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BORDEN BOOK CLUB (LINCOLN / BOOK 5 & EPILOGUE)
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:26 pm
by theebmonique
OK....class...class...CLASS ! By the end of this coming weekend, let finish off old Lincoln...ok ? Ooops, I guess instead of saying "finish off old Lincon", I should say finish her book...APD. Wouldn't want anyone to think that I was talking about the M word...m-u-r-d-e-r. So, Book 5 and the Epilogue will be our last assignment for this book.
I know we took a long time getting through this, maybe too long ? Are any of you interested in doing another book ? If so, which one ?
Let me know your thoughts on all of this.
(Audrey, if you don't stop trying to pass notes to Melissa and Nancie, I will have to send you to the Principal's office ! AND...quit rolling your skirt up !)
Sister Mary Tracy...of the Sisters of The Bloody Axe
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:51 pm
by Bob Gutowski
Umm...may I just say the last line of the book gave me goosebumps and brought me to tears the first time I read it?
Enjoy the discussion!
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:52 pm
by Nancie
I agree Bob "and loose on one finger, with its calcified, old man's joints. there dangles a small
gold ring".
The bond between father and daughter is very special. Could Lizzie have broken that bond, I don't
want to believe it.
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:42 pm
by Allen
I am ready to finish off old Lincoln
. I should be ready whenever you all are. I have enjoyed the book club, and I would really enjoy doing another book. I think whenever you reread any material for the purpose of discussing it with others, it really sheds new light on what you think you have already covered a million times and know by heart. I have gotten an insight into "old Lincoln" that I didn't have before.I'm ready to do that with another book
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Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:02 pm
by Allen
*Waits patiently for Sister Mary Tracy to pass out the homework* Hey if I get out of hand you're not going to smack my hand with a ruler are you?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 8:06 pm
by theebmonique
It will be BOTH hands. And...SIT UP STRAIGHT YOUNG LADY !
SMT...
Re: BORDEN BOOK CLUB (LINCOLN / BOOK 5 & EPILOGUE)
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:41 pm
by Audrey
theebmonique @ Mon Mar 07, 2005 1:26 pm wrote:
(Audrey, if you don't stop trying to pass notes to Melissa and Nancie, I will have to send you to the Principal's office ! AND...quit rolling your skirt up !)
Mon Dieu....
Please do send me to the Principal's office--- I am absolutely certain within 20 minutes of entering his office I will have an invitation to lunch and be out of this dreadful place.....
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:51 pm
by theebmonique
Ms. La'Paix-Martin...will you come up to my desk please ? The rest of you just keep on reading.
SMT...
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:44 pm
by theebmonique
Let's put this baby to bed. Rather than my usual breakdown of specific passages, I decided to look at Book 5 "wholely". The way Slicky presents the trial...I kept expecting, (as I watched it play out in my mind), Elaine Stritch...or Patti LuPone to come out singing the praises of Lizzie...or for John Davidson to come out singing the part of Gov. Robinson. I really am not trying to make light the seriousness of a trial of this magnitude, I am just trying to describe the picture Lincoln painted for ME.
I think Gov. Robinson probably WAS as smoooooth as he sounds in Book 5. And despite Lincoln' claim in Chapter 28/pg. 229, "In presenting her trial, I have done my best to suspend judgement, both moral and emotional.", I find that her portrait of Knowlton is much less than that of the former Governor.
OK...a few more pages and it's time for the sandman.
Tracy...