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Yes Jo, this is John Grisham’s newest book. Copyright 2007. I don’t know much about football but sure am enjoying this book.
Huggz all,
Jerry

Booksfree doesn’t have it yet but I expect they will soon - is this a new release, Jerry?

I meant track.

I think fans of NASCAR would enjoy this book more than I. I liked the characters enough that it kept me mildly interested and I did finish it. I did learn that there is a lot more to that business then I ever thought and I have more respect for the races now that I read McCrumbs story about it. She did mention some of the famous drivers. I have enjoyed her other books more though.

If any of you are John Grisham fans, go right out and beg, borrow or steal this little book. I got mine at Sam’s for thirteen bucks and am sixty pages into it and finding it delightful with the promise of becoming wonderful. It’s about a washed up NFL third string quarterback who takes a job playing for the Parma (Italy) Panthers. To them, having a pro quarterback in their midst is like hosting a demigod. Jo, I know that you, especially, will love this book.
Huggz all,
Jerry

All of your choices sound good to me, Jerry; thanks and I’ll keep trying booksfree.

We read Devil in the White City in Oct., 2004 and most of us thought the story very good, if I remember.

Lots of thunder this early evening but no rain as yet. A very brief sprinkling - just enough to mess up the car windows!

This is also by Erik Larson, Jerry.  Our local book club has chosen it for next month’s selection.  Everyone sounded enthusiastic about it and I picked it up on the way home from book club that day, before I stopped at the doctor’s office.  Dr . diagnosed me with strep throat and gave me nine days worth of a strong antibiotic, so I haven’t had my head out of the house for seven days.  Finally better today, so I went to the store and bought a few groceries.

Well, talk about rambling!  My whole point is that I have read half of this book and am about to give up on it.  It is an interesting theme about Chicago and the huge Worlds Fair complex  that was being built in the early 1890’s.  It describes all of the problems that seem unsurmountable  as it takes far more time and money than originally planned.  A bit too much detail of meetings and disputes among the brilliant architects and designers, but I made it through a lot of this.

What really bothered me was the “devil” who wasn’t involved in the building of the complex, but lived and worked in the general vicinity.  He was a medical doctor by the name of H. H. Holmes, a charming psychopath who was one of the most devious serial killers this country has ever seen.  This is a true story - I even googled the name  and it seems to be very factual.  It is probably the most disturbing book I have ever read.  Maybe the fact that I was ill and rather depressed  effected my opinion.  I should have had light little romance or at least something uplifting on hand.  I haven’t finished it but I think a happy ending to this one is a little too far fetched!

Has anyone read “Blue Water” by A. Manette Ansay? I’m almost finished and I have to say it’s a real wowser! I think I mentioned before that it’s about a middle aged couple who buy a sailboat and sail away from their hatred of the poor drunken woman who caused their son’s death in an auto accident. Once started, it’s hard to put down.

I’ve just bought John Grisham’s new little book, “Playing for Pizza”. Looks kinda good.

I’ve got ordered from Amazon “Thunderstruck”, which I saw advertised in NYT book review. This is by Erik Larson.

Huggz all,
Jerry

I don’t know how many of you like the New York Times. Occasionally the Chronicle will carry a story from them but not many. Now the NYT has dropped the charge for their online paper. I’ve taken the printed version a few times when they had half price offers and was thinking about subscribing to the online version and then they changed. Their aim is to make up the subscription prices in ads. I could tell them right now I’m not going to be a big source of support there but I’m enjoying it while it’s there.

This morning I decided to check and see what the Washington Post had–sure enough, it’s free, too. I spent a lot of time online–that’s the downside–but it was worth a story in the Post today about a construction crew renovating an old building, finding an old suitcase with pictures and letters referring to 1923 but no ownership. There was one name that appeared. Cutting to the chase, one of the men located the son, a lawyer now living in Washington–when he was a child his mother and father had a business in that building–they died 20 years ago. It was so nice to read a good story–someone going the trouble to locate the family–the man was very grateful–he sat up that night reading and looking at those early pictures and letters.

Candace

I have moles and freckles and seborrheic keratoses (how about THAT term?) all over me, especially my torso. The keratoses resemble a flattened mole with a cracked top. They don’t itch or hurt or anything; they just look ugly (at least in my opinion). I go to a dermatologist regularly. How fortunate that you keep on plugging away at the doctor; two years is a loooooong time.

I was forced to buy some cat grass; my two so-called kittens who are six months are as big as, or bigger, than their mother! Anyhow, they have been eating the leaves on my Hawaiian ti plant which I’ve had since son Les was in the oven!!!!!!!! And that makes it some 54 years old. I decided that if they killed it, they would also have killed their happy home. I bought some grass that was grown, a package that was planted but only needed water, and finally some seeds.

