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dawnb

dawnb

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Welcome to my modest shelf, which will remain under construction indefinitely! There are so many books to read and just not enough time to read them all! While I enjoy reading various genres, my favorites include classic and contemporary fiction, poetry, and memoir. Many of the books I ve read are stacked in haphazard piles on the floor of my... more »
  • Waterbury, CT, USA
  • member since July 3, 2007

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  • KAY W

    KAY W says

    Dawn I just finished The Help - it was fantastic and I feel very humble now. You must read Rebecca soon and tell me what you think. Iam now reading The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine and then The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I recently read The Hunger Games by Suzann Collins and Ithough it was ver well written andwill get the next two.
    Happy reading!

    posted 11 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jesse Battle

    Jesse Battle says

    Hello Dawn,

    Thank you for your fast response and support!

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jesse Battle

    Jesse Battle says

    I would like to suggest reading THE ENDLESS HOUR- The True Story of a Haunted Soul.I completed publication
    in November 2010.

    Over eighteen years in the making,THE ENDLESS HOUR is about an illustration I created in 1988 that became
    reality two years later,which involves a spiritual death experience.

    This touching and terrifying true story is not only about me.It is also about... you.

    For more information go to theendlesshour.com. Once you enter the website you can watch the book video and
    read reviews. You may also want to visit amazon.com and read the first seven chapters of THE ENDLESS HOUR.

    Thanks,
    Jesse

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • koren56

    koren56 says

    Dawn, several people responded to your post on the Biography group about spiritual memoirs. Have you checked them out?

    posted 12 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Stephanie U

    Stephanie U says

    I thought it was intriguing. I'm excited to see how they bring it to the big screen. I found it fascinating learning some of the history of train circuses mixed in with a love story.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Stephanie U

    Stephanie U says

    I saw that you've read Water for Elephants. I'm currently reading it and I was wondering what you thought of it.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Stephanie U

    Stephanie U says

    The Great Gatsby is a wonderful book. Man, I know what you mean about being so much great books out there that it's so hard to get to all of them. I just finished The White Queen by Philippa Gregory. It was a very interesting and love books that mix nonfiction with fiction. I think Gregory does a wonderful job. I'm def going to keep your authors in mind.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Stephanie U

    Stephanie U says

    I don't get on here too much either. I have been slacking on my reading because of the holidays, too busy with family. I just started again. Yes, Jodi Picoult is a fav of mine. You should give some of her books a try. I first started with My Sister's Keeper. What are some of your favs?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Lisa M

    Lisa M says

    I do not remember if I said the title of my book I wrote.
    'Godly Inspiriations for the Troubled Soul' by Lisa C. miller
    It is a small book of poetry/prose with bibleverses. I am working on a new book also.
    I am glad you like my books. They are interesting. Some of them I have read some I have not read yet. Because I am school full-time. So i do not have a lot of free time.
    I also have a personal blog.
    www.lisa-womanofthenorth.blogspot.com
    Happy New Year,
    Lisa

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Ann Mauren

    Ann Mauren says

    Hi Dawn,

    Great to hear from you! Do you as a teacher look forward to the school year starting up again or do you dread it like many of the students? Just curious. I will miss the option of sleeping late if I feel like it, but my third grader is ready to go back to school whether he realizes it or not. Honestly, with a baby in the house there's really no such thing as 'sleeping late' so bring on the school year!

    I'm not reading anything at the moment. I'm in a guilt slump. Reading is something I reserve for pleasure and relaxation. But my house is a mess, I need to write the next book in my series and I have a ton of things to get done for school, work, ect, so I'm not letting myself read until I can mark something off the to do list from guiltville. Of course, goofing off on Shelfari and in e-mails doesn't count as pleasure does it???

    What is your most highly recommended book selection at the moment? (FYI: I like reading things that make me happy--life is too stressful to be upset in the name of entertainment--for me at least.)

