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Happy Sunday!  April is National Poetry Month and it's time to build a rhyme.  Use a letter, use a vowel, write an ode to a towel, or write rhapsodies about an owl. From blank verse to free verse, from haiku to dodoitsu, from nonet to sonnets, from the abstract to the sublime, be it weighty or flighty, anyone can do it, if you dare write a line.     

 

Ode to C

 Big C 
Little C
What Begins with C
Thanks to Dr. Seuss
We won't end up in a Tree

 Calliopes and carousels
chugging, chanting, caroling. 
Circling without a care. 

 Courteous citizens
develop the knack,
Reaching, stretching.
Fingers to snatch
That colorful, oval,
 brass ring.

 

Homonyms

 As the son walked in the sun, he couldn’t decide if he was right to write about the tale of the tail.  Who would believe it would affect him so and change the effect of the rain when he decided to reign? Nobody told him to fold his cards or fold his clothes.  He preferred to bail out the boat rather than to bail out his brother. She preferred to count out her cents and ignore all common sense while the scent of the horse made him hoarse. The whole time he dug the hole, she was at the inn, jammed in the door jamb. The knight came in the night to pick up the male only to discover it was only mail.  Who was she to meddle with the medal and allowed him to speak aloud?  He was awed even though she was odd, when she offered him cash and instead handed him her cache of keys.  The boy was rather coarse when he showed him the course.   

 

Okay your turn.  Are you drawing a blank? Sit with paper and pen and don't think, just write, let your brain play and see what you have to say.   If I can do it, so can you. 

 

 Blank

 What do you see
When you draw a blank?
Letters, foggy and fuzzy
 Roam and flee.

 Words, simple.
Yet not.

Like butterflies about to land.
Do you catch them or wait?
As they sit on the tip of your tongue.
or the back of your hand.

 Rhythm and rhyme,
Let it be.
Make you see.
Take your time. 

 Words, simple.
Yet not.

 Pens bleed
Across the page.
Strokes and symbols
Take on need.

 Blank and blind
Thoughts and letters,
Illuminate and illustrate
What comes to mind.

 Words, simple.
Yet not.

 

Do you dare????  Please share! 

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Count of Monte Cristo Readalong

Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor

Chapter 32. The Waking

Chapter 33. Roman Bandits

 

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Good morning from my part of the world.  New read is from Michelle Diener's science fiction series Verdant Springs -  #1 Breakaway

"She's the key to everything . . . Sofie has a choice--she can eke out an existence in the shadow of Felicitos, the tethered way station where she works on the breakaway planet of Garmen, or she can to bring it crashing down. When she teams up with Leo, a man who's dedicated his life to fighting her enemies, her choices start to narrow, until her secrets are the only thing keeping her alive.

Leo is all too aware he doesn't know enough about Sofie, something his own security detail is not slow to point out, but he can't keep away. When Sofie reveals her links to the resistance, and shows him those in control of Garmen have begun swimming in dangerous waters, he realizes his plan to overthrown them in a careful operation of a thousand cuts is no longer workable.

The time has come for a single, lethal strike--and that will not be without consequences . . ."

 

Current reread is from Nora Robert's series Bride Quartet, #1 Vision in White. 

"Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most at home behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments before an important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into the bride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeing stars.

A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitely not Mac's type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs to take her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can turn into something more when you least expect it. And Mac will have to turn to her three best friends—and business partners—to see her way to her own happy ending."

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The only thing new from my last update is that I decided to go ahead and finish the Linesman series. I'm reading Confluence, the third and final (as far as readers know) book. I'm about halfway through and enjoying it very much. 

I'm not a poetry gal but I wish I was. I try to like it. I like some of the ancient long narrative poems - Homer, Dante, etc, but in general I have a hard time with poetry. 

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Some bookish posts all on the same theme ~

40 Weird And Cool Things People Found Inside Second-hand Books

https://www.demilked.com/things-found-in-books/

15 Forgotten Things Found Inside Books

https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/11/21/15-forgotten-things-found-inside-books/

Things Found in Books ** Read the comments, too! **

https://www.abebooks.com/docs/Community/Featured/found-in-books.shtml

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Have you ever found something of interest in a book?

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Kareni

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I read the science fiction novel In the Quick: A Novel by Kate Hope Day. It definitely strained credulity and the ending was ... curious; however, it was a quick read and I enjoyed it.

