I think I'm going to do this... NO... I AM going to do this. The Book Award Challenge II.
This are the rules:
Read 10 award winners from August 1, 2008 through June 1, 2009.
You must have at least FIVE different awards in your ten titles.
Overlaps with other challenges are permitted.
You don't have to post your choices right away, and your list can change at any time.
'Award winners' is loosely defined; make the challenge fit your needs.
I care not about winning.... it is the reading.
And I'm a terrible blogger... well, actually, I'm a great "blogger", (random thoughts) but blogging a review of a book, I might officially suck at. :~)
While I read all the time, and while I read a variety of books from all genres, my vocabulary still remains in my teenage youth of the 1970's, and I tend to describe everything as "cool".
So, if you bear with me... I'm in for the challenge!
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Waffles and Bookmarks
Yes, seriously....
My favorite waffle recipe comes from a Newberry Honor book....
"Everything on a Waffle" by Polly Horvath
Would could have known? My two favorite things in one!!!
It's a cute, cute story about a young girl who looses both her parents.... well, gee, with a beginning like that, it might seem that this book is not neccisarily "cute", but it's done in that imaginative, playful way. Like all the emotion is out of it and it's just a young orphan girl who is passed from relative to relative. It's good natured and not dark. How's that for description?
But today is Sunday and we had the waffles!!!
Hooray for waffles... and hooray for author Polly Horvath for putting her recipe in the book!
Today is Sunday, but by the time anyone looks at this blog...it might be Monday.
BOOK MARK MONDAY!!!
From my personal bookmark collection...
book mark #2
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Other Worlds
This week's "Booking Through Thursday" Questions are:
Are there any particular worlds in books where you’d like to live?
Or where you certainly would NOT want to live?
What about authors? If you were a character, who would you trust to write your life?
Or where you certainly would NOT want to live?
What about authors? If you were a character, who would you trust to write your life?
I would want to live in the world of Janet Evanovich's "Stephanie Plumb"!
She eats whatever she wants (mostly junk food) and never gains weight, men fall in love with her (hmmmm...but they also die around her), she has adventure, a funny grandma, a family who still sits around the dinner/supper table, but mostly she's hot and she has Joe Morelli.
Of course this falls in the FANTASY category. :~)
Or I would want to be in Gillian Roberts "Amanda Pepper" mystery world. Amanda is a prep-school English teacher in Pennsylvania, but her boy "friend" is CK Mackenzie from Alabama. His best line ever? (when letting Amanda know that being Southern didn't mean being stupid---sadly a misconception that northerners sometimes have. I am a westerner, so I am not included in those misconceptions....)
"I might talk slow... but I don't think slow", he said in his slow southern drawl, while running his deep blue eyes over her body. (I made that part up....running his deep blue eyes, etc)
Okay...I was hooked. In love!!
And no....I'm not a boy crazy 14 year old. LOL, I've just been reading a lot of series mysteries lately.
I also just finished "The Great Gatsby", a world I would not want to live in!! The partying, the drinking (not that I don't enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner , the womanizing. The lives of the idle rich...not a world for me.
How about the world of "Anne of Green Gables"? Now there's a world that I could live in! I do talk a lot....although I don't have red hair, but I just loved Anne and her world with Marilla and Matthew, and later with Gilbert on Prince Edward Island.
I so wanted a Kindred Spirit!
And the author I would want to write my life would probably be Jan Karon. She does a good job of not making things "too" Pollyanna-ish, I think. But at the same time, she makes her characters lives so --- I can't think of the word I want ---so, envied maybe? Humorous and likable anyway.
When I was a boy crazy 14 year old, I would have wanted Mario Puzo to write my life. I had just read "The Godfather" (my parents had no idea!!!) and the Mafia life was very intriguing to me.
Thank goodness we grow up!
