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Sheila P

Sheila P

Hi, I've been a book lover since I was a child and still read a variety of books as often as I can. I've been happily married 31 years, love my children and my grandsons. I read all kinds of books and love talking about books and recommending them to people. I am retired from owning a small local business. My husband is retired from the Army... more »
  • Top of the Hill, AR, USA
  • member since October 30 2009

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  • Laurie W

    Laurie W says

    Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

    Black Dahlia sounds good, but I don't like books that seem to go on forever. I'm with you...there are too many other good books to read.

    posted 19 hours ago. ( send a note )
  • Jessica H

    Jessica H says

    Aww thank you =) Happy Thanksgiving to you too.

    posted 2 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Jessica H

    Jessica H says

    If Janet Evanovichs books any good? I see a lot of people reading/buying her books, and was just wondering if they were worth reading.

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Jessica H

    Jessica H says

    If Janet Evanovichs books any good? I see a lot of people reading/buying her books, and was just wondering if they were worth reading.

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Laurie W

    Laurie W says

    I don't think it's weird that you like the post WWII era. I think its good you know what you like :) I haven't seen "Ad Men" I don't watch much tv, hardly any. I prefer to read...ha ha

    No Three Cups is not getting better for me. I think I have given up. I may try and pick it up again at a different time. A women in my book club said she read it a year ago and loved it, but currently she tried to read it again and just couldn't get into it. You must need to be in a certain mood :) I might try again.

    Keep me posted on Black Dahlia...please.

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Laurie W

    Laurie W says

    Hi Sheila,
    Are you enjoying Black Dahlia? It is on my too read list and I am curious to know if you are enjoying it.

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • angelica f

    angelica f says

    please be my frend i need to be frends with someone like you

    posted 9 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Genevieve A

    Genevieve A says

    Sheila, thank you so much for your suggestions. I'm going to put them on my 'want to read' list. Now that I've finished reading 'The Help' I wanted to read something a little 'lighter' so I just started reading 'Giving Chase' but I'm having a really hard time to not put it down. I think I'm going to save that one for another time and start reading the Notebook instead :).

    I'm ashamed to admit that even though I'm from Europe, I've never been to Germany hahaha. But friends tell me it's a wonderful country to live in (can't believe it's been 20 years since they took down the Berlin Wall btw.) I'm from Holland originally but moved to Bonaire in the Dutch Caribbean a couple of years ago because of my husband's work. I really do miss Holland sometimes :).

    My 'want to read' list is long indeed hahahaha! Buying books has always been kind of a challenge for me. We don't have a bookstore on Bonaire and everytime we go to the States I visit a B&N only to come out empty handed. My husband only 'allows' me to buy 3 - 4 books a time because of their weight and space they take up in our suitcases. But there are always so many books to choose from and I just never could buy 3 or 4 only. So this year for my birthday, he bought me a Kindle. So ever since I've been trying to catch up on my reading LOL!

    I'll get back to you with some suggestions. Hope you have a nice evening!

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • angelica f

    angelica f says

    of course id love to be a constant chat person with you.any thing you have to say just post it .also you should join my group "random gossip" its totally cool to me so post me back bye.

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Genevieve A

    Genevieve A says

    Hi Sheila :),

    Thanks for your note! I am loving 'The Help' so far. I didn't expect to like it, but now I'm sad to be finishing it. Still got 2 chapters left though :)! Any recommendations for what I could read next? Hope you have a nice week :).

    posted 10 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Laurie W

    Laurie W says

    Hi Sheila,
    I am not enjoying it so far. I am on chapter 4 and find myself skimming through sections already. I really should finish it, It is my book clubs selection for November, but I am not enjoying it. I will try to push on but I don't put a lot of faith in me finishing.

    posted 12 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Dale M

    Dale M says

    Sheila, You may be interested in my novel. "Rx for Existence"

    posted 13 days ago. ( send a note )
  • wurd nurd

    wurd nurd says

    Thank you Sheila! You too!

    posted 13 days ago. ( send a note )
  • James K

    James K says

    Thanks for accepting. I'm not as good at keeping up with shelfari as I should but I do love to read. I mix up my reading with books and audio books thinking of getting a kindle soon.

    posted 13 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Jessica H

    Jessica H says

    Defiantly, thanks for advance. No one in my family understands what im going through, so having someone that went through it and made out stronger than ever gives me hope =)

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Jessica H

    Jessica H says

    Of course I dont mind you sending me a note =) It is welcomed. That awesome we have read a lot of the same books. I need to keep adding more =) I forgot how many books I have read. Thanks for the congrates on moving to TX and getting married. Its been a lot of change in a short time period, but so far it hasnt been a bad change. Im just hoping I adjust to living here and not missing my family so much in cali =)

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Lucy H

    Lucy H says

    Very good! And thanks for being my freind:)

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • phil m

    phil m says

    East of Eden is one of my all-time favorites!! I gave it five stars!! If I'm showing two stars that was a mistake! I'll go fix that. Steinbeck is five stars all the way. (Makes me want to go back through my bookshelf and check all my stars!) Thanks for the complements on my squirrel story. It was fun to write and required not an ounce of thought. Your stories are always good, too, very reminicent of Erma Bombeck...my ex's favorite. Oh, and why did I think the shack was a heresy? Because it reduces the God taught in the Bible to a kindly old grandmother who wouldn't even dream of sending anyone to eternal torment. The author even makes a statement, through "Papa". "I have no expectations of man". That is a heresy if ever there was one! The God of The Shack is everyone's fantasy God, the God we hope exists, a God who lets us be whatever we will be and makes everything ok for us in the end. Sorry, but this is not even close to the God of the Bible. I wish God were like that, but I get no hints of it from the Bible.

    posted 2 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Mary B

    Mary B says

    The movie already came out. It did not live up to the book.

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Mary B

    Mary B says

    Posting and reading aren't necessarily the same thing... My official TBR is at about 400 I think. I just finished Olive Kitteridge today. It wasn't the quickest read but I really enjoyed it. The stories and characters were so diverse and engaging. I admit to falling asleep towards the beginning and I think I may have missed some things but overall I really liked it. I kind of wish we could have seen Olive have a talk with airport security though. I barely started Unaccustomed Earth. I'm good at starting short stories and terrible at finishing them. I read the first one. I've enjoyed everything else I've read by her. The Namesake was fantastic and the Interpreter of Maladies was really good too.

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )


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