Tag: books
group name: mnreaders
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June 13, 2008 02:10 PM EDT --
Mention the name Judy Blume and a positive response, whether a squeal, gasp or smile, is never far behind. Such was the case when I told my 9 year-old daughter that I had scored two tickets to see Judy . . .
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November 27, 2009 02:18 PM EST --
This is a new one to hold your spot in your books !!
save it to your computer's picture file, print it out, fold it in half.
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November 30, 2009 05:44 PM EST --
Not everybody on your list should get a novel about drag queens or aging movie stars or sex changes or a wizard or depression era brothels (my novels, tee hee).
Sometimes you need something . . .
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October 05, 2007 01:13 PM EDT --
We met online at 11:00 am ET on Monday, October 8th for an interactive interview with Jim Lehrer, Executive Editor and Anchor of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrerand author. We discussed his recently released . . .
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December 06, 2007 06:10 PM EST --
(humming:) "The weather outside is frightful...."
It's the perfect time of year for curling up with a good book. Except of course for all the holiday festivities, family gatherings, . . .
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May 19, 2008 02:47 PM EDT --
Look for the reviews of Queen of the Oil Club , That Summer in Sicily , and a rare breed of love on mnreaders.gather.com and publicradio.gather.com
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October 07, 2009 10:41 AM EDT --
The other day we opened the fireplace grate and had the first fire of the season. A few feet away the big dogs stretched out in the warmth, and we crashed on the couch as I read aloud a few chapters from . . .
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February 04, 2008 11:28 AM EST --
This is going to be a GREAT month for reading. I just know it. Why? Because later this month my 'significantly other' and I are going away for a four-day weekend, and all we plan to do is . . .
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June 02, 2009 12:13 PM EDT --
There's something delicious and vaguely decadent about reading in the warmer months, as if we're actually letting time spin away. This month's reads:
The family book lately is "Forever . . .
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November 08, 2008 09:14 PM EST --
My novels are not cookie cutter novels where I put the lesbian on page 16 and then think I've gotten the job done. Sometimes the story has A DRAG QUEEN !!! - or in the case of Bad Moves it's . . .
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December 31, 2007 04:17 PM EST --
Welcome to a whole new year!
I admit, I make some half-hearted new year's resolutions around this time... usually it centers around more exercise, less eating... more listening, less talking... . . .
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July 02, 2008 05:54 PM EDT --
Happily, I'm about to embark on yet another reading retreat. This time it's a week in Door County, with nothing on the agenda except for biking, reading and napping. I've got a stack of books . . .
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October 17, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
Seems like the movie can never quite live up to the magic of the book. I was wondering if anyone out there can think of examples where the movie actually surpassed (or at least matched) the genius of the . . .
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October 04, 2007 12:03 PM EDT --
Change is in the air... colder nights, the leaves are turning, I'm making soups instead of salads, and I'm drinking more tea than ice water. Ahhh - I LOVE fall.
I'm also getting . . .
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April 04, 2007 12:29 PM EDT --
Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning ran with the intriguing show, Writers rate the greats:
A book critic asked more than 100 of today's most well-known writers what they think are the top 10 . . .
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June 01, 2007 04:15 PM EDT --
Garden guides, garden guides, garden guides.....
Okay, so maybe I'm starting to do a little summer reading, too, when I'm not obsessing over the state of my backyard. A recent road trip from Arizona . . .
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September 24, 2007 11:32 AM EDT --
Why did I write The Secret Cardinal?
I wrote my first four novels for the pure enjoyment of crafting wildly entertaining thrillers, but my motives for the fifth Nolan Kilkenny adventure are a bit . . .
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May 01, 2008 04:33 PM EDT --
May Day! May Day!
I mean "Happy May Day!"
I'm finding the tug of spring pulling me away from my books... "you can't read! there's gardening to be done!" . . .
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March 05, 2009 01:58 PM EST --
My fiance and I were just in Oregon for a long weekend, and since we flew into Portland, couldn't help but pay a visit to the Mecca of all bookstores - Powell's. The place is enormous - covering . . .
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August 01, 2008 05:05 PM EDT --
It's the peak of summer - the garden is growing with the occasional help of a heavy dousing, things are slow at work, and it's just too dang hot out these days to do much of anything. . . .
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