Member: KathiJ

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Groups18th-19th Century Britain, A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Fall 2008 Reading Group, Abraham Lincoln & Lincolniana, All the World's a Stage, Anglophiles, Art is Life, Best of British, Children's Literature, Classical Music, English History - Tudor through Edwardian — show all groups , Favorite Bookstores, Fiber Arts, For Parents: Raising Readers, Helene Hanff, Historical Biography, Irish & Celtic Studies, It's a LondonThing, Medieval Europe, Midwestern Readers, Musical Theater, Sheet Music, Sitting on a pumpkin..., Victoriana, What the Dickens...?, Written in Stone - The Literary Cemetery

About meI have a degree in Elementary Education that I have never used. (found out I didn't like teaching my senior year at college...go figure...should have stayed with History) I love music, theater and of course books. I read mostly historical fiction. I like poetry that I can understand. I'm not a fast reader, but a steady one. Sometimes I will slow down while reading a book just so I can savor it a little longer. Like many readers I have tried my hand at writing, but I don't think it is meant to be. If I was meant to be writer I would be writing and not thinking of excused for not writing. I'm married and have two daughters that are turning out much smarter than their mother. (thank goodness)
My other interest in music. I sing in two very different groups. The first is a Choral Society that sings more difficult classical type music. This is a challenge for me as I don't read music most of the other's in the group. The director says I have a good voice and I learn very quickly to I get by and I like the challenge. The other group is called Mature Mob. It is a group of people over the age of 50 who put a show on every year to raise money for the Senior Service of Central Illinois. The group is not only singers, but tap dancers, ball room dancers and country western line dancers. It is a much looser group. The shows have corny jokes and a lot of old song as well as newer ones. Over the last seventeen years the group has donated over $200,000 to Senior Sevices.

About my libraryhistory, historical fiction, biographies, historical romance, poetry

The books listed here are books I own, have borrowed from the library or friends or books I read years ago in school.
I'm starting to add the children and young adult books I bought for my daughters. Sometimes they like my choices, sometimes they don't. But, if it is listed I read it. I generally leave comments in the comment box section of "your library"

If it is listed I have read it or at least tried to get thru it.

Books read in 2009
January
A Drowned Maiden's Hair by Laura Amy Schlitz
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
The Mother-Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick
February
A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois by Christiana Holmes Tillson
To Seduce a Sinner by Elizabeth Hoyt
Cassandra and Jane by Jill Pitkeathey
Prairie of Promise by Edward J. Russo
March
Creative Collage for Crafters by Katherine Duncan Aimone
April (was a busy month. nothing read)
May
The Centurion's Wife by Davis Bunn and J.Oke
June
Lincoln's New Salem by Benjamin P. Thomas
The Women in Lincoln's Life by H.Donald Winkler
Mary:Mrs. A. Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman
July
Mentor Graham: The Man who Taught Lincoln by Kunigunde Duncan and D.E. Nickols
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrow
Emma Brown by Clare Boylan
Alice's Tulips by Sandra Dallas
August
The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark
September
Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris
October
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

Real nameKathleen

LocationPleasant Plains, Illinois

EmailKathiJ1010aol.com

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Member sinceSep 21, 2008