The Ramblings and Rumblings of my Life......
Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Friday, December 7, 2018
CRAZY QUILT CHALLENGE......
I've been following Sharon over at Pintangle to keep track of her Crazy Quilt Challenge. You can get all the info for the challenge here.
The idea is to make a Crazy Quilt with 2020 different items. You can count fabric, beads, threads, ribbon, lace, technique and buttons. I'm going to do this one, don't know it I'll get it done by December 2020, but I'm going to try. If you want to see Sharon's Crazy Quilt blocks (she had 10 done) you can see them here.
I made a Crazy Quilt last year, but haven't got the top together. Mine is 12 x 12 blocks. I thought I would try a rectangle shape this time. I've got a couple pieced but haven't started the embellishment. I've set up a tab to put the pictures when I've finished them.
Be sure you check out Sharon's place for lots and lots of goodies to look at. Sharon also shared from
Janis Stoker a printable PDF file you can use to keep track of the items you use.
Have an awesome quilting day!
The idea is to make a Crazy Quilt with 2020 different items. You can count fabric, beads, threads, ribbon, lace, technique and buttons. I'm going to do this one, don't know it I'll get it done by December 2020, but I'm going to try. If you want to see Sharon's Crazy Quilt blocks (she had 10 done) you can see them here.
I made a Crazy Quilt last year, but haven't got the top together. Mine is 12 x 12 blocks. I thought I would try a rectangle shape this time. I've got a couple pieced but haven't started the embellishment. I've set up a tab to put the pictures when I've finished them.
Be sure you check out Sharon's place for lots and lots of goodies to look at. Sharon also shared from
Janis Stoker a printable PDF file you can use to keep track of the items you use.
Have an awesome quilting day!
Monday, October 8, 2018
GOOD, RANDOM, FUN......
Tamar over at Random-osity is the host for The Good, The Random and The Fun...hop over and check out what everyone is sharing.
THE GOOD:
I finally finished up the Sunbonnet Sue Blocks....
This weekend I started the Overall Sam blocks....
THE RANDOM:
Found this little guy hanging on the kitchen window the other night. What is it??? It's a Tree Frog, they hang around all over our yard. You can hear them of a night singing to each other. He's in the upper right corner of the window. If you want to see a bigger picture, just click on the picture....
THE FUN:
My Nephews carving pumpkins....
Also linking up with Nature Notes......
I finally finished up the Sunbonnet Sue Blocks....
THE RANDOM:
Found this little guy hanging on the kitchen window the other night. What is it??? It's a Tree Frog, they hang around all over our yard. You can hear them of a night singing to each other. He's in the upper right corner of the window. If you want to see a bigger picture, just click on the picture....
THE FUN:
My Nephews carving pumpkins....
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Sunday, September 30, 2018
SATURDAY SNAPSHOT.......
Over at Melinda's place....West Metro Mommy Reads.....it's Snapshot Saturday. Got pictures to share....head over to Melinda's place.
Our dog, Bob, sleeps in some of the most uncomfortable paces. This is Bob sleeping.....
Does that look confy to you???
While I was taking this picture my grandson, Luke, decided to stick his head in front of the camera.....
He has a boo boo on his eye lid. He won't let anyone take the band aid off.
Our dog, Bob, sleeps in some of the most uncomfortable paces. This is Bob sleeping.....
While I was taking this picture my grandson, Luke, decided to stick his head in front of the camera.....
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Thursday, September 20, 2018
TAST.....
TAST(Take A Stitch Tuesday) is hosted by Sharon over at Pintangle.http://pintangle.com/ She gives you a new embroidery stitch each Tuesday. I've been doing the stitches, but not posting them here. We are to Week 35, which is Long Tail Chain Stitch. This is my version of the stitch.....
If you want to see all the stitches I've done....they are in the TAB at the top of the page called TAST. I've been putting them all there.
Monday, August 27, 2018
BOOK REPORT......
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
Product Description(Amazon)
Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived large and worked for five decades alongside the superstars of music and entertainment -- including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Will Smith, and dozens of others. Q is his glittering and moving life story, told with the style, passion, and no-holds-barred honesty that are his trademarks.
Quincy Jones grew up poor on the mean streets of Chicago’s South Side, brushing against the law and feeling the pain of his mother’s descent into madness. But when his father moved the family west to Seattle, he took up the trumpet and was literally saved by music. A prodigy, he played backup for Billie Holiday and toured the world with the Lionel Hampton Band before leaving his teens. Soon, though, he found his true calling, inaugurating a career whose highlights have included arranging albums for Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie; composing the scores of such films as The Pawnbroker, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, and The Color Purple, and the theme songs for the television shows Ironside, Sanford and Son, and The Cosby Show; producing the bestselling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and the bestselling single “We Are the World”; and producing and arranging his own highly praised albums, including the Grammy Award—winning Back on the Block, a striking blend of jazz, African, urban, gospel, and hip-hop. His musical achievements, in a career that spans every style of American popular music, have yielded an incredible seventy-seven Grammy nominations, and are matched by his record as a pioneering music executive, film and television producer, tireless social activist, and business entrepreneur–one of the most successful black business figures in America. This string of unbroken triumphs in the entertainment industry has been shadowed by a turbulent personal life, a story he shares with eloquence and candor.
