Little Bee

I would love to tell you about this book that I just read. It was a moving and touching story. All I can say is it's about two woman that meet under horrible circumstances and then two years latter they meet up again.

The story then moves back and forth in first person between the two woman as the past and what happened there are made known and how it now affects them now.

The reason I can't really say more? The book, on the front flap ask that the reader not tell how the story unfolds for those that have not read it yet.

Little Bee by Chris Cleave, go read it now so we can talk about it!

Books and more books

I requested lots of books a few weeks ago and lots of them have come in.

I just finished Nora Roberts The Search. It was good, not great, I think that I have read so many of her books that I am no longer surprised by what happens, they are kind of predictable. This one, the main female is a dog trainer so that was about all that was different, but even then that got on my nerves as I felt that Roberts was pushing a dog training agenda. (I hate to be preached at via a book!)

I tried to read and got very close to the end but I can't finish Flawed Dogs by Berkeley Breathed.
He's that guy that writes the comic Opus, which I love to read. This book is a Juvenile Fiction and it's just too young for me.

I'm also reading F.B.I. Girl by Maura Conlon-McIvor. This is a Non Fiction book about a young girl growing up and her dad works for the F.B.I. The tag for the book is "How I learned to crack my fathers code" So far, it's kind of slow. I will keep plugging away at it.

I have The Kite Runner to read. I have read that before but need to read it again for book club. If you have not read this book, run, don't walk and get the book. It's a great book!

My other books that came in are

On the line by S.J. Rozan. I am reading this series and can't wait to start this one. I think this is book seven? Not sure.

Never tell our business to strangers a memoir by Jennifer Mascia. This one is also a non fiction book. It's about growing up in a criminal family and the lies that are told too keep them all safe. (I think)

The Passage by Justin Cronon. The inside flap sounded really good, you know, the whole collapse of the world due to some really bad thing. The tag on this one read "It happened fast. Thirty two minutes for one world to die and another to be born"

Then I have Acid Row by Minette Walters. I have no idea about this book. A patron recommended it. The author is a Brit so it will be different.

Gifts

I got these jars just the other day. I love getting free canning jars.

They need to be cleaned up a bit and I will need to get some rims and lids.

Also you see the two blue one? Nice huh? I will use those to put pretties in.

Too pretty for canning.

I got these in the mail the other day. I collect cookbooks so I was excited to see the AK

Signaleers one. The other three are about gardening, which should be helpful to me this fall when I get my garden ready for winter and then come next spring? Watch out! Veggies will be coming out my ears.

And another set of free jars. If you don't can, you probably don't understand what a
great thing it is to get free jars! I gave all the quart size jars to my friend Kellie and I will keep the pints and 1/2 pint jars. The quarts are too large for one person. Pint amounts are just right.

Book Review plus

I'm reading a series of books called the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. They are of the SciFI genre. I finished book nine and am about to start book 10. But I have other books to read too.

I am now reading Sizzling Sixteen by Janet Evanovich. Hate to say it, but I am board out of my mind with book 16. The people in this series do not change. They have no growth. They do not learn from mistakes.

Stephine Plum, still does not know if she loves Morelli or Ranger.
Lulu, still on a diet and still eating doughnuts and wanting Cluck in a bucket chicken.
Grandma Mazur, still being the "pip" that she is.
Cars are still being smashed up, buildings are still being burned down.

It's almost like the same sentence are being used from books 1 though 15. I'm on page 157 and I'm going to keep on reading it, even if it makes me fall asleep!

The Dresden files, the main guy is Harry, time has passed in the books. Harry has loved and lost. Close friends have died and he has been betrayed and had learned to forgive. He is evolving and some in a good way, some not so good. but it is still change.

I read Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland. I think that this was book two and I did not know that. I have a issues about reading books out of order. I can't knowingly do that. It was a excellent book. I would recommend it to all. The book is set in Australia and the main character is half Aborigine and White.

