"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” ― Madeleine L'Engle
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Sunday, May 19, 2024
BW21: U is for ...
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Bw20: Happy Mother's Day
Happy Mother's Day!
T
is for
Terrific and tenacious,
Timeless and tireless,
Tangible and transparent,
Tough and tolerant,
Trusting and tranquil,
Thoughtful and true!
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
BW19: 52 Books Bingo - Space
“The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are:
1) Silence;
2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and
3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Happy Sunday! A door opens up and you see...Space. You look up into the sky and see...Space. You climb aboard a train and look for...Space.
According to Dictionary.com:
Space is the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
The portion or extent of this in a given instance; extent or room in three dimensions: a space your body occupies.
In Fine Arts, space is the designed and structured surface of a picture, or the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface.
In Mathematics. space is a system of objects with relations between the objects defined.
In Storytelling, space is an interval of time; a while.
In Music, space is the interval between two adjacent lines of the staff.
In Telegraphy, space is an interval during the transmitting of a message when the key is not in contact.
Outer Space which is the space beyond the atmosphere of the earth or Deep Space which is the space beyond the limits of the solar system
Oh my. Space travel sound rather perilous.
I can assure you they will never get me on
one of those dreadful Star Ships. C-3PO from Star Wars.
In our household, we are big fans of everything Star Wars, so if you have a hankering to explore through their extended world, check out these massive list of canon in chronological order and legends in chronological order.
Have fun traveling in, out, and about space!
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Sunday, April 28, 2024
BW18: May Author of the Month - Peng Shepherd
Happy Sunday! Our author of the month is Peng Shepherd who writes speculative fiction as well as mysteries. Shepherd's debut novel, The Book of M, released in 2018 won Dartmouth College's 2019 Neukom Institute for Literary Arts Award for Debut Speculative Fiction. Her second book, The Cartographers, was an international best seller, and her third book, All This and More will be released in July of this year. I'm currently reading The Cartographers which is about a young woman who finds a map with a dark and deadly secret, in a hidden drawer of her deceased father's desk.
I have always been fascinated by Cartography, the study, science, and practice of drawing and using maps, which brings us to one of our 52 Book's Bingo categories. From the real life cartographic crimes like in Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey to writing books like Maps of the Imagination by Peter Turchi, to creating your own maps in Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel, to fictional tales of mapmakers such as The Mapmaker's War by Ronlyn Domingue, they have all been an adventure to read.
Have fun exploring the fiction and not so fictional roads and routes of cartography!
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Sunday, April 21, 2024
BW17: Question me an Answer!
Happy Sunday! We have a queen who is in a quagmire to answer the quality of the quadragenarian quest without qualms or quibbles due to the quadrants quirks. What is the question? Your mission is to read about a quest, a question, a quack, even a quid pro quo. Have fun!
Lost Horizon
Music by Burt Bacharach
(Chorus) Fourteen hundred ninety two. (1492)
(Bobby) What's the year that Babe Ruth hit his sixtieth home run?
(Chorus) Wellington at Waterloo
(Bobby) Who became the hero at the battle of Bull Run?
(Chorus) Midnight ride of Paul Revere
(Bobby) On the good ship Lollipop
(Chorus) How did Christopher Columbus sail upon the sea?
(Bobby) Underneath the circus top
(Chorus) Where did Cleopatra get to meet Mark Anthony?
(All) They say knowledge makes you free
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Sunday, April 14, 2024
BW16: P stands for .......
Happy Sunday! P stands for Paint. We’re still prepping our bathroom since we had the bathroom disaster and we’ve been scraping and scrubbing and sanding, redoing the old orange peel left over from the days we used to rent before we lay linoleum, and shop for replacements for the old medicine cabinet and mirrors, and light fixtures. Hubby and I have different methods for getting some things done and we are both passionate about how to do so but we have fun in the process since both ways work well. Things goes faster when we work together as a team. Which brings me to our letter of the week.
P not only stands for paint but also poetry, plot, prose, personification, protagonists, proverbs, puns, as well as pool. Ha!
"Trouble (oh, we got trouble)
Right here in River City (right here in River City)
With a capital "T" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool (that stands for pool)
We've surely got trouble (we've surely got trouble)
Right here in River City (right here)
Gotta figure out a way to keep the young ones moral after school
(Our children's children gonna have trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble)"
Ya Got Trouble by Robert Preston
April is National Poetry Month and the poster above represents the poem Blessing the Boats by Lucille Clifton.
may the tide
that is entering even now
the lip of our understanding
carry you out
beyond the face of fear
may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back may you
open your eyes to water
water waving forever
and may you in your innocence
sail through this to that
Why the poem has no punctuation is beyond me, but it's another p word. So read a book of poetry or punctuation. Read about Robert Preston, or Prince or Pedro Pascal. Read a book about painters, or pets, or penguins. Read a book about passion or peace or prosperity.
Find your pleasure, find your prize, as you participate in our favorite pastime.