Q is an impressive self-portrait by one of the master makers of American culture, a complex, many-faceted man with far more than his share of talents and an unparalleled vision, as well as some entirely human flaws. It also features vivid testimony from key witnesses to his journey–family, friends, and musical and business associates. His life encompasses an astonishing cast of show business giants, and provides the raw material for one of the great African American success stories of this century.
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (October 9, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385488963
ISBN-13: 978-0385488969
MY THOUGHTS: Very interesting book. I haven't heard any of his music, but I'll be finding some on YouTube. Quincy has had an interesting life. Has lots of friends and has traveled the world. If you want to know anything about Quincy Jone, read this book. I give this book 5......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges....
Alphabet Soup Challenge(Finished-read 26 books)
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
Musician, composer, producer, arranger, and pioneering entrepreneur Quincy Jones has lived large and worked for five decades alongside the superstars of music and entertainment -- including Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Will Smith, and dozens of others. Q is his glittering and moving life story, told with the style, passion, and no-holds-barred honesty that are his trademarks.
Quincy Jones grew up poor on the mean streets of Chicago’s South Side, brushing against the law and feeling the pain of his mother’s descent into madness. But when his father moved the family west to Seattle, he took up the trumpet and was literally saved by music. A prodigy, he played backup for Billie Holiday and toured the world with the Lionel Hampton Band before leaving his teens. Soon, though, he found his true calling, inaugurating a career whose highlights have included arranging albums for Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, and Count Basie; composing the scores of such films as The Pawnbroker, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, and The Color Purple, and the theme songs for the television shows Ironside, Sanford and Son, and The Cosby Show; producing the bestselling album of all time, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and the bestselling single “We Are the World”; and producing and arranging his own highly praised albums, including the Grammy Award—winning Back on the Block, a striking blend of jazz, African, urban, gospel, and hip-hop. His musical achievements, in a career that spans every style of American popular music, have yielded an incredible seventy-seven Grammy nominations, and are matched by his record as a pioneering music executive, film and television producer, tireless social activist, and business entrepreneur–one of the most successful black business figures in America. This string of unbroken triumphs in the entertainment industry has been shadowed by a turbulent personal life, a story he shares with eloquence and candor.
Q is an impressive self-portrait by one of the master makers of American culture, a complex, many-faceted man with far more than his share of talents and an unparalleled vision, as well as some entirely human flaws. It also features vivid testimony from key witnesses to his journey–family, friends, and musical and business associates. His life encompasses an astonishing cast of show business giants, and provides the raw material for one of the great African American success stories of this century.
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (October 9, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385488963
ISBN-13: 978-0385488969
MY THOUGHTS: Very interesting book. I haven't heard any of his music, but I'll be finding some on YouTube. Quincy has had an interesting life. Has lots of friends and has traveled the world. If you want to know anything about Quincy Jone, read this book. I give this book 5......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges....
Alphabet Soup Challenge(Finished-read 26 books)
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
BOOK REPORT........
Hillbilly Elegy - J. D. Vance
Product Description(Amazon)
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history.
A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May 1, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062300555
ISBN-13: 978-0062300553
MY THOUGHTS: This is my book club book for August. Do you believe Hillbilly's is a cultural thing? Well, I was married to a hillbilly for 48 years. My hubby was a Kentuckian. He moved to Indiana, got a job, and had friends. According to this book. The working class of America is in crisis. My husband were among that class of people. And believe me, it is a fact that the middle class families have a hard time making a living.....not because they don't work, it's because the money they make is so low you live from pay check to pay check. You can't get ahead of the game. This author takes you into the middle of this crisis. Really awesome book. I give this book 5......
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challnege
Product Description(Amazon)
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck.
The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history.
A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Reprint edition (May 1, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062300555
ISBN-13: 978-0062300553
MY THOUGHTS: This is my book club book for August. Do you believe Hillbilly's is a cultural thing? Well, I was married to a hillbilly for 48 years. My hubby was a Kentuckian. He moved to Indiana, got a job, and had friends. According to this book. The working class of America is in crisis. My husband were among that class of people. And believe me, it is a fact that the middle class families have a hard time making a living.....not because they don't work, it's because the money they make is so low you live from pay check to pay check. You can't get ahead of the game. This author takes you into the middle of this crisis. Really awesome book. I give this book 5......
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challnege
Friday, August 17, 2018
BOOK REPORT......
2nd Chance - James Patterson
Product Description(Amazon)
A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable.
Series: Women's Murder Club (Book 2)
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (March 4, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316693200
ISBN-13: 978-0316693202
MY THOUGHTS: This is the 2nd installment of the Women's Murder Club. This time Lindsay is up against someone who is randomly shooting people. So it seems at first, but Lindsay finally connects all the murders, but she has to find out why. The girls put their heads together to come up with a plan. Will it work? Do they catch the guy? I give this book 5......
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges.......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
A brutal madman sprays bullets into a crowd of children leaving a San Francisco church. Miraculously-or was it intentionally?-only one person dies. Then an elderly black woman is hung. Police homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer senses a connection and together with medical examiner Claire, assistant D. A. Jill, and Chronicle reporter Cindy, finds a link that sends a chill through the entire nation. This killer's motives are unspeakable.
Series: Women's Murder Club (Book 2)
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (March 4, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316693200
ISBN-13: 978-0316693202
MY THOUGHTS: This is the 2nd installment of the Women's Murder Club. This time Lindsay is up against someone who is randomly shooting people. So it seems at first, but Lindsay finally connects all the murders, but she has to find out why. The girls put their heads together to come up with a plan. Will it work? Do they catch the guy? I give this book 5......