And that’s all the exciting stuff here in Lebanon PA.

Jo

That’s what came to me late and also, I apologize, Darlyne–I knew better but my fingers slipped up. Others I’ve had were superficial, but removing this one created a hole on the side of my nose. The procedure is really efficient. I think I may have mentioned here a letter from the doctor that did that procedure outlining a proposal by the “gov-mint” for Medicare to cover the procedure only if the removal and plastic surgery were done on different days–not on a single visit. What an idiotic idea. Of course, I signed the petition–don’t know the status of it. The rebuttal by the doctors pointed out the unnecessary loss of time and extra travel for patients and doctors alike when it made sense to complete the job on the single visit.

Candace

It was probably a basil cell carcinoma. I have had a couple of them removed by the Mohs treatment. That type doesn’t grow deeper than the skin but can grow in the skin.

You are so right about persisting, Darlene. I had a a little spot on my nose last fall that was a little different. I mentioned it to my primary care and he thought it was nothing. My old dermatologist had retired and I made an appt with a different one who looked at it and thought it was probably nothing but he called in a young female intern to look at it and she said it needed to come off–sure enough it was a (drat, the least serious type–hope it comes to me in a minute) that she removed but found it was deeper than expected and sent me to a specialist in the MOHS procedure. It wasn’t as serious as yours but the location made it difficult and could have been serious in time. We have to be proactive. We’re decades past the time when people accepted a doctor’s opinion without question. As soon as I send this the name will come to it–it’s right at the tip of my mind to combine a couple of expressions.

Candace

Congratulations, Darlyne, on the favorable outcome on the melanoma. This is a serious condition and you were lucky to discover it at an early date.
JOY

I received The Untamed Land from Amazon’s used books. I spent very little on it. Jacky wrote about this author who writes about the area where I grew up so it should be interesting. I have to finish McCrumb’s book about car racing and one other before I get to it though. The racing book isn’t a real page turner but learning more about car racing than I ever knew is interesting. It is much more complicated than I thought and Crumb’s characters are real.
I had a melanoma removed from my arm today. It was shallow and they said there is no chance that it has spread and I was lucky that I had noticed it. What rather bummed me though is I had pointed out this freckleoma, (Julie’s term), to my dermatologist for at least two years. She finally biopsied it to appease me although she said it was nothing. She was wrong. I am telling you about this to remind you to trust your Dr. but trust yourself more and sometimes you have to be a pain in the rear and insist.

You don’t have to click on user portal - Site administration is already there just before log out. Click on SITE ADMINISTRATION.

And speaking of which, don’t lick on log out or you’ll have to sign in every time. I just click on the x in the topmost right hand corner. Don’t have to sign in again which is why I always write down my passwords. The only thing I sign out of is my bank stuff.

Thanks Darlyne.

Yup - it does.

Click on User Portal, then site administration. On that screen is a place to register, change the password, and some other stuff.

I’ve just never clicked on those things before. Maybe I should, eh wot?

It is at top of the side bar on the left hand side. the top says user portal or something like that and under that is registure. I have a PC.

I don’t have one of those reregistering thingies…so I would have to go to the bottom of the GGOBIT page. I feel discriminated against - I wonder how come you have it and I don’t. Do you have a Mac perchance. I know that sometimes the different computers pick up things quite differently.

On mine there is a registure thing to click on on the side bar at the top. She could just go to that too.

Of course it was all right with me BUT I can’t give her the password she needs. So for Gretchen and everyone else, save this.

Go to the GGOBIT site and down at the bottom of the page is a ‘button’ which say Contact Webmaster, or words to that effect but definitely with the word “Webmaster” in it. That will get you to Jenny and should solve all yours problems.

Also, remember to write down your password; you can also change the password she gives you but since I wrote mine down, I’m not sure I can give you the good directions for changing it.

Jo

Jo: Gretch posted on the old Cooking and Food board that she has never been able to get into GGOBIT. I e-mailed her
your address and told her that you would be the one to ask. I hope that was okay with you.
JOY

From Susan:

< < Jo, I don't know if you know it or not, but Gretchen lost her only sister last week. She posted it in Hearth in the old SeniorNet. She said she felt like she'd been blindsided. I checked GGOBIT, and she didn't post there. >>

You are in our thoughts and prayers, Gretchen. I think it’s harder to lose a sibling than a parent although both are difficult.

At 1:30 a.m., nothing is dumb when you’re day people.

I thought of this about the time I went to bed last night.  That’s what I get for e-mailing in the wee hours.

The book I was talking about was The Glass CASTLE, not the Glass House.  Dumb mistake, even at 1:30 in the morning.