Now the "plus" part

Sorry, you might have thought that it was going to be an exciting announcement but it's not.
I just trimmed my goats hooves this afternoon. I also got Juju up on the stand to do it! She tired to go noodle on me but I got her up there. I spent about 10 minutes scratching her and calming her down. She started to nibble on her grain so I then picked up her foot and started to trim. Good thing she was only on three feet, she would have loved to have jumped off, but hard to do with one foot in the air with a hand holding it firm!

I got all eight feet trimmed. I did trim one hoof to close and I had a spot of blood well up. I put iodine on it. I will have to watch that foot now to make sure that no infection gets in. One thing good about my land, it is real sandy so I have no standing water and its dry out in the yard. I was sweating so bad that I had to stop as my eyes were burning and I could not see. Glad that that chore is over with. I need to do it more often, but it's not really a fun thing to do.

this and that

I'm done! Well, kind of done. I have my rough draft done for my written comm class. It's 10 pages long. Now I will take that to class on Monday and find all the errors and fix them. Also put it in the proper format. But it's done!


I went to Wally world today and while I was looking at things to buy (I did not bring a list so could not remember all that I needed) I realized that I have not bought pickles in over a year!
I eat pickles a few times a week so how did I manage that? Because I make my own. That got me to thinking that I wont be buying eggs that much as now I have my own egg making machine.

That got me to thinking that if I figure out how to make cheese from the goat's milk I wont be buying cheese that often.....Whoa....Noop, I will still buy cheese. I need to have my super duper sharp Cheddar, Gouda and some Havarti.

But then I realized that I have not bought soap in almost a year. No silly, I'm not stinky, I have been using my own soap.

Now I feel sick. I just ate a big dinner of Sloppy Joe's and then topped it off with a bowl of Pistachio pudding. Just so you know, that is not a good burping combo nor is it sitting well in my tummy.

I just finished a book today called, Weeping underwater looks a lot like laughter by Michael White. I'm sure that it was a good book, just not the kind of book that I like to read. Too full of emotions. It's about a young man (16, 17?) that moves to another town and falls for the popular girl at the new school. Who likes him back, but the girls' younger sister is ill with multiple sclerosis and of course she dies in a tragic accident that may or may not be the young mans fault. So he's full of guilt, the girl is full of guilt, the parents are mad. Everybody had to work on their issues and I'm thinking to myself, why am I reading this book? I like a good bloody violent murder by page 2 with twist and turns that by the end you learned a thing or two about how to hide a body! (One way, feed it to the pigs! they eat everything!) Hey, you never know what information just might come in handy!

I will start another book today. It's for the book club. This one is called Icarus Hunt by Timothy Zahn. This is a Sci-fi book. Which is fine by me. I like Sci-Fi, it's just hard for me to find a good one. I like the hard core Sci-Fi, the ones with space travel and new worlds not dragons and fairies. That genera often gets put into the Sci-fi genera.

Who's your favorite sci-fi author? And no, Piers Anthony does not count! He's not a Sci-Fi writer.

Book Review

I forgot all about doing a book review of the book that my Book Club read. I guess that doesn't bode well for the book huh?

The book we read was American Gods by Neil Gaimin. He is a local author here in my neck of the woods but he is popular internationally. He has written a lot of stuff. The movie Coraline and Star Dust are two movies that I can think of right now.

I liked the book, but it was a tough read. I felt lost a few times. The book was about old gods in America and the newer, hip young gods of our time. The old gods were brought over to America by the early Vikings and other early travelers (Odin, Thor, ect ) and the new gods are money, media, Internet and ect. The young gods want to do away with the old gods as they are getting weak. The old gods, of course don't want to go. The main man is a guy called Shadow and he ends up working for the old gods. They are going around America gathering up the old gods to war with the young gods. You will have to read it yourself to know more. Parts that I didn't get are why old gods were brought in, written about and then they never were mentioned again so why tell a story about them in the first place? I was confused in some other stuff too.

