Author Topic: Fiction ~ Old ~ New ~ Best Sellers #2 (Read 775098 times)

maryz · « **Reply #4920 on:** August 06, 2013, 03:55:31 PM »

This is the place to talk about the works of fiction you are reading, whether they are new or old, and share your own opinions and reviews with interested readers.

Every week the new bestseller lists come out brimming with enticing looking books and rave reviews. How to choose?

Discussion Leader: Judy Laird

Love the t-shirt and the photos, Barb!!

MaryPage · « **Reply #4921 on:** August 06, 2013, 05:31:26 PM »

Me, too!

ginny · « **Reply #4922 on:** August 06, 2013, 06:06:34 PM »

Shriek!! hahahaha

Ah man, you guys nailed me dead to rights.

I obviously wear my hair in a bob and I'm obviously over 70 and what may not be obvious is I intend to keep right on wearing it that way too. I noticed in London it's a very popular cut with the silver and white haired ladies there and it looks very smart. (Didn't I just see a shorter one on Doc Martin the other night, in Auntie Joan's sister? I think so.)

At any rate, I am not thinking hair length means anything. If you want to wear it short, wear it short. If you like it long like Mary Beard, do it. Be yourself. Does that apply to shorts? Where does one draw the line?

Perhaps a thong in public on a 70 year old? hahahahaa

Even IF the young men passing me on the interstate get whiplash when they get a look at the wrinkled face-- hahahaaa.

nlhome · « **Reply #4923 on:** August 06, 2013, 06:24:33 PM »

I think the key is wearing your hair for comfort and appearance, keeping it clean. Clothes the same. I wish I could wear my hair like you do, Ginny, but neither my hair nor my face would fit that style. As for shorts - an older woman wearing shorts that fit sure beats some of the younger people I see in their shorts and tank tops - it's what fits the body well and looks appropriate for the place. I wear dresses to weddings, mostly capris or cropped pants in the summer and, unless going to a meeting or a funeral, jeans the rest of the year. We spend a lot of time out of doors and jeans are the most practical.

Winchesterlady · « **Reply #4924 on:** August 06, 2013, 06:59:58 PM »

I think the key is wearing your hair for comfort and appearance, keeping it clean. I agree! Everyone's hair looks so unkempt nowadays. I think they go to great lengths to make it look that way and use so much hair product, it appears to be really greasy. I have short hair, but I think longer hair, maybe shoulder-length, looks great on older women. I agree that Hillary definitely needs a cut!

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #4925 on:** August 06, 2013, 07:15:44 PM »

Of course if we could all look like Carmen this taken last year when she was 80 - we would not be having this conversation...

JeanneP · « **Reply #4926 on:** August 06, 2013, 08:14:54 PM »

I have had mine short for a few years but now letting it grow to just below the ears.. Pretty much one length. Found that lot more curl has come back since I stopped blow drying it. Still easy to manage. Even let it grow gray. Still lot of black in it at the back.

JeanneP · « **Reply #4927 on:** August 06, 2013, 08:16:07 PM »

cost Carmen a lot of money to keep up that look I bet. Looks good though.

Steph · « **Reply #4928 on:** August 07, 2013, 09:01:02 AM »

Barb, is that you??
I wear shorts, but thats at home.. I live in a very hot area of the country.. and I walk my dogs 3-4 times a day. There are two and burmuda type shorts work well with the leashes, poo bags and sometimes a water bottle. Out, I tend to wear crops, even though I think they are mostly ugly. I prefer pants, but oh me in Florida, you roast. I have some light gauzey type pants, that I adore but they are hard to find Have had short hair for years. Walk and go to the gym and long hair gets wet and does not dry easily.
Traveling.. I wear pants and shirts ( always cotton) and sneakers, even though overseas, they spot the shoes as you being american.

Frybabe · « **Reply #4929 on:** August 07, 2013, 09:36:11 AM »

Hi, Barb. Love the T-Shirt.

Ginny, you are on my all time favorite amusement ride. If I wasn't on a carousel, then I was on the real ponies at the park.

pedln · « **Reply #4930 on:** August 07, 2013, 11:46:31 AM »

Ginny, great picture of you and little John. And your hair style suits you perfectly.

