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booklvrjamie:Told him I had a chat tonight - apparently he forgot. But he's happy in front of the TV. LOL
OlleReadsALot:wb Jill
Jillski2:Finally made it!
booklvrjamie:Hey Jill!
Berryjc4:whew, lots of work, eh?
OlleReadsALot:Is it the night of the Sports Illustrated show?
OlleReadsALot:Just kidding
Jillski2:Oh Good jamie...you made it
booklvrjamie:LOL!!
Berryjc4:is Hairy coming?
Jillski2:I doubt it
Berryjc4:who is hosting?
Jillski2:Jamie is
booklvrjamie:Me, I think...
Berryjc4 h good!!!
Berryjc4:I'm ready......
booklvrjamie:So how do we usually start? What did you guys think of this book? I can't say I really enjoyed it...
Jillski2:hang on a sec jamie, let me get a few others
Berryjc4:I thnk I have a completely diff perspective having listened to it.
OlleReadsALot:It wasn't a warm fuzzy feeling story.
Berryjc4:here's a question: in the book , was the book in a book just the sci fi stuff, or all the meetings and such as well?
booklvrjamie:So what's up with Iris & Laura anyways? I thought Atwood had it backwards - Laura was "awake" and Iris just "didn't get it".
Jillski2:HEY GUYS...can you hold it a minute
Berryjc4:sorry jill....too enthusiastic....
booklvrjamie:Sorry Jill (hangs head...)
Berryjc4::-)
OlleReadsALot:Hi Blanch!
Jillski2 k one more on the way
Berryjc4:it's okay Jamie, let me hang mine.....
OlleReadsALot: g
OlleReadsALot:
OlleReadsALot::-)
Jillski2:LOL
Blanchard:Hey! It's still telling me the chat room "couldnn't be created!"
OlleReadsALot:Welcome Maris
Jillski2:YAYY Maris you made it
Jillski2:it lies Betsy
OlleReadsALot:Betsy, "It is alive!"
Berryjc4:Hi Maris! Hi Bets!
Blanchard:apparently. I signed off Aim and signed on again
MarisOgrady eclare National Holiday! Hi everybody
Jillski2:OK...NOW ..LOL Jamie's hostinng...WHEN I let her go aehad
Blanchard , Olle
Berryjc4:can she go now?
Jillski2:YES thanks
OlleReadsALot:Hairy, Hairy, Hairy
Blanchard:Hi Maris, I'm Betsy
OlleReadsALot:all right you guys, cut and paste your questions from above
Jillski2:is Olle having a fur ball?
OlleReadsALot:Need one to keep me warm
Blanchard:cough it up, Ol
Berryjc4:Okay, here's my question......in the book, did the published Laura book have just the sci fi stuff, or the meetings and such?
Jillski2:it included the meetings
OlleReadsALot:It was anytning with the title Blind A
booklvrjamie:So what's up with Iris & Laura anyways? I thought Atwood had it backwards - Laura was "awake" and Iris just "didn't get it".
Blanchard just for the record, I didn't finish)
Berryjc4:listening to it made it a little difficult to follow sometimes
OlleReadsALot:Betsy how far did you get?
Jillski2:Betsy do you mind spoilers?
Blanchard:nah, go ahead
MarisOgrady:Hi, Betsy. I didn't get the Atwood book, but would like to observe, and since I found you I don't want to leave:-D
booklvrjamie:I didn't finish either Betsy - just read the end, and skimmed the middle.
OlleReadsALot:Jamie, I didn't think either one of them got it.
Jillski2:LOL Stay Maris
Blanchard:her father just died about ten mins ago
Jillski2:You're kidding jamiee LOL
Berryjc4:How much control did they really have?
booklvrjamie:Good point, Olle. Jill, I just couldn't - it was too painful to read! LOL
Berryjc4:Was atwood writing this book to prove something, like how it really was then?
MarisOgrady:What are spoilers?
OlleReadsALot:Spoilers are giving away plot, ending
Jillski2:it means giving away the secrets of the book maris
Blanchard:spoilers are the "answers' to all the questions
Jillski2:why did you find it painful jamie?
Blanchard ut I always snuck into my christmas gifts anyway
booklvrjamie:LOL I couldn't find a reason for writing the book, actually. I loved the style...
