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Judy S

Judy S

I am a retired school librarian and will always be "hooked on reading". I especially like non-fiction. Interests include World War II, the Holocaust, China, Russia, Physicians, Travel, Memoirs, Biography and Autobiography, POWs, and Okinawa. I'm an Army Brat and lived in Okinawa right after the war, in Yokohama, Japan during the occupation and...more »
  • Mint Hill, NC
  • member since Tuesday, February 12 2008

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  • Jean L

    jean l says

    hi judy, i thought i had seen The Enchantress of Florence on your list.
    I enjoyed The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Rushdie but found the second half slow compared to the first. Jean

    posted 2 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Jean L

    jean l says

    Hi Judy,
    How is the new Rushdie novel? We just returned from Hawaii. I had planned to read books on the beach but swam and just stared at the beautiful colors of the water instead. Jean

    posted 2 days ago. ( send a note )
  • bibliograph

    bibliograph says

    Hi,,,
    the pleasure is all mine,,,
    I have 2,,my daughter is 8 and son is 5,,and keep me on toes,,,good to know you ,,and you are right its always good to know more good books,,,I am a complete bookaholic and am trying to balance it coz with 2 kids around its some times hard to concentrate on what I'm reading,,I'm glad you accepted,,,:)

    Blessings.

    posted 3 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Johanna W

    johanna w says

    Glad to know I'm not alone. And thanks for the smile on my face this morning reading about your Book Lust review:-)

    posted 7 days ago. ( send a note )
  • james e

    james e says

    She lived in a large victorian communtor town house south west of London in a place called Weybridge - the beatles lived in Weybridge once and some of the famous song were written there also.
    I met her once in 1976 with her famous 2nd husband (who died in a train crash a few years back).
    In 2000 the house was sold to the developers and sadly it is now gone.
    Don't think she wrote any more autobio stuff but I could be wrong.
    I admire her politics and world view, as children we imagined they had gone up in the world but we were very wrong, they had downsized! Good for them!

    posted 12 days ago. ( send a note )
  • james e

    james e says

    Our family bought Nina Baldwins house in 1976. My father is mentioned in the biography. I expect you like her famous books. Most were written in the house and her office became my sisters bedroom!

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  • DonAndPam

    donandpam says

    I think I have owned all the books on my shelf at one time or another.

    We live in a small house so I don't really have room to keep lots of books. Now, after I read them, I often give books away to friends or to our little county library.

    The local librarian considers most of the books I donate to be too odd to be of general interest. She sells the paperbacks for 25 cents and hardbacks for a dollar to support her acquisition fund.

    A local entrepreneur buys the books from her and resells them on the Internet. I sometimes want to reread books I have donated, so I buy them again through the Internet (Abebooks.com) and wonder if I'm buying my old books.

    Sort of a circle of life.

    posted 13 days ago. ( send a note )
  • Hahtoolah

    hahtoolah says

    We just returned from a trip to the Czech Republic. One of the highlights of our trips was finding the cemetery and family plot of my husband's family. It was one of the Jewish cemeteries that was not decimated during the war.

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  • Hahtoolah

    hahtoolah says

    The sculpture is in the Jewish cemetery at the Terezin concentration camp in the Czech Republic.

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  • Tiffany C

    tiffany c says

    I liked her latest novel but, it wasn't near as good as Lucky.. I loved that book. Have you read the Sisterhood Series by Fern Michaels?

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Linda H

    linda h says

    Hey sistie, I'm not having much success with this, and I don't want to spend all that time. How do I unjoin. How are ya?

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Tiffany C

    tiffany c says

    Yes, I have read Lucky by Alice Sebold. It's one of my favorite books!! Have you read her latest novel?

    posted 3 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Judy*

    judy* says

    Lincoln's Mothers is about the 2 women in Abes life that supported and nurtured him. His birth mother who died at a young age and then his step mother. Both loved their son and saw in him what many didn't, like a lot of women. A mother's love kinda thing. Very good history into Lincolns early life. This book starts before he was born, and brings to us a lot of family history you won't find elseware. I really enjoyed reading it. Good, easy story to read. It is one I would consider reading again. Hope this helps.

    posted 4 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • jillmarie

    jillmarie says

    Oh, and btw...rats running on the roof is quite a symphony of lil feet I imagine ehh? *grin* I hope this finds you well.

    posted 4 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • jillmarie

    jillmarie says

    Sorry it's taken me a wee bit to get back to you. I'm caught up in moving. I've taken a job in London, UK and am leaving in August. So, needless to say, my days are quite overwhelming for the next 2 months or so.

    I was actually born here. In Boston, MA. My father was lebanese and my mother was an lebanese-american. They were both killed in a small aircraft crash when I was 14. But I have a wonderful extended family. My aunt, who has fled Beirut to Damascus, Syria, was just here earlier this month visiting me. It was wonderful. Hezbollah has made a garbage heap out of Beirut. Christian families have fled in the thousands and as Robert Fisk so eloquently put it "Pity The Nation." I lived in London in the late 90s' and returned to the US in 2000. I went back on holiday and was offered a wonderful opportunity in media relations in London, so what could I do? I love the UK, hate the politics of the US currently and just feel it's once again, the right time and thing for me to do.

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  • Jean L

    jean l says

    hi judy,
    yes, i have read some of gus lee's books and enjoyed them. the eighth promise i discovered through our library (the author is having a reading soon). the reviews seem to be good. jean

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • jillmarie