[bksvol-discuss] OT: Re: Re: Book submitted: Fever
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:58:59 -0800 (PST)
Ah, Shelley. I see. Your parents "observed" you while
you were "absorbed" in the book? (grin)
Cindy
--- "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Excellent and enjoy it.
>
> I actually wasn't thinking it would be a good one,
> reading the dust jacket,
> and reading random pages as I scanned it, but once I
> got observed, perhaps
> near the half way mark, well, my parents were like
> last night, boy that must
> be a good book. smile.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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> The vision must be followed by the venture. It is
> not enough to
> stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
>
> -- Vance Havner
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 1:10 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Book submitted: Fever
>
>
> Shelley,
>
> It's Gerald again.
>
> I grabbed Fever off the Step 1 list. I do remember
> reading that one and
> that I enjoyed it. I've been wanting to work on an
> easy one. I copied down
> your comments and will pass the information along
> when it's accepted.
> Shouldn't take me long to read it, or too long to
> process it if you've
> already done as much work on it as I expect.
>
> Gerald
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Shelley L.
> Rhodes
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 10:58 PM
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> Cc: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Book submitted: Fever
>
>
> Book submitted
> Fever by Robin Cook to replace the "fair" copy in
> the collection. is a .rtf
> file for validators. has been read, and new
> synopsies have been added.
>
> Should be an easy validation. Will probably stay
> away from these for a few
> books, smile. I have Shock, Blind Sight, and
> Abduction still to edit.
>
> But we shall see, they are quite addicting.
> From the book Jacket:
>
> The man who created technohorror takes a bold leap
> forward with this
> controversial and spellbinding thriller. Combining
> his own unique brand of
> medical terror with a hero and heroine of
> exceptional sympathy and daring,
> Robin Cook delivers in Fever a reading experience as
> gripping and plausible
> as tomorrow's headlines.
> When medical catastrophe strikes the family of
> physician Charles Martel for
> the second time, the doctor turned researcher takes
> it upon himself to save
> his daughter Michelle's life, even though he risks
> becoming an outlaw in his
> profession and his community. Trapped by a
> medical-industrial system
> insisting on treatments he knows to be futile,
> endangered in his own
> research by professional rivalries and high-level
> corporate suppression,
> Charles fights to track down the
> source of Michelle's disease and then to cure it.
> What Charles Martel finds in his quest for a cause
> and a cure will threaten
> every aspect of his life, leading him deeper and
> deeper toward the heart of
> lethal mystery, impelling him to acts of criminal
> desperation, driving him
> apart from his new wife, Cathryn, herself caught
> between her love for her
> husband and what she sees as her responsibility to
> her stricken
> stepdaughter. Charles and Cathryn are two decent
> people, compelled by love
> and crisis into a terrifying confrontation.
> Brilliantly conceived, Fever is both a
> heart-pounding novel of suspense and
> a work of serious and vital speculation.
>
> Robin Cook, a graduate of Columbia University
> medical school and the best-
> selling author of Coma and Brain, is currently on
> leave of absence from his
> post at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Institute. He
> lives in Waterville
> Valley, New Hampshire, with his wife Barbara.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> Graduate Advisory Council
> www.guidedogs.com
>
> The vision must be followed by the venture. It is
> not enough to
> stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
>
> -- Vance Havner
>
>
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