What’s the funniest book you’ve read recently?
Funny you should ask.
Truth is, after thinking about this question, I realized I never read humorous books. In fact, looking over my reading list for the year, my tastes run decidedly to the dark side. Or at least what one might call the dramatic side, what with my [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Booking Through Thursday?
Posted in booking through thursday on July 30, 2009 | 18 Comments »
Best Friends Forever- The Sunday Salon
Posted in Sunday Salon, top of the stack on July 26, 2009 | 18 Comments »
I was nine years old when I met my best friend- the same age as Addie Downs(protagonist in Jennifer Weiner’s new novel, Best Friends Forever) when Valerie Adler moves in across the street. Like Addie, I was round and plump, eager to please and slightly fearful of life in general. My friend, J., on the other hand, was [...]
Reading Month
Posted in bookish on July 23, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Books have been disappearing from my TBR pile faster than hotcakes from the griddle at Boy Scout camp (and where that analogy came from, I couldn’t say, having never been to Boy Scout camp…) Nevertheless, July seems to be a hot and heavy reading month for me. In the past three weeks, I’ve gobbled up all [...]
The Sunday Salon-Testimony
Posted in Sunday Salon on July 19, 2009 | 12 Comments »
I’ve just come out onto my back porch to enjoy a fresh cup of coffee and the remaining half of a pecan danish I saved from yesterday morning at the cafe. I pick up my book, and begin to read where I left off during lunch.
Within a few minutes, I’ve had to set my coffee [...]
The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen
Posted in Everything Austen on July 18, 2009 | 24 Comments »
Gentle reader, I must put pen to paper, though I am so surprised and yes, even scandalised by the words I’ve just read. You all know of my affinity for the works of Miss Jane Austen, how I’ve dreamt of one day perhaps visiting her home at Chawton, walking round the gardens and discussing literature [...]
Nothing But Ghosts – Words of Wonder, and A Giveaway
Posted in Giveaways, book love on July 16, 2009 | 19 Comments »
For some 15 years, in my work with high school musicians, I’ve had the pleasure of spending time with wonderful teenagers. I suppose some would consider that phrase an oxymoron, thinking there is nothing wonderful about those bundles of hormonal confusion and restlessness we call teenagers. But I beg to differ, for those that I [...]
Cautiously Optimistic
Posted in bookish on July 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Life has been a bit challenging of late, and it’s all I could do to keep up with the necessities of daily living. There was not an ounce of prose anywhere in me. Hence, my long absence from the page.
But things are looking up ~ some work is appearing on the horizon for my husband, as [...]
The Sunday Salon- Emerging
Posted in Sunday Salon on July 5, 2009 | 35 Comments »
Because I’m up early and the house is motionless and still…because the sun is still busy burning off the mist which hangs like sheer nylon draperies across the blue summer sky…because I feel the stirring of energy with which to write, after many days of sheltered silence…
Welcome to Sunday Salon.
“A human being can only hold [...]
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