Tag: family
group name: whatchareadin
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March 03, 2007 07:02 PM EST --
Written by Guillermo Martínez
I left the house without a book, so bought this at the thrift shop before coming home. I read it on the bus, then at home until I finished it - less than 200 . . . more
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December 18, 2006 04:16 PM EST --
I just picked up this book at Barnes and Nobles a bit ago.
Who has read it?
What do you think of it?
What book are you reading?
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March 02, 2007 06:03 AM EST --
First to ask, first to receive - leave me your address, and I'll send the books out.
Homeless Bird- Gloria Whelan - a young woman in India is forced into a marriage. Cultural differences. . . . more
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March 30, 2007 06:43 PM EDT --
Non-fiction/Autobiography . . . more
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January 03, 2007 09:05 PM EST --
By Alexander Key
Published in 1965
A short science fiction type fable (or parable) about a boy who slips through a portal and ends up on Earth. It has a Twilight Zone feel to it.
He is . . . more
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January 27, 2007 10:55 AM EST --
Author Helen Kim
This is another book about young people in another country. It is set in Korea in the 70's or 80's. Not only does one learn about the culture - the foods, clothes, . . . more
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February 03, 2007 01:38 PM EST --
author: Robin McKinley
This book is a retelling of the Beauty and the Beast legend - for grownups.
There are so many details and imaginative ways of describing the scenes and surroundings.
The book is . . . more
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January 15, 2007 09:31 PM EST --
I just finished Nicholas Lemann’s The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. It was interesting. Like most readers, I went in from my own biased perspective. I wasn’t really . . . more
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March 08, 2007 12:24 PM EST --
This morning I opened all of my new cookbooks that I checked out from the library, yesterday. I wanted to make a breakfast for my family, one that would make them ooh and ahhh, so I decided I would take . . . more
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June 19, 2007 03:23 AM EDT --
There are few memoirs that can compare with The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. The story begins as Walls is on her way to a party in New York City, traveling by taxi down from her Park Avenue apartment. . . . more
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December 19, 2006 01:25 PM EST --
please excuse me if this is off topic for your group but this is a research project for gather!
It has come to my attention that towns all over the world are twinned with other towns from . . . more
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February 17, 2007 12:20 PM EST --
Fiction/Historical
Abram
Cary E. Cook
Pre-publication
“God told him to kill. He obeyed. But God stopped him, called him righteous, and rewarded him. And you’re . . . more
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January 27, 2007 07:53 AM EST --
I got this off a bulletin on myspace... I had to post it here, I know all of the mothers on here will appreciate it!
"Why God made moms" answers given by elementary school age children . . . more
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April 01, 2007 01:16 PM EDT --
Author, Edwidge Danticat
I have read various books by this author - she is a Haitian young woman who has been writing about her country, it's history and culture especially as the two . . . more
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June 14, 2008 12:37 PM EDT --
Fiction/Erotic
What's Done in the Dark
Avah LaReaux
Blue Planet Publishing
2008
ISBN: 978-1-4327-2261-6
Soft cover
120 pages
Avah LaReaux opens her debut novel, What's . . . more
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March 21, 2007 09:26 PM EDT --
Author - Laurence Yep
I've read other books by this author - he concentrates on Chinese culture often within the American environment. He also puts together books of Chinese legends and . . . more
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July 23, 2007 11:30 PM EDT --
So a few months back, I got my hands on a Sony Reader, compliments Gather's exceptional marketing team. I wrote a little review of the technology, concluding that it was a great concept, and a good . . . more
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January 15, 2007 01:10 PM EST --
"Momma Your Love"
My son is a wonder such pleasure and joy,he brings to my heart my sweet baby boy...
In his own little language only I understand, he tells me his plans for being a man... . . . more
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January 15, 2007 01:13 PM EST --
"My Girls"
One wakes me every morning with, "Hello my beautiful mommy"...the other sleeps so soundly to rouse her would take an army...
One's twelve and one's four, for goodness . . . more
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February 19, 2007 06:30 PM EST --
So Long A Letter is a series of short letters written by Ramatoulaye, a woman in West Africa, to a childhood friend. The letters are a series of memories and reminiscences that cover the choices . . . more
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