Jillski2:I can picture that bets LOL
Berryjc4:Listening to it, I got the Iris (not Laura) being the other woman pretty quickly, did it come over as obviously reading it?
Jillski2:Hairy! youre here!
OlleReadsALot:yahoo Hairy
Jillski2:HEY Mary
booklvrjamie:...but the plot was rather weak, I thought (and I *like* nostagia!).
Berryjc4:Hi Hairy!!! Hi tril!
Blanchard:here's my take: Iris had no backbone and Laura was fey and self destructive
OlleReadsALot:Hmm, not for me BerryJ
Jillski2:I'm not sure why she dragged it out so much
Trilaja:Sheesh, why is it so hard to get in here??????
OlleReadsALot:there you go Blanch
Blanchard:Hi Mare
Jillski2:Betsy...you're pretty right on I think
OlleReadsALot:welcome Trill
Hairy1997:Just came in to harrass and bark and sniff and scratch a while!
Jillski2:well sit nicely in the corner then hairy and play nice
Trilaja:Hi everybody thanks for the invite Olle, it froze my puter LOL
Berryjc4:Is this the same Hairy/Linda from the healthy living scene?
Hairy1997:snort
OlleReadsALot:sorryyyyy
Hairy1997:yes, ma'am
booklvrjamie:I'd agree Betsy...maybe that's why I didn't like Iris much...she was afraid to live her own life.
Blanchard:Iris seemed to be fairly nervy when younger but lost it all when she married the evil Richard
Jillski2:I don;t know that Iris was afraid....
Blanchard:I love her older, crankier self tho
Berryjc4 kay, I need your regular email so I can get those emails .....
Jillski2:it was not the time when she could get away with much up front
Hairy1997:I just emailed you to verify yours!!
Jillski2:she didn't have a cent of her own
Blanchard:I think the depiction of old age is pretty right on from what I can see
Berryjc4:great!
Berryjc4:the best part of the whole book was the old age stuff and her METAPHORS.
Trilaja:Berry, are you Jean?
OlleReadsALot:and what a sheltered life they led
Berryjc4:yes!
Blanchard:I agree Jean
Trilaja:ah, I remembered correctly
booklvrjamie:Yeah, those metaphors were very poetic! I loved them...
Jillski2:they were so friggin controlled by that idiot richard and his sister
Jillski2 ardon my french
Blanchard:I loved some of the images
Berryjc4:I wished I was reading it so I could write them down......or circle them, ro something
booklvrjamie:LOL - truth is truth, Jill.
Jillski2:Oh you listened right?
Blanchard:like the "braille" left by dog pee in the snow drifts!!
Hairy1997::::shuffling through French dictionery:::
Jillski2:OMG that was so funny bets
Berryjc4:he WAS evil.....but what about the guy? Did they have any happiness in their trysts?
Blanchard:you too? I howled
Jillski2:that seemed awfully empty didn't itt?
Jillski2:communist style passioon
Berryjc4:it did!!
OlleReadsALot or was it bayed?)
Blanchard:Alex? What was up with all that?
Jillski2:wait til you find out bets!!!
OlleReadsALot:Was Iris ever happy?
Berryjc4:She seemed to have NO HAPPINESS in her life.
Berryjc4::-)
Jillski2:I have a questioon for ya LOL
Blanchard:damn. Should have skimmed
Jillski2:were BOTH of them having an affair with Alex?
OlleReadsALot:I don't think so
Berryjc4:No.
Jillski2:at the same time or was Lauar's earlier
Berryjc4:It was clear in the tape.
Jillski2:why don't you think so?
Berryjc4:It was all in laura's head.
Berryjc4:I just finished listening to it
OlleReadsALot:I thought Laura's feelings were pure, unrequited
Jillski2 ure nonsense it sounded like hee hee
booklvrjamie:No - just Iris, though Laura wanted to...
Trilaja:is anyone talking
OlleReadsALot:Trllll?
Jillski2:Iris thought that Laura might have earlieer
Berryjc4:and she stated clearly that Laura did not live the Sackhill Norne stuff
Trilaja:howly cow 4 minutes just spun past me
Berryjc4:yes, but she was being STUPID and not seeing Richard in the mix
Jillski2:No Laura din't that was clear
Hairy1997:can you see the typing, Mary?
