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Anyone interested .....
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....in choosing another book for February and then chatting about it once we have finished reading it ? :read:

I started with 3 suggestions, in a previous thread which I shall add again to this, these are only 3 perhaps someone can come up with something better ?
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant

The red tent is the place where women gathered during their cycles of birthing, menses, and even illness. Like the conversations and mysteries held within this feminine tent, this sweeping piece of fiction offers an insider's look at the daily life of a biblical sorority of mothers and wives and their one and only daughter, Dinah. Told in the voice of Jacob's daughter Dinah (who only received a glimpse of recognition in the Book of Genesis), we are privy to the fascinating feminine characters who bled within the red tent. In a confiding and poetic voice, Dinah whispers stories of her four mothers, Rachel, Leah, Zilpah, and Bilhah--all wives to Jacob, and each one embodying unique feminine traits. As she reveals these sensual and emotionally charged stories we learn of birthing miracles, slaves, artisans, household gods, and sisterhood secrets. Eventually Dinah delves into her own saga of betrayals, grief, and a call to midwifery.
"Like any sisters who live together and share a husband, my mother and aunties spun a sticky web of loyalties and grudges," Anita Diamant writes in the voice of Dinah. "They traded secrets like bracelets, and these were handed down to me the only surviving girl. They told me things I was too young to hear. They held my face between their hands and made me swear to remember." Remembering women's earthy stories and passionate history is indeed the theme of this magnificent book. In fact, it's been said that The Red Tent is what the Bible might have been had it been written by God's daughters, instead of her sons.

Queen of the Big Time - Adriana Trigiani

In the late 1800s, the residents of a small village in the Bari region of Italy, on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, made a mass migration to the promised land: America. They settled in Roseto, Pennsylvania, and re-created their former lives in their new home-town to the very last detail of who lived next door to whom. The hardworking Castellucas work the land outside Roseto. Nella, eighteen, aspires to a genteel life "in town," far from the rigours of farm life. But Nella's dreams of making her own fortune shift when she meets and falls in love with Renato Lanzara, a wordly, handsome, devil-may-care poet who has a way with words that makes him irresistible. Their friendship ignites into a passionate affair that Nella is certain will lead to marriage. When he disappears without explanation, Nella is left with a shattered heart. Five years later, Renato's sudden return to Roseto, just one week before Nella's wedding, leaves her and all the townsfolk shaken. For although Renato has chosen a path very different from Nella's own, they are fated to live together, in the same town, for the rest of their lives.

The Know - Martina Cole

Joanie Brewer loves the bones of her three children. She'd do anything to protect them, even resorting to prostitution and petty crime in order to feed and clothe them. So when her beautiful teenage daughter is raped and murdered, only one thing will stop Joanie's pain - seeing her daughter's killer brought to justice. Joanie knows who he is and she'll do whatever it takes to nail him...

:read: Now over to You! :read:
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The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. Dr. Seuss


"Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr Seuss-
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#2
Already read The Know - have had that one for about a year now. May try one of the others......
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
--Mahatma Gandhi
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#3
By sheer coincidence I, today, borrowed 'Big Stone Gap' by Adriana Trigiani from the library
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#4
My money's on Queen of the Big Time by Adriana Trigiani.
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#5
and there i go and order already from Amazon... :p

i have the red tent one on my wish list....will order it....
being far too busy to even read at all this month....go ahead
and read them all - and let us know Nikkinaz... :read: :read:
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#6
So, what book are we reading for this month folks?
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#7
I am going to try and get The Tent from the library already have the Tirgiani book - so anyone who wants to join or read both go ahead..we can chat later in the month about it - hopefully!
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The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. Dr. Seuss


"Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don't matter
and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr Seuss-
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nikkinaz Wrote:I am going to try and get The Tent from the library already have the Tirgiani book - so anyone who wants to join or read both go ahead..we can chat later in the month about it - hopefully!


will try those ... :read:
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