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Heather

Heather

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Hello Reading Friends...

I'm finding little time to read these days. Boo!

Hope you are finding really good books thought!

Enjoy, Heather
  • San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA
  • member since July 11, 2007

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Heather’s last login was Thursday, October 28, 2010.

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  • LKL

    LKL says

    PS, I forgot to mention that I really want to read The 19th Wife, it sounds great.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • LKL

    LKL says

    Hi, how's it goin? I heard that Dana stopped by to see you when they were in San Fran a while back. I just finished a book that I really enjoyed, The Ghost Writer by John Harwood. It was a well written ghost story. The author is Australian and this was his first novel. Amazing considering it was his first. This month we are reading Luncheon of the Boating Party for 1st Tue. Written by Susan Vreeland (The Girl in Hyacinth Blue author) It is about Renoir. I am not into it far enough to judge just yet. Also reading The Night Gardender by George Pelecanos for the Nov. 1st Tue. choice. I have always loved Pelecanos. Very noir cop stories, flawed protaganists, bad language, sex, violence - what's not to like? LOL Pelecanos wrote a series of books starting with Right as Rain, then Hell to Pay and finally Soul Circus. His books are all set in the DC area and always deal with racial and social issues, but he deals with the issues extremely well. Right as Rain has made it to my most favorites list. Another book club I belong to is reading In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien. Highly recommended by Susan Bonnell. It is a mystery, somehow dealing with the effects of the Vietnam war. I have not started it yet, but am looking forward to it. I just finished The Alchemist, couldn't like it, as much as I tried. It's one of those books that lots of people really, really love. Not me though. Let me know how you like Geurnsey........ Potato Pie. It is one that we have mentioned in the 1st Tue. group. Oh, I read the latest Andre Dubas III, it was OK, but not like The House of Sand and Fog. I can't think of the title at the moment. I'll send you an email letting you know that I posted. Honestly, I don't do much with Shelfari anymore. I also use Good Reads, but I never record all of my books on any of them. I like Good Reads because for $15 you can purchase a scanner to enter you books. I have not done it, but it sounds like a good thing. I will continue to use Shelfari because I know many people who do. Good to hear from you, hope you get back for a visit someday.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • babyteeters

    babyteeters says

    Hi Heather!

    I want to read the Potato Peel Society, too. I hope you are settling in to your new house.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Judi R

    Judi R says

    Hello Heather, sorry it took me so long to get back to you. My grand children are visiting from N. Carolina, so I have been overwhelmed! "Love is A Wild Assault" is one of my favorite books. I go to Caddo quite often, as my best friend lives there. I pass Potter's Creek getting to her home. I Honeymooned in Jefferson and spent a great deal of time there growing up. Are you still in Maud, TX?
    Love and Peace, Judi

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • LKL

    LKL says

    Heather, did you like the Patricia Henley Book? Is she the person who wrote The Hummingbird House] Did you like The Mistress of the Art of Death?
    We have that for one of our upcoming books. I liked it a lot. Hope you are loving the Northwest.
    Linda

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Asirap

    Asirap says

    Hi Dear friend

    I'm so eager to read the ENGLISH version of the book "the memory of my melancholy ---" by Gabriel Garcia. unfortunately all my efforts to find it in market of my country were in vein . so I would be highly thankful if you let me have the PDF format of this book if you have it.
    hppkmy@yahoo.com

    Parisa

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • charleyana

    charleyana says

    Hi Heather,
    I just read your comments about Heart Like Water......I live in NoLA and recently met Josh on a Nola writers panel I helped organize. I hope more people outside Nola will discover this amazing book.
    Would love to have you as a friend.
    Charlotte

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • babyteeters

    babyteeters says

    Hi Heather, I am glad you are feeling better! I read several books I enjoyed lately, and several I haven't. The good ones are The Indian Bride by Karin Fossum and Nerve Damage by Peter Abrahams. These books are both mysteries. If you like non-fiction, you might like Island of the Lost by Joan Druett. This book is about two sets of castaways and how one group worked together to survive for several years while to other fell to pieces and even became cannibals. For the First Tuesday book club, we are reading As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. I have never read him and at first I had problems with the stream of consiousness writing and lack of punctuation, but the writing is very powerful and fairly easy to understand. Take Care.

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • LKL

    LKL says

    Heather, I know that you would love The Tin Roof Blowdown (a Dave Robicheaux novel) By James Lee Burke. Burke is a Louisiana native and all of the books in this series are set in
    New Iberia parish and New Orleans. This one takes place at the time of Katrina and is very well written. Also, if you have not read On Beauty (not Truth and Beauty) by Sade Smith, I think it is a good read. I am also reading Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones and am enjoying that quite a bit. Hope all is well in the Northwest. Linda

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Jody

    Jody says

    Hey Heather, So glad you enjoyed Middlesex; so did I. What a clever, entertaining novel. 'Makes me want to reread it! Hope you and Shad are doing well. Things are good here in N.O., Jody

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • BEM

    BEM says

    Hi Heather
    Barbara here from the 1st Tuesday book club. Glad to catch up with you thru this site.

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • LKL

    LKL says

    I think I am one of the lonley few that did not really like The Road. I was probably being too analytical. I do appreciate McCarthy's writing and found his description of the world after an apocalypse to be very strong and unnerving, to say the least. The father son relationship was well presented. The book is certainly thought provoking, It was just some little inconsistancies that bothered me, like what were they doing the first ten years of the boys life? What happened to the wheel barrow, maybe I missed that. The first cart breaks, he finds a wheel barrow and lo and behold a bicycle pump to air up the tire, then suddenly he is pushing a cart again. They are starving, then they find a treasure trove of food, then they are starving and they find a treasure trove of food, then they are starving - would that food be any good after ten years? Shouldn't those dried up apples on the ground be radioactive or contaminated with something? With devastation so severe and all encompassing , how did anyone survive in the first place?

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Jody

    Jody says

    Hey--I did read "The Road" and liked it a lot. I put myself in their places and tried to feel what they were going through. My biggest fear was not being able to use my contact lenses or losing my glasses--ha. But to imagine what the father and son, and others, would have to endure in a situation like that made me anxious, scared, hungry, cold, wet.....
    I thought his writing was real enough that I was able to feel everything they were going through. Certainly, it was a rough book to get through, but I don't think many authors can pull that off the way he did. Maybe, also, having Hurricane Katrina so close made me think more about how domesticated we are. How many of us could survive an atomic bomb outcome? Enough said, it was a book that you had to know wasn't going to be fun reading, but certainly well done for what it was meant to be. Later.......

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Jody

    Jody says

    Hey, Heather. Thanks for this site. I'm going to enjoy this. I'm going to give you a call when I get a moment to breathe, Jody

    posted 4 years ago. ( send a note )

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