Peace out!
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Sunday, April 7, 2024
BW15: Onomatopoeia
Happy Sunday! Our next 52 Books category meshes well with our letter and word of the week: One word titles and onomatopoeia.
Weather
by
Eve Merriam
1916 –1992
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
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
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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
Sunday, February 25, 2024
BW9: I is for imagery
Happy Sunday! I am in the midst of reading In Sunlight and In Shadow by Mark Helprin who uses a great deal of imagery in his books. From Winter's Tale to A Soldier of the Great War to In Sunlight and In Shadow, Helprin's use of imagery tickles your senses - what you see, hear, taste, touch, and smell, as well as emotion, and even employ the use of metaphors or similes. All chunky books, Helprin brings not only the stories of the characters to life, but the settings as well.
Winter's Tale is an historical, magical realism, romance story about a middle aged burglar and a young girl dying of consumption and how their paths crossed in a city consumed by an arctic winter. The imagery in the story took my breath away.
“Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man, driving them before it until they loved to run. And what it did to Northern forests can hardly be described, considering that it iced the branches of the sycamores on Chrystie Street and swept them back and forth until they rang like ranks of bells.” ~ Winter's Tale
A Soldier of the Great War is one of those books that once finished, you have to let yourself ponder what it is you've just read, let it sit with you for a time, while you formulate your thoughts. After being immersed in Alessandro's world for three weeks, took me a while to surface. It's epic, poetic, heart wrenching, funny, scary, breathtaking, maddening, and leaves you with much to ponder.
“And then one morning the soldiers grew suddenly still as the heavy latches were lifted and turned. Just before the doors slid apart, a man from Pisa took the opportunity to say, "The air is thin. We're in the mountains." Alessandro straightened his back and raised his head. The mountains, unpredictable in their power, were the heart of his recollection, and he knew that the Pisano was right. He had known it all along from the way the train took the many grades, from the metallic thunder of bridges over which they had run in the middle of the night, and from the white sound of streams falling and flowing in velocities that could have been imparted only by awesome mountainsides.” A Soldier of the Great War
Which brings me to In Sunlight and In Shadow, a novel set just after WWII, is a romance set in New York between Harry who has just returned from the war and Catherina, a wealthy aspiring actress.
I had to stop and read my husband a passage when the narrator of the story was describing the female character as he watched her rehearsing on stage.
"The lenses, plumb-set and perpendicular to the plane of the floor, were a foil to the sharp assertiveness of her nose, which was small, perfectly formed, gracefully projecting. Her upper lip was larger than her lower, which suggested imminent speech protected nonetheless by careful reticence. Her teeth, unnaturally white in the glare of the spotlights, were even straight, and large, in alluring palisades that cried out to be kissed."
And his thoughts as he sat across from her at a restaurant:
"He wondered if women understood that their apparently insignificant attributes often have a power greater than that of armies. It was what he had meant when he had said that the war had been fought for her. Like the atom, which in its internal bonds contains the essence of matter and energy, in her glance, the sparkle of her eye, the grasp of her hand, the elasticity of her hair in motion, the way she stands, the blush of her cheek, sweep of her shoulder, tone of her voice, and snap of her locket, a woman is the spur and essence of existence."
Helprin's imagery makes me slow down and read the story slowly, makes me stop and think, takes my breath away, and yes, makes me laugh at what one could consider absurd but also beautiful. These stories aren't full of purple prose, but descriptive imagery which is very much part of the over arching story.
What authors or stories come to your mind that are full of imagery that tickles your senses and adds to the story?
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Sunday, February 18, 2024
BW8: Hubert Horatio Hornblower
Sunday, February 11, 2024
BW7: 52 Books Bingo - Earth also known as Gaia
Happy Sunday. Our next 52 Books Bingo category is another element of nature - Earth.
The Anglo Saxons named her Erda and the German named her Erde which was changed to Old English Ertha, meaning the ground upon which we walk. The Greek's named her Gaia, the mother of all life. The Roman's named her Tellus Mater, the goddess and physical personification of earth. Chi or Tsuchi in Japanese or dìqiú in Chinese. The planet has many names. Share unique names you have discovered or read about for the planet Earth.
The synonyms for earth, the celestial body on which we live include globe, planet, sphere, microcosm. Earth can also mean the surface which include the synonyms land, ground, soil, dust, and landmass to name a few.
The spiritual element of earth relates to the Chakra that relates to feelings of safety and security. The phrase 'what on earth' relates to surprise and questions of why.
Read a book set on the planet earth or the discovery of earth. Read a book about foreign lands or wanderlust.
Read a book about the natural world or the element of nature.
Read a book with Earth or related synonym in the title.
Read mythological retellings or environmental books.
As you can see, Earth is a really broad subject in which we can go many different ways or narrow it down to the tiniest grain of sand.
Our post is sponsored by the letter G and Gaia, globe, ground, and genius.
