Walking across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
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Red Tails in Love by Marie Winn
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Prize Winner by Terry Ryan
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Spyder Web by Tom Grace
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Public Comments

Hi Genie:

Enjoyed Red-Tails in Love. Does the library have a cd of bird calls, plus identifying comments? This might be interesting to play at Book Club.
Commented By : leko@cac.net   (23 - days ago) ,Page:Archived Bookclub Selections

This was a complicated book. Liking and disliking it at the same time.
Commented By : Guest   (342 - days ago) ,Page:Standing Alone by Asra Nomani

This book was a treat for me. I really found it fascinating to experience the thoughts/lives of David, Caroline and Norah. It was full of events/thoughts to consider. Sometimes what happened would seem like something I would do/think/react to and sometimes they seemed totally alien to my own ways. When David handed the baby to Caroline and told Norah she died, I could really feel as though it was something to which I could relate and which I found good/admirable. David had a need to "help" Norah -- and many others -- that we often find honorable, even saint like. Yet, by the end of the book we feel the dismay that David feels as he looks back on this moment. Such dismay and sadness don't seem a fair return for such a noble action. Did any other reader have similiar thoughts?
Commented By : Sally   (347 - days ago) ,Page:The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards

Even though I tried, I could not read all of this book. During my entire life I've tried to understand how people view others, judge others, value others. In my youth (remember those riotous, tumultuous 60's?) I fought, taught and marched against "discimination." I thought we were done with that, I thought we did our turn around, but every day I'm bombarded with news, statistics, and stories of continued injustices. I like to think - hope - that we have moved from total ignorance to individual situations, but I'm not sure. I struggle with why anyone would deny the value of another human being. I know -- doesn't everyone? -- that we all gain more when everyone works toward a common goal. Is it greed? Can't be true, since my smaller slice of a bigger pie is more...this isn't a difficult concept. Does denying the rights of any person make the person doing the denying better in some way...have more possessions, have more power for doing something? Anyway, this is a subject which totally bamboozles me...I've begun to think that there are some "things" that just are. So, the book was just too painful for me to complete...I couldn't come to terms with Ms. Nomani's mission...maybe if I could have read more, I would eventually have had more of an understanding. But, the subject is just too painful for me. The treatment of females described is just stupid, to my way of thinking, and why she would put herself in danger to experience it, is just beyond me.
Commented By : Sally   (347 - days ago) ,Page:Standing Alone by Asra Nomani

This book is the choice of the "One Book, One State" program sponsored by the Michigan Humanities Counsel. Many people across the state will be reading this book, so conversations should be fun and varied.
Commented By : Holly H.   (362 - days ago) ,Page:Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway

I have always loved this book and can read it again and again. I always find something new in it and enjoy it all over again.
Commented By : Holly H.   (362 - days ago) ,Page:Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen