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I will have to check out the books! Thnaks for telling me about them!
OK - I'm looking at Downton Abbey books and I realized now what you said about Shirley MacClaine and that I read what you wrote wrong. The books that are even related to the subject matter look interesting to me. Maybe I need to visit the library soon.
I'm switching between two right now, but focusing more on the one because it's turning out to be really interesting with superb writing. It is called What it is Like Going to War by Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn (Vietnam fiction), which was also a great, great book, and I think won the Pulitzer.
I think this book contains everything anyone might ever have wanted to ask a soldier, including what it's like to kill someone, but he, as a Rhodes Scholar and graduate of Yale, actually knows how to write. He addresses the spiritual dimension of war. He served in the Vietnam war and won a large amount of medals. From what I've read so far, I was thinking this book might be a good book idea for anyone who knows soldiers out there.
If I was Dawn, I'd be writing him love letters. He's just that good.
And I picked up Stone Spring by Stephen Baxter, which seems to be about the stone age people. I keep getting drawn back into the other book, so I'm not very far along in this one. I noticed there is a sequel to it called Bronze something or the other.
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If I was Dawn, I'd be writing him love letters. He's just that good.
Hmmmm.
Well, since I invited people to your house from this forum for a cranky party, and people from the food forum for hot crash potatoes, maybe I *will* write to him and invite him to your house for... for... something. Is he cute?
I have been traveling to various offices all 1 - 3 hours away a few days a week lately so decided that I'd go to the library and pick up some CD books. I chose books that I might not have chosen to read, but they seemed easy enough to listen to while driving and navigating and adaptable to stop and start as I get in and out of the car. My choices were: Save Me by Lisa Scottoline and Once Upon a Time There was You by Elizabeth Berg.
I would rank them as pretty awful - or at least not very good and barely listenable.
Maybe audio books are just not my thing, but this was NOT enjoyable. I became hyper-aware of repetitive patterns throughout the writing and it was so distracting. They both just plodded along. Maybe I skip a little when I read, but at least I keep the pace up.
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Ah! One of my library Kindle holds came through, so I'm soon going to start on Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo. It's supposed to be a remarkable book. It won the National Book Award and seems to be on all the Top Ten for 2012 lists. The author has also won the Pulitzer Prize.
No, no, no! I meant we could play with plastic toy soldiers together!
So, you like little soldiers, too? (Just playin' with you.)
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I have been traveling to various offices all 1 - 3 hours away a few days a week lately so decided that I'd go to the library and pick up some CD books. ... Maybe audio books are just not my thing, but this was NOT enjoyable.
It could be, but I am thinking that you should try it with books that you actually want to listen to, but don't required concentration. DH and I used to listen to audiobooks together as we traveled, and the readers have to be as good as the writers in audiobooks.
I loved the Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon books on audio, because the stories just amble along and are interesting without being absorbing. The same is true for Sue Grafton's alphabet series. Frankly, any of the cozier books work great. I wouldn't listen to a Ludlum while driving -- too intense.
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Aaaaaaand it's boring me to tears. It's like reading a very long article in Time magazine.
You definitely were right Dawn - those two books were NOT my style! So funny how we all know each other's tastes so well here!
I just tried to buy Marjorie Morningstar for my Kindle and it isn't going to be available until January, 2013 - I don't know why I thought that was weird. Oh well, I'm Kindle-fickle and switch back and forth between books and Kindle so I just got the "real" version.
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Maybe I need to visit the library soon. 
So, you like little soldiers, too? 
(Just playin' with you.) 
