MaryC, so glad to hear that Al's 90th birthday party turned out well and that he was feeling better.

Marilyne, Sorry to hear about your problem.  I have problems with my sciatica in my left leg/hip off and on since I fell a few years ago. I found that Advil did give some temporary relief.

My grandson just had surgery for melanoma a couple of weeks ago.  They belief they got it all but he will have to be careful.  Then last week my husband had a basal cell cancer cut out of his neck.  Not nearly as serious as grandson's.  But he is going to have be careful.  He had an older brother and sister with skin cancer.  We are just thankful it wasn't worse.

FlaJean,  It is a good thing that the Drs.  are able to remove these things as they do now.  I hope your son and husband have good healing.     Al has had some done already and has an appt for Wed. this week for a big raised spot on his back.    He is a fair skinned Scotsman and prone to barnacles (as he refers to them!).  Our mothers just told us to go out and play and we did without the benefit of sunscreen and now years later the results come along.   What did we know??

FlaJean - So sorry to hear about your grandson having the melanoma surgery.  It seems to be occurring a lot, in that younger generation.  You wonder why it is so prevalent for them, when it was our generation that had so much unprotected sun exposure? 

mary - my Al, has had countless "barnacles" removed - some of which have been squamous and basil cell carcinoma's.  I have had the same problem for many years now.  We both make appointments every four months with the dermatologist, and he always finds something to either burn off, or remove and send to the pathology lab.   

I have been having a skin problem this summer. Not just the little brown spots that come with to much sun when young they say. I have always had them checked. But now it was like a rash front of arms and legs.  Had to wait 6 weeks to see my Dermatologist. Whole dept busy. but got there today.
Went all over and took off a few little brown spots. One on my nose. Tells me they now have a new way of taking care of the blemishes (This is what he called my problem). Do something, then wrap in stuff like Siran Wrap for awhile. Suppose to make arms look like when young. (Most probably cheque book like when young also.) Told him to have them checkit to see if Medicare Ins. Will cover some of it or will it come under Cosmetic. Not something that I am going to do if expensive.  He checked all other places like back and places I cant see and says all O.K.  Just come back in again 6 months. All these Specialist seem to have gone to 6 months now , not a year like it use to be. That is why they are so busy.

JeanneP - How did you like House Girl?  My dil gave it to me last week, but I haven't started reading it yet.  It looks like it's going to be a good story. 

I've reached the top of the waiting list once again for Everybody's Fool, so I'll be going to the library tomorrow to pick it up. I'll only have it for one week, so I plan to sit down and start reading as soon as I get home!

Marilyn's

Not far into it yet. So far liking it.

Well I said I wasn't going to read a series again (right away)  but here I am.    My brother suggested the Winston Graham Poldark series.     I am well into the first book.   I didn't think I was going to like it this well.    The setting takes me back to Rosamunde Pilcher's The Shell Seekers though I believe these stories take place on the west side of Cornwall.   It seems to me that some of you talked about the Poldark series when it was on The Masterpiece Theater.....maybe it wasn't here but I seem to recall some discussion.

I did get They Left Us Everything about the same time that I got the Graham  book but this one is from Hoopla and is due back sooner so I got busy with Poldark first.

maryc - I'm about a quarter of the way into Everybody's Fool, and I'm still not really understanding what the story is going to be about.. New characters are still being introduced, and I have to admit that I'm getting slightly overwhelmed with so many townspeople and relatives, et al,  each with their own interconnected back stories.  I have to keep looking back to see who's who, etc.  Maybe I should have read Nobody's Fool first?? 

Anyway, I feel like I'm struggling a bit, and because the book is so long, I don't know if I'll stick with it?  I don't like to give up on something good, so please encourage me if you think it's worth it?

Marilyne,   It's too bad you didn't see the movie or read Nobody's Fool before this book.  I just saw the movie and so that fixed in my mind the characters that are pretty much the same in the second book.  There are a lot of characters and I thought I would never get on with the story.    Anyway rather than being a plot to this one it is pretty much a character study.    You get to see the good, bad and ugly  and how even those who appear to be  pretty bad have some redeeming qualities and those who seem like ok people can have a little nastiness to their make up.     Maybe this doesn't do much for your interest so you will either read until your interest is piqued or give it up.   Sorry I can't do better for you.    Isn't this often the way with a sequel to a good story?

I have started They Left Us Everything along with Ross Poldark.    The first is a modern true story that takes place just around the end of the Lake from us near Toronto. It is kind of a good to alternate with the Poldark yarn.

maryc - I looked at my On Demand movies last night, and found Nobody's Fool. We watched it last night, and enjoyed it very much!  I can't believe that I missed it back in the early 90's. I thought I had seen every Paul Newman movie ever produced, but obviously I hadn't. 

Now plain to  see that Everybody's Fool is a sequel, and that most of the same characters have returned, in all their original quirkiness! LOL   
Yes, I agree with you, that both books are character driven stories, which is my favorite style.  Now I will open "Everybody's", this afternoon, and it will have a whole new meaning for me!  I know I'll enjoy it from here on out.  

Want to see old friends, go down memory lane? 

http://www.seniorsandfriends.org/index.php?topic=234.msg43347#msg43347

Bubble.  Now what name did you go under on Seniornet?  I don't seem to remember you. Where did you mostly post?

same name.  I never changed since the time I started on the net.  I was mainly active in the writing forum, in WREX with MAL as leader.

Marilyne,   I'm glad to hear that you found the movie, Nobody's Fool.     That surely set the stage for the sequel book so that you have some acquaintance with the large cast of characters.

I'm coming up to the end of Ross Poldark and have enjoyed the history.  I knew that I had read another good story that was set in Cornwall but couldn't think of it.   Now I've searched around and discovered that The shell Seekers was also set there but on the east coast.     In my searching I found that The Forgotten Garden, (Kate  Morton) was also there.   Since reading those stories,  my interest in that part of UK has been piqued.

mary - You mentioned that you were familiar with the Poldark series that played on Masterpiece Theater. You can probably access the shows On Demand, on PBS?  We watched the first two seasons and liked it a lot, but I haven't heard anything about a third season?  I didn't read the book, so don't know if they were true to the story or not?  The show was filmed in Cornwall, and the scenery was spectacular!  Also, the actor who played Ross, was not hard to look at either - one of the best looking men I've seen on any TV show!

I'm just about through with Everybody's Fool, and so glad that I stuck with it. I doubt that I would have, if I hadn't watched Nobody's Fool.  I wonder if a movie will now be made from "Everybody's"?  How could they do it without Paul Newman . . . he was the perfect Sully!

We haven't had too much luck in finding anything good On Demand.      One of these days when  Al is busy with something else I might call Cable and ask for some help.     It seems like we are missing out there.    I don't watch too much TV but Al likes sports and some things on History and Discover.   If it appeals to me I watch but otherwise I read or do something else.

He has been watching the series Harley and the Davidsons  this week and some of that is interesting to me but not straight through for 2 hours.

MaryC, my husband has been watching that Harley series, too.  I've been sitting in my comfy easy chair in the bedroom reading a cozy mystery.

FlaJean,      We do what we enjoy most.

Bubble.  now how far back is it going since Seniornet.  Must be about 20 years. Do you still have the picture you used back then? Was Don in there at the same time?

Harley and the Davidson's??  Hmmm - if it has to do with motorcycles, I don't think I'm going to mention it to my Al. ha ha.   Enough with the motorcycles on American Pickers!

Marilyne, I believe this is the story of how Harley-Davidson came into being. (Betcha the Pickers are watching!)  I'm DVR'ing it for hubby to watch later when there's nothing else to watch.  He said a movie he watched the other day was really good ..."Tumbledown".  I was busy with house-hold chores and didnt get to see any of it.  If he said it was "good" it might actually be worth watching!  Of course, he loves the Hallmark Movie Channel...he and our daughter can sit there, watch, and make a dive for the Kleenex box.  She laughs at her Dad and his "chick-flicks".

