Carol's Notebook

I found this over at Walking on Sunshine and it looked like fun. Using only books you have read this year (2009), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. It's a lot harder than you think! Describe Yourself: I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti by Guilia Melucci How do you feel: Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox Describe where you currently live: The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts Your favorite form of transportation: She Walks These Hills by Sharyn McCrumb Your best friend is: The Dragon of Doom by Bruce Coville You and your friends are: Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde What's the weather like: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett Favorite time of day: Lie by Moonlight by Amanda Quick If your life was : Casting Spells by Barbara Bretton What is life to you: The Mystery on Stage created by Gertrude Chandler Warner Your fear: A Night at the...

Vicki of Reading At The Beach hosts A-Z Wednesday. Today's letter is C. This one has been sitting on my shelf for a while, just waiting for me to get around to it.   Collision of Angels by Michael Carver When Tony Campbell accepts his father-in-law’s invitation to chat, he braces himself for yet another of Silas Jackson’s ambitious business schemes. But even in his wildest imagination, Tony couldn’t have prepared himself for what Silas proposes this time: a run for the United States presidency. In the wake of recent controversial elections, Silas and his colleagues fear America is being run by the few and has turned it’s back on God. Their remedy: attempt to put a man of faith into the White House. This crusade proves to be the ultimate challenge however, and Tony finds himself facing his greatest test of faith ever. What appears to be a battle between church and state in the human realm is gradually revealed to have far higher...

Thanks to Bermudaonion's Weblog for hosting this weekly event. Head over there to play along. My words today are from Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny.   macadam- pavement made of layers of compacted broken stone, now usually bound with tar or asphalt. "Now the road was of macadam, but I didn't recognize the place at all."   halberd- a shafted weapon with an axlike cutting blade, beak, and apical spike, used esp. in the 15th and 16th centuries. "Then we washed up in the outbuilding, beeped the horn at the gate, and waited till a man with a halberd hanging over his right shoulder came and opened it for us."   What new words did you run across this week?...

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 is a snippet of conversation: "Unless you put the claw marks on the wall, you have nothing to be sorry about." "You can't possibly work in here until we Lysol the whole place." "Either that or an exorcism." -pg. 86, Casting Spells by Barbara Bretton Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along....