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moon.......

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silver.....

Toasted bread rounds, with butter and peanut butter with tea.

The whole brouhaha that has surrounded the book and being from the N.O. area myself, it just smacked of /sigh/.....I can hardly describe the feeling. Weird vibes is about the closest I can come to it. LOL, that's what I'm afraid of, but at the price I got it, finally, it's worth finding out for myself.

Yes, the last two are meant to be read together. I absolutely loved the first, I guess 3 or 4 or the Holmes/Russell series, but I haven't read a couple of them, in-between. I'll go back and pick them up sooner or later I'm sure. My biggest gripe with them was that Holmes wasn't in them enough. We visited the Library Sale today, and frankly didn't find that much. One was Moon Deluxe by Frederick Barthelme, a book of short stories. I finally caved and bought A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, I've deliberately passed that one up for years now, but at 1.25 USD, I couldn't pass it up.

In the last couple of days I've finished A Pale Horse by Charles Todd and The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King. Regarding A Pale Horse, I am slightly disappointed. I thought this was part of a series that I'd heard high praise of but I found it rather disjointed. It had so many great elements to it, but somehow seemed too scattered, and disjointed for me. Plus it repeated itself endlessly, not finishing thoughts. It's a mother/son team that writes it apparently, and somehow they simply did not jive. Now The God of the Hive was a different story entirely. I was much happier with this as opposed to it's prequel The Language of Bees. King told the story, didn't have useless characters, kept them straight and finished with a flourish. Wish I could say the same for APH.

You could try The Universal Baseball Association, Inc, J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover. My OH loves it, and I'll be reading it soon.

Started and finished The God of the Hive by Laurie R. King today, to me it was superior to it's prequel The Language of Bees, which I'd read earlier this year. Not sure what next.

Some Law & Order first season eps. They were such good stuff!

Aside from books? Teapots, china and iron. Unusual vases, usually tallish glass in different colors. Coffee mugs. Note paper [sets]. I know there is more, it just doesn't come to mind at the moment...

I find myself doing something like that too, but mostly with tiled floors sort of counting from one edge to the opposite edge and then from side to side. I used to be really compulsive [or is it obsessive] about going back and checking that the doors were locked, but have found if I stand at the back door and really think about what I am doing, IOW, not just doing it automatically without thinking, I can lock the door, test it and take note of the position and walk away. Nine times out of ten that works for me.

If I'm correct, this was a series of books [as in maybe more than three? ]. I had it as a child, and loved, loved, loved it. Of course my name is Katherine as well.....

I'm almost finished A Pale Horse by Charles Todd. This is the first I've read by the mother/son team and am enjoying it, but at the same time, it seems as though it could have used more editing. Just seems to drag on a bit unnecessarily. AIE: Oh, I forgot I bought at Border's yesterday Major Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe. I've not read Poe before, and thought this would be something to begin with.

I absolutely agree. The girl mentioned above, Carey Mulligan I am not familiar with, so I googled pictures of her, and to me she is too pretty, but it isn't even that so much, she is too soft looking for Lisabeth IMO.

They both sound good. All I found was lots of the same as above. If you ever find out what title goes with the first synopsis, please post it! And welcome btw.

That was pretty wonderful of of your bf CaliLily! I suppose one of the most embarrassing moments I've endured was when my skirt fell off in the middle of a busy gasoline station many years ago. I'd gone in to pay for the gas I'd just pumped. It was in the middle of the hottest part of the summer here, and I wore one of those light cotton wrap around skirts. One of the ties just broke loose, and the whole thing slipped to the ground around me puddling at my feet. It seemed to go on forever, and just as it hit the ground I simply stooped and picked it up, clutching the waist of it to mine, flushing madly. Walked [somehow] steadily back to my car, managed to get in and start the car and drive as sedately as possible out onto the roadway. This was during that gas crisis over here back in the mid 1970's, and there was a long line of cars waiting to get into the station. Of course that would happen to me with the largest possible audience.

Wolf Hall and The Help are the only ones that I have in my collection of that original list. I'd started Wolf Hall a few weeks ago, but was sidetracked by a book on Charles II. After that I wasn't in the mood for anything historical. I'll get back to it I know. I'm not automatically interested in a book on account of being listed for a [whatever] prize, but it does get my attention to at least take a look....sometimes. Can't say I care much for Kingsolver which isn't really fair as I've only tried to read Poisonwood Bible. Without success. Maybe one of these days.

Dancing!

Thanks Kylie.. Yep, I am wearing the old bigger ones around the house, they are still a little big for me. heh One "good" thing is that my OH has also gained about the same amount of weight and he wants to get it off too. Although he does have a slightly easier time dropping the weight. He can still eat a few cookies a day! So Not Fair! LOL I googled and found their site, looks interesting. Nothing anywhere near me though. Foo. Although truthfully, I don't know if my back would take it.

I love Coben's books. I think I've read all of his stand alone, except for the very last one and enjoyed them all. The first one I read was Don't Look Now...a super page turner. And...good news, there is a film of it that is dynamite. It's in French, subtitled. HC must have a good sense of humor, he does a cameo in the film, a la Hitchcock.

I'm well and truly annoyed with myself as I've gained back the 20-ish pounds that I worked so hard to lose about a year and a half ago. I'd dropped from a size 18 jeans to size 12, now I'm back up to 16. :D Part of what helped me lose it to begin with was the fact I had to climb 17 steps many times a day, and I no longer have to, so I'd better get cracking and start again, whether or not I have to! Of course the ice-cream at midnight doesn't help a bit.

I do that as well, however..... I end up keeping the old copy for sentimental reasons. /sigh/ I've done that, more often as my taste has changed and [hopefully] matured. Sad to say, that I've actually done some backsliding. I'd given a copy of Never Let Me Go to a friend as I'd started it, and saw where it was going and couldn't stand the thought. But I've rebought it. Can't win for losing.

Here is an article I ran across in the NYT yesterday. Quite a lot of detail about the plot etc. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/books/07book.html?ref=books Interesting guy, seems quite bedazzled by his instant fame. Hope he keeps his feet on the ground. AIE: Another link... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127540813&ft=1&f=1032

Last night we stopped at Books-A-Million on the way home from dinner and restrained ourselves admirably. Only bought 2.00 USD books. /pats self on back/ Trance by Christopher Sorrentino Explorer's House by Robert M. Poole Allen Tate, Collected Poems 1919-1976 City Room by Arthur Gelb [all about the New York Times]