2011 Where Are You Reading Challenge

This Challenge starts January 1, 2011 – December 31st 2011.  The Challenge consists of reading at least one book that covers each of the 50 states of America and you can add as many other countries as you like. So how do you decide what state a book is categorized under? 1.  In a fiction [...]

Morning Meanderings… The books that grabbed me this week

Good morning.  Life is pretty insane these days as I juggle my way through the next 30 hours before I head to the airport.  I am trying to balance the “to do’s” with some down time each day so I do not get overwhelmed and crack like an egg… seriously… I can’t imagine it would  [...]

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading, is where we gather to share what we have read this past week and what we plan to read this week.  It is a great way to network with other bloggers, see some wonderful blogs, and put new titles on your reading list. I love being a part of [...]

Morning Meanderings…. The Secret Is Out – It Is I Who Has The Invisibility Cloak

Good Morning! I wanted to share with you my funny (or really – not so much) shopping experience I had recently with Chance.  Our destination was to go a certain (I will not mention the name) establishment where the idea was for Chance to get a haircut, while that was happening I was going to [...]

How About Some AMAZING Winners?

Crackling fireworks Batman!  It is time to announce some winners for recent giveaways…..  I am hoping to have all my winners in and mailed by the time I leave on Wednesday…. so lets see what Random.Org had to say… My Lost Daughter by Nancy Thayer Rosenberg I have three lovely copies of this book and [...]

Coffee and Fate by R.J. Erbacher

Val is your average run of the mill college student.  She has a roommate Jean and friends she enjoys  hanging out with… Bud is an elderly man…. having raised his own kids, and now enjoying now only their kids, but also their kids-kids, his life is full. Yet both Val and Bud hold a secret. [...]

Morning Meanderings… What To Do With A Saturday…

Good morning! I love days when you can get up grab a cup of coffee and your laptop and go back to bed.  Saturday is my favorite day of the week!  AND – here it is… in all its glory it is spread out before me like a port-hole….. so many choices of which direction [...]

Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman (audio review)

“Momma always told me, being in the North isn’t living…. its absolute hell.” Cecelia Rose Honeycutt   Cecelia (Cee Cee) Honeycutt is twelve years old but feels she has had to be an adult almost her entire life.  Her father (and we use the term loosely) is never around.  he travels for his job and [...]

Morning Meandering….Turkey Coma…..

Good morning!  Hopefully you all had wonderful Thanksgivings and are now having a wonderful Friday!  I figure we all fall into one of these categories for today: Crazed shopped who got up at 3 am and proceeded to stretch and do squats and lunges before they charged out the door to get in on all [...]

The GaMeS BiBLe by Leigh Anderson

I am a game lover.  A BIG one.  I have an entire double wide closet devoted to games in our family room.  I am a game addict.  If you remember last year about this time I had the awesome (AWESOME!) opportunity to review BLURT as well as a really interesting book called Timeless Toys.  I [...]