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Julie T

Julie T

I am recent graduate with a Bachelor's in Forensic Chemistry. I have had little time to read during my last 2 semesters, but now during my job search I'm hoping to pick up tha pace. :) My favorite genres include mysteries, historical fiction and certain paranormal fiction.
  • Kennesaw, GA, USA
  • member since February 4 2008

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  • WonderBunny

    WonderBunny says

    Hey! I just wanted to say hi. I hope the new job and the new place is working out. I'm sure it feels great to be out of school - having sort of a rough semester so I just want it over with. I am going to take a forensic anthropology class next semester... should be pretty interesting.

    posted 11 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Mary T

    Mary T says

    Nope, I'm not part of the group. I just saw the discussion and thought I would weight in :)

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jan w

    jan w says

    PHEW! :-}

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • jan w

    jan w says

    Julie, The last time I checked our POYSON GARDEN discussions, it showed #7 Q. had my answer on twice, so I deleted the duplicate. Now I see that Q. 7 is the only one without an answer from you. I hope I didn't mess something up! :-(

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • starshine

    starshine says

    Julie, Thank you. Happy reading to you.

    Robin aka starshine

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • WonderBunny

    WonderBunny says

    They went well I think. I know I got an A in Calc II which feels awesome.

    How does it feel to graduate?

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Gale K

    Gale K says

    Thanks, Julie! Good luck with your degree!

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Charlene V

    Charlene V says

    Hi Julie! I do love a good mystery. Right now tho I'm reading Mystic and Rider which is a Science fiction/Fantasy. I am really enjoying it. Of course I have a stack of books waiting for me to read. But I need to get some gardening done and have to paint my front door since it is looking a bit shabby. It does seem that reading gets in the way of everything and I looks like until I finish this book no much is going to get done. LOL!

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • KimBear

    KimBear says

    No...not that I know of...we're all from Somerville, Mass. (which is minutes out of Boston). You have any up this way?

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • KimBear

    KimBear says

    Hi Julie, I just noticed that your last name is Turner...my maiden name was Turner! Weird huh?

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • KimBear

    KimBear says

    No, this is actually my first real month with the group. It is my favorite group so far. I try to get through at least two adult books a month and then a bunch of Children's books for work. How about you? Are you in any other groups that your really like? Thanks for the tip about the other areas of forensics. That is so cool that you'll have your Masters in it! I will definitely pass the info onto my son. Have a nice rest of the weekend. We actually have some sun and a little bit warmer weather today...Spring is on the way!

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • WonderBunny

    WonderBunny says

    I always wonder what makes something chick lit verses romance or even seperates it from say a cozy mystery. Sometimes I think they all blend together. I mean, you look at some of the tags on Shelfari books and a book that has the chick lit tag isn't chick lit to me but women's literature. Or something tagged "friendship" and I don't see how it has to do with friendship at all.

    Woo hoo! Five more weeks to the semester! Then a week off and back in for at least one summer class. Hey, ten years isn't bad...It will be almost 14 years between highschool and my Bachelors.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Erica a

    Erica a says

    Yes, thanks, it does

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Erica a

    Erica a says

    Tell me please what you liked about The Woman in White. I'm about to read it and I'm a little put off by the size the book! I'm a novelist, too -- my novel "Conscience Point" is out from Unbridled Books. I love playing with spooky Gothic conventions -- old houses, mystery, family curses and the rest -- which is why Collins attracted me.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • WonderBunny

    WonderBunny says

    I'm a geology major. So Calc II is the last of the Calc classes I need to take. I still need to take applied stastics, physics and one more chem class. My worry is that I mostly just major courses left, so all the A's I can get help a lot because many of my basics were taken at another school and they do factor in my GPA from there.

    Have you ever read Kyra Davis? She writes chick lit.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • WonderBunny

    WonderBunny says

    At least most people aren't doing well. I had general chemistry this past fall and although the range of scores was huge, the biggest helper was that the teacher dropped an exam. I think I scored a 42 on my first exam in there. I did manage to pull a C+ out of the class, but that didn't make the scholarship people happy. Hopefully I can pull an A out of my Calc II class this spring and something ok out of my Paleobiology class to push my GPA back up and make them happy again. Sounds like we both have too much going on in next week to read much! Hate missing out of some of the fun stuff I read, because my textbooks and upcoming two exams, just don't sound like all that much fun.
    At least you're graduating soon... I still have about 2.5 years.

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • WonderBunny

    WonderBunny says

    How did you exam go? I took one this morning at 7:30, and think I passed but I don't think I did amazing on it, which is a bummer because I would have liked to get an A it so that I know I have a solid A.
    I saw you finished the book, and I'm glad you enjoyed. :) Have you read Victoria Laurie? A friend loaned me the first book and... yeah, I finished it in two days, it was great!

