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Lenore at Presenting Lenore, among others, got me thinking about where my last 20 books came from and how does that affect my blog. I've listed the last 20 books I've commented on here and where the books came from. Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter - from the library as a Lenten devotional The Celery Stalks at Midnight by James Howe - from the library, Amber's choice Murder Uncorked by Michele Scott - from the library for an on-line book group A Night at the Operation by Jeffrey Cohen - purchased at the Festival of Mystery in Oakmont The Case of the Night-Stalking Bone Monster by John R. Erickson - from the library, Amber's choice Trinity by Joseph F. Girzone - from the library The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - from the library for an on-line book group The Mystery of the Black Raven created by Getrude Chandler Warner - from the library, Amber's choice The Dragon of Doom by Bruce Coville - audiobook from the library for...

Join in at Booking through Thursday. What’s the most serious book you’ve read recently? (I figure it’s easier than asking your most serious boook ever, because, well, it’s recent!) "Serious" is a hard one. What makes a book serious? It's tone, it's topic? If it makes me really think about the subject? I'm not sure, and I don't read many books that I consider truly serious. Looking at my list of recent reads, only one really jumps out at me, Bread and Wine, wich I finished back in May. What about you ? What serious books have you read recently?...

Thanks to Bermudaonion's Weblog for hosting this weekly event. Head over there to play along. My words this week are from Eyewitness to Jesus: Amazing New Manuscript Evidence About the Origin of the Gospels by Carsten Peter Thiede and Matthew D'Ancona.   potsherd- A fragment of broken pottery, especially one found in an archaeological excavation ostracon- A potsherd, esp. one used as a ballot on which the name of a person voted to be ostracized was inscribed. "all sorts of materials—papyrus, parchment...wax tablets, potsherds (so-called ostraca) and so forth.   polemical- Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation. "Even the Babylonian Talmud, polemical and aggressive wherever it refers to Christianity"   philology- The study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning. "In brief, classical philogists do not doubt that the text without epi ten gen is not only the shorter by also the better original version."   itacism- Pronunciation of  (eta) as the modern Greeks pronounce it,...

Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) "teaser" sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you're getting your "teaser" from...that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given. Please avoid spoilers! My teaser: He scrutinized her as she closed her eyes and chanted, To the present From the past Bring this spirit To speak at last. Suddenly cool air swirled around him, adding the aroma of otherworldy creatures to the mix. -pg. 60, Dark Hunger by Rita Herron Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along....

Thanks to Marcia at The Printed Page for hosting Mailbox Monday. I got two in the mail this week, and both made me hop around the house chanting "Look what I got."     The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners—a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life—has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or...