Jillski2 ut..she might have been with alex earlier
Trilaja:I can see it now
Jillski2:Ok good mary
Berryjc4:I think she wanted to in an adolescent sense.
OlleReadsALot:I don't think Alex did anything with Laura, if only bec. of her age.
Hairy1997:Hello Mary!!
Trilaja:hi
Berryjc4:too bad the rest of them didn't respect age....
Jillski2:how soon did you catch on it was Iris?
Berryjc4:very early on.
Jillski2:not me...it took me several chapters of the story to gget it
Jillski2:did the voices give it away?
Berryjc4:about tape 5 out of 11
OlleReadsALot:while. I wondered when he kissed her in the attic.
Berryjc4:I think the voices did give it away.
Jillski2:Oh...that's about when I got it then
Blanchard k I just did!!
Blanchard
OlleReadsALot:LOL
Jillski2:what was the deal with the picctures at the end...what Laura did to them?
OlleReadsALot:surprise!
Jillski2:LOL Bets
Blanchard:thanks! It clears up a couple things
Jillski2:the message she was sending?
OlleReadsALot:and she repeated more than twice how the disembodied hand was in the picture
OlleReadsALot:too wierd
OlleReadsALot:weird
Jillski2:ROF bets...it makes it more interesting
Berryjc4:she made them yellow, right?
Jillski2:she made herself yellow...was the glow pregnancy?
Berryjc4:Iris was the left hand.....
Hairy1997:yipes
Berryjc4:the bad hand.
booklvrjamie:Weird...
Jillski2 ut laura decided that God has a left hand too LOL
MarisOgrady:Jeez, I'm gonna have to buy this book.
Berryjc4:There was really NO HAPPINESS in this book!
OlleReadsALot oth girls were so fuzzy to me.
Berryjc4:why not I wonder
booklvrjamie:Nope, very melancholy.
Jillski2:I can't say I'd recommend it...would you?
Berryjc4:Handmaid's tale had little happiness as well.
OlleReadsALot:fr someone to read? or to color pictures?
Jillski2:there were parts that were really interesting...
Hairy1997
Berryjc4 ut there was true friendship in it, and some love
booklvrjamie:Nope, absolutely not. I wasn't impressed at all, and the different stories were hard to follow.
Jillski2:whose friendship?
Berryjc4:this book didn't have any love!! except for the servants!!
Berryjc4:I meant in Handmaids tale, not this one.
Jillski2:myra ?
Jillski2 hhh
booklvrjamie:That's right! Reenie got love...
Jillski2:reenie deserved itt...but her husband died
Berryjc4:the people WITHOUT
Berryjc4:money
Jillski2:yeah..the proletariat!!
OlleReadsALot:I could NOT believe Reenie would have left that fetus in a basin in a hallway. She'd have taken it away.
booklvrjamie:I know - that really shocked me too!
Blanchard:Yeah that didn't ring true at all!
Hairy1997:eeek
Blanchard:I read that much!
Berryjc4 Linda
Blanchard:didn't read it yet, Linda?
Jillski2:how did you feel about what it said about women's feelings for men?
Hairy1997:no
OlleReadsALot:sorry Linda
Trilaja:I hate that word, fetus
Berryjc4:again, what do you think Atwood was trying to DO with this story?
booklvrjamie:Me too, Tril.
Blanchard:it's what it was though
Hairy1997:make money
Trilaja
Jillski2:not sure beyond make a statement about women's roles
Berryjc4:Linda!
OlleReadsALot:did women have feelings in this book?
OlleReadsALot L
Jillski2:feeling a bit cynical tonigght hairy? LOL
Blanchard:snort
booklvrjamie:I think it said a lot about the time period, but not really anything relavant for today...
Berryjc4:I think she could have made the same statement with a little fun and joy and such thrown in....
Jillski2:do you think that some women still let men control them?
Berryjc4:I agree Jamie, it says a lot about the time period
Blanchard: no kidding, Jean, good point
Berryjc4:NOT IN THIS HOUSE
Jillski2::LOLLLLL
Blanchard:they had some fun then in other houses
booklvrjamie:Of course they do - and always will. But they choose to allow it...
