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[barely_legal]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I just finished The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie McDonald. It's long but moves quickly, and it's well written and smart -- a perfect beach read. Sort of a murder mystery, set in 1962. The protagonist is an 8 year old girl whose father is in the Royal Canadian Air Force and gets involved in an intelligence matter.

Speaking of books, dtb, yesterday I read the book that you recommended last week (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency) and really enjoyed it. Have you read any of the sequels yet? I've put a hold on Tears of the Giraffe at the library and I want to know whether to go ahead and put the rest of series on reserve too.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I realize you did, and I appreciate that. That's why I tried to point it out nicely instead of discussing football. But there are only so many ways for people to tell you to get a massage, take a hot shower, and take some drugs. The possibilites for the PTBNL, in contrast, are almost endless.

I am loving the sympathy, because that's the kind of person I am. And my family members are (a) on their way, cellphoneless, to the deepest darkest midwest or (b) herding small children around, so I'm not getting any love from them.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
The extremely hot but grammatically challenged writer?

Indeed. "Why, I am so sorry about all of the dangling participles. However can I make it up to you?"

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Sounds more like a book for Spanky.

Depends. spanky likes the kind of 8 year old girl who's not afraid to break the law- is she on the bad side in this book? Other wild card is that a guy like Spank, who had all that sucess with the ladies- he may not be the kind who wants to just READ about being with la jeune fille, you only go around once.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I am loving the sympathy, because that's the kind of person I am. And my family members are (a) on their way, cellphoneless, to the deepest darkest midwest or (b) herding small children around, so I'm not getting any love from them.

Is the crink on the same side as the hunchback? Is it better or worse if they're on the same side?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Depends. spanky likes the kind of 8 year old girl who's not afraid to break the law- is she on the bad side in this book? Other wild card is that a guy like Spank, who had all that sucess with the ladies- he may not be the kind who wants to just READ about being with la jeune fille, you only go around once.

Actually ...


Sort-of-spoiler space




There is an elementary school teacher in the book who molests little girls.

[dtb]

Originally posted by barely_legal
Speaking of books, dtb, yesterday I read the book that you recommended last week (The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency) and really enjoyed it. Have you read any of the sequels yet? I've put a hold on Tears of the Giraffe at the library and I want to know whether to go ahead and put the rest of series on reserve too.

I'm up to the fifth one. Each is special in its own way (I know I'm just a bundle of tired cliches, but I put them together in such an interesting way!), but my favorite so far is Tears of the Giraffe. The small moments are the best ones, I have found.

None has disappointed me yet.

I'm glad you liked it.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve.

1. You were already dinged.

2. Even if you were admitted you lack the IM technology to allow for any meaningful participation, which, ultimately would lead to expulsion.

Sorry. Thanks for playing.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I really enjoyed Little Children as one of my summer reads last summer. Haven't read Perotta's other books. I should pick them up, NotBob?

I think so. If you liked Little Children, then you should like the others. I especially liked Election. And, fwiw, those who say that Reese Witherspoon can't act should see the movie.

Caveat that I should post every time I mention a book -- I think that barely will never listen to me again after I recommended The Connections.

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
sunny, Little Children is a great easy, fun read that no one will look down upon in the airport. I suggested it to b_n_b last summer, but she probably never took my advice. All about middle class, suburban angst. She might relate even more to it now.

Or maybe she did take your advice, hmmmm?

[barely_legal]

Originally posted by Not Bob

Caveat that I should post every time I mention a book -- I think that barely will never listen to me again after I recommended The Connections.

I actually enjoyed Empire Falls so you've regained some credibility.

Has anyone else read The Historian? I liked it but thought that it moved way too slowly. It was enjoyable, but not as "literary" as I think the author wanted it to be.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by dtb
I'm up to the fifth one. Each is special in its own way (I know I'm just a bundle of tired cliches, but I put them together in such an interesting way!), but my favorite so far is Tears of the Giraffe. The small moments are the best ones, I have found.

None has disappointed me yet.

I'm glad you liked it.

Is there one I should read first?

[The International Male]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
You've been to Japan? Woman like the international male element.

Yes, my Americain friend! And it is not just the silky-bottomed Japanese womans who crave it. The International Male's element has been wielded in the face of a world of womans, from the nipple-stiff gnomettes of Iceland to the sexual-eating Taheetian quivering goddesses that seem as if to step directly out of a Gogain painting (a painter who is liked only by the most sophisticated of peoples) and whose buttocks are possessed with a spirit that makes them tremble and ripple like a burlap sack of puppies sinking to the river’s bottom.

But you do have a point that the Japaneses are especially prone to TIM's hulking loverthoughts. Believe it or not, a Japanese woman almost broke my heart with her longings!! Just last week, I was ordering a Japanese delicacy called a “beef bowl” at a 3-star Michelin Japanese restaurant called YO SHIN OYA (not the tire company, for you flat headed Americains out there!!!), and as the buttery thick Japanese nymph behind the counter turned to fetch my goormand’s dish from the kitchen, I could sense her deep and mystical far-east orient longings reach out to my maddingly pulsing element, as if trying to stretch it across the fancy stainless steel counter and establish a throbbing flesh bridge between us that would unite the east and the west in the most passionate yet intelligent ways.

But the Japanese womans are shy in a very sexxy way, and as she handed me my food, I knew that I would come back when fewer patrons were around. Japanese womans prize privacy among all other things, second to unbridleded mouthlust. I looked at the name tag – almost illegible from all of her shivering with honorable yet hungering restraint – turned around, and walked out the door, trying to remember the foreign letters on her nametag: “Rosa Gutierrez.” I will always remember her as the Japanese one that got away.

Look at ME!!:

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I really enjoyed Little Children as one of my summer reads last summer. Haven't read Perotta's other books. I should pick them up, NotBob?

sunny, Little Children is a great easy, fun read that no one will look down upon in the airport. I suggested it to b_n_b last summer, but she probably never took my advice. All about middle class, suburban angst. She might relate even more to it now.

I'm pretty sure I bought it, intending to read it. Now I have to find it again. Or maybe I'll just re-order it using the Amazon link.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Yes. Therma-care pads. Lifesavers.

Mentos* work better. Especially if you need a cab and one won't stop or you're trying to get into a party.

TM

*(The Freshmaker)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Tell me, does anyone here ever repeat the instructions and definitions in written discovery responses?

Only if objecting to them.