December 2012 – Page 3

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

Published on December 9, 2012 by Sheila (Book Journey)56 Comments

Welcome to It’s Monday! What Are You Reading! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme I love to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme. I offer a weekly contest for those who visit 10 or more of the Monday Meme participants and leave a comment telling me how many you visited. **You do not have to have a blog to participate! You receive one entry for every 10 comments, just come back here and tell me how many in the comment area.

Last weeks winner: Shannon from I Run, Teach, Read!

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I had a great week and a busy weekend! Here is what I posted this past week:

ZIP.

Yup. I don’t know what happened – the week ran away with my laptop time. 😯 I got in a couple morning chats but that was it.

I thought I would have time, apparently I didn’t. To show you that I have been doing something with my time, this is what I was doing this weekend:

That’s me this past Saturday, working on my gun safety training class and permit. It was exhilarating, fun, scary, and I passed. 😀

The two above pictures are my project today – I am making coasters for my book club. We have our Christmas Party on Tuesday and I am looking forward to hanging out with some of my favorite people. 😀

As far as what I am reading this week, I have to finish the book club book, The Christmas List. Then I am starting:

One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe’s life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared.

While his father, who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Their quest takes them first to the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning.

I am really looking forward to this book!

A dominant force in the sport of ultrarunning, Scott Jurek is a seven-time winner of the 100-mile Western States Endurance Run and a two-time winner of the 135-mile Badwater Ultramarathon through Death Valley. Eat & Run offers an inspirational account of Jurek’s life as a runner and vegan. Regaling listeners with jaw-dropping tales of endurance, Jurek also delivers sound science and practical advice – as well as his favorite plant-based recipes.

I am enjoying this one. I love books on fitness, endurance and making it happen.

With a meeting tomorrow, Book Club on Tuesday, Student helping on Wednesday a meeting at my house on Thursday – I think this is all I am putting on my to read.

What are you reading this week? Please add your link below to where it says click here. I am excited to see what you are reading… holiday books, award winners, cozies…. whats on your “to read” this week. 😛

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Morning Meanderings… pics of the past

Published on December 8, 2012 by Sheila (Book Journey)20 Comments

Good morning! What a surprise! Another Saturday I am running out the door, this time to gun training class (dont ask… Bucket List thing 😛 ) but I wanted to put some pics up for Alyce’s Saturday Snapshot.

A couple days ago I was digging through some old papers and started looking at pictures. This time of year from Thanksgiving to Christmas is always a little harder on me as I think a lot about my family, all of which who are gone from this earth at young ages.

I thought today I would post a couple of my dad with the King Salmon he caught in 1979:

**Dad and my Uncle Dallas. All pics taken in Soldotna ALaska**

and one more I found …

The last one is me – I think three years old? Notice I am wearing one show….LOL

Ok, got to get ready but stop over to see Alyce at At Home With Books to see others Saturday Snapshots.

As a Book Lover, Are Books On Your Christmas/Wish List?

Published on December 7, 2012 by Sheila (Book Journey)26 Comments

It’s that time of year, even though Minnesota is just starting to get t the snow part which as much as I hate snow, it does make it feel more like the season. SO looking out the window at the lawn, it makes it a little hard to believe that in about two weeks it will be Christmas.

I think it is always funny when friends/family say “I know you love to read but you have so many books that I would never get you a book.”

What they are missing is I love getting books for any occasion.

A book from a friend to me means it is something they think I will enjoy. I love the meaning behind that. They are sharing an adventure within the pages and if they have already read it and want to share that adventure with me, even better. How many gifts out there really come in a nice square (EASY to wrap!) package that is not only lovely to hold… but to go inside, and meet …

people!

places!

things!

That is so exciting to me!

To let me friends and family know the books I hope to experience, I keep an Amazon wish list. I find it easy to use, quick to add new books to, and it makes an easy way for others to pick out something they know I would love.

My questions to you is that as fellow book lovers (HIGH FIVE!) Are books on your wish list? Do you receive books from friends and family as gifts? How do you communicate to them what you would enjoy reading?

Morning Meanderings… Books and Guns

Published on December 7, 2012 by Sheila (Book Journey)16 Comments

Good morning! Wow, I have been up since 6:30, filled the stove, completed some laundry, cleaned the kitchen and have listened to some audio. Later I have some more house cleaning to do, a few errands to run and then later afternoon I am looking forward to a little quiet reading time.

