[Magdalen] Good Read

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 15:34:25 UTC 2016


She is big on surprise endings, but Leaving Time had the most surprising of
all. No spoilers from me!

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I 'found' JP the year my youngest went to College. I was whiling away some
> time during her freshman orientation (campus 11 hours from home and I had
> driven here there for the 3 days and I had a LOT of free time) and I picked
> up one of her books in the Barnes and Nobel on-campus book store. I got at
> least half way through it and came home and bought it to finish!... I have
> read many of her books, but not for a while.  She typically picks very
> socially relevant subject matter and works it out through her characters.
> I'll look for this one (I have three I picked up at our book exchange at
> the condo community where I live... that I've not yet read - I know they
> are older ones).
>
>
> Lynn
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not
> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me."
> attributed to Erma Bombeck
> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
> by Richard Rohr
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Ginga Wilder" <gingawilder at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 1:41 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Good Read
>
>
> Thanks, Jay!   I expect I'll order another of her books next week.  If all
>> of her books are like Small Great Things, I won't be able to put it down.
>> Also the short story prequel to SGTs looks interesting.
>>
>> Just finished the Christmas tree.  Now to wrap.
>> Ginga
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> For Ginga, Grace, and anyone else interested:
>>>
>>> http://jodipicoult.com
>>>
>>> helpfully,
>>> Jay
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Joni Eareckson Tada now, because she married Ken Tada, as a friend
>>> > used to remind me often for some reason (maybe while reading her
>>> > books). :)
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com
>>> >
>>> > wrote:
>>> > > I realized that I've been confusing her with Joni Erickson--don't ask
>>> me
>>> > why--whose books don't interest me.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Scott R. Knitter
>>> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>> >
>>>
>>>


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