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The Help by Kathryn Stockett

by HRevvdon@evpl on Monday, March 30 2009, 9:28pm

Sometimes books are just better when you listen to them. This is one of those books. One of the women I work with had read this book and when we were talking about it she recalled that I had both read and listened to The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel...

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Filed under: African Americans, civil rights, women, Stockett, help, Mississippi

Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig

by HRevvdon@evpl on Sunday, March 29 2009, 8:04pm

I have to admit, I am a fan of Gone With the Wind (1936). I know that may not be a very politically correct admission. Sure I like the movie, but Martha Mitchell's one-hit wonder introduced me to both epic novels and the genre of southern novels that...

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Filed under: Gone With the Wind, Donald McCaig, Martha Mitchell, southern novels

E Can Write More Than Songs

by Shh_ImReading@evpl on Tuesday, March 24 2009, 3:28pm

Mark Oliver Everett is probably better known simply as E, the lead singer and creative force behind the Eels, but a few months ago he published a memoir under his full name called Things the Grandchildren Should Know . He might be a little younger than...

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Filed under: nonfiction, families, celebrities, memoir, death, Mark Oliver Everett, music

Bachelor Brothers by Bill Richardson

by HRevvdon@evpl on Saturday, March 21 2009, 1:41pm

A fellow blogger told me of Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast (1993) by Bill Richardson when I lamented about needing a light comforting book about small town/village life - the one I had read and blogged about I had been sorely disappointed in...

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Filed under: bachelor, Bill Richardson, b&b

Love & Death

by Shh_ImReading@evpl on Tuesday, March 17 2009, 11:42am

Sunday night I finished reading The Ghost in Love by Jonathan Carroll . I still haven't figured out how I really feel about it. It's a little bit creepy, a little bit funny and a lot weird. It is a book that entertains, but also makes you think...

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Filed under: fiction, Food, dogs, death, love, Jonathan Carroll, speculative fiction, ghosts

"Death from the Skies" by Philip Plait

by lotech@evpl on Friday, March 13 2009, 11:13am

The subtitle of this book is "These are the ways the world will end..." The cover features a glowing ball of fire, the Sun, headed right for our planet! I assumed this book wold be a humorous criticsim of extreme and erroneous doomsday views...

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Filed under: Astronomy

Love the One You're With

by librarianinheels@evpl on Tuesday, March 10 2009, 5:06pm

Ever wonder what might have happened if "the one who got away" had ended up being just "the one"? And furthermore - if you had the opportunity to change your life, to go back for "the one who got away," would you? Love the...

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The Underneath by Kathi Appelt

by HRevvdon@evpl on Tuesday, March 10 2009, 4:39pm

I finished The Underneath (2008) by Kathi Appelt over the weekend. I am not sure what to say about it. The first thought I had was "why would anyone write this book?" It is a young readers/juvenile fiction book and a finalist for the National...

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Filed under: dogs, Kathi Appelt, animals, cats, bayou

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie Ford

by HRevvdon@evpl on Tuesday, March 3 2009, 8:23pm

I am happy that I seldom listen to book critics. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel (2009) by Jamie Ford has gotten mixed reviews, one of which called it "flat" and "strained." I did not find it either. I very much enjoyed...

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Filed under: WWII, Internment Camps, Japanese, Seattle, Chinese, Jamie Ford

Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie

by HRevvdon@evpl on Monday, March 2 2009, 9:17pm

Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch (2005) is by Dai Sijie, a Chinese author who works in France and writes in French. So this is a Chinese novel, written in French, and translated into English. There is little lost in the translation. This is one of those...

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Filed under: china, Dai Sijie

Defending the Written Word: The Book Thief

by lit.fic.reader@evpl on Monday, March 2 2009, 11:40am

The third and final selection in McCollough's Defending the Written Word book discussion series is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. An award-winning and best-selling novel, it is a searing and moving work set in Nazi Germany. The main character is...

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Filed under: mccollough branch, book discussions, Germany, Word War II -- fiction, books and reading

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