From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #166 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Friday, October 6 2000 Volume 01 : Number 166 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 09:59:43 MDT From: "Marianne Hales Harding" Subject: [AML] HUGHES, _Children of the Promise_ Vol. 5 Just finished volume 5 of the Children of the Promise series and I have to say that the afterword made me very sad. I enjoyed the book and did feel *some* closure for the series, but there were lots of loose ends! It's just about as open ended as every other book in the series except he's not going to write anymore. I, personally, would be happy if this was a much longer series but I do tend to obsess. That is my major complaint, though, that he would leave so many loose ends and then declare that he was tired of writing these books (how dare a writer get tired :-) and that if he revisited the Thomases it would be in another era. But I want to know what happens to LaRue at college next year! So, buyer beware when you start reading these books. He keeps you wanting more... Marianne Hales Harding _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 14:19:20 EDT From: "Rex Goode" Subject: Re: [AML] conservative hatred >I never felt any desire to beat you up for being homosexual. But _this_ >makes me want to pummel you! (At least you don't work for Microsoft.) True. I turned Microsoft down on the basis of already being married. :) >Yes, folks, that was just a joke. > > I might force myself to do it, but an autobiography by me > > would never sell enough to put bread on the table. > >What about an autobiography of you by someone else? > >Yes, that was also a joke. Well, sort of. There is such a thing as ghost >writers. I've often wondered how my story might be different written by someone else, a biography instead of an autobiography. In truth, I don't really want to write an autobiography. I wouldn't mind it if someone else wanted to do my biography. I want to write essays, inspirational stuff, related to my life, but more principle-based than telling a chronological story. Rex Goode _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:42:56 -0600 From: Steve Subject: Re: [AML] HUGHES, _Children of the Promise_ Vol. 5 on 10/5/00 9:59 AM, Marianne Hales Harding at marianne_hales_harding@hotmail.com wrote: > I, personally, would be happy if this was a much longer > series but I do tend to obsess. That is my major complaint, though, that he > would leave so many loose ends and then declare that he was tired of writing > these books (how dare a writer get tired :-) and that if he revisited the > Thomases it would be in another era In August I emceed and played for a musical program at the LDS Booksellers Convention where the Indepent Booksellers (all the various one- and two-store mom/pop book businesses) gave Dean Hughes an award. Afterward we chatted briefly and I noticed he was wearing wrist braces on both hands. I said something brilliant and witty like, "you've just been writing too much," to which he replied quite seriously, "Yes, exactly." Sorry Marianne, I guess we'll just have to give the guy a break and let the series be over for now. ;-) Occupational hazard--too bad. Steve - -- skperry@mac.com http://StevenKappPerry.com "Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #166 ******************************