Peek-a-reads

Peek-a-reads
Jeanette, Gloria, Tina, Maggie, & Loretta

Thursday, June 30, 2011

RE: SALSA

I remember reading the After Ann series – they were all good!  I recently finished Red Hook Road – also very good!! I was not sure I’d like it but, the further into it I got, the more interested in the characters I became. I think some of you, if not all, had read it.

 

I’m currently reading Summers’Child by Diane Chamberlain. Very good so far. Here’s a summary…

 

Twenty years after 11-year-old Daria Cato found a baby abandoned on a beach in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., she is still very much a part of the child's life. Daria's parent's had adopted the infant, but now they are dead and she has accepted responsibility for Shelly--who has grown into a beautiful, slightly handicapped young woman. Without consulting Daria, Shelly contacts Rory Taylor, host of TV's True Life Stories, to ask his help in finding her birth mother. Rory has a personal interest in Shelly's story since he'd been one of the many teenagers hanging out on the beach the summer the baby was found. Daria, meanwhile, has been keeping to herself the crush she's had on Rory for years--along with Shelly's true story. The more questions Rory asks, the more unsettled the tiny community becomes, as closely guarded secrets and the sins of that long-ago summer begin to surface. Piece by piece, the mystery of summer's child is being exposed, a mystery that no one involved—not Shelly, Daria, not even Rory—is prepared to face.

 

Have a great 4th!

 

Cindy Barton

Distance Education Coordinator

North Dakota State College of Science

cindy.barton@ndscs.edu

800-342-4325, ext 3-2347 (701-671-2347)

http://ndscsonline.org

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From: Fox-Trydahl, Shirley
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:17 PM
To: Grenier, Tina; Alice; Barton, Cindy; Blogger Email; Kassa, Carin; Carol Meehan; Cindy Splichal; Dohman, Gloria; Goroski, Heather; Janet Hasbargen; Jeanette & Carmen; Peterson, Judith; Kathy Hoffert; Loretta Meyer; Maggie Vertin
Subject: RE: SALSA

 

Oops, you  missed my reads.

I read  The Confession by John Grisham and it was wonderful.  Typical Grisham book that makes you feel like you are actually living the story.

Also,  I read Month of Summer by Lisa Wingate.  This was a recommendation by author Roxann Henke who wrote After Ann and others. 

It was a good read that was about fractured relationships, forgiveness and self examination.  I liked it a lot.

Have a great 4th everyone!

 

Shirley

From: Grenier, Tina
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:58 AM
To: Alice; Barton, Cindy; Blogger Email; Kassa, Carin; Carol Meehan; Cindy Splichal; Fox-Trydahl, Shirley; Dohman, Gloria; Goroski, Heather; Janet Hasbargen; Jeanette & Carmen; Peterson, Judith; Kathy Hoffert; Loretta Meyer; Maggie Vertin; Grenier, Tina
Subject: SALSA

 

Good morning, ladies! 

 

SALSA was a smash hit!  Great to hear all the selected reads and why they were selected. Our student worker, Leslie composed them below. 

 

Please let me know if we have the wrong title/author or if we forgot one...same is true for the websites.

 

July is off, so our next meeting is August at Niblicks, 5 to 7 pm, the third Tuesday, August 16th.

 

September will go back to Wednesday evenings at Prantes, 5 to 7 pm, so we would meet September 21, 2011.  Completing our little detour for the summer.  ;0)

 

Enjoy your summer & an early Happy 4th of July!

 

Tina

 

 

               SALSA Reads

                                                                                                                                                                        

  

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      South of Broad by Pat Conroy

          Recommended by Kathy

 

 

                                  

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Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley

             Recommended by Loretta

 

 

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Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen

       Recommended by Loretta

 

                            

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Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo and Colton Burpo

                                 Read by Jeanette

 

 

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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

                       By Barbara Kingsolver

                   Recommended by Jeanette

 


 

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The Fat and the thin by Emile Zola

         Recommended by Carol

     (the original was in French,

The Belly of Paris{ Le Ventre de Paris})

 


 

 Website suggestions:

 

Carol:  www.packabook.com    

 

Janet:   www.bookfreeswap.com  (Janet, is this the right one?)

 

Additional suggestion:  www.nancypearl.com 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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