Judy Laird · « **Reply #4931 on:** August 07, 2013, 02:10:32 PM »

Looking good Ginny. What a wonderful relationship you have with your grandson!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #4932 on:** August 07, 2013, 03:39:44 PM »

OH no that is not me - I love including in my blog photos of women who pull off a pulled together look - I have several of women over 80 and one who was 100 taken two years ago who has since died - they are my incentive to not get lazy and run to the store or take a walk without my makeup and coordinated clothes - I wish could find photos of older women really walking with gusto or playing, using their body - that is the incentive I need - I still carry too much weight and have a devil of a time being faithful to a daily workout - a healthy food plan is not enough and never was enough and I am trying to decide about my hair - it is long, very long that I wrap into various twists with interesting decorative picks but it is that mixture - I would prefer to be all one thing or the other. I have to crank up the other computer and maybe I can find a photo to include - really do not have anything recent.

PatH · « **Reply #4933 on:** August 07, 2013, 05:25:45 PM »

Ginny, I've always thought your hair looks gorgeous.

I don't see anything wrong with long hair on older women if their hair is good. Mine is too thin to look good long, but short (my picture is pretty current) it fluffs up and looks full.

I don't wear anything shorter than below-knee length, because my knees are crooked and blobby from arthritis; why inflict them on anyone?

Steph · « **Reply #4934 on:** August 08, 2013, 08:53:01 AM »

Some longer hair is lovely on any age, but too often the long hair has gone beyond long and reaches and fuzzes. Does not look that great on any one..
Ginny, I think you have had the same hair cut for years,since I remember at the beach, your hair was like that. I love the style, but my multi color hair would look bad for me.. So I keep it short.

ginny · « **Reply #4935 on:** August 08, 2013, 09:36:23 AM »

Thank you all, you're very kind. hahaha Thank you Judy, he's a joy.

Steph · « **Reply #4936 on:** August 09, 2013, 08:19:17 AM »

Rain rain rain. The Mountain area here is getting slammed day after day. Franklin not so bad, but we still are getting a lot. Many areas however are getting flashfloods.. People are optimists and dont understand if the water is pouring across the road, it is wise to not attempt to wade it in a car.

Octavia · « **Reply #4937 on:** August 11, 2013, 02:55:35 AM »

you never said a truer word, Steph. There's a TV ad here that shows a woman on the edge of a flooded crossing, and the voice over says 'I don't cross flooded creeks'
Over and over, they play it, and every time lives are lost. Children play near drains and are swept to their death.
what price an extra hour or two, to wait for water to drop? My family and I have waited up to 3 weeks to get out of some towns.

pedln · « **Reply #4938 on:** August 11, 2013, 12:11:16 PM »

We've had record breaking rains here in SE MO, but other areas in the southern part of the state have really had it bad -- and a mother and her small child were killed last week when their car was swept into floodwaters. Lots of flash flooding. One area had 15 inches of rain in 48 hours.

Steph · « **Reply #4939 on:** August 11, 2013, 12:36:39 PM »

We have white water here and idiot kayakers who are trying to use the high water for an extra thrill. I loved kayaking, but not with what is coming down the mountains just now.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #4940 on:** August 12, 2013, 03:02:59 PM »

realize this is not the "proper" place for it, but since there are many more visitors to this forum, I thought I would put a warning here.

I received an E-Mail from my Discover Card account this morning. It did go to the Spam folder, but I looked at it there, and even though it had the correct name, and last 4 digits of the acct. number, something about the logo didn't look quite right. It mention that the Discover "home page" would be changing August 31st, and I could log into it now. WEll, I am a big spam watcher. Seemed funny to me, so I called the phone # on the back of my card, and first person I got, did not know anything about it, i.e. whether or not they had sent an email detailing changes. So they connected me to "Security" and I read it to the lady, and she gave me an email address to "Forward" it to: emailwatch@discover.com so they could check the validity of it. Now, it may be real, but my Discover notices do not usually get sent to my Spam folder. This is just a "heads up" in case any of you have a Discover Card. BE CAREFUL.

MaryPage · « **Reply #4941 on:** August 13, 2013, 10:35:08 AM »

Thank you, Tomereader. I think there is no such thing as a "proper" place when friends are having a conversation. Your information may save us a lot of grief!

Steph · « **Reply #4942 on:** August 14, 2013, 08:36:22 AM »

I go the email from Discover, also in my spam box, but simply deleted it. I wont answeranything like that.. Simply too risky.

pedln · « **Reply #4943 on:** August 14, 2013, 11:45:04 AM »

I got the same from Discover, but would not use their link for a login. When I do go to that site it's only after I put in their address.

Tomereader1 · « **Reply #4944 on:** August 14, 2013, 11:53:42 AM »

Looks like I may have done a teeny bit of good, at least here, by posting my message.

