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    Best place to read

    I have a chaise lounge in my living room and that is probably my favorite place to read. However, I can read any place and any time. I used to always carry a book around with me. Now with the Kindle app on my iPhone I read even more since even standing in line I can read a couple of pages to...
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    What do you want in a bookstore?

    *What separates a good used bookstore from a bad one? - neatness, organization, and cleanliness make ALL the difference in what makes a good store vs. a bad one IMO. Separate the various genres. Keep the Harlequin's all set together. Keep the shelves dusted. Use good displays and display...
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    Recommendations wanted

    Rick Riordan is the author of the Percy Jackson and The Olympians series. It's well written and entertaining (better than the Harry Potter books IMO) Anything by Lois Lowry is fabulous. Her trilogy that began with The Giver is excellent. Susan Pfeffer's trilogy that begins with Life As We...
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    VH1's Celebrity Rehab

    It's like this train wreck that I can't turn away from. It surprises me that these people sign up for rehab and then seem to fight so hard against it.
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    Books based on isolation/solitude

    See if you can find a copy of Seven Years Solitary by Dr. Edith Bone - she was an incredibly intelligent woman held in solitary for 7 years in Hungary by the USSR. Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom[/U is about his kidnapping by Columbian Guerillas Nick Rowe's [U]Five Years to Freedom is...
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    why I hate tv crime shows

    It's TV. Heck, even "reality" TV is manipulated and is nothing like actual reality. You have to just suspend belief
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    Books based on isolation/solitude

    Are you only interested in fiction? There are plenty of great books about POWs that provide great insight into surviving solitude.
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    What does reading a book mean to you?

    For the most part, I like my books like I like my sitcoms - light and entertaining. I sometimes read to learn, but I'm sort of a lazy reader, so I like to be entertained while I read. I love settling in to be part of someone else's life or travel via the author's words to another place or...
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    The depressing news about antidepressants

    depression is real. Sometimes it's situational and the meds help you while you get counseling or to a point where they can cope with what is causing the problems. Sometimes it really IS a chemical imbalance. And that's all I'll say about that.
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    E-Book price war is heating up

    I have a kindle and I can read for hours on it without any problems. I LOVE mine when I travel. I can take dozens of books with me in one small package. Toss in my iPhone and I have all of my entertainment covered for the long trip
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    What's your favourite word? And worst?

    plethora or dearth - I love them equally
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    Sue Grafton

    I have read everything up to the latest one. I took a long break from her and then read R-T just recently. I think the break helped me appreciate them again.
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    Book Villains

    Gretchen Lowell in Chelsea Cain's series was pretty awful in a totally "it's a trainwreck and I can't stop looking" way. I've only read the first of the J.A. Konrath series and wasn't overwhelmed, but now that y'all are saying that she has a good villan I'll have to check out the next books...
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    What the heck is a Fish Lady?!?!!?

    A Fish Lady is someone who is totally lame at selecting usernames. At the first MB I ever visited regularly I had a purple fish as my avatar, so later I ended up with the name of fish lady. Told ya - lame
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    What the heck is a Fish Lady?!?!!?

    Thank y'all for the warm welcome. Dude - cozies are typically mysteries with an amatuer sleuth, no sex and no gore. Mystery readers seem to either love them or hate them. I heard someone one describe them as the mystery readers equivalent to a sitcom. :lol:
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    College or Fantasy romances?

    Let's see - for fantasy romance I can help a bit 1. Katie MacAlister's Aisling Grey series is fun. I've also only read the first in the Silver Dragon series and it was fun too. 2. Lyndsay Sands' Argeneau series is fun 3. Kristine Grayson has a fairy tale series that I enjoyed. 4...
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    What the heck is a Fish Lady?!?!!?

    Oh there is NO doubt about that!
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    When should you throw a book away?

    The only book I have ever thrown away was one my Patricia Cornwell - not her Scarpetta series, but something else she had written. It was horrid and I felt it shouldn't be inflicted on anyone else's sensibilities. :lol: I trade most of my books at a website, or send them off through...
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    E-Book price war is heating up

    I know that I've had discussions on another MB I visit wondering if the influx of ereaders will result in a generation of non-readers because of a decrease in the availability of paper books, but I tend toward the opinion that there will still be a need for libraries that will house "real"...
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