Category: Meanderings

Good morning.  😀

Did you all watch the game on Sunday?  I didn’t… not really.  I was supposed to go to a friend’s house and instead got caught up in cleaning a spare room that needed attention and after tearing that all up… well I had to big of a mess to leave.  😀 It was on the tv in the other room… and I watched the half time show and a few commercials… which really is what I enjoy most about the Super Bowl. 

Which brings me to my point.  I being an 80’s chick…. LOVED 80’s movies.  AND if you have never had the opportunity to watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off get to your last standing video store (they will be thrilled you did!) or Netflix and rent this classic 80’s movie.  You will thank me.  😀

One of the Super Bowl commercials was a spoof off this 80’s movie and I LOVED it and laughed because I knew “Ferris” then… and I know Mathew Broderick now (well… know of him… not like I know him like we chat on-line or car pool).  As always I find the Super Bowl commercials BRILLIANT (not all… but some) and this one… well…. ROCKS.

 

LOL… I may need to watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off some day soon… LOVED that movie! 

In book news, SPIN releases today and my super plan was to have my review go up today as well…. but thats not going to happen.  I am reading it … .but not done yet. 😀 

Today I work and then tonight I have a two hour work out session with my friends Amanda and Christie (Wendy if you are out there… care to join us?  😀 )

 

Click on the pic to check out the Team Kickin’ It update!

Good morning!  A quiet one here at the DeChantal home but a productive one book wise…. 😀

This morning I woke up at 2:30 am…. probably because I went to bed at 9:30 (I know – so weird for me, I am a midnight girl!)  Awake, I worked on my bedside read of Every Last Sandwich by Lee Lipenthal.  I have been struggling a bit with this one and hope to finish it later today.

I went back to sleep about 3:15 am and then got up at 6:15 am.  First stop would be brush my teeth and I turned on my audio book of 11-22-63 by Stephen King and continued on his adventures back in time…. (it sounds odd – but trust me it is FANTASTIC!).

Then I got in the jeep and went to fill our wood stove (yup… I am on stove duty the next three weeks!) and listened to Bitter Melon by Cara Chow my current car audio.  I am enjoying this one too!  Back in the house I made coffee to Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick… also getting good.

Now – as I continue to get ready for work and back to 11-22-63, I have to say yay for the weekend.  I really have nothing planned other than work outs and maybe some reading and writing. 

How about you – what is on your weekend agenda?  😀

Good morning!  I am running out the door to treat myself to a Carribou Coffee this morning so only have a minute to sqquueeee  and share that my book club has been mentioned in a book!

Last spring I was contacted by the author of this book because she had seen a post I had written about our book club and seen that we like to bring food that has to do with the book we are reading.  That is what the Book Club Cook Book is all about.  She had a list of books she wanted to be in the book and wanted book clubs to take a couple of those reads, read them and make food surrounding the book and then share with her (Judy Gelman) the review and the food we had. 

Thats normally not the way out book club rolls, we vote on a book as a group and then read it – but I asked the group is some of us were willing to do a couple of bonus reads…. an additional book to our normal stream and they said yes.  We read and reviewed Olive Kitteridge and Little Bee.  We also read and reviewed Cutting For Stone for this, but we were not chosen for that read (although…. I have to say the food we served with Cutting For Stone was amazing!)

So there it is.  That was fun and exciting! 

I am off to work and a work out later and then back home later to go through this book!  😀

Good morning!  *grabs COFFEE cup….. BIG SWIG*

It is now day two of my sabbatical from men. 

LOL – just kidding,  😛

Hubby Al is actually working a job out of town and I have been working, working out, a little reading…  I have woke up early the past couple of days which I actually like.  Time to have my COFFEE, and slowly ease into the day… ’cause if your life is like mine…. once the day starts….its full speed ahead to the end. 

Back to February.  Can you believe it?  Its baffling…. really.  Seems like just yesterday it was January….  😉  I organized what I have read in January last night and was pretty pleased with my start to the year.  Question is… how will it go this month or the next?  It’s always easier to sit and read when its cold outside…. 

This morning I received in my email a list of the Best Of February.  Always curious to see if I am missing out on anything… here is that list:

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Hardcover  |  Kindle book Delicacy by David Foenkinos Paperback  |  Kindle book The End of Money by David Wolman Hardcover  |  Kindle book The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker Paperback  |  Kindle book Defending Jacob by William Landay Hardcover  |  Kindle book Da Vinci’s Ghost by Toby Lester Hardcover  |  Kindle book A Good American by Alex George Hardcover  |  Kindle book Flatscreen by Adam Wilson Paperback  |  Kindle book The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey Hardcover  |  Kindle book Immortal Bird by Doron Weber Hardcover  |  Kindle book

I have read none of these.  Have you?  Out of the list two interest me… maybe three.  Defending Jacob sounds pretty good, The Snow Child is one I have been seeing around and has me interested, and I am not really sure at this time what Immortal Bird is about…. but I am going to check it out. 