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • ghost of a rose

    ghost of a rose says

    Hi Julie, thanks for your note! I did like Lies My Teacher Told Me - I rated it 4 stars. Here's my review of it:

    This book is slow going - 362 pages of small print jammed with factoids, and that's if you DON'T read the footnotes - but highly informative.

    It's a book to read for knowledge, not for pleasure or entertainment, and if you realize that from the start, you will find it worth the effort. It's funny, because the book is a criticism of high school history books, and it shares one of the same characteristics that Loewen says makes the textbooks boring! This is that it covers too much material to delve deeply into any one subject, so that the books are just dry collections of facts rather than in-depth accounts of events that were dramatic, tragic, controversial, etc. In other words, this book, like the history texts, takes the passion out of history.

    On the other hand, this is not a history textbook in itself, but a critique of them, so it was never meant to be exciting. It would be interesting to see what the textbook that this author helped write is like.

    That being said, the book is full of interesting and little-known information. It makes you think, not just absorb facts. I disagree with those who complain that it is white-bashing, apologetic, etc. It does present much info about ways in which whites in power have mistreated other people over the years of America's history, but these things are fact, not opinion. Should such information be suppressed because it is unpleasant for whites to read about it? That is exactly what the history textbooks do.

    Furthermore, those who complain about white-bashing must have missed the two whole chapters about whites in history who worked heroically for others who were oppressed by racism and/or social class; people who deserve to be honored but are overlooked or devalued by the history texts.

    In one area, I can verify the truth of what Loewen says. He discusses the huge epidemic (possibly the largest in the history of the world) that wiped out perhaps as much as 90% of the East Coast Native American population before the Plymouth settlers arrived, diseases that were spread to the Indians through their contact with Europeans. The Plymouth settlers were well aware of what had happened (although not why) - their journals record the empty villages and mass graves that they saw. Squanto himself - the Indian that helped the Pilgrims learn to grow American crops - was the sole surviving member of his family and village.

    Yet until reading The Mayflower a few months ago, I had never heard of this epidemic. *And I am a microbiologist!* I had heard all about later epidemics of illnesses such as measles and chicken pox, European diseases that wiped out entire tribes of Native Americans who had never before been exposed to them. But I had never heard of this first and greatest plague. It simply isn't taught in schools - not even in college-level epidemiology classes! (At least it wasn't when I took those classes 25 years ago. I can't excuse that by saying these facts were not known 25 years ago - they were known all the way back to the first European settlers!)

    Lies My Teacher Told Me isn't perfect. I occasionally caught Loewen doing the same things that he accuses textbook writers of doing - making sweeping generalizations without backing them up with fact. (But far more often, he does provide the facts.) Other times, he'll give the reader a teaser and then not tell you about it. For example, this: "Two American Indians shipwrecked in Holland around 60 BC became major curiosities in Europe." Now, that is a major curiosity to ME! But he says nothing more about it. When I turned to the footnote to learn more about this fascinating statement, it gave no more information, just a list of 4 sources, none easily available to the mainstream reader (In fact, one was a "personal communication" and thus completely unavailable.)

    Loewen contradicts himself at least once in this book. Chapter 6 discusses John Brown and the historical accusations against him of insanity. My impression was that Loewen showed how Brown was not insane at all, but passionate about a cause that justified passion; and that an attempt was made to prove him "not guilty by reason of insanity" in order to defend him from execution, not because he really was insane. But towards the end of the book, Loewen states that he proved John Brown's insanity in Chapter 6.

    I felt vindicated by the chapter about 9/11 and the succeeding American wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. I have always felt rather confused by some of those events. It made me feel a little stupid, at least about current events. But in this book I learned that my confusion was directly related to what the American public was, and was not, told about these events.

    Loewen says that he spent 12 years researching the first edition of this book, and 15 years researching this updated edition. It shows.

    So yes, this book might not be either perfect or easy to read, but it is important reading for any American who wants to be well-informed. And it should be mandatory for history teachers.

    Quotes from Lies My Teacher Told Me:

    "I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate - that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased . . . I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life's struggle. But as I went more and more about the country, I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about . . . I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone."
    - Helen Keller

    "We see things not as they are but as we are."
    - Anais Nin

    "Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others."
    - Johannes Rau

    "The past is never dead. It's not even past."
    - William Faulkner

    "The past is prologue."
    - Shakespeare

    posted 8 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Elizabeth

    Elizabeth says

    Hi, what are you reading at the moment? What contemporary novel would you recommend that has credible and loveable characters please? I am reading "Splintered" by a debut author I found here. Have you read it? Look foward to reading your reviews. Elizabeth x

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Mary T

    Mary T says

    So...do you equate Lamb to anything else that you've read/seen thats loosely based on the gospels...?...

    "It's Gainesville where the Wise Men went
    Turned a sinner's stable to a revival tent,
    It's a hell of a place to be heaven-sent,
    It's Gainesville-bound for me!"

    posted 9 months ago. ( send a note )


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