What Are You Reading The Week Of November 3, 2012?

Just to get started...No time for birthday search....sorry!

Reading The Alexandria Quartet..... Yes, still! Listening to Garment of Shadows.

I finished reading 1Q84 by Murakami. This guy deserves the Nobel! I read this one for the group read here on Librarything and am very glad I did. However, this book is one of those books where nothing happens but everything happens. There are long sections of description and short bursts of action. Very well done. This is one that I will recommend to certain readers.

I started reading Team of Rivals last night - also for a group read here on LT. I continue to read Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as well, and am listening to Moon Over Manifest during my commute and in the car. I have lots of good books going right now.

I have been wondering about 1Q84 benitastrnad, thanks for the nod/thoughts on it.

Thanks for starting the thread hemlokgang!

I finished The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon last night and put up a quick review. I thought it was a very special book.

I am now reading Galapagos at the Crossroads by Carol Ann Bassett which is really good, insightful and educational in good ways and bad ~ a shame how human beings seem to ruin every bit of nature, flora and fauna both, we touch. I will leave on my trip a far more wise person for it though and will try to be the best eco-tourist within my abilities.

Thanks for starting us off, Hemlokgang!

I'm reading No Name by Wilkie Collins, and am enjoying it very much. The contrast between the two main characters is so well-drawn.

Finishing up with The Tenderness of Wolves this weekend. It has been an enjoyable read so far. Looking forward to starting The Light Between Oceans in the next few days.

Still working my way through Parade's End, by Ford Madox Ford... since it's a collection of four novels I think I'll count it as four for the purposes of my Books off the Shelf Challenge!

I also finished the sixth installment of the Sam McCain series, Breaking Up is Hard to Do.

Finished The Time of the Dark and started The Walls of Air by Barbara Hambly.

Hello everyone! And thank you to hemlokgang for starting up the thread for this weekend! :)

Well, I finished reading Scrolls of Darkness by Paul Henry Johnson today. This was a book that was sent to me by the author for review. I had mistakenly believed that this book was an espionage-thriller, but it turned out to be extremely gripping for me to read. I really enjoyed reading this book and am looking forward to reading the next book in a new series! :)

Right now, I'm reading Nothing Last Forever by Sidney Sheldon and enjoying it so much!

I started Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris and I'm almost done with A Discovery of Witches

Just discovered Andrew Mayne - something very different for me, a bit sci-fi, a bit crime, a bit futuristic, but all a bit amazing! 'Page-turner' was invented for Public Enemy Zero...

I'm in an old fashioned mood so am thinking of starting Miss Buncle by D.E. Stevenson

Got quite a few going:
Audio: Bigger Than a Bread Box by Laurel Snyder
Nook: You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing by John Scalzi
Print: The Promise of Stardust by Priscille Sibley
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe

I also have a few books going -

While waiting for my LTER copy of The Lighthouse Road, I picked up a copy at the library and started it. I also started Live By Night, Denise Lehane's new book.

On my nook, I'm reading Gail Collins' When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present. It's an entertaining read.

And on audio, I'm enjoying Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth. The PBS program is very faithful to the book.

>12 DevourerOfBooks: I hope you enjoy The End of Your Life Book Club! I thought it was wonderful.

Reading Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow murders

I start the week reading three books:

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain - Peter Sis
A Young Adult graphic memoir of grwoing up in the Soviet Union

What Was I Thinking - Paul Henry
A memoir by Paul Henry who is a public figure on radio and TV in NZ. He gained notoriety when he was co-hosting a TV current affairs daily show called Breakfast and his commentary was very un PC and sometimes plain cruel. He eventually got sacked.

Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
Shortlisted for the Booker in 1981 its about an upperclass family who are dysfunctional but follow the social rules for 'good behaviour'.

I finished Clyde Edgerton's The Night Train -- what a terrific book. I don't think I've ever been anything less than delighted by an Edgerton book - they're all gems and this one is especially so: the story of two teenagers in 1963 North Carolina -- one black, one white -- trying to be friends in a time and place where such things were discouraged, but most of all becoming musicians in a time when music was changing so profoundly. I guess it could be seen as a coming-of-age book, and it is, but it's so much more than that.

Next up: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

I've also got a few on the go. Closing in on the end of The Secret of Crickley Hall, which has been a lot of fun. At the same time, I'm dipping in and out of 100 Songwriting Ideas by Lisa Aschmann (no touchstones), QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance and Arguably. Have just been out in the freezing cold to watch my son do a 10k run - his first one since a recent knee op, so now it's going to be a quiet day here in the warm, reading.

Finished The A.B.C. Murders yesterday. I was positively surprised how psychological they went to work back in the 1930s. I often tend to forget that all this profiling stuff is not really new, but always there were police men and detectives who knew pretty much about the human mind. It was a very interesdting novel with quite an unexpected turn in it.

Am about to start The Complete Book of Ghosts. It's a non-fictional work about ghosts and ghostly appearances.

I'm about to start The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers. From the other LT reviews I've read, it seems like it will be an intense and moving experience.

Just finished the graphic novel Jerusalem by Guy Delisleand now reading Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin.

I finished up William G. Tapply's fifth Brady Coyne mystery, Dead Meat, which, like the first four, was a lot of fun. Guess I'm on a little bit of a mystery/thriller run right now, as I've started Spencerville by Nelson DeMille. I sell a fair amount of DeMille's books in my store, so thought I'd try one for myself.

>13 Copperskye: That's what everyone has said about The End of Your Life Book Club, so I'm hopeful.

I finished and REVIEWED Louise Erdrich's latest novel The Round House. Next up is another Native American novel The Grass Dancer by Susan Power and continuing on with Team of Rivals.

Finally finished We Need to Talk About Kevin. only took me two weeks (a very long time for me). I have to say, this is one of the few where the movie was an excellent adaptation of the book. In fact, so excellent that perhaps reading the book after seeing it was not imperative in gaining more insight. Glad I read it, but I think it'll be a long time before I read another one of Lionel Shriver's books.

Finished the second book of The Alexandria Quartet and decided to take a little breather. Reading Notes From the Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

#13 coppers - I went to my local bookstore to donate some items for hurricane sandy relief ans was looking at The End of Your Life Book Club. One of the wonderful owners of the store who knows I'm grieving said maybe this isn't the right book for you right now. So I' ll put this on hold for awhile

I am well into and soo enjoying Washington Square by Henry James, next for me is The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore, that will be two male authors in a row for me, very unusual!!.

I have ordererd from Amazon The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon following the great praise from this forum, it is not listed with my local library.

I'm still reading The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her own making because for me this isn't a book to just pick up and read a couple of pages. The style takes some getting used to, so I really have to take my time...

#26 If you enjoyed Little Bee you'd probably also love Chris Cleave's earlier book Incendiary, though maybe not right on top of each other as they're both pretty emotional reads!

I finished Crickley Hall having enjoyed it a lot more than I expected. Herbert is never going to be on my list of great writers (or even 'adequate' ones) but now and then you're just in the mood for a bit of fluff and this fitted the bil perfectly for me - definitely one of his better efforts.

I'm now sunk deep into Arguably - a collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens while also (hopefully) being inspired by 1000 Songwriting Ideas by Lisa Aschmann.

I'm reading The Age of Migration for school. I'm pleasantly surprised; it's comprehensive, yet an easier read than I thought it would be.

Audiobook: 2 right now I'm about 1/4 way through Team of Rivals and I can see why Goodwin has won so much acclaim. Many surprises so far, Chase was passionately anti-slavery but had no sense of humor and no political loyalty. Seward just seemed like the ideal politician, and Lincoln was way more political than I'd thought him to be. Though melancholic, he had an engaging sense of humor.
I'm also nearly through the very manly man's book Travels With Charley
On Nook I finished the haunting Housekeeping and tomorrow will start Lillian's Story, One Woman's Journey through the 20th Century by Sally Patricia Gardner. I don't really know what to expect from this one.
On paper I'm enjoying The Last Dragonslayer. Doggone, that Jasper Fforde is clever beyond measure.