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #4945 on:** August 14, 2013, 04:34:15 PM »

Yep, you did gooowd

Steph · « **Reply #4946 on:** August 15, 2013, 08:47:42 AM »

I never answer anything from a bank or credit card company, but go the on line site, that I have in my memory list. Just dont trust emails to me..

Octavia · « **Reply #4947 on:** August 16, 2013, 03:03:24 AM »

My mobile phone told me I'd won 999,000 dollars in an overseas lottery !What a shame I had to give it all up and delete the email

Winter is having it's last pound of flesh from me, with some lurgy or other. I feel like death warmed up.

MaryPage · « **Reply #4948 on:** August 16, 2013, 08:07:41 AM »

That gave me a bit of a giggle, Octavia, as up here in the States we feel like "death warmed over."
Nice, though, that we speak the same language and can understand one another.
Oh, and I am truly sorry that is the state of your being just now. Hope this will be a HAPPY day for you!

Steph · « **Reply #4949 on:** August 16, 2013, 08:40:00 AM »

My mobile phone yesterday told me, I had won a Princess cruise and I should accept. I just hung up..

pedln · « **Reply #4950 on:** August 16, 2013, 11:07:29 AM »

Octavia and Mary Page,

Nice catch.

maryz · « **Reply #4951 on:** August 16, 2013, 12:48:47 PM »

I got the cruise one, too. Maybe we could go together, Steph.

Octavia · « **Reply #4952 on:** August 17, 2013, 04:20:34 AM »

I suppose we have an awful lot in common MaryPage, having the same roots. You-all did confuse me once with taking someone shopping. I would say 'I'll take you over to (insert shopping centre name)' or just 'I'll take you shopping', but I seem to remember you say it quite differently. Also 'in back of' isn't something you'd hear in Australia.
I told my son that my grandma would say 'a dreich day'. I thought dreich was a Scottish word but he pointed out that it was actually Yiddish. We also disagreed on the origin of ketchup. He thought China and I thought somewhere near Thailand. It's Malaysian so I was closest

You say 'to go' we say 'take away' and on and on. Language is a fascinating thing.
My eldest has been working in London for over 10 yrs and I notice English words creeping into his vocabulary, like 'cooker' for stove.

Steph · « **Reply #4953 on:** August 17, 2013, 08:38:57 AM »

Oh Octavia, I do love the way english speakers start with the same language, but somehow it manages to turn and twist for different countries.. Actually in the US, it turns as you go from one end of the country to the other. Slang is fun.. I have a french friend and she tells me that she can barely understand Parisians, because they use so much slang.. Made me laugh.

JeanneP · « **Reply #4954 on:** August 17, 2013, 02:20:38 PM »

I have dropped a lot of my British expressions when coming to the U.S. so many were misunderstood. I go back and pick up again. Try not to use American ones when over there. My children when young would come back with a British accent. Had to stop them using a few.

Steph · « **Reply #4955 on:** August 18, 2013, 10:06:10 AM »

I remember when I had a store near Disney, that a lot of South Americans came in.. I had a Puerta Rican employee, who spoke his form of spanish.But many times, he could not transate well for customers because their spanish and his were so different.

JeanneP · « **Reply #4956 on:** August 18, 2013, 07:46:12 PM »

People think that all South American countries speak Spanish. Many speak Portuguese. I had to have one Employee from. Each country. French. German, Italian. Spanish. We had a person in charge of Personnel who would hire them and then when I would interview would find that for the Spanish one he would hire one who spoke Portuguese. Was embarrassing.

Steph · « **Reply #4957 on:** August 19, 2013, 08:54:59 AM »

Hmm, I thought that Brazil was the only country who spoke portugese..

Frybabe · « **Reply #4958 on:** August 19, 2013, 09:59:06 AM »

I also harbored the impression, held since school days, that the Demarcation Line pretty much gave the eastern part of SA to the Portuguese and the Spanish got the western part. However, doing some research, I discovered that you are right Steph. Brazil is the only Portuguese speaking country in SA. It also has the largest population in SA.

JeanneP · « **Reply #4959 on:** August 19, 2013, 09:27:15 PM »

Other small countries speak . I could be wrong but I think one of them.Mozambique one of them. I will check.
I just googled it and it shows 14 main countries have it as their main language . It is spoken on many islands.

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Author Topic: Fiction ~ Old ~ New ~ Best Sellers #2 (Read 775098 times)