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dena819 Member |
posted 10-10-2006 10:13 PM
 
New to boards. However, looking at all of the boards and trying to comment/read all of the other boards and reply. Even though this book has been out for awhile and it is very non-traditional for John Grisham's writing style. It is a very good book. |
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lexiesmom Member |
posted 10-11-2006 01:22 PM
I read that book this past summer, I really enjoyed it. I had almost forgotten about it. We need to start a book club to share all the wonderful books out there. |
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lexiesmom Member |
posted 10-11-2006 01:42 PM
HAve you read his book Bleachers? It is really good. |
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dena819 Member |
posted 10-13-2006 06:47 PM
Have not read Bleachers. Will look for it. I have read just about every other Grisham book so, Painted House really surprised me. I will pick Bleachers up and let you know what I think of it. I pretty much read everything anymore. (It is a way to escape and relax) So, I really have no particular kind of reading style. If someone recommends a book and likes it, then I usually will try and find it. |
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lexiesmom Member |
posted 10-13-2006 08:02 PM
Bleachers was pretty short book, but I really enjoyed it's mostly about facing the past, how things from the past have molded us into who we are today. |
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dena819 Member |
posted 10-13-2006 08:35 PM
Good Lord! Facing the facts, who and why we are molded a certain way! Well, I think I need that rude awakening right now. We are all molded because of our past and it's something we can accept or fight until the end. I see a whole lot of my past interfering with my everyday existance but, try as I might, I still come out on top. Can't wait to read the book!! Will let you know what I think about the book (that is if you welcome my opinion?)! |
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dena819 Member |
posted 10-13-2006 08:37 PM
Book Club would be wonderful!! |
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dena819 Member |
posted 10-13-2006 08:58 PM
P.S.-Go TIGERS!! :-) |
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lexiesmom Member |
posted 10-13-2006 09:54 PM
I am going to the book store tomorrow, I need a new book, I should jst go to the libraray, but I haven't changed my liscence from CA to NV so I can't get a library card  HAving NIck Sparks withdrawls new book needs to come out soon. I think I am in the mood for a JAne Austen Book surely there is one I haven't read yet. MAybe I will finaly read Crime and Punishment. |
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Pegm Member |
posted 10-14-2006 05:38 AM
Thrift stores are great for buying books. The average price is 75 cents for hard cover and 3 for a $1 for paperbacks. I try to go once a week to check whats new. I think I will likely break down and buy the new Nicholas Sparks book though. I don't think I can wait for it to show up in a thrift store. I also like to buy books on Ebay. You just need to watch for the cheapest shipping. |
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dena819 Member |
posted 10-14-2006 02:04 PM
Also, local library sales are great too! Bought a Jackie Collins (Lady Boss), The Horse Whisperer (what a heart wrencher-I used to show/ride horses) and a few other hardcovers for $1.00 a piece. Great Bargains! Not to mention the soft covers. |
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lexiesmom Member |
posted 10-14-2006 08:53 PM
I have picked up few this past summer at our library sale, I got Stephen Kings Bag of Bones , hardcover for $2. I figured I would swing by the library monday and see what they have on thier sale shelf. Then if I don't like the book I don't hate that I spent $10 on it, instead just $1 or sometimes 50cents. |
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dena819 Member |
posted 10-20-2006 06:44 PM
Bag Bones? :-) I can't read any of Stephen King's Books. Can't watch scary movies either! I know, as my son says, You are such a weenie! They scare the pants off of me. Imagination just runs wild... We are going to an apple orchard tomorrow to do scary hay ride however, I am drawing the line at the 3 story haunted barn. I will wait in the car and whichever scardy cat would like to keep me company is more than welcome to!! |
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lexiesmom Member |
posted 10-21-2006 01:27 AM
I don't usually do Stephen King either I am a total wuss. But I was surprised by this one. The guy's wife dies and he goes back to their cabin were some strange things start happening, they call it a love story with ghosts involved. There was no blood and guts, ok wait one paragraph someone gets shot. But that was it, it wans't scary as much as suspencful, it seemed more like a Grishim type suspence, a page turned where you want to know what is going on but you are pulling the covers over your head hiding from the bad guy. Speaking of Grisham I jsut finished reading "the king of Torts" Suprised myself, I grabbed wasnt too impressed with the decsription but was bored so I read it, I couldn't put it down. I just started reading "night" by Elie Wietzel, amazing book, I can usually read a hundred pages in a few hours a whole book in day or two. This book is small like a humdred pages, and I am on day three and still have at least two more days to go. It is so emmotionally intense that you can't read much more than 20 pages at a sitting. I saw him on Oprah talking about it when she went to Aushwitz with him but Iam truly amazed by the gift he has for recreating what the Holocaust was like for him on a personal level. |
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dena819 Member |
posted 10-22-2006 06:53 PM
Keeping a list on all the books you and everyone else has recommended. Today, would have been a great day to curl up with a good book! Rainy, Dreary and Nasty outside. However, had other things to do! Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp has fascinated/saddened me. I am on one side of Polish descent. After trying to trace my (now deceased) paternal side, I have hit nothing but dead ends. A lot of this is because of Hitler's destruction of records. I have watched many documentaries on these camps and it just makes me sick. This may be the first book I will pick, along with a box of kleenex!! |
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lexiesmom Member |
posted 10-23-2006 11:50 AM
I really can't reccomend it enough. There are so many books and so many of them on the topic are wonderful. But he way he describes it really makes you feel like you are there, his goal was to make sure it was not forgotten and not repeated. I think he has clearly done that, when you feel lik eyou are watching these men, there is no way to forget what happened. I remember a few years back when the belief that the hollacaust never happened emereged, it made me so angry. But you can't read this book and the details and not think it wasn't hell on Earth. I am truly grateful that I turned Oprah on once time in the past year and it happened to be the show she did with Wiezel. Lexie my daughter just started reading it, there are some rough patches for her that I have to explain I think mostly because of her deafness, an not knowing what some things are, new vocab. But we are essentually reading it together. |
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dena819 Member |
posted 10-23-2006 09:09 PM
I would like you to read my response on the parenting board with regards to ADHD, I truly believe in your CAPD, even though I don't remember, when I was going through this, that my son was diagnosed with this disorder, however, I may have missed that "label" while going through everything else in life. However, you have hit the nail on the head. I just never heard that term, CAPD. However, the oddest thing that you mentioned was gymnastics. I put my son into gymnastics at a young age. Son had no motor skills at all during younger years. However, I feel that it helped him concentrate and connect between audio/visual/motor skills. Since you are studying this, please feel free to contact me, via my e-mail. I think I can give you some major supporting factors with regards to my son and your studies. Have not picked up any books yet. My son and I currently reading One Shot-one kill by Charles Sasser and Craig Roberts. Language is a little off, however he is 13 years old and is into all of the military stories and the history behind all of this so am I going to limit him on this? No! Listen he can recite every Confederate/Union Generals that have ever been involved with the Civil War. I personally think I am going to take a referesher class as far as History goes to keep up with his conversations. I didn't even know who Joesph Stahelin (sp?) was until I looked the Russian Ruler up via books and internet. It just amazes me how an LD child just absores so much visually and now it seems that the graph lines (between audio/visual) are starting to come together. Even though much to my struggles and frustrations with the early learning years, I can tell you now that it is all panning out. |
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lexiesmom Member |
posted 10-23-2006 10:19 PM
Depending on when you son was diagnosed and where you are in the States CAPD may not have been brought up at all. It has only been with in the past few years that the medical community has started to put a lot of focus on it realizing many many children are being diagnosed with ADD when it truly is a problem with thier processing the information. Feel free to email me, audiology is my field of study but CAPD is not my specialty, at least not yet. I hope to get more involved in it, but it won't happen until we move and depending on my PHD professors backgrounds it might not be something I can get into until after school. I will be studying the entire field more and more but my main area of interest at this point is retrocochlear implants. |
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