So, last night I finished reading Nothing Lasts Forever. Sidney Sheldon is such a good author, in my opinion! :) Now, I'm reading Cold Kill: The True Story of a Murderous Love. I have several books by Jack Olsen on my bookshelf, but I haven't read many of them yet. :)

Post-Sandy check-in. Hi all! Thanks hemlokgang for starting the thread off. I've read and reviewed seven books in my week of inconvenience.

They're in my thread...over here.

# 30: Loved the movie Incendiary which I just recently saw for the second time. I didn't realize until recently it was a book.

>34 richardderus: Your "week of inconvenience." How's that for a pleasant understatement? Glad you used your tim e well.

I revisited the 19th century, Joyce, and am here to tell you: Blechhhh.

I've just posted my review of Hard Stop, fourth entry in the Hamptons noir mystery series featuring Sam Acquillo. I liked it, as I have the others in the series. See why in my thread...post #235.

#35 And a wonderful book too! There's also his latest novel Gold, which is also well worth a read. Cleave, IMO, is one of the greatest authors to emerge in the past decade or so.

Arguably, for all its 750+ pages, was a quick read and a most enjoyable one. I'm now dropping to the other end of the scale with the slim yet tantalising Troubling Love.

#35 & 38......Thought the book was excellent as well!

Richard, glad you are alright!!

I'm reading V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton. I always look forward to her latest, and this one was worth the wait.

>39 hemlokgang: Thanks, hemlokgang!

#37
Where you a Sandy victim? What is the story? Let us know.

I've Pearl Ruled Strings Attached, a forgettable YA historical novel set around WWII and its aftermath. I suppose, if you're looking for a first-person narrative of the times and their spirit, it's just fine; for me, not so much. See why in my thread...post #255.

>42 benitastrnad: Benita, it was Sandy. I'm posting here my first post-Sandy post from my 75er thread:

After a week spent in the 19th century, I am pleased to rejoin the 21st as of now! It's not to say that power and Internet will remain on poimanentally, but they blinked on an hour ago and so far so good! Our local power company, LIPA, is under heavy heavy scrutiny from the State and the Feds. Interestingly, power came back on as soon as FEMA announced it was freeing up $55MM for LIPA.

Hmmm.

Well, whatever, it's no longer 52F in the house! I can wash my hair! I can launder my undies! Hot water, everybody, hot water is the highest and best good created by humankind, surpassing all others by a billion parsecs.

I am in awe of our ancestors. I used to wonder why chefs got such lavish praise for producing feasts. DINNER takes an hour of fire-building! I tremble before their greatness, these giants of yore, who washed their bodies (when they did, and not doing so makes a really really great deal of sense) in cold water!

I sat before our oil-burner, partly to enjoy radiant heat and partly to worship it, for a half hour. I've been through power outages before, a day or even two, due to hurricanes in Texas. Nothing like this!

My goddesses, there are so many people so much worse off than I am! And only in a few miles of me! After dropping the Gruesome Twosome at the station to get back to their ordinary lives, I went to a local grocery store. On my way there, I was horrified by a GIGANTIC tree-trunk on top of a minivan. Squashed! Utterly! A woman was standing there staring at it, so I stopped for a chat.

She had no power (as we did not at that time.) She had no car. It was only a half-mile to the store, but she had three kids and no refrigeration, and ice weighs a ton, and and and...she started crying. I patted her for a little while, and said get your purse, I'll drive you to the store and back.

I mean, what decent human being wouldn't do at least that much? Tears, boo-hoos, offers of money...but she got ice and she got her food. I was going there anyway, and it cost me zero extra gas. Big deal!

But when I got home and soon the power came back on, I felt like running out and kissing the LIPA linemen who're just doing their jobs. It IS a big deal to the person being helped. Big big big. And honestly, I wonder why more of us don't help others out more often.

I'm glad to be back.

#44 - Glad to see you, and some other LTers hit by Sandy, back the past couple of days!

I'm reading several books at the moment, but the one occupying the most time/interest is JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy. I can't decide if I love it or hate it. But it's like a train wreck on top of a crime scene on top of a soap opera, with a dash of my own hometown theatrics thrown in.

