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StormCnter posted on Suggested Reading  "The Burgess Boys" by Elizabeth Strout. She wrote "Olive Kitteridge" previously and got a Pulitzer for it. "The Burgess Boys" is a better read. May 5 at 07:02 EST .    1 person like this.    Balogreene  Reader's Digest recommended "The Burgess Boys" for what that is worth. It sounds good. May 14 at 19:03 EST .  1 person like this.

StormCnter posted on Suggested Reading  Has anyone else read "The Patriarch"? I'm almost finished with it and have learned a lot, corrected some of my misunderstandings, enjoyed the experience but still believe Joseph P. Kennedy was too ambitious for his own and his family's good. January 20 at 09:54 EST .    6 people like this.

StormCnter posted on Movies & Reviews  Has anyone else seen and enjoyed the movie "Bernie"? Funny, funny and based on a true story. The setting is East Texas and Bernie is an undertaker. January 14 at 15:43 EST .    2 people like this.    Rake King  We'll have to see if our posters have caught that one. January 14 at 17:28 EST .   3 people like this.    RoseOfTexas  Yes, a while back, & posted about it here. I hadn't heard of it when it was in the theater, but once it came out on dvd I heard several recommendations for it. Until the final credits with photos of the real Bernie I didn't realize it was based on a true story...truth is stranger than fiction! January 14 at 17:52 EST .   3 people like this.

StormCnter posted on Suggested Reading  It's a shame this page gets so little traffic. I had big hopes for it in the beginning. However, I just finished "The Racketeer", Grisham's latest. I stopped reading Grisham years ago because he kept plowing old fields, but this one was recommended to me. I enjoyed it a lot. One thing bugged me, though, and I'm interested if anyone else has read it and if the same annoyance cropped up. December 11 at 07:16 EST .    4 people like this.    Carmen  I also gave up on him also with "The Appeal" and "The Litigators". I will try him again on your recommendation. December 12 at 16:07 EST .   4 people like this.    Balogreene  Me too, I'll try this new book. December 12 at 19:40 EST .   4 people like this.    Carmen  Don't tell us yet what bugged you about the book - I am about 1/2 way through. December 15 at 09:17 EST .   4 people like this.    Carmen  OK StormCnter, I'm ready to know what bothered you about the plot? I loved it. Grisham is back!!!!! December 16 at 17:26 EST .   4 people like this.    StormCnter  Ok, here 'tis. Two-thirds through the book, Bannister/Baldwin instructs his PI to "find a man named Nathan Cooley". Since there was no explanation, my assumption was that Cooley had appeared earlier in the story, but I couldn't remember him. I spent an hour leafing through the pages to find the name so I could make the connection, but it's not there. All is explained at the end, but I was peeved. Yes, I know. Overly nit-picky, but I like things to be orderly. December 17 at 08:22 EST .   4 people like this.    Carmen  Right! I wondered what I had missed also and it is hard to page back through when you are reading on a Kindle so I just figured it was another 'senior memory loss' and read on. Grisham actually does that sort of thing often in his books -- he likes surprises. December 17 at 09:49 EST .   4 people like this.

StormCnter posted on Suggested Reading  I just finished "Bring Up The Bodies" by Hilary Mantel, sequel to "Wolf Hall". I truly enjoyed it, but I'm an Anglophile anyway. In the last few weeks, I also read Robert Carol's latest, "The Passage to Power", the fourth of his Lyndon Johnson series. I despise Johnson, but the book was fascinating, as were the other two I have read. I skipped "Master of the Senate". And, another really good recent read was "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn. That one will keep you guessing all the way. August 4 at 11:42 EST .    3 people like this.    StormCnter  Caro, not Carol August 4 at 11:43 EST .   3 people like this.    Straitpath  I enjoyed Wolf Hall andBring Upthe Bodies. When is the next sequel due? January 31 at 13:58 EST .  1 person like this.

StormCnter posted on Suggested Reading  My comment doesn't always show up after posting, so I'll try again. I recommend an odd little new novel "The Age of Miracles" by Karen Walker. The premise is what happens to a normal world when the earth's rotation begins to slow. The main character is an 11 year old girl in a family falling apart even before the slow-moving catastrophe. Think of the best of Stephen King with a little Ray Bradbury tossed in. July 9 at 15:40 EST .    3 people like this.

