[bookshare-discuss] Re: What went wrong [bookshare-discuss
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 15:29:42 -0700 (PDT)
OOps--I should have read my emails before writing a response to Lana. Thanks,
Sue.
G.Cindy
--- On Sun, 7/6/08, siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: siss52 <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What went wrong [bookshare-discuss
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 12:38 PM
> Hi Lana,
>
> If you signed up for Cindy's list, you would get
> synopses of the new books.
> She includes short synopses with all the books on her list.
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "lana" <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2008 2:12 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: What went wrong
> [bookshare-discuss
>
>
> And things were going so well, but here are those pesky
> publisher qualities
> back, with no synopses either in the new book list or once
> you've linked the
> book. I thought that, except for one or two now and then,
> we'd gotten past
> that.
> So disapointed.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "solsticesinger"
> <solsticesinger@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2008/07/06 03:11:57
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Kristin Hannah submitted to
> step one
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have just submitted Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah
> to step one. I forgot
> > to strip headers before submitting, but most scannos
> have been removed.
> > Also, page breaks, and chapter headings have been
> protected. Here is the
> > synopsis.
> >
> > In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has
> accepted her place at
> > the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain.
> Then, to her amazement,
> > the
> > "coolest girl in the world" moves in across
> the street and wants to be her
> > friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all--combeauty,
> brains, ambition. On
> > the surface
> > they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate,
> doomed to be forever
> > uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at
> every turn. Tully,
> > steeped in glamour
> > and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her.
> They make a pact to
> > be best friends forever; by summer's end
> they've become TullyandKate.
> > Inseparable.
> >
> > So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel.
> Spanning more than three
> > decades and playing out across the ever-changing face
> of the Pacific
> > Northwest,
> > Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two
> women and the
> > friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives.
> >
> > From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her
> worth to the world.
> > Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to
> be loved
> > unconditionally.
> > In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she
> looks to men to fill
> > the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down
> nineties, it is television
> > news
> > that captivates her. She will follow her own blind
> ambition to New York
> > and around the globe, finding fame and success . . ..
> and loneliness.
> >
> > Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing
> special. Throughout
> > college, she pretends to be driven by a need for
> success, but all she
> > reallywants
> > is to fall in love and have children and live an
> ordinary life. In her own
> > quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she
> doesn't know is how being
> > a
> > wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll
> lose sight of who she
> > once was, and what she once wanted. And how much
> she'll envy her famous
> > best friend.
> > . . .
> >
> > For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other
> through life, weathering
> > the storms of friendship--comjealousy, anger, hurt,
> resentment. They think
> > they've
> > survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears
> them apart . . . and
> > puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate
> test.
> >
> > Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's
> Farm apple wine while
> > listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a
> coming-of-age novel, it's
> > the story
> > of a generation of women who were both blessed and
> cursed by choices. It's
> > about promises and secrets and betrayals. And
> ultimately, about the one
> > person
> > who really, truly knows you--comand knows what has the
> power to hurt you .
> > . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll
> never forget . . . one
> > you'll
> > want to pass on to your best friend.
> >
> >
> > Shannon
> > I am only one; but still I am one. I can not do
> everything, but I can do
> > something. And, because I can not do everything, I
> will not refuse to do
> > the something I can do.
> > Everet Edward Hale
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