Tomorrow… is another story. I am signed up for the Permit To Carry Class. This is a gun training class that has been on my bucket list for a few years now. As much as I do not want to spend 8 hours in a class on a Saturday (my FAVORITE day of the week!), this is something I want to complete…. so there it is.

A friend of mine is coming over later today to let me use her gun for practice today and for the class tomorrow. All of this cracks me up a bit because it even seems funny to me that I am doing this, but the bottom line is I want to know how to handle a gun, and the best way to do that is to go through the proper training.

Anyhoo…. that’s whats happening here. 😀 I have a post or two I want to write and am going to work on that now before I get busy on this house.

Hope your weekend is going to be AWESOME. What are your plans?

Morning Meanderings…. Hair today… gone tomorrow

Published on December 6, 2012December 6, 2012 by Sheila (Book Journey)33 Comments

Good morning! Thursday already…. honestly I don’t know where the week went. I have had something going on every night this week and it seems like I have run from the house in the morning, to home in the late afternoon, to errands, to evening commitments, to home in the later evening….

only to do it all again the next day.

Tonight though is a free space and I am looking forward to it! I am once again in need of an unwind day and this should be it. 😀

On Monday I went in for a little trim on my hair. It was a little longer than shoulder length and I told my stylist who has cut my hair forever (seriously…. I think it has been like 14 years!) that I was feeling radical and I needed a change. I gave her free rein to do as she will…

and she did:

Mmmmm hmmmmm. When she took that first cut of more than the “radical” one inch I was thinking, I thought… “Ok, let’s do this.” So yes, currently my hair is a bit shorter than I wanted but my hair grows fast and in about 5 weeks I should be happy. 😀

I don’t hate it. It’s just really REALLY short.

Really short.

Really.

Around here in books I am making progress on Forgotten Road. In audio One Second After has made me cry twice and really think about how much we (yes, you too!) rely on electricity to do life. In my car I am listening to Mad River by John Sanford and holy smokes Kathy, you were right.. good… but wow.

So that’s my update. What are you reading/listening to today?

2013 Challenges hosted by Book Journey

Published on December 2, 2012January 14, 2013 by Sheila (Book Journey)10 Comments

The New 2013 WHERE Are You Reading Challenge Sign up has begun! It’s a lot of fun and I hope you will join me in the around the world in books adventure! Simply click on the widget to the left to go to the sign up page.

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

Published on December 2, 2012December 2, 2012 by Sheila (Book Journey)34 Comments

Last weeks winner: West Virginia Red Reads!

Congratulations! Please choose a book or bookish item from the Reading Cafe!

I just came back home this afternoon from a WONDERFUL weekend at the cabin. My friend Laura and I went and crafted the weekend away. I made a new project that I LOVED (more on that later). We watched movies, crafted and are delicious food…. it was a lot of fun.

This past week here is what went on here at Book Journey:

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (I highly recommend this book/audio!)

The Quilter’s Homecoming by Jennifer Chiaverini (what an interesting book!)

2013 WHERE Are You Reading Challenge is posted! 😀 Sign up and join in

the fun!

This week while I am finishing up One Second After on audio, and The Forgotten Road in book format, I will be also working on:

Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. For Sam, this means a reckoning with his werewolf past. For Grace, it means facing a future that is less and less certain.

the loss.
Into their world comes a new wolf named Cole, whose past is full of hurt and danger. He is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of a human.

the linger.
For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life is a constant struggle between two forces–wolf and human–with love baring its two sides as well. It is harrowing and euphoric, freeing and entrapping, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But will it be enough?

Yes – I read this one a couple years ago – but I just found it on audio for a very good price so here we go again 😀 And its set in Minnesota which I need on my map 😀

On the day her daughter leaves for college, Anne Colwater’s husband of twenty years announces he wants a divorce. Her roles of wife and mother suddenly gone, Annie retreats to her childhood home of Mystic, Washington, to heal. There she finds her old friend Nick, suddenly widowed and unable to cope with his emotionally scarred young daughter, Izzie. Annie agrees to look after Izzie, and soon finds herself caring for both father and daughter with a joy and passion she never expected – and she finds her love returned with a fervor she had never even hoped for. But love is never simple, and it is not until Annie learns a hard lesson from her own grown daughter that she finds the strength to claim the happiness she has earned.

Another sale audio… a short one, a little over two hours.

Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And what’s-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns.

The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it captured on the killers’ cell phones and sent to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run them down. But even he doesn’t realize what’s about to happen next.

Would you believe I have never read John Sanford? It’s true!

So that is what I will be working on this week between life and work. I am excited to see what you will be reading! 😀 Please add your what are you reading link below where it says click here: