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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #915 on: June 24, 2009, 07:17:17 pm »
Woo hoo! I just received word from the library that my hold is next. I'm going to St. Louis to pick up my eldest from her Israel study abroad trip (an even bigger WOO HOO! she's in the air even as I type this) so I'll head to the library on Friday to pick it up.

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #916 on: June 24, 2009, 09:57:14 pm »
Sara,
She's already coming back - wow, I was going to ask you how her trip was going! Well, now I can ask you about it after you've heard about it. I went to Israel 3 years ago. I loved it, but it was kind of intense too.

I think I found the book online; need to order it tomorrow. Looks interesting!

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #917 on: June 28, 2009, 08:03:31 pm »
I finished The Time Traveler's Wife this weekend. Two thumbs up. :)

It is over 500 pages, yet I wanted it to keep going, which is a sure sign of a good book. I won't say more, except that I hope you all enjoy it too.

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #918 on: June 28, 2009, 09:29:54 pm »
well, i hope you don't mind waiting around a bit for us.
we should figure out - who's in? and what time frame (or after how many pages, etc) do we start discussing it? or, what is the protocol here? i'm acting like i know what it is and i don't!
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« Reply #919 on: June 29, 2009, 07:52:47 am »
Keri .....

I had the same questions .......  I am about halfway through it ..... absolutely fascinating book ..... had to make myself stop reading and go to bed at midnight last night.  Who's in charge of the discussion??   :-[ :-*

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #920 on: June 29, 2009, 03:59:06 pm »
Clarice ~ Whomever wants to be - you want to throw out the first question?  Not yet, of course...we need to set a date too.  I haven't even started yet, but sounds like one I will read pretty fast.  Cindy is sending me hers...I just returned home from getting all my girlies (YEA!) and it should come today or tomorrow! (Thanks Cindy!)

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #921 on: June 30, 2009, 08:27:42 pm »
Finished Part I in the surgery center waiting room this afternoon. It's a very interesting book and I'm looking forward to seeing how the story unfolds, but I do have a bone to pick about plot development. Will hold that thought until the discussion starts, however.

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #922 on: July 01, 2009, 04:45:25 am »
Went to the show this weekend and saw My Sister's Keeper! (one of the first reads of this group) Yikes they changed the movie a lot!

Aye yi yi.....

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #923 on: July 01, 2009, 05:49:44 am »
Quote from: Kate B on July 01, 2009, 04:45:25 am
Yikes they changed the movie a lot!


So were the changes good or bad?

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #924 on: July 01, 2009, 08:07:25 am »
Sara .....

I had the same concerns on plot development ...... keep reading ..... it eventually begins to make sense!   :-\  Someone who is experienced in "book club format" needs to start the questions ..... that, I am not!  I'm not quite finished with it ..... hard to put down and get other things accomplished (like sleep???).

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #925 on: July 01, 2009, 12:34:19 pm »
Very cleverly written book, right?  I'll be watching for the discussion...

Kay, did you get the book yet?  If not, let me know and I'll track it down - it really should have been there by yesterday...

Enjoy!

Kate, the previews I saw for My Sister's Keeper definitely looked like a departure from the book.  I've been afraid that I'd be irritated at the movie version, but I would like to see it, I suppose???

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #926 on: July 01, 2009, 03:05:03 pm »
Cindy!  I am so sorry - I thought I came in & wrote you - guess I did it in my mind (I do that a LOT).  YES, I got it Monday or Tuesday...thank you so much.  Going to start on it tonight!

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #927 on: July 01, 2009, 05:04:53 pm »
Quote from: leapyrtwins on July 01, 2009, 05:49:44 am
Quote from: Kate B on July 01, 2009, 04:45:25 am
Yikes they changed the movie a lot!


So were the changes good or bad?

Jan


me and a friend are planning on seeing the movie  ... I gave her the book to read first ...

so were the changes good or bad ???  I usually dislike movies of books I read first

haven't got the book yet because can't find it in our little town ... but going to the big city in next day
or two and will find it somewhere... used book store or Books a Million ... I need a read I can focus on
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #928 on: July 02, 2009, 08:39:21 pm »
Quote from: leapyrtwins on July 01, 2009, 05:49:44 am
Quote from: Kate B on July 01, 2009, 04:45:25 am
Yikes they changed the movie a lot!


So were the changes good or bad?

Jan

There is a lot of license.  I typically like the books better, but they've taken away the subplots (such as the relationship between Anna's lawyer and her guardian) and they've made it a linear story line.  The depth of the characters are gone...but most of all they change a very significant part of the plot...which I shall not leak until you see it.  (It reminds me of the time I walked into a fifth grade room and they were reading the book Bridge to Terabithia. I commented on how sad it was when Leslie died.  24 faces looked at me in disbelief and questioned, "Leslie dies?"  OMG... So none of that here....
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #929 on: July 03, 2009, 06:29:18 am »
Thanks for the feedback on the movie, Kate.

I think I'll stick with the book, since I liked it so much.

Don't really have time to see the movie anyway  ::)

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