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DUgosh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 08:59 PM
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What are you reading the week of June 1, 2009
Death at the Fortieth Birthday Party by Valerie Wolzien
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 09:03 PM
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1. Nothing terribly deep, but it's a good tale so far.


Don't Wake Me at Doyles: The Remarkable Memoir of an Ordinary Irish Woman and Her Extraordinary Life (Paperback)
by Maura Murphy
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BeatleBoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 09:07 PM
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2. Balance Sheets mostly
lots of Cash Flow and Risk Exposure analysis.

I've had my fill.

These bankruptcies keep piling up.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 09:08 PM
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3. A fascinating read .........
"No Laughing Matter," by Joseph Heller and Speed Vogel.

It's about Heller's being struck down by Guillain-Barre syndrome, and how he dealt with it. He finally recovered, but the writings of these two old pals is just wonderful, very moving, and very funny.

Great guys, both of them gone now, dammit ...............................

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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 10:03 PM
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4. "Shadowstorm". Which is the the second book of the Twilight War series by Paul S. Kemp.



Featuring Kemp's excellent character Everis Cale, a one time Night Mask assassin turned shade priest of Mask and his companion Drasek Riven who is the second chosen of Mask and former Zent assassin. High level adventure in the Forgotten Realms.
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fadedrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 11:34 PM
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5. Just finished NATURE GIRL by Carl Hiaasen
very good, very funny, recommended...
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fadedrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 11:35 PM
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6. Am almost done with FAMILY HONOR by Robt B. Parker
Parker's books are so easy to read that the pages just fly by. Hardly evr if ever come across a word I don't know.
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fadedrose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-05-09 04:36 PM
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18. Finished THE SHAPE SHIFTER Tony Hillerman nt
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PADemD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 12:01 AM
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7. Measuring the Immeasurable, the Scientific Case for Spirituality
by 43 various authors
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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 05:20 PM
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8. Re-reading "The Aeneid"
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-31-09 05:45 PM
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9. Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
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raccoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 08:33 AM
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10. WHISKER OF EVIL by Rita Mae Brown. Well, re-reading it.

I love her Mrs. Murphy series. (Mrs. Murphy is a gray cat.)









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DUgosh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 09:38 AM
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11. I do too
Haven't read her in a while but I got one of her Jessie Arnold foxhound books that I'm going to read someday.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-01-09 10:52 PM
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12. "The Private Patient" by P.D. James (my bedside book)
and Rattlesnake Canyon by J.A. Jance (my purse book).
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mentalsolstice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 01:26 PM
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13. "Fool" by Christopher Moore
Very funny and somewhat naughty at times.
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DUgosh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 06:48 PM
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14. Oh yeah it was
q - Where do ye hail from?

a - I hail from Bonking

q - Hell we all hail from bonking don't wee?
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mentalsolstice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 08:08 PM
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16. Lots o' shaggin' fun!
I'd read more Shakespeare written from this POV!
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peacefreak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-03-09 07:01 PM
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17. Henious Fuckery, all
eh?
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sheila mae Donating Member (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-02-09 07:16 PM
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15. Scott Spencer's "A Ship Made of Paper." n/t
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