BN Book Club

[irishcajunphan]

My novel Tempting the Tempest will hopefully be available in January. Would it be possible to add it to the list of books for the book club discussion?

[SchoolGirlHeart]

My novel Tempting the Tempest will hopefully be available in January. Would it be possible to add it to the list of books for the book club discussion?

We'll look forward to it!

[big hat carmen]

My novel Tempting the Tempest will hopefully be available in January. Would it be possible to add it to the list of books for the book club discussion?

We'll look forward to it!

Just tell us how to get a copy.

[Nicki]

Great news, irishcajunphan - I can't wait to read your book. Congratulations - you must indeed have "a novelist's eye."

[East Texas Parrothead]

My novel Tempting the Tempest will hopefully be available in January. Would it be possible to add it to the list of books for the book club discussion?

If you'll get a copy to me, I'll review it for the paper. : - )

I gave up on the Truman biography. Dadgum thing musta weighed 20 pounds.

I'm into lighter reading....

[conched]

My novel Tempting the Tempest will hopefully be available in January. Would it be possible to add it to the list of books for the book club discussion?

You betcha!

I just read a lot of A Tramp Abroad by Twain since I was reading about Barometer SOUP! Doncha just love BN!!

Okay, I admit I was really enjoying the pictures.

[East Texas Parrothead]

Am working my way through AN UNREASONABLE WOMAN. Wow. This is a good story...and it's TRUE!!

One woman takes on the chemical industry to clean up the bays on the Texas Gulf Coast.

[conched]

Thanks for the info about Unreasonable Woman.

She has made the newspapers in this area quite a bit.
Let me know what you think of the book, etc.

Here is an article online.

http://www.thevictoriaadvocate.com/colu ... 7776c.html

[diamonddan]

Reading Mario Puzo's THE LAST DON. Got it at a used book store for 50 cents. Very Good.

[conched]

Am working my way through AN UNREASONABLE WOMAN. Wow. This is a good story...and it's TRUE!!

One woman takes on the chemical industry to clean up the bays on the Texas Gulf Coast.

You may also be interested in this review.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article ... emID=19790

[East Texas Parrothead]

Thanks for the info about Unreasonable Woman.

She has made the newspapers in this area quite a bit.
Let me know what you think of the book, etc.

Here is an article online.

http://www.thevictoriaadvocate.com/colu ... 7776c.html

Hey, Nancy!

I'm loving the book. Very fresh voice. Raw, almost. Covers not only her battle with the chemical giants, but her personal demons/life as well.

I'd love to meet her!

[Big Red Parrothead]

I finally started Don Quixote. I had to read part of it in a college Spanish class many moons ago, but I'm finally going to try to wade through the whole thing.

[conched]

Thanks for the info about Unreasonable Woman.

She has made the newspapers in this area quite a bit.
Let me know what you think of the book, etc.

Here is an article online.

http://www.thevictoriaadvocate.com/colu ... 7776c.html

Hey, Nancy!

I'm loving the book. Very fresh voice. Raw, almost. Covers not only her battle with the chemical giants, but her personal demons/life as well.

I'd love to meet her!

Guess you may have to go out of state to do that.

[East Texas Parrothead]

An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas
By Diane Wilson

It took me about 2 weeks to read this book. Not because it was that bad . . .but because it was that good.

I wanted to experience every moment as Diane Wilson took on the mighty Formosa plastics giant, fought corruption all the way to Washington, went on hunger strikes, traveled 1/2 way around the world and finally made a significant dent in the pollution that was killing her beloved shrimping waters along the Texas Gulf Coast.

Diane Wilson made a difference. With this book, the world can now read about it . . . from her own pen, not ghost written and packaged for a "target market." Her voice is fresh, raw almost and it grabbed me from page 1 until the epilogue.

Kudos to Wilson. Wish there were more like her.

Enjoy!

[Sidew13]

Didn't go looking to see if it has already been mentioned, but...
Just finished Bahamarama by Bob Morris
Enjoyed it very much,
Starting Carl Hiaasen's Tourist Season, which is my first Hiaasen book

[SchoolGirlHeart]

I just finished Nelson DeMille's NIGHT FALL.

If you have any question in your mind about what exactly happened to TWA Flight 800 (exploded over the Atlantic shortly after takeoff on 17 July 1997), you might be as riveted by this novel as I was.... Sometimes I really had to remind myself that I was reading fiction.....

[East Texas Parrothead]

I just finished Nelson DeMille's NIGHT FALL.

If you have any question in your mind about what exactly happened to TWA Flight 800 (exploded over the Atlantic shortly after takeoff on 17 July 1997), you might be as riveted by this novel as I was.... Sometimes I really had to remind myself that I was reading fiction.....

Wasn't it just the best story?

[SchoolGirlHeart]

I just finished Nelson DeMille's NIGHT FALL.

If you have any question in your mind about what exactly happened to TWA Flight 800 (exploded over the Atlantic shortly after takeoff on 17 July 1997), you might be as riveted by this novel as I was.... Sometimes I really had to remind myself that I was reading fiction.....

Wasn't it just the best story?

YES!!

Even though I *Knew* what date he was leading up to, I didn't know until the end what he was going to do with it..... and I didn't know who was going to live, and who was going to die....

[East Texas Parrothead]

The Poet of Loch Ness: my pick for best debut of 2005



It’s been a month of Sundays since such a luminous debut novel arrived in the publishing world.

The prose from Brian Jay Corrigan’s THE POET OF LOCH NESS carries its reader to another place . . . ethereal . . . mysterious . . . and completely compeling.

Corrigan offers up several love stories in this small novel.

The main story revolves around Perry and Perdita Miggs, a mismatched couple living in a kind of suspended animation. Perry is a professor of marine biology at a minor university in Michigan. Perdita is his much younger bride of 13 years. The union has no children, as Perdita fell ill shortly after they married. They’re together, but precariously so.

Perry has a fellowship to study flora and fauna at Loch Ness near Iubhar, Scotland. He insists Perdita accompany him on the trip, as he wants her to return to the place where she studied abroad as a college student.

Perdita not only studied in St. Andrews; she fell hopelessly and forever in love with one Andrew Mcgruer, a Scotish student. It’s a love from which Perdita has never completely recovered.

Seems Mcgruer has left his position as a college professor, divorced his devoted wife and returned to the highlands around Loch Ness to eek out a meager living as a loch guide. He lives in a spare cottage near the loch, walking some 12 miles into Inverness for weekly visits with his son, Aidan.

The story of Andrew’s devotion to his son is another thread of the tapestry which makes this story so rich and satisfying.

Perry and Perdita rent rooms from a couple of sisters, Kira Reece and Caitlin Shaw. Kira, bitter from a bad divorce, and Caitlin, pining for a long lost love, provide lodging and more than a little spice to Corrigan’s tale.

Then, there’s the story of Mad Adam Grant’s love for the Loch Ness monster. Grant speaks to "the auld girl" every day and knows where to find her, especially when she’s hunting.

To reveal more would be to rob you of a most wonderful experience. Get this book. Savor its luminous prose, clever plot twists and turns and prepare to be enchanted.

Enjoy!

[diamonddan]

Just started this one:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031680 ... e&n=283155