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11-23-2020, 11:45 AM
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Reading the one-and-only Thanksgiving Card we get, from a retired local politician who's sent them every year since he was first elected (back when Trump first experienced bone spurs).
Anyone here have a favorite Wintertime Holiday Book they plan to begin or re-read? What made you choose that book?
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12-11-2020, 08:11 PM
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Now I’m more excited about “Wonder Boy”—it’s on my Christmas list. I’m a huge Fannie Flagg fan! (⬅️ Oops... guess I’m also into accidental alliteration!!)
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12-26-2020, 07:29 PM
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Just finished, "Disloyal: A Memoir" by Michael Cohen. Now reading, "Born Trump: Inside America’s First Family" by Emily Jane Fox.
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08-06-2021, 05:07 PM
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Love Fannie Flagg.
Thanks to mentions in various threads here on GC somewhere, this summer I read Heartbreak Hotel and Peachtree Road and Up Island by Tri Delt Anne Rivers Siddons. Thanks for the recommendation! I enjoyed those... although I decided not to finish King's Oak.
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08-20-2021, 01:03 PM
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Loved Time Traveler's Wife. I have re-read it several times, sometimes just jumping in and reading certain sections. I hope you like it!
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08-20-2021, 08:37 PM
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Loved Time Traveler's Wife. I have re-read it several times, sometimes just jumping in and reading certain sections. I hope you like it!
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Thank you! My hubby is a Whovian, and I thought it might be appropriate!
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10-20-2021, 10:53 AM
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Bound by a Mighty Vow, Sisterhood and Women’s Fraternities, 1870–1920
Managed to get a hold of a signed copy.
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10-20-2021, 05:56 PM
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Bound by a Mighty Vow, Sisterhood and Women’s Fraternities, 1870–1920
Managed to get a hold of a signed copy.
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Love that book! Wish our local library still had their copy, it was once "checked out" and never returned 
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10-25-2021, 09:28 PM
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Love that book! Wish our local library still had their copy, it was once "checked out" and never returned |
I purchased it for pennies on the dollar. When I'm done reading it, if you like, I can send it to you so you can donate it to your local library.
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10-26-2021, 11:41 AM
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I purchased it for pennies on the dollar. When I'm done reading it, if you like, I can send it to you so you can donate it to your local library.
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I pm'ed you.
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10-28-2021, 09:47 PM
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I pm'ed you.
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10-25-2021, 09:35 PM
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I recently read Chalked Up by Jennifer Sey, who won the US gymnastics championship in 1986 (it was only 2 dollars on Google Books!) This was written in 2008, almost a decade before all the stuff came out with Nassar. She wrote about her experience with her terrible coaches and culture in the 80's, which would eventually get worst. I 100% recommend.
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10-25-2021, 09:39 PM
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I recently read Chalked Up by Jennifer Sey, who won the US gymnastics championship in 1986 (it was only 2 dollars on Google Books!) This was written in 2008, almost a decade before all the stuff came out with Nassar. She wrote about her experience with her terrible coaches and culture in the 80's, which would eventually get worst. I 100% recommend.
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You should read Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The making and breaking of elite gymnasts and figure skaters by Joan Ryan
ETA links, same book but the 2nd is a updated version
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Girls-.../dp/0446672505
https://www.amazon.com/Little-Girls-...dp_ob_title_bk
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10-26-2021, 12:58 PM
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I actually have a copy of that book! I read it when I began to watch gymnastics more.
It may not be a book but you should check out the youtube series Defying gravity. It deals with a lot of the same topics and follows several of the girls who would end up on the 2020 Olympic team.
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