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges.......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
BOOK REPORT.....
The Enoch Effect - Rick Acker
Product Description(Amazon)
Product Description(Amazon)
Insurance litigator Leigh Collins
has a knack for turning up that missing e-mail that wins the day or
breaking down complex facts to sway a jury. So she’s hoping to make
partner with her latest case: cancer researcher Dr. Elijah Rhodes and
his life’s work are lost in a lab fire, and Biosolutions looks to cash
in on a $100 million policy. Unfortunately, she’s up against Daniel
Rubinelli, assistant general counsel for the biotech giant, who has a
personal vendetta against cancer. In court, Leigh and Daniel clash from
the beginning, ensuring a grueling case.
But soon greater concerns emerge. The late doctor might have found a “kill switch” for cancer cells—potentially wiping the disease off the face of the earth. While most of his findings were lost in the fire, he likely backed up his data, though encrypted beyond recovery.
Now, in this edge-of-your-seat thriller, two contentious lawyers must set aside their differences to locate the research before the doctor’s greatest discovery falls into the wrong hands…and the secret to life ends in death.
Paperback: 396 pages
Publisher: Waterfall Press (May 23, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1503942929
ISBN-13: 978-1503942929
MY THOUGHTS: I must not have been in the mood to read when I started this book. It's a slow going book for me. I'm not real fond of reading legal mysteries. But once I got into the book it was really interesting. If you could wipe Cancer from the face of the world, would you?? Starts out as in insurance case, turns into an arson/murder cast. I give this book 4......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
But soon greater concerns emerge. The late doctor might have found a “kill switch” for cancer cells—potentially wiping the disease off the face of the earth. While most of his findings were lost in the fire, he likely backed up his data, though encrypted beyond recovery.
Now, in this edge-of-your-seat thriller, two contentious lawyers must set aside their differences to locate the research before the doctor’s greatest discovery falls into the wrong hands…and the secret to life ends in death.
Paperback: 396 pages
Publisher: Waterfall Press (May 23, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1503942929
ISBN-13: 978-1503942929
MY THOUGHTS: I must not have been in the mood to read when I started this book. It's a slow going book for me. I'm not real fond of reading legal mysteries. But once I got into the book it was really interesting. If you could wipe Cancer from the face of the world, would you?? Starts out as in insurance case, turns into an arson/murder cast. I give this book 4......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Sunday, August 12, 2018
BOOK REPORT......
Jackaby - William Ritter
Product Description(Amazon)
Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job,Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.
Series: Jackaby (Book 1)
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers (September 16, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1616203536
ISBN-13: 978-1616203535
MY THOUGHTS: New series and author for me. Really liked this book. The setting, is the kind of books I like to read. I have some history and a murder, plus lots of unexplained beings. Abigail is looking for a job, and comes across a posting. The goes to check it out and meets R. F. Jacaby. An investigator of the unexplained. Does Abby believe all this? Will she stay at the job? Read the book it's really good. I give this book 5.....
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
Newly arrived in New Fiddleham, New England, 1892, and in need of a job,Abigail Rook meets R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with a keen eye for the extraordinary--including the ability to see supernatural beings. Abigail has a gift for noticing ordinary but important details, which makes her perfect for the position of Jackaby’s assistant. On her first day, Abigail finds herself in the midst of a thrilling case: A serial killer is on the loose. The police are convinced it’s an ordinary villain, but Jackaby is certain it’s a nonhuman creature, whose existence the police--with the exception of a handsome young detective named Charlie Cane--deny.
Series: Jackaby (Book 1)
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers (September 16, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1616203536
ISBN-13: 978-1616203535
MY THOUGHTS: New series and author for me. Really liked this book. The setting, is the kind of books I like to read. I have some history and a murder, plus lots of unexplained beings. Abigail is looking for a job, and comes across a posting. The goes to check it out and meets R. F. Jacaby. An investigator of the unexplained. Does Abby believe all this? Will she stay at the job? Read the book it's really good. I give this book 5.....
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Friday, August 3, 2018
BOOK REPORT.....
Things Fall Apart - Kenneth McIntosh
Product Description(Amazon)
Maeve Murphy, who saw a horrible roller coaster accident as a little girl, believes she has seen a ghost and that someone is trying to kill her, and must use the skills of forensic engineering to investigate a cold case.
Series: The Crime Scene Club (Book 10)
Library Binding: 144 pages
Publisher: Mason Crest (December 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1422202569
ISBN-13: 978-1422202562
MY THOUGHTS: Ever have questions about Forensic? Want to know more about it? This is the book that explains lots of that. There is also a story all about The Crime Scene Club. At the end of the story they give you all the Forensic's they used to solve the case. Really good book. I give this book 4.......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges........
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
Maeve Murphy, who saw a horrible roller coaster accident as a little girl, believes she has seen a ghost and that someone is trying to kill her, and must use the skills of forensic engineering to investigate a cold case.
Series: The Crime Scene Club (Book 10)
Library Binding: 144 pages
Publisher: Mason Crest (December 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1422202569
ISBN-13: 978-1422202562
MY THOUGHTS: Ever have questions about Forensic? Want to know more about it? This is the book that explains lots of that. There is also a story all about The Crime Scene Club. At the end of the story they give you all the Forensic's they used to solve the case. Really good book. I give this book 4.......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges........
