Balogreene Executive Power, by Vince Flynn. I'm listening, not reading, but Mitch Rapp is married, and there are some wonderfully funny moments.
May 10 at 18:12 EST .
StormCnter "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 .
Balogreene Reader's Digest recommended "The Burgess Boys" for what that is worth. It sounds good.
May 14 at 19:03 EST .
Mike PHX I just read "Ulysses" by James Joyce. The Classic Comix version. What the hell was that Molly Bloom talking about? Jeez, she yaps like six barbers.
May 4 at 23:24 EST .
Balogreene I have a paperback "Ulysses" and a Kindle "Ulysses" what sadomasochistic urge made you read it? I just can't get past the first page.
May 5 at 19:33 EST .
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RoseOfTexas Double Blind by Brandilyn Collins ~ a psychological thriller about a woman participating in a medical trial. This is a Christian fiction author I really enjoy. She writes mysteries set in the present day.
May 3 at 22:26 EST .
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Balogreene For inexpensive (sometimes free ) e books, try www.bookbub.com. Sign up for their daily emails. I get a lot of the free books, don't care if I like them or not, they are free, I just quit reading and delete them if they are no good.
I have found several I like. I'm such a reader, it gets too expensive to buy books, so these emails work well.
April 30 at 08:36 EST .
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Bmoc I need some input from my fellow L-Dotters. I'm working on a 'book' that I am tentatively calling "The Last Slice of American Pie" inspired by the song "Slice" by Five For Fighting.
I was talking with my 12 year old grandson and I began to explain to him how things were when I was growing up. After a couple hours of chatting back and forth with him, he said to me, "Grandpa, you should write all of that stuff down." So the project was started.
I'm looking for topics that are "Must Reads" in a book that deals with the things we had as kids that our kids and grandkids will never see or experience again. I'm about 20,000 words into it and I've covered a few topics but the folks that are steady readers at L.com are smart people and I would value your ideas.
Thank you!
March 28 at 17:31 EST .
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Balogreene What percentage of sales do we get for our memories?
March 29 at 18:42 EST .
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Bettijo One thing I remember was "safety." We played outside in our neighborhood of low middle class section of Atlanta (not a small town ) until the "street lights came on." That was our summons to go home. Until then, our parents did not know exactly where we might be, just "in the neighborhood." When I entered the sixth grade, I would walk with friends to the street car line and for 5 cents ride the street car to the nearest stop of my junior high school, then walk from the street car on to school. Of course there were usually several of us, but still...would you allow your 12 year old to do this today? We never locked our home; we never worried about a break-in. Of course we did not have much worth stealing, but even overnight while we slept, I don't remember the house being locked. When it was hot (no air conditioning in those days ) I would often sleep on the open front porch.
Is this the type thing you are looking for?
April 7 at 21:23 EST .
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Bmoc Yes. I am looking for the kind of things that just are done, just aren't common, like they used to be. The kind of stuff we wish our children and grandchildren could experience but will never do so. Time goes on, things change but seldom for the better. Thank you.
April 13 at 23:43 EST .
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Clipped wings Are you looking for things such as: watching your grandmother bake bread in a wood stove and savoring the aroma and taste; the churning of butter;the reverence of Sundays without cellphones, etc; county and street fairs where everyone could walk around with safety and the tallest ride was less than 1 1/2 stories; the world when we could believe the things we saw on television and didn't have to censure the offerings? That type of thing or the stories that we heard our relatives tell of the old days? Do you need the stories of the depression and war years and the dust bowl? Where people left their doors unlocked and crimes were almost nonexistent? That's what we refer to as the good old days. But the most important story to relate is that during our past we had honor, faith, a work ethic and a love of country .
April 16 at 20:44 EST .
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Bmoc All of those types of stories, remembrances, and memories! If you have anything you'd like to send me, please send them to my L.com email address ( bmoc66@gmail.com ) with the subject line of L.com please! I get several hundred emails a day in my business in websites and such. If you want to be mentioned in the story, please tell me how you want to be mentioned, ie "Stephanie L. from Michigan recalls ..... "
I've been a L dotter from nearly the beginning, with a front page mention by Lucianne herself back in the innocent spring of 2001 when I sent her an email expressing my amazement at how thoughtful my fellow L Dotters were. I found it on the "Wayback Machine" and still treasure it. http://web.archive.org/web/2001051520474 1/http://lucianne.com
April 19 at 09:07 EST .
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Balogreene Just finished "Bringing Mulligan Home" by Dale Maharidge. It is the story of his search for what happened to his father on Okinawa. His father was apparently a good man prone to fits of rage, and upset he had been blamed for Mulligan's death. His father was a Marine, and Dale contacts several men who fought beside him. They are all in their 80s, but their memories come alive as they talk for the first time.
This explains Okinawa to me better than anything I've read. My daddy was Army, but he was there. Now I better understand why the Honor Guard at Arlington told me everyone on Okinawa was a hero.
Balogreene Thank you Rose of Texas. I got The Twelfth Imam for free from Kindle, and can't put it down. Excellent explanation from the Iranian Embassy Hostage situation, to today, through fiction. I know one more just came out, cause I hear it advertised. Read them all.
March 10 at 22:11 EST .
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RoseOfTexas You are most welcome! I'm #4 on my library's waitlist for the latest one. In the meantime I've just begun The Fifth Assassin by Brad Meltzer & it's hooked me already.
March 13 at 23:23 EST .
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Wrightwinger A word to the wise from an excellent author and poet:
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind, So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace, Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place, But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch, They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch; They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings; So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life (Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife ) Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man There are only four things certain since Social Progress began. That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
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