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I really loved A Thousand Acres too! My favorite Shakespeare play is King Lear... so I was really interested in the retelling and I thought it was very well written. I've read several of her books, Moo, which is about a University, and The All True Travels and Adventures Of Lidie Newton which was about a woman on the prairie (sort of a grown-up Little House). If you like her books, you might like Anne Tyler or Carol Shields. Have you read any of theirs? 
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Wow,Bev, im a big fan of Ann Rule too!! The last one i have read of hers was the one about the murder of Sheila Belush(florida mom of quadruplets)by her jealous controlling ex hubby who hired a hitman.I thought i was the only true crime fan,lol....
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Bevvy
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Oh no, you're not her only fan, not by a long-shot! She's a writer whose books you can't put down.
Did you read "Small Sacrifices"? When it first came out, we owned a second home in Oregon, not far from where it all happened. In fact, after I read the book, my hubby read it, then my sister-in-law, then her mother, then my mother-in-law ..... none of us could put it down! So then, we drove down the infamous road where she drove her children to murder them and where she said she met up with the "bushy-haired stranger" (who was supposed to have done the deed instead of her).
I just couldn't believe any mother could do that to her children. The story was FASCINATING, and her writing incredible! (Did you see "Small Sacrifices," the made-for-TV-movie starring Ryan O'Neil and Farrah Fawcett?)
And then, "The Stranger Beside Me." Did you read it? It's about Ted Bundy. When Ann Rule worked for suicide prevention (I think that's where it was), Ted Bundy worked with her, all the while murdering all those women. The police were looking for a "Ted," but Ann Rule never for a moment thought it would be the guy sitting right next to her! He even walked her to her car every night because he told her it wasn't safe out there ......
Yeah, I read the book you mention -- about Sheila Belush -- then saw the story about the murder on "American Justice." Horrible, horrible stuff. Incredible reading.
Yeah, you're right, Ann Rule is the BEST!
Bev
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Yes, i have read "Small Sacrifices" it was a great book, i have read it more than once even.Another great book that made you think was a book about Darlie Routier,it was not written by Ann Rule,sorry i dont remember the author.Darlie was the young mom of 3 boys who claimed someone broke into their Texas home and slashed her throat and stabbed 2 of her boys while they all slept in the family room.It was a really interesting book,makes you wonder if she really had anything to do with it or not.Lots of unanswered questions and even some suspicions that her own husband might have been responsible for it all...oh a great website for true crime is www.crimelibrary.com
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I'm just getting to this post...summer reading! I can't wait. Lately I've been reading Milan Kundera. I loved The Unbearable Lightness of Being. He's got a new book out that I got for my b-day, but haven't read it yet. I'm about halfway through Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and it's hilarious! I've been reading The Group by Mary McCarthy (but at the gym, so it's taking me forever).
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BEV: well I could go on for ages. But the best one I've read lately is Second-hand smoke by Thane Rosenbaum about being the child of suvivors. If you like that, Helen Epstein's Children of the Holocaust is aslo good. I liked Imre Kertesz's Fatelesstoo. There is another book that is so wonderful and I can't think of the title. I know you'd love it, Bev. It takes place in the Warsaw Ghetto and Maidjanek. By a woman, Helen somehing(yeah, like that helps!). When I unpack it, I'll let you know. Filip Mueller's memoirs are excellent as well, but I would warn you: if you can't handle very graphic and traumatic writing about the gas chambers and the prisoners who had to work there, don't read it. The Sonderkommando, as they were called, are a special interest of mine and so I encourage you to read about them. Lemme know what you're especially interested in, I'm sure I could rattle off some more titles.
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Thanks Julie,
I'll print out your post and keep it in my purse for my next trip to the library. Some good suggestions there.
My favorite was "Lest We Forget," but I don't remember the author's name. I also like the story of a local, Noemi Ban, "Sharing is Healing."
Yes, I would appreciate any and all recommendations. I'm reading Ben Wicks, "No Time to Wave goodbye," about the children of London who were evacuated, but I'm having a hard time getting into it.
I read "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance" twice. I just can't get enough of it. Because of that, and since I was born in 1944, I think I must have been a victim in my first life. Wouldn't it be spooky if I ended up reading my own story?
Okay, that's not funny.
Thanks, Julie, I appreciate it very much.
Bev
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I should definitely check out Middlesex... I'd heard good things about it and I really liked The Virgin Suicides. The Group is another good suggestion, I remember the NY Times review of it. At first I thought you meant The Jane Austen Book Club which also just came out and I've heard really good things about. That's three more to read at least! Thanks!! 
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Thanks for letting me know what are the Screwtape Letters, Chinagrl:) C.S. Lewis? He sounds familiar. I haven't read the Narnia books. When I was younger, I read "Little Women," "Anne of Green Gables," and "The Babysitter Club" books. I'm sure I read others, but I can't think of them right now. I like philosophical reads. "Sophie's World" is one of them, good book, very wise & worldly. Oh I enjoy borrowing DVDs at the library:) I hope your library gets them too, and I am sure in the future all libraries will have them. In an old library I used to go to, they are opening up a new cafe in it like Barnes & Nobles. I am glad bcos I enjoy going to B & N, and they have yummy sandwiches at the Starbucks @ B and N. Have a great week at work!!
Lilybear
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Oh, I've read Sophie's World! I really liked it. You might check out the book, The Chess Garden, it's similar in a lot of ways. No big passages about philosophers though (I skipped most of those, as I have a degree in philosophy and had read quite enough of those people. )
As for having a good work week, I wish. The temp agency has yet to find work for me. 
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