Tome - Your hubby sounds like a real sweetie! So nice that he'll watch the Hallmark Channel with your daughter.
When I'm not in the mood for TV, AJ will immediately go to The Western Channel, (Encore Westerns), and if there is nothing there that he wants to see, he'll go to the American Heroes Channel. (I call it, The War Channel!) He likes anything associated with WWII, so will watch old newsreels or documentaries dealing with battle scenes, European or Pacific fronts, famous Generals, etc. 

My daughter and I are the "action movie twins" although she likes the Hallmarks too.  She and I like all the Die Hard movies, we both have the full set of DVDs.  Also, the Jason Bourne series, but hubby likes those too.  I'm also a WWII nut, Civil War nut, and more lately, things about WWI.

I am currently reading "The Lilac Girls" which is a WWII book, fictionalized non-fiction.  The book is narrated by three women whose lives were affected by the war; one in U.S., one Polish, one German.  It is,of course, not a happy book.  The "camps" were hideous, even moreso than in some other books we've read, or movies we've seen. The women were real, only a male love-interest, for the American woman working in the French Consulate was fictional.

Tome - sometimes we're in sync, other times, not so much!  I've never seen a Jason Bourne or a Die Hard movie!   I'm probably one of very few.

The Lilac Girls sounds good! Let us know how you like it?  I haven't read a book dealing with WWII, that I haven't liked . . . same with the Civil War stories. 

I have not seen the "Lilac Girls" movie showing anyplace in town.  Can't find it in the library as a book or DVD.  I know I would like to read it.  It can be gotten on Kindle but for $14.95. So will wait and see if can find it later. Just don't buy books anymore. Have to many not read yet.

Marilyne, I knew --in my heart of hearts -- that you wouldn't be in sync with me on the Die Hard/action movies.  I lot of shooting, explosions, car chases, mayhem etc.  I don't particularly enjoy those things used "randomly" in movies, especially in this day and age of ComputerGenerated stuff.  But, as used for instance in the Jason Bourne movies, it all fits nicely.  Did you ever read any of Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne novels?

I am liking "The Lilac Girls" as much as one can "like" a book about the horrors of concentration camps, the suffering of innocents who weren't in the camps, and the inhumanity of the Nazi regime.  The numbers are absolutely staggering, over and above the numbers actually sent to the ovens; a camp would be built to house X number of prisoners, but would grow to 2, 3 or 4 times that many. 

Jeanne, the book "The Lilac Girls" has only just been published.  It will be a long, long time, if ever, for a movie to be made and released.

JeanneP - If you ask your library for The Lilac Girls, they most likely will order it for you.  There are so many new books being published now, that the libraries cannot keep up with all of them.  Since most people now read on their iPads or Kindles, libraries don't order every new book that comes out, like they used to.  However, I have had good luck putting in an order for a new book, and so far they have accepted all of my requests.  I recently asked for They Left Us Everything, and the library will notify me when it comes in.

So True. Our library is a large one but having a hard time financially. We are twin cities and the other library even larger and quite new. Thing is they both got big mortgages.  Got all the technical stuff. Buildings to modern and  to big. So now no money . Most people working there  quite young now as they paid the older ones to retire early. Most are on Part time now  so dont have to pay Ins. Retirement etc.  They say now most not working with a Degree like they use to have to have. Always loved libraries but not the same now.  They do try when I ask but no longer are they getting the books in LP also.
I do have my IPad and Amazon Fire. Sort of hate putting the new books on there at about 14.99 because I read a book so fast. I thought that The lilac Girls must be quite new.  I will ask and put my name down. Be one of the First. Been some books were I have been Number 123 in a sort time.  People not buying books any more like the did.