MAOSHING NI, ONE OF MY FAVORITE DOCTORS

Second Spring
by Maoshing Ni

Wonderful and helpful recommendations for healthy living and eating with basic and regular foods along with herbs.

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JOHN IRVING

A Prayer For Owen Meany
by John Irving

Poor Owen Meany, this little boy who grew into a man was a very little person in a small town. He was the toy of his class mates. He was best friends to another young man that totally loved him back. They both grew up and had many experiences together and separately, but Owen always knew when he was going to die. Owen was also quite psychic and sensitive. This was a wonderful story about an enduring male loving relationship. I loved it.

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TINKERS

Tinkers
by Paul Harding

Well written of course, but this story of a man dying and his memory that goes forward and backwards, each chapter further backwards is loosing me. He is a tinker, his father was a minister that went crazy and his mother was cold. He become an epileptic and his children were embarrassed by him, or was that his father that was an epileptic. I was lost.

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NAPA'S SILVERADO SQUATTERS

The Silverado Squatters
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Wonderful view and perception of the Napa Valley, most especially of Calistoga. It made me want to go back in time and live the way he did with his small family and animals.

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A VICTIM

The Third Victim
by Lisa Gardner

A boy has confessed to the horrific murder but the evidence shows he may not be guilty.

Officer Rainie Conner, leading her first homicide investigation, stands at the center of the controversy. It's hitting too close to home, bringing back her worst nightmares, threatening to expose her secret sins. But with the boy's life at stake, she won't let anything stop her from finding the real killer.

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KINGSOLVER'S HOME

The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver

Story of a man who writes and lives with his mother then ends up living with Kahlo, the artist as their servant. He befriends them and becomes a close correspondent with them. Moves to America. But while in Mexico, he observes all the political goings on of the husband on Kahlo, seems unbelievable. I am totally bored with it all.

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NEXT ACCIDENT IN THE CLOSET...

The Next Accident
by Lisa Gardner

An evil man is after an FBI agent's daughters and ex-wife for vengeance with murder. The agent hires a private investigator, who used to be a lover of his. Then a cat and mouse game pursues with some twists and turns.

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ESCAPE THE CLOSET AND READ...

Escape
by
Barbara Delinsky

A female attorney working very hard in New York City, and trying to get pregnant suddenly escapes to a long time best friend that she has lost touch with in a small vacation town. She reconnects also with her best friend's brother for whom she had a relationship with. She is confused for awhile about her lost love and her husband, but she then embraces her husband. Her husband is dismayed and angry but comes to realize her quest to find peace and a different attitude with life and balance. Nice book but the story line is very ordinary and simply in the idea that this woman although working hard it seems the American selfish, self-indulgent way of this woman is just that.

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TOOK BY DOG OUT OF THE CLOSET

Started Early, Took My Dog
by Kate Atkinson

This old retired detective takes a case as a private investigator to find the real parents to an adoptive woman. The woman was raised in New Zealand after her adoptive parents took her from London. Then there is another female retired police detective that pays a prostitute for a kid and then takes off with it. While she is running around other detectives are looking for her to find out about the original adoptive child. Then there is another private detective along with police detectives.
Very well written and mixed together. I had trouble keeping the names straight with all the introductions of other people. It was all rounded up in the end.

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MY FAIR MAIDEN

A Fair Maiden
by Joyce Carol Oates

A young nanny not especially confident in her life with an alcoholic father and distant mother works for a rather arrogant employer. She has a slow coming affair with a man her grandfather's age.

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YANN MARTEL

Beatrice and Virgil
by Yann Martel

Well that was depressing and confusing. This was a story within a story of a so called alter ego. A man who seemed quite old from the energy of the book, but he wrote a book and had a wife who became pregnant and met an old man who was a taxidermist. This old man did not get along with anyone and ends up attacking the protagonist. A book with dead animals not alive like Martel's book on Pi.
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LOVE THY NEIGHBOR

The Neighbor
by Lisa Gardner

Amazingly interesting story again by this author. This one is of a woman who enter a marriage of convenience only to have a traumatic and illicit affair with another and then disappears. Then the detective starts the investigation. It also turns out that these two people have had the most traumatic childhood that hampers and scars them but they find their way through it all to each other. The illicit affair caused the wife to hide and the police think the husband killed her.

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THE PERFECT HUSBAND

The Perfect Husband
by Lisa Gardner

Another amazing story of a strong forceful woman. This one had been terrorized by her husband who she has turned in for being a serial killer. He escapes prison, killing two guards with his bare hands. She gets away and attempts to be trained to protect herself by being coached by an an ex-marine who is retired from some sort of special forces. I do not like this as well as Love You More by the same author. The characters in the story are too hyped up for reality and there is too much unnecessary sex. Tends to make no sense. The story seems more ordinary and expected.

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LOVE YOU MORE BY LISA GARDNER

Love You More
by Lisa Gardner

A female cop gets arrested for killing her husband. The mystery is whether he had beaten her while high on steroids and she defended herself or he was a gambler and a victim of a hit by a hit man Lots of cops and thugs, this story twists and turns around each corner and this female cop is up for the hard ball game. Very impressive, very entertaining, very intense. Really enjoyed this book.

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LIFE SENTENCES

Life Sentences
by Laura Lippman

Very interesting and captivating story of a woman writing a book investigating a missing old classmate. A classmate that was put in prison for not telling what had happened to the disappearance of her baby. She had gotten pregnant by someone she had known. Also the story involves the authors own life regarding her father's affair with a black woman and subsequent marriage to her.

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CESAR MILLAN - THE DOG WHISPERER

How To Raise The Perfect Dog
by Cesar Millan

Great details for anyone to read before bringing a dog home. Like a baby that has been gestating for nine months, would anyone bring a baby home without at least having a crib and a couple of bottles. People bring home dogs on a whim and leave them in their home, and then wonder why the dog tears up their home. Cesar adopts four different type of dogs from different sources to write this book and key points how to raise and train them.

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MITCH ALBOM

Have A Little Faith, A True Story
by Mitch Albom

This is about a rabbi and a minister. One man goes through very hard times more than the other and the rabbi through complete dedication for a life time. The rabbi wanted Mitch his former student to write his elegy. Then Mitch got to spend time with the rabbi to learn about him as an individual rather than just his rabbi. The minister had huge struggles with addiction as well as his wife whom had similar problems. They stayed together, survived and prospered with a church for the homeless.

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JAN KARON

Home To Holly Springs
by Jan Karon

Great old priest of Episcopalian church goes back home to visit his home town in the south to uncover his memories, get apologies and meet his long time buddies all over again. Also he finds out that his father bedded his loving maid and nanny and took off to have his half brother. A very religious christian and message story book.

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CESAR MILLAN - THE DOG WHISPERER

Be The Pack Leader
by Cesar Millan

Great to hear about his wisdom again. Never scold a dog in anger was one that I needed to be reminded of. Be calm and firm.

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WHEN YOU REACH ME

When You Reach Me
by Rebecca Steed
Miranda, a sixth grader has a few friends that she meets that some how relate to her in traveling in time. She looses her best friend, a boy her age who decides not to speak to her after she witnessed him get beat up by a bully. Her mother is an unwed mother who dropped out of law school. Miranda is now helping her study to go on a game show to win. Her daughter and boyfriend, colleague, a lawyer helps her game plan. Blah story, need more depth.

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