"June is a brilliant but difficult girl with a gift for mechanical invention who leaves home to begin grueling astronaut training at the National Space Program. Younger by two years than her classmates at Peter Reed, the school on campus named for her uncle, she flourishes in her classes but struggles to make friends and find true intellectual peers. Six years later, she has gained a coveted post as an engineer on a space station—and a hard-won sense of belonging—but is haunted by the mystery of Inquiry, a revolutionary spacecraft powered by her beloved late uncle’s fuel cells. The spacecraft went missing when June was twelve years old, and while the rest of the world seems to have forgotten the crew, June alone has evidence that makes her believe they are still alive.

She seeks out James, her uncle’s former protégé, also brilliant, also difficult, who has been trying to discover why Inquiry’s fuel cells failed. James and June forge an intense intellectual bond that becomes an electric attraction. But the relationship that develops between them as they work to solve the fuel cell’s fatal flaw threatens to destroy everything they’ve worked so hard to create—and any chance of bringing the Inquiry crew home alive."

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Kareni

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Last week I read The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53968497-the-postscript-murders and really enjoyed it.  An elderly woman dies in a seaside town in England and her carer is surprised to discover that her client is mentioned in numerous mystery books as a murder consultant.  This leads to her gang of friends suspecting that Peggy was murdered and it goes on from there........

I also listened to The Rose Code https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53914938-the-rose-code which was fascinating.  It’s historical fiction and set mostly at Bletchley Park.  It centers around a friendship formed by three of the women who worked there.     The Bletchley Park parts were great on their own but one of those women was Prince Phillip’s girlfriend pre Princess Elizabeth.  Oslo really existed and I may go looking for her memoirs at some point.....they were released at her death in the 70’s.  This book oddly confirmed a lot of the press about Phillip in the past week and explained why he was such a perfect Prince Consort for Elizabeth.  
 

I also finished the Susan Mallory Lone Star Sisters series and reread Nora Roberts Carnel Innocence.
 

I am currently doing a reread of Kinsale’s Flowers from the Storm https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/360259.Flowers_from_the_Storm. It makes a lot of best historical romance lists and totally deserves to!  I had forgotten how unique it is and still a great read.  The Duke has a stroke.........a Quaker is the female main character.

I just started listening to Betrayel in Time, the fourth Kendra Donavan https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41817433-betrayal-in-time.  This time travel series is so much better than the super popular Outlander if you are a mystery fan.......what happens when an FBI agent is transported back to 1816?  She apparently teams up with an elderly Duke and his dashing heir and solves murders in a very unladylike fashion!

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2 hours ago, mumto2 said:

I am currently doing a reread of Kinsale’s Flowers from the Storm https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/360259.Flowers_from_the_Storm. It makes a lot of best historical romance lists and totally deserves to!  I had forgotten how unique it is and still a great read.  The Duke has a stroke.........a Quaker is the female main character.

I agree, and I like that one, too. Enjoy your reread.

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Kareni

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I picked up a nice middle grade book from the 'remainder bin' in a bookshop - Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool. A boy is sent to a naval boarding school in the 1940s and becomes friend with an unusual boy who is obsessed with Pi. I liked it.

Lots of rereads - the Wayfarer series (Becky Chambers), Jane, Unlimited (Kristin Cashore), Amy Falls Down (Jincy Willet). 

This is a poem which my daughter learned recently, and I love:

A Small Dragon
by Brian Patten

I’ve found a small dragon in the woodshed.
Think it must have come from deep inside a forest
because it’s damp and green and leaves
are still reflecting in its eyes.

I fed it on many things, tried grass,
the roots of stars, hazel-nut and dandelion,
but it stared up at me as if to say, I need
foods you can’t provide.

It made a nest among the coal,
not unlike a birds but larger,
it is out of place here
and is mosttimes silent.

If you believed in it I would come
hurrying to your house to let you share this ownder,
but I want instead to see
if you yourself will pass this way.

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Currently FREE for Kindle readers ~

Dragons Don't Eat Meat by Kim McDougal

"Someone is killing dragons. And the killings point to a civil war brewing among the fae.

When Kyra Greene finds an abandoned baby dragon, she doesn’t want to bring him home. But until she can hunt down his thunder and stop the dragon killers, she’s on babysitting duty. As a pest controller with a soft heart, Kyra already has an apartment full of rescues, including a basilisk who thinks he’s a turkey, a banshee nanny, and even a pygmy kraken. She might take care of them, but they also fill her need for family. And when that family is threatened, she’ll risk everything to save them. She’ll even join forces with the handsome and irritating captain of the city’s vigilante Guardians, who never fails to show up at her most undignified moments.

