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cindyj

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1050 on: August 31, 2009, 12:02:16 pm »
Finished it this weekend - hated to have it end.  Look forward to talking about it when all are good and ready!  :)

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1051 on: August 31, 2009, 12:37:09 pm »
am really into it now and LOVE it!   ;D
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1052 on: August 31, 2009, 01:26:00 pm »
Kaybo, I have a suggestion for your girls: The Magic Half by Annie Barrows. She is the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society; I understand that she took over writing when her aunt became ill. (I have heard that Mary Ann Shaffer has since passed away.)

Interestingly enough, The Magic Half involves time travel, and the main character has to think through a time circle dilemma in order to solve her problem, and actions do have an impact on the future.

I would guess it is written at a grade 4-5 reading level.

Sara

Edited to add: Oh, yes, fairies figure into the story as well, in a small way.
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1053 on: August 31, 2009, 03:19:17 pm »
OOOHHH...thanks, I will check into it!!

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1054 on: September 01, 2009, 06:23:51 am »
Oh!  I just popped on here out of curiosity and discovered you are reading a book that I read last winter and adored.  Didn't I mention it to you recently, Steve?  What a coincidence!
I have started Outlander but at the same time Ireland by Frank Delaney in preparation for our trip in October.  Finished Four Letters of Love set in Ireland as well but not terribly informative, but still interesting and a quick read.
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1055 on: September 01, 2009, 06:28:30 am »
Finished last night  & ready WHENEVER everybody else is to discuss - no hurries - take you time!! LOVED IT!

K   ;D
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1056 on: September 01, 2009, 06:41:42 am »
Just got the book yesterday afternoon - hope to start reading tonight.

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« Reply #1057 on: September 04, 2009, 07:21:09 am »
NancyMC,

Outlander is my favorite book of all times.  I did find the first 40 pages took me a week to get thru the first time I read it...but one of my best friends said it was HER favorite book, so I stuck with it.   After that, it really picked up and then eventually, I devoured the remainder of that mammoth book in 3 days.  I'm totally immersed in this series.  Hope you enjoy it.  It's the only book that when I finished, I immediately turned the page and started again...then the first 40 pages weren't boring at all!  Many clues/foreshadowing that you don't see as a new reader.

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« Reply #1058 on: September 04, 2009, 07:34:30 am »
OK...what do you think...I have a very dear friend who just retired (& we live in different cities) and I am always telling her she should do this book club with me...would anyone strongly object?  She is not an ANer (thankfully) but just a GREAT person!  SHe is the one that remembered that she called me the night before surgery and I was decorating shoes...she still can't believe that!  Anyway, let me know what you think!

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1059 on: September 04, 2009, 09:07:33 am »
Technically, I'm not an ANer either, so I certainly have no objection.

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1060 on: September 04, 2009, 05:19:10 pm »
Kaybo -

IMO, the more the merrier!  No AN needed.

Jan (still reading)
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1061 on: September 04, 2009, 05:28:27 pm »
I agree ..... anyone is welcome.

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1062 on: September 04, 2009, 07:28:15 pm »
I'm presently reading "The Book Of Negroes" by Lawrence Hill.  What a powerful, emotional and memorable book.  I'm so proud of the author.  He is Canadian and lives in Burlington Ont.  Roughly 20 minutes from where I live. 

Anne Marie

PS Read the entire Outlander series.  Waiting for the next book.
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #1063 on: September 04, 2009, 07:45:17 pm »
Finished Guernsey Literary today - half day off from work. 8)

Kay, can your friend kind of pretend to have an AN? Maybe claim she hears non-existent crickets, or says"what" a lot, or stumbles on the steps now and then? Just so she feels like she fits in. :)

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« Reply #1064 on: September 05, 2009, 12:11:03 pm »
Am on page 89 and I'm loving this book.  Although I'm taking a reading break shortly to clean my house (desperately needs it!!!) I hope to finish the book this weekend.

I don't want to start discussion prematurely, or ruin the book for those who haven't gotten as far as I have, but I just have to say that the letter from Eben to Juliet about his grandson and the other children made me cry  :'(  I can't even imagine living through something like that.

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