Jillski2:Richard had his fun
Blanchard:sure they do
Berryjc4:Has anyone read House of Mirth?
Jillski2:anyone willing to takee a shot at the sexuality angle?
Blanchard ne thing that really struck a chord with me and I don't get bossed around much...
OlleReadsALot:Richard was a snake. Now that I guessed early.
Berryjc4:Similar time period and same sort of sadness
Blanchard:was the "business/honeymoon" trip
booklvrjamie:You mean the Sci-fi, Jill?
Jillski2:She was good at sadness
Jillski2:the whole thing jamie...it ran through the affair
Blanchard:I've done the business part and had similar feelings about being alone in strange cities
Jillski2:about the wandering?
OlleReadsALot:It can sound like fun until you're alone in a hotel room for an entire day
Jillski2:HI there maria
OlleReadsALot:Hi DenM
Berryjc4:I didn't really like Alex a whole helluva lot either.....
denmarie43:hi yall
Blanchard:I've had to be the smiling wife and gotten dropped off to entertain myself and felt lost
Jillski2:welcome!
Hairy1997:Hi DenMarie
Berryjc4:Hi!
Blanchard:Hi Denny
Jillski2 enny sorry LOl
denmarie43:just dropped by to say hi...didn't read the book
Trilaja:hi denny
Hairy1997:me neither
Trilaja:me either den
booklvrjamie:Hi Denny...
denmarie43:did yal'll like it?
OlleReadsALot enny, you're not alone
Jillski2:not very much
Blanchard:I didn't like Alex in the beginning and now, finding out about the affair, well, ...more than one snake in this book
Jillski2:I would never have finished it if not for the group
Berryjc4:I loved the poetry of her words, but not the sadness of the story.
Blanchard:I didn't finish it Denny
denmarie43:reallY..have u read any of her other
Jillski2:NOOO Alex has the affair with Iris
Jillski2:yes Denny and liked them better
Berryjc4:I would not have finished it if I had to read it, vice listen to it.
Blanchard:I got that part, Jill! sheesh
booklvrjamie:Actually, I think Alex was the only character who was his "real" self, not hiding from who he was.
denmarie43:robber bride
Hairy1997:I wonder which is her best book.
Jillski2:then what did you mean?
OlleReadsALot:Alex didn't hide? he wouldn't tell her he loved her.
Blanchard:I read one book that I liked, maybe Alias Grace
Berryjc4:I was really rocked my Handmaids Tale, did not read AGrace
Jillski2:I liked Handmaids better than this too
booklvrjamie:That doesn't mean he was hiding - perhaps he really didn't love her!
Blanchard:Alex was kinda snakelike, don't you think?
Blanchard:not very loving
denmarie43:wel.l have to go now..see ya soon
Jillski2:Alex was pretty thin..
OlleReadsALot:The bits we were in his head it sounded as if he did, but he wouldn't say it on purpose. Too afrraid
Hairy1997:Night Denny!
Jillski2:night denny
booklvrjamie:By Denny...
Berryjc4:She didn't even really LOVE her own sister, I don't think.
OlleReadsALot:Bye Denny
Blanchard:except sexually and that's not loving
Jillski2:what do you think about Iris being stimulated by all that?
OlleReadsALot:jean, which sister didn't love the other?
Berryjc4:How could she NOT see what was going on? How could she tell her sister about the affair so callously?
booklvrjamie:Sounded to me like he just "wanted" her, but didn't "love" her - I respect him for not saying something he didn't mean.
Blanchard:she did seem to get off on the story, whoever it was
Berryjc4:no love there
Berryjc4:did she love him, or just need him?
OlleReadsALot:But when would Iris have seen Alex and Laura together? Only at the pcinic?
Jillski2:Bets and I were saying earlieer that the blind and "tongueless" seemed familiar as the girls
Blanchard:Yes!!
booklvrjamie:Right on...
Berryjc4:I meant that Iris should have seen what Richard was doing.
Jillski2:Oh I don't think she would have caugtht on to Richard
Blanchard:Iris had no tongue and Laura was blind
Jillski2:she was so involved in her own thing
Berryjc4:Was one sister blind adn the other one tongueless?
