photo credit here "Where you tend a rose, my lad,A thistle cannot grow."This edition, the one above which is illustrated by Tasha Tudor, was the copy of The Secret Garden I first ...
It all started with the coupon from Barnes and Noble. "Save 15% on one item," it read. That seemed simple enough. Until I got to the cash register, with my Nook tablet and cash in h...
Its Saturday morning. The washing machine is going, the dryer is going, the grading of papers is slowing. The end of the year is always a bit overwhelming, as I need to average grades, enter them int...
I have never been in a Japanese garden... seen the cherry blossoms in front of Mt. Fuji... eaten real Japanese food... or worn a Japanese school uniform... But, I have read Japanese literature. Not i...
Clara and Mr. Tiffany is a work of historical fiction by Susan Vreeland, the author who also wrote The Girl In Hyacinth Blue. It is an eloquent look at the woman who designed the intricatel...
Ive just begun In One Person which Simon and Schuster sent to me earlier this month. And it occurs to me that I have stacks of John Irving novels as yet unread on my shelf by the fireside. Stacks. Un...
"On the day after my mothers death, I returned to 83 Beals Street for the first time in fifteen years. I had stolen something from there when I was almost nine years old and kept it long aft...
After writing down the names of the eligible readers who expressed an interest in receiving I Am Forgiven and folding their names in half, it was determined that the winner for this novel is: Sara! C...
Another Mothers Day has come and gone. The men were lined up by the Hallmark cards at Target yesterday, searching for just the right words someone else wrote for their wives. Or, mothers. I smiled as...
"Judith unfastened the clasp of her pearl necklace, Yoels present, that she had already chosen as her sign to let him know when she would be permitted. She placed the necklace next to the prayer ...
In my blogging travels today I came upon a read-along invitation for The Secret Garden hosted by Book Journey. The idea is to read this lovely childrens book and post on it May 31 with...
Can we talk about this book for a minute? Because a minute is about all I want to give it. In fact, I never thought Id stoop to putting up a post about it on my blog, but truly, Im curious as to how ...
which doesnt even begin until a month from today! But by then Ill be out of school and able to read (gasp!) and blog (gasp!) and cycle (gasp!) almost full time. The schedule is listed here on the sit...
A few verses to honor this day: "I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers..." Philemon 4:4 "...pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous ...
MY SKY We were outisde in the street me and some other kids kicking the ball before dinner and Sky was chasing chasing chasing with his feet going every which way and his tail wag-wag-wagging and his...
"After that, for several months, mother and ayah took it in turns to open and close my lids. "Hell learn, Madam," Mary comforted Amina, "He is a good and obedient child and he will ge...
What started as a joy to read quickly became tedious for me because I cannot read endless pages with sentences which have no punctuation whatsoever strung one after another filled with meta...
"I gathered by my courage and looked up. "I want to know what it was that Mariana saw through the window in the Cavalier bedroom. All my flashbacks are tied to a physical place, you see, and ...
"There! You see!" said the Ape. "Its all arranged. And for all your own good. Well be able, with the money you earn, to make Narnia a country worth living in. Therell be oranges and banan...
Dolly knew, as she looked round at the long wedding-veil stretching away forever, and at the women, too, so busy all around her, that something remarkable and upsetting in her life was steadily going...
It is now 3:30, and all I have accomplished for the Read-a-thon are finishing the "required reading" for Midnights Children which will be posted on April 30 and the first 80 pages of Bal...
As the day of the Read-a-thon dawns fresh and bright, I am nearing the end of my first goal: Book Two of Salman Rushdies Midnights Children which I am reading with Arti and a few others. It took awhi...
photo credit here "Jack wasnt one to believe in fairy-tale maidens made of snow. Yet Faina was extraordinary. Vast mountain ranges and unending wilderness, sky and ice. You couldnt hold her too c...
World Book Night, which is on Shakespeares birthday, April 23, 2012. Today my husband and I went to Andersons Bookstore to pick up the book Im giving away. There were about 100 Givers there, so excit...
To me, the great favor which Scandinavian crime novels have enjoyed is greatly overrated. Stieg Larsson, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Jo Nesbo write thrillers with a great plot, but also wit...
"This is the first time I have used the beautiful manuscript book Simon gave me--and the fountain pen which came from him yesterday. A scarlet pen and a blue and gold leather-bound book--what cou...
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Baltasar and Blimunda, by Jose Saramago, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. Goodreads says that it is a “ brilliant...enchanting novel (New York Times Book Review) of romance, dece...
Perhaps the best way to describe the experience is to post a few thoughts from my journal during the past 46 days. Here are the most pertinent bits: February 17, 2012 Sometim...
"Too much sorrow could deform the spirit." When the opera, Madame Butterfly, closes we are left with the geisha Cio-Cio slain by her own hand while holding onto the fierce hope that her ...
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