I found it interesting that God (note the capital G) and Jesus Christ were not mentioned in the book. Well, in one small part when Wednesday and his boss are trying to get Easter to join them they prove to her that she has been forgotten as most Americans don't have a clue about Easter, either is pagan roots or the christian part of it.

I liked the book well enough that I will read some of Gaimin's other books. But I am not sure I would recomend this book to others.

Anybody else read this book? What did you think about it?

Book Club

Shy guy and the book club. What can I say? Yes, we sat next to each other, noop, he didn't talk much. Book club was over by 6pm ish and yep, he stayed till about 7.15pm, he left when some other people came in. I'm about ready to have a "Come to Jesus" meeting with him. Or hit him over the head with a bat! One or the other.

Book Club read a book called "The Reliable Wife" by Robert Goolrick. It was a pretty good book. Lot's of twist and turns. Not what you would think the book was about just by reading the title.
Now I have to go read a book called "Wisconsin Death Trap" From what I gather, the author wrote ''The Reliable Wife' because he read that book.

For next month we are going to read "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. I think it looks like a good read. A little SciFi, which I like. Also I think this will be a good for the book club, it will be the first SciFi that the has been read by the group. I do worry about the 2 little old ladies in the group sometimes. But then, they are adults and they can close their eyes over any parts that they don't like!

Maybe the book club should read my sisters book that it coming out? I will have to read it first as I'm not sure how my sister portrayed me.

Book Club and some fun.

Who is this mystery woman?

I belong to a book club. We meet every month on the 3rd Thursday. I choose the book that the club reviewed this time. It was called " A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Bech. He lived in Sierra Leone and was 12 when the village that he lived in was attacked. He was not in the village when it happened. He was at a talent show in another village. His mother, father and siblings were killed. He, with his friends that had also gone to the talent show then spent some time going from village to village trying to stay ahead of the rebels. I think he was 13 when he and his friends were caught and forced to serve in the rebel army (R.U.F.) There, with the R.U.F. he was given drugs and it was pretty much kill others or you will be killed. When he was 15 he was taken in by UNICEF and there he got help and finally sent to U.S.A. He's now in college working on getting a degree. ( Not sure in what.)

We all thought that the book was very interesting, sad that children were used that way and glad that he's now here in the U.S.A. I would recommend the book. It's a real eye opener on how other countries value children.

The fun part was that we had a guest after the book club met. We had local Wisconsin author, Victoria Houston as a guest, she talked to us and others, about how she got into writing and gave advice on how to go about writing and getting a book published. Her books are set in the North Woods of Wisconsin. They are mysteries and they are all OK for my Mom to read. No graphic sex, no gruesome murders or foul language. And no, I have not read her.....yet. I have a whole stack of books that I need to read first. My book club group all seem to enjoy her books. They are on the waiting list for her next one.

P.S. Yes, I sat next to the guy I like.

How dare they?!

I don't believe that I have advised you that I'm hooked on a new show. Well, it's really not new but I did not watch it when it was on TV so now I'm playing catch up.

I'm hooked on Bones, the TV show. I just finished season 3 and DR. ZACK ADDY IS GORMOGON?! NO NO NO! How can that be? Why did they feel the need to get rid of him?

I am getting the DVDs from Netflix. I am liking Netflix. While I wait for the DVDs to come in I can watch shows on the computer. I am also now watching Farscape, a SciFi series. Not as good as Fire Fly but not bad. And yes, this is cutting into my reading but It seems like the last few books that I have gotten have been dull. I have a hard time saying it but I did not finish the last Dean Koontz book called Breathless. By chapter 5 or so, I was very disappointed in it. This is my opinion, ever since his dog Trixie died a few years ago, he has not come out with a good book. I think that he is very depressed. If you have not ever read a Dean Koontz book I would recommend that you read these 3 books. 1. From the Corner of His Eye. 2. Dark Rivers of the Heart. and 3. Life Expectancy. His series called Odd Thomas are good. The last one not so hot but still OK. The book called The Taking was also a good read. He does have some scary type books that I like but the ones I mentioned are not scary.

