Sew What’s Up Presents
The Sew What’s New Archive
This archived content is from Mary Wilkins’ sewing and
quilting message board “Sew What’s New,” which was
retired in August 2007. It is being provided by
“Sew What’s Up,”
which serves as the new home for many members of “Sew What’s New.”
From: Midwest Quilt Builder
Date: 07-08-2004, 09:30 AM (1 of 12)
|
What have you read lately that you would recommend? I'm reading "The Opposite of Fate" Amy Tan - a book about her life - boy, does she have an interesting life! It is a GREAT read. I also read "The Secret Life of Bees" recently - also good. I'm waiting to be next in line (my dauthter is reading it) for "Life of Pi" - my other daughter read it and said it was slow to get into but ended up being very interesting - It is an unusual subject. It is about a boy in a life boat with a bangel tiger! MQB |
User: Midwest Quilt Builder
Member since: 12-03-2002 Total posts: 17 |
From: Sherri
Date: 07-08-2004, 11:44 AM (2 of 12)
|
Iread life of Pi. When I got to the end I thought they're ending it that way? Weird. I liked the Confessions of a Shopaholic books. I recently just finished rereading Nicholas Sparks The Notebook. It is excellent. I only hope the movie can do it justice. I am reading The Reader now which I am not enjoying. Next week we are going down South and I get to go to Chapters. I want to get Angry Housewifes Eating Bon Bons. but will probably buy up 1/2 the store. Sherri My website
|
User: Sherri
Member since: 02-07-2001 Total posts: 357 |
From: MaryW
Date: 07-08-2004, 01:01 PM (3 of 12)
|
I'm reading Almost Adam. It's about an archeologist who has gone to Australia and found the link between man and beast. Rather dry in some parts, it's fiction but it is factually written from scientific notes and really kind of interesting overall. I'm about half way thru. MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
|
From: Chrysantha
Date: 07-09-2004, 02:31 PM (4 of 12)
|
Last night I read Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich....I really shouldn't read those at night...I keep laughing and keep myself up till all hours...
Chrys
|
User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414 
|
From: Bama
Date: 07-12-2004, 05:29 PM (5 of 12)
|
I just finished The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I enjoyed reading it. |
User: Bama
Member since: 03-21-2000 Total posts: 2116 
|
From: sewingrandma
Date: 07-12-2004, 06:43 PM (6 of 12)
|
Chyrs, have you read all of her books? I love them. She is also writing another series with Charlotte Huges. Just as good and just as funny. I finally got To the Nines read and laughed all thru it. Currently reading Jeffery Deaver with his Lincoln Rhyme character. This one is especially good as there are lots of twists and turns. I'm almost done and still haven't figured it out yet! How many of you read the last few pages or chapter before you are halfway thru a book? I do lots of times especially if I'm board with the book. I do it to see if I want to complete the book. This one I haven't as I don't want to spoil the ending for me. Brockie
|
User: sewingrandma
Member since: 03-06-2003 Total posts: 432 |
From: MariLynnTX
Date: 07-19-2004, 01:30 PM (7 of 12)
|
I just finished Guardian of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters. It is the most recent in a series (the 13th? 14? I have all of them.) about Amelia Peabody, an Egyptologist in the last part of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. Amelia is married to an Egyptologist and they have very interesting lives. They are mysteries, and fascinating with the development of archeology at that timeand also very funny! Elizabeth Peters also wrote under the name of Barbara Michaels and I have most of those, too, but these are her best, I think. I also just read The Divine Proportion by H.E. Huntley, which is rather dry although a subject that fascinates me as it is very important in art. I have just finished Ambling into History by Bruni, a news reporter with The New York Times, very interesting book about our president, George W. Bush. As a fellow Texan and a supporter of his, I really enjoyed it. I have 2 more new books,one barely started and the other so far untouched. One is The Life & Times of the Wicked Witch of the West and the other is The Ugly Stepsister, both by Gregory Macguire. I need to get busy sewing; I'm so lazy nowadays! I did finish 3 or 4 crazy quilt blocks for the quilt our sewing group 'N Stitches is making to raffle off during our Frontier Days this fall, to benefit Children's Services. MariLynntx Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
|
User: MariLynnTX
Member since: 08-13-2001 Total posts: 256 |
From: DorothyL
Date: 07-19-2004, 11:05 PM (8 of 12)
|
MariLynntx I, too, have been an Amelia Peabody fan for a very long time. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Chrysantha
Date: 07-20-2004, 10:36 AM (9 of 12)
|
Brockie.... Yes I do have ALL the Janet Evanovich books....when I find an author I like, I tend to collect ALL their books. (even the bad ones). I read Deaver too...if you like Deaver, you might like Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child ( Relic, Reliquary, Still Life With Crows, Cabinet Of Curiosities, etc...they write together and on their own) Chrys
|
User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414
|
From: Sewhappie
Date: 07-20-2004, 12:14 PM (10 of 12)
|
I have gotten hooked on anything by Debbie Macomber. If you like "clean" lite-hearted romance/fiction she has done a great job. She has many trilogy series and has left me wanting more from each one. Other authors I enjoy are Heather Graham, Nora Roberts and Kathleen E Woodiwiss ( I really enjoy her Civil War romances). |
User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: blackie
Date: 07-21-2004, 12:15 AM (11 of 12)
|
For some reason I've been reading a lot of nonfiction lately. Last month I read Don't Stop Loving Me: A Reassuring Guide for Mothers of Adolescent Daughters by Ann Caron. I wish my mom would have read it when I was a teenager! I just finished The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. I didn't like the movie, but the book is great. I also recommend Newjack by Tim Conover. It's about a writer who goes undercover in Sing Sing as a CO. It's very fascinating. So for fiction... I also just finished The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides. It is very dark, but funny. Now that I've read it, I really want to see the movie. Oh yeah, the other fiction I've read recently is Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Hoeg. It it sort of an X-Files / conspiracy / whodunit / romance with racial overtones and a really incredible heroine! see the mundane life of a housewife.
|
User: blackie
Member since: 03-31-2004 Total posts: 594 |
From: MariLynnTX
Date: 07-21-2004, 09:29 AM (12 of 12)
|
I've read a good bit of non-fiction, too, beginning with The Divine Proportion (something Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo knew about), Ambling into History (very interesting) by Frank Bruni, and Things Worth Fighting For by Michael Kelly, the first war correspondent killed in Iraq. They are all quite interesting and well worth my time reading. I like to have a balance in what I read.
Life is a song...we give it harmony or dissonance.
|
User: MariLynnTX
Member since: 08-13-2001 Total posts: 256 |
Visit Sew What’s Up for the latest sewing and quilting tips and discussions.
This page was originally located on Sew What’s New (www.sew-whats-new.com) at http://www.sew-whats-new.com/vb/archive/index.php/t-13205.html
Sew What’s Up is hosted by ZenSoft