POSTED COMMENTS AS OF 6.5.10
Patrick says (4.14.10 at 2:45 pm)
I love this site!
Frank says (4.17.10 at 4:03 p.m.)
This website is almost as good as the book!!!
El Mismo says (4.17.10. at 4:56 pm)
Here’s to Rosalie, former baby of the family. Wow and wow again, Punky, you really have covered all the bases. It goes without saying (Because I have said it before and you told us all not to say it anymore) but the amount of time and serious work you put into this project boggles the mind. Kind of detracts a bit from me feeling good about having just mowed the lawn. But you went even further having bookmarks, business cards, and postcards made, a web site (This IS a web site, right? I mean for all I know it could be a widget), all the contacts, well the list goes on. On another note I just answered the phone to hear a friend (There goes the unbiased opinion factor) start right out saying, "I had tears running down my cheeks I was laughing so hard just now. And yesterday at work I was reading and people kept saying things like ‘Found a good book, eh?’" I told her to shout it out from the highest mountaintop, which in Wisconsin is around 1200 feet so it won’t be the same as if Pat climbed Pikes Peak and yelled from there, but I bet some people would still hear it. I am hoping I have just set a new record for parentheses used per letter in any written statement.
Marylou aka Nanna says (4.19.10 at 10:51 am)
I enjoyed the site. I'm so happy to be part of the family. What a nice legacy to leave to the Grandchildren for their children.
Mary Ellen Meyer Thomas says (4.21.10 at 7:59 am)
Just got an email from Amazon that my own personal copy of “Pieces of Eight” is on its way! I can’t wait for the laughing tears to begin rolling down my face. Gonna happen, you know it will!! I love, love, love the pictures!! What a neat family and a complete jewel to leave for generations to come.
Brandon says (4.21.10, 2:18 pm)
I see a lot of pictures of Tom up there.
Barb Jordison says (4.23.10 at 11:31 am)
I can’t wait to read the book!! Matt, thanks so much for the copy, I had no idea this was going on. I got first dibs on reading it and it looks fantastic!
Bree Tanner says (5.3.10 at 4:12 am)
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Judy Adams (Rabbitt) says (5.1.10.at 12:00 pm)
I loved looking at all the old photos. My book came today and I am anxious to start reading it. Not only did I know some of you from school, but your Dad was our dentist! What a great idea!!
Mary Castagnoli says (5.3.10 at 8:41)
I recently picked up a copy of PIECES of EIGHT (wonderful title, BTW) from the finest Dental Physician in Fat Dog – which doesn’t say nearly enough – so I must enlarge to the Great Midwest. I finished reading the book yesterday while soaking up some May sunshine. What a great way to spend a Sunday morning! I hated for it to end.
As an “only child,” I think the only one who would feel more wistful upon reading your book would be someone having a number of brothers and sisters who had always been at odds with one another. (Note I shied away from using the term “envious” as I feel that yours is too good and fair-minded a group to in any way pollute with such a tainted emotion.) But – “wistful” – yes. My most constant friends, growing up – and still, today, are books and my own imagination. The day our Public Library put an end to a maximum number of books that could be taken out per visit was a Red Letter Day for me . . . I would previously drag a friend with me – less-inclined towards Bookwormism – and have her check out books for me on her card. And topping my reading lists were always books about large families. I was thoroughly entranced with the varied personalities and relationships amongst all the sibs, their parents and their friends. I will say here that “you Maggios” have now surpassed the FIVE LITTLE PEPPERS AND HOW THEY GREW (and not just by sheer number).
A really wonderful book – wonderfully crafted as well as wonderfully-related stories. Since I’m loathe to part with my copy – I’ll be visiting my favorite Dentist anon to purchase a couple more copies for my (former) Castagnoli sisters-in-law and another friend (Carolyn Powers Lunn) as I’m sure she graduated St Ed’s with one of you.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful family! MC
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Hilde Viesselman says (6.3.10 at 2:06 am)
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emshear says (6.4.10 at 8:36 am)
It’s affectionate w/o getting icky, droll w/o getting itsy-poo. Even the table of contents is funny.
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