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"DOUBLE CLICK" on the SMALL PHOTO, and it will take you directly to OAK LAWN IMAGES - PAGE on Facebook.Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069212392695293682noreply@blogger.comBlogger139125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899842702335056818.post-86678306264093909482017-06-29T19:28:00.000-03:002017-06-29T19:28:03.673-03:00Spring Gardens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> One of the best part of having the beautiful Summer days is that the long cold dreary days of Winter are but a distant memory. As the years have gone by I have accumulated many gardens and they have prolifirted. Mintaining those gardens has become a Spring, Summer and Autumn task. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /> But this year as in other years past, my brother and his dear wife, have come to my rescue, by helping to weed and tend to those gardens, thus freeing up more of my time and time that we all may spend enjoying Nature's bounty together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> These are just a few snap shots of this years gardens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Chives,rhododendrons and lupins all add to the Spring pallate</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The hostas and rhododendrons have escaped the munchie deer, for this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A perpetually cool walking path along the edge of the gardens</span></div>
Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069212392695293682noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899842702335056818.post-7948043194534371802013-11-12T17:52:00.000-04:002013-11-12T23:14:44.406-04:00Wordless Wednesday, Nov 13, 2013 {with LINKY}<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069212392695293682noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899842702335056818.post-42905998472256194662013-11-05T11:02:00.001-04:002013-11-05T11:46:00.220-04:00Wordless Wednesday - November 5, 2013 - {with LINKY}<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">From the song, "Wildfire', by Michael Martin Murphy</span></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069212392695293682noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899842702335056818.post-60678156279844640362013-10-15T16:41:00.000-03:002013-10-22T10:19:49.540-03:00Wordless Wednesday October 23, 2013 {with LINKY}<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On our recent annual drive up the Fundy Trail, my two sisters, their husbands and my husband & I came across a particularly interesting vista that we just "had to photograph". We each took turns climbing up on the guardrail to get a better shot.Those extra few feet up made the difference, don't you know! Our husbands watched and chuckled at our determination or foolheartedness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How surprised I was to go to my mailbox on Friday and find these two signed copies of Pamela Foster's books waiting for me. She even included a couple of post cards. And, all I did was make a comment on her blog, that she found favorable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I haven't had the opportunity to read Pamela's books, but they sure look interesting. I have a brother that actually spend some time in Costa Rica and was considered a Gringo by the locals and my father-in-law was a WW2 Vet. So, I expect to really enjoy these two books.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have you had the opportunity to read any of her work?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> My husband, Jack, and I sit in our recliners – you know, the ones you see on TV with old people in them – and watch CNN while we pet the fur-covered, 150-pound trunkless elephants we call dogs, and contemplate another winter in the high desert of Arizona.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“You know what?” I ask rhetorically.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jack doesn’t answer. We’ve been married long enough that, first of all, he knows one of my lead-ins to a discussion about our lives when he hears it and, secondly, he’s trained his brain to simply filter out nine-tenths of what comes floating out of my mouth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Knowing this, with no encouragement whatsoever, I continue, “It feels like we’re just sitting here waiting to die.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A minute later, he says, “Yeah. It does, doesn’t it?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After breakfast, I say, “Let’s move to someplace green and warm with a beautiful blue ocean.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This, right here, turns out to be the equivalent of saying, “I’ll bet we could strap these two giant dogs to our backs and just leap right across that rocky abyss over yonder. Don’t worry about those loose boulders. We’ll be fine.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why would I even consider such a thing? Because Jack’s my hero, and he came into my life when I really needed a hero.</span></div>
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<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">From the dry Arizona desert to tropical Panama, Foster shares the adventures she experienced traveling with her Vietnam veteran husband with PTSD and their two gigantic service dogs. By weaving charm, wit, and humor throughout the story, Foster masterfully brings to light the daily challenges faced by veterans with PTSD and their spouses. Insightful, endearing, funny yet sad, Clueless Gringos in Paradise brings understanding and hope to all those who deal with the unseen wounds and scars of war.”</span></em></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069212392695293682noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899842702335056818.post-78078261450508669202013-10-13T10:50:00.000-03:002013-10-13T11:37:55.883-03:00First Frost! October 13, 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was delighted to see these three little ones having so much fun in the water fountain. They didn't care if they had sneakers and long pants on or not. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The lilacs were at their best and would go to seed, soon, so I added some pink, yellow & purple lupins from our gardens along with a few yellow and mauve irises. The bouquet sits on a table cloth that had belonged to our Mother who died in 2005.