2012 Support Your Local Library Challenge - Signing Up!

As anyone who reads my blog knows... I'm not big on Challenges.  In fact, I signed up for my very first one this past April... and never got out of the starting gate!!  Not even one post!  Humiliation and failure! Life, and a last minute home purchase and move, just got in the way. But...Jamie...

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Monday - 10/31/11

Sheila at Book Journey hosts this weekly event where we celebrate what we are reading for the week, as well as books completed the previous week. Currently Reading: Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)       - believe it or not, I have never...

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Sunday Salon - 10/30/11

10/30/11 Happy Halloween (weekend)! Hopefully everyone is enjoying the festivities, whether it be an actual Halloween event, or just a celebration of the season. Having no children, and having just moved, we are not sure what the holiday holds for us. We bought candy, just in case, and lit the...

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Friday's Fave Five - 10/28/11

  Welcome to Friday's Fave Five.  It's Friday so that makes it time to look back over our week and look for those things we are grateful for.  It may be big or it may be small and you have to dig for it, but there are always things we can be thankful for.  Please join...

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Coraline - Gaiman

Coraline by Neil Gaiman is the story of a recently uprooted, lonely and ignored girl who dreams into existence her own "other" world. Beyond a bricked up doorway in her family's apartment she finds her "other mother", who has created an "other life" for little Coraline, complete with flat-mates who...

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Teaser Tuedays - 10/25/11

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along, just do the following: -Grab your current read -Open to a random page -Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page - BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS  -Share the title and...

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Monday - 10/24/11

Sheila at Book Journey hosts this weekly event where we celebrate what we are reading for the week, as well as books completed the previous week. Currently Reading: Pictures of Hollis Wood (Patricia Reilly Giff) Math for Grownups (Laura Laing) Just Finished: Crossing...

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Sunday Salon - 10/23/11

10/23/11 A bit behind this week. My fiance has my computer unplugged while he works on another, so I was without it this weekend. I had jury duty this week (...ah the beloved American tradition, right up there with apple pie, no?!).  Though I haven't been called in years,  I was called...

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Teaser Tuesday - 10/18/11

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along!  Just do the following: -Grab your current read -Open to a random page -Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what...

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Speak - Anderson

Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak is well-known and highly acclaimed. The story of a young teen trying to find herself after experiencing a rape at a party at the start of her freshman year in high school, she finds herself hiding literally, in janitorial closets, and figuratively by avoiding speaking. ...

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Transition - Bono

In his memoir Transition, Chaz Bono (formally Chastity, the only child of Sonny and Cher) recounts his life from childhood through his present 40-something years.  Despite having written previous autobiographies, in Transistion he opens up and admits to deeper secrets, about not feeling like the...

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Monday - 10/17/11

Sheila at Book Journey hosts this weekly event where we celebrate what we are reading for the week, as well as books completed the previous week.   Currently Reading: Crossing the Water (Daniel Robb) Math for Grownups (Laura Laing) Just Finished: Speak (Laurie...

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Sunday Salon - 10/16/11

10/16/11 Life this week was less chaotic, thank goodness, though just as busy. Less stress at work and Saturday being lazy, reading and taking a break from "the house". Today will be busy though, back to the grind! I was reminded again this week of how much I read as a child, but still cannot...

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Book Blog Hop - 10/14-17/11

Welcome to the Book Blogger Hop! Are you a book blogger? Are you a reader? Then welcome to the place where all of us connect over the weekend and chat about books! How it Works As long as you meet the qualifications of a book blogger, you may add your book blog link into the linky list...

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Library Loot - 10/19/11

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write...

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Tuesday Teaser - 10/11/11

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:-Grab your current read -Open to a random page -Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share...

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Let’s Talk Music!

Music Meme (borrowed from Life...with Books  who borrowed it from others who borrowed it from others...) This is right up my alley... 1.  What’s the most annoying song in the world? There are too many to pick one... 2.  What’s the saddest song in the world? I recall distinctly standing in my mother's bedroom in the mid-70's and crying hysterically to the song Wildfire by Michael...

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Monday - 10/10/11

Sheila at Book Journey hosts this weekly event where we celebrate what we are reading for the week, as well as books completed the previous week.   Currently Reading: Speak (Laurie Halse Anderson) Transition (Chaz Bono) Math for Grownups (Laura Laing) Just Finished: Knowing...

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Knowing Jesse - Leone

Marianne Leone's Knowing Jesse is a heartbreaking and moving novel about the too short life of her son.  Though some might recognize the author's name, she is an actress known most recently for her work on The Soprano's, this memoir is by no means about her or her well known actor husband,...

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Sunday Salon - 10/9/11

  10/9/11 This has been a productive and beautiful weekend in Mass., and tomorrow is still before me with the day off. Dave and his buddy continued working on the house, which is slowly getting winter-ready, while I worked inside rearranging the living room and cleaning. We await the roofers,...

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The Wave - Strasser

The Wave by Todd Strasser is a young adult book that is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in California in 1969.   During a discussion of World War II and Nazis, students question the reality of the events they have heard.  They can not believe that...

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From This Moment On - Twain

Shania's Twain's From This Moment On offers sad stories about her childhood, including her family's struggles with poverty, as well as the spousal abuse her mother experienced and the "just-on-the-edge" sexual and verbal abuse Shania faced at the hands of her stepfather. Though, she reminds the reader...

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Tuesday Teaser - 10/4/11

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:-Grab your current read -Open to a random page -Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share...

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Monday - 10/3/11

Sheila at Book Journey hosts this weekly event where we celebrate what we are reading for the week, as well as books completed the previous week.   Currently Reading: Knowing Jessee (Marianne Leone) Math for Grownups (Laura Laing) Just Finished: From This Moment...

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