Carol's Notebook

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about bookmarks…What do you use to mark your place while reading? Do you have a definite preference? Do you use bookmarks, paper, or (gasp) turn down the pages? If you use bookmarks, do you have a favourite one?   My daughter, who is 9,  makes me bookmarks with her origami paper. They're cute little triangles that fit over the corner of the pages. I have a few different colors now, including the pinka and yellow ones I'm currently using. I would show a picture of them, but I don't know how to use the new scanner yet. I have to admit that I do dogear pages occasionally too, though. The nice thing about dogears is that they can't fall out. How do others feel about bookmarks? Check out the responses at Just One More Page......

Baron Thinks Dogs Are People Too! by Laurie Dean, illustrated by Kevin Collier From the cover: Cute and lovable Baron wants a best friend...but in an effort to get his family's attention, Baron's lively antics take him in the wrong direction. After being whisked away to doggie school, Baron learns important lessons about behaving himself. But will he ever find the friendship his furry heart longs for? My thoughts: For the record, our dog, Scrappy, is pretty sure he's a person, too. He just wishes we would let him sit at the dinner table. This is a really cute book for dog-loving kids. All Baron wants is a best friend, and, of course, he finds one. After all, what little boy, or girl for that matter, can resist loving a dog who is playful and friendly and just wants to spend time with them. About the author: Laurie Dean writes children's stories for pleasure, and is now pleased to share the lively antics of "the happiest dog...

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! My teaser: Up until then she was...I don't know how to explain it: extremely gifted and precocious, but on the whole a rather ordinary teenager. During the last year she was brilliant, getting top marks in every exam and so on, but it seemed as if she didn't have any soul. -186, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson I know I'm a day late. Sorry. Check out some other teasers and see if anything strikes you....

The Art of Compassion:  Stories of Music and Justice by Michael W. Smith, Martin and Anna Smith, Darlene Zschech, Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Steven Curtis Chapman, Paul Baloche, Andy Park, Graham Kendrick, Stu Garrard, and Israel Houghton. Edited by Craig Borlase.  From the cover: There are two amazing forces that exist in the world: Compassion for those in need and Art that helps us see beyond ourselves. - Martin Smith What happens when musicians from around the world get together to dream, to write songs, to create an album and give away all the proceeds to the poorest of the world's poor? Challenged by the poverty he saw all over the world, musician Martin Smith of the band Delirious? gathered together twelve of today's most talented and respected Christian singer-songwriters, to write and record an album of songs with the direct aim of the relief of global poverty. This book is the record of the journeys that brought them there. My thoughts: This book...