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Saturday, July 28, 2018
BOOK REPORT.......
1st To Die - James Patterson
Product Description(Amazon)
Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.
But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered--before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong.
Series: Women's Murder Club (Book 1)
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (March 5, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316666009
ISBN-13: 978-0316666008
MY THOUGHTS: This is the first book of The Women's Murder Club. I really enjoyed reading all the characters and I liked each one. The plot of the story is a serial killer on loose. He's killing bride and grooms on their honeymoons. Lindsay Claire, Jill and Cindy decide to take a different way to solving the crime when the conventional way hits a dead end. They each add something to the investigation and come up with a name. But is this the right person, do they still have murderer on the loose? I give this book 5.....
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle.
But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered--before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong.
Series: Women's Murder Club (Book 1)
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company; 1st edition (March 5, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316666009
ISBN-13: 978-0316666008
MY THOUGHTS: This is the first book of The Women's Murder Club. I really enjoyed reading all the characters and I liked each one. The plot of the story is a serial killer on loose. He's killing bride and grooms on their honeymoons. Lindsay Claire, Jill and Cindy decide to take a different way to solving the crime when the conventional way hits a dead end. They each add something to the investigation and come up with a name. But is this the right person, do they still have murderer on the loose? I give this book 5.....
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
UPDATES AND BLOG HOPPING.......
I was over at Daffycat's place and came across a challenge. It's a Piggy Bank Challenge, being hosted by Val over at Val's Quilting Studio. Isn't that a cool idea! Most everyone saves change, as do I....I find coins laying around the house and I also get coins and bills in the laundry sometimes. So thought I'd join up.
Here's some Info....
All's you have to do is create a post this week sharing your "piggy bank".
Include your goal of what you'd like to purchase with your savings come this time next year.
Include the linky button above to help spread the word to all your followers.
Return and link your post here anytime this week until August 1st.
Start "penny pinching". (Coins and bills are allowed)
Next year we'll all empty our piggy banks on July 6th and create a post exclaiming our totals, share what quilty purchase we're going to make and link up here once again to celebrate! (Don't worry, I'll send emails to all who link up this week with reminders.)
My goals:
Buy Fabric
Embroidery Floss
Something Special for ME !
Now for my updates....
I have been doing the TAST(Take A Stitch Tuesday) over at Sharon's place, Pintangle. I'm learning so many Embroidery Stitches and want to share them with everyone. Today is Week 27, haven't got this one done yet, but have several I haven't posted about for awhile. So here goes.....
WEEK 23
Wheatear Stitch
WEEK 24
Twisted Lattice Band
(Had some trouble with this one. I think I invented a new stitch, lol)
WEEK 25
Butterfly Chain Stitch
WEEK 26
Herringbone Square(Had some trouble getting my shapes to look like a square)
Well that's it for now. I have a couple new projects I'm working on, I'll posting about those in a few days. Come back and take a look.......
Here's some Info....
All's you have to do is create a post this week sharing your "piggy bank".
Include your goal of what you'd like to purchase with your savings come this time next year.
Include the linky button above to help spread the word to all your followers.
Return and link your post here anytime this week until August 1st.
Start "penny pinching". (Coins and bills are allowed)
Next year we'll all empty our piggy banks on July 6th and create a post exclaiming our totals, share what quilty purchase we're going to make and link up here once again to celebrate! (Don't worry, I'll send emails to all who link up this week with reminders.)
My goals:
Buy Fabric
Embroidery Floss
Something Special for ME !
Now for my updates....
I have been doing the TAST(Take A Stitch Tuesday) over at Sharon's place, Pintangle. I'm learning so many Embroidery Stitches and want to share them with everyone. Today is Week 27, haven't got this one done yet, but have several I haven't posted about for awhile. So here goes.....
WEEK 23
Wheatear Stitch
Twisted Lattice Band
(Had some trouble with this one. I think I invented a new stitch, lol)
Butterfly Chain Stitch
Herringbone Square(Had some trouble getting my shapes to look like a square)
Monday, July 9, 2018
BOOK REPORT......
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
Product Description(Amazon)
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning, he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were desperately struggling for their lives. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated.
Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside Magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas as a client of Rob Hall, the most respected high-altitude guide in the world. A rangy, thirty-five-year-old New Zealander, Hall had summited Everest four times between 1990 and 1995 and had led thirty-nine climbers to the top. Ascending the mountain in close proximity to Hall's team was a guided expedition led by Scott Fischer, a forty-year-old American with legendary strength and drive who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen in 1994. But neither Hall nor Fischer survived the rogue storm that struck in May 1996.
Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people -- including himself -- to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.
Hardcover: 293 pages
Publisher: Villard Books; 1st edition (April 22, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679457526
ISBN-13: 978-0679457527
MY THOUGHTS: I had heard about this on the internet and caught pieces of it on the T.V. news. When I saw the book at the library, I picked it up. I haven't seen the movie, but it is on my list of movies to see. For now the book will do. If the movie is anything like the book, it will be a good movie to watch. The book gives all the details you don't get watching the news. I can't say I understand the obsession behind climbing Everest, but this author gives you all that info plus more. I give this book 5......
This book is for 4 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Strolling Through Non-Fiction Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning, he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were desperately struggling for their lives. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated.
Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside Magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas as a client of Rob Hall, the most respected high-altitude guide in the world. A rangy, thirty-five-year-old New Zealander, Hall had summited Everest four times between 1990 and 1995 and had led thirty-nine climbers to the top. Ascending the mountain in close proximity to Hall's team was a guided expedition led by Scott Fischer, a forty-year-old American with legendary strength and drive who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen in 1994. But neither Hall nor Fischer survived the rogue storm that struck in May 1996.
Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people -- including himself -- to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.
Hardcover: 293 pages
Publisher: Villard Books; 1st edition (April 22, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679457526
ISBN-13: 978-0679457527
MY THOUGHTS: I had heard about this on the internet and caught pieces of it on the T.V. news. When I saw the book at the library, I picked it up. I haven't seen the movie, but it is on my list of movies to see. For now the book will do. If the movie is anything like the book, it will be a good movie to watch. The book gives all the details you don't get watching the news. I can't say I understand the obsession behind climbing Everest, but this author gives you all that info plus more. I give this book 5......
This book is for 4 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Strolling Through Non-Fiction Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Monday, July 2, 2018
BOOK REPORT.......
Ranger's Apprentice/The Early Years
The Tournament at Gorlan - John Flanagan
Product Description(Amazon)
When Halt and Crowley discover that the ambitious Morgarath has been infiltrating the Rangers in order to corrupt the Corps, the young Rangers travel north to find Prince Duncan, seeking a royal warrant to stop Morgarath before it is too late. By weakening the Rangers, the most powerful force in support of the King, Morgarath plans to steal the throne.
Yet when Halt and Crowley arrive in Gorlan, they discover just how close Morgarath’s scheme is to success. Morgarath has a plan to discredit the Prince and alienate him from his father. At the same time, the Baron of Gorlan has been conspiring to win the trust and admiration of the Council of Barons to further his plan. If the young Rangers are to prevent the coup from succeeding, they will have to tread a dangerous path, which leads them to a thrilling climax at the annual tournament at Gorlan, where a series of bitter duels must be fought and won.
Series: Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years (Book 1)
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Philomel Books; First Edition edition (October 6, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399163611
ISBN-13: 978-0399163616
MY THOUGHTS: A friend recommended this book, so I thought I would read it and see what it's all about. Not to my liking. I'm not too fond of fantasy books. But if you like those kids of books, this one is pretty good. I give this book 3.....
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
The Tournament at Gorlan - John Flanagan
Product Description(Amazon)
When Halt and Crowley discover that the ambitious Morgarath has been infiltrating the Rangers in order to corrupt the Corps, the young Rangers travel north to find Prince Duncan, seeking a royal warrant to stop Morgarath before it is too late. By weakening the Rangers, the most powerful force in support of the King, Morgarath plans to steal the throne.
Yet when Halt and Crowley arrive in Gorlan, they discover just how close Morgarath’s scheme is to success. Morgarath has a plan to discredit the Prince and alienate him from his father. At the same time, the Baron of Gorlan has been conspiring to win the trust and admiration of the Council of Barons to further his plan. If the young Rangers are to prevent the coup from succeeding, they will have to tread a dangerous path, which leads them to a thrilling climax at the annual tournament at Gorlan, where a series of bitter duels must be fought and won.
Series: Ranger's Apprentice: The Early Years (Book 1)
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Philomel Books; First Edition edition (October 6, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399163611
ISBN-13: 978-0399163616
MY THOUGHTS: A friend recommended this book, so I thought I would read it and see what it's all about. Not to my liking. I'm not too fond of fantasy books. But if you like those kids of books, this one is pretty good. I give this book 3.....
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Sunday, July 1, 2018
JUNE BOOK REVIEW........
Katheryn over at The Book Date is the host for Reading Month in Review.
Hop over and see what everyone has been reading.
My Reading for the Month of....
Total Books This Month - 9
The Devil Wears Kilts - Suzanne Enoch*****
My Life With Bob - Pamela Paul*****
Bright Purple - Melody Carlson**
His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet*****
Same Beach, Next Year - Dorothea Benton Frank***
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann*****
Give Them Something Better - Sarah Fairn*****
Genevieve's War - Patricia Reilly Giff*****
Sailor and Fiddler - Herman Wouk *****
New to me Authors
Pamela Paul
Melody Carlson
Graeme Macrae Burnet
Dorothea Benton Frank
David Grann
Patricia Reilly Giff
Herman Wouk
Library Books
My Life With Bob - Pamela Paul
Bright Purple - Melody Carlson
His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
Genevieve's War - Patricia Reilly Giff
Sailor and Fiddler - Herman Wouk
Paperback Books
Same Beach, Next Year - Dorothea Benton Frank
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
Books I Purchased
The Devil Wears Kilts - Suzanne Enoch
Give Them Something Better - Sarah Fairn
Hop over and see what everyone has been reading.
My Reading for the Month of....
The Devil Wears Kilts - Suzanne Enoch*****
My Life With Bob - Pamela Paul*****
Bright Purple - Melody Carlson**
His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet*****
Same Beach, Next Year - Dorothea Benton Frank***
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann*****
Give Them Something Better - Sarah Fairn*****
Genevieve's War - Patricia Reilly Giff*****
Sailor and Fiddler - Herman Wouk *****
New to me Authors
Pamela Paul
Melody Carlson
Graeme Macrae Burnet
Dorothea Benton Frank
David Grann
Patricia Reilly Giff
Herman Wouk
Library Books
My Life With Bob - Pamela Paul
Bright Purple - Melody Carlson
His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
Genevieve's War - Patricia Reilly Giff
Sailor and Fiddler - Herman Wouk
Paperback Books
Same Beach, Next Year - Dorothea Benton Frank
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
Books I Purchased
The Devil Wears Kilts - Suzanne Enoch
Give Them Something Better - Sarah Fairn
Friday, June 29, 2018
BOOK REPORT......
