"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Friday Fun!

It's Friday again. Time for some blogging fun!


I'm reading Where She Went by Gayle Forman and loving it.  Here are two quotes:
*First Line Friday at A Few More Pages.
*The Friday 56 at Freda's Voice.

"Every morning I wake up and tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through."  -Page 1, Opening Line
"And in a few seconds my hand is at my side and it's like I've transferred a little of my crazy to Mia because it looks like her own hand is trembling. But I can't be sure because I'm drifting away on a fast current. And the next thing I know, I hear the door to her dressing room click behind me, leaving me out on the rapids and Mia back on the shore."  -Page 56

Well, it is pretty obvious from both the first line and page 56 that Adam is one depressed boy and his foul mood has a lot to do with Mia.
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 Where do you keep your books at home and how do you have them organized?

I have one large bookshelf in my family room and several smaller bookshelves where I store my books.  But I have too many books and many of them overflow into piles on the floor, stacks on my bedside table, and on my desk.  I just cleaned and tidied the main book shelf yesterday.  Now I have four new piles on the floor.  1. Books I'm going to donate to my library; 2. Books I am donating to friends or the public library; 3. Books that belong to my daughter Rita and she needs to decide what to do with them; 4. Ditto #3 except the pile belongs to my other daughter, Carly. I organize my books according to topics and authors, at least in theory.
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Featured Blog this Week: We Fancy Books.  Congratulations!!!

Question of the week:  What three authors would I love to have a good sit down chat with?

1. Libba Bray- I am currently listening to Beauty Queens read and narrated by Bray herself.  She is hilarious.
2.  John Green- I am a wanna-be Nerdfighter and I love all his books.
3.  Barbara Kingsolver-She is my hero, I admire her writing so much.