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Fool To Do Your Dirty Work
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Greenflower Street
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YES, YES YES, MINNIE!!!
Eat, Love, Pray was wonderful - touching and very funny!!! LOVED IT!!!!
Just finished A Million Little Pieces this afternoon - a bit depressing but also eye opening (even if parts of it were embellished....) Has anyone read My Friend Leonard??
Another favorite is Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver.
Conversations with God was recently recommended to me as "life changing".....anyone read it????
Eat, Love, Pray was wonderful - touching and very funny!!! LOVED IT!!!!
Just finished A Million Little Pieces this afternoon - a bit depressing but also eye opening (even if parts of it were embellished....) Has anyone read My Friend Leonard??
Another favorite is Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver.
Conversations with God was recently recommended to me as "life changing".....anyone read it????
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 477
Anyone hear of Jean Auel putting out another book in the Earth's Children series? I love that series.
Me too. I remember a comment Cosmopolitan mag made about the 2nd book in the series....."if you like stone-age sex"....lol
Anyway, I was at the library yesterday morning and trolled down the As and BINGO I found "Shelters of Stone" (published 2002) which I began reading last night. It's been a few years since I read the previous volume but I feel like I am back with old friends!
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
She knows how to write! I loved The Poisonwood Bible and that other one about the Cherokee nation.
I am busy writing down titles as fast as they appear on here!
ARL
Me too. I remember a comment Cosmopolitan mag made about the 2nd book in the series....."if you like stone-age sex"....lol
Anyway, I was at the library yesterday morning and trolled down the As and BINGO I found "Shelters of Stone" (published 2002) which I began reading last night. It's been a few years since I read the previous volume but I feel like I am back with old friends!
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
She knows how to write! I loved The Poisonwood Bible and that other one about the Cherokee nation.
I am busy writing down titles as fast as they appear on here!
ARL
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: behind the viewfinder...
Posts: 6,278
Originally Posted by good_luck 
I just got back from the library, and am excited to start reading this huge Katherine Hepburn biography. Not to be self-absorbed, but if Katherine Hepburn was involved with a (married) alcoholic for years and years, maybe I don't need to be so hard on myself for getting suckered in. Plus I love her.
btw- LTD, is that why your picture is of her? I've been wondering that for a while...
btw- LTD, is that why your picture is of her? I've been wondering that for a while...
L
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 5,075
Originally Posted by LaTeeDa
. Right now I'm reading Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
*~10 YEARS BABY~*
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Hollywood
Posts: 9,369
I just finished
Michael Jordon's book
"Driven From Within"
I Loved It!!
http://www.amazon.com/Driven-Within-.../dp/0743284003
Michael Jordon's book
"Driven From Within"
I Loved It!!
http://www.amazon.com/Driven-Within-.../dp/0743284003
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Originally Posted by denny57
I read that book right when it came out and several times since. As I'm packing up books here, I thumbed through it the other night and was reminded why I liked it. I'll read it again once I'm in a new place.
Congrats on getting a new home. You must share about it when you get the chance.
L
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 5,075
Originally Posted by LaTeeDa
Moving huh? I must have missed that thread.
Congrats on getting a new home. You must share about it when you get the chance.
L
Congrats on getting a new home. You must share about it when you get the chance.
L
Just packing some things because one way or another I'll be moving. Haven't a clue where I'll land. I'm dreaming of France or Italy LOL!!!
Sorry for hijack.
Caring for the 3 little bears
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Oz
Posts: 509
My very first "alcohol" related book...
"The Booze Battle" by Ruth Maxwell. It is an oldy but a goody. My denial kept me from embracing the fact that my husband was an alcoholic. This booked helped me embrace the truth and helped me start my road to recovery.
I found this excerpt from the book...
"...Look at some of the rules of your household. Rules set by the alcohol- or drug-dependent person, the most disturbed person in your family... Rule number one. The alcohol- or drug-dependent person is the most important person in the family. His needs and wants matter the most, while yours matter little, if at all. This rule, set forth by behavior more than words, clearly states that the chemically dependent person can do whatever he wishes whenever he wishes".
reading this kind of thing was a wake up call for me.
Happy reading!
"The Booze Battle" by Ruth Maxwell. It is an oldy but a goody. My denial kept me from embracing the fact that my husband was an alcoholic. This booked helped me embrace the truth and helped me start my road to recovery.
I found this excerpt from the book...
"...Look at some of the rules of your household. Rules set by the alcohol- or drug-dependent person, the most disturbed person in your family... Rule number one. The alcohol- or drug-dependent person is the most important person in the family. His needs and wants matter the most, while yours matter little, if at all. This rule, set forth by behavior more than words, clearly states that the chemically dependent person can do whatever he wishes whenever he wishes".
reading this kind of thing was a wake up call for me.
Happy reading!
Last edited by wraybear; 11-19-2007 at 06:32 PM. Reason: added excerpt
Alcohol is a cruel mistress!!!
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: crownpoint newyork
Posts: 820
Sounds like a great idea.... I just read Zipporah by Marek Halter, just starting Lilah, next in the series. Well, aren't we a group of well read folks. The next step will be to all agree on the book for the club to read. Any suggestions??
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Tomah, WI
Posts: 52
I would like to be part of this book club... I am new to the world of AA and loving an A... so if any of you have experiance and would like to pass some good reading to me that would be helpful .... also I would like to hear and talk about books that we all have read... please feel free to send me a private message...
Wipe your paws elsewhere!
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 3,672
Originally Posted by guineapigjude
Just starting "Playing it by Heart" by Melody Beattie. Anyone read it yet?
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