Books and Writing - Happy Birthdays

Kimberly · 06-07-2005, 10:18 AM

I hope you both have a great birthday!! Filled with fiction dreams!

Since this month is a fiction month!

Here is a fiction book that came out this week just in time for your birthday!

From www.amazon.com

Quote:

Liz and Mike O'Reilly's marriage weathers the Vietnam War in Farrington's fourth novel (after The Monk Downstairs), a well-crafted but somewhat timeworn story about a military family's stoicism in the field and on the home front. Capt. Michael O'Reilly, USMC, ships out from Okinawa for Da Nang, while back home in Detroit, where the streets are afire from the 1967 riots, a pregnant Liz struggles alone to raise their four children. Mike is "turned toward battle like a plant toward the sun," but Liz quietly curses the Marine Corp and draws on hidden reserves of strength to be a good Catholic wife and mother. As commander of a beleaguered company in Vietnam, Mike is badly wounded and further strains the marriage when he returns to combat instead of coming home. Meanwhile, a near miscarriage in her third trimester almost costs Liz her life, but she decides to keep the baby rather than guarantee her own survival. Farrington's graceful prose moves the engaging narrative along at a brisk clip, but tough, noble Mike and tough, big-hearted Liz remain mired in type. The result is a compassionate but unambitious novel about enduring marital love and family ties during wartime from an author who was willing to take greater risks in his earlier works.
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Have a great day!

**Quarterley** · 06-07-2005, 09:24 PM

Have a good one!

secret tragedy · 06-08-2005, 04:15 AM

Aww thanks guys!

I got a gift certificate to a Barnes and Noble

Any recommendations of what books I should get?

Kimberly · 06-08-2005, 10:16 AM

ooh what a great gift!

You could get Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire, since it is our July book club choice! It was a great book!

Mariael311 · 06-08-2005, 01:00 PM

^talk about a plug!

Kimberly · 06-08-2005, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Mariael311

^talk about a plug!

Of course

Soz · 06-08-2005, 08:39 PM

There, I posted just before it became June 9.

BehIndxHazELxEyes, I love getting gift certificates. Hmm, recommendations, aside from next month's book... What genres do you like?

Kimberly · 06-10-2005, 12:39 PM

Hi Susan! I hope you have a great birthday

Since your bday is in Fiction month here is a book just in time for your big day!

From B&N online:

Quote:

"New Year's Eve was a night for sentimental losers. It was my own stupid fault. Of course ther'd be a low-rent crowd up there. I should have picked a classier date -- like March 28nd, when Virginia Woolf took her walk into the river, or November 25th (Nick Drake). If anybody had been on the roof on either of those nights, the chances are they would have been like-minded souls, rather than hopeless *****-ups who had somehow persuaded themselves that the end of a calendar year is in any way significant." Nick Hornby's predictably unpredictable fourth novel invites us to the roof of Topper's House, a traditional London suicide haunt. A Long Way Down is delivered through the distinctive voices of four would-be plungers.

soulstarshine · 06-10-2005, 02:41 PM

Happy Birthday!

**Quarterley** · 06-10-2005, 04:21 PM

Have a good one.

~AppleJacks~ · 06-10-2005, 07:15 PM

happy birthday!

Marilyn_19032002 · 06-11-2005, 11:29 AM

Happy Birthday!! Have a wonderful B-day!

Marilyn_19032002 · 06-11-2005, 11:31 AM

Happy Birthday! I'm a little late!

froggiepopple · 06-11-2005, 09:11 PM

Soz · 06-12-2005, 11:57 AM

I hope you see this thread when you get back from your trip.

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