Hey Blog Readers!! It's Wednesday again!! What's in Your Library Bag today?! I am always looking for new ideas on what to read myself... This week I thought I'd throw some different ideas your way. There is a book club at the high school that often requests books from us and I thought some of their titles looked interesting... Might be fun to read what they are for a new twist in your reading "diet"...Maybe these titles will even get you interested in joining a book club.
Here they are:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo by Stieg Larsson
Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Two Kisses for Maddy by Matt Logelin
Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
What's In Your Library Bag Wednesday?...
Well, it's Wednesday again...some weeks I think every other day is Wednesday...:). So, what's in Your Library Bag this Wednesday? I started a new series, that I'm not sure I will finsih, The KGI series by Maya Banks. The first book, The Darkest Hour, is a good read. The KGI are men that are all brothers and are like mercenaries. The big hunky men are all ex-military and have lots of strings to pull as they run around the world saving people. The missions are dangerous and people get hurt.
The main mission of this book, to save one of their wives, connects to the romance/relationship part of the story. In the end, not only do they save her from the drug cartel, who have held her captive for a year, but they must also help her save herself from the addictions her captors forced on her and in the end her marriage...
This is a series of books by Maya Banks, but it's not a typical series. Or maybe it is. At any rate, it's a series where the characters are all connected, for example the KGI are all brothers, but each new book in the series is about a different person. You might see some characters from the first book,i.e. the brothers, but they aren't really what the story is about. I like to know the back stories of all of the characters, but my favorite type of series is where it is one long continuous story. You are constantly getting back stories and front stories for all of the characters. Sometimes new characters enter into the story, but then they become part of the crowd and the whole story. So, since this series isn't one long continuous story, it doesn't hook me into the series like the other kind does. It's still a good story, but, for me, it's not the same.
How do you feel about reading series? Do you like the ones where each novel is about a new character? It definitely makes it easier to skip around when someone else has the book out that you wanted to read...Or, like me, do you want one big story, where everyone is connected and interconnected and the story weaves and weaves? Maybe, you don't like series at all. It does take a big time investment to keep up with. It's hard to break away from, I must admit. However you like it, it's great to be reading! Chime in and let me know your thoughts and what you are reading!!
The main mission of this book, to save one of their wives, connects to the romance/relationship part of the story. In the end, not only do they save her from the drug cartel, who have held her captive for a year, but they must also help her save herself from the addictions her captors forced on her and in the end her marriage...
This is a series of books by Maya Banks, but it's not a typical series. Or maybe it is. At any rate, it's a series where the characters are all connected, for example the KGI are all brothers, but each new book in the series is about a different person. You might see some characters from the first book,i.e. the brothers, but they aren't really what the story is about. I like to know the back stories of all of the characters, but my favorite type of series is where it is one long continuous story. You are constantly getting back stories and front stories for all of the characters. Sometimes new characters enter into the story, but then they become part of the crowd and the whole story. So, since this series isn't one long continuous story, it doesn't hook me into the series like the other kind does. It's still a good story, but, for me, it's not the same.
How do you feel about reading series? Do you like the ones where each novel is about a new character? It definitely makes it easier to skip around when someone else has the book out that you wanted to read...Or, like me, do you want one big story, where everyone is connected and interconnected and the story weaves and weaves? Maybe, you don't like series at all. It does take a big time investment to keep up with. It's hard to break away from, I must admit. However you like it, it's great to be reading! Chime in and let me know your thoughts and what you are reading!!
Friday, September 7, 2012
From Our Recipe Box to Yours...
Here's a yummy recipe from Kate....Her words of wisdom: I double mine when I want to use a 9x13 pan, but I just use 3 eggs, not 4. Another tip is not to use a mixer and to stir as little as possible.
Best Brownies
Ingredients
Directions
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Word of the Day
Thursday,
September 06, 2012
piceous
\ PIS-ee-uhs \ , adjective;
1.
Inflammable; combustible.
2.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
3.
Zoology. Black or nearly black as pitch.
Quotes:
In the silent and piceous hour just before dawn,
they advanced at a slow trot, fanning out through
the slave quarters and into the yard that divided
the ginhouse, the mill, and the buildings where
Canning and Islept unaware.
they advanced at a slow trot, fanning out through
the slave quarters and into the yard that divided
the ginhouse, the mill, and the buildings where
Canning and Islept unaware.
-- Geraldine Brooks, March
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
What's In Your Library Bag Wednesday?...
Wow! It's Wednesday again!! Where does the time go? When school is in, everything just seems to fly by. I'm feeling like I need a change of pace in what I've been reading lately...
When I was checking in books at the library today, I ran across Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin. Gretchen wrote The Happiness Project a few years back about her challenge for herself to find happiness in her life. She set a goal of a year and then set individual goals for each month in order to accomplish this goal. Little steps. I never quite get all the way through non-fiction titles...I really am more of fiction reader, but the idea of finding more happiness in life and being happy with what you've got where you're at has always appealed to me. This new book, Happier at Home, focuses on being happy not only in your house, but in your home life, the every day. Gretchen sets this one up the same way with one big goal and lots of smaller goals in order to get there.
My reason for being attracted to this book is sometimes, I feel like being at home is just "work" and I'd rather go and "play" somewhere else...I have put my name on the hold list for this new book so I can gain insight into how other people look at the every day and perhaps implement something into my only daily routine because of it. I may not read all of it...who am I kidding? I likely won't read all of it, but I'll pick out the parts that interest me the most and glean all the info I can from it.