I will leave you with wise words from Jimmy Tock ( Life Expectancy ) " As long as there is cake, there is hope"

Duds

I was chatting with my friend Kellie the other day ( OK, we chat every day ) and we both agreed that we sure have gotten duds in the book department lately.

I made is more then halfway through Julie and Julia and every time I picked up the book to read I just had a nasty taste in my mouth like sour milk. I did not like the book. I stopped reading it. I hear that the movie was good. That might be the first time the movie is better then the book. She ( Julie ) was not a person that I can "get" "understand" or "relate" too. I realize that it's her book and she can write about what ever she wants to but I felt that Julia Child had almost no part in the book. Other then the recipes that were being made. Did you read it? Did you like it? How about the movie?

I also read ( and I did finish ) "Ice" by Linda Howard. I normally enjoy Linda Howard. Her last book "Burn" was kind of boring but "Ice" was snooze ville! Maybe being born and raised in AK and now living here in WI I just can't get on board with the bad weather as part of the plot. The story took place over 2 days during a ice storm ( Oh that's so scary! ) I felt that both that good guys and the bad guys had no depth to them. Very flat characters. Like a warm flat soda or pop or soda pop or soft drink.

This is not part of the list of duds.

I got the Pioneer Woman's cook book. I read it the other night.( Yes, you can read a cook book.) It felt very much like her blog. I have seen all the recipe's on her blog. I had heard that she had used readers recipes that had been sent in. I don't think that at all. Sure, maybe the mac and cheese is somebodies somewhere but, we are talking about mac and cheese! Can you own the recipe for that? I think that over all it's a pretty good cook book. I will use it for some of the recipes.

One thing that I did notice was that she did not acknowledge the people that read her blog. Maybe I'm being petty. It's the age old question. What came first? The chicken or the egg? Yes, she blogged and well enough that she got a lot of hits. But, if she didn't have the hits then she would not have gotten noticed and gotten the cook book deal. I just think that it would have been nice if she had said thanks to all of us that have read her blog and gave her words of encouragement. ( OK, not that I did but I saw others that did)


I'm still going to the Twin Cities tomorrow on Saturday to get my book signed and also eat some sushi and sashimi.

Book review.

The book that I had to read for the book club was called " Sheperd of the hills " By Harold Bell Wright.

Well, I got to page 3 last night and I had to put the book down. I was tired. So when I woke up I looked at the book and saw that it was 244 pages and I had 241 to go! The first 3 chapters or so was hard going. The book was published in 1908 and the author writes in the style that the "hill" people spoke. There was a lot of letters dropped off before and at the end of words. It took the 3 chapters to get into the cadence of the speech. ( By thunder!)

Over all, NO I did not like the book. I got tired of the woman folk all being describe as "deep bosomed" and they all had wide brows and wide set eyes and all are slender. I think that most woman back in the 1900s living a hard life in the "hills" were skinny and flat chested. But what do I know? Hard to believe that this is made into a play and also a movie! Maybe the movie would be the one rare time that the movie is better then the book! I also thought that the plot was hard to swallow.

The introduction said that the book was the story of 2 trails. One is the high road and one is the low road. And what path will people take?

Never did figure it out. The bad guys? Stayed bad. The good guys? Stayed good. Nobody ever took a different path.

Go check out here to see Wikipedia's plot summary.

Giddy like a school girl!

I was checking my library account to see where I'm at on some books that I have ordered.

Book 7 " Echo in the Bone" by Diane Gabaldon is in transit to me!! Last time I checked ( Friday )
I was still 15 of 54 holds so I didn't think that I would be getting so soon. I must be a good person or the library loves me!