StormCnter posted on Suggested Viewing/Listening  I guess this question fits, since it's both viewing and listening. Have any of you watched The Judds on OWN? I have not been a fan of their music so hadn't paid attention to the show. But, I stumbled across it a few days ago and was mesmerized. Not in a good way. It was like being hypnotized by a cobra. The fifteen minutes I could bear to watch involved tears, recriminations, awkward hugs (Wynona was so corseted up she couldn't bend) and a general wallowing in what terrible things each of them had done to the other over the years. I'm not sure what this is, but it's not entertainment. And it's tacky. Anyone else got an opinion? May 8 at 07:05 EST .    2 people like this.    Rollingcow  I've never liked the Judds and the commercials for the show were more than enough to make me refuse to even try it. Back when they were 'THE' duo in country music my Mother used to call them the Screaming Meme's. All three of them are the worst sort of trash, they give the South a bad name. Mrs. Cow May 8 at 09:59 EST .   4 people like this.    Surfhut  You lasted longer than I did, StormCnter. I only lasted about 5 minutes. It was tacky and a crashing bore. May 8 at 16:24 EST .   4 people like this.    MsCharlotteVale  I've never liked this family. The mother seems especially phony to me. Their "farewell tour" lasted about five years, didn't it? The mom was deathly ill but after she separated herself from her daughters, she was everywhere all the time with all kinds of shows and all that. They make my skin craw. May 10 at 01:27 EST .   4 people like this.    MsCharlotteVale  Crawl, not craw. I guess they get under my skin. Even their bio seems phony to me. May 10 at 01:28 EST .   4 people like this.

StormCnter posted on Pet Peeves  I very much dislike service people who come to work on my washer, my garage door opener and so forth and leave behind little stickers in a prominent place so I will know to call them next time. The things are always fluorescent and difficult to remove. April 19 at 16:07 EST .    2 people like this.    Prudente  I agree - and the sticker some places put on the windshield after an oil change. April 19 at 17:55 EST .   3 people like this.    FL Homeschool Mom  What I hate is when they send someone who looks as if they've just been released from prison. I've intentionally not answered the door because the guy on the other side looked so scary. Armed or not, I don't want to practice my shooting skills if I don't have to. I'm thankful to have found people through church and friends that are trustworthy. April 20 at 12:15 EST .   3 people like this.

StormCnter posted on Suggested Reading  Our two youngest granddaughters are nine and in third grade. They've just now reached a reading proficiency level that allows a wider selection of books. I have a set of bookshelves here with a lot of their old favorites. This morning, I cleaned out the ones they've outgrown and ordered a whole new batch from B&N. It was such fun to Google for ideas and I ended up with a lengthy order. They're ready now for The Secret Garden, Black Beauty and the more current fun books such as Harry Potter. I had a ball reading reviews and making my selections. I hope the new books will be a success. April 14 at 14:22 EST .    3 people like this.    Rollingcow  It's always so much fun to see what their tastes are at that age. I used to take the neices and nephews to the book store with the Calf and just see what they'd pick out. I'm still buying them books, especially the Calf and the oldest nephew-we all like the same sorts of books. It's also nice to get a text or e-mail telling me how much the nephew liked what I sent him. Mrs. Cow April 14 at 18:51 EST .   4 people like this.    Rather Read  This brings back so many memories. I've been a read-a-holic since I was 4. Please don't overlook good non-fiction books and biographies. When I was that age, that's about all I read. I didn't develop a taste for fiction till I was in high school. April 15 at 10:37 EST .   4 people like this.    Surfhut  StormCntr, I nearly cried with joy for the memories when I read your post. I'm not a grandmother yet and my only child is a boy. He loved classics at that age like My Friend Flicka and Tarzan. April 15 at 18:05 EST .   4 people like this.    StormCnter  I included non-fiction on my list, too. Both girls have developed a taste for biographies because of recent class assignments. I so wanted to include "Treasure Island" on my list, but I think they're too young for the original and I dislike adaptions of classics. When I was their age, my favorite books were "Lucretia Ann on the Oregon Trail" and "Circus Shoes". But, I could only find pricey used copies on the Net, so I gave up on those. I had forgotten about Tarzan. He'll make the next list. April 16 at 05:59 EST .   4 people like this.    Rollingcow  I loved 'Caddie Woodlawn' when I was a kid and the Black Stallion series. I always thought Tarzan a book for young teens, but then I didn't discover him until then. Did you know that there are three books in the 'Flicka' series? I loved them all. Mrs. Cow April 16 at 10:26 EST .   4 people like this.    Rollingcow  Hey, Stormy, I just checked on Alibris.com and they have 'Lucretia Ann on the Oregon Trail' starting at 99 cents, 'Circus Shoes' is 62 dollars however. It's a great place to look for older titles. They generally get a lot of their books from libraries and the condition is usually very good. Mrs. Cow April 16 at 10:33 EST .   4 people like this.    StormCnter  Thanks, RC. I'll check out Alibris. Yes, there were three books by the Flicka author, but by "Green Grass of Wyoming", he'd grown up and fallen in love and everything had changed. "Thunderhead" is a winner with me still, though. April 16 at 12:37 EST .   4 people like this.    Surfhut  I still have Flicka & Thunderhead that my FIL read when he was about that age. My son read those same books that his grandfather read. A little musty smelling, but precious. April 17 at 11:28 EST .   4 people like this.

StormCnter posted on Suggested Reading  For the edge-of-seat-thriller-readers amongst us, I suggest The Terror of Living,by Urban Waite. It's new and really, really a good one. April 6 at 08:29 EST .    3 people like this.    Paget51  This sounds like a novel my husband would enjoy. Thanks for the heads-up, Stormy. :) April 9 at 11:23 EST .   4 people like this.

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