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Offline gertbysea

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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #210 on: September 12, 2012, 01:59:29 am »
Too funny Wonder. You do not want to get too up close and personal with marathon runners on the day as  they smell pretty bad.  ;D ;D

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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #211 on: September 12, 2012, 04:04:31 am »
I'm reading An Echo in the Bone, which is #7 in the Cross Stitch/Outlander series, by Diana Gabaldon.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #212 on: September 12, 2012, 04:44:53 am »
I've just started "how to be a woman" by Caitlin Moran. Thought it was time I learned, been winging it all this time 😄
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #213 on: September 12, 2012, 05:05:09 am »
Lol :)
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #214 on: September 12, 2012, 05:06:48 am »
Quote from: Gertbysea on September 12, 2012, 01:59:29 am
Too funny Wonder. You do not want to get too up close and personal with marathon runners on the day as  they smell pretty bad.  ;D ;D

Gert

Too true Gert. I reek after along run. :(
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #215 on: September 12, 2012, 05:35:05 am »
Forgot to say I'm reading Cutting for Stone, so far I'm enjoying it.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #216 on: September 12, 2012, 05:42:06 am »
Quote from: Wonder on September 12, 2012, 05:35:05 am
Forgot to say I'm reading Cutting for Stone, so far I'm enjoying it.

Are you enjoying it?

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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #217 on: September 12, 2012, 05:45:31 am »
loved that book
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #218 on: September 12, 2012, 05:48:31 am »
Not so sure I want to put myself through the trauma but......

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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #219 on: September 12, 2012, 05:57:17 am »
I'm enjoying it so far but last night was a little disturbed by what I was reading, thankfully it was late and I needed to sleep so had an excuse to put it down. I haven't heard anything about the book so don't know what to expect - you've got me worried now.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #220 on: September 12, 2012, 06:09:59 am »
What is Cutting for Stone about, Wonder?  I take it it is perhaps not good bed time reading?
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #221 on: September 12, 2012, 06:20:59 am »
Starred Review. Lauded for his sensitive memoir (My Own Country) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Seven years later, Sister Praise dies birthing twin boys: Shiva and Marion, the latter narrating his own and his brothers long, dramatic, biblical story set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Ethiopia, the life of the hospital compound in which they grow up and the love story of their adopted parents, both doctors at Missing. The boys become doctors as well and Vergheses weaving of the practice of medicine into the narrative is fascinating even as the story bobs and weaves with the power and coincidences of the best 19th-century novel. (Feb.)
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Gretchen in Cairns, Australia

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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #222 on: September 12, 2012, 06:23:30 am »
Wow, sounds like an amazing book.  Must put it on my to read list.  Thanks for the review, Gert.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #223 on: September 12, 2012, 07:50:06 am »
Oh no - she was giving birth last night and it was such traumatic reading i kept closing my eyes which in turn made me nod off so I put the kindle down after dropping it a few times. I was assuming one of the twins was going to die but couldn't figure out how that was possible when the book was being written by one of them. Won't have much time to read in the next week but will once we are on our way to Thailand.
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Re: What book are you reading?
« Reply #224 on: September 12, 2012, 11:44:00 am »
I thought the book was good but at times the author  provides far too much medical detail - for my interest level.
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