Jillski2:exactly bets
Berryjc4:sorry bets, didn't see your post
Hairy1997:really?
Jillski2:no we were IMing LOL
booklvrjamie:LOL - I would have put it exactly opposite - Iris blind & Laura mute.
Jillski2 ut Iris was the one who wouldnt talk about any of it
Berryjc4:I ouwld have put Iris blind as well......
Blanchard:well, that too, actually, Jamie
Jillski2:hmmm maybe they both were each
Berryjc4:Iris couldn't SEE what was happening right under her nose.
Blanchard:they were both kinda numb imho
Berryjc4:Laura couldn't speak of it.
Jillski2 ut it wasn't under her nose?
Hairy1997:had no sense of smell?
Berryjc4:I think seeing Laura go out on that boat would have tipped me off.
Jillski2:and Laura gave no clues
OlleReadsALot owerless
OlleReadsALot:jean, not if it wasn't a part of your vocabulary
Jillski2 oy was that maddening...about richard reading her mail and not letting her see laura
OlleReadsALot:snakey snake. How about the telegramabout her father?
Berryjc4:maybe you're right, but she already knew R. was a horrible person and the tutor had done some stuff to Laura....
OlleReadsALot:jerky jerk
Jillski2:OMG was that awful!
Jillski2:yeah but she thought R was horrid to HER
Jillski2:he and Laura didn't seem to even speak
Blanchard:that was awful, just finished that part!!
Jillski2:imagine exerting that kind of control!
OlleReadsALot:when would she have learned of a husband doing something that wrong? Reenie never taught those girls enough
Berryjc4:it happened a lot in those days.....
Jillski2:and what about that sister???? of richards? geez sleep with him already
Blanchard:wasn't she curious about all the telegrams or did she jsut think it was non of her biz
Jillski2:she thought they were business
booklvrjamie:Yeah, Reenie did really protect those two...
Berryjc4:Very Roman like eh?
OlleReadsALot:She never seemed curious
Blanchard:yeah, no kidding, Jill!!
OlleReadsALot:Reenie didn't really do them any favors.
Berryjc4:no one did.....esp. not the father.
Blanchard:Reenie was one of the few likeable characters tho. Not too many in this bk
Jillski2:no one did anyone favors in this book
Berryjc4:was that out of his hands as well?
Jillski2:myra maybe
Jillski2:jean out of whose?
Blanchard:love Myra and her gifts!!
Hairy1997:Why was it called Blind Assasin?
Berryjc4:was he a victim of the war and, therefore, no responsible?
Berryjc4:the dad
Jillski2:long story hairy
Jillski2:the father?
Hairy1997 h, well, that's ok
OlleReadsALot:uh h, who was Myra?
Blanchard:I'm just figuring it out after 3/4 book ,Linda
Jillski2:Myra was Reeniees daugheter
Berryjc4:Myra was Rennie's daughter.
Berryjc4:she takes care of Iris in her old age.
OlleReadsALot:h that's right thanks
Jillski2:and took care...yeah what she said LOL
Blanchard:no, the Blind Ass. part
Berryjc4:Was there a flavor of happiness in the end with the book being left to the grandchild?
Jillski2:why did she go offf into scifi????
Blanchard:does the granddaughter ever show up?
Berryjc4:good question
Jillski2:good question
Berryjc4:no
Jillski2:LOL
booklvrjamie:I don't think so - the grandchild was still missing, didn't care enough to show up!
Blanchard:lovely crowd
Jillski2:and the daughter dead on drugs too
Berryjc4:at least the grandchild had escaped the family....
OlleReadsALot:and didn't ATwood know how awkward it would be to abbrev that title!
Blanchard
booklvrjamie:LOL Olle!!
Jillski2:LOL that was funny olle...jean did that
Berryjc4::-):-):-)
Blanchard:Sandra did it first I think. Where is she?
Berryjc4:I sent Jill an im about BAss and she thought I was referring to a bad ass.
Jillski2:Anyone venture a guess as to why she slid off into scifi?
booklvrjamie:Boredom? :-)
Hairy1997
Berryjc4:did she do any of it in Alias Grace?