Have you read any of these?  Do you hope to/want to?  Are there any books that should have been on this list and are not?

Good morning all!  How are we this morning?  I am on cup of COFFEE number two, been up since 5:30 and actually feeling pretty good.  I have almost shaken off the cold/flu thing entirely and am almost ready to conquer my day (after I get ready for work, warm up my car, and pack my gym bag…)  😛

So… about the post title. 

Yesterday afternoon after running home quickly after 5 pm to let the dog out, fill the stove, and grab a couple of things before I was out the door again…. I stopped by my mail box and there she was.

I knew eventually we would run into each other.  I mean, it is a small world and all and I had no illusion that I would continue my life happily never crossing paths again…. in fact, I suppose in some sick twisted way, I had hoped this would happen.  That I would have to face her and try again to work this crazy rivalry out.

And so it happened.  She was at my mailbox….  I had my mail, I ripped open a large manilla envelope while driving (kids – only trained book lovers should attempt this)… and there she was….

Jane Eyre.

I think….

I may have screamed.

Honestly, this is not the first time I raved about her.  And in all honesty, I agreed to this encounter.  When Harper Perennial emailed me with a request to read and review Ms. Eyre… I had a mini fit, stomped my feet, slammed my laptop shut, eventually came back to the laptop, wiped away my tears and said…..  “She is a difficult woman but yes, I would like to try.”  (Honestly I did tell them that I have struggled trying to read her for years and would like the chance to try try TRY again).

So here we are.  Jane and I in the same house.  I think I will challenge myself to so many pages a week or something.  Maybe baby steps is the way to go.  I know many of you love her.  I don’t know why she hates me…. but she does.  I have never been able to read beyond the first few chapters without putting myself into a book coma.  I think she has magical (and evil) powers and she drugs me….   there is no reason why I should not be able to love this book too… but this will be my fifth attempt.

Be strong for me.

Do you have any books that are considered by the world to be “Amazing!”  “I couldn’t put it down!”  BEST book ever!” and you sit on the sidelines mumbling, “yeah…. not so much.”

If so please share with me…. I would love to know I am not alone. 

Oh – and if I disappear from the blogosphere….. remember…. I was last seen with Jane.  She may be small… but she is feisty.  😯

Good morning!!!

UP early – ready to go…. things to do…. things to do….

Do I feel better?  For the most part, yes.  Not 100% and I did just sneeze… but I am moving.

Do you have any of those authors you read and then one day you decide… never again?  I had that with Stephen King.  As a teen and early 20’s – LOVED just about everything he wrote.  In fact between him and Dean Koontz…. my favorite genre at the time was dark mystery with a touch occasionally of horror.  (My how times have a changed….LOL)

Then… at some point… his writing became just odd.  I didn’t get it… I didn’t want to get it… and I gave up on King, never to be read again by me.

There’s that word never.

But who was to know that someday in the future that King would write something that would make me curious.  Who among us seen 11-22-63 coming from this author?  Not me….  and even when it did I was skeptical…. but I added it to my wish list anyway, just in case… and then the positive murmurs began.

The final selling point for me was Kathy from Bermuda Onion said she was listening to it and enjoying it very much.  I knew then my next audible credit would go to this audio chunkster… 30+ hours of audio is a BIG commitment…. but I did it a couple of days ago and I am into the story and…

wow. 

Not only so far has King impressed me with this story of going back in time to save Kennedy on that fatal day, it’s not cheesy weird.  It’s actually something I can visualize… and I like it.  It’s also smart and I have to tell you it is scoring big time with me.  As in this story, a way has been found to go back in time, yet each consecutive time you go back it sets everything you have done previously back to the way it was.  Basically – you have to do it right… and then never go back again.  AND no matter how long you are in the past – when you return to the future only two minutes have past, errr.. in the future.  

Looking for a good read or a good way to spend your audible credit that is worthy?  I think…. this may very well be it.  Treat yourself.  Surprise yourself.  Way to go King.

Good morning.

Stuffy head…. sniffling… sneezing…

I feel like a walking ad for some sort of cold and flu commercial.

I don’t get sick often but when I do…. it knocks me down.

I am ready for work…. just Advil’d up to hopefully take the edge of the queasy and moving forward. I have to get a couple of things done for sure today… if this does not pass I will be home early…

One thing I wanted to be sure and share today (not the sickness…. your safe from that :razz:) is a sale my fellow book lovers need to be aware of:

Yup.  And it’s a good sale!  As my head has allowed I have put a couple of things into my cart on their site…. still have not made it all the way through but found a Laura Lipman, and a couple of others so far.  Beware – it’s an addicting site when you can find good titles for $1.99. 

I have a review up later and hopefully will be 100% better after today….  😀