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Darlyne, I did like the movie, but Pam, middle daughter had warned me that the first 17 minutes were weirdly pretty or something. I knew Brad Pitt was in it, so I hung in to see how he was used, and he is a very militant father of three sons, mom is gentle, and the story is disturbingly like life in the 50s for a small town family. Lots of questions, and no real answers. I see its nominated for a best picture in the Oscars, which maybe doesn’t mean much.

Otherwise I’m waiting for that short story book from Amazon, Jesus Shoes.

Jerry, those words are familiar from way deep in my memory bank but I can’t remember the source. This morning listening to the new project to put textbooks on IPads made me wonder if future generations may someday marvel at the remains of those crumbling structures with deteriorating piles of crumbling paper and shelves.

Candace

Remember this? “I am the Library. I am neither walls nor shelves, nor even books that stand in rows. I am the wisdom of the universe captured and arranged for you. I am an open door ENTER.”

Jacky, I started to watch that movie but gave up on it. I thought it was dumb but that is only my opinion. You may like it.

I don’t know the name of her newest book, but I think I’m several behind. I should keep a list of books I’ve read, because I have gotten some that after a few chapters, I realize, I’ve read this. There are almost none that I care to read again, since there are so many out there, books everywhere! I got the Tree of Life, Netlick, based on a 1960 adventure book by Terrence Malick, about a confused man named Jack, who sets off on a journey to understand the true nature of the world. It was reviewed in The Upper Room, so I got curious. Has anyone read it? The movie stars Brad Pitt, and Sean Penn.

16.6 below in Oslo this am. But the house is warm, thankfully.

Jacky

I have been watching The Good Wife also and like it. I just finished the second disk. Friends that watch the current ones recommended it.

I am still reading The Paris Wife. It is about Hemingway’s first wife most in my book group thought the book well written and not great but did stimulate their interest to read more of Hemingway. I want to finish it but don’t find it a page turner. What is Picoult’s new book? I think I have read all of hers.

We finally have snow, but not very much, thankfully, just enough to make it brighter, our surroundings are quite brown, gray and black, except for evergreens, which are not native,and few, so snow is nice. We’ve been watching the first seasons of The Good Wife. She’s a lawyer, who has to go back to work as her husband is falsely jailed, but also did prostatutes sp, The extra info on the first DVD explains that the story’s source was how women have coped with husbands messing up, namely Hilary Clinton, Tammy Baker, Elizabeth Edwards, ect. What I like about the stories is the cases the Good Wife defends. However my sister , who has watched it from the beginning in 09, feels the stories are getting rather far fetched, which often happens when a series runs out of material.

Going to order that Short story book Sweet Tea amd jesus feet, as I need something to read. I have a gift cert that I’ll use for a new Jodi Picoult.

Hope you are all wintering well. Jacky

Good point, Jacky–too often I have to go back when I start reading the next day because I don’t remember the last few pages before I gave up.

Candace

To read faster and not fall asleep.

To read faster.

Yes, they are available as books, and as I understand it, there are several books, some of which are NOT short stories. The authors are: Deborah Smith, Sandra Chastain, Donna Ball and Virginia Ellis. I think they write these tales separately also. There’s one called “Sweet Hush” that I read a sample from on Amazon, that I’d really like to get the book it sounds so good. Check on Amazon, first under Sweet Tea & Jesus Shoes, that’s the shortstory one.

I’ve always like short stories and used to get the collection of the Best SS from our library, but they got so depressing I haven’t read one for many years, but the one you mentioned, bookworm, sounds good, I don’t have a kindle, but maybe its in print?

And we got snow for the new year, our gray world gets so much lighter with the clean whiteness. My grand daughter and I got my cross country skies down from the attic, and went sking. She did very well for never having done it before. We have a tiny hill north of our house, the lake, Darlyne, and she did it without falling and was wondering if we had a “bigger”. We do have the banks of our Red River, every where else is completely flat, but it was too cold to ski the 5 blockes to the river. we’ll try it later.