When I'm not mired in Pagford politics, I'm enjoying Cornbread Nation 6: Best of Southern Food Writing, The Warmth of Other Suns, and The Ragamuffin Gospel.

I don't want to alarm anyone...I have a surprising announcement...I have just posted a four-star favorable review.

Of a YA novel.

First person teenaged girl narratrix.

In free verse.

Make Lemonade...in my Orphans thread, post #236.

ooo I'm planning to read Make Lemonade this month. YA in free verse form work surprisingly well.

#46
Make Lemonade was a big hit in YA land when it first came out. Proud to say we have it in our libraries collection. And I purchased it. (pat me on the back!)

I also have to say that I agree with Richard about electricity. When the tornado of April 2011 hit my humble abode, I went for 9 days without electricity. Washed my hair in the sink at work, and every three days went to friends house to shower. It ain't fun. I finally gave up, and when it hit 9 days with out power I bugged out and went back to Kansas on a vacation. I had friends check on the place and finally on day 15 the power came back on. With me it wasn't the heat that I needed, but the AC. I now tell people that if it weren't for air conditioning and bug spray there wouldn't be a single soul living in the American South.

Glad to have you back Richard.

Finished Galapagos at the Crossroads and will put up a review tomorrow (virtually impossible from an Ipone).

Now, on hearty recommendation here, downloaded Doc by Mary Doria Russell and loving it. Needed an escape from the heavy planetary destruction I just read about re: the Galapagos and this is just perfect. So far, it is awesome! I see why so many of you dug it.

>47 kiwiflowa: Yay kiwiflowa! Read it soon and come tell us what you thought. I hope it's a successful read for you.

>48 benitastrnad: Excellent buy there, Benita, and with you on the AC. I left Texas because the thought of one more summer of 100+ for two or more months made me nauseated.

>49 CarolynSchroeder: Woo hoo! A future Docista! (Or such is my strong suspicion.)

(44) Hot water, everybody, hot water is the highest and best good created by humankind, surpassing all others by a billion parsecs.

Sing hey! For the bath at close of day
that washes the weary mud away
A loon is he that will not sing
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!

O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain,
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed
but better is beer if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.

O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!

-JRR Tolkien

;)

Another excellent observation by Tolkien.

BTW, congrats on your 'new' Pres!

Yay for the election being OVER!

I myownself am pleased with the results. But more than anything else, I am thrilled that the whole noisy mess is over.

Now we can go back to the usual noisy mess of governing.

Someone on Facebook posted "Thank god the election is over, now we can start getting ready for Christmas." Yikes!

>55 Citizenjoyce: *gaaak* If anyone carols at me before Thanksgiving, he she or it is in for a faceful of mean and nasty.

I finished reading Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and rated it as average. I don't really understand why people went gaga over this book. The science part of it was very well done, but it lost me when it turned into a rant about medical ethics. This book had the feel of a good solid magazine article that was stretched and stretched and then stretched some more in order to make it into a book. All that stretching made it irritating to read.

I am now working on Team of Rivals for the group read and so far finding that book to be a very well done straightforward work of non-fiction. I am also listening to Moon Over Manifest in the car, and like this Newbery winner.

I started Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger which is absolutely delightful so far

Started my Member Giveaway book Sunny Side Up yesterday and am quite enjoying it on this seemingly endless snow day we're having here.

Richard so glad you are ok after Sandy and back to normal.. Pioneer life gets old very very fast and to have to go without for a week is horrible. And Bless You for helping that woman out. I am sure she is eternally grateful for your kindness.

Now stay warm, take a nice hot bath, cook up over a stove or oven a nice dinner and RELAX!!

I am so enjoying The Orchardist. A very good read. Next up for book club The Devil in the White City. Tomorrow nite I am going to an author event.. the author of The End of Your Life Bookclub. Looking foward to this.

Hi Maureen! Well, assuming Athena doesn't knock out the power, all should stay well.

I'm getting curious about that book, so please remember to come and tell us all about it. The man and his mom reading together at the end of her life, right? hmmmm

Glad to see you back Richard and with a good dead under your belt to boot.

