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The holidays are now history so is everyone finding time to settle down with a good book?

I'm reading Ann Patchett's STATE OF WONDER and am finding it a page-turner. Nothing like a trip to the Amazon jungle to pique my interest.  Also medical research intigue which fascinates me. Loved Patchett's BEL CANTO and this is just as good!

Douglas Preston's TWO GRAVES is enroute to library for me.

What are you reading now???????

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How about Dana Stabenow - she writes about Alaska and gives lots of descriptions of the scenery?  I am getting a lot of my books off the Ohio Link.  Think you will like it.  Does not have everything yet

Just finished today J.R. Moehringer's Sutton; what a great book!  I loved the author's earlier book The Tender Bar, it was great too, I highly recommend both, so good.

Thanks, officerripley!  I read the reviews for SUTTON and put it on my TBR list. Am thinking that I would have liked Willie Sutton!  Have always had a soft spot for bad boys with big hearts!  Appreciate the recommendation!

I've ordered Sutton from my Library...  thanks for the recommendation, officerripley... sounds good!

Just started "White Dog Fell from the Sky" by Eleanor Morse.  Has anybody else read this?

If you like novels that involve a "vision quest" or a pilgrimage type of passage into adulthood theme, this read may interest you: "Becoming Odyssa" by Jennifer Pharr.   http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Odyssa-Adventures-Appalachian-Trail/... A twenty-one year old recent college graduate takes on the hazards of the 2,350 mile trek and has you right  besides her, as she braves elements, wild animals and a few of the human kind.  I have read a number of books on the Appalachian Trail and hiked in all in segments about 25 years ago.  You can take this trek and not experience the blisters, rain, cold, heat and discomfort of poor food and sleeping in a tent night after night. 

Thanks, Mandy. I'll look for it on Nook. I've always wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail. I'll let you know what I think in a couple of weeks.

This is the best of the lot that I recently reread:  http://www.amazon.com/Walk-Woods-Rediscovering-America-Appalachian/...  There is an original and a rewrite. 

I wrote a book for the National Novel Writing Contest this November called  "Appalachian Tarot" that tells of a middle aged business man who drops out of life, with some marital problems and job problems, and takes a six month sabbatical to hike the trail.  I used the 22 cards of the Major Arcarna of the Tarot Deck as a plot devise to take the traveler thought the journey.  I have yet to edit the book, which was written in a 30 period per the contest rules.  I may self-publish it some day. 

How many wordsd in 30 days? And if you need someone to take an editing eye to it, I'd be interested in taking a peek.

Did get Edgar Sawtelle finished, glad I stuck with it Iended up liking it, didn't think it would end the way it did, but may have been no other way to tie up all the ends.

I am enjoying Mad River by John Sandford.  Like other Sandford novels it is an easy read with lots of killing but not a lot of deep character development or philosophical angst.  Just a good story, and there is nothing wrong with that. 

I first read "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle" when it came out in 2008 and was a bit confused by the book until I read the author planned a trilogy, with this being the middle book.  It does leave all kinds of loose ends.  http://www.cadl.org/books-movies/recrev/2009/review_story-of-edgar-...

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