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John G.

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« Reply #150 on: July 15, 2010, 07:59:08 PM »
And leave it to someone better than me at making pages turn.
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« Reply #151 on: July 15, 2010, 07:59:33 PM »
Page six!
And with that, good night.
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« Reply #152 on: July 15, 2010, 08:01:57 PM »
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anybody have any uplifting books to recommend?
I'm also slowly pacing myself as I read through the Little House books for the first time. There's a great deal of food stuff in them but there's also the wonderful stories of life in America before the cities took over. Plus, in this heat, it's been fun to read about chopping ice when it's 5 below zero outside and sledding, etc.

 OH I loved those  - I read tehm all several tiems as a child and then again as an adult -

don't miss Farmer Boy  which is about  her husband's childhood
that's the one I'm in the middle of right now.

 oh yes - his Mom sure could cook!! I loved teh part about his growing a milk fed pumpkin - I have wanted to try that for the past 44 years!
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« Reply #153 on: July 15, 2010, 08:09:13 PM »
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Re: I REMEMBER IT WELL
« Reply #154 on: July 15, 2010, 08:10:12 PM »
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Has anyone read "A Lesson Before Dying" by Ernest Gaines?  It is not a self help book, at least I don't think it is.
 http://www.amazon.com/Lesson-Before-Dying-Oprahs-Book/dp/0375702709
My friend wants to send it to me and I'm deciding if she should.

It's a wonderful novel about a young man on death row facing up to the actions he made that placed him there. I love Gaines' writing. "Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" was another of his books. I enjoyed that one, too.

What a coinkydink!  Last week, I had to return a brand new DVD copy of "Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" because it had no discs!  It was sealed, but the DVDs were not included.  Anyway, the replacement just arrived today and it's sitting on my desk, right in front of me.

Just had to share. :)
I don't know if I have seen that movie in 20 years at least. Post something on whether it holds up. I'm sure Cicely Tyson's performance does. That was an impressive piece of work to me as a kid when I first saw the movie.

Actually, this isn't my personal copy...it's one of several copies bought for the library where I work.  In my job here at the library, I deal with the returns of damaged or defective material.  And there are several requests for the movie, so even if I did put in my own personal request, I wouldn't get it for several weeks and by then, we'd all have forgotten about it and I'd wonder why the heck did I request this?

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« Reply #155 on: July 15, 2010, 08:10:36 PM »
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« Reply #156 on: July 15, 2010, 08:10:59 PM »
And now, I'm leaving work and going home.

Until later!
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« Reply #157 on: July 15, 2010, 08:11:47 PM »
i am fallin asleep
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« Reply #158 on: July 15, 2010, 08:17:12 PM »
BK, if you know what is up with Jose then please tell us, we'd sure like to know!
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« Reply #159 on: July 15, 2010, 08:24:10 PM »
Quote from: vixmom on July 15, 2010, 03:43:32 AM
MTM - gosh I loved that show and the original Bob Newhart show

Chuckles the Clown yes - any of the ones with the Happy Homemaker... oh and there were one or 2 with Jack Cassidy as Ted Baxter's brother


AITF = Sammy Davis  with the kiss   there was one where Jean Staepelton was going on nd on and on telling this boring story and Carrol O'Connor mimes  takingout a gun, loading it, and shooting himself in the head and falling over that was hysterically funny



Was that the story about the can of cling peaches in heavy syrup
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« Reply #160 on: July 15, 2010, 08:35:01 PM »
Quote from: Jane on July 15, 2010, 05:30:35 PM
Has anyone read "A Lesson Before Dying" by Ernest Gaines?  It is not a self help book, at least I don't think it is.
 http://www.amazon.com/Lesson-Before-Dying-Oprahs-Book/dp/0375702709
My friend wants to send it to me and I'm deciding if she should.

I read it, no it's not a self help book.  I remember liking it, I think , but I don't remember much else
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« Reply #161 on: July 15, 2010, 08:39:21 PM »
Quote from: Cillaliz on July 15, 2010, 08:35:01 PM
Quote from: Jane on July 15, 2010, 05:30:35 PM
Has anyone read "A Lesson Before Dying" by Ernest Gaines?  It is not a self help book, at least I don't think it is.
 http://www.amazon.com/Lesson-Before-Dying-Oprahs-Book/dp/0375702709
My friend wants to send it to me and I'm deciding if she should.