Sailor and Fiddler - Herman Wouk
Product Description(Amazon)
In an unprecedented literary accomplishment, Herman Wouk, one of America’s most beloved and enduring authors, reflects on his life and times from the remarkable vantage point of 100 years old.
Many years ago, the great British philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin urged Herman Wouk to write his autobiography. Wouk responded, “Why me? I’m nobody.” Berlin answered, “No, no. You’ve traveled. You’ve known many people. You have interesting ideas. It would do a lot of good.”
Now, in the same year he has celebrated his hundredth birthday, Herman Wouk finally reflects on the life experiences that inspired his most beloved novels. Among those experiences are his days writing for comedian Fred Allen’s radio show, one of the most popular shows in the history of the medium; enlisting in the US Navy during World War II; falling in love with Betty Sarah Brown, the woman who would become his wife (and literary agent) for sixty-six years; writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Caine Mutiny; as well as a big hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court Martial; and the surprising inspirations and people behind such masterpieces as The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Marjorie Morningstar, and Youngblood Hawke.
Written with the wisdom of a man who has lived through two centuries and the wit of someone who began his career as professional comedy writer, the first part of Wouk’s memoir (“Sailor”) refers to his Navy experience and writing career, the second (“Fiddler”) to what he’s learned from living a life of faith. Ultimately, Sailor and Fiddler is an unprecedented reflection from a vantage point few people have lived to experience.
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (January 5, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 150112854X
ISBN-13: 978-1501128547
MY THOUGHTS: I must admit I was kind skeptical about reading this book. I have never read any of this authors books, for the simple fact I don't like reading classic or old books. The writing bothers me for some reason. Anyway, I read this book in 1 day. Very interesting info on how all those classic books came to be. I give this book.....5
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Memoir Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
In an unprecedented literary accomplishment, Herman Wouk, one of America’s most beloved and enduring authors, reflects on his life and times from the remarkable vantage point of 100 years old.
Many years ago, the great British philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin urged Herman Wouk to write his autobiography. Wouk responded, “Why me? I’m nobody.” Berlin answered, “No, no. You’ve traveled. You’ve known many people. You have interesting ideas. It would do a lot of good.”
Now, in the same year he has celebrated his hundredth birthday, Herman Wouk finally reflects on the life experiences that inspired his most beloved novels. Among those experiences are his days writing for comedian Fred Allen’s radio show, one of the most popular shows in the history of the medium; enlisting in the US Navy during World War II; falling in love with Betty Sarah Brown, the woman who would become his wife (and literary agent) for sixty-six years; writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Caine Mutiny; as well as a big hit Broadway play The Caine Mutiny Court Martial; and the surprising inspirations and people behind such masterpieces as The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Marjorie Morningstar, and Youngblood Hawke.
Written with the wisdom of a man who has lived through two centuries and the wit of someone who began his career as professional comedy writer, the first part of Wouk’s memoir (“Sailor”) refers to his Navy experience and writing career, the second (“Fiddler”) to what he’s learned from living a life of faith. Ultimately, Sailor and Fiddler is an unprecedented reflection from a vantage point few people have lived to experience.
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (January 5, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 150112854X
ISBN-13: 978-1501128547
MY THOUGHTS: I must admit I was kind skeptical about reading this book. I have never read any of this authors books, for the simple fact I don't like reading classic or old books. The writing bothers me for some reason. Anyway, I read this book in 1 day. Very interesting info on how all those classic books came to be. I give this book.....5
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Memoir Challenge
Thursday, June 28, 2018
BOOK REPORT........
Genevieve's War - Patricia Reilly Giff
Product Description(Amazon)
Thirteen-year-old American girl Genevieve has spent the summer of 1939 at her grandmother’s farm in Alsace, France. Then she makes an impulsive choice: to stay in France. It proves to be a dangerous decision. World War II erupts. The Nazis conquer Alsace and deport the Jews and others. A frightening German officer commandeers a room in Meme’s farmhouse. And when Gen’s friend Remi commits an act of sabotage, Gen is forced to hide him in the attic—right above the Nazi officer’s head. Genevieve’s War is a gripping story that brings the war in occupied France vividly to life. It is a companion work to Lily’s Crossing, a Newbery Honor Book.
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Holiday House (March 30, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0823438007
ISBN-13: 978-0823438006
MY THOUGHTS: I started this book last night. I couldn't put it down. Watching this little girl help with war, making new friends, and losing friends and loved animals. Really awesome book. I give this book 5.......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges........
Strolling Though Non-Fiction Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
Thirteen-year-old American girl Genevieve has spent the summer of 1939 at her grandmother’s farm in Alsace, France. Then she makes an impulsive choice: to stay in France. It proves to be a dangerous decision. World War II erupts. The Nazis conquer Alsace and deport the Jews and others. A frightening German officer commandeers a room in Meme’s farmhouse. And when Gen’s friend Remi commits an act of sabotage, Gen is forced to hide him in the attic—right above the Nazi officer’s head. Genevieve’s War is a gripping story that brings the war in occupied France vividly to life. It is a companion work to Lily’s Crossing, a Newbery Honor Book.