Along with a quirky cast of misfits and unruly critters, Kyra leaves the safety of Montreal Ward and travels through the dangerous Inbetween—the land beyond the protected city states, where magic is the only rule of law. Can she reunite the lost dragon with his thunder and stop a new and sinister force from invading their home? 

Dragons Don’t Eat Meat is the first book in the Valkyrie Bestiary paranormal suspense series. If you’re looking for a laugh-out-loud adventure, delightfully evil critters, and a slow-burn romance, you’ll love this page-turning series by Kim McDougall"

Also:

To Every Love a Season

The Duke's Hidden Desire (Scandals of Scarcliffe Hall Book 2)

Taken to Nobu: A SciFi Alien Romance

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Kareni

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@Robin M Did you read the new Nalini Singh already?  I just started Quiet in Her Bones and trying to decide what I think of it.  I’m not a huge fan of unreliable narrators and this dude is jut so very unreliable.........https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55655042-quiet-in-her-bones. 

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Some bookish posts ~

HOW DO YOU KEEP A LONG-RUNNING SERIES FRESH? THE SECRET IS CHARACTER by C.S. Harris

Bring These 5 Intrusive Fantasy Books Into Your World

https://www.tor.com/2021/02/05/bring-these-5-intrusive-fantasy-books-into-your-world/

BEYOND THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE: IT'S TIME TO APPRECIATE WILKIE COLLINS' LESSER-KNOWN CLASSICS.

https://crimereads.com/beyond-the-moonstone-and-the-woman-in-white-its-time-to-appreciate-wilkie-collins-lesser-known-classics/

Five Unconventional Economic Systems as Imagined in SFF

https://www.tor.com/2021/03/24/five-unconventional-economic-systems-as-imagined-in-sff/

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Kareni

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4 hours ago, mumto2 said:

@Robin M Did you read the new Nalini Singh already?  I just started Quiet in Her Bones and trying to decide what I think of it.  I’m not a huge fan of unreliable narrators and this dude is jut so very unreliable.........https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55655042-quiet-in-her-bones. 

Not yet.  The excerpt on amazon didn't snag me so didn't plan on getting it.  I did enjoy a Madness of Sunshine if you haven't read it yet.

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Whoopsie! It looks like it's been two months since I posted books. I got to read the second Enola Holmes book when my "hold" turn finally came up, and the others were just on the shelf. The last one was slightly unsatisfactory, as it seemed sort of abrupt.

38. "The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye" by Nancy Springer.

37. The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline" by Nancy Springer.

36. "The Case of the Peculiar Pink Fan" by Nancy Springer.

35. "The Case of the Bizarre Bouquet" by Nancy Springer.

34. "The Case of the Left-Handed Lady" by Nancy Springer.

33. "Stuff Matters" by Mark Miodownik. Audible Book.

32. "Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World" by Sy Montgomery. Audible Book.

31. "Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism" by Barry M Prizant. Audible Book. I really liked the idea that it's important to ask why individuals on the spectrum do what they do, rather than just viewing their behavior as undesirable behavior that needs to be fixed.

30. "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park. I've read it myself, and we are half through as a read aloud for our Africa study.

29. "The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano" by Olaudah Equiano, adapted by Ann Cameron. I've only read this to myself so far, but it's in our queue. 

28. "Journey to Jo'Burg" by Beverley Naidoo. A little short for our list, but I did read it twice: once to myself and once aloud to the kids, since we are studying Africa right now.

27. "United States of Socialism" by Dinesh D'Souza.

26. "For the Love of Europe" by Rick Steves. 

25. "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. Audible book.

24. "The Case of the Missing Marquess" by Nancy Springer. 

23. "Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen" by J.K Rowling. Audible book. 

22. "Blackout" by Candace Owens.

21. "An Excellent Mystery" by Ellis Peters. Audible book.

20. "The Pilgrim of Hate" by Ellis Peters. Audible book.

19. "Dead Man's Ransom" by Ellis Peters. Audible book.

18. "4:50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie. Audible book.

17. "Man in the Brown Suit" by Agatha Christie. Audible book. 

16. "The Mysterious Mr. Quin" by Agatha Christie. Audible book. 

15. "I Will Repay" by Baroness Orczy. Audible book. 

14. "Dead Man's Ranson" by Ellis Peters. Audible book.

13. "The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy. Audible book.

12. "The Devil's Novice" by Ellis Peters. Audible book.