Thank you hemlokgang for getting us going!

I'm reading The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf with my book club. The journey has only just begun...where will it take us?

I finished and REVIEWED Nick Hornby's fabulous book about books More Baths Less Talking.

Now I'll be continuing with Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

#62 Glad to see you back Richard and with a good dead under your belt to boot. Sorry, but I just have to ask - a good, dead what? And why are you keeping it under your belt?

Today is Bram Stoker's 165th birthday. Thanks to Google for reminding me of it!

Stoker's Dracula remains one of the most famous, if not 'the' most famous, horror stories. It is definitely my favourite in horror.

A good dead intention...belts keep them close.

I've posted a review of a dearly beloved book-friend from the past: Ella Minnow Pea, a novel with a cute conceit and a subtle but well-delivered message, in my thread...post #244.

Oh my. No good deed goes unpunished.

Just finished The Light between Oceans and I've been listening to the audio version of Stephen King's Gunslinger, narrated outstandingly by George Guidall. I am so impressed by this book...the atmosphere, the language and the story. I'm sure the outstanding performance of the production is really adding to my enjoyment of the book.

I must say I'm struggling a little with Troubling Love and, despite its being little more than a novella (at 139 pages) it's feeling a lot longer than many a much fatter book. Do I really care any more? With 60 pages still to go I'm weighing up reasons for and against Pearl Ruling it. The reviews so far on LT seem to agree that it's pretty hard going. I'm breaking up my reading time with The second QI book of ignorance and various short stories.

Richard, so glad you're okay and hope that this new storm doesn't cause you any problems.

I'm now into Four Sisters of Hofei by Annping Chin, and I am very much enjoyng it. The sisters were born between 1908 and 1914.

The author has brought the historical context, the customs, the lives of various classes within the household and much more together into an almost irrestible tapestry.

Wet snow + leaves still on trees = some branches down. Nothing interfered with power, so I'm toasty warm and connected to the world at large. Since it's 36F (2C) outside, I hope the 2in of snow accumulated melts soon.

I've ended my NaNoWriMo day early, and due to many distractions (hurricane, presidential election, snowstorm) this first week, I am off pace. But hey....

That's wonderful Richard, that you made it through the snowstorm with your power still on. When did they start naming nor'easters by the way, is this a new phenomenon that was just started? As regards Hurricane Sandy, she missed Albany for the most part - just one very rainy and windy day to show for her passing! However, I'm not so sure that Athena will blow harmlessly past us. The snow hasn't hit us just yet, but the news says that it is on its way toward us - probably hitting us sometime during the weekend. It is getting chillier at night as well. :)

Anyway, I finished reading Cold Kill: The True Story of a Murderous Love by Jack Olsen last night. I had never even heard of the Cindy Campbell Ray and David West murder case until I read this book. Then I discovered that I owned Daddy's Girl: The Campbell Murder Case by Clifford Irving that was on my bookshelf downstairs. Both books are about the Campbell murder case, however, the Clifford Irving book is mostly about the murder trial.

Now, I've just begun reading Black Coffee by Agatha Christie. Mareena's best friend recommended this book to me as part of a long list of titles by Agatha Christie. I haven't read many of Agatha Christie's books, although Mareena has read many of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot books and enjoyed them.

This is the first year for named winter storms indeed, and now there's Brutus aiming for the upper midwest. Apparently the insurance companies want this, as it makes it easier to process claims with less confusion than "the storm of November 1" for some reason.

I suppose that the insurance companies would not be satisfied with the "Gales of November that came early" as Gordon Lightfoot put it in the "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?" Gesh! Naming every little storm. That's gotta be as confusing as being named John Smith and having to go to the Doctor's office. I will note that the Europeans started naming their hurricanes a couple of years ago. They do it a little different in that they are only going to name storms that reach a certain intensity rather naming all storms. I recall that the first named storm for them was Xanthia. I think they have only named one other one since then.

