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Comment by Pamela Drake on October 26, 2012 at 11:16am

I'm in the middle of RED, WHITE AND BLUE, by Susan Isaacs.  It's a well-written saga of a Jewish immigrant family and two detectives who are its offspring, who meet each other only when they are each assigned to the same hate group murder case.

Comment by nancy Sanchez on October 24, 2012 at 10:27pm

Just finished "The things they carried" by Tim O'Brien ..it was very good so  I now have "If I die in a combat zone" by the same author on the way...

Comment by Dave Kelly on October 18, 2012 at 3:01am

finished "The Assassin" by Stephen Coonts at 5:30 this morning. Typical can not put down book.

Comment by Robin Williamson McBrearty on September 28, 2012 at 10:46am

She had a very unusual upbringing.  Her parents being foreign (and her mother a member of a prominent European political family), things were done very differently.  She talked of playing with Amy Carter at the White House and had very nice things to say about Rosalyn Carter, who was always trying to wash her face & comb her hair; she was a huge tomboy.  One time, her mother found a deer beside the road that had just been hit by a car and she cooked it up and served it up at a diplomatic dinner.  Another time, when she was 11, she was riding her horse home and was assaulted by a derelict; she escaped and spread the alarm but the guy was never caught and later assaulted another girl in the neighborhood.  Years later, she was contacted to ID him in a line-up but it wasn't the same person.  She annoyed me while reading the book, because she drives herself so hard and sets such high expectations of herself.  She is very fortunate that her husband is completely understanding of her foibles.   

Comment by wiffledust on September 28, 2012 at 9:51am

hi robin! thanks for this review....she does annoy me, but i respect her. and i'm always interested in people's life story! if i had more time, i would read bio's all day! :-) that's very interesting about how she came to be the mika we know now.

Comment by Robin Williamson McBrearty on September 26, 2012 at 12:19pm

Just finished reading All Things At Once by Mika Brzkzinski (I know one one of Lisa W's favorites!) - it helped me understand why she is so driven.  Her parents were both over-achievers, her mother an artist, her father a foreign affairs specialist, and they established huge expectations that she absorbed and placed on herself to be the perfect wife and mother as well as professionally.  She was the conciliator in her strong-opinioned family, which is where she acquired the skills she now uses hosting a news show.  She had to go through a major injury to her infant daughter (exhausted from graveyard shift she fell down stairs while holding the baby) and a complete professional set-back to start over from scratch both in her view of her roles and her career.  Her 2nd lucky break was Joe Scarborough wanting her for his show and the rest is history.

Comment by C. Annie Doucette on August 25, 2012 at 6:02pm

Maryanne!! You should start your own!!  You can even ask a local library or bookshop to host a spot to have it if you don't want to use your house.  We use my bookshop!! Bring in food and beverrages of all sorts and have fun!!  Our adult group votes on books they love and we assign out about 9 months.  It works like this.  Everyone brings books they love or printouts of summarys and everyone votes by cheking off on a piece of paper near the book. At the end the books with the most checks win!  MY YA group.. I pick the books for now and like I said change it up my topic all the time!  Good Luck!! Fall is a great time to start!! Everyone is getting into new routines!! It may also help to keep the date a standard.. like mine is the last thursday of every month.. works great for planning.

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on August 25, 2012 at 12:06am

Thanks Annie ... the last book club that I was in died with one book! I am not the organizer just a participant :-)

Comment by wiffledust on August 24, 2012 at 7:15pm

thanks for posting you guys! keep it comin'!

Comment by C. Annie Doucette on August 24, 2012 at 10:46am

maryanne!  Advice for bookclubs, mix it up!! I'm always changing main character genders, time periods, mysteries, Dystopian, crime, mainstream, non fictions etc..

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