O.K., I Give...

I haven't read "The Hunger Games."

I'm not going to read "The Hunger Games."

 It isn't my kind of book.

 I don't care for Science Fiction.

 This has been my mantra since first hearing the words "Hunger Games", but it is everywhere. It keeps invading my space. It is talked about on nearly every blog I read, recommended on every reading list, stares at me from every check-out counter at every Wal-mart I enter and is the topic of conversation no matter where I go. My three daughter's and granddaughter have all read it, seen the movie, and love it.

O.K., I give.

 My middle daughter says she will loan it to me on the Kindle and a friend told me tonight if I like it I won't be able to wait on the next one.

O.K., I give.

I'll let you know.

Have a blessed week!!! 

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Top Ten Tuesday...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish . This week the topic  is the top ten books I would hand to someone who says they don't like to read. Well, since I love to read and am always trying to get non-readers to read my favorite books I jumped right on this one. *= My all-time favorites.

1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee*
2. Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
3. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
4. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
5. The Mark of the Lion series by Francine Rivers*
6. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
7. Haunted Mesa by Louis Lamour
8. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald*
9. Amoveable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway*
10. The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Happy Reading!!!

Fuzzy Friday & The Friday 56...

Here's wishing you a warm and "Fuzzy Friday".

p. 56 "We got those fine-lookin brown eggs you like."-At Home in Mitford

"The Friday 56" hosted by Freda at Freda's Voice.

Have a great weekend!

The Invention of Hugo Cabret...

           "If you lose your purpose ... it's like your broken."

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

"Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding mystery." ~~Book Cover

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Author: Brian Selznik

Published: 2007 

Age Level: 9 and up

Purchase: Amazon.com

Review:

I started helping my 6 year-old grandson read this book Friday night and he loves it. You read a few pages and then are carried along by the magnificent drawings of author Brian Selznick. This book is 533 pages long, but with 1/3 of it being illustrations it doesn't take long to reach the end. Imagine the accomplishment a 6-9 year-old feels when he completes it. My grandson and I enjoyed it immensely and can't wait for the movie to open on November 23rd. I give it 4 stars. We couldn't put it down.

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Happy Reading!!!

Goals For Monday...

Tomorrow will be my first full week at home since November 1, 2010 and I have a list that seems to grow longer and longer as I contemplate what to do with myself this week. For starters, tonight I pulled everything out of my sewing room into the hallway. I am determined to get it organized. In the year that I have been keeping Fuzzy and Tallfeathers I have allowed it to get to the point where I can barely get in the door much less think about sewing, so my goal for Monday is a clean and organized sewing room and an empty hallway.

"I never suspected this room was so large. I would have said I could do the whole thing in an hour. But then, I never knew it was so bloomin' dirty."~~Grace Livingston Hill-April Gold

I have been reading Grace Livingston Hill lately. Another goal for Monday--finish Cloudy Jewel.

                                                   

Happy Halloween!!!

                                                      

The Jesus Storybook Bible Review...

"Every story whispers His name..."

The Jesus Storybook Bible is a children's book that tells 43 Bible stories from the book of Genesis through Revelation.

Published: 2007
Author: Sally Lloyd-Jones
Age: 4-8 years
Purchase: Amazon

Review:
Let me start by saying this is a good version of a children's bible storybook. At the center of every story is Jesus, but the author takes some liberties in her attempts to make it understandable for children that I really can't approve of. An example is Jesus playing games with children. Some of these things may or may not have happened, but the bible doesn't tell us this, so why not stay true to the bible . I think it is a good storybook as long as we correct it as we go and don't consider it a children's bible.
Have a nice day!  
    

My Summer Reading...

If I were to give my summer a title I would call it "The Summer of the Classics." For months, with the exception of two books, I have read either classics, or those that are, shall we say, getting along in years. I enjoyed those two, yet the feeling of satisfaction never quite rose to the level that it did as I read of the escapades of the March sisters, or the romance between Lucy Honeychurch and George Emerson, or the adventures at Mole End. I couldn't shake the feeling that something unexplainable was missing. I started "The Kite Runner" and a Mary Higgins Clark, but sat both aside in favor of another oldie.

This is my latest endeavor. It is approximately 4 inches thick and by the time I finish it I expect summer to be over, cooler weather to have set in and my choices in literature to be back to normal. 

  Have a great week!!!

Mother Goose...

I found this treasure at a yard sale for $2.00. When I looked it up on Amazon turns out it really is a treasure. Copyright 1913. This edition published in 1985 by Chancellor Press in London. (The used ones started at $38.00).

There are 12 beautiful color illustrations

and many, many drawings like these. This is a favorite of mine. How many of us have wiggled our baby's toes while reciting "this little piggy"?

As kids we used a variation of this one while stirring the doodle bug hole with a tiny stick.

"Lady bug, lady bug, fly away home:

Your house is on fire and your children will burn."

Sure enough that little doodle bug would come wiggling out.

Some of the illustrations are a little scary, but most are adorable like this one,

but then on the end page of the book comes the sad part of my story...

How could anyone part with this. It's a family heirloom.

I know there was a divorce, so that explains it, but every time I read this inscription I want to anonymously mail it back to the grandmother. I can just feel the love that was sent with this gift.

The Help...

"You is kind. You is smart. You is important."

The Help

takes place in pre-civil rights Mississippi during the early 1960's. A twenty-two-year-old writer and three maids embark on a risky project that could potentially put them and their families in danger.

                                                               Author: Kathryn Stockett

Published: 2009

Purchase at: Amazon

MY REVIEW

I enjoyed this book from start to finish. The characters were believable and endearing. There was plenty of humor mixed with sadness and nail biting suspense. I give this book five stars. I didn't want it to end. If you haven't read it yet be sure you put it at the top of your reading list. The movie is due to come out soon. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

HAPPY READING!!!

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane...

"...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people who could remember those parts of you disappear, and before long, all that's left is your name in some ledger.''

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

tells the story of  Connie, a Harvard Graduate student who is preparing to put her deceased grandmother’s house on the market. In the process she finds a key and a note inside an old Bible. The note has a women's name on it, thus begins the mystery. The book shifts between 1991 Marblehead, Massachusetts and late 17th century Salem.
 

Author: Katherine Howe
Published: 2009
Purchase at: Amazon.com 

My Review:

I enjoyed the plot of this book, but the writing was weak. To tell you some of the things I didn't like about it would spoil it, so I will just say that it was predictable and contrived at times, but also very entertaining. I give it four stars for being a nice, easy, entertaining read. In spite of it's many flaws I couldn't put it down.

Happy Reading!!!   

A Room With A View...

"It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."

A Room With A View

This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England.--Goodreads

Published: 1908

 Author: E. M. Forster

Purchase at: Amazon

REVIEW

I read this book because the title kept drawing me to it. "A Room With A View" sounded intriguing, almost mysterious. What was someone going to see from that view? The book wasn't at all what I thought it would be and not really my kind of book, but I enjoyed it and think some day I might like to read "Howard's End" another E. M. Forster book.  I give it three stars for it's humor and vivid characters. I can't wait to watch the movie.

Happy Reading!!!