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Book Dreams

After a year of using the Shelfari moniker ISBN, Shelfari informed me that they were going to use my URL for a book search feature. And so, I've had to change the name, which I was rather fond of. I'm not feeling particularly inspired, but selected "Book Dreams" because I've been having a lot of strange dreams about books lately.

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  • OR, Umpqua Valley
  • member since Wednesday, February 28 2007

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  • sthurner

    sthurner says

    Sharon, I spoke too soon about inviting you to Door County. There was an article in the Wisconsin State Journal today about the cherry crop being bad this year. Evidently last summer's drought conditions damaged many of the trees. The article also said many growers stockpile frozen fruit for years like this. Somehow that's not the same. We'll ahve to make do with Michigan cherries. Sigh.
    Sherry

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  • sthurner

    sthurner says

    Sharon, I don't know those titles. I read Montana 1948, Justice and White Crosses, and I really don't remember much about either of the latter two. I have the feeling that his first was his best, or maybe I just read Montana 1948 at a time when it resonated with me. I'll need to check out the titles you mentioned.

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  • sthurner

    sthurner says

    Sharon, I hadn't made the connection between Wyeth and the artist in Orchard, and I don't remember Watson saying anything about that in his reading. I guess I don't know that much biographical information about Andrew Wyeth. All I know is that I liked Montana 1948 much more than this novel.

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  • sthurner

    sthurner says

    Hi again. I see you have Orchard. Larry Watson is a Wisconsin author. A few years ago I heard him read from the then unpublished Orchard - oddly enough set in Door County (of cherry fame). I'll be curious to see what you think of it.

    Sherry

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  • sthurner

    sthurner says

    Hi Sharon. Thank goodness you didn't change your picture too, because I thought I was losing my grip trying to find you this morning. So, what do you think of Shelfari's new look? It's loading better, so perhaps I'll be inspired to write a few more reviews. My painting has pretty much taken over my reading time lately, though now that it has stopped raining I need to be outside pulling weeds and trimming bushes. I do want to finish my Stephen King page-turner, though.

    Sherry

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  • cool hand luke

    cool hand luke says

    Si-fan cult. Once in never out.

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    I am going to look for the Eugenides book today. I have a coupon for B&N. I clicked on your avatar because of the book. You didn't say that you had decided on a new name. I like it. I am drawn to the names that are evocative of some interesting story, not the direct names some use. Mysterious and sensual. How do you like the Hafiz volume you found. Have you started the Red Leather Diary.

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  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    I just finished The Long Walk Home, and loved it. I am just too much a romantic I guess. I thought the descriptions of Wales and the sheep farm and the mountain climbing were very well done. You don't see any of Lonnie in Alec?

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  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    You must have read a book a day recently. Have not yet finished the Xiaolong debut.

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  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    That's a 15 hour day in Salem.

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  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    Your note so made me laugh. After a 15 day in Salem meeting with 15 + people over their retirement investments, I am so tired of talking. I'm about to take and bath and read. I keep adding books from other poeple's shelves that look interesting. I will get them from the library and some turn out to be not what I want to read. And some of the "Plan to Read" are rereads from a long time ago, and I remember that I liked them and I just couldn't say I read them when I couldn't remember much. So when I'm really really old I'll have a long list to choose from. What would my house look like if I got all of the books on my wish list and those that are in my book log I keep when reading the NYT Bk Rev and Poets and Writers and Book Sense and The Inkslinger and and and. I'd have to move out. Was listening (for the third time) to High Five by Evanovich, one of Stephanie's thoughts. " My eyes rolled so far back in my head, I could see myself thinking." Some wonderful lines in her books. Keep the humor coming.

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    You're not seeing my home page, you're seeing my profile page. My Home Page has three or four books with discussions as the first thing on the page. I do not like it. I would rather have friends activity. Most of the comments seen under books that I have are inane, stupid, superficial, blah, blah, blah.

    Looks like we are both reading Death of a Red Heroine. We'll have to discuss when done.

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  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    I hit the library bookstore. They had had someone bring a bunch of poetry, (and unfortunately They had come in at the first of the week and one person had taken seven), and still I got seven or eight or them, $1-2 each. They were in primo shape, two first editions, one signed. Such a find.

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  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    It turns out that I was most drawn by Katie and her two daughters, and her format of the letter to her daughters. It was so well stated. I also loved the 95 year old whose son said "Go for it." and then she gave him a copy of her picture. Pretty gutsy women.

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  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    I sat up very late reading This Is Who I Am. What a book. Rosanne has really created a dynamic portrait of us all. I'll enjoy seeing her tomorrow and hearing more about the five years it took to complete it. I also finished reading A Wall of Two: Poems of Resistance and Suffering from Kakow to Buchenwald and Beyond, by Henia and Ilona Karmel. When I put the three poems, etc. on the Wild Iris group today, I almost couldn't do it. "Fatherland" has me weeping copoiously every time I read it. There is a preface by the two sisters and a forward by Fanny Howe, as well as letters by Henia's husband and other information. This library had it. I plan to try to find it. It was heart-wrenching, and I daresay other peoples today have similar experiences and feelings, in Africa and Kosovo...

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  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    J. Lahiri is who I'm talking about as if you are psychic...

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  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    I was in Jeremy's last week, and he asked if I had read any of her writing. I said I had not and he proceeded to rave about her. He had just finished Unaccustomed Earth and said it was terrific. Later I was talking to his wife and when he realized that Bre and dating an Indian, he went to get her first book of SS and put it on top of what I had read. Gratis. This new collection is about interracial relationships so he said it applied even more. Saw it today at B&N and it looks really good, from just reading a little of the first story.

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  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    I've read The Art of Detection. It's good. Also The Lighthouse, also good. And I've added the Harrison to Wish.

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  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    Dang, I knew there was an author I wanted to look for. Do you have the first of the series? If so would you bring it next time you come. Qui Xiaolong.

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  • unfinished woman

    unfinished woman says

    Did you get the volume by Housden, Dancing with Joy, and if so have you read much of it. There are some really good ones. I am sending one to Lisa and Nils. Read the Sharon Olds poems, good ones.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
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