Friday, February 26, 2010
Making Toast
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Hard Gold
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
What Was I Thinking?
Waiting on Wednesday
Shoot To Thrill by PJ Tracy due out on April 29, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Teaser Tuesday
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Monday, February 22, 2010
The Musician's Daughter
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Library Loot
Saturday, February 20, 2010
New Bedtime Favorites
Thursday, February 18, 2010
A Mighty Long Way
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Waiting on Wednesday
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Teaser Tuesday
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Monday, February 15, 2010
President's Day
Saturday, February 13, 2010
The Overnight Socialite
Thursday, February 11, 2010
What I Saw and How I Lied
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Living Oprah
Waiting on Wednesday
Legend has it that when the Chickamauga Indians attacked the Nashville settlement, they killed my ancestral father as he fought to protect his beloved wife. She grabbed the musket from her dead husband’s hands and continued the fight, killing three Indian warriors herself. Then she fell on top of her husband’s cold, bloody body and held him in her arms throughout the night.
Her name was Bezellia Louise, and for generations since, the first girl born to a Grove has been named in her memory. Although most official historians dispute any claims of her heroics, my father donated thousands of dollars to the Nashville Historical Society with the belief that eventually some fresh, young academic would see the past more according to my family’s advantage. But fact or fiction, I believed in her courage and passion and have always been proud to share her name.
Sadly, the Bezellias birthed before me never cared for this designation, preferring a monosyllabic moniker – like Bee, Zee or Zell – to their formal Christian name. My own mother disliked the name so much that for years she refused to let it cross her lips, calling me only sister, a generic substitution that summed up her distaste for my name and her inadequate affection for me. I, on the other hand, always wanted to hear my name in its entirety, never caring what others thought of it.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Trixie Belden #2 - Childrens Classic Mystery Challenge
Monday, February 8, 2010
Teaser Tuesday
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Some Grown-Up Reading
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Library Loot
Today's visit to the library netted me another stash of great looking books. The only problem is that I already have a huge stash of library loot that I haven't even touched yet. However, it is hard for me to pass up a great looking book. I did feel quite virtuous as I passed over the new Adriana Trigiani and Kristin Hannah's newest book, knowing that these two will be ones that people will really want and that I just don't have time to read quickly enough.
So, this is what I walked away with:
Adult:
1. The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens
Young Adult/Tween:
1. A Map of the Known World by Lisa Ann Sandell
2. This Family is Driving Me Crazy: Ten Stories about Surviving Your Family Edited by M. Jerry Weiss and Helen Weiss
3. Donut Days by Lara Zielin
4. Gentlemen by Michael Northrop
5. Hard Gold by Avi
6. Dear America: Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota, New Yeovil, MN 1873 by Marion Dane Bauer
7. The Goodbye Time by Celeste Conway
8. Feathered by Laura Kasischke
The Liberation of Gabriel King
Set in 1976, the year of America's bicentennial, Going's book explores some good themes for us to discuss: friendship, race, fear to name a few.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Dance Marathon
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Black and White
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Waiting on Wednesday
...in order to find new friends in Stoneybrook, Connecticut.
The Summer Before . . . is a sweet, moving novel about four girls on the edge of something big - not just the Club that will change their lives, but also all the joys and tribulations of being twelve and thirteen.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Teaser Tuesday
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.
Monday, February 1, 2010
On My List
The two most pressing things I want to blog about before I get too far behind:
The fact that the girls have decided to write down and look up different words we run across in our nightly reading, or even in conversation. Last night we wrote down insomnia, incinerate, shears, unkempt, molting, eucalyptus, hasten, and gaudy. Most of these were from Mitch and Amy by Beverly Cleary. My oldest daughter is intending to write these down on her own blog.
The fact that Peaceful Reader nominated me for the Kreativ Blogger award - my first - and that I have been jotting down some notes so that I can pass on this award to some other great blogs and bloggers.
I am hoping tomorrow brings a few more free minutes for me to actually sit down and get my thoughts organized. It's good to be busy, but a few moments of peace wouldn't hurt my feelings, either.