If you have not read them then you are missing out on a great story. My Mom has read them, true, she does closes her eyes during the "romantic scenes (sex) and there are some yicky violent parts but the books are still very good.

Now, I must read books that are a series in order and I recommend that if you do start, that you also read them in order ( I demand that you do this! ) So you need to start with book one which is called "Outlander" then book 2 is "Dragonfly in Amber " book 3 is "Voyager" ( This was my least favorite one ) book 4 is "Drums of Autumn" book 5 is "The Fiery Cross" book 6 is "Breath of Snow and Ashes " and book 7 is on it's way to me!

Today at the library a patron got " Dragonfly in Amber" on tape. I told her that that is book 4 and that she needs to listen to book 1,2 and 3. I got her the audio book 1 and 2, book 3 was checked out. She listens to books while she cans or washes eggs and other farm/household chores.

Another tie.

This is a bad picture of my tiny little egg plant. I hope that because I'm growing it I will like it. I don't really care for egg plant. This is the whole " if you grow it you will be more open to liking it" thing. Kind of like how you have kids help cook diner and they will more likely eat some green stuff on the plate. Yep, I'm trying to trick myself........Shhhhhh don't tell me ok?

Tonight I made 4 pints of pickles beets. I forgot that I had them boiling on the stove and I was wondering what the dirt smell was coming from. I even thought that my neighbors must be cooking something odd on the grill. Turns out it's me! I had a big mess to clean up. They had plenty of water left, just boiled over.

I went into the big town of Eau Claire and canceled 2 of my accounts with Wells Fargo. I set the trip counter on my truck. It's 34.3 miles one way to go to the bank. That's 68.6 miles round trip to deposit a pay check. I opened up an account with a local bank that I can go to before/during or after work. Much closer. It's just that I had that account with Wells Fargo way way back when it was still National Bank of Alaska. It's just one more link with Alaska that I have cut. (Sniff sniff)

To feel better, I went to a restaurant that a patron from the Library recommended. She had received a book about speaking Tagalog and we got to talking about Asian food and the lack of a good Thai place. This place was good. A mix of Thai and Chinese. It was the lunch buffet but even that was good. I looked at the menu and they had some dishes that I like. I will be going back and ordering off the menu. The buffet was not spicy enough for me.

When I got home I finished "The last Child" It was a good book. It was not a life changing book but it was a good plot, interesting characters. The writer told a good story. Sometimes that's all I need from a book. Just be a interesting story. On to the next book.

Small problem.

Do you ever have this problem?

I have 3 books going right now.

Book 1. Girl Made of Dust. by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
It's a good book. About a young girl who lives in Lebanon while Palestine and Israel are at war and how the family works though problems that are caused by living in a war zone. I'm 2/3 the way done.

Book 2. The Cleaner. by Brett Battles.
I'm 1/2 way done and I have not picked it up for the past 3 days or so. It seems like it should be a good book but I feel like I'm being punished. It's just not grabbing me. The main guy is a "cleaner" he goes to crime scenes and cleans them up. Remove bodies and the blood stains, picks up bullets and casings, wipes the finger prints off everything. He works for an unknown company. It's super squirrel secret!

Book 3. The last Child. by John Hart.
I have read 4 chapters so far and it's grabbing me. It's about a 13 year old boy and his twin sister has been missing for a year. His Mom and Dad have split up and his Mom is going down hill fast.
That's all I have so far.

I feel that I have to finish "The Cleaner" as I have already read 1/2 of it. Seems a shame to stop now. But I will put that off till I have read the other 2. I have about 6 books in the hopper ready for me to read.

So many books, so little time!

And a good day was had by all.

What a great day today here in Wisconsin. I got up early and got a start on my day. Oh, don't be thinking that I did chores cause I didn't, unless you count sitting on the back deck with the sun umbrella and reading Dean Koontz latest book " Relentless" as a chore.

