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Pillars and East of Eden

November 16, 2009 On The Shelf

It feel like ages ago that I read Ken Folett’s Pillars of the Earth and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden. It was the end of the summer, and all the back-to-school trappings meant no-more-getting-sucked-into-story-land for this mummy. And since it’s been a while, some of the details of these stories have since faded, but I [...]

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More Summer Reading

August 5, 2009 On The Shelf

I finished Michael J. Fox’s second book, Always Looking Up, about a week ago. It was another easy read – Michael J. is just talking here… about his life, his work, politics, faith and family. I like him. I think he has a splendid outlook on life – one that it utterly optimistic, especially in [...]

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Always Looking Up

July 17, 2009 On The Shelf

I love Michael J. Fox. First as the Family Ties character Alex P. Keaton (loved that whole family, of course) and loved him even more as he played a myriad of characters in great flicks and some not-so-great flicks. It warms my heart to see a little kid from Canada do good. I feel proud [...]

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Twilight – The Whole Damn Series

July 16, 2009 On The Shelf

The author of this saga, Stephenie Meyer, is so frickin’ smart. At the end of the first novel in this series, she very trickily added the first chapter of the sequel to the back… it’s a brilliant move to snare you hook, line, and sinker into the stories to follow. A few chapters into the [...]

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I Love Words

June 30, 2009 On The Shelf

I buy a lot of books. Or, I should say I buy books often – but I seldom have the chance to read them. Since doing time in baby-prison, I haven’t been reading novels nearly as much as I like to. Constant interruptions from The Little People makes this an impossibility. But I am determined [...]

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Twilight – I Finished It

June 28, 2009 On The Shelf

Okay, I must say this was a really compelling read… it’s a total page turner. It was the kind of book I was slightly embarrassed to read in public, much like anything by Maeve Binchy – not scandalous or anything, but not terribly literary, if you know what I mean. A perfect summer time-suck. The [...]

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Twilight – Getting Started

June 24, 2009 On The Shelf

One of my neighbours shoved this book at me, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, imploring me to read it – she’s not the first grown-up woman to mention this title, so I’m giving it a try. I make no judgement about what others like to read. Not really. I mean, read whatever you enjoy – but [...]

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