Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving suggestions on my LT profile. I have never read Grisham's books before so I will have to check out the book you suggested. Happy Reading!

posted by mrstreme at 1:00 pm (EST) on Apr 12, 2008

I would mark you as an interesting library, but I don't know how. Reading Lolita in tehran is v. interesting--it has made me forget about other books I was reading. I actuallly wish I had bought it instead of just checked it out from the library b/c there are lots of things I want to underline. I still need to get on the web site from Irene Hunt. I want to tell her how fabulous she is!

posted by islandgalcal at 2:42 pm (EST) on Mar 28, 2008

How huge is your TBR file? Mine is 985 lines (each line being a book I crave to read) on an Excel spreadsheet. And it keeps growing. T'is a mystery to me how . . . .

posted by kageeh at 1:51 pm (EST) on Mar 23, 2008

I am still learning how to do this stuff but I think librarything is great and I'm glad to have your comments. I have decided to make my library not books I own, but books I have read, b/c that's what I'm interested in keeping track of. Plus, I think what I have read defines me more than what I own. Have you read Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali? I had read it just before I read A thousand splendid suns and I thought it was excellent. It's about a woman who was Muslim and finally fled to the Netherlands, but she traces her life from childhood and her indoctrination and liberation from Muslim ideals.

posted by islandgalcal at 9:22 pm (EST) on Mar 22, 2008

Yes, I had a lovely childhood too, and actually I think I will avoid books about child abuse, somehow that's just too disturbing--I turn the channel when I hear that stuff on the news, but thanks for the recommendation on that other one--I will have to check into it. Also I had no idea about the web site so I am going to look into that too. Funnily enough we just read A Thousand Splendid Suns in my book club a couple of months ago and I enjoyed that too. We're now reading Reading Lolita in Tehran and I've been thinking about how an oppressive political regime is very similar to an oppressive marriage. I guess that would be obvious but it hasn't been to me until I've started reading more about spouse abuse and about these political/religious systems. If you liked Irene Spencer's book, you might like Escape by Carolyn Jessop. It's also about polygamy, however it's not as well-written. I read The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch and found that deals with an abusive marriage (maybe) and the narrator tries to save the woman from it, but ends up being just as tyrannical as her husband...anyway.

posted by islandgalcal at 11:57 pm (EST) on Mar 21, 2008

I just posted a comment seeing you have read Shattered Dreams, but then I saw that you have also read Black and Blue. Those are the only two books we share, but both are about women who deal with abuse, either on a personal level or institutionalized. What would you say has drawn you to reading books like these and do you know of any other good ones? A dear friend of mine is in an abusive relationship and my way of dealing with it is reading about it.

posted by islandgalcal at 7:45 pm (EST) on Mar 20, 2008

Hi! Thanks for leaving a comment on my profile. I just finished Nineteen Minutes, and like you, it will leave an impression on me for a long time. Here's a link to my review if you're interested. Thanks also for the Southern book ideas! I love Southern stories - looks like you do too. I will enjoy comparing notes with you in the future!

Take care,
Jill

posted by mrstreme at 7:34 pm (EST) on Sep 15, 2007

thanks for the tip on nineteen minutes. i was disappointed by the last couple of books i tried to read by her...maybe this one will be just the one to get me back into her books!!! have you ever read elizabeth berg? she is great as well!

posted by amanaceerdh at 2:10 pm (EST) on Sep 5, 2007

You are the only other person on LT who listed Richard North Patterson as a favorite author. I knew Ric well back in law school almost 40 years ago when no one knew he could write. We were all so serious then about changing the world. When he told me he wanted to be a best-selling novelist someday, I was kind enough not to laugh but I never knew his words would come back to me. He made it and he made it big! I'm not so sure any of the rest of his class of 1971 has been able to achieve their dreams thusly.

posted by kageeh at 6:30 pm (EST) on Aug 23, 2007

Well, hi there! I do see that you're near the top of my list of LTers with books the same as mine. Are there any you wish to discuss? I generally drift towards non-fiction, thoroughly disliking fantasy and sci-fi. I love learning new things and I love trying to figure out what makes a serial killer.

posted by kageeh at 5:57 pm (EST) on Jan 20, 2007

I did read Emma and Me, and sadly I guessed the surprise twist within the first 20 pages. After I figured it out, I lost all interest in the book :(

posted by WittyreaderLI at 10:20 am (EST) on Dec 11, 2006

I'm wondering what you thought of Me and Emma....did you like it?

posted by WittyreaderLI at 2:25 pm (EST) on Dec 8, 2006

I just joined the "Library Thing" upon recommendation of a cousin whom I met through genealogy research. I was quite interested to see that you also had a copy of "The Gray Family & Allied Lines, etc." by Jo White Linn, and wonder if you might not be related, as well. My line comes down from Judge Robert Lindsay (c.1735-1801) of Guilford County, NC, and his second wife Ann "Nancy" McGee (1753/4-1832), through their son William Lindsay (1777-1841) and his wife Elisabeth Briggs (1784-1871), through their daughter Guilianna Lindsay (1807-1885) Mrs. Elswick Sherwood Field, my 3rd great grandmother. (Mrs. Linn has her identified in the book as "Ann Lucetta Lindsay, who married a Fields.") I am interested to learn your opinion of Mrs. Linn's theory of the early background of the Lindsay family....which I think is somewhat questionable.

posted by TheSoutherner at 12:51 am (EST) on Oct 21, 2006

I was either too young or not quite born yet when it happened, I'm not sure 'cause it's been a while since I read it. But you could tell it was based a lot on the media coverage which is too bad because I don't love the QC Times. The author's were fun to talk with though. I hadn't read it yet when they came but they got me interested enough to read it. I mean the guys picture is still in my high school Sports Hallway of Fame. But yeah, when I saw he was being released it freaked me out! Anyhow, thanks for responding! Any other interesting local(midwest) true crime you might recommend?

posted by estohlmeyer at 9:24 am (EST) on Oct 19, 2006