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Sunday, February 4, 2024
BW6: February Author of the month - Ben Aaronovitch
Welcome to February and Creative Romance Month, An Affair to Remember Month based on the 1957 film, Black History Month, American Heart Month, and as well as Valentine's Day, Ash Wednesday, Chinese New Year and the Year of the Dragon.
Our author of the month is Ben Aaronovitch who was born on February 22, 1964. Once upon a time, he was a writer for Dr. Who, Casualty, and the soap opera Jupiter Moon. While working at Waterstones in the Crime and Fiction sections at Covent Gardens, the Rivers of London series was born.
The series involves Peter Grant, a mixed race detective, for the London Metropolitan Police who works for Detective Chief Inspector Nightingale, the head of a magical and supernatural Special Operations Unit. A combination mystery, fantasy, and police procedural, the series is both serious and hilarious.
There are nine primary books in the series, as well as comic books/graphic novels, and numerous short stories. I fell in like with Peter Grant in the first book Rivers of London in which the rivers are ruled by water Gods and Goddesses, Peter is trying to solve a murder with a ghost as an eyewitness, and learn magic at the same time. I'm currently reading the second book, Moon over Soho, in which something or someone is killing jazz musicians. The stories are creative and entertaining and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
Happy February!
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Sunday, January 28, 2024
BW5: E is for Epic
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Happy Sunday! I have an affection for long novels, probably because I read so fast. Books of 200 to 300 pages go by in a flash leaving me wanting more. And for some strange reason, I tend to read books of 500 pages and up much slower. Maybe there is more to savor, to absorb, to ponder. Maybe it's the world building or the ensemble cast of characters, or the scale and detail of the story itself.
My favorite epic stories have been a variety of historical fiction, to fantasy to westerns with Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, Stephen King's Gunslinger series, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove, Marian Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Aragon, J.K. Rowling Harry Potter Series, to J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy.
Sunday, January 21, 2024
BW4: D is for Dystopian
Happy Sunday! I'm in a dystopian frame of mind this week. I just finished Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang and once I started reading, couldn't put it down. The etymology discussions, how the characters related to the world around them, how the characters grew in knowledge, the choices they made, some good, some bad, the heart wrenching decisions. The themes of colonialism, the empire, racism, friendship, and power all combined to create a story that made me think and how it related to today's world and why people do the things they do.
I segued from Babel to two different stories that I couldn't make up my mind which I wanted to read more. Samuel R. Delaney's Babel-17 about the power of language which is very weird with it's strange characters to Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season which is another dystopian set in Oxford with it's themes of magic, aliens, and oppression. Maybe I'll alternate for a while because both are tickling my fancy.
Out of 45 Dystopian Books That’ll Change Your Worldview I've read 15 so far. How many have you read?
Share the most terrifying dystopian story you've ever read or one that made you think.
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Sunday, January 14, 2024
BW3: Cliffhangers
Happy Sunday! I hate cliffhangers. I adore cliffhangers. The clock is counting down, someone is left in a perilous position, or died, reality is not what it seems, or a character is psychologically or literally dangling from a cliff.
Cliffhangers get our imagination pumping and sometimes leave us exasperated and frustrated when the next book isn't readily available. You'll be reading along and realize you are almost to the end of the book. Wait! This is happening too fast. How is the story going to wrap up? Is the story going to wrap it up? Then with bated breath, you come to the last page and the story ends in a cliffhanger. Grumble, grumble roar.
I remember reading Michelle Gagnon's Kelly Jones murder mystery series in which I became deeply invested in the characters and the story. The Tunnels, segued into Boneyard, then supposedly ended with The Gatekeeper. The Gatekeeper ended in a cliffhanger which had me gasping, and going back a few pages to make sure I didn't miss something, then rereading the last chapter three more times. No, she didn't. The author did not just leaving me hanging like that? And the next book wasn't available yet. for another year. Sigh!
Of course, there is the thrill, when a trilogy or series has been completely released, of rereading the stories again, from start to finish. And usually by that time, I've forgotten most of the story line so it feels like reading them again for the first time.
Kudos to the authors who pull you into the story, make you care about the characters and know how to craft an excellent cliffhanger, leaving you breathless, waiting in anticipation for the continuation of the story.
Share authors who have written stories ending in a cliffhanger that have left you wanting more.
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Sunday, January 7, 2024
BW2: 52 Books Bingo - Fire
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Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger.
When we suffer, we survive.
~Cassandra Clare
Happy Sunday! We are going to have so much fun with our 52 Books Bingo this year as we begin with our first category which is one of the elements of nature - FIRE. Fire, literal and symbolic, represents different things to different cultures- mythology, religion, ritual, destruction and purification, enlightenment, sexuality, birth and resurrection, heat, energy, metabolism, creativity, cooking, and more.
There are so many ways we can go with the aspect of fire. What comes to my mind is sweat lodges, phoenix, fire fighters, smoke jumpers, arson, sparks, flame, heat, the divine, passion.