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Holiday House (March 30, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0823438007
ISBN-13: 978-0823438006
MY THOUGHTS: I started this book last night. I couldn't put it down. Watching this little girl help with war, making new friends, and losing friends and loved animals. Really awesome book. I give this book 5.......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges........
Strolling Though Non-Fiction Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
BOOK REPORT......
Give Them Something Better - Sarah Fairn
Product Description(Amazon)
The Good Life is killing us. Chronic diseases have established a stronghold in our society representing 75% of our national health care costs. And the best modern medicine can do is to manage the symptoms of these modern killer diseases. But hope comes from Loma Linda, California, the capital of the American Blue Zone of long livers. Why do these people who represent not just a geographic Blue Zone but a cultural one, have only half the rates of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and excess weight, and why do they have lower risks for arthritis, colon and prostate cancer? Let this family- style cookbook reveal some of their secrets. Here you find delicious, inexpensive recipes that will contribute to better health and longer life. These are not recipes with outlandish ingredients. Instead, this book is offering families some of their favorite American foods but with a healthy twist. This book offers you something better.
Spiral-bound: 175 pages
Publisher: Sanare Life; Spi edition (September 12, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0983559406
ISBN-13: 978-0983559405
MY THOUGHTS: My son bought this book from some kids selling them door to door. They were trying to raise money for college. It is sponsored through The Indiana Academy, which is located on Ball State University. The book is all about eating healthy. It has lots of great recipes and photos. What's really great about this book, is you really don't need any thing special to fix the food. I haven't tried any of them yet. But I will be doing that. Since we all need to eat healthier foods. I give this book 5....
This book is for 1 of my reading challenges......
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
The Good Life is killing us. Chronic diseases have established a stronghold in our society representing 75% of our national health care costs. And the best modern medicine can do is to manage the symptoms of these modern killer diseases. But hope comes from Loma Linda, California, the capital of the American Blue Zone of long livers. Why do these people who represent not just a geographic Blue Zone but a cultural one, have only half the rates of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and excess weight, and why do they have lower risks for arthritis, colon and prostate cancer? Let this family- style cookbook reveal some of their secrets. Here you find delicious, inexpensive recipes that will contribute to better health and longer life. These are not recipes with outlandish ingredients. Instead, this book is offering families some of their favorite American foods but with a healthy twist. This book offers you something better.
Spiral-bound: 175 pages
Publisher: Sanare Life; Spi edition (September 12, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0983559406
ISBN-13: 978-0983559405
MY THOUGHTS: My son bought this book from some kids selling them door to door. They were trying to raise money for college. It is sponsored through The Indiana Academy, which is located on Ball State University. The book is all about eating healthy. It has lots of great recipes and photos. What's really great about this book, is you really don't need any thing special to fix the food. I haven't tried any of them yet. But I will be doing that. Since we all need to eat healthier foods. I give this book 5....
This book is for 1 of my reading challenges......
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Monday, June 25, 2018
BOOK REPORT......
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
Product Description(Amazon)
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.
As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (April 3, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307742482
ISBN-13: 978-0307742483
MY THOUGHTS: Really liked this book. I like reading about history in our country. This is a piece of history I didn't know anything about. Everyone tried to help the Osage people. But when someone tried to help, they mysteriously came up dead. Then the FBI stepped in and they finally cracked the case. I give this book 5......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered.
As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (April 3, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0307742482
ISBN-13: 978-0307742483
MY THOUGHTS: Really liked this book. I like reading about history in our country. This is a piece of history I didn't know anything about. Everyone tried to help the Osage people. But when someone tried to help, they mysteriously came up dead. Then the FBI stepped in and they finally cracked the case. I give this book 5......
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
BOOK REPORT......
Same Beach, Next Year - Dorothea Benton Frank
Product Description(Amazon)
One enchanted summer, two couples begin a friendship that will last more than twenty years and transform their lives.
A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston’s most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts, Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship—and flirt with an unexpected attraction—of their own.
Year after year, Adam, Eliza, Eve, and Carl eagerly await their reunion at Wild Dunes, a condominium complex at the island’s tip end, where they grow closer with each passing day, building a friendship that will withstand financial catastrophe, family tragedy, and devastating heartbreak. The devotion and love they share will help them weather the vagaries of time and enrich their lives as circumstances change, their children grow up and leave home, and their twilight years approach.
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (April 24, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062390791
ISBN-13: 978-0062390790
MY THOUGHTS: This is my book club's choice for June. I don't usually read this kind of book. It's what I consider Chick Lit. Maybe it's not, but to me it is. I finished the book, but didn't really enjoy it that much. For one thing, there is too much going on, and what's the obsession with all the food, who wants to know, they buy the food, cook the food and eat the food. It's all through the book like this, not very interesting. If your into this kind of book....I give this book 3.....
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
One enchanted summer, two couples begin a friendship that will last more than twenty years and transform their lives.
A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston’s most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts, Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship—and flirt with an unexpected attraction—of their own.
Year after year, Adam, Eliza, Eve, and Carl eagerly await their reunion at Wild Dunes, a condominium complex at the island’s tip end, where they grow closer with each passing day, building a friendship that will withstand financial catastrophe, family tragedy, and devastating heartbreak. The devotion and love they share will help them weather the vagaries of time and enrich their lives as circumstances change, their children grow up and leave home, and their twilight years approach.
