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Skye ( member #325) posted at 3:46 PM on Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Wantmore, I also hate negativity, but I don't believe being positive changes anything, which is what she addresses. I do believe there is more pleasantness in the world when we smile, but I sure don't believe a woman's breast cancer is going to diminish because the woman smiles.
neverendinghurt ( member #15859) posted at 6:24 PM on Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Glad you started this thread Cant.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie
Aurelian ( member #23192) posted at 9:06 PM on Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Spartans: A New History
Rule of the Templars
Also learning how to use my Anglican Breviary.
It's not what you've got it's what you give. It's not the life you choose it's the life you live.
ming56 ( member #19505) posted at 9:48 PM on Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Just finished re-reading Pat Conroy's MY LOSING SEASON, what a great, great book. I read it when it first came out in 2002 I believe, and the basketball parts appealed at the time, having just recently been given my "walking papers" from the sport, but this time the negative family impact and the learning to mine his true personality out from the layers of defenses from his fears and insecurities, really resonated with me.
Last weekend finished an excellent meditation on life, nature, and our relationship with the other species on earth THE HIDDEN LIFE OF DEER. An excellent quick read! And continue to wade my way through Wally Lamb's THE HOUR I FIRST BELIEVED on audio book (very wordy and seemingly directionless- don't recommend it) as well as Jane Goodall's biography. (highly recommended!)
letting_go ( member #13774) posted at 1:04 AM on Sunday, February 7th, 2010
KidLead Growing Great Leaders by Dr. Alan E. Nelson
The Bible
Text books for school
Don't Block Your Blessings by Patti LaBelle
"To change and to improve are two different things."
Anonymous. German proverb.
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
wantmore ( member #5939) posted at 3:38 PM on Sunday, February 7th, 2010
but I sure don't believe a woman's breast cancer is going to diminish because the woman smiles.
Exactly. ITA.
And I hate being told it's my fault XYZ happened because I was "negative" about it. My XH pulled this card out all the time. Blech.
Oops T/J. Back to your regularly scheduled posts now. 
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Of course it helps to know you *have* enemies.
mpf00 ( member #24724) posted at 6:17 PM on Monday, February 8th, 2010
Alter of Eden by James Rollins. Starting it tonight actually, looking forward to some quiet me time!
Threnody ( member #1558) posted at 3:44 PM on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Just started re-reading "The Eagle and the Raven" last night. Celtic/Roman historical fiction. Love this book. The last two times I read it, I was pregnant with two different monkeys and got something different out of it each time. Maybe non-pregnant, I'll find something new. 
“If you don't like my opinion of you, you can always improve.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
"Great love requires determination." ~ tryingtwo
"Don't try to win over the haters, you're not the jackass whisperer." ~ Brene Brown
wifehad5 ( Administrator #15162) posted at 4:25 PM on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
The Difference a Daddy Makes by Gary Lehman
1 Corinthians (more studying than reading)
Love First, A book on interventions
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FBH - 52 FWW - 53 (BrokenRoad)2 kids 17 & 22The people you do your life with shape the life you live
Maia ( member #8268) posted at 6:03 PM on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
I just finished Marked by PC Cast... vampire book. And one by Sarah Dessen, cant remember the title, but I liked it. My DD and I read together and discuss the books. so those were hers. I read very quickly, have a dozen books going at any one time, usually finish 3-4 a week. Am reading the Screwtape Letters (again)- CS Lewis, Punk Marketing, Mastering the Art of French Cooking- Julia Child, The Gathering Storm (just finished it)- Robert Jordan/B. Sanderson, Love and War - John and Stasi Eldredge..I think that's all? for now?
saw someone reading "A Handmaid's Tale" by Atwood. I liked the book, very thought-provoking. Reminiscent of Aldous Huxley for me.
can't- highly recommend Jennifer Crusie to you, if you have never read her start with Faking It.
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The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.Psalms 34:18
Chandler ( member #23038) posted at 7:16 PM on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Cat
I haven't read any Ann Rule I will have to give them a try
ME:BS Him:WS
D-Day: Too many I lost count
OC born Jan 09
"If happy ever did exist, I would still be holding you like this, all those fairy tales are full of shit, one more fucking love song I'll be sick" -Maroon 5
1Forward1Back ( member #11057) posted at 3:12 AM on Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Reading a mystery on my E-reader, but am also reading Jenny Sanford's book. Excellent!
Me: 62 Yrs. (BS)
Him: 63 Yrs.(FWH- life long sex addict)
-2 ONSs followed by an A-2005/06
-cheated while we were engaged
-seems to stray every 30 years or so
D-Day-June 10, 2006
Working on own recovery. His is his!
Married: 37 yrs. Grown ch
somanytears ( member #18198) posted at 6:33 AM on Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Serena by Ron Rash
Any Southern gothic/Southern fiction readers out there?
"Surviving is important,thriving is elegant"
Maya Angelou
Me--BS (54)
Him--WS (58)
Two young adult kids 27 and 22
DDay 02/10/08
Current status:31 years...sigh.
HardenMyHeart ( member #15902) posted at 7:05 AM on Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Just finished reading The Last Day of My Life by Jim Moret.
I really enjoyed this inspirational book. Jim Moret is a journalist that contemplated suicide one day. He turned his life around by finding answers to the question, What would I do if I only had 24 hours left to live?
Me: BH, Her: WW, Married 40 years, Reconciled
Mommato4 ( member #15906) posted at 5:09 PM on Thursday, February 25th, 2010
I just finished reading "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett. This was our book club's first book choice.
I couldn't put it down and was done in 3 days.
BS-me 34
XH-doesn't matter
4 kids
Divorced-7/25/2008
neverendinghurt ( member #15859) posted at 6:23 PM on Thursday, February 25th, 2010
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, and Annie Barrows
I ma loving this book. It is set just after WW2 and is series of letters from Islanders (Guernsey was occupied by the Nazis) to an author in London.
It is one of those books that makes me want to read more about the island and it's people during that time.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie
leapyearbaby ( member #24902) posted at 5:43 PM on Friday, February 26th, 2010
I am currently slogging my way through a series of police procedure books by Ian Rankin, whose main protagonist is DI John Rebus. It is set in Edinburgh, Scotland and I say slogging because although I read a far amount of English fare, and so have much of the slang down, Scottish slang is very different!!! I have had to stop and google a phrase here and there...I can't even make sense of it within the sentence. But I now know what Irn-Bru is!!
Other than that the writing is excellent, much more intense and denser than the usual who-dun-its. 3 more books to go and I can move on to other authors!!!
me BS the Big 6-0!!
him WS 56
married 28 years
together 31
DD 6/10/08
ow #1,2 lta on and off since 1995
ow 3 ons summer 2005
2 D, mine from prior marriage, but he raised them
R'ing...probably not....but then again, maybe....
neverendinghurt ( member #15859) posted at 7:45 PM on Friday, February 26th, 2010
Irn Bru!!
One of the best hangover cures I have ever known
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
James M. Barrie
Hope24 ( member #9344) posted at 8:00 PM on Friday, February 26th, 2010
Don Quixote. I believe in torture by literature.
@ mmhurts.
Finished The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton (very well written).
Now I'm reading Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. It was voted one of 2009's best books on Amazon, but I'm not loving it.
She packed up her potential and all she had learned and headed out to change a few things.
CAT5 ( member #15843) posted at 8:58 PM on Friday, February 26th, 2010
I've been on a complete all-the-stuff-I-was-supposed-to-read-in-school-but-skimmed tear.
All of Steinbeck, Hemingway.
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