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Post by Megan on Jun 12, 2007 16:10:56 GMT -5
List your book exchange books here. If you are interested in one, PM the lister. Please don't post your address here!  |
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Post by Megan on Jun 12, 2007 16:14:31 GMT -5
This is one I really enjoyed and have read several times.
Winner By: Maureen O'Donoghue
Let me know if you want to read it!
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Post by adcooper on Jun 12, 2007 18:15:34 GMT -5
Okay, I'll send someone my paperback copy of I Been In Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots, by Susan Straight.
There's a fair amount of Gullah dialect in the book, which is tricky reading at first, but soon it makes sense. I liked it.
From Publishers Weekly: Set primarily in a tiny Gullah-speaking village in South Carolina, Straight's elegant coming-of-age novel is as monumental as the tall, taciturn woman whose life it traces. Selected as one of PW 's best books of 1992.
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Post by Bara on Jun 13, 2007 4:35:11 GMT -5
Water for Elephants - anyone? I can send it airmail.
I'll put this on both threads.
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Post by sarafina on Jun 13, 2007 9:03:13 GMT -5
Ooh, Ad, I'd love that one. I have Joan Didion "The Year of Magical Thinking"
I have one request -- I'd love to find a copy of "The Monday Horses" by Jean Slaughter Doty. I haven't read it in years, and there is a 13 YO at the barn who would LOVE iit.
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Post by nc on Jun 13, 2007 13:31:27 GMT -5
Just finished "The Horse Whisperer" WOW!!! I thought it was a VERY good read. I had seen the movie a long time ago, and I was completely surprised by the book's ending. The movie never even hinted to and ending like that ... although the image I had of Tom Booker throughout the book was of Robert Redford. <eye roll>
If I had read the book first, I don't think I would have cared much for the movie.
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Post by HokieThea on Jun 13, 2007 14:09:39 GMT -5
I have the book written by the COTH poster, "The $700 Pony". Who wants it?
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Post by HokieThea on Jun 13, 2007 14:14:03 GMT -5
Ha, Sarafina, I have "The Monday Horses", but I ain't giving it up! I love that book, and read it at least once a year.
Megan, I remember the book you are speaking of. It was an entertaining read, but I found it very convenient that whenever she was low on funds, she could just go to the races and BAM! she won enough money to keep going. If it were that simple, the ponies would be paying for my new roof!
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Post by adcooper on Jun 13, 2007 16:56:30 GMT -5
Sarafina, PM me your mailing address. Have you moved already?
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Post by Kim on Jun 13, 2007 22:02:31 GMT -5
HokieThea, I PMed you!
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Post by Kim on Jun 13, 2007 22:04:11 GMT -5
I have the Jodi Piccoult books "Perfect Match" and "Plain Truth". Both are good reads. Kind of heavy material, but I loved them.
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Post by Bara on Jun 14, 2007 4:06:03 GMT -5
Filly - you have mail!  |
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Post by Deb on Jun 14, 2007 7:27:33 GMT -5
NC. I read "Horse Wisperer" first then saw the movie. The movie was lacking some of the drama the book had.
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Post by HokieThea on Jun 14, 2007 7:34:25 GMT -5
The $700 Pony is taken!
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Post by HokieThea on Jun 14, 2007 7:36:59 GMT -5
Okay, here's one (of several) thing that bothered me about The Horse Whisperer. Why would 2 parents, who are not horse people, buy their preteen daughter a stallion? Maybe he was an exceptional stallion, but it just seems a bit irresponsible to me.
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