What 'cha reading?

[summerose]

Started reading a mystery that a friend at work let me borrow, Miss Julia Strikes Back by Ann B. Ross, not one of the best mysteries that i've read.

[queenbee]

I am halfway through Cat Dancers and so far he hasn't met up with the ranger yet.

Just keep on Spider Mountain.

[cabinfever98]

I was reading my John Deere manual today.

[2cedarschick]

Finished Spider Mountain this morning, what a great read!

[queenbee]

Wasn't it awesome?

I am almost finished with The Cat Dancers.

I can't find time to finish it and when I lay down at night my eyes close.

[2cedarschick]

Woke up last night at 1:20, couldn't go back to sleep, so went in the living room to read until I could. Went back to bed at 4am. Thanks a lot!

[jistmeagin]

jump on diddy docker suez

[2cedarschick]

Huh?

[queenbee]

OK here's a new book I want to read but can't afford the $15.00 cost.
So my BFF's keep an eye out for a damaged or used copy, cause i have to have it;

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus.


In 1854 Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf asked for 1,000 white women as brides for his warriors in exchange for 1,000 horses. Using this true incident, Fergus lets his imagination go wild and creates a journal of one of his ancestors who became one of those brides in 1875. Laura Hicks renders this imaginative work splendidly. She is vivacious and expressive as May Dodd, who tells the story of her family and her new life with the Cheyenne. Her vocal characterizations, especially of the various immigrant women Dodd encounters, are lively. A work this unusual needs a performance that is versatile and out of the ordinary, both of which has achieved.

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An American western with a most unusual twist, this is an imaginative fictional account of the participation of May Dodd and others in the controversial "Brides for Indians" program, a clandestine U.S. government^-sponsored program intended to instruct "savages" in the ways of civilization and to assimilate the Indians into white culture through the offspring of these unions. May's personal journals, loaded with humor and intelligent reflection, describe the adventures of some very colorful white brides (including one black one), their marriages to Cheyenne warriors, and the natural abundance of life on the prairie before the final press of the white man's civilization. Fergus is gifted in his ability to portray the perceptions and emotions of women. He writes with tremendous insight and sensitivity about the individual community and the political and religious issues of the time, many of which are still relevant today. This book is artistically rendered with meticulous attention to small details that bring to life the daily concerns of a group of hardy souls at a pivotal time in U.S. history.

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Our protagonist and narrator is May Dodd, a woman who has been institutionalized by her influential family, and who uses the 'Brides for Indians' program as a way to escape the asylum. May's journal entries begin in the train station as she and other volunteers depart for their western adventure.

[queenbee]

2C Jisty likes Hop On Pop by Dr. Suess.

[jistmeagin]

yeppers bee yuse rite i lak at er 2sees her lakes two pardy

[2cedarschick]

Bee, did you look at paperback swap for it?

[2cedarschick]

Jisty, u bee right, I do like to party!

[ana]

I like to read a variety. Both authors and topics. I don't go for the trashy love novels. If you have read one you've read them all. I like books with suspense and a realistic tone. True stories are my favorite. I haven't read a good book in about a year and a half.

[ana]

Found three books that got buried in a box a while back gotta decide now which one I am gonna read when it cools down a bit. I only read at night in bed and I like to open the French doors and let the cool air come in and keep me awake while I read.