I had my friend Kellie and her husband over for dinner tonight. I like having friends over. I enjoy cooking and when I just cook for myself I end up doing something boring and simple.
I made Chicken Yassa, green beans with bacon and onions and fruit salad. ( Suzy1, I think I ate 2 servings of fruit today! )

I learned of Chicken Yassa up in Anchorage a few years ago. Anchorage has a Saturday market and there are some food booths. One year there was an booth that advertised African food. I had this Chicken dish and I thought that it a great new way to do chicken. I googled it and kind of made up my own recipe.

Marinate chicken in the following for 6 to 8 hours
3 or 4 onions sliced
1 cup red vinegar
1 cup lime and lemon juice (I use more lime then lemon )
1/4 cup oil ( any kind, I use corn....I think)
2 bay leaves
3 cloves garlic minced
1 jalapeno (or more, I do more as I like spicy )
2 tbls brown sugar

After marinating, take chicken out of marinade and grill chicken till nice and brown and almost done. While chicken is grilling, take the onions out of the marinade and brown them in a little oil in a oven proof skillet. ( Really, brown all but the liquid and don't forget to toss the bay leaves )
When onions are done, put the marinade into the skillet and bring to a boil and scrape up all the little brown bits. Set aside. Get the chicken off the grill and place it in the skillet with all the onions and stuff. Place in the oven and bake for 1 hour at 350. Serve with rice. The onions will almost dissolve and make a tangy gravy and the chicken falls off the bone. It does take a little time with cooking the chicken 2 times but it's worth it I think.

I'm so excited!

As you all know, I work at a library. My wonderful boss just told Kellie and I that she did order
the book by Karin Slaughter " Genesis " it's book 7 in the Grant series. ( No Mom, you can NOT read them! They are not MA ) We had the book magazine that it was in highlighted. Now it will be a fight between Kellie and I when it comes in on who gets to read it first. I think I should.

Then the 3rd book by Chelsea Cain " Evil at heart" will be out in September. Yeeeeee! ( No Mom you can NOT read this book or the other 2 it is not MA )

Also book 7 by Diana Gabaldon " Echo in the bone" will be out in September. ( Yes, Mom you can read this book. You have read the other 6 ) I have already put my name down on it with the library book request system. I'm number 15 on about 50 request. As word gets out there will be a lot more people requesting it, but I'm number 15!

I took the blanket off the patchouli soap this morning and brought it upstairs to cure for another 24 hours before I cut it. I was reading one of my soap books. What she has to say about patchouli was that either you love it or hate it. I am in the hate it camp. When I got home it smelled like the restroom at the Royal Roller Rink that I used to go roller skating as a kid up in Anchorage.

P.S. I can "take" Kellie in a fight any day with one hand tied behind my back! Now, if she has the book and takes off running? I wont be able to catch her. I will have to plot so I get it first.

Good Morning

I went to bed real early Saturday night. So of course I woke up real early Sunday morning. Early as in 4.30am! The day before I had started a loaf of the "No Knead Bread" and I needed to do a little work with it and then at 5.30am I popped that in the oven. Also, while messing with the bread I did a load of darks. At 6am I went back to bed and read a little bit. What made it a Good Morning was, the wonderful smell of bread baking, my beloved dog snuggled up against me in bed and a good book. The book is " Dragonfly in Amber " by Diana Gabaldon. Now don't laugh. This is the 3rd time I have read this book. Gabaldon has written a series called the "Outlander" series and the 7th book is due out in 2009 (Spring?) and so I am reading the whole series again so that when I get book 7, I will be refreshed on who is who and what is what! When I got tired of reading I took a little nap until the oven timer went off and the bread was ready. Had a nice slice of hot fresh bread with butter and that cherry jam I got awhile back. Then went to Church.

Oh, and I don't have a life style that can be cramped by having a 75lb Doberman in my bed!
Oh, and I understand why the English language is hard to learn! The word need, kneed and knead all sound the same but mean very different things! No wonder I failed spelling!

