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CURRENT READS. 134 Replies
Recently read a really different book MY LOVELY WIFE. If you enjoy stories about serial murders you’ll be startled at this story. Can’t remember the author but please Goggle it. Today picked up a right off the press book THE WIVES by Tarryn…Continue
Started by rapa. Last reply by rapa Aug 9, 2022.
Can Reading Make You Happier? 1 Reply
An article from the New Yorker magazinehttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happierAfter WW1 traumatized soldiers were…Continue
Started by Lip Service. Last reply by rapa Jun 16, 2021.
2021 READS 6 Replies
Just finished Alice Hoffman’s THE MARRIAGE OF OPPOSITE’S!The publisher describes this as “A forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro, the Father of…Continue
Started by rapa. Last reply by rapa Mar 7, 2021.
Pandemic Books
In these trying times do you find yourself wanting to read fiction books about pandemics?I came across two such recently published books written before COVID-19:Wanderers by Chuck Wendig written before the pandemic but has eerie flashes of some…Continue
Started by Lip Service Sep 11, 2020.
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Comment by Ursula on May 8, 2013 at 12:32pm
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Couldn't agree more!! Leaving for Washington DC in the morning, but had to finish the book I was reading (Jodi Picoult's Lone Wolf) before I could think about packing, etc. :-)
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Comment by rapa on May 8, 2013 at 12:06pm
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Imagine a room full of librarians gleefully mutilating old library books, to get a collage type, sculpture from the old book. You can also manipulate the words to create new stories and poems, plays, etc.
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Comment by Ioruach on April 7, 2013 at 5:32pm
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Yes! As for the Family Circus cartoon, reading is indeed a window (or a doorway) to the world. And to the universe, as well.
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Comment by Grammie Sue on April 7, 2013 at 7:50am
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http://www.amazon.com/Lots-Candles-Plenty-Cake-Quindlen/dp/1400069343
Has anyone read "Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake"? I found it on Pinterest and since I really like Anna Quindlen's books I thought it might be good but thought I'd ask first. I am almost done with Bible College, 5 weeks till school is out and then I graduate June 2nd so I'll have time to read a bit again.
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Comment by officerripley on April 6, 2013 at 10:23pm
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Yes, Lip Service, hope your recovery goes great!
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You have had an incredible experience and have excellent doctors. A friend of mine just spent 8 days in the hospital for the same surgery. I need to find out who her surgeon is and make sure he's not mine, if the need ever arises.
Wishing you a continued speedy recovery!!
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Comment by Lip Service on April 5, 2013 at 5:37pm
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I got a couple of concerned messages so I better clarify the cryptic comment in my last post here.
Four hours before that last post, I was in the operating room getting my gallbladder out and I was just amazed at what I was able to do just a couple of hours after the operation.
- They used laparoscopic surgery using a scope so the incision is only one inch wide and takes one to two days to heal. The pain is far less and the recovery is much faster.When my father had his operation he was laid up for twenty days mostly in quite a bit of pain. My operation took an hour.
- The incision was sealed not with stitches or staples but with a glue that scabs and falls out naturally like skin.
- The anesthesia they used is very minimal and is out of the system by now that I am writing these words.
- I am able to walk and go up and down a flight of stairs (with some tolerable pain).
- I am now reading in bed with my laptop propped on my chest inches from the incision (it is a very light notebook but still!)
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Welcome to the group Mother Sanity
(usually Rapa beats me to these greetings but today I am home so caught it sooner than Rapa. I was not expected home till much later but the wonders of modern medicine)
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The house itself is in Bodega which is inland nowhere near the ocean
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