11. "The Sanctuary Sparrow" by Ellis Peters. Audible book.

10. "The Virgin in the Ice" by Ellis Peters. Audible book. 

9. "Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?" by Caitlin Doughty. 

8. "Law and Disorder: The Legendary Profiler's Relentless Pursuit of Justice" by John Doublas and Mark Olshaker. Audible book. 

7. "The Leper of St. Giles" by Ellis Peters. Audible book.

6. "The Cases That Haunt Us" by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. Audible book. 

5. "From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death" by Caitlin Doughty. 

4. "Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth" by Dr. Everett Piper. Audible book. 

3. "The Innocence of Father Brown" by G.K. Chesterton. Audible book.

2. "St. Peter's Fair" by Ellis Peters. Audible book.

1. "The Mysterious Mr. Quin: A Harley Quin Collection" by Agatha Christie. Audible book.

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I finished Confluence, the final book in the Linesman series. I also finished listening to The Goblin Emperor. I'm kind of sad to be leaving both worlds now and almost wish I hadn't read/listened so fast. 

Since I wanted to still get lost in a world that isn't ours, I picked up the next Saxon Tales/Last Kingdom book, Death of Kings. I'm guessing from the title that King Alfred will die in this book. He's been on his deathbed for the last few books. 😄 Plus history tells us it was his son, daughter, and grandson who really unified England as one country, so he needs to be out of the way for that to begin to happen.

I'm going to take a break from audio books and catch up on some podcasts as well as just listen to music for a while. I'll pull the next audio book title from my jar at the end of the month or beginning of May.

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Last night I finished The Cold Between: A Central Corps Novel by Elizabeth Bonesteel. There are a few things I'd quibble with, but overall I enjoyed the book and hope to read on in the series. I recall that @mumto2read this also.

"When her crewmate, Danny, is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps chief engineer, Commander Elena Shaw, is shocked to learn the main suspect is her lover, Treiko Zajec. She knows Trey is innocent—he was with her when Danny was killed. So who is the real killer and why are the cops framing an innocent man?

Retracing Danny’s last hours, they discover that his death may be tied to a mystery from the past: the explosion of a Central Corps starship at a wormhole near Volhynia. For twenty-five years, the Central Gov has been lying about the tragedy, even willing to go to war with the outlaw PSI to protect their secrets.

With the authorities closing in, Elena and Trey head to the wormhole, certain they’ll find answers on the other side. But the truth that awaits them is far more terrifying than they ever imagined . . . a conspiracy deep within Central Gov that threatens all of human civilization throughout the inhabited reaches of the galaxy—and beyond."

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Kareni

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Last night I finished The Cold Between: A Central Corps Novel by Elizabeth Bonesteel. There are a few things I'd quibble with, but overall I enjoyed the book and hope to read on in the series. I recall that @mumto2read this also.

"When her crewmate, Danny, is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps chief engineer, Commander Elena Shaw, is shocked to learn the main suspect is her lover, Treiko Zajec. She knows Trey is innocent—he was with her when Danny was killed. So who is the real killer and why are the cops framing an innocent man?

Retracing Danny’s last hours, they discover that his death may be tied to a mystery from the past: the explosion of a Central Corps starship at a wormhole near Volhynia. For twenty-five years, the Central Gov has been lying about the tragedy, even willing to go to war with the outlaw PSI to protect their secrets.

With the authorities closing in, Elena and Trey head to the wormhole, certain they’ll find answers on the other side. But the truth that awaits them is far more terrifying than they ever imagined . . . a conspiracy deep within Central Gov that threatens all of human civilization throughout the inhabited reaches of the galaxy—and beyond."

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Kareni

Glad you enjoyed it!  I still have the third one left to listen to.

@Robin MI ended up abandoning Quiet in Her Bones.  Sad because I read almost a hundred pages before making the decision but I decided I just wasn’t enjoying it!  Madness of Sunshine was a far different, much better, story.

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Picked up a book I'd heard of - "A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah Maas. A re-telling of the Beauty & the Beast story, I suppose it's YA even with lots of graphic sex. Terrible writing, unbelievable relationships, and a whiny teen heroine. Yes, I really didn't like it, one of those books where you're like 'can't believe this was published' let alone a best-seller. Don't recommend - if you want a good Beauty & the Beast retell, go with Robin McKinley's Beauty, far more interesting.