</span></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069212392695293682noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899842702335056818.post-48869278924340621722013-05-10T21:44:00.000-03:002013-05-10T21:55:14.439-03:00Smile BRILLANT! LED Teeth Whitening System<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wishing a special Happy Nurses Week to both my sisters, Pat and Monica and to my nurse cousins, niece and aunts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. . . .<br /><br />Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.<br /><br />This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It somehow seems appropriate that my last author tells a story about a young book thief who spreads the joy of reading to others, and in so doing, helps them during troubled times. We all read, to learn, to dream or to just get away from our own place in time, if only for a little while. </i></span></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069212392695293682noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899842702335056818.post-12586743321238357052013-04-29T00:02:00.003-03:002013-04-29T00:02:58.157-03:00A to Z Blogging Challenge 2013 - Y<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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that we, in our book club, have read, as a group, </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">separately or have been recommended
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Those of us in our reading group were split on this one. Those who liked this novel, liked it a lot. Those who didn't, really, didn't like it at all. I guess it's one of those novels that speaks to each of us individually, so you'll have to read it, to see what it says to you.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">OMG, I'm grabbing at straws, here!!!! The only book who's author's last name begins with the letter 'X', is a Chinese author who writes all kind of Chinese books, which fine, if you're Chinese.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So in desperation I have looked to other sources. Being a retired nurse, and a mother, the existence of X chromosome was near </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and dear to me, having given birth to four daughters. So, with a slight departure from the theme, I've not highlighted a novel or book, but a medical fact and an author.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, X is for the 'X' chromosome, discovered by Mary F. Lyons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #efefef;"><u>The Author - Mary F. Lyon</u></b><span style="background-color: #efefef;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #efefef; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mary Lyon was born in Norwich, England in 1925, and received her higher education at Cambridge University (B.A. 1946; Ph.D. 1950; ScD 1968). She then joined a group in Edinburgh set up to study the genetic hazards of radiation, using mutagenesis experiments in mice. In 1955 she moved with this group to the MRC Radiobiology Unit, Harwell, where she headed the Genetics Section from 1962-86. It was while working on radiation hazards in 1961 that she discovered X-chromosome inactivation, for which she is best known. She has also done extensive work on the mouse t-complex, and made many other contributions to mammalian genetics. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and</span><span style="background-color: #efefef; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="background-color: #efefef;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sciences. Among her awards is the Wolf Prize for Medicine in 1997. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #efefef;">The sex chromosomes differ from all ot</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #efefef;">hers in that they are the only ones that vary in number between different individuals within a species. The severe developmental defects that accompany rare extra copies of autosomes raised the question of how XX females and XY males can accommodate different numbers of X-chromosomes. In mammals the almost complete inactivation of one X-chromosome in each cell of a female provided an answer. The discovery of X-chromosome inactivation arose from a synthesis of three or four separate observations in different areas of genetics. Although discovered in the mouse, it proved to b</span></span><span style="background-color: #efefef; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">e a general mechanism </span><span style="background-color: #efefef;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">among mammals.</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #efefef;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <i>I'm happy for her discovery because I have given birth to four beautiful daughters (xx chromosones), who have, collectively given birth to seven awesome grandchildren, </i></span></span><i style="background-color: #efefef; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">so </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i style="background-color: #efefef;">far, :-).</i><i style="background-color: #efefef;"> Five with xy and two with xx chromosomes.</i></span><br />
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that we, in our book club, have read, as a group,</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">separately or have been recommended
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">There were several good reads by 'W' authors, but I had to make a choice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">So, 'W' is for White, Sue - Ten Thousand Truths</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A moving story of losing family but finding a new one. Thirteen-year-old Rachel is bad news, or so her foster care worker tells her. She's been shuttled from one rotten foster family to another ever since her mother and brother died in a car accident five years ago, and she's running out of options. So when she gets caught shoplifting and is kicked out of her latest home, the only place left to send her is the last resort for kids like her: a farm in the middle of nowhere run by a disfigured recluse named Amelia Walton, whom Rachel nicknames "Warty" because of the strange lumps covering her face and neck. Rachel settles into life at the farm, losing herself in her daily chores and Amelia's endless trivia, and trying to forget her past and the secret she's holding inside. But when a letter arrives for her out of the blue, Rachel soon realizes that you can't hide </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">from your past-or your future.