[bksvol-discuss] Re: Happy Birthday
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:52:26 -0600
I third that, Shelley! Have a wonderful birthday and may it be the beginning
of a great new year!
Valerie
Please pray for and follow Nichole's recovery:
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/nicholemaples
On Nov 21, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Susan wrote:
> Have a wonderful birthday and a great year too Shelley!
>
> Susan
>
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> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shelley L. Rhodes
> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 12:21 PM
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> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Research task for a motivated volunteer
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> Smile, thank you, smile.
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
> and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
>
> The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he
> does it without destroying something else. -John Updike, writer (1932-2009)
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> From: "Sue Stevens" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 10:41 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Research task for a motivated volunteer
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>>
>> Have a Happy Birthday, Shelley!!
>>
>> Sue S.
>>
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>> From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 8:20 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Research task for a motivated volunteer
>>
>>
>> O.k. so I have read 18 of them and attempted to read a few others.
>>
>> Oliver Twist is my favorite Charles Dickens.
>>
>> Grapes of Wrath, Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights, and
>> Tale of Two Cities were all required. Hamlet was also required. I loved
>> Little Women and Ann of Green Gables, and Love Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and
>> have all of Sherlock Holmes's books. Am reading the Lovely Bone, right
>> now,
>> via digital talking book. Loved Harry Potter, and Tolkien's Books and
>> didn't mind some of the Chronicles of Narnia, did not like Pride and
>> Prejudice, I guess I am just not that accomplished, smile. Loved Davinci
>> Code, and Orwell's books, read both of them. Have read the other Dickens.
>> Bleak House and David Copperfield both in highschool, plus Dracula, and
>> Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Secret Garden was a favorite of my
>> friends and mine when we were younger. You know one I don't see on there
>> and am disappointed is Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Oh, and read Moby
>> Dick
>> after watching the movie, actually fairly close to form, smile, though
>> definitely not going off on the topic of whaling. And I did read half of
>> Les Miserables, got to the part about Waterloo and kind of stopped had to
>> return the tapes. But is a good, book, and an awesome musical. And of
>> course Alice in Wonderland, smile.
>> So perhaps more than smile 18.
>>
>> And I am only as of tomorrow 29. Smile.
>>
>> Some of these I do recognize though.
>>
>> A very intriguing list.
>>
>>
>> Shelley L. Rhodes, VRT
>> and Ludden Black Labrador Guide Dog
>>
>> The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and
>> he
>> does it without destroying something else. -John Updike, writer
>> (1932-2009)
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mike" <mlsestak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 8:43 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Research task for a motivated volunteer
>>
>>
>>> Now, I'll have to actually count...I stopped after 20 (my occasional
>>> competitive streak comes out).
>>>
>>> I'm impressed by how eclectic and recent some items on this list are
>>> (Rowlings, Tolkien, Douglas Adams, Khaled Hosseini, Dan Brown, Magaret
>>> Atwood, Frank Herbert, Salman Rushde, Iain Banks, Roald Dahl and many
>>> more
>>> I wouldn't expect). I didn't read a single Harry Potter because we had a
>>> radio show by a woman who read children's books (and did voices and all)
>>> who did the first four books. The one I was assigned in high school that
>>> I
>>> never got through was Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.
>>>
>>> Does the "no plays on bookshare" extend to public domain like
>>> Shakespeare?
>>> And is there really a single volume called the Complete Works of
>>> Shakespeare? That would make reading War and Peace child's play by
>>> comparison.
>>>
>>> Misha
>>>
>>> On 11/20/2010 4:06 PM, Judy s. wrote:
>>>> Nobody beat me up, but to my shock I've read 69 of them...
>>>>
>>>> That either says that I'm way older than most of you and have had more
>>>> time to read, or that my incredibly anal high school and college English
>>>> teachers were right on which books we had to read for their classes.
>>>> grin.
>>>>
>>>> Judy s.
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