Category: My Favorite

My Favorite.. is a weekly meme hosted by Maureen’s Books. In this meme we share every week something we love with each other. Because let’s face it.. The world can be a dark place and it’s time to share something positive. For more info: My Favorite Meme. I listened to just under 30 audiobooks last year, which was a little down from the year before. I like audiobooks a lot, so it's really tough to pick my favorite. A lot are good books, period, regardless of if you read them in print or listen to them on audio, presuming the narrator is at all decent. Others are probably better in one format or the other. One of my favorite series is Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Gamache mysteries, and I always listen to them on audio (except #1). The series takes place in Canada, but with all the French names and phrases, it flows so much better on audio for me than it...

My Favorite.. is a weekly meme hosted by Maureen’s Books. In this meme we share every week something we love with each other. Because let’s face it.. The world can be a dark place and it’s time to share something positive. For more info: My Favorite Meme. I usually like to write my reviews within the first couple days after finishing a book, when everything's still fresh in my mind. I don't tend to take notes while I read, since I find it interrupts the flow for me (or I'm lazy), so I have to rely on my memory. In print or ebooks, I can go back and look bits up if I need to, but with audiobooks that's pretty hopeless. There are some books I need to think on for a while before I write my comments, ones that deal with heavier topics usually, but they are few and far between I write most of my reviews during slow times at...

My Favorite.. is a weekly meme hosted by Maureen’s Books. In this meme we share every week something we love with each other. Because let’s face it.. The world can be a dark place and it’s time to share something positive. For more info: My Favorite Meme.   The other day I shared my two 5-star reads of 2017, The End of the Day by Claire North and a re-read of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. (All covers should link to my reviews.)   Some of my other favorites of the year may not have quite reached 5 stars, but I loved them anyway.    What was your favorite book of 2017? Join in at Maureen's Books....

My Favorite.. is a weekly meme hosted by Maureen’s Books. In this meme we share every week something we love with each other. Because let’s face it.. The world can be a dark place and it’s time to share something positive. For more info: My Favorite Meme. I love Christmas and this would have been a super easy question to answer a few years ago. I love our 11:00 Christmas Eve service. I love all the music, the candle-lighting, the fact that when you leave it's after midnight, so it's Christmas. I think I've missed one year in my memory, because I was just too sick to go. I even walked to the service one year when it was too icy to drive. And I still love that service, but now I play the organ/piano for it, and it's just not the same. I can't relax and enjoy the music, because I'm playing. I don't get to hold a candle during...

My Favorite.. is a weekly meme hosted by Maureen’s Books. In this meme we share every week something we love with each other. Because let’s face it.. The world can be a dark place and it’s time to share something positive. For more info: My Favorite Meme. As you can probably tell from my recent posts, I read a lot of Christmas books. My favorite this year so far, has been Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan. It's a traditional English manor house mystery set at Christmas. I also just finished listening to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I think I either read, listen or watch it every year, so it must be one of my favorites. The version I listened to this time was an adaptation by R. D. Carstairs with a full cast done for Audible. And I have to mention my favorite Christmas childrens book, Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve by Jan Brett, mostly because it's a re-telling...

My Favorite.. is a weekly meme hosted by Maureen’s Books. In this meme we share every week something we love with each other. Because let’s face it.. The world can be a dark place and it’s time to share something positive. For more info: My Favorite Meme. I love museums, and have been to a lot of amazing ones, but it's easy for me to pick a favorite: the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Yes, technically that's two, but they are in the same building and your admission fee covers both. I think part of what makes it a favorite is that it's close enough to visit fairly often. Sometimes we'll wander longer on the history side and sometimes longer on the art side, but it's always a great place to spend a day. I especially like to go up when a special exhibit catches my eye. One Pittsburgh museum that I haven't been to yet...