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Our local library started a winter reading program. Theme Go for the Gold.Olympics based. You get get a prize at the bronze level,Silver level and Gold level. At the end can be entered to win prize at that level. So got to get into this thing. They have like 15 challenges to complete. Must pick at least ten. I want to do a Russian dish as one does anyone have any recipes they suggest i try?
Another is a book with Gold,Silver or Bronze in the title. Anyone have one they might suggest?
Read a book by a Pulitzer Prize author.So many things i will be learning. Will learn a phrase in Russian. My that may be a real challenge.This program goes until March 8. A bit excited as a lot of things I never thought about doing or reading before. Will be going to a program on Downton Abbey. So reserved the first two seasons,as I have never seen this. Plus for this class will dress for that time. Here I come Goodwill.Feedback guys any ideas suggestions would be great.
 
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...the letters are gold, will this help??...(my pea-brain says "not a hell of a lot you idiot")...
 
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Good as Gold by Joseph Heller is about politics in Washington, D.C....a man named Gold gets a job there...as an anonymous source maybe. Funny. Same author of Catch-22, a classic.
The Sun's Gold, Smith Kirkpatrick, is about the merchant marine. There's a great chapter in this one about a young seaman learning the ropes from an old boats...and the beginning of the next chapter shows his...growth. Beep beep.
Gold Coast, Elmore Leonard...you can't go wrong, with any Leonard story.
Rope of Gold, Josephine Herbst...story of 30s-era depression farmers...some politics...it is a part of our lives...

have you read that Edgar Sawtelle story? Forget the exact title but it is really good...includes dogs, special breed of dog, a bit of a mystery to it, long-range mystery. I think that won the Pulitzer but not sure. Tinkers is pretty good...Orphan Master's Son...reading that one now. Executioner's Song from Mailer...about the march on the Pentagon, history as fiction or something like that. Ironweed...The Confessions of Nat Turner...A Death in the Family...Humboldt's Gift (I loved this story...love the words, the language here) ...A Fable from Faulkner
 
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king family fan said:
Our local library started a winter reading program. Theme Go for the Gold.Olympics based. You get get a prize at the bronze level,Silver level and Gold level. At the end can be entered to win prize at that level. So got to get into this thing. They have like 15 challenges to complete. Must pick at least ten. I want to do a Russian dish as one does anyone have any recipes they suggest i try?
Another is a book with Gold,Silver or Bronze in the title. Anyone have one they might suggest?
Read a book by a Pulitzer Prize author.So many things i will be learning. Will learn a phrase in Russian. My that may be a real challenge.This program goes until March 8. A bit excited as a lot of things I never thought about doing or reading before. Will be going to a program on Downton Abbey. So reserved the first two seasons,as I have never seen this. Plus for this class will dress for that time. Here I come Goodwill.Feedback guys any ideas suggestions would be great.
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That sounds so wonderful and I'm glad you are participating!
 
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king family fan said:
Our local library started a winter reading program. Theme Go for the Gold.Olympics based. You get get a prize at the bronze level,Silver level and Gold level. At the end can be entered to win prize at that level. So got to get into this thing. They have like 15 challenges to complete. Must pick at least ten. I want to do a Russian dish as one does anyone have any recipes they suggest i try?
Another is a book with Gold,Silver or Bronze in the title. Anyone have one they might suggest?
Read a book by a Pulitzer Prize author.So many things i will be learning. Will learn a phrase in Russian. My that may be a real challenge.This program goes until March 8. A bit excited as a lot of things I never thought about doing or reading before. Will be going to a program on Downton Abbey. So reserved the first two seasons,as I have never seen this. Plus for this class will dress for that time. Here I come Goodwill.Feedback guys any ideas suggestions would be great.
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The first one that came to mind was THE BRONZE HORSEMAN. Pretty good book, based on experiences in Stalingrad during the siege, until the sex starts--maybe 4/5 of the way through. Then it gets silly. :p

I love borscht, cold or hot :) Oh, and piroshkis! And baklajane ikra (eggplant spread--really easy & delicious!

My most helpful phrase in college Russian class (rendered phonetically, because no Cyrillic keyboard :) : "YA ne znayu"=I don't know (in an apparently great accent--the only thing I picked up from my Russian great grandpa--haha)

I wish our library did something like this--I'm excited for you!
 
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HollyGolightly said:
The Bronze Horseman is exactly what I was going to suggest - it's good - but skimoms's right - the sex is a little much - not really explicit, just all.the.time. I was embarrassed when my mom wanted to borrow it. But it is a good one.
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Up until the last part, though, it wasn't an issue--the book was really interesting, especially as it was based on Simons' grandparents' experiences (the historical stuff). I'm not a prude (I do write chick lit--lol), but it was ridiculously overdone near the end of this book.

The same thing happened with her last one, CHILDREN OF LIBERTY. I was disappointed when I reviewed that one.
 
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