Books as my life line

For most of my life and all of my adult life, books have officially been my friends. As of the beginning of October of this year! Books have become strangers. I have not been able to read in over a month. This is an odd situation for me. I guess I will adjust.

Revolutionch

Revolution was a wonderful mix of two worlds, the present and the French Revolution. I learned a lot about the revolution that I had no idea about.

food

I planted my first tomatoes of the season yesterday. This past weekend the girls and I worked our first festival selling our crafts. I bought three prime specimens for my garden while I was there. Luckily Taylor sold enough on Sunday to support my habit. Sunday was a very slow day with little sales.

I put my lovely plants in the ground yesterday and then it rained last night. Soaking the soil to start the growth.

man in the woods

Anger merges forth when a wonderful man looses it. The book is a timeless tale of love, anger, family, dog, and murder. Strange combination!

Books and the passage away from thoughts

Books are definitely my friends. That sounds so weird but they have taken me on many a journey when I needed to escape my life for a while.

Cold Fire

Koontz threw me a curve with this novel. Jim Ironheart was a character who at first I admired and thought moved with a devotion to others and to God. Come to find out he moved simply because he had built walls around his pain and cast off all memories that were accurate to build a life of his own through created memories.

Good books, good friends equal good times

Dinner was a treat with getto lasagna, tossed salad, garlic bread, brownies, chocolate pis, and love pops. Pictured are the love pops. Our book this month was The Lace Reader. I think everyone enjoyed this one we even found meanings in the book which the writer might not have intended. Before our book talk, we exchanged valentines. I love all my surprises. I love surprises.

Book Club!

Book Club Monday night! I love my book club girls. We giving Valentine's this week. I am making mine from old books. Hope it turns out as cool as it feels it might be.

Koontz

Currently, I am reading two books by Koontz. I am reading the third book in the Frankenstein series and I am also reading Cold Fire. They are so totally different yet Koontz makes each a special voyage one wants to take through the words hoping to arrive on the other side with more insight. A pleasurable trip...

Frankenstein: City of Night by Dean Koontz

Wow.. this series in awesome. The second book, City of Night, is even better than the first in the series. The creativity that comes from Koontz amazes me. Where is his mind in order to think of these things? Frankenstein to begin with ... I would never have thought of allowing him to continue to live today and exploring his further creations. The second book leaves me with as many questions as answers.... Now can I wait until tomorrow to start the next book? I think not!

Tonight is the night

Tonight is the night that I get to start the 2nd book in the Frankenstein series by Koontz. I am excited. The second book is Frankenstein: City of Night.

Tonight

Tonight before starting my book I have been posting old books I have read on Shelfari. I love that site. I have been sitting on my floor in the study and going through my old books and remembering what they meant in my life. It seems so odd that books would have book markers in your life... but they do mine. I remember the moments I cuddled with my children reading them different books, or when I just needed to leave my head for a while and visit somewhere else.

The Lace Reader

I have posted on the Lace Reader before but I am trying to rethink the book. It is this month's book for the book club.... search my mind and hope it comes back or reread? A little of both I think.

Frankenstein: Prodigal Son

Ah.... Koontz was a master with the Frankenstein series. I have only read the first one but I am in love. The prodigal son shows the existence of the master creator of unhumans while not having full control over their existence and not understanding how he messes up. The first book has many characters I think we will see again as the series continues. The main character is a detective who believes the disfigured monster and persues Victor, AKA Frankenstein.

Witch and Wizard: The Gift

Oh No... there is another one. The Gift ended in a way that there is another one coming. I liked the first two but I am not sure I liked them enough to read another. However, I will have to because of the way Patterson ended this one.

Forged by Fire

Sharon Draper did a really good job with Forged by Fire. The first chapter grabs you and does not let you go throughout the whole text. IN the first chapter, the abuse of the child sets you up to understand what will happen in the rest of the book.

Face on a Milk Carton

Years ago, I read Face On a Milk Carton. It was fabulous. For years I recommended it to young readers as an avenue to reach them. It was so original. I have not seen any new books by Cooney in years. I wonder what happened to her.

Witch and Wizard

Witch and Wizard by James Patterson was somewhat of a let down. I wanted a little more action. it was a good, quick read but it was lacking a little excitement. The brother and sister team eook down the forces of evil in a matter of days. pretty amazing for teens who turned out to have special powers they were unaware of.

Swallow the Ocean

Today the book was Swallow the Ocean. Another memoir but not as memorable as yesterdays. It is a good story but told in a way that easily allows your interest to wonder.

The Glass Castle

I finished a memoir last weekend, The Glass CAstle by Jeannette Walls. I may be in love with Memoirs for a while. The young lady who lived this life, the author, conquered the world by surviving her childhood with her siblings and coming through the event a hero.

Her parents were self absorbed and forgot to even get food for the children to eat. The searched garbage cans and dumpsters for food while their mother painted and the father drank and gambled.

It was a moving rendition I hated to complete.