Sharon’s Comments (group member since Jan 26, 2011)

Sharon’s comments from the Boomers and Books group.

Sorry to take so long to get back to you Randy. I'm afraid this group is not very active. We are in the middle of looking at something new for it.

At the present time, there are no rules against promoting your own work, but I wouldn't do anything until we get active again.

Yes, that is wonderful news!! Keep us posted!!

Just posted a review of The Girl on the Swing. Check it out:

Review of The Girl on the Swing by Ali Cooper

Hey everyone,
Our Boomers and Books group blog has just launched a page on Facebook! Come check us out!

http://www.facebook.com/boomersandbooks

I recently reviewed the film Tree of Life (official website, for what it's worth: http://www.twowaysthroughlife.com/), on our group blog at Boomers and Books.

Could have been a really beautiful story, had the director, Terence Malick (who also wrote the screenplay) made it into a story. It was disjointed and hard to connect with.

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I posted a blog on our Boomers and Books group blogsite, where I discuss Baby Boomers and Health.

Check it out: http://boomersandbooks.wordpress.com/...

Judith, I do watch Piers sometimes, he seems to attract such interesting people. I follow him on Twitter and will watch when he has someone scheduled who looks interesting.

The other day he had Andrew Lloyd Webber on and he was amazing. Kept tinkling the piano as part of his discourse. He couldn't seem to keep his fingers off the ivories, they just gravitated there. A true artist and magical to watch.

One of our genius Boomers.

OMG. Billy Jean King on Piers Morgan. I had forgotten a Boomer-era tidbit: 1973 - Women could not get credit cards in North America without a male co-signer. No wonder we carried placards for equal rights!

@Lynn. Stephen King said that too and I loved the advice as I could justify reading when I should have been doing the dishes, which I'd always done anyway, but as I read more and write more, I find some of the pleasure of just reading for escape or entertainment has been somewhat diminished.

Historical romance has always been one of my guilty pleasures, though I hadn't read one in years. I especially like high seas swashbucklers,so when I was looking for something lighter recently I chose Bound By The Heart by Marsha Canham, which was trad pubbed in the 80's and kindleized by the author.

Brothers Karamazov review posted at our Boomer and Books Blog

Ackk, I'm writing the promised review of Brothers Karamazov and it feels as disjointed as the book sometimes did. But I will finish soon and post to the BB Blog...

See, this is why we need a secret book club. I have Better Off Without Himin my Kindle, somewhere near the top. But it's been secretly hiding there. Ha! I know the answer! I need to have a secret TBR pile. If they're secret I'll be sure to remember to read them first.

sigh... in my next life I am going to choose to be a professional reader. Going out to stock up on choccies and wine right now...

Forgot to mention. Dostoevsky predicted the end of the world at the turn of the 20th Century. Hmmm, rather timely tidbit...

Finished BK, I am feeling bereft. Will take a bit of time to digest it all then attempt to post a review. Gonna be a challenge!

Off to find some light reading from the mountain in my TBR Kindle pile...

Keep 'em coming, Lee. Since my last nonfiction read I've sworn off them for a while, but am intrigued by your choices and have added them to my TBR pile.

I just got to 80% on The Brothers Karamazov, after which I may just go to my category, light romance or perhaps humour if I can find something. BK is interesting though, both in style and its addressing many of the same existential questions we struggle with today.

It feels as if it will take me a full week to write a review :-)).

LOL, Dee, I'm at 32% now, remembering now why I haven't re-read it sooner - just got through a soliloquy that must have been three pages long. Actually it was a series of soliloquies that were interrupted by the brother who was on the receiving end ~ what was HE thinking? .
Interested to hear your review of the Julia Child Affair.

I'm reading ~ or actually I'm rereading The Brothers Karamazov. What was I thinking? I'm not the fastest reader in the world anyway, and this is one long book. But I thought it would be fun to reread to see how much of it I remember. So far (my Kindle says I'm 18% through, lol) I remember most of the characters and the plot, but not the nuances and the philosophical theme, which I find interesting. And I'm enjoying it so I'll plod along and finish before I get at that TBR file which is growing so tall I can't see how I can EVER read all the way to the top.

Love your redecorating, Lee. Thanks for sitting in. I've added some wallpaper in the form of new books.

Good for you to address the clutter. It's an ongoing problem for me too. I'm the only one in my family who is a clutterbug and I'm always getting grief from them. I tell them it's because I am an artiste, but they don't seem to buy that. :-))

Looking forward to the review.

Sharon