I paid the 30.00 for the lost book on cd at our library. From now on, I’m checking them in myself. I fairly certain I just dropped the missing one in the return box. They said again, if it turns up, I’ll be refunded.

Hope you all have a wonderfully blessed 2012. Jacky

I downloaded a free book of short stories to my Kindle. Title: “Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes”.
A whole raft of lovely short stories by several authors, dealing with some of our Southern eccentricities, if you will! LOL

As I usually don’t like Short Stories, these were wonderful and well-written too. If you have a Kindle, see if this book is still Free, and download it!

Happy new year to all my friends. We as usual didn’t make till midnight but the NY comes around anyway. There isn’t a lot of time to read but I put the Grisham book aside and started on The Paris Wife, my book group choice. It is good so far.
Ps my iPad won’t let me print the name of this group. It auto corrects to something else.

We’ve made it through another year. I still miss Guy Lombardo but will stay up for the ball drop. I finished The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo and have restarted The Music Teacher that I’d stopped when something else came along months ago.

Let’s meet here again in the New Year.

Candace

<I was glad to see the Packers win, our youngest son in law is from WI, and I've given up on the Vikings. We have 2 cute chincilla's in our basement, in their cage. They came with our grand daughter who stays here through the week to attend 10th grade in East Grand Forks. Her parents are moving back here in the spring. I'm caring for them over Christmas as Sydney and her family are in Madison with the other grandparents.

Chinchillas are cute, eat a lot, and show off late at night and in the am, they sleep all day. They take "dust baths" in ashes, spinning rapidly with dust flying. They are not to get wet. I don't know what they do in the mountains of South America, where they are native. And they eat Timothy hay, like our cows did when I was a kid.

I just finished "House Rules" by Jodi Picoult, she must do a lot of reseatch for her writing. This is about an augsburger 18 year old.

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, we have NO SNOW yet. Jacky

I’m a Packers fan from way back and love Rodgers, too. I have a hard time rooting for a team when I don’t like the quarterback as a person. The only exception to rooting for the Packers was when the Oilers were playing and it was good to see the Texans have a winning season. Last week’s loss was such a strange fluke I was happy to see the Packers back on track.

I got the best present from my son and dil–a Kindle Fire! It is so much easier to read–he transferred (or actually copied) all my books from the old one onto the new one. I’m enjoying learning the new twists. I have always used the largest size font and now I am using the 5th out of the 8 available–that 8th one is really big so I feel sure I’ll never “outgrow” this model.

Candace

That’s a lot of big dogs in the house Candace. Nice! I bet the cats rule. We watched the Packer-Bear game last night and are happy that the Packers won. I am in Wi you know.

Darlyne, that sounds like a great way to spend Christmas–surrounded by furry friends. I visited my son and DIL and their St. Bernard 8-month old, 80=pound puppy, 7-year-old, 130 pound rescued Landseer Newfoundland, 5-year old, 80 pound rescued Lab/Newfie mix and two cats–all with Christmas collars and toys all over the floor. A fun day.

Thank your girls for getting rid of the intruders.

Candace

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all.With many dogs in the kennel, four in the house,(two in crates it has been a busy time. We will relax a bit today and have dinner at a friends.

My daughters are working on getting this fixed but it isn’t yet.

I am trying to read The testament but it isn’t easy with two labs running around in the house. I usually don’t read this author but it is on my Kindle and Iam finding it easier to read on the Kindle than a book, here at least. I am in WI in the land of dogs. The kennel is full, the grooming shop is busy and yesterday I watched my daughter at a training class. It is a different life here and a nice change.

Looks like GGOBIT may have to get a new name or something this spam, and duplicate spam is wearisome!

Are those last two posts something that should actually be on our site? I think not.

The movie title I couldn’t think of is “On The Beach”.