Wordless Wednesday: Snowy Day
Wordless Wednesday...
Another teaser from In the Woods
It was the unfairness of it that knocked the breath out of me. We'll see, Jamie's mother had said, don't worry about it; and we had believed her and stopped worrying. No grown-up had ever betrayed us before, not about something that mattered like this, and I couldn't take it in. We had lived that whole summer trusting that we had forever.
(pg. 277, In the Woods by Tana French)
Like I mentioned yesterday, I'm still reading this one. Good, good book, but it's taking a while.
Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along. The rules are easy and I only cheated a little. Grab your current read, open to a random page, and give us two teaser sentences. Remember, no spoilers.
I received my copy through PaperbackSwap, and the above is my honest opinion.....
Muppet Peter Pan by Grace Randolph and Amy Mebberson
Muppet Peter Pan by Grace Randolph, Amy Mebberson,
and other very talented people
(Suggested Reading Level: Grades 4 and up)
I love the Muppets, as just about anyone who knows me will tell you. I have almost all the various movies and DVDs of The Muppet Show, I have at least two Muppet t-shirts, have worn out two Kermit purses, have a Muppets in Space playset with Miss Piggy, a Kermit puppet, a Gonzo Pez dispenser, not to mention my Kermit hat that totally embarrasses Amber every time I wear it. Wow, when I list it like that it seems a little crazy.
Anyway, so when I saw this book at The Written Word, I had to read it with Amber. This graphic novel was just a blast. It's based on Peter Pan, but takes plenty of liberties with the story as you can imagine. Kermit is Peter Pan, selfish, but still cute. Miss Piggy is a bossy, karate master Piggytink, who is...
Chicken-Peanut Soup
Chicken-Peanut Soup
I found this recipe at Rachael Ray's site. I was a little nervous. To be honest I didn't think Amber (11) would like it. She eats soup, but pretty much just the standards - chicken noodle, tomato, potato and that's about it. I was surprised though. She actually ate some of it. The recipe makes four servings, so David took the leftovers to work the next day.
Ingredients:
One 32-ounce container chicken broth
2 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves (about 1 pound)
2 red potatoes with skin, cut into small cubes
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
1 red or green chile, with seeds, finely chopped (I actually took the seeds out. I'm a wuss when it comes to spicy.)
½ green bell pepper, seeded and finely chopped
½ cup chunky peanut butter (I used creamy because it's what we had and, while I like peanut butter, I'm not actually a...
Meet the Quagga
One benefit of reading, whether it's fiction or non-fiction, is learning new things. This week I learned about an extinct animal, the quagga. Amber picked up a bunch of animal books at the library last week, one of which was The Quagga by Tamara Green, part of the Extinct Species Collection. I had never heard of this subspecies of zebra before, but apparently it lived in the grasslands of southern Africa up until the late 1870s. I learned a lot from the book and from doing some quick research on-line.
The quagga had stripes like a zebra on it's head and neck, but a little way down it's back, the stripes fade into a solid brown color. It was an herbivore, horselike in many ways, with slim hooved legs and good hearing. Quaggas could be trained and were used by farmers as guard dogs to protect their livestock. They were brought to England in the 1820s, where they were taught to...