Rose Marie, glad you don't have the flu, we haven't got it yet, and i say yet, but from what i hear don't want it, can't wait to hear all about the books you've read, even the duds, so i can stay away from them, smile, Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemarie Grayley" <rgrayley1@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 1:08 PM Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review > While the flu skipped me, everybody else seems to have caught it around > here. My nursing skills such as they are have been sorely tested. Hope you > are feeling better soon. > > Rosemarie > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:book_talk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Audrey > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 4:40 AM > To: book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review > > Hi Shaz, and everybody, > I don't know why I seem to have turned into Space Aud, lately. I guess I'm > just starting to feel better after having man flu for about a month, and > I'm > not a man, lol. It sort of set me back in my effort to get off the cuff > crutches. So, part of it is just that every little thing keeps taking a > hundred years for me to actually do. Then at least as long of a recovery > sleep, not counting baths. Last week I spent many hours trying to > transport > and do laundry. Home hook ups would be great. They raised the cost on the > coin-op slots, in our out building. > > Glad you didn't get washed away Shaz. Floods are pretty serious. > > I read Summer Blowout, which was kind of funny with the make-up shade > names, > and some of the characters. Then I read 3 other non fiction books to sort > of > metaphorically booster shot myself psycho socially again, in order to get > a > grip on dealing with some of my more recent nearby friends who are great > at > being used to me being a blind person, & doing everything they are along > the > way except driving, and simply just seeing; but not used to how things go > for me when my underlying chronic blood disorder and some of its secondary > complications flair. > Audrey > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 31, 2013, at 10:54 PM, "Sharon S" <koala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi all, we are ment to be having Summer here but we are currently >> having another big storm. The second in a week and in the last one my >> sunroom flooded. I am hoping the current one doesn't get that bad >> because we were without power for about eight hours where others were >> without power for up to twenty four hours and they were just a few >> streets away. I was lucky because I had my laptop, braillenote Apex >> and my plextalk pocket with still some battery life. So I read emails >> until the laptop went flat, then I played around on the Apex for >> awhile. Then I went to bed and was able to listen to a book on the >> pocket until it went flat. By the time I woke up the next day the >> power was back. I and my dog got woken up by part of the ceelling >> falling down in the sunroom. Dad will fix the ceeling but we have to wait > until it has a chance to dry out so who knows how long that will be. >> >> We are lucky though because other parts of our country are currently >> in floods. At least it was only one room that was ankle deep in water >> and our power wasn't out for that long. The poor people that are being >> flooded at the moment have only just been able to get back up on their >> feets after the last flood. Allot of them weren't covered by insurence >> the first time and wouldn't have been able to get coverage since. When >> the last flood happened the experts were saying it is a once in fifty >> year flood. I wonder what they will be saying now? >> >> Well I hav been doing quite a lot of reading lately since I still >> can't go back to my volinteer work because I am suffering from low >> blood pressure. I hope to get into it next week so I can catch up on >> what has been happening but I will have to wait and see. >> >> Hope all on list are going alright. It has been quiet on list lately >> so I would love to hear what others are reading. I have been reading >> allot of romances lately and I will try and review some books here soon. >> >> Bye for now. >> From Shaz. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Sue Ellen Melo" <susan.melo@xxxxxxx> >> To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 3:32 AM >> Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review >> >> >> | It's in the 50s here today but by the end of the week we'll be in >> | the deep freeze and I don't want to talk about how cold it was last > week. >> | >> | >> | ___ >> | Sue Ellen >> | @CSLewisDaily: The probability of us being here is so small, you'd >> | think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented >> | dazzlement of surprise. >> | Contact info >> | twitter: sueellen1964 >> | Skype sueellen64 >> | livejournal roselee64 >> | facebook Susan Ellen Melo >> | >> | ----- Original Message ----- >> | From: "Don Marr" <dpm51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> | To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> | Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:23 AM >> | Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review >> | >> | >> | > wow, Sue ellen, it's 60 degrees here now, we got rain coming, then >> | > snow after, the roller coaster ride continues, LOL, enjoy! Don >> | > ----- Original Message ----- >> | > From: "Sue Ellen Melo" <susan.melo@xxxxxxx> >> | > To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> | > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 10:57 AM >> | > Subject: Re: [book_talk] book review >> | > >> | > >> | >>I just started Tampa Burn, another of Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford >> | >>Mysteries. I needed something to make me think of warm weather >> | >>while >> it's >> | >> being freezing and nasty here. >> | >> >> | >> >> | >> ___ >> | >> Sue Ellen >> | >> @CSLewisDaily: The probability of us being here is so small, >> | >> you'd >> think >> | >> the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented >> | >> dazzlement >> of >> | >> surprise. >> | >> Contact info >> | >> twitter: sueellen1964 >> | >> Skype sueellen64 >> | >> livejournal roselee64 >> | >> facebook Susan Ellen Melo >> | >> >> | >> ----- Original Message ----- >> | >> From: "Don Marr" <dpm51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> | >> To: <book_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> | >> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 6:52 AM >> | >> Subject: [book_talk] book review >> | >> >> | >> >> | >>> review of Lynda La Plante's deadly intent, yup, this is a >> | >>> series, an anna travis series, and who knows what book >> i >> | >>> read, but it was absolutely fantastic, main character anna >> | >>> travis, detective inspector, she has a real bitch for a >> | >>> supervisor, but you have to feel sorry for her, she has personal >> | >>> problems, then there is someone murdering people with drugs and >> | >>> other methods, just to keep his drug money intact, the case is >> | >>> crazy, so many twists and turns, and the ending is an open >> | >>> ending, i usually hate those, but hopefully will read more of >> | >>> the series when i can get them, great stuff from a great author, >> | >>> Don >> | >>> >> | >> >> | >> >> | > >> | > >> | >> | >> >> > >