'Over Fifty Crowd': What are You Reading

jezzie · 04-01-2008, 02:33 AM

... What are you reading now?

So Many Promises - Nomi Berger

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,

perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

- Henry David Thoreau

jezzie · 04-03-2008, 02:53 AM

The Poet, by Michael Connelly

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cokids · 04-05-2008, 07:11 PM

Traub's, Good Calories: Bad Calories. Read it! You'll be reinforced for how you eat.

Beth

Shalbrihil · 04-05-2008, 07:19 PM

The 5th Horseman by James Patterson. I sure miss The Women's Murder Club not being aired anymore. Hope it returns.

jezzie · 04-12-2008, 06:10 PM

Mindless Eating, by Brian Wanasink, PhD.

fluffybear2 · 04-12-2008, 07:50 PM

Follow the Stars Home

by Luanne Rice

I just finished this book. It was a beautiful narrative about a woman who dated one man, but when he introduced her to his brother, she fell in love and married him, a mistake that she later regretted. When she found out that the child they were expecting had multiple birth defects, he left her before the baby was born. His brother (the first man she dated) was a pediatrition and became the doctor of the little girl born with birth defects. The mother kept him at a distance because he reminded her of his brother who had abandoned her and their daughter. Eventually after many years she falls in love with the doctor whom she had first dated (he had loved her from the beginning). Interwoven in the story is a seperate story about another girl (the same age as the girl with birth defects) who is befriended by the doctor, the mother of the little girl with birth defects. She in turn befriends that little girl, accepting her birth defects and treating her as normal. Overseeing them all is a wise grandmother who without interfering seems to understand all of their needs and yearnings. It is a beautiful and inspiring story and I cried a lot while reading it.

mykneesareback · 04-12-2008, 08:39 PM

Hi Fluffy, I've just been wondering about you and wondered where you went, I didn't know you were posting anymore!! Hello!!!!

Doris

fluffybear2 · 04-13-2008, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by mykneesareback

Hi Fluffy, I've just been wondering about you and wondered where you went, I didn't know you were posting anymore!! Hello!!!!

Doris

Oh, I have been hanging around in The Playground and The Game Room.

jezzie · 04-17-2008, 02:38 AM

The Inheritance of Loss By Kiran Desai

Right now, children come home from their first doctor's appointment with an extra bottle of formula.
But imagine if they came home with their first library card or their first copy of Goodnight Moon?

What if it was as easy to get a book as it is to rent a DVD or pick up McDonalds?

What if instead of a toy in every Happy Meal, there was a book?

What if there were portable libraries that rolled through parks and playgrounds like ice cream trucks?
Or kiosks in stores where you could borrow books?

- Barack Obama

fluffybear2 · 04-20-2008, 08:04 AM

Sooner or Later

by Elizabeth Adler

I am really enjoying this book about a retired NYC cop who moves to California to start a winery and becomes involved in a complicated crime plot against a rich West Coast family. Very good reading.

Shalbrihil · 04-20-2008, 10:03 AM

I've been going through The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch. Makes me want to get outside and grow something

fluffybear2 · 04-20-2008, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jezzie

Right now, children come home from their first doctor's appointment with an extra bottle of formula.
But imagine if they came home with their first library card or their first copy of Goodnight Moon?

What if it was as easy to get a book as it is to rent a DVD or pick up McDonalds?

What if instead of a toy in every Happy Meal, there was a book?

What if there were portable libraries that rolled through parks and playgrounds like ice cream trucks?
Or kiosks in stores where you could borrow books?

- Barack Obama

I love the quote in your signature by Barack Obama. My husband and I have always encouraged our children to be readers. However, I must admit that even though I told my children a few stories when they were babies, I didn't actually buy them books until they were about three. After they were grown I returned to college to get my degree. I majored in Early Childhood Education with an emphasis on children aged infant- 3 years old. I learned that the earlier you get children interested in books, the more successful readers they will be. Now I babysit my infant grandson full-time. His mom and I began reading to him shortly after he was born. He is almost 10 months old now and LOVES books. His favorite is Brown Bear, Brown Bear and he loves for me to read it over and over as well as other books. I put the books in a basket on the floor so he can reach them and I will catch him just sitting on the floor "reading" his books. I

fluffybear2 · 04-22-2008, 06:21 AM

Message In A Bottle by Nicholas Sparks

I know I am late reading this, but better late than never.

p.s. I didn't see the movie, but I did see the Notebook and loved it, as did my mom who was about 85 when she saw it.