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>We, at our real Monday Night Reading Group, were quite partial to this novel. For one thing the author Sue White, was the facilitator at our meeting. We picked her brains for over 30 minutes about writing in general and she patiently answered all our questions before we even got to discussing the great book.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel — an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.<br /><br />Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics — their passion for the same woman — that will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him — nearly destroying him — Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.<br /><br />An unforgettable journey into one man’s remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>There was a lot of lively discussion surrounding this sweeping novel as it wound it's way from one period of time and continent to another, then, into our hearts as we journeyed with the twins until they found each other and their birth father once again.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Set in the present day on a farm at the shores of Lake Erie, Jane Urquhart's stunning new novel weaves elements from the nineteenth-century past, in Ireland and Ontario, into a gradually unfolding contemporary story of events in the lives of the members of one family that come to alter their futures irrevocably. There are ancestral lighthouse-keepers, seasonal Mexican workers; the migratory patterns and survival techniques of the Monarch butterfly; the tragedy of a young woman's death during a tour of duty in Afghanistan; three very different but equally powerful love stories. Jane Urquhart brings to vivid life the things of the past that make us who we are, and reveals the sometimes difficult path to understanding and forgiveness.</span></span><br />
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069212392695293682noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899842702335056818.post-3014326461454378402013-04-23T08:24:00.000-03:002013-04-23T21:12:43.410-03:00A to Z Blogging Challenge 2013 - T<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was another tough letter. Surprisingly from all the books read as a group, none of them had authors whose last names began with the letter 'T'. We did however, have a few mentioned in our online group. (Thank you, thank you, kind members!!) So it was from those that I selected this book.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Joyner’s Dream</em> is the sweeping story of a family and its dubious legacy: an abiding love of music coupled with a persistent knack for thieving. Beginning in England in the 1780s, continuing in Halifax at the time of the Great Explosion, and ending in Toronto in the present, eight larcenous generations from all walks of life—craftsmen and highwaymen, aristocrats and servants, lawyers and B-movie actors—are connected by music, a secret family journal and one long-lived violin. When the branches of the family are reunited and lingering secrets are revealed, we have come full circle in a hugely satisfying and surprising tale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This multi-generational story—told in a spellbinding series of historical voices—abounds in such rich social detail and sharply rendered characters, it affords the deep reading pleasures to be found in the novels of Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>I think this too might be a consideration of our small Monday night reading group, given the local color and the rich historical history.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first “immortal” human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. If you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons—as much as a hundred Empire State Buildings. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer, viruses, and the atom bomb’s effects; helped lead to important advances like in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions.<br /><br />Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.<br /><br />Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia—a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings, and voodoo—to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.<br /><br />Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality” until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family—past and present—is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.<br /><br />Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?<br /> <br />Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, <i>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks</i> captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Three of us in our 'actual' Book Club, are retired registered nurses. We are all mothers to either humans, fur babies, or both. The fact that this could actually happen and the unsettling facts exposed during the author's search for the truth and how that impacted Henrietta's family in both the past and present was almost unbelievable. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>An absolute, </i></span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">must read from our perspective!</i></span></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069212392695293682noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899842702335056818.post-14822247917349022752013-04-20T07:16:00.000-03:002013-04-20T07:16:42.531-03:00A to Z Blogging Challenge 2013 - R<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For this year’s A-Z Challenge, I have
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">highlight some authors and
their books, that<br />
we, in our book club, have read, as a group,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">separately or have been
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in our facebook, Book Club, called, ‘What to Read Next?’</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">So, R is for de Rosnay, Tatiana - Sarah's Key</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.<br />Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France's past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl's ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d'Hiv', to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah's past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>We did read this heart wrenching novel in our book club. The struggles of the family in 1942 and Julia's own struggle, in 2002, to come to terms with her own situation made for a very compelling read and discussion in our group.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you'd like to