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (April 24, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062390791
ISBN-13: 978-0062390790
MY THOUGHTS: This is my book club's choice for June. I don't usually read this kind of book. It's what I consider Chick Lit. Maybe it's not, but to me it is. I finished the book, but didn't really enjoy it that much. For one thing, there is too much going on, and what's the obsession with all the food, who wants to know, they buy the food, cook the food and eat the food. It's all through the book like this, not very interesting. If your into this kind of book....I give this book 3.....
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges......
Alphabet Soup Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Friday, June 15, 2018
BOOK REPORT.....
His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
Product Description(Amazon)
In the smash hit historical thriller that the New York Times Book Review calls “thought provoking fiction,” a brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path? And will he hang for his crime?
Presented as a collection of documents discovered by the author, His Bloody Project opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers of Culdie, Ross-shire. They offer conflicting impressions of the accused; one interviewee recalls Macrae as a gentle and quiet child, while another details him as evil and wicked. Chief among the papers is Roderick Macrae’s own memoirs where he outlines the series of events leading up to the murder in eloquent and affectless prose. There follow medical reports, psychological evaluations, a courtroom transcript from the trial, and other documents that throw both Macrae’s motive and his sanity into question.
Hardcover: 300 pages
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing; First Edition edition (October 18, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1510719210
ISBN-13: 978-1510719217
MY THOUGHTS: When I first started this book it didn't seem that I'd finish it. But I kept with and finally got it done. Very interesting story from the author's and the main character, Roderick Macrae. The whole book is about Roderick and his telling of what happened to lead up to the murders. I've got say I don't really blame him for what he done. Considering the circumstances of the way he lived. The lawyers tried their best to help Roderick. Asking for Clemency for Roderick. From the book I liked Roderick, but the circumstances of the way he lived and the people around him all contributed to murders. I give this book 5....
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges.......
Memoir Reading Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Product Description(Amazon)
In the smash hit historical thriller that the New York Times Book Review calls “thought provoking fiction,” a brutal triple murder in a remote Scottish farming community in 1869 leads to the arrest of seventeen-year-old Roderick Macrae. There is no question that Macrae committed this terrible act. What would lead such a shy and intelligent boy down this bloody path? And will he hang for his crime?
Presented as a collection of documents discovered by the author, His Bloody Project opens with a series of police statements taken from the villagers of Culdie, Ross-shire. They offer conflicting impressions of the accused; one interviewee recalls Macrae as a gentle and quiet child, while another details him as evil and wicked. Chief among the papers is Roderick Macrae’s own memoirs where he outlines the series of events leading up to the murder in eloquent and affectless prose. There follow medical reports, psychological evaluations, a courtroom transcript from the trial, and other documents that throw both Macrae’s motive and his sanity into question.
Hardcover: 300 pages
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing; First Edition edition (October 18, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1510719210
ISBN-13: 978-1510719217
MY THOUGHTS: When I first started this book it didn't seem that I'd finish it. But I kept with and finally got it done. Very interesting story from the author's and the main character, Roderick Macrae. The whole book is about Roderick and his telling of what happened to lead up to the murders. I've got say I don't really blame him for what he done. Considering the circumstances of the way he lived. The lawyers tried their best to help Roderick. Asking for Clemency for Roderick. From the book I liked Roderick, but the circumstances of the way he lived and the people around him all contributed to murders. I give this book 5....
This book is for 3 of my reading challenges.......
Memoir Reading Challenge
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
BOOK REPORT.......
Bright Purple - Melody Carlson
Product Description(Amazon)
Jessica LeCroix drops a bomb on her best friend, Ramie: “I’m a lesbian.” Ramie Grant cannot believe her ears. Jess!? Her best friend, her teammate . . . a homosexual? Before long other girls on the basketball team find out, and little jokes become vicious attacks. In the end, Ramie must decide if she will stand by Jessica’s side or turn her back on a friend in need. The tenth book in the teen fiction series TrueColors, Bright Purple examines the subjects of sexuality, identity, and forgiveness.
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: TH1NK (September 5, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1576839508
ISBN-13: 978-1576839508
MY THOUGHTS: This book had a chance to show people how to push aside biases and grow as a person, and how to use the resources around you. In my opinion this book doesn't do all these things. I didn't think the author gave the subject of Homosexuality a good explanation or the friends of the that person the right information. I give this book 2.......
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges.......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Read the Rainbow Challenges
Product Description(Amazon)
Jessica LeCroix drops a bomb on her best friend, Ramie: “I’m a lesbian.” Ramie Grant cannot believe her ears. Jess!? Her best friend, her teammate . . . a homosexual? Before long other girls on the basketball team find out, and little jokes become vicious attacks. In the end, Ramie must decide if she will stand by Jessica’s side or turn her back on a friend in need. The tenth book in the teen fiction series TrueColors, Bright Purple examines the subjects of sexuality, identity, and forgiveness.
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: TH1NK (September 5, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1576839508
ISBN-13: 978-1576839508
MY THOUGHTS: This book had a chance to show people how to push aside biases and grow as a person, and how to use the resources around you. In my opinion this book doesn't do all these things. I didn't think the author gave the subject of Homosexuality a good explanation or the friends of the that person the right information. I give this book 2.......
This book is for 2 of my reading challenges.......
Library Love Challenge
Outdo Yourself Challenge
Read the Rainbow Challenges
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