Carol21950 · 04-22-2008, 06:48 AM

Guardians of the West, by David Eddings.

It's sort of macho fantasy, for those who don't think such a thing exists. Very rugged, hair-on-the-chest sort of stuff.

My house is full of books, and my kids (grown) all have tons of books and read all the time. I'm the book-giving grandma, and can't wait till my grandkids are old enough to read chapter books. Right now, though, the oldest is only 3 and she's fine with Cat in the Hat-level books.

(jumping into your thread -- haven't been to this forum in a long time)

jezzie · 04-23-2008, 02:23 AM

Final Justice, by W.E.B Griffith

Loretta V · 04-23-2008, 05:19 PM

THE REEF by Nora Roberts

Fine Mind · 04-26-2008, 04:32 AM

I am rereading my entire collection of Agatha Christie. This morning I am reading AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL.

buddysgirl50 · 05-02-2008, 09:50 AM

You can be Happy no matter what(five principles for keeping Life in perspective) Richard Carlson phd

I really enjoyed this book on handling your past and living in the present..

Shalbrihil · 05-02-2008, 12:06 PM

I just finished The Absence of Nector. Beginning Good Faith by Jane Smiley today.

Pcola Girl · 05-02-2008, 01:59 PM

I like to read religous books, now I am reading one on the return of Christ.

LindaJ · 05-05-2008, 09:47 PM

Elizabeth Edwards' book ... very well-written ... although the agony she went through when she lost her son is hard to read about.

fluffybear2 · 05-06-2008, 04:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LindaJ

Elizabeth Edwards' book ... very well-written ... although the agony she went through when she lost her son is hard to read about.

I read that one too. Being the daughter of a military man, like Elizabeth, I related to her early life too. I had the priviledge of meeting John. My daughter and son-in-law owned an ice cream shop and hosted a meeting with John and supporters a couple of years ago. He is very down to earth and easy to talk to.

fluffybear2 · 05-06-2008, 04:53 AM

Chesapeake Blue

by Nora Roberts

lacie · 05-06-2008, 05:01 AM

Hope you don't mind me joining in.

A Thousand Splended Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Pcola Girl · 05-06-2008, 11:16 AM

I am reading "WARNING, REVELATION IS ABOUT TO BE FULFILLED"

Boy this book is really scary but God does say it all will come to pass in the last days. I am keeping my eyes open for Him.

buddysgirl50 · 05-06-2008, 11:22 AM

Digital Fortress --Dan Brown

I just started this one. I have read his other three books and enjoyed them

jezzie · 05-06-2008, 12:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lacie

Hope you don't mind me joining in.

A Thousand Splended Suns by Khaled Hosseini

and a welcome to you too.

... That one is on my 'to read' list.

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jezzie · 05-20-2008, 04:20 AM

Returned to The Inheritance of Loss By Kiran Desai

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04-01-2008, 02:33 AM	#1
jezzie Old Wise One Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Hudson River Valley Posts: 36,046 Blog Entries: 75 Gallery: jezzie Stats: choosing to be scale-free; 26w/18w/?? WOE: YOU:on a Diet - Dr. Oz Start Date: 04/22/07 - lightbulb; started YOU forthwith	'Over Fifty Crowd': What are You Reading ... What are you reading now? So Many Promises - Nomi Berger If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau

04-12-2008, 07:50 PM	#6
fluffybear2 Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Southerner transplanted in the Midwest Posts: 4,104 Blog Entries: 2 Gallery: fluffybear2 Stats: 255/195/155 WOE: The WEW (What Ever Works) Diet Start Date: 2007	Follow the Stars Home by Luanne Rice I just finished this book. It was a beautiful narrative about a woman who dated one man, but when he introduced her to his brother, she fell in love and married him, a mistake that she later regretted. When she found out that the child they were expecting had multiple birth defects, he left her before the baby was born. His brother (the first man she dated) was a pediatrition and became the doctor of the little girl born with birth defects. The mother kept him at a distance because he reminded her of his brother who had abandoned her and their daughter. Eventually after many years she falls in love with the doctor whom she had first dated (he had loved her from the beginning). Interwoven in the story is a seperate story about another girl (the same age as the girl with birth defects) who is befriended by the doctor, the mother of the little girl with birth defects. She in turn befriends that little girl, accepting her birth defects and treating her as normal. Overseeing them all is a wise grandmother who without interfering seems to understand all of their needs and yearnings. It is a beautiful and inspiring story and I cried a lot while reading it. __________________ I'm Losing Weight in 2008 "Listen, here's what I think. I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do. By what we deny ourselves--what we resist and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include." From the movie, Chocolat Last edited by fluffybear2 : 04-12-2008 at 07:53 PM.

