Hi All!! I have : Hardcover of The Choice by Nicholas Sparks Hardcover & large print of both Black Hills by Nora Roberts and Return to Sullivans Island by Dorothea Benton Frank Would like to trade for named iris,named daylilies, coneflowers,mini roses or ....what cha ya got? Thanks for looking!! later...April/dirt_under_my_nails

ColorMe, the systems have been funky lately. Interestingly enough, the movement of tectonic plates was embraced earliest by some very strange people of the Von Daniken ilk (but a decade earlier.) I read all those books and enjoyed them mainly because they gave me permission to think about things in a new way. Most of what I read I didn't believe or agree with, but for some reason the plate tectonics stuff held. So, by reading some incredibly stupid book probably about the hollow earth, I learned enough about plate tectonics to dazzle a geologist with my learning a decade or so later. Go figure. Of course I've also learned enough stuff that is dead wrong to cure anyone's bedazzlement. My vote for the worst non-ficion would be the biography Sara & Gerald, of her parents Sara and Gerald Murphy by daughter Honoria Donnelly. These two incredibly interesting and exciting characters (according to two biographies Living Well is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins and Everyone Was So Young by Amanda Vail) gave birth to a daughter who made them sound dull as ditch water.

My M-i-L watches the TV evangelists-one that she watches enjoyed the movie, becuase "it is all fiction-not one true word in the book or movie-it's a good story, that's all." Another one was highly offended by both the book and the movie. What I find interesting is that in the first book written about the main character, Angels and Demons, the Catholic Church is the innocent victim-in the DaVinci Code she is the perpretator of all nefarious deeds...Brown clearly just wanted to write thrillers, not necessarily attack the church. But we hear little mention of the first book. Mind you, it was as much a strain to the logic as the DVC...how he escapes so many death-assuring situations without super powers boggles the mind.

It's good to be back - I've been having so many probs with aol etc., and hopefully going to Pembrokeshire in a couple of days. Small world - another of my lit group's friends is in 'Another Life' - I watched it on TV a few months ago. Rene has been and is still researching Edith Chapman as you will see from his email to me yesterday. "... It was a great pleasure this morning. I should be delighted to come and talk about Edith Thompson whenever you want me to. As Barry may have told you, she is commemorated in the very church in which she was married every 9 January; the church being Barry's beloved St Barnabas in Manor Park. I was very pleased when the present incumbent kindly agreed to carry on with the tradition. The very first sentence of Edith's sister Avis's will (she died in 1977) refers to 9 January and her desire for her adored sister to be remembered in perpetuity..."