Book Club

[j.hunt...@q.com]

Anybody read the book yet?

Me either.

Should we have a meeting comparing the best excuses not to read our book?

Mugs

[Becky Bean]

<raises hand>

My dog ate my note that explained how my Great Aunt Thelma passed right before she could pick up my copy at the library.

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"The way to avoid housework is to live outside." -- Sandra Blacksmith, 1900

[Robin Barfoot]

Well, I started to read my library copy, but only got a few pages in.  I'm not crazy about Smiley.  I've tried to read her stuff before.  I'll try harder.

 

Robin

[Deborah Walker]

I started.  Did anyone else notice this sentence around the 3rd page, " Mares and foals, feeling safety in the peace of the weather, were scattered over the lower third of the hillside, lying down or resting in the hammocks of their own joints."  Such an oddly worded phrase at the end of it, and how many non horsaii would even know what it meant? Deb --- On Mon, 3/5/12, Robin Barfoot <robin....@gmail.com> wrote:

[Robin Barfoot]

I read that and had to think about it a bit.  It's pretty poetic but most people are not going to have any idea what she is saying would be my guess.

[j.hunt...@q.com]

If it's hated we can move on....there are too many good books out there to get stuck on something that's not working....

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From: "Robin Barfoot" <robin....@gmail.com>
To: whoahprah-whi...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 5, 2012 2:32:18 PM
Subject: Re: Book Club

[Peanut]

I listened to the book on my iPod.  I liked it in some ways, but I understand why it might be hard to get through.  I'm OK if you want to move on to another book. 

There were a few things that stood out to me.  In the first chapter, I liked the idea of the middle boy walking around the farm in the dark - seeing very familiar things but in a completely new way.  Later, the eldest boy Peter rides a difficult horse (that actually broke his mother's arm 3 different times in the past).  Peter eventually notices that if he is over-confident, the horse will take him down a peg, but if he practices some humility, the horse may surprise him with compliance.

At the end, (I guess I'm still stuck on the last book), I wondered if the mother is some sort of sociopath. :)

Peanut

[j.hunt...@q.com]

...and Peanut sees where I was heading...

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From: "Peanut" <cer...@frontier.com>
To: whoahprah-whi...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 11:46:07 AM
Subject: Re: Book Club

[Deborah Walker]

I was wondering that about her too.  I haven't read enough of the book to figure that out yet. --- On Tue, 3/6/12, j.hunt...@q.com <j.hunt...@q.com> wrote:

From: j.hunt...@q.com <j.hunt...@q.com> Subject: Re: Book Club To: whoahprah-whi...@googlegroups.com