04-22-2008, 06:48 AM	#14
Carol21950 MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Northern VA Posts: 1,211 Gallery: Carol21950 WOE: Atkins Start Date: August 2002	Guardians of the West, by David Eddings. It's sort of macho fantasy, for those who don't think such a thing exists. Very rugged, hair-on-the-chest sort of stuff. My house is full of books, and my kids (grown) all have tons of books and read all the time. I'm the book-giving grandma, and can't wait till my grandkids are old enough to read chapter books. Right now, though, the oldest is only 3 and she's fine with Cat in the Hat-level books. (jumping into your thread -- haven't been to this forum in a long time) __________________ 5'7.5" 58 yo 169.5 on 4/25/08 BMI 36 on 4/22/08 Starting weight: 175 Goal: 150

04-03-2008, 02:53 AM	#2
jezzie Old Wise One Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Hudson River Valley Posts: 36,046 Blog Entries: 75 Gallery: jezzie Stats: choosing to be scale-free; 26w/18w/?? WOE: YOU:on a Diet - Dr. Oz Start Date: 04/22/07 - lightbulb; started YOU forthwith	The Poet, by Michael Connelly .

04-05-2008, 07:11 PM	#3
cokids Junior LCF Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Boothbay, Maine Posts: 16 Gallery: cokids Stats: 183/180/150 WOE: South Beach modified (counting calories) Start Date: Feb. 27, 2008	Traub's, Good Calories: Bad Calories. Read it! You'll be reinforced for how you eat. Beth

04-05-2008, 07:19 PM	#4
Shalbrihil MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: California Posts: 1,851 Gallery: Shalbrihil Stats: maintaining my loss since 2005 WOE: SBD Phase 3 Start Date: June 2003	The 5th Horseman by James Patterson. I sure miss The Women's Murder Club not being aired anymore. Hope it returns.

04-12-2008, 06:10 PM	#5
jezzie Old Wise One Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Hudson River Valley Posts: 36,046 Blog Entries: 75 Gallery: jezzie Stats: choosing to be scale-free; 26w/18w/?? WOE: YOU:on a Diet - Dr. Oz Start Date: 04/22/07 - lightbulb; started YOU forthwith	*Mindless Eating*, by Brian Wanasink, PhD.

04-12-2008, 08:39 PM	#7
mykneesareback Big Yapper!!!! Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North Calif. Posts: 8,399 Gallery: mykneesareback Stats: 234/125-128 up and down, 130 now and then too WOE: low fat, 2-4 starches, exercise or bust Start Date: March 1, 2004 w/dietitian,doctor	Hi Fluffy, I've just been wondering about you and wondered where you went, I didn't know you were posting anymore!! Hello!!!! Doris

04-17-2008, 02:38 AM	#9
jezzie Old Wise One Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Hudson River Valley Posts: 36,046 Blog Entries: 75 Gallery: jezzie Stats: choosing to be scale-free; 26w/18w/?? WOE: YOU:on a Diet - Dr. Oz Start Date: 04/22/07 - lightbulb; started YOU forthwith	The Inheritance of Loss By Kiran Desai Right now, children come home from their first doctor's appointment with an extra bottle of formula. But imagine if they came home with their first library card or their first copy of Goodnight Moon? What if it was as easy to get a book as it is to rent a DVD or pick up McDonalds? What if instead of a toy in every Happy Meal, there was a book? What if there were portable libraries that rolled through parks and playgrounds like ice cream trucks? Or kiosks in stores where you could borrow books? - Barack Obama

04-20-2008, 08:04 AM	#10
fluffybear2 Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Southerner transplanted in the Midwest Posts: 4,104 Blog Entries: 2 Gallery: fluffybear2 Stats: 255/195/155 WOE: The WEW (What Ever Works) Diet Start Date: 2007	Sooner or Later by Elizabeth Adler I am really enjoying this book about a retired NYC cop who moves to California to start a winery and becomes involved in a complicated crime plot against a rich West Coast family. Very good reading.