I read it, no it's not a self help book.  I remember liking it, I think , but I don't remember much else

After reading Johnh's post, yes, I do remember liking it very much
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« Reply #162 on: July 15, 2010, 08:46:44 PM »
i think it may have been
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« Reply #163 on: July 15, 2010, 08:47:12 PM »
I must really go to bed now == goodnight
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« Reply #164 on: July 15, 2010, 08:48:07 PM »
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.....you're alone.....and the feeling of loneliness is overpowering.

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« Reply #165 on: July 15, 2010, 08:49:18 PM »
Quote from: vixmom on July 15, 2010, 07:28:07 PM
anybody have any uplifting books to recommend?

How about "Dragonflies of Long Island."
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« Reply #166 on: July 15, 2010, 08:50:37 PM »
Nice blurb for MR BK in the not Marilyn Beck column.
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« Reply #167 on: July 15, 2010, 08:52:06 PM »
MBarnum, a couple of months ago Jose e-mailed me and told me he was thinking about leaving - I don't want to go into the reasons, but I tried to tell him it was inconsequential in the scheme of things and to please stay.  He did, but then he left abruptly over a month ago.  To do so with nary a word is, to my mind, really bad form, and a real slap in the fact to people on this board, which is why I don't really understand when people "like" his updates and comment on them.  I've been sorely tempted to comment myself (but not in the same way, I can assure you) but I've taken the high road.  And I don't mean to go on about it but I must say it's so irksome to me on so many levels that I just need to vent occasionally.  Eventually, it won't bother me at all, but the rudeness of it, for me at least, is a little shocking and a little nauseating.
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Re: I REMEMBER IT WELL
« Reply #168 on: July 15, 2010, 08:52:16 PM »
And that's how I feel about it.
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« Reply #169 on: July 15, 2010, 08:52:25 PM »
Now, get me off this damn page.
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« Reply #170 on: July 15, 2010, 08:55:41 PM »
DR DRUXY that's a nice cover!  ;D
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« Reply #171 on: July 15, 2010, 08:57:15 PM »
Mr Charles Condomine in our play Blithe Spirit has a nice epithet that I am going to adopt into my speech......when he becomes most irritated at one point he merely says:

"Dog's dinner!"
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« Reply #172 on: July 15, 2010, 08:57:47 PM »
Off to bed.

Did you figure out the title of the song, MR BK?
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« Reply #173 on: July 15, 2010, 08:58:25 PM »
Grand Hotel, it is.....like Grand Hotel.
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« Reply #174 on: July 15, 2010, 09:05:22 PM »
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« Reply #175 on: July 15, 2010, 09:05:51 PM »
Great Cover DR Druxy
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« Reply #176 on: July 15, 2010, 09:09:40 PM »
Tomorrow is jam packed full of appointments.  While I'm gone the workers will be doing all kinds of work.  I need to figure out a different room for the cats to be locked in, the bedroom now has a cracked window.  It didn't before, but they are going to fix it.  The jury is no longer out on their quality.  I made a comment about the way the windows looked this morning and man, are they looking better now. I told them the re-glazing was the main reason I hired them and they took more time and Ron even commented that it's more of an art.  I was so happy to hear that.

The new neighbor hired them to do a bunch of stuff when they are done here, so I think that really made their day.  My neighborhood is like that.  If you see someone working on a house, that's enough of a recommendation to go hire them to do yours next
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« Reply #177 on: July 15, 2010, 09:14:21 PM »
I am really excited to see the new roof on the gazebo (Ron is starting it tomorrow), it's going to be fabulous. And they are taking down part of my chain link fence.  I don't have a dog and won't likely have a dog, so I don't really need it.  AND it is SOOO ugly where it is now.   I'll be able to do much better landscaping right by the garage and be able to highlight my gazebo.  It's a bit scary spending the money I'm spending on these projects, but they are all really more maintenance than anything new.  Once they are all done, all I have to do is paint the bathroom and hallways and voila!  I will have everything done and can just start regular upkeep and maintenance. 
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« Reply #178 on: July 15, 2010, 09:22:41 PM »
Better get to bed.  I really want to try to get up very early and dig up some flowers I just planted that will be trampled or cut down when they take out the chain link fence.  So....night all
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« Reply #179 on: July 15, 2010, 09:23:04 PM »
The title of the song seems to have stumped one and all and also all and one.
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