    Thanks for checking in and let me know about Hunger Games--I was actually planning on reading that in the near future, unless you recommend something that jumps to the top of the list. :)

    Ann

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • James Ross

    James Ross says

    Dawn....Those titles on my shelf are the books that I have written. Everything is online and not in book stores per se, but they are available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders.

    Actually I had a story and when I finished the first book the characters were screaming to tell another one. Now I have four that have been published and am writing number five right now with number six in the planning stage.....Jim

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Dr Ram verma

    Dr Ram verma says

    Thank you very much Dawnb for accepting my request.and welcome....

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • KAY W

    KAY W says

    Hi Dawn - I have just been peeking at your shelf! My Labotomy looks interesting as does the Kinsolver one. Ive not yet read any of Kinsolver's books, I always look at them but Im not sure if I will like them. The one you have there seems a little different from her others?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Dr Ram verma

    Dr Ram verma says

    hi Dawn!!!
    this is Ram verma from India.
    may I have you as my friend??

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Lyd101

    Lyd101 says

    Hi Dawn. I just finished Oryx and Crake and it absolutely blew me away. Brilliantly written, as always, and the way the past is gradually revealed and sheds light on the present is wonderfully done. It's kind of frightening to think that such experimentation is actually going on right now, that for every story we read in the paper about this or that cloning experiment, dozens of other experiments are being conducted, most of which we'll never know about. So many other disturbing things too, like how Jimmy and Crake are hardly touched by the tragedies that befall them, desensitized by images of violence so readily available, the division between rich and poor, Oryx and her story, so much to think about, and all of it not very far from where we are right now! Chilling.
    And of course, in the midst of all this, there are the inventions like mood wallpaper and talking toasters and shirts that display email and self cleaning gym outfits. Hilarious until you stop to think that these are essentially as useless as any number of other recent inventions we have let ourselves be persuaded we need (by our very own “word people” great term)
    Also, I loved the emphasis on words and how we are gradually losing much of our vocabulary, how despite that, stories endure and how they evolve into myths.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • KAY W

    KAY W says

    Thanks Dawn - I won't read it then, it would just be too upsetting re the violence to women. If I start to read a book and can sense a 'rape type situation' looming - I go ahead to check and then skim read it and then miss it out later. I cant help it. I just cant seem to forget about it later you see. I am the same with war cruelty. But I hope that is my only fatal flaw!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • KAY W

    KAY W says

    Thanks Dawn - I will order the book - it sounds like my thing, thanks or the comments. Yes so many books and so little time - it is a problem. I used to think when I was a little girl reading my Enid Blytons, if I would grow up before I read all the books I wanted to read - and I guess I did!

    Antway on a less whimsical note, tell me do you like 1000 Suns, I picked it up a few times and put it back.....

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Lyd101

    Lyd101 says

    Hi Dawn, It's hard to say which poets are my favorites, but the ones you mentioned definitely make the list, along with Marianne Moore and Margaret Atwood. She rates among my favorite authors, ever.

    I haven't read the Year of the Flood as yet, it's on my TBR list, so I'l let you know my thoughts when I've read it. I'm in fact reading the ?prequel? Oryx and Crake at the moment, what did you think of that one?

    Happy reading!
    Lydia

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • KAY W

    KAY W says

    Well I'v just finished Just Before Sunset - Stephen King, and am now half way through The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman, which is really good, all gothic and fairy tale imagery. Next on the list is Birthright by Nora Roberts, the first of hers I've read. Inbetween I've ot The Death of the Moth & Oter Essays by Virginia Woolf, which is good for dipping into. Must say, the Kate Walbert one sounds good too...not enough hours in the day!!

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • KAY W

    KAY W says

    Ooh no I've not heard of that one Dawn, can you give me a brief synopsis? And yes - I have been so busy shelf building and entering discssions that my reading has suffered! My plan is to get all my books on the shelf then sit back all smug and relaxed, you know the way when you reach the end of a very thick and wordy book. What are you reading at the moment?

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )

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