04-20-2008, 10:03 AM	#11
Shalbrihil MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: California Posts: 1,851 Gallery: Shalbrihil Stats: maintaining my loss since 2005 WOE: SBD Phase 3 Start Date: June 2003	I've been going through The Garden Primer by Barbara Damrosch. Makes me want to get outside and grow something

04-22-2008, 06:21 AM	#13
fluffybear2 Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Southerner transplanted in the Midwest Posts: 4,104 Blog Entries: 2 Gallery: fluffybear2 Stats: 255/195/155 WOE: The WEW (What Ever Works) Diet Start Date: 2007	Message In A Bottle by Nicholas Sparks I know I am late reading this, but better late than never. p.s. I didn't see the movie, but I did see the Notebook and loved it, as did my mom who was about 85 when she saw it.

04-23-2008, 02:23 AM	#15
jezzie Old Wise One Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Hudson River Valley Posts: 36,046 Blog Entries: 75 Gallery: jezzie Stats: choosing to be scale-free; 26w/18w/?? WOE: YOU:on a Diet - Dr. Oz Start Date: 04/22/07 - lightbulb; started YOU forthwith	Final Justice, by W.E.B Griffith

04-23-2008, 05:19 PM	#16
Loretta V Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 13,566 Gallery: Loretta V Stats: 140/122.5/120 WOE: Low Carb & Low Fat Start Date: July 2001/ Low Carb Friends 9/2001	THE REEF by Nora Roberts

04-26-2008, 04:32 AM	#17
Fine Mind Blabbermouth!!! Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 5,467 Gallery: Fine Mind WOE: Atkins '72 Start Date: 08/25/07	I am rereading my entire collection of Agatha Christie. This morning I am reading AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL.

05-02-2008, 09:50 AM	#18
buddysgirl50 Senior LCF Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Blaine WA Posts: 179 Gallery: buddysgirl50 Stats: 205/186/135 WOE: DANDR 2002 Start Date: May 3 2008	You can be Happy no matter what(five principles for keeping Life in perspective) Richard Carlson phd I really enjoyed this book on handling your past and living in the present..

05-02-2008, 12:06 PM	#19
Shalbrihil MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: California Posts: 1,851 Gallery: Shalbrihil Stats: maintaining my loss since 2005 WOE: SBD Phase 3 Start Date: June 2003	I just finished The Absence of Nector. Beginning Good Faith by Jane Smiley today.

05-02-2008, 01:59 PM	#20
Pcola Girl MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pensacola, Florida Posts: 2,737 Gallery: Pcola Girl Stats: Start-325 Today-225 Goal 160 WOE: Atkins Start Date: Sarted Nov. 2000---Restarted New January 2008	I like to read religous books, now I am reading one on the return of Christ.

05-05-2008, 09:47 PM	#21
LindaJ Way too much time on my hands! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Oregon coast Posts: 22,496 Gallery: LindaJ Stats: 172/162/140 5'7" age 59 WOE: Atkins lifestyle Start Date: August 2000	Elizabeth Edwards' book ... very well-written ... although the agony she went through when she lost her son is hard to read about.

05-06-2008, 04:53 AM	#23
fluffybear2 Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Southerner transplanted in the Midwest Posts: 4,104 Blog Entries: 2 Gallery: fluffybear2 Stats: 255/195/155 WOE: The WEW (What Ever Works) Diet Start Date: 2007	Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts

05-06-2008, 05:01 AM	#24
lacie Junior LCF Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 26 Gallery: lacie	Hope you don't mind me joining in. A Thousand Splended Suns by Khaled Hosseini

05-06-2008, 11:16 AM	#25
Pcola Girl MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pensacola, Florida Posts: 2,737 Gallery: Pcola Girl Stats: Start-325 Today-225 Goal 160 WOE: Atkins Start Date: Sarted Nov. 2000---Restarted New January 2008	I am reading "WARNING, REVELATION IS ABOUT TO BE FULFILLED" Boy this book is really scary but God does say it all will come to pass in the last days. I am keeping my eyes open for Him.

05-06-2008, 11:22 AM	#26
buddysgirl50 Senior LCF Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Blaine WA Posts: 179 Gallery: buddysgirl50 Stats: 205/186/135 WOE: DANDR 2002 Start Date: May 3 2008	Digital Fortress --Dan Brown I just started this one. I have read his other three books and enjoyed them

05-20-2008, 04:20 AM	#28
jezzie Old Wise One Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Hudson River Valley Posts: 36,046 Blog Entries: 75 Gallery: jezzie Stats: choosing to be scale-free; 26w/18w/?? WOE: YOU:on a Diet - Dr. Oz Start Date: 04/22/07 - lightbulb; started YOU forthwith	Returned to The Inheritance of Loss By Kiran Desai .