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MaryBKAriz

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #165 on: April 12, 2008, 07:52:37 am »
Hi,

Just wanna say I am into the elephant book and enjoying it!

Mary
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #166 on: April 12, 2008, 08:52:34 am »
Just wanna say I am into the elephant book and enjoying it!

Mary

Excellent.  Are you going to join our discussion?
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #167 on: April 12, 2008, 09:52:48 am »
Hi Jan,

Yes, I would VERY much like to be added to the book group! :)

Good luck with your MRI Monday.

Mary
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Hearing, lottsa balance problems and a few facial twitches before CK
CK June 2, 2008, BNI in PHX, Drs Daspit/Kresl, side effects,steroids helped. Getting "sea legs".
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #168 on: April 12, 2008, 10:31:20 am »
Yeah!! Consider yourself added.

Thanks for the luck  :)

Good luck with your appt. later today; let us know how it goes.

Jan
Retrosig 5/31/07 Drs. Battista & Kazan (Hinsdale, Illinois)
Left AN 3.0 cm (1.5 cm @ diagnosis 6 wks prior) SSD. BAHA implant 3/4/08 (Dr. Battista) Divino 6/4/08  BP100 4/2010 BAHA 5 8/2015

I don't actually "make" trouble..just kind of attract it, fine tune it, and apply it in new and exciting ways

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #169 on: April 12, 2008, 05:16:40 pm »
Okay, I am not giving anything away in the plot...but the beginning does grab the reader's interest. At the end of Chapter 1 there is some sort of secret being kept for a lifetime and it is dangled out there!  I am only on Chapter 3:-)
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #170 on: April 12, 2008, 05:35:05 pm »
Oh ya!!!!!!!!!!!! :) Love it.
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Hearing, lottsa balance problems and a few facial twitches before CK
CK June 2, 2008, BNI in PHX, Drs Daspit/Kresl, side effects,steroids helped. Getting "sea legs".
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #171 on: April 12, 2008, 05:36:10 pm »
I have a gift card to B & N so Dave is about to go out & get it for me!  Can't wait -- I have absolutely no idea what it is even about!
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #172 on: April 12, 2008, 06:09:55 pm »
I have a gift card to B & N so Dave is about to go out & get it for me!  Can't wait -- I have absolutely no idea what it is even about!
K

K,
Here is part of the synopsis from Publisher's Weekly:
With its spotlight on elephants, Gruen's romantic page-turner hinges on the human-animal bonds that drove her debut and its sequel (Riding Lessons and Flying Changes)—but without the mass appeal that horses hold. The novel, told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski, recounts the wild and wonderful period he spent with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a traveling circus he joined during the Great Depression.

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #173 on: April 12, 2008, 07:07:59 pm »
So Dave went to B&N to get the book and then when he got back in the car, it wouldn't start!!  So now he is stranded at B&N waiting for our friend (who is borrowing our other car) to go help him!!  CRAZY!!!

K
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #174 on: April 12, 2008, 09:27:56 pm »
Just picked up the book this evening from Books a Million - Sam's Club didn't have it.

Also bought You're Only Old Once by Dr. Seuss and The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards.

Hope to start the book soon - am currently in the middle of another book and I can't read two at once and keep them straight.  No, it's not an AN thing - I couldn't do this pre-surgery either.  My mother generally reads three books at one time and has no issues keeping all the plots straight - guess I didn't get that gene  ::)

K - sorry to hear about the car; hope Dave gets home all right.

Jan

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #175 on: April 13, 2008, 08:06:28 am »
Jan~
Dave got home OK and I read for just a few minutes...sounds good so far, I was just really tired!

OK, so does Dave look younger or me older???   ;D  You don't have to answer that!  I am 38 and he is 48.5 (almost 50).  The night before my T3, I got carded for a glass of wine w/ dinner!  Can you believe that?  I think it was b/c our friend, Melynn, was with us and he didn't think she was old enough (she is 29) and so he carded us both -- not Dave!!!

K
Translab 12/95@Houston Methodist(Baylor College of Medicine)for "HUGE" tumor-no size specified
25 yrs then-14 hour surgery-stroke
12/7 Graft 1/97
Gold Weight x 5
SSD
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T3-3/08
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #176 on: April 13, 2008, 08:13:49 am »
Actually I would have guessed that you and Dave are about the same age.

Not saying that you look older; saying he looks younger than his age.

I haven't been carded in ages; that must have felt good  ;)

Glad he got home all right and glad you've got the book.

Happy reading,

Jan
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Left AN 3.0 cm (1.5 cm @ diagnosis 6 wks prior) SSD. BAHA implant 3/4/08 (Dr. Battista) Divino 6/4/08  BP100 4/2010 BAHA 5 8/2015

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MaryBKAriz

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #177 on: April 18, 2008, 01:52:06 pm »
When are we supposed to be finished with the Elephant book?? May 1st? I am half way through. Interesting.

Mary
Diagnosed March 24, 2008, 1.1cm, right side, "Goldie" - small but mighty!! :-(
Hearing, lottsa balance problems and a few facial twitches before CK
CK June 2, 2008, BNI in PHX, Drs Daspit/Kresl, side effects,steroids helped. Getting "sea legs".
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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #178 on: April 18, 2008, 03:20:05 pm »
I'm thinking 5/1 would be best of all of us - unless anyone objects.

I'm trying to get my house ready to put on the market, plus work is hectic.
I have the book, but haven't even opened it  :(

Also, OMG and K are dealing with medical stuff so I don't know if they are reading yet.

Jan

Retrosig 5/31/07 Drs. Battista & Kazan (Hinsdale, Illinois)
Left AN 3.0 cm (1.5 cm @ diagnosis 6 wks prior) SSD. BAHA implant 3/4/08 (Dr. Battista) Divino 6/4/08  BP100 4/2010 BAHA 5 8/2015

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MaryBKAriz

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Re: ANA Book Club?
« Reply #179 on: April 18, 2008, 03:30:23 pm »
I am fine if you want to wait awhile longer.  :)

Mary
Diagnosed March 24, 2008, 1.1cm, right side, "Goldie" - small but mighty!! :-(
Hearing, lottsa balance problems and a few facial twitches before CK
CK June 2, 2008, BNI in PHX, Drs Daspit/Kresl, side effects,steroids helped. Getting "sea legs".
Apr 2012 - Still glad I chose CK