What are you reading now?

Lori wrote:Yes, I won my copy through AuthorBuzz! So I'm mistaken, it's actually Lily Dale: Awakening that I read. D'oh! I'll wait for Believing to come out in paperback before I read it. After you read Awakening let me know if you think it could be classified as a young adult novel.

Hi, Lori:

I expect that I also won Awakening. It's buried somewhere in my closet! I do remember exchanging a few nice e-mails with the writer. That's one of my favourite parts of AuthorBuzz.

I definitely got the impression it was aimed at young adults, but I actually read a lot of YA & children's literature. Some of it is much better written & more engaging than many "adult" books.

Phoenix

I am reading "A Bitter Brew" by Christine Ellen Young. It's a true story based on the New Sweden aresenic poisonings that occured here. I went to school with few of the people mentioned in the book (Eric Margeson being one of them)and have had Dr Harrigan a few times in the ER. The couple other crimes that are briefly referenced in there I personally knew those people as well, Robert Rossignol was a classmate, and Tara (Roy) Bell was a very close friend of mine and also was my daycare provider for a few years...I miss her. You wouldn't think in such a rural area as this that this stuff would happen but it does.

No, a member of the church was...you should really read it if you are able to sometime.

here are a few links

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/02/national/main552160.shtml
www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-23179526_ITM
rd.com/.../arsenic-poisoning-stuns-maine-church/article27258-1.html
www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/05/04/maine.church.arsenic
www.topix.com/city/new-sweden-me

There is also an episode on Mystery ER (I don't know if you have ever seen the show on TV) but it shows about what happened.

Kelly, I remember reading about the poisoning when they were first realizing what had truly happened. I didn't know that was where you lived. I never heard if the survivors had any lasting damage from it, either. Were they able to fully recover?

New Sweden is a tiny town outside of Caribou, it doesn't even have a highschool, it's students go to Caribou High School. I live in Connor which is a township outside of Caribou that also has no highschool, so we went to Caribou High School as well. Connor Twp, New Sweden and Woodland students all go to Caribou High. I worked with a woman named Kathie who's uncle was the one man who died.....the rest all lived but some still do have effects from the poisoning.

You know I just now read Along came a spider and I like it so much more than the movie I have to say.... except I kept hearing Morgan Freeman's voice while I was reading

My sister in law is writing a book and I am in the middle of reading it for her... hard at times... its a good book but still working out all the problems.... what you do for family!

KellyM wrote:I am reading "A Bitter Brew" by Christine Ellen Young. It's a true story based on the New Sweden aresenic poisonings that occured here. I went to school with few of the people mentioned in the book (Eric Margeson being one of them)and have had Dr Harrigan a few times in the ER. The couple other crimes that are briefly referenced in there I personally knew those people as well, Robert Rossignol was a classmate, and Tara (Roy) Bell was a very close friend of mine and also was my daycare provider for a few years...I miss her. You wouldn't think in such a rural area as this that this stuff would happen but it does.

I would love to read it, but my local library does not have it, nor do the ones that they trade with. I will have to keep looking for it. I love to read true stuff like that, and this sounds interesting. I think I recall hearing about it, but not sure.

I can get it off of paperback swap, but I have no credits yet... waiting on someone to get one of my books.

If you go on www.half.com you can buy it used for 75 cents..

I have recently read Enslaved by Ducks and Fowl Weather by Bob Tarte. These are about his life with his many pets. Laugh out loud reading, and shed a tear too...

I read Sarah's Key. A very good read about a family, actually two families, that were affected by the the round up of Jewish families in 1942, and their subsequent murder. It is also about the good and kind strangers who helped to save some of them.

The Longest Trip Home which was by John Grogan, who wrote Marley and Me. Its a memoir, and while not as good as Marley, was interesting.

Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors is a wonderful read by an excellent storyteller.

There have been more, but these are the most recent. I was invited to be an Amazon Vine reviewer, so every month I can choose 4 items to get free, promising to review them. Easy!
Amazon gives away everything from food to books to electronics for review, but I am mostly offered books, Perfect for me.

Nothing! But as soon as I get my house straightened up just a bit I'm going to go through this forum to see which of the books you guys recommended I can find at my library.

i am currently reading Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews. she has written many books that i have read and find them very intertaining

The Descent by Jeff Long. I really like it!