Blanchard:snort. I hate Scifi
MarisOgrady oes each one play the hand he/she's dealt, is there any revenge in ths story?
Trilaja:I thought she mostly wrote Sci-fi
Blanchard:no, not in Grace
OlleReadsALot:?? did Alex reallyt ell her the story?
Berryjc4:I ask because there was a hint of sci fi in handmaids
Jillski2:NOOOO
Trilaja:hmmm
Berryjc4:was wondering if it was a pattern of the authors
Jillski2:the fantasy was one thing...
OlleReadsALot:Maris, revenge? Don't think there was any
Jillski2 ut then to go into hardcore scifi later on
Jillski2:there is A LITTLE revenge Maris
OlleReadsALot n whose part?
Jillski2:Iris knows she's taking revenge on Laura at teh end
Berryjc4:Yes, a little revenge, but it backfires.
Hairy1997:I have to go. Spent $648 for an hour and a half in a dentist's chair today. Sore mouth and wallet. Night all.
OlleReadsALot uch, night Hairy
Berryjc4:Yikes!!! bye!!!
Blanchard:night, Linda! sorry!
Jillski2:night...feel better
Trilaja:ah, sorry to hear that Hairy. get some rest
Hairy1997:thks
MarisOgrady:nite, Hairy
Berryjc4:is there a movie in this book?
Jillski2:not one I want to see
Berryjc4::-)
OlleReadsALot:I can't picture it
Blanchard
OlleReadsALot:How can you portray people so shapeless?
MarisOgrady::-D
Jillski2:LOL
Berryjc4:haas anyone seen any articles by Atwood about this booK?
OlleReadsALot:not I
Trilaja:I'm going to run too, was up until 2:30 am sewing drapes for a client. I am sleepy
Jillski2:not yet
Berryjc4:I didn't check it out on amazon.
booklvrjamie:Gals, I'm sorry but I'm gonna have to go. I have unexpected company (my BF), and he's bored - keeps coming in & asking when I'll be done. Sorry I was kind of a lame hostess!
OlleReadsALot:Night Mary
OlleReadsALot:and Jamie
Blanchard:night Mary and Jamie
Trilaja:night gang. hugs
Berryjc4:you were not LAME! Have fun!!
Blanchard:Not at all, Jamie!
Jillski2:sorry was trying to help someone in
MarisOgrady:This is fun, besides being DEEP. I love this room. Thanks to all. Nite..
Jillski2:nigght jamie
OlleReadsALot:Night Maris
Jillski2:LOL Night maris
Berryjc4:night maris.....
Blanchard:night Maris
Jillski2:well, that leaves us diehards
Berryjc4:I guess so....
Blanchard g up my sleeves
Jillski2:Ali said he'd host Harafish!
OlleReadsALot:Now I can take the book back to the library!
Blanchard:did everyone hate this book?
Berryjc4:did you finish it?
Jillski2:what the heck WAS atwood doing?
Jillski2:I didn't hate it bets
Berryjc4:I did not HATE it at all!
Blanchard:I don't, so far but I sure don't like it a lot
Jillski2:it kept my interest
Jillski2:I just don't quite get itt
Blanchard:I love the Iris part, comparatively speaking
Berryjc4:I was glad I listened to it, and sad about the lack of happiness, and confused by the author's purpose....
Blanchard ut I don't get much either
Jillski2:I liked both ends of Iris life
OlleReadsALot:She has an amazing way with words. But I didn't like the characters. Actually the sci fi story was just as interesting as some of the other parts
Blanchard:yes, I agree
Jillski2:I thojght she was driving home the bit about women...but then it faltered
Berryjc4:I thought the sci fi was pretty interesting myself, it had more action!
Blanchard:nope on the scifi, of course. I'm pretty predictable on that
Jillski2:I thought the early scifi was...but NOT the later Lizard man stuff
OlleReadsALot:Was the whole thing that the younger generation is the hope of the future?