Do you read non-fiction? If so, what types of books do you like? Do you read self-help type books or do you think they are ridiculous? Maybe you read to learn how to do something, like build a birdhouse or sew a quilt? Whatever you read, enjoy it!! If not, come in and we'll try to find you something you will...
Just Read!
When I was checking in books at the library today, I ran across Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin. Gretchen wrote The Happiness Project a few years back about her challenge for herself to find happiness in her life. She set a goal of a year and then set individual goals for each month in order to accomplish this goal. Little steps. I never quite get all the way through non-fiction titles...I really am more of fiction reader, but the idea of finding more happiness in life and being happy with what you've got where you're at has always appealed to me. This new book, Happier at Home, focuses on being happy not only in your house, but in your home life, the every day. Gretchen sets this one up the same way with one big goal and lots of smaller goals in order to get there.
My reason for being attracted to this book is sometimes, I feel like being at home is just "work" and I'd rather go and "play" somewhere else...I have put my name on the hold list for this new book so I can gain insight into how other people look at the every day and perhaps implement something into my only daily routine because of it. I may not read all of it...who am I kidding? I likely won't read all of it, but I'll pick out the parts that interest me the most and glean all the info I can from it.
Do you read non-fiction? If so, what types of books do you like? Do you read self-help type books or do you think they are ridiculous? Maybe you read to learn how to do something, like build a birdhouse or sew a quilt? Whatever you read, enjoy it!! If not, come in and we'll try to find you something you will...
Just Read!
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Thoughts on a Thursday...
Here's a word I picked because it was so interesting I couldn't imagine how you could pronounce it! Then it was a bonus that the sentence is from a novel...
phthisis \THAHY-sis\ , noun:
1. A wasting away.
2. Pulmonary tuberculosis; consumption.
1. A wasting away.
2. Pulmonary tuberculosis; consumption.
At last Sister Hyacinthe began to speak of the immediate and complete cures ofphthisis, and this was the triumph, the healing of that terrible disease which ravages humanity…
-- Robert Hugh Benson, Lourdes
-- Robert Hugh Benson, Lourdes
Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis is there. Social phthisis is called misery.
-- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
-- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
What's In Your Library Bag Wednesday?...
Hi! It's Wednesday and we're back to What's In Your Library Bag Wednesday again? I took a break from the Jodi Picoult novel Between the Lines, cause it just wasn't grabbing me. Now, I have the new young adult novel Legend by Marie Lu. So far so good. It's another dystopian society novel like The Hunger Games. I was in a bit of a rut reading only these types of novels once I got hooded on The Hunger Games, but then I went back to my regular reading of vampires and werewolves for a break and now I am back again. I've only read a couple of chapters, but there are good likeable characters already, so I want to keep reading. I think one of the hardest things to do in this genre of book is to write something different. Many of the dystopian society novels are so similar in how the society runs that they are quite predictable. I thought the Birthmarked Trilogy by Caragh O'Brien was so good because it was unpredictable and threw twists and turns that were unexpected. I loved it and am on the waiting list for the third one to come out.
But what I really wanted to talk about was how hard it is to not judge a book by its cover. My daughter tends to read realistic fiction, unlike me, but read the Percy Jackson series and loved it. I took this as a cue and started branching out in what I brought home to her. Mostly, I got a, "no way!! Why did you bring that home? You know I don't like that type of book." So, I went back to finding her realistic fiction. Then, once school started again, she asked me to bring home "that book that I didn't want to read earlier this summer..." i.e. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. I don't have any idea what sparked her interest to try again, but now she can't put the book down and is chomping at the bit for the rest of the series. That is like me. She hates to wait to read the next book when she finds a series she loves :)! So, what I'm really trying to say here is, don't discount a book that gets recommended to you on the first try or by the look of the cover or what you assume it is like. It's really hard to do. I was the same way with The Host by Stephenie Meyer. I didn't want to read it because it had aliens in it. I was told by enough people that I needed to read it that I finally bit the bullet so to speak and read it. One of my all time favorite books!!! Sometimes reading can surprise you!! Good books lurk around every corner!! Try a new one today!
But what I really wanted to talk about was how hard it is to not judge a book by its cover. My daughter tends to read realistic fiction, unlike me, but read the Percy Jackson series and loved it. I took this as a cue and started branching out in what I brought home to her. Mostly, I got a, "no way!! Why did you bring that home? You know I don't like that type of book." So, I went back to finding her realistic fiction. Then, once school started again, she asked me to bring home "that book that I didn't want to read earlier this summer..." i.e. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. I don't have any idea what sparked her interest to try again, but now she can't put the book down and is chomping at the bit for the rest of the series. That is like me. She hates to wait to read the next book when she finds a series she loves :)! So, what I'm really trying to say here is, don't discount a book that gets recommended to you on the first try or by the look of the cover or what you assume it is like. It's really hard to do. I was the same way with The Host by Stephenie Meyer. I didn't want to read it because it had aliens in it. I was told by enough people that I needed to read it that I finally bit the bullet so to speak and read it. One of my all time favorite books!!! Sometimes reading can surprise you!! Good books lurk around every corner!! Try a new one today!
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