Reading Henry James' Portrait of a Lady, which seems to be about Americans and British struggling to grasp their relationship with one another, and their identities. Interesting as an Australian, it feels quite different but then we didn't have a war! I don't think I'd ever be a mad James fan, but he has some interesting ideas. 

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Have you ever found something of interest in a book?

Oooh, once my uncle was showing me a book his brother (another uncle) had given him. As i was skimming through the book i found a $50 bill, and then a $20, in the end I think there was $150 in that book!

I'm midway through American Gods, by Neil Gaiman. Thanks to having listened to his Nose Mythology book recently with my dc, I am catching many of his allusions, which is nice, but I'm probably missing quite a few also! Next on my stack are Connie Willis's Doomsday Book and the last Expanse book. It will be a busy weekend trying to cram in all that reading and simultaneously maintain my "productive member of the house" facade.

Plus, thanks to @Kareni posts I now have a bunch of interesting articles to read!

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I just finished a reread of Stray (Touchstone Book 1) by Andrea K. Höst which I enjoyed once again. This book is currently FREE for Kindle readers.

"On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive.

The sprawl of abandoned blockish buildings Cass discovers offers her only more puzzles. Where are the people? What is the intoxicating mist which drifts off the buildings in the moonlight? And why does she feel like she's being watched?

Increasingly unnerved, Cass is overjoyed at the arrival of the formidable Setari. Whisked to a world as technologically advanced as the first was primitive, where nanotech computers are grown inside people's skulls, and few have any interest in venturing outside the enormous whitestone cities, Cass finds herself processed as a 'stray', a refugee displaced by the gates torn between worlds. Struggling with an unfamiliar language and culture, she must adapt to virtual classrooms, friends who can teleport, and the ingrained attitude that strays are backward and slow."

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Kareni

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Oooh, once my uncle was showing me a book his brother (another uncle) had given him. As i was skimming through the book i found a $50 bill, and then a $20, in the end I think there was $150 in that book!

That is neat, Susan! I once found three five dollar bills in a used book, and my husband was surprised by two twenties in a used textbook. I know that my mother used to hide money in books; we looked carefully through all her books after she died and found nothing!

I posted in 2014 about my most intriguing find.  I'll recopy the post here:

 "Today (20 June 2014) while browsing the old book section of a local thrift store, I found something nifty in an old logic book:

A University of California, Schedule of Final Exams for April - May, 1915

It's ninety-nine years old and is in wonderful condition; it looks as though it could have been printed yesterday.

It's about 11 by 12 inches in size and printed on both sides.  So, some items of interest:

The vast majority of exams were three hours long.  (My husband who attended UCB in the seventies said that was true then as well.)

To name just a few (amongst the hundreds listed), there were exams in:

Civil Engineering

Geology

Hygiene

Celtic

Mining

Greek

Oriental Languages

Mechanics

Sanskrit

Jurisprudence - X

English - X

Zoology - X

Philosophy - X

Chemistry

Agriculture: Viticulture

Domestic Art

Latin (many, many sections)

I've marked with an X the exams the owner of this paper was scheduled to take.

The final exam for Subject A was scheduled for Monday, April 26, at 2:00pm.  My husband said that Subject A was still offered when he attended and was commonly referred to as Bonehead English.

My husband went looking for, and found, exam times for Professor Hildebrand's Chemistry classes.  This professor who was teaching classes in 1914 was still a member of the department some sixty years later when my husband was there. (ETA: I see he died in 1983 at age 102.)

And, no, we don't live in California.  So this paper has done some traveling in both time and distance."

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Kareni

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So apparently I missed posting last week.

Books I've finished in the last two weeks:

Paddington at Large  -- I like Paddington, but I'm getting tired of reading them.  I will be really glad when my days of pre-reading are over

Walk Two Moons -- This was a re-read of a Newbery winner.  I enjoyed the good storytelling and the believable characters.

The Woman in White -- Y'all have been talking about this and I had it sitting on my shelf.  It did not disappoint. :)

Hero for Hire -- a Star Wars "journal" about Han Solo -- this was a tedious pre-read for one of my kids.  Books like this should not ever make it to publication.

Fervent -- This was a really quick read on praying beyond "God bless the missionaries."

Una Esposa Conforme al Corazon de Dios -- This took me for.ev.er to read.  I'm not sure why this one took so long, but it did.

The Story Behind Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn -- Just a quick overview of Mark Twain's life and a little bit about Huck Finn.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- Still so good.  I like Tom Sawyer much better than Huck Finn; though, Pudd'nhead Wilson is my favorite Twain novel.

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