check out or join our facebook, book club, please, select the link,</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/33564701691/"> What to Read Next?</a></span></span></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069212392695293682noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899842702335056818.post-80404629579059201502013-04-18T21:15:00.000-03:002013-04-18T21:16:37.918-03:00A to Z Blogging Challenge 2013 -Q<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For this year’s A-Z Challenge, I have
chosen to</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">highlight some of the authors and
their books, that<br />
we, in our book club, have read either, as a group,</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">separately or have been
recommended by someone<br />
in our facebook, Book Club, ‘What to Read Next?’</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We're heading into the last turn, everyone!! Yay!</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, Q is for Quindlen, Anna - Every Last One</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In this breathtaking and beautiful novel, the #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Anna Quindlen creates an unforgettable portrait of a mother, a father, a family, and the explosive, violent consequences of what seem like inconsequential actions.<br /><br />Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence. What happens afterwards is a testament to the power of a woman’s love and determination, and to the invisible line of hope and healing that connects one human being with another. Ultimately, in the hands of Anna Quindlen’s mesmerizing prose, <b>Every Last One</b> is a novel about facing every last one of the the things we fear most, about finding ways to navigate a road we never intended to travel, to live a life we never dreamed we’d have to live but must be brave enough to try.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>We have not read this one in our book club, but it came recommended by one of our on-line members. It may well become a group read after all.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you'd like to
check out or join our facebook, book club,</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">please, select the
link,</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/33564701691/"> What to Read Next?</a></span></span></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069212392695293682noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899842702335056818.post-9027801985932340392013-04-17T22:21:00.000-03:002013-04-17T22:21:45.008-03:00A to Z Challenge 2013 - P<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333;">highlight some of the authors and
their books, that<br />
we, in our book club, have read either, as a group,</span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />
</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">separately or have been
recommended by someone<br />
in our facebook, Book Club, ‘What to Read Next?’</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Today P is for Picoult, Jodi - Vanishing Acts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose?</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved, widowed father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall...until a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret about herself that changes the world as she knows it -- and threatens to jeopardize her future. With Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult explores how life -- as we know it -- might not turn out the way we imagined; how the people we've loved and trusted can suddenly change before our very eyes; how the memory we thought had vanished could return as a threat. Once again, Picoult handles an astonishing and timely topic with under-standing, insight, and compassion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>This entrancing novel, keeps the reader riveted to every page, just so they will keep turning, to find out what happens next. A truly enjoyable novel!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you'd like to
check out or join our facebook, book club,</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">please, select the
link,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/33564701691/">What to Read Next?</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pasricha, Neil - The Book of (Even More) Awesome</span></div>
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Kathyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10069212392695293682noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2899842702335056818.post-84245906293479861482013-04-16T22:18:00.001-03:002013-04-16T22:18:21.325-03:00A to Z Blogging Challenge 2013 - O<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, we'</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">re on the downhill side, now. Congratulations to everyone who's still hanging in there!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For this year’s A-Z Challenge, I have
chosen to </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">highlight some of the authors and
their books, that </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">we, in our book club, have either read, as a group, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">separately or have been
recommended by someone </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">in our facebook, Book Club, ‘What to Read Next?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">So, today 'O' is for Obama, Barack - Dreams from My Father</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>We, in our book club found this one to be a very interesting read. To come across a book written by the present, President of the United States was indeed a read, not to be passed up.</i></span></div>
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check out or join our facebook, book club,p</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">lease, select the
link,</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/33564701691/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> What to Read Next?</a></div>
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