February is all about hearts and flowers, and of course, LOVE, isn’t it? Here’s an opportunity to combine your love of reading with a good deed.
Michelle is hosting this reading challenge with proceeds going to the American Heart Association. I’ll be donating $5 for each book I read between February 1-14, 2009.
Why don’t you join [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Books for the Heart
Posted in Books for the Heart on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Musing Monday: …nor a lender be
Posted in Musing Monday on January 26, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about lending books…
A few weeks back we had a question about borrowing books, this week I was wondering what your policy was on lending books. Do you lend books to anyone? Just friends? Only big readers? How long are they allowed to have them?
As a librarian wanna-be, lending books is [...]
Sunday Salon – Catching Up
Posted in Sunday Salon, Uncategorized on January 26, 2009 | 14 Comments »
As January draws to a close, I’m beginning to believe it should be renamed the “cruelest month,” for it has battered and beaten us with the worst kinds of inclement weather. Had I not spent the past few days visiting my home in Florida and absolutely reveling in a much needed respite from the bitter [...]
Inspiration
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
“Now it was time to follow the old Zen lesson and let go with both hands. Life is suffering, and the cause of suffering is desire, so the Buddhists say. You can’t stop the desires, memories, the thoughts and the feelings, the teaching went, but you didn’t have to grasp them and hang onto them [...]
Monday Musings From the Sickroom
Posted in Musing Monday, Uncategorized on January 20, 2009 | 13 Comments »
This week’s Muse for Monday:
How does your being sick (or injured) affect your reading? Do you read more? Less? Do you pick out a different book than you had already planned? Do you have a “comfort book” that makes you feel better?
My childhood was fraught with illness – nothing serious, happily, but recurring episodes of [...]
Awarded
Posted in Awards on January 13, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I love this picture.
You have to peer at it a bit to discern exactly what it is. But I have a bit of a thing for old typewriters like this, and the funnel cloud of words spewing from this one is just delightful.
It’s attached to a blogging “award” which was bestowed upon me by three [...]
Required Reading, A Muse on Monday
Posted in Musing Monday on January 12, 2009 | 13 Comments »
How did you react to assigned reading when you were in school/university/college/etc.? How do you think on these books now? What book were you ‘forced’ to read when you where in school that you’ve since reread and loved?
This question called to mind my first day of kindergarten, a day that still ranks as one of [...]
The Sunday Salon~A Writer’s Life
Posted in Sunday Salon, The Writer's Life on January 11, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring one as well. For all serious daring starts from within. Eudora Welty
I’m quite grateful for shelter, dear friends, as we’ve been inundated once again with 10 inches of snow. I’ve been indoors all weekend, nursing a cold and [...]
Float Like A Butterfly…
Posted in bookish on January 8, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Who doesn’t love to get awards? I’ve been lucky enough to get two this week, and I’m definitely floating on air.
This Butterfly Award from Megan…
and the Marie Antoinette award for inspiration from Jeanie…
I adore having such wondeful friends!
And the best part is passing along the award to other’s who inspire me…
there are SO [...]
A Letter to You
Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2009 | 13 Comments »
January 5, 2009
Dearest Reader,
I’ve just finished my first book of the New Year, and I’m delighted to say it was one of the most enjoyable I’ve read in ages! I was so immersed in the story of these dear people on the Isle of Guernsey that I was half surprised not to find Dawsey quietly [...]
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