Great new book

Read a review about this in the newspaper and then stumbled upon it. Read it, loved it, bought it and am reading it to Sophie. A "big kid" book with a wonderful message. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane...by Kate DiCamillo. Love- Lexi

music

thought maybe i should participate on here.

musical suggestion, van morrison, live from san fran. also, i think wilco is a great band, i don't know how main stream they are. i'm not very hip when it comes to music. i've been on a big tim mcgraw kick lately.

i'm working on the reading thing. i've been pretty limited by the likes of US Weekly and People Magazine lately. But recently bought a book called a Wedding in December. I'll let you know how it is.

love the suggestions!

Abby

Birmingham

Very impressed with the amount of reaing that everyone is doing! I am simply building my stacks around the house and feeding the Borders store many dollars here in Birmingham. I just read a great review about "Thirteen Moons" written by the same author of Cold Mountain. It is said to be excellent and a less tightly written book. Yes, I plagarized that directly from the review. I also picked up a book called The Wild Girl by Jim Fergus. I am into the American Indian right now. I am also going to suggest that this may be a great forum for music as I know that my relatives all have excellent taste in that realm and it would be a way to include those who don't love to read. I need help in my diversity. What made me think of this is that about 3 weeks ago I bought Two Lights by Five For Fighting and have been listening to it non-stop. Love it. Great. All of their albums are outstanding in my opinion. Kind of Billy Joel but more current in sound.
Love to hear any suggestions. Bring it.

Paige

Busy week of reading

I do get a bit obsessed with different activities... sometimes I'll go on a reading binge and take a break from real life. This week I read Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund. It was ok, but I liked Four Spirits better. Then I read the book for this week's bookclub (I'm hosting it so I thought I'd better read it) which was Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (written in 1845). It is EXCELLENT, and I don't know why I haven't read it before now. I highly recommend it to anyone --
Finally, I just finished this afternoon a fairly recent "thriller" The Promise of a Lie by Howard Roughan. Very enjoyable. I'm going to get his first book, The Up and Comer, this week. This
compares favorably with John Grisham type books.

Oh, and I read Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza in the past couple of weeks -- very gripping true story of her experience in Rwanda during the genocide. Not the best written of books, but extremely chilling.

Martha

Lakewood

LOVED Shadowdivers - thanks for the recommend and also read The Other Boelyn Girl - fun historical fiction. Have Ex Libris on hold at the library. For the record, Shadowdivers and Ex Libris are both non-fiction...in case others are wandering around in the fiction section looking for them...Keep the recommendations coming! I loved going to the library with a list. - Lexi

Book Club

We just finished reading "Life and Death in Shanghia" by Nien Cheng. It's the autobiography of a woman who lived through 6 years of imprisonment and torment in Communist China. That may sound depressing but the book actually leaves you feeling really uplifted and motivated to conquer anything. She is very inspiring and I learned a lot from this book.

Tracey