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2:59 pm
July 19, 2009
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Okay today is Sunday, July 19, at 2:58 pm central...........anyone what to chat???????
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3:01 pm
July 19, 2009
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http://teachers.net/chatrooms/
This is a safe chatroom, that you can live chat rather than post like this. I have this window open too. If any LJB fans want to go there and chat with me I am there too
It is a room of teachers, and hardly anyone is there right now. Praline
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Sorry, but this chatroom wants to install ActiveX controls on my system. I can't do that because I use this machine for VPN and the company I VPN into is VERY strict about what gets installed on my computer.
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3:25 pm
July 19, 2009
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Okay, I am here, not sure you are seeing me
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3:27 pm
July 19, 2009
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I am such a computer dummy, I do not know what activex and vpn are. lol It made me install Java before I could go to the teachers room. I go there alot. I am a teacher
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3:33 pm
July 19, 2009
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Praline
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I was hoping to meet Anne. I have enjoyed her stories and understand that she is trying to make her story sound like one of the earlier LJB books. It is very hard. I thought about writing a book starting with the end of 60 whiskers, and have polly and Qwill get back together, but I could not get it going. I do not just read LJB , of course, I love all kinds of books, as long as they are well written I can read almost any subject matter.
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3:36 pm
July 19, 2009
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Praline
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Have you read the Sue Grafton, ABC Murder mystery books. Something about those books remind me of the "Cat Who" series. (and not just because it is a lengthy series) ha! The writing flows, you get invested in the characters, the main character is a single middle aged person who investigates crimes and there are alot of them, ah!
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I'm here now. I think you and Anne both have done a great job of fleshing out some story ideas that make sense in the LJB milieu. I loved the way you got inside Polly's head in your "Polly's Point of View" story. I have been lukewarm about Polly throughout the series, and was surprised to see how much I sympathized with her after reading this story.
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3:40 pm
July 19, 2009
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Praline
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I realize I am chatting with myself, but if I leave this time, Joyce will come back 30 seconds later, lol. I read all the Grisham books, all the WEB Griffin books about the marines and the army, I read the Haig books, the Cornwell books. Cornwell is a very inconsistent writer. Some of her books are well written and others are terrible. (nearly unreadable.) I have read the Tom Clancy, and I love Lee child books, read all but one of those. I read Lisa Garnder and Nicholas Evans.........lots of others, to many to list.
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I took a speed reading course in college, and Laura says I read much faster than she, but I still can't read all the stuff I want to read! I would probably become addicted to Sue Grafton also. I am reading Julia Child's "My Life in France." She had such a fun and exciting life, but she also radiates the same kind of warmth and humor that makes the Cat Who...series so much fun. I'm a lazy cook, but I now I find myself buying cookbooks because she is so inspiring.
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3:41 pm
July 19, 2009
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There you are. Nice to meet you Joyce. Thanks, I just started writing about Polly and tried to look at everything from a middle aged woman's point of view.
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3:43 pm
July 19, 2009
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Praline
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I think I might get that Joyce. I like Julia childs. My husband is the cook in our family and he collects cookbooks, from tag sales and yard sales.
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3:43 pm
July 19, 2009
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I'm glad I hung around long enough til someone was here! ha!
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3:44 pm
July 19, 2009
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The Sue Grafton books are worth becomming addicted to. You really get to see her growth as a writer as the series goes along.
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3:45 pm
July 19, 2009
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I am not very interested in most tv so while my husband watches tv I read or chat in the teachers room.
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking is probably THE definitive cookbook. I haven't got it yet, but I plan to buy it just for the explanations of how things work.
I loved your Polly story and Susan's Qwill...story. I found myself wanting to see what would happen if Qwill and his wife ran into Polly and her husband. However, if you can't handle Qwill being married, I don't know if it would work. Of course the two spouses could end up running off together...
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3:49 pm
July 19, 2009
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lolol, can I use that, can I end my book with Susan story about Laura, Qwill's new wife running off with Polly's new husband! I cannot handle Qwill married either, no way. But I will not write that, it might upset Susan, the author, she seems to love her Laura she created, and that is okay. We all take something different from these books.
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I'm not a big TV fan, except when the Spurs are playing basketball. However, my sister got me addicted to NCIS. My favorite shows usually get cancelled, like Eleventh Hour, and I guess Fringe is up in the air. I got a kick out of Primeval. Mastodons on the freeway and raptors in the shopping mall. What a hoot.
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3:51 pm
July 19, 2009
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Have you seen the ads for the Julie/Julia movie that is out now, about a girl named Julie who cooks her way through Julia Child's cookbook?
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I accept your respect for Susan's Laura. But it is so funny--the stories seemed to meld in my mind, and I started to accept them both as fact, to the point that I occasionally got the story lines mixed up. They seemed both to be moving in the same direction.
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