Berryjc4:that was getting a little silly with the shorts and all
Blanchard ut the old Iris was interesting and her way with words, as you say, Ol is excellent
Jillski2:yes, ,she is a good writer
Berryjc4:What about the words on the bathroom walls? They were pretty good
Blanchard:Lizardman? omg
OlleReadsALot:the old Iris had shape
Jillski2:LOL that was funny...I liked her humor about itt
Blanchard:save me
OlleReadsALot:that was funny
Blanchard:my dog is whining
Berryjc4:Teh old iris finally had a backbone
Jillski2:LOL bets..by that time I was skipping the scifi
OlleReadsALot:he's scared of Lizardman
Berryjc4 ut she didn't have love.....
Blanchard:she got a transplant?
Blanchard
Berryjc4:in a manner of speaking.....
Jillski2:did you know that the bottom half of your pooch disappeared on my screen
Jillski2 resto i mean
Blanchard:I need a new icon. CB found one for me but I can't install it
Blanchard f course, It's not my choice, but his
Blanchard:speaking of backbones
OlleReadsALot:Christopher Banks? :-)
Jillski2:hmmm no control there
Berryjc4:ha!
Blanchard:hah is right
Jillski2:we should call curt ol yeller
Blanchard:dh
Blanchard:roflmao
Berryjc4:my dh is going away again tomorrow for a few days...better go see him.....great talking to you guys about this book!!!
Jillski2:did you tell him what I said about Blobbo?
OlleReadsALot:night J
Berryjc4:night!
Jillski2:Jean good seeing you
Jillski2:well, since the host left LOL
Blanchard:I did!! He remembers Blobbo!! but he has no idea that we are talking about him so much
Jillski2:Im not sure this passing the host thing aroudn is working so well
Jillski2:maybe I expected too much?
Blanchard:you do the best job but they have to learn how sometime. Notice that I don't raise my hand!
Blanchard n the job training?
OlleReadsALot:Hey, it gets them t show up
Jillski2:it's just a matter of doing it...it's not a big secret
Blanchard:that's true, Ol
Jillski2:not on the board olle
Blanchard:well, they're trying, Jill
Jillski2 art of leading is leading the board chat too
Blanchard:that's true too
OlleReadsALot:maybe they forgot that part
Blanchard:you might bring that up for the next one
Jillski2:i talked to them about it
OlleReadsALot:hmm, can we do two hosts? one for the boards, one for the chat?
Blanchard:they knew?
Jillski2 efore hand
Jillski2:yup
Blanchard:that isn't too efficient
Jillski2:vanessa got sick though
Jillski2:well mary said she'd takee a shot at leading the next one
Jillski2:the kingsolver
OlleReadsALot:good for her. That chat is coming up fast.
Blanchard:good!!
Jillski2:Im going to try to do it on audio
Blanchard:that's a longish book too
Jillski2:i don't think i have the patience to read itt
Blanchard:I liked that one!
Blanchard etter than this by a lot
Jillski2:do you think I will bets?
OlleReadsALot:No Lizardmen?
Blanchard:I didn't like the last one
Jillski2:yeah sorry about that...orphans you mena?
OlleReadsALot:I'm looking forward to Harafish
Blanchard:I think you might, give it a go
Jillski2 k
Blanchard ed Orphans
Jillski2:me too olle
Jillski2 oo hated itt?
Blanchard:I haven't started Hara yet.
Blanchard:got too many loaners on my pile
OlleReadsALot:me neither but it has to be a change
Blanchard:that I need to read and send on
Jillski2:Hara is GOOOD
Blanchard h good. No lizardmen, promise?
Jillski2:very innteresting characters
OlleReadsALot:who has shopfirl?
Jillski2 romise
Blanchard:I do and I haven't started it yet
Jillski2 ets you haven't gotten to monkey king yet have you?
OlleReadsALot:shopgirl reads pretty fast
Blanchard ne of the loaners but I have read the next one already so I can squeeze it in
Jillski2 r did you read it and hate it?
Blanchard:No monkeys yet either
Jillski2:well gang....thankss for hanging in
Blanchard:NO< I haven't read it yet! I'm reading as fast as I can! Not an Olle here who can roar thru em
Blanchard:I'm going to, really really soon.
Jillski2:me either bets
OlleReadsALot:Nighty nighty night
Jillski2:no rush...even if you hate it tell me
Blanchard:I used to be able to do that but no longer. I will
Blanchard:I promise. Night!
Jillski2 oor kaaren coudlnt get in
Jillski2:night kiddo