What Are You Reading? Part Deux

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AchtungBaby

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Hill lover35 said:
Yes this is true, but I am just wondering what she means by it, I do not have the book of Reuben to,reference
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Reuben and his wife married young and she wasn't really happy with him from the start. She went off to college, he was a small-town boy, and she began to feel smothered by him, better than him... she turned to religion and had an affair with a local minister, and IIRC ran off with him? She is a short-tempered woman--though she loved her kids, she couldn't take any more of Reuben....it's just one of those things.
 
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AchtungBaby said:
Reuben and his wife married young and she wasn't really happy with him from the start. She went off to college, he was a small-town boy, and she began to feel smothered by him, better than him... she turned to religion and had an affair with a local minister, and IIRC ran off with him? She is a short-tempered woman--though she loved her kids, she couldn't take any more of Reuben....it's just one of those things.
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Thank you, so Sam is Rubens bio child right, and Indy is the child with pearl and Reuben. Did Pearl get pregnant before they got married.
 
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Kurben said:
I fell back on an old child fave of mine and reread a Three Investigators story: The Mystery Of The Silver Spider. I can see why i liked that series so much back then. In their way i think they hold up still. Not bad for a youth mystery novel written in the early 70-ties.
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Oh wow! Haven't thought about that series in ages. I think my favorite was The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot!
to to to be or not 222B!
;-D
 
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do1you9love? said:
Oh wow! Haven't thought about that series in ages. I think my favorite was The Mystery of the Stuttering Parrot!
to to to be or not 222B!
;-D
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I stayed on that track for awhile. Followed up with The Stuttering Parrot, The Whispering Mummy and The Green Ghost. A little wave of nostalghia came over me and i just felt i had to read something from days gone by.
 
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What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz - I had given up on Koontz quite a few years ago because his stuff got too...let's just call it religiously inspired. Anyway, I thought this one sounded interesting and has pretty good reviews so I decided to risk it. Chapter 20 and it has built some pretty decent terror. Let's hope he follows through!
 
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cat in a bag said:
I just finished a re-read of Desperation. Had not read it since it came out, so I only very vaguely remembered things. It just is never going to be a favorite of mine.

Guess that's ok, though. Can't love them all. :)
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This is so funny because it absolutely is one of my favorites. I haven't re-read it since original publication but I might try the audiobook version as a refresher. I feel like I get something new out of a book when I listen to it.
 
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