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Comment by nancy Sanchez on September 16, 2011 at 3:58pm

I read so much so fast it seems like by the time I get over here to recomend any I am way into another book...

Just finished Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier..if you read and liked Girl with a Pearl earring..you will like this one ...the story is told by several of the characters in it so you get several views of what is happening...

Also read the Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri......about a family who comes to US from India...I like her style of writing and found the book to be a good read...

Comment by wiffledust on September 16, 2011 at 9:59am

" A First Rate Madness. Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness". I saw this book promo'd on Charlie Rose and found the previews of it fascinating. I'm going to start reading this and let you know how it goes....

Comment by wiffledust on August 31, 2011 at 9:55pm

i'll be interested in your review, rita. i want to see if she's lost her mind or if she's got some good ideas in there!

Comment by Carla "harpy" Eskelsen on August 18, 2011 at 3:55pm

My phone has begun substituting "Utahn" for "it" 100% of the time. This us too frustrating. I'll hop on a computer and pick up the thread from there!

Comment by Carla "harpy" Eskelsen on August 18, 2011 at 3:52pm

"Room" sounds intriguing; I think I'll add it to my queue. Am still plodding through Wicked between other books. Still waiting for a likeable, or at least, enjoyable character. We shall see. Just finished The Glass Harmonica, which didn't really live up to its premise, which was very intriguing! Utahn just didn't really pan out. I think the author had come up with a brilliant idea that she didn't have the chops to flesh out.

Comment by wiffledust on August 16, 2011 at 11:18pm

thanks for the "room" suggestion, rita! it's quite a challenge to write from such a perspective....very cool idea!

Comment by wiffledust on August 10, 2011 at 7:59pm

thanks, nancy! keeping this stuff on the group helps build the group and the community. thanks, guys!

Comment by nancy Sanchez on August 10, 2011 at 7:44pm

JoAnn...I read Sarah's key and had a hard time putting it down...think I recommended it to the wiffledust group last spring as well as all my friends...so far haven't found even one who didn't like the book....will be interested in hearing what you think when you are done with it.....

Comment by JoAnnS on August 10, 2011 at 3:15pm

I just started "Sarah's Key", which just came out in the theaters(and I wanted to read the book first). Fictional story set during a true event, the herding of Jews in 1942 to the "Velodrome d'Hiver" in Paris. From the book jacket:

"Paris 1942: Sarah, a 10 year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard--their secret hiding place--and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released.

Sixty years later: Sarah's story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist investigating the roundup. In her research, Julia stumbles on a trail of secrets that link her to Sarah, and questions about her own romantic future". Pretty intense stuff, and they haven't even made it to Auschwitz yet.

Comment by wiffledust on August 2, 2011 at 10:52pm

and this is the amazon description of "State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett:

 

In State of Wonder, pharmaceutical researcher Dr. Marina Singh sets off into the Amazon jungle to find the remains and effects of a colleague who recently died under somewhat mysterious circumstances. But first she must locate Dr. Anneck Swenson, a renowned gynecologist who has spent years looking at the reproductive habits of a local tribe where women can conceive well into their middle ages and beyond. Eccentric and notoriously tough, Swenson is paid to find the key to this longstanding childbearing ability by the same company for which Dr. Singh works. Yet that isn’t their only connection: both have an overlapping professional past that Dr. Singh has long tried to forget. In finding her former mentor, Dr. Singh must face her own disappointments and regrets, along with the jungle’s unforgiving humidity and insects, making State of Wonder a multi-layered atmospheric novel that is hard to put down. Indeed, Patchett solidifies her well-deserved place as one of today’s master storytellers. Emotional, vivid, and a work of literature that will surely resonate with readers in the weeks and months to come, State of Wonder truly is a thing of beauty and mystery, much like the Amazon jungle itself. --Jessica Schein

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