My library has two copies but they are both out. It also has an audio tape of it. I am not reserving it yet because I am leaving for WI next week. Its spring break you know. The book probably isn’t new but it is on the new book shelf and on the book club table so must be very popular. By the way, my library will take requests for books and will usually get them. I got it to stock two of Wede’s books.
The Amazon review sounds really terrific: Queen Elizabeth II finds herself in a library van while chasing her corgis. And the author is a Brit so it should be very good.
booksfree.com doesn’t have it; neither does our library. And it’s not a new book either.
Does anyone have a copy to share?
Jo
A book we are reading and discussing over in SeniorNet.org is “The Uncommon Reader” by Alan Bennett. It is a novella, very short, very “bookish” and should appeal to all here who love reading. I checked it out at the library, read it, then turned around and re-read it immediately. I think everyone might like it. Do your Amazon review thing for a more professional review.
Joanne
OK, Jenny. Give us a title to read and those of us who wish to, can read and respond. I’ll also post the notice in the email distribution which gets to everyone. Maybe we can drum up some interest in starting it again.
i forgat to mention, tomato is jenny, an old timer.
i wish we would read a certain book a month and then talk about it. how about the jane Austin books? i saw the film pride and prejudice on PBS and i think the stories are great.
Yes indeed, that is why it died but I waswondering if we wanted to try to start it up again.
I looked for that book at booksfree, Jerry, and they had it but it’s shown as low availability. I had one book listed like that for months and I always wondered why it was listed at all! Told ‘em they should just not bother.
Aggravating.
I’m immersed in this wonderful book by Patrick Taylor and enjoying every word and gaelic colloquialism and the goings on in the tiny Northeastern Irish town of Ballybucklebo. A newly licensed doctor takes a job as assistant to the burly and blunt GP in this mostly rural area and learns things he never learned at the college in Belfast. Remember the great books by James Herriot? Well, this book is reminiscent of those except these are healers of humans. Try it if you can find it. I got it at Target.
Huggz all,
Jerry
It seems to me it died because people weren’t reading the book and no one had suggestions.
I am reading a Jodi Picoult one that I hadn’t read, Vanishing Acts. The narrator lives with her husband, daughter and her Father. She works with a bloodhound and finds people and things. This in itself is interesting. However her father is arrested and accused of kidnapping her when she was four years old. He had told her her Mother was dead. He has been a great father. This is all at the start of the book and I can tell it will be a page turner. The trial is about to start and that is all the further I have read.
Would we like to start reading a monthly book again?
i am sorry, but i can not say how the grandchildren set up the game in the computer. i just put my word in, when my turn comes as an e mail and i enjoy it a lot. for my other enjoyment i do crosswordpuzzles and play the easy Sudoko game in the newspaper
it was interesting when we had the bookclub and all read a certain book a month and next month we talked about it. i loved that, to bad it came to an end, JO had a lot to do with it when it existed. i looked out the window about arising and saw it had snowed over night, not much, but something that happen very rarely here. i hope everybody has a nice weekend. JENNY
Jo’s right, Jenny, if someone doesn’t post fairly often, I wonder what’s going on with them. I know what you’re saying–most days the best I could say would be “I got up, put the dogs out, fed the cats.” I didn’t know there was a way to play Scrabble online. How do you do that? Always enjoyed playing it the old fashioned way. What I do now is play Daily IQ which has a few words to test one’s self, scrambled, definitions, etc.
Candace
While you may not think you have anything to say, Jenny, we still like to hear from you. So just say hello when you pop in.
Playing Scrabble with your grandkids via computer surely is an excellent way to stay in touch. And also to stay current with THEIR world. How often to we, as seniors, get ‘dropped by the side of the road’ when it comes to the current slang usage. Or other new things?
At any rate, stay in touch.
Jo
hello, i came in here quite often, but since i have nothing to say of interest to you i stopped coming in. My grandchildren and i are playing scrabble over the computer, its lot of Fun. the grandchildren live in new york, san francisco, milwaukee and portland. that`s one way to keep in touch. are some of you doing this? my name is jenny from birmingham, al.
I’m reading this book at Judith’s suggestion and I’m finding it a sad book, to the point to where I read the last few pages which I normally do not do. Charly Gordon is a retarded man in his 30s who is currently being treated by two doctors, one of whom is a neurosurgeon. They want to operate on Charly to make him more intelligent, a procedure which has been successful in mice. After the surgery, Charly is making great strides but it has been most unsettling for him; he’s discovered he has been laughed at and made the butt of jokes. I do know what happens at the end but not how it gets there. I feel like, and felt before I read the end, that DOOM was sitting on my shoulders.