She eats whatever she wants (mostly junk food) and never gains weight, men fall in love with her (hmmmm...but they also die around her), she has adventure, a funny grandma, a family who still sits around the dinner/supper table, but mostly she's hot and she has Joe Morelli.
Of course this falls in the FANTASY category. :~)
Or I would want to be in Gillian Roberts "Amanda Pepper" mystery world. Amanda is a prep-school English teacher in Pennsylvania, but her boy "friend" is CK Mackenzie from Alabama. His best line ever? (when letting Amanda know that being Southern didn't mean being stupid---sadly a misconception that northerners sometimes have. I am a westerner, so I am not included in those misconceptions....)
"I might talk slow... but I don't think slow", he said in his slow southern drawl, while running his deep blue eyes over her body. (I made that part up....running his deep blue eyes, etc)
Okay...I was hooked. In love!!
And no....I'm not a boy crazy 14 year old. LOL, I've just been reading a lot of series mysteries lately.
I also just finished "The Great Gatsby", a world I would not want to live in!! The partying, the drinking (not that I don't enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner , the womanizing. The lives of the idle rich...not a world for me.
How about the world of "Anne of Green Gables"? Now there's a world that I could live in! I do talk a lot....although I don't have red hair, but I just loved Anne and her world with Marilla and Matthew, and later with Gilbert on Prince Edward Island.
I so wanted a Kindred Spirit!
And the author I would want to write my life would probably be Jan Karon. She does a good job of not making things "too" Pollyanna-ish, I think. But at the same time, she makes her characters lives so --- I can't think of the word I want ---so, envied maybe? Humorous and likable anyway.
When I was a boy crazy 14 year old, I would have wanted Mario Puzo to write my life. I had just read "The Godfather" (my parents had no idea!!!) and the Mafia life was very intriguing to me.
Thank goodness we grow up!
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Book Mark Monday
Okay....2 things.
It's not Monday, it's actually Tuesday, but it's my birthday and I want to show off my bookmarks. Bookmark "Monday" Sounds better. :~)
and 2nd...I don't know how to start a "carnival" or a "show-me-your-bookmark" contest, or whatever you call them....
(and I very seriously doubt that anyone but my friends and family check out my blogs)
but every week...hopefully on Mondays, I will showcase a bookmark of mine. LOL
I have many. Many, many.... this showcase will go on for years. And years. Probably won't even have "blogs" by the time I run out of bookmarks.
This is my newest bookmark --I'll start with that one.
Coffee book mark. Coffee and books...they seem to go together.
It is currently holding my place in "Pride and Prejudice" which I am reading for the "Classic Bookclub".
It's on page 1. (because Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plump is holding all my attention for the time being )
Coffee Bookmark.
Come on friends...what have you got? Bring 'em on.
(that sounds great, but sadly, Mitzi is the only one I know who also has a bookmark collection. :~)
Sunday, August 3, 2008
That man of mine
You know that "man o mine?"
The one who never used to read?
well....I came home from work on Friday at 5:00 and this is where I found him.
(living with me for 30 years has had its influence!! LOL)
(and so YES, I did go downtown to the old car show with him on Friday night. AND again for a bit on Sunday afternoon. He had to judge a car. And we got roped into judging the costume contest for 50's Fever )
Friday, August 1, 2008
forgotten
I forgot "Booking Through Thursdays"!
Well....I actually didn't forget, but it was a crazy day. I worried about it all day
Well....I thought about it a few times during the day, wondering if I would have time to blog.
And I didn't.
I went to work at 8:00 a.m.
I got home at 10:30 p.m.
I didn't even open a book yesterday! OH MY!!
I'll book thru next Thursday tho. :~)
Well....I actually didn't forget, but it was a crazy day. I worried about it all day
Well....I thought about it a few times during the day, wondering if I would have time to blog.
And I didn't.
I went to work at 8:00 a.m.
I got home at 10:30 p.m.
I didn't even open a book yesterday! OH MY!!
I'll book thru next Thursday tho. :~)
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