Am I weird?

On Saturday I went to a small town north of me
called Sand Creek.
They were having their Pumpkin Festival. Basically it was a craft fair, which I have been going to as I hear about them. I like to check out what local craft folk are up to. This craft fair was OK, not a very big one. It was being held in the community center where the local library is at. And me being me, I checked out the library first! The librarian was very nice and we chatted for about 15 minutes or so. They are not on any computer system so they still use the card catalog system! Can you image? They have a file box and each and every book has a card that gets put into the box under the patron's name. While I was there I pulled out some books to see when they were last checked out. Some have not been read in over 10 years! That's why I'm wondering if I'm weird. I felt sorry for the books! Books come to life when we read them and the characters are "dead" until we pick them up and do so! So get out there and read! You can save a life!

Does that make me odd? Really, you can tell me! My feelings wont be hurt......... too much!

I did a bad bad thing!

This week, Sept 29 to Oct 3 2008 is banned books week. The following is a list of books that have been banned at one time or another or challenged that are in our public library and schools over the years in the U.S.A. And how do I know this? I now work for the the library! My dream job! This is just a list that I was able to find,so if there any mistakes its all mine. Out of that list I have read 33 of them. I see that not all the Harry Potter books are on the list so I would have to add more to my 33 if they do get put on the list, also I have all the Tarzan books, and I just checked, there is 23 of them, so add that to my 33. And I think I have read almost all of Stephen King books. better add them, And I know I have read all of Dean Koontz, better add them to the list! Boy, I'm getting up there! The way I feel about books is that you don't have to read it if you don't like it! Its easy not to pick up a book then to turn off the T.V.! And I have read some bad books! Lets talk about James Patterson! I used to like his books, but that past 5 or so books of his? BAD! talk about drivel! Oh, dont get me started! Oops, you did! Let talk about Nicholas Sparks! I liked one or two of his, but for the most part, drivel! I have had oatmeal that had more umph to it then his books! "Bridges of Madison County" drivel! I would rather eat lumpy oatmeal then have to read that book again! When I was younger I was into SciFi books, I picked up a book called "Slave girl of Gor" I tossed (hurled) that across the room, just a bad bad book! I would rather poke a fork in my eye then to see that again. Sad thing about that book is that there is a series of them, and there are groups of people that follow that in their life? Google it! Its just weird! I still like SciFi , check out a writer by the name of Octavia Butler, she has some good SciFi books. The first book of hers that I read was
" Kindred " I was hooked on her books after that, but that's just MHO. I would tell people about books that I enjoyed but I would never tell somebody that they cant read what they want. So if " Slave girl of Gor" is up your ally, have at it, I just wont join your discussion group! In fact I would probably avoid you! As I would think that you are a freak! Heres the list. Have you been bad?



A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleAnnie
on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth

Corner of my house.

I love to sit on my couch and look at this wall. I know, wall looking sounds like I might need some mental health help! But this quilt was made for me by one of my closest friends and today was one of those wall looking days. It has rained off and on all day and just seeing it there made me feel all toasty warm. To me this quilt is art, not bedding so it has never been on my bed, which I'm glad as I shudder to think what my dog would have done over the years to it if it was. It has been a book reading day. I just started "World without end" by Ken Follett and its going to be good, if fact I'm bummed that its just over a thousand pages long! I know I am going to want more! This book takes place a few hundred years after " Pillars of the Earth" and if you have read that, then you're going to want to read this.

On a side note, My dog cracks me up! She was out from 5am to about 10am digging up gofers and it was raining, which she doesn't really like but the rain wasn't coming down too hard yet! The sky opened up and it poured! Abby was trying to run to the house but the rain must have been pelting her real good as she was low to the ground and trying to run but also trying to... I don't know what she was trying but it was funny to watch her! Took her a minute to get across the yard! also took two towels to dry her off, she was soaked.