Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by A Striped Armchair and Out of the Blue that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library.
Here is what I checked out this week:
DeSeRt RoSe at DeSeRt RoSe BoOkLoGuE kindly thought of me to award me this so darn cute award.. I thank her for her kindness and thoughtfulness 🙂
This is what this award means..
“We give and get awards for having a great blog and being a good friend. What I want to award is those people whose comments have meant THE WORLD to me. It takes time to visit a blog and leave a comment … I wanted to recognize some special bloggers whose comments have made such an impact on me. The “You Don’t Say?” Award is awarded to these special bloggers in hopes that they will pass the award along to 5-10 of their best commenters!”
I got this cute widget (I love the names for these things!) and so was able to get the names of my top commenters. I took 5 from two of my blogs and two that are new to me. How they found me I have no idea. Please check out their blogs. Word to the wise, if you go to Lilly’s blog and read the post about her almost getting arrested, DO NOT be eating or drinking anything, unless you want to choke or spray your computer, it is that funny. Now to passing this award to my best commenters 🙂
Happy Monday!! Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page. We share what books that we found in our mailboxes last week. I also include books I have bought. Here’s what I received:
More free e-books:
Jane Austen – Mansfield Park
Alexandre Dumas – Twenty Years After
William Shakespeare – The Tragedy of King Lear
And these are the last of the free e-books.
A Worthy Legacy by Tomi Akinyanmi, free from the author for review.
With just the clothes on her back, and her ever present pessimism, she ends up in the town of Harmony on San Miguel Island, where she learns it is possible to trust people and let them help her. With a new job, new skills and new friends, she starts to build a new life, but her past life intrudes. There is soon a constant reminder and she reaches out to her estranged mother as she embraces an uncertain future.
The book is written in the first person, in the present, with ‘flashbacks’, a format that is not my favorite, in the skilled hands of Judith Hendricks it works. The past is brought forth in a series of memories, tied to present events, and as these memories are told, they explain Sunny’s present day actions. The vivid descriptions of the heat and the dust and later the fog and rain and black dirt give a sense of realism and richness to the account. This was a pleasant and enjoyable read. A believable story that was easy to follow.
I only had one problem, when I first read the description, I thought San Miguel Island was in the Caribbean, when I realized that the location was off the coast of Washington State I got totally confused since I lived there for 4 years and don’t remember a San Miguel Island, so I Googled it. Yes there is no San Miguel Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and there is a Harmony, WA but its about 225 miles from the San Juan Islands. There is however, a Lopez Island and Orcas Island. Just a little bit of trivia for any other OCD readers.
That being said, I enjoyed reading this book, and recommend it.
Yikes. As part of an effort to cut $30 million from its 2010 budget, the California Institute of Technology is “eliminating books from the bookstore,” as Campus Marketplace put it. The Caltech Bookstore is being merged with the campus convenience store and will be known as the Caltech Store. The new store will sell clothing, food and logo items. The only books available will be by Cal Tech authors.
Texts will be sold online; the staff of the store is creating a site that it hopes will link easily to a campus-wide program that is used regularly by faculty and students.
"The Brooklyn Public Library's main branch at Grand Army Plaza was my field of dreams. I met Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren there, Studs Lonigan by James T. Farrell, and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. That library introduced me to Chaim Potok's book The Chosen, as well as to Richard Wright's Native Son. In a tough neighborhood the library can be a refuge, a safe place. But it is also a place to dream of fitting in and understanding others who don't fit in. And for me it was also a place to dream of being a writer."–Juan Williams, news analyst for NPR, political analyst for Fox News and author of six books, speaking to the Washington Post's Short Stack book blog.
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Obituary Note: Judith Krug, a director of the American Library Association and a founder of Banned Books Week, died Saturday. She was 69, the Associated Press reported. Krug, who had been head of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom since 1967, was ill for more than a year with stomach cancer.
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Happy Monday!! Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page. We share what books that we found in our mailboxes last week. I also include books I have bought. Here’s what I received:
More free e-books:
Many thanks to Kerrie (seriously addicted to crime fiction) at MYSTERIES in PARADISE who has given me this award.
This award which is given to new blogs and blogging friends.
The rules to follow are:
1) Accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his or her blog link.
2) Pass the award to 15 other blogs that you’ve newly discovered. Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award.
The recipients are:
So not all these are new or even new to me, to be perfectly honest, I don’t remember exactly when I started following them. I am pretty sure I have not awarded any of them with an award yet.
And I realize that I went over the number, I just kept finding blogs I wanted to include. Also, I know that some people don’t pass on awards or even like to participate so this takes care of those bloggers and no one has to feel obligated.
Got it posted and passed on, now just to notify the recipients, tomorrow.
National Library Week is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation’s libraries and librarians. All types of libraries – school, public, academic and special – participate.
Check out your local library to find out what they are doing in celebration of this week and support our libraries.
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I am reading the Bible, books, magazines, online newspaper articles, blogs, jokes on candy wrappers, ads on the subway, billboards, backs of food boxes, lists of ingredients and recipes, cleaning directions, sayings on shirts, then I write and write. When I'm not reading, I'm experiencing life, trying out new restaurants and getting massages. I write about those places here, take a look, you might find something you like.
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