Category: Book Stuff

Rainy cold morning in Minnesota.  I drove Chance to school hurried to the office and realized that I must have left my keys on the filing cabinet yesterday as I am keyless….

Locked out.  No entry.  Nada.

No one else comes in until 9 and since I work in a building that has many other businesses I am sitting in the foyer at a little round table, Coffee Cup in one hand and writing this post with the other until someone else comes in. And of course I have the book with me that I was going to write my review for this morning, Sir Dalton and the Shadow Heart by Chuck Black.

Lap top.  Coffee Cup.  Book.  … things could be much worse.  🙂

Today I am kind of nostalgic…. maybe it is the music being piped in through these halls.  Mariah Carey is singing a Hero comes Along and I am actually tearing up.  What’s with that?

And now I’m Too Sexy For My Shirt is playing by Right Said Fred… the nostalgic spell is broken.  Now my eyes are rolling…  LOL

Have a great morning everyone.  Any favorite rainy day reads out there?

I am up and active and I even have Coffee Put with me (YES!!!)!  Chance has a bus pass! 

Pause for gratuitous dance in my living room…

It may not seem like a big deal but it has earned me about an hour of free time between the running to school and going back at 3:15 to pick him up.

This morning, I want to talk about a set of books that have been on my mind lately….over at J Kaye’s Blog I had read about the 39 Clues by Patrick Carman.  I believe I have seen these or at least one of them on another blog prior to this, but something about the way J Kaye talked about these books made me really dig into what she was saying.  I think these would be books that Chance and I could enjoy together.  There are currently 5 books out and J Kaye reports that the series will end with a total of 10 in 2010.

I encourage you to go visit J Kayes Blog (it is a ROCKING blog by the way)… read about the books and see if they peek your interest.  They have mine and are on my wish list tab now.

*Stay tune as in a couple hours my Wednesday Book Club Feature is making what could possibly be its final showing here.  I hope not, but that will be up to all of you my wonderful readers and especially those of you in books clubs.

Ever have one of those mornings that you meander no further than your email box?  I just did….  woke up and prepped for my day out the door 30 minutes later with Chance to school and now I am in the office using the 15 minutes I have before I officially “go to work”.

So with Coffee Cup now in hand… I have opened my email to discover this list of the current New York Times top 10 List.  What a great list!  I really want to read The Lost Symbol (currently #1!),

The Last Song by Sparks (#2) I would like to read – but it is not a must read for me.

#3 I am really excited about – The Help is going to be our first online book club read and is currently waiting on my shelf!  (Still time to join in on this group read!)

#4… I actually prefer the movies in this case to the actual Alex Cross books by Patterson….

#5- I have never read Pat Conroy or #6 Clive Cussler

#7… I covet.  It’s true.  I have entered contests for this book and have not won…. I will have this book!  🙂  I must read this book!

#8  Charlaine Harris is an author I want to read as I have heard so much about these books – but as of this date, I have not read her.

#9 I have heard a bit about by reading blogs… not sure if it is a fit for me or not

and #10… I don’t think I have heard of this one.

How about you?  Any must reads or have read on this list?  Any other books that should be on this list?

	“The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown Read more “The Last Song” by Nicholas Sparks Read more “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett Read more “Alex Cross’s TRIAL” by James Patterson Read more “South of Broad” by Pat Conroy Read more “Spartan Gold” by Clive Cussler Read more “The White Queen” by Philippa Gregory Read more “Dead and Gone” by Charlaine Harris Read more “The Girl Who Played with Fire” by Stieg Larsson Read more “A Gate at the Stairs” by Lorrie Moore Read more

We are back and I think I am rested and ready to get back on track.  Sunday morning we left to join my cousin and his wife and baby at the Vikings Game.  Al, Chance, and I had never been to a Vikings game before so jumped to say “yes” when it was offered.  I am not a football fan but it is always different when you are actually there and I thought maybe... just maybe… this could be the event that changes my heart.

I loved the atmosphere – we had great seats to a sold out event.  Over 60,300 people is what they announced. If you are a football fan you may have already heard about this game.  12 seconds left and the Vikings are down by by 4 points.  Vikings fans are walking out of the game and I am thinking what that must feel like to the players…  the fans already taking a defeat that has not been been established yet.  Then….  Favre throws the winning touchdown that is complete with 2 seconds on the clock!  2 seconds!  The crowd goes wild and I am thinking about those people who left early who are now half way to their cars…  and their friends who knew they went to the game calling them and saying “WOW!!!!  So cool that you were there for that amazing play!  I am so jealous!”

and they didn’t even see it….

Oh…. my…. I sound like a football fan.  🙂

My pics:

I’ll be back later today….  have to get in my Its Monday… what am I Reading post and a review.  🙂

Saturday!

I am actually blogging from bed!  No huge commitments today and as I look out the window it is a dreary fall day here in central Minnesota.  I am having visions of making sloppy jo’s for lunch for Al and Chance and in a weird fall mood that I think includes baking pumpkin bars or some fall treat like that.  I am anticipating that delicious scent in the house.

This morning, Coffee Cup and I have been on Book Blogs on the forums which I hardly ever have time to do any more – yet hope I can get back on there.  I love to help new bloggers with their questions and have been assisting one with her blog.

The BIG plan today is to finish up the housekeeping project which mainly now is the giveaways.  I have some to close up – and a couple new ones to add.  Oh, and I am helping Chance today start a blog and write his first review.  That should be fun too!

Tomorrow Al, I, and Chance have been invited to go to the Vikings Game by my cousin.  We will leave here around 7:30 am to get there by 11 am to hopefully get field tickets for Chance.  This should be a blast and you know there will be pictures!

I have mentioned before how while morning blog hopping a blog can lead to a blog that leads to yet another blog….  (don’t pretend you don’t know what I mean…LOL)

A few days ago I was popping in to see a few of my favs and I was over at a A Few Minutes With Michael catching up on what is going on in his life when I linked to another blog from a post on his.  The blog is called Serendipity.  I think it was partly the  layout…. part header (what a great header)… and most definitely the book review that popped up on top…. but I was suddenly amazed that I had not seen this blog before.

The review that I seen was for a book I had never heard of, Flyte by Angie Sage.  It has YA Fantasy all over it and while this is a pretty new genre for me… I seen to have recently embraced a few books that have come my way that have fallen in this category (Bran Hambric for one…) .  I red her review to discover this wasnt even the first book in this series.  It is actually book two and she links to the review of the first one which again… I suddenly felt that all to familiar feeling that this was a must read for me.

I highly encourage you to take a minute or two today to go see Vivienne’s blog Serendipity.  I have been back to her blog several times over the past few days and see other book and reviews that I have enjoyed.

I was so excited to get this post up this morning before I took off for my new morning routine of “delivery person” to the school that I totally left Coffee Cup out of this post today…. in fact – even out of my hand as I am up and typing and then off to get ready – all pre coffee.  Amazing!  I am totally caffeine free and typing…..  it is a miracle!  LOL