I love both Jonathon and Faye.:) I think Ive read them all.


Right now Im reading the Little House series out loud to my 9dd.
We are on The Long Winter. Two more books after that and weve read
the whole series:D. I think Im enjoying it as much as her.

Soxmom

I have to agree with you there MrsB. I rather like Dr. Alex myself. Unfortunately I've already read the only one this small library stocks, but I do look in 2nd hand books stores and at garage sales as well.

Anne

Have you looked into eBay's half.com for books. There are Australian sellers and you can get books for a ridiculously low price.

No. I didn't know it existed. Thanks FG, I'll check it out.

:( i wish postage wasn't so high.

i have boxes and boxes of books.

I do too. That's how I got interested in half.com. When you sell a book, the buyer pays the postage!

I also donate a lot of books to the prison here in Boise as well as the VA Hospital and the Elks Rehab Center.

I just popped in to see what everyone is reading now, and noticed that no one has posted since 02/26!

Sooooo, you get a story to help you think of something to post!

I learned how to read when I was two years old. I didn't learn to read print, I learned how to read braille.

My oldest brother is blind. He is three years older than I am, and he started school at Perkins School for the Blind back in the early sixties, before public schools were required to provide education for blind children.

He came home with his new schoolbooks and I was fascinated that he could tell me a story by touching dots. He could read in the dark!! He taught me how to read them!! I could read in the dark now too!!

My next older brother went off to school the next year. He came home with his new books and they had pictures and letters! He taught me how to read them!

At 4 years old I was reading anything I could get my hands on. The principal at the school I was in found out the new kindergarten kid could read. Every day I went to his office for an hour and he would let me pick out any book I wanted from his shelf and read it. The only catch was I had to read it out loud to him. We shared stories every day for an hour while the rest of my class took a nap! It continued in first grade with longer stories.

He had treasures on his shelves, leather bound classics with gold embossed lettering for titles and gilt edged pages! Books with short stories, poetry, fiction, adventure, travel! I read a chapter a day to him and we made it through some good books! I learned how to leave the place I was and live in the stories I was reading.

Now in the summer, I get the absolute pleasure of spending time with my neices and nephews, godchildren and adopted family. Some of them have children of their own. We read together and they read aloud to me. There's nothing like a child with a book in front of a crackling fire in a hundred year old cabin, smelling the aged pages, opening the book, and disappearing into the world contained within.

They come back as they age, and they look for their favorite books and pick them up and read them again and again. They bring more books and leave them behind for the next generation. You can go from a 1917 Mother West Wind book to a new copy of Everybody Poops!, Ray Bradbury to Harry Potter, Zane Grey to Robert Frost. We write in the flyleaf, sign our names and what character we were when we read the book...

I've often wished I could thank all the people who gave me this gift, who took the time to pass on the love of reading to me, who taught me how to travel to far places by opening a book. While writing this, I've realized that maybe I have done just that.:)

Thank you RW for that story. It reminds me of my own DD.

Ever since she was knee high to a grass hopper she wanted to read, so I taught her. I started by buying the reading books that the schools use in 1st grade, and it just escalated from there.

I can remember being on a plane trip with her once....she was probably 2 & 1/2 and she was reading to me from a book. There was a middle aged gent beside us and he was open mouth flbberghasted! He just couldn't believe such a tiny tot could read, and he said so. He was totally spell bound the entire time she was reading

When she started school, it wasn't long before I had a letter from her 1st grade teacher to let me know that my DD had read every single book that they had in the library for 1st and 2nd graders, and that they were sending out for more.

She's 31 now, and nothing has changed. She still lists reading as her favourite past time, and it's always been top of my list as well. The only difference is the material we read. Our tastes are as different as chalk and cheese!


What a lovely thing to say RW. I'm thinking that at least reading is one of the good things I've done for my DD.....I passed on my love of books.

Wooo Hoooo got an amazon package today. Finally the latest book in the series from one of my fave authors....Sophie Kinsella.

Its chick lit but this gal keeps me laughing from cover to cover.

Can't wait to dive in tonight.

Ok...what's everyone reading? Let's not let this thread die!!!

I am working on Grisham's new book..so far so good!

I'm reading a true hunting crime story that happened here in MI.

But, I'm really here to tell about a wonderful movie I watched last night. I'm a Maggie Smith fan, she's kind of the unsung hero of her movie generation, she's extremely versatile.

"Keeping Mum" (2005) is a dark comedy I got from Netflix and it was hysterical! You have to appreciate the subtle nuances of dark comedy, but it is a riot.

Read a great book while on vacation.
Actually I read a couple, some deep and one lighthearted.

The lighthearted one, which even made me laugh out loud was the latest in the series by Sophie Kinsella who does the shopaholic books.

It was called Remember Me?

It was great and I recomend the whole series. They are fun and just make ya smile when reading.

I have read a few...Executve Power..great read...loved the character..back in special ops days...jim

oh, I forgot the book thread, too! O.O
 

I just finished The Collector, by John Fowles. This is an old book, from 1963.
I found it in my husband's book stash....he read it for a college course decades ago. It was very good.

I am now reading Snakes in Suits--
http://books.google.com/books?id=J9m...with-thumbnail

I have read 2 other sociopath/psychopath books, and this one is an extension of those. Dr. Hare is excellent and has opened the definition of psychopathy to a more general occurance. The place where I used to work was fraught with "problems" and this book puts those into an understandable perspective, albeit a disturbing one. The psychopath in the workplace! Cringe! Not all psychopaths end up as serial killers like you see in the media...many are married and have white collar/professional jobs. What they do there at work can be a nightmare!
(Imagine a psychopath with access to DRUGS!)

I also picked up the NEW Nora Roberts/JD Robb... just out...Strangers in Death.
This one is not at all like the preceding one.. much slower going. I actually like this pace a bit better...the last one was TOO rough for me.

This weekend is our library sale... I am itching to go on Sat morning for my vacation stash. LOL

Just saw an enchanting little indy film called Son of Rambow. Really worth the price of admission.

for those who follow
 

The series No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith....

#9 has just come out, and I found it 1/2 price at Costco.

I just started it...and it proves to be good so far.
The Miracle at Speedy Motors

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/...smith/main.php
This site has beautiful indigenous music too!
The cover of this new book is just beautiful!

It is a nice coincidence too. As I just bought and received some beautiful
Malachite specimens from South Africa!

Sex and the City
 

Anyone else excited about this movie????? I am counting down. :D

Movie review
 

What do Apple Computers, iPhone/AT&T, Motorola Razr, Cadillac, Disney, Mercedes, & Ferrari all have in common?

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets

It was totally unbelievable, ridiculously farfetched, historically inferior, and utterly devoid of credibility.

I LOVED IT!

This is high fiction with a fusion of fantasy and deserves a look if only for the adventure and the great pace. It moves along swimmingly, and yep, they find it.

A thumb & a half up (can't get the left one to cooperate)!:p:cool:

LOL Nappy its on my list to see! I worked on the advertising for the first National Treasure.

Saw Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian today and thought it was great! A little darker than the first but still fun for the whole family.

Remarkable!!!!!
 

I do believe I just saw a few Grisham fans here as I was skimming through the posts!

One of my favorite books is The Testament. Dang, what a good read, couldn't put it down!

Reading: The Fourth Turning, it's excellent.

Just watched (for the first time:o) How to Make an American Quilt, I LOVED IT! I adore old-time-tested-friendship movies. Those women were all outstanding. Maya Angelou just has this classy, gracious way about her, even in this slight-departure role. This one is up there with Steel Magnolias in my book.:)

Has anyone read James Patterson's new book "Sail" I just brought it home from library and it sounds great. I love Patterson's books, suspenseful and hard to put down.