Re: what are you reading?

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> From: ERWachter@...

I am reading Jan Karon's 'The Mitford

> Years " .

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I loved that series. Is the last one out yet? Maybe I read it and forgot

it.

The Harmony series by Philip Gulley is great. He is a Quaker minister and

the books are great.

I am beginning the Elm Creek Quilters series now.

Kathy/NC

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In a message dated 6/11/2006 8:47:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

khlassiter@... writes:

Is the last one out yet? Maybe I read it and forgot it

Hi Kathy,

I don't know if the last one is out, but I believe it is.

One of our members told me about these books. Thanks, n. And, I have

a local friend that has all of them. She would not read any of them until

she had all of them. I have the first 2, but don't have the 3rd one. I'm

going to the used bookstore this week to see if I can find the 3rd one. If

not,

I'm sure I can order it online.

You've given me more ideas. When I go to the bookstore, I'll look for these

books also.

hugs

Eunice - who reads every night before going to sleep.

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Hello, everyone! You may think it's strange, but I'm halfway

through the " His Dark Materials " trilogy, by Pullman.

This is an unusually good fantasy, more or less for children,

but read by adults, too.

Why am I reading this? I've been in England for 3 weeks,

visiting our son & his family. My grandson was reading the last

volume & really immersed in it, so I thought I'd try it myself.

It's fun to sit on the end of his bed in the evening, both of us

reading away to get to the end of a chapter before lights out!

By the way, I switched from glyburide to metformin (generic, 500

mg AM & PM) in February. I'm finding travel & exercise a lot

easier now that I don't have to worry about hypoglycemia or

carry snacks!

Barb, T2 in MI

Barbara Ward

Macomb County, Michigan

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I'm reading Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher which is the 6th book in his

Dresden series. It's fantasy about a wizard who protects us mortals in

Chicago. It's enjoyable light fiction. In the bullpen I have Exploration

of the Colorado River by Wesley it's his own story about the

first trip down the Colorado and through the Grand Canyon. That's to be

followed by the Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe a book for fans of Nero Wolfe

which goes into great detail about Wolfe's house where all the mysteries in

the Nero Wolf Series are solved. Well almost all. Nero Wolfe does leave

the house in a couple of the books (Black Mountain for one). I gave up on

the Devils Apocrypha that someone loaned me after getting half way through.

I just couldn't get into it. After those books I'll read Mother Tongue

which is a book about why English is the way it is and how the heck it got

that way.

I'm listening to Shadows by Saul when I'm driving. His books are all

creepy and I've enjoyed all that I've listened to. That's going to be

followed up with Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs by McManus who is

one of my favorite humor writers. He's an outdoorsman and writes about

hunting, fishing, camping and when he was a boy. I don't hunt and fish but

I do spend a lot of time in the out of doors and of course I was a boy. I

don't think he's done anything as a boy that I haven't done or wouldn't have

done if given the chance. I highly recommend his book Real Ponies Don't Go

Oink. I'd suggest the books on tape version rather than the book form.

They guy who reads them has the part down to a T and really makes the books

come alive. That book will be followed by Valley of the Assassins by

Freya Stark a true story about a woman who in 1935 traveled to forbidden

area of the Syrian Druze and was thrown into a military prison after she'd

crossed the desert where a heretical sect of Muslims held sway for thousands

of years. I found this book on the National Geographic's list of most

extreme adventures. This book on tape will be followed by

Buckley's No Way to Treat a First Lady which is political satire where the

First Lady in a domestic argument accidentally kills the President with a

cuspidor. She hires a sleazy lawyer and the book is off. He's wickedly

funny. He wrote Thank You For Not Smoking which I also listened to and

Florence of Arabia (really funny). That will be followed by a Carl Hiasen

book Tourist Season unless something else on my hold list comes in. Hiasen

writes light mysteries which are usually some what funny.

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I used to do the same thing with my son when he was

little and we both loved it:)

I have to 'fess up that I still read Drews.

-Sunny

--- Barbara Ward oaks_ward@...> wrote:

> Hello, everyone! You may think it's strange, but

> I'm halfway

> through the " His Dark Materials " trilogy, by

> Pullman.

> This is an unusually good fantasy, more or less for

> children,

> but read by adults, too.

> Why am I reading this? I've been in England for 3

> weeks,

> visiting our son & his family. My grandson was

> reading the last

> volume & really immersed in it, so I thought I'd try

> it myself.

> It's fun to sit on the end of his bed in the

> evening, both of us

> reading away to get to the end of a chapter before

> lights out!

> By the way, I switched from glyburide to metformin

> (generic, 500

> mg AM & PM) in February. I'm finding travel &

> exercise a lot

> easier now that I don't have to worry about

> hypoglycemia or

> carry snacks!

>

> Barb, T2 in MI

>

>

>

> Barbara Ward

> Macomb County, Michigan

>

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