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Caite at a lovely shore breeze... tagged me for this photo meme. The rule is to find your 5th photo file folder, then the 5th photo in that file folder. Here's my photo: This was taken at the Walking with Dinosaurs exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA about a year ago. That's my husband and daughter looking at the stegasaurus in the remodeled dinosaur exhibit. The museum is one of my daughter's favorite places and we visit it several times a year. I'm not going to tag anyone, but if you want to share a picture, please do so and let me know....

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The Italian Lover by Robert Hellenga From the back: Margot Harrington is an American woman living in Italy whose memoir, The Sixteen Pleasures, about her discovery of a priceless masterwork of Renaissance erotica - and the misguided love affair it inspired - is finally, after twenty-five years, being made into a movie. Margot, with the help of her lover, Woody, has written a script that she thinks will validate her life. Of course, her script is not used, but never mind - happy endings are best for movies. At the former convent in Florence where the movie - based on the memoir but now called The Italian Lover - is being shot, Margot enters into a drama she never imagined, where her ideas of home, love, art , and aging collide with the imperatives of commerce and the essential unknowability of other cultures and other people. The giveaway: Thanks to the Hachette Book Group, I am able to give away five copies of The Italian...

The winners of The Art of Compassion were chosen at random this afternoon. The winners are: a real librarian, Mindy, Kim V, Mish and Becky Please e-mail me your mailing address by Sunday, so I can forward it to Hachette books....

I only came across one new word this week, at least that I noticed. gallimaufry- a hodgepodge; jumble; confused medly.  Every family had a few skeletons in their cupboards, but the Vanger family had an entire gallimaufry of them. from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson For more great words, check out Bermudaonion's Weblog....

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: 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! Sorry this is a day late. This is truly a random teaser, since I haven't actually started this book yet, but plan to later today. Behind him, he could sense Rod van Vleet, doing everything in his power to pretend he was not listening. "Nobody," Az said, "was stupid enough to try." -44, Second Glance by Jodi Picoult See what teasers others are sharing this week....