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Sunday, March 31, 2024

BW14: N is for Non Sequitur

 

“The glass-blower's cat is bompstable,” said Mr. Parker aloud and distinctly.” ~ Dorothy L. Sayers


Grandpa Joe: "I used to work for him, you know."
Charlie: "You did?"
Grandpa Joe: "I did."
Grandma Josephine: "He did."
Grandpa George: "He did."
Grandma Georgina: "I love grapes."
~Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 



Hi! Happy Sunday and Happy Easter for all who celebrate!  April is upon us and with April showers bring May flowers so let it rain.  April is also Stress Awareness Month, National Humor month, and National Card and Letter Writing Month. So send a funny card or send a humorous caring letter to someone this month and make their day, week, or year. 

As we all know, Easter Sunday is always followed by Dyngus day in Poland on Monday so have fun and follow it up with Tuesday's Children's book day, then Wednesday's National Walking day and explore somewhere new. Follow it up with Thursday's Walk around Things day since you're probably lost by now. Then Friday's Read a Road Map day which is necessary when traveling with your hubby.  After our last road trip, I purchased National Geographics Adventure Edition U.S Atlas, a paper map of the United States California, and Arizona.  Eventually we'll buy a map of all the individual states in the U.S. because hubby doesn't trust electronic maps. They like to send you weird places. 

And why is it when I look up Non Sequitur on the Internet, I found The Non Sequitur Survival Guide for the Nineties but no other decade?   What happened in the nineties?  I guess we all lost logic and reason in the 90's.  Something to think about. 

And our April author  and book of the month is Bonnie Garmus and her debut novel Lessons in Chemistry." 

"Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.

But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo."


It's different, it's maddening, it's unusual, it's heart wrenching, it's all the feels. Proceed with caution. 

Big N, little N, what begins with N: Nudge, nurture, noteworthy, and nuance. 

Nanu nanu!!!


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Sunday, March 24, 2024

BW13: 52 Books Bingo - Musician

 



Happy Sunday! The musical earworm stuck in my head today is Lady Gaga's Million Reasons which if you'll notice also starts with M and is our letter of the week, which leads me to our next 52 Books Bingo Category - Musician.  Don't you hate run on sentences. I was helping my son with his philosophy class today and the text for the philosopher of the week used long run on sentences with double and triple negatives making it so convoluted, you had to read it several times to figure out what he was trying to say.  Thank goodness musicians make songs easy to understand with their repetitive melodies or story telling in musical form.  

There are numerous directions we can go with the category of Musician whether you wish to learn about music or an instrument; read a biography about a famous or not so famous musician;  read a fictional tale involving a musician or musical event; or read a book with music on the cover or in the title; or whatever your imagination conjures up for the letter M. 

Have fun and enjoy! 

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Sunday, March 17, 2024

BW12: Happy St. Patrick's Day

 




St. Patrick’s Day

by

Jean Blewett


There’s an Isle, a green Isle, set in the sea,

     Here’s to the Saint that blessed it!

And here’s to the billows wild and free

     That for centuries have caressed it!


Here’s to the day when the men that roam

     Send longing eyes o’er the water!

Here’s to the land that still spells home

     To each loyal son and daughter!


Here’s to old Ireland—fair, I ween,

     With the blue skies stretched above her!

Here’s to her shamrock warm and green,

     And here’s to the hearts that love her!


L is for luck of the irish, love, and laughter!


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Sunday, March 10, 2024

BW11: Knowledge versus Wisdom


 

Happy Sunday!   Are knowledge and wisdom the same thing?  Not exactly. Knowledge comes from education, learning about different subjects, getting the facts, acquiring the skills, an understanding of how things work.  Wisdom is knowing what to do with those facts, skills, and information.

"Knowledge is love and light and vision." ~- Helen Keller

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it." - Thomas Jefferson.

Which brings us to our next 52 Books Bingo category -  Wisdom. - and our letter of the week - K - which brings us to Knowledge. 

Inspiring books such as the Tao of Pooh to the thoughtful wisdom books of the bible to the fictional tales of inspiration and thought, Wisdom and Knowledge presents us with a very broad category from which to choose. 

28 Books that Will Open Your Mind, Expand Your Knowledge & Transform the Way You Live

Novels for thought

What Books Would You Recommend Someone Read to Improve their General Knowledge of the World?

50 Short Books Packed with Wisdom


Don't forget to change your clocks tonight - We are springing forward. 

Happy reading! 

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Sunday, March 3, 2024

BW10: March Author of the Month - Rebecca Yarros


“I am the sky and the power of every storm that has ever been. I am infinite.” ~ Fourth Wing

Happy Sunday! Welcome to March and National Irish Heritage month as well as Women's History Month. Today is also Namesake Day in celebration on the history of our names.  Years ago, when we were thinking of names before our son was born,  our relatives managed to turn every name into a nick name, prompting us to change our minds several times. We settled on the name that meant to most to us historically, musically, and personally.  Remind me to tell you the story one of these days.  

Our author of the month is Rebecca Yarros, a military mom with six kids who writes stand alone contemporary romance, military romance, as well as has a new fantasy series.  Her stories will make you laugh and cry and cheer and give you all the feels.  Yarros was a new to me author when I read The Last Letter and her writing and the roller coaster of emotions experienced while reading the story made me want to read all her books. Which leads me to the first two books in her  young adult fantasy series Fourth Wing and Iron Flame all about dragon riders. 

"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die."

It is the year of the dragon after all. Join me in reading Fourth Wing. 

Our post is sponsored by the letter J for justice, juggernaut, juxtaposition, and journaling. 

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