morton secret keeper
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BC
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"For all Your goodness I will keep on singing, ten thousand reasons for my heart to find."
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Post by BC on Jan 28, 2017 21:45:59 GMT -5
I'm reading a few right now: The Writing Life, Annie Dillard The Art of Memoir, Mary Karr The Broken Way, Ann Voskamp Bush, Jean Edward Smith Present Over Perfect, Shauna Neiquist Bandersnatch, Erika Morrison I have these waiting to begin too: The Art of Slow Writing, Lousie DeSalvo Essentialism, Greg McKeown Kingdom Woman, Chrystal Hurst, Tony Evans Writing Tools, Roy Peter Clark On Writing Well, William Zinsser I just finished these three: The Memoir Project, Marion Roach Smith You are a Writer, Jeff Goins Craving Connection, (in)courage I need a 12 step program. |
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Kim
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Post by Kim on Jan 28, 2017 22:19:53 GMT -5
I am slowly working my way through The Power of Praying for Your Adult Children.
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Post by LisainMN on Jan 28, 2017 22:22:10 GMT -5
Drat! Forgot to go to the library today!
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