Why are humans, adult and children, so cruel?
Jo
This is a story of a man, Okonkwo, living in Africa probably in the 1800s. I am not sure of the time. His life is good, he has at least three wives and many children and a barn full of yams. He is held in high esteem in his clan. Then things begin to fall apart. A white man comes bringing his own God and wants the clan to get rid of their own gods they have had forever. Okonkwo accidently shoots a man and is exiled to his Mothers homeland for seven years when he can come back since the shooting was accidental. When he comes back he finds the white men have pretty much taken over and his life has changed.
Although this book wasn’t a page turner for me it was very interesting reading about the African culture, their mostly sensible laws and how they cared for each other. Family was very important to them. I say mostly sensible because they thought twins were an evil thing and the new born babies were thrown away. It was an understood thing. The Gods would punish the whole clan if they were allowed to live. This book is a Princeton Read book and is the one chosen for my library book group. Now I am off to one of my more fun books to read. Things was a fairly easy read except for the African names and words. There was a glossary but I was too lazy to look at it while reading the book. I looked at it when I finished the book but by that time forgot when I read most of the words listed there.
Ah yes – global warming and the lack of knowledge of the language/names/etc.
Fow Schwartz – that’s hilarious. Thanks Candace.
Just had to report the latest ious lack of general knowledge on the part of some of the young people on TV. Something we’ve observed here from time to time, along with misspellings. One of the young Channel 13 male anchors was reporting on the most expensive building in the US for sale. He said tenants include Apple and “Fow” Schwartz–the name of the store in the background.
Candace
It’s my knee and ankle, Joanne, and thanks for the commiseration. I feel for me too!!!!!!!!!! 
Do you have a little spiral notebook? I put the alphabet letters on each page singly so I have room for quite a few. That helps.
I agree – hope everyone is getting decent weather but it is weird this year – evidence of global warming i’m thinking.
Take care all,
Jo
Hope everyone here is okay, I was just able to get back in I keep losing my user name and password (and yes it is written down I just can’t remember where LOLOL)
Hope the weather in everyone’s state is improving. We have had some beautiful days, but also on Monday, it snowed, was gone by Tuesday morn when the sun came out and melted our 1- 1/12 inches. Gorgeous today, but expecting more of the fluffy stuff maybe tomorrow night or Friday morning.
Exciting election happenings down here last night, but I’m sure glad the TV commercials are over, and my phone ringing 10 times a day with recorded political calls.
Jo, sorry you had to get rid of your kitties. Also, sorry about your knees and shoulder. You must have taken a really bad spill.
Joanne
Thanks to Traudi for reminding us about SeniorNet.org. I visited that WREX magazine’s first issue and there are some very nice stories written there. These people are very talented. I’ll be going back to read more of the stories.
Huggz all,
Jerry
I went to the site she listed and it obviously has been a major project. The one I read was very good and I want to read the rest of them.
Candace
It is good to hear from Traude. Maybe she can post here through you Jo.
She isn’t getting all the emails and missed the one from Myrna, so when she wrote me asking what was happening, I told her. I got the following in an email this morning.
“” What I saw about Myrna was only the mention of her name and good wishes expressed for her and for Wede. Sort of “lumped” together.
Now I need to tell you why I haven’t been more “present” in the blog.
A cyber friend in Israel and I were put in charge of WREX (yu surely remember the Writers Exchange that was once in AOL SN, fondly remembered) in the spring of 2006. You probably remembe the leader whose name as Zephyr. I did not then participate. Then came Mal Freeman who took over.
She was in a wheelchair and wrote books, two of thm self-published (where the author pays for the privilege, does all the editing and marketing him/herself). Mal died i January.
In the spring of last year, the cyberfriend and I were asked to put together a Literary Magazine, and it was a huge project. It came t an abrupt stop in the summer of last year because SN switched to a new server, and there was h e l l . The change was dramatic and traumatic, and I still have problems.
However, the magazine is on line now. It contains artwork by a senior and ten stories written by seniors. We are planning a second issue where other WREXERS will be heard from.
You are so savvy technical and will find your way there in no time.
Just go to SeniorNet.org then check in the left column and click on “Enrichment”, from there go to ‘Books and Culture”, and whe you have that page, scroll down until you find WREX and the WREX Magazine.
I’m a bit concerned about the tear in your knee. It seems like a long wait when one is limping and in pain to wait for April (or any far-off date). A cortisone shot should help instantly. I know from experience. The rotor cuff in my right sholder is torn, the whole arm is out of alignment. I haven’t had an injection for a year, but I know they help.
I’m too tire to check for typos. So please ignore same.
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