Wordless Wednesday
Wordless Wednesday...
Did Not Finish – The Thirteen by Susie Moloney
I only have so many hours in a day and there are so many books out there that I want to read I find it hard to keep grinding away at a book that I just don't care about. The Thirteen by Susie Moloney is one of those books. I know many people have loved it and the blurb, and cover, really grabbed my attention.
"Desperate Housewives" meets "The Witches of Eastwick" in this novel about a woman who returns with her teenage daughter to her childhood home, not knowing that she's stepped back into a community run by a group of witches.
And maybe I didn't keep reading long enough. I got about a third of the way through and just didn't care. I didn't understand what was going on, except that Paula and her daughter were obviously in danger. I knew the other women were witches, but I wasn't invested in the story. I set it aside for a couple of...
Z Is for Moose
I know, I know, moose doesn't actually start with Z, but you didn't think I could make it through the whole month without featuring an alphabet picture book, did you? And Moose has been waiting all month to make an appearance- you don't realize how disappointed he was when M was for Miss Piggy.
Z Is for Moose by Kelly Bingham is a hilarious book, maybe not the best introductory alphabet book, but a whole lot of fun. I think it would be best for kids who more or less already know the alphabet and are ready to play with it. Zebra is putting on an alphabet show, with all kinds of animals and things like ice cream and a xylophone, and poor Moose is just too anxious for his turn. He tries to be on stage for D, gets inside the ice cream cone on I, and sticks his head in at H is for hat. Each time he is told by...
Jellies, Jams and Pirates
I had a delicious breakfast today - wheat toast with sweet potato butter.
Yesterday, my mom, Amber and I went up to Amish Country, specifically Walnut Creek and Berlin, Ohio. Now we go up that way several times a year, and we have our favorite stops. Der Dutchman for lunch, which, for me, has to include mashed potatoes covered with noodles and oatmeal pie for dessert. Then shopping. We all got some cute things, pictures, a carving, some things for a fairy garden. I'm not showing you them; I'll do a picture when it's ready.
And our last stop is Walnut Creek Cheese. They have the most amazing selection of jams and jellies. As you can see from the picture above, we got quite a few, including the sweet potato butter, tomato jam and a sweet peanut butter spread. So yummy!! My mom also got a big jar of I think it was rhubarb jam. And, of course, I had to get...
CJ West MANday Challenge
Here’s a fun contest for you to participate in. Jillian Dodd does an excellent MANday post on Mondays. If nothing else, it will give you some inspiration on a Monday morning. Now she’s convinced a very fine looking author to pose for a future MANday. You can help make this happen. I’ll let Jillian give you the full details.
I recently met author CJ West. Aside from writing great books, I couldn’t help but notice that he was pretty darn cute. So I politely inquired about the possibility of him appearing on one of my MANday blog posts. (Actually, I said, Do you have good abs?) After a little help from some of my female author friends, we convinced him (okay, we bribed him) into agreeing.
So here’s the deal:
If we can get 5,000 people to comment on his website, he will be featured on MANday! In case you have never seen a MANday post, feast your eyes on this and this.
If...
Y Is for Yard
My husband knows that I don't mow the yard, nor do I bug him about it very often. To be quite honest, grass makes me sneeze. The yard today is Scotland Yard circa1889, brought to (fictional) life by Alex Grecian.
The Yard takes place in London shortly after the Metropolitan Police's failure to capture Jack the Ripper. Due to the countless numbers of murders committed in London each month, the Murder Squad has been formed, a group of specially selected detectives whose job it is to investigate the killings. There are only twelve of them, but then one of their ranks, Inspector Little shows up dead, shoved into a steamer trunk in Euston Square Station. It falls to the newest member of the team, Inspector Day, to find the killer. With the help of Dr. Bernard Kingsley, the pathologist who is ahead of his time both as a doctor as a forensic scientist, Day follows the few clues left at the...