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I can understand stuff like that, thanks for the clarification- but the whole thread sounded as if nobody appreciates a gesture, no matter how bizarre it seems. Some people just have absolutely no idea what to give as a gift. My dad gave my mom a vacuum cleaner as a wedding present. If she...

But once she regains sanity and realizes what she did (if she hasn't already) isn't that a form of punishment? Everyone knows her name and some will recognize her wherever she goes, she will carry the label "baby killer". I'm not saying she deserves some prison time, but why should she get a...

This thread disturbs me. Yes, I've gotten plenty of gifts I can't use, didn't want, or can't stand to look at. I've forgotten most of them, but I remember the thought. You can't expect everyone to know what your tastes are, but unless a person spends a lot of time around you, they don't have a...

Prison is not an ironclad guarantee that there will be no further pregnancies. Imprisoned women have gotten pregnant by male guards. There is always the possibility of conjugal visiting, too-and it isn't inconceivable (pardon the pun) that the conjugal visit might not be to the intended inmate...

Dr. Phil is the Antichrist. I think he knows what people want to hear and says it, so they'll buy his crap. I pay no attention to whatever he says or sells.

Get the video or DVD of the movie with Gregory Peck. I think it's very faithful to the book, one of the best movies ever made. It makes me cry every time I watch it, and I've watched it countless times over the years.

planning to get her drunk and pump her for information? ;) :D

She could have lots of resons. Maybe she said what she wanted to say and didn't feel the need to write anything else. Maybe she felt she couldn't top that one. If I wrote a book like that, I'd be intimidated myself, thinking I could never write anything else as good. Maybe if she wrote...

that reminds me, didn't someone once deface the American flag and call it art?

Thanks for posting the link! How fascinating, I knew she was reclusive but she sounds perfectly normal, not the weird old lady I thought she must be. That's a classy dame.

On one hand, the way things are going, where life sentences are viewed as free meal tickets for life by some criminals, and the death penalty is not a deterrent, perhaps chopping off a hand now and then would put a dent in the crime rate. On the other hand, I have to agree that perhaps...

Agatha Christie is always a good choice, the Poirot series or Miss Marple.

If I were on the jury, I'd have no qualms about voting for sterilization, in fact I'm sorry it didn't happen sooner. It seems every day I read about something or see on the news some form of child abuse or neglect that makes me sick. Yesterday, locally, a father was found guilty of raping...

I gave up on it, I couldn't get into it and although the setting was different, I kept expecting Jim Chee from the Tony Hillerman series to show up. Perhaps someday I'll start at the first book in the Coel series, maybe then things will make more sense.

I'd rather sit next to a smoker than jog on a main city street breathing in the exhaust from all the cars, buses and trucks. I'm horrified to see people jogging with babies in strollers on busy streets, and they wonder why their kid has asthma. P.S. I smoke, and some smokers are more annoying...

That article about the Booker rejects that Moto posted is disheartening for beginning writers. It seems if you aren't already a celebrity, or have something that marketers can seize on, you don't have a prayer of being published by the big houses.

There are many, many books where things do not make sense, and they're praised to the skies (Joyce Carol Oates' books come to mind). Some books don't have to make perfect sense to be enjoyable. Besides, a woman has the right to change her mind without warning. ;)

"they" are the characters. and as for your assertion that there's no conflict, that's the point! That's what makes these books so different from the tired genre. I don't think they can be properly categortized in the mystery genre, because there's not really a mystery to solve, I think we're...

Cripes, Stewart, they do things differently there, they talk differently there, and they have different values. Mma Ramotswe does what she thinks is right, whether or not there's anything in it for her. So what if the characters don't indulge in the navel-gazing and money-grubbing that...

Japanese Story, starring Toni Collette. Gorgeous Australian Outback scenery, nuanced acting, and a plot I feared was recycled but was pleasantly surprised and touched.