FEMA came around my neighborhood today assessing for damage. They apparently are going from door to door and they left a flyer with pertinent information

#75: What neighborhood/area are you in? My parents' basement got flooded, like many of their neighbors in Brooklyn, and a lot of the stores & businesses along the main street there are still closed & drying out. At least yesterday's storm didn't add additional flooding.

#76. I'm in Dyker Heights There were a lot of trees down in other parts of the neighborhood. The worst thing that happened to me was my shed was destroyed but it was coming down anyway so it's not a great loss. Where are your parents?

Sheepshead Bay. A few feet of flooding in the basement, 2 boilers & hot water tanks out, washing machine broken, still no heat. But it's not as bad as some others had it. It's incredible what happened.

Richard, I read your review of Ella Minnow Pea, and I intend to order it from the library, now. And I so agree with you about the 2000 election!!!!!!! It's a sore point even now, and makes you wonder, "What if?".

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

>79 bookwoman247: And the perennial misery-maker, "If only..."

*waaah*

Enjoy Ella Minnow Pea, I was and am so enchanted by it that I can't see how anyone could NOT.

#74 I'm never quite sure whether Americans are iuncluding the UK when they talk about Europe but, just as an aside - the naming of hurricanes has nothing to do with any particular continent and has been going on since the 50s. I remember very clearly discussions of Hurricane Hilda (1964, back in the days when they all had female names) because one of our neighbours was called Hilda and she came in for quite a bit of mockery at the time, being somewhat loud and destructive herself. There's quite a good explanation of it all here - http://www.gohsep.la.gov/factsheets/WhyHurricanesAreNamed.htm

#79. This whole situation has been terrible. Some places I've heard may not have electricity until thanksgiving and now Con Ed wants a rate increase!

Con Ed wants a rate increase!

SDG&E lost equipment and the public lost electricity during our big wild fires of 2007. And then they had to gall to try to stick us with the bill, even thouigh they had failed to properly maintain and insure their euipment! Luckily, they had to go through the California Public Utilities Commission, who put the kabosh on that.

Home sick today, feel like I'm coming down with something or maybe it's bad allergies...the older I get the more those two seem to merge.

So I tried to read, picked up Why I Believe the King James Bible is the Word of God which I'd downloaded yesterday, and thoroughly enjoyed some plain preaching.

Now I'm contemplating my TBR pile, including some library books...

Speaking of preaching, one of the characters in Welcome to Higby by Mark Dunn does a lot of that. To the local pet population. Cats need saving, too. Read my amused review in my thread...post #254.

So I finished Black Coffee by Agatha Christie last night! This was actually the fifth Agatha Christie book that I've read. It was a good book and I enjoyed reading it, but for the first time in my reading of Agatha Christie mysteries, I knew who the murderer was before the end of the story! :)

Now on to reading The Goodbye Summer by Patricia Gaffney! :)

Feel better fuzzi!

(89) Thank you. I'm a terrible patient...I get antsy and find myself doing chores even though I know I should rest.

At least the litter boxes are clean, now...

Well that's a good thing--consider that your chore for the day and get some rest

#82
I checked on Wikipedia (and supposedly they are more accurate than Encyclopedia Britannica) and the Europeans started naming their cyclones in 1998. Before that they were not officially named.

#88
I love that headline about Winnipeg. Richard must be drooling with all that alliteration going on. It is enough to make an English major blush with pleasure.

Read Shane this afternoon, a book I've had checked out from the library for weeks but never picked up.

Excellent read, click on the touchstone to read my review if you're interested.

Richard yes that is about the book club the author and his dying mother had the last 2 yrs. of her life. Glad you only got a couple inches of snow.. we lucked out.. got almost a foot.. so much for the weatherman's prediction of a coating to 3"....

I hope all who were affected by Sandy and the winter storm get their power back soon and have no damage and can get on with their normal routines.

>92 benitastrnad: "tis true.

>94 momom248: *snort* We lucked out because only some branches came down. At the end of the block, a ***HUGE*** old oak tore out power lines just put back up because the leaves still being on the trees made the whole edifice unstable. Lots of that in Rockville Centre, the next village south.

I've reviewed Their Wildest Dreams by Peter Abrahams in my thread...post #255.