Musing Mondays

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Musing Mondays asks you 

to muse about one of the 

following each week…

• I’m currently reading
…
• Up next I think I’ll read
… 
• I bought the following book(s) in the past week…

• I’m super excited to tell you about 

(book/author/bookish-news)
…
• I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…

• I can’t wait to get a copy of…

• I wish I could read ___, but
… 
• I blogged about ____ this past week…


This week’s random question: Is a rainy day likely to 

inspire you to read?


YES! I live in the desert and it so rarely rains, but that is my dream day!  Rainy and warm chocolate chip cookies and a good book!  I would love (have loved on rare occasions) to sit in the big easy chair and look out on the neighborhood as the rain pours down, with a book in hand.

We are more apt to get a sudden downpour than a whole rainy day.  And by the time I'd get everything situated to  "sit in chair'  "make cookies"  "grab book", the down pour would be over  and the sun would be out again.

It's Monday (what are you Reading)

It's Monday, what are you reading is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey.

Stop by and check out what everyone is reading now!

This week I finished Storm Front by Jim Butcher.

from Goodreads:

 Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment. Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he’s the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the “everyday” world is actually full of strange and magical things — and most of them don’t play well with humans. That’s where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a — well, whatever. There’s just one problem. Business, to put it mildly, stinks. So when the police bring him in to consult on a grisly double murder committed with black magic, Harry’s seeing dollar signs. But where there’s black magic, there’s a black mage behind it. And now that mage knows Harry’s name. And that’s when things start to get… interesting. Magic. It can get a guy killed.

from me:

I first read this book in 2008 -- it's the first in a series of books called "The Dresden Files".

I wrote:

a good book, with a great detective. Even if he is a wizard, or because of it. You'll fall in love with him.

I gave it 4 stars.

After picking up this audio version on sale,  I am still going to give it 4 stars!

It's just a fun book.  It makes me smile, and  yes, still a little bit in love with Harry. 

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We took a long car trip this past week.

8 hours up and then

8 hours back.

I read out loud to the Handyman.

Laugh if you will, but I did.

I read this  (or part of this) 

OUT LOUD!!

Non-fiction.  It's very interesting, but reading that long and 'serious' made my throat hurt.

And now I have a dilemna.

How do I finish it with the Handyman.

Do I follow him around reading to him as he's walking around the house?

Changing his clothes?

Shaving?

I'm not sure what to do!!

 Stay tuned to find out.

and I just began listening to this one...  

It's gotten some good reviews.

Here's to a good reading week!!

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This Week's  Musing Monday question is:

How old were you when you realized that you are an AVID reader?

I just think I always knew.
ALWAYS.
I would spend hours and hours and pour over the Scholastic book order forms in elementary school.  Luckily my parents thought it was money well spent and I was able to get lots of books.
I spent many a long afternoon lying on my bed reading when I was  younger.
I think there were only a couple of years in high school, where I wasn't an 'avid' reader -- too busy being social at that time.
But, for most of my life, I've just known I was.

Musing Monday is hosted by  
A Daily Rhythm
(previously -- Should Be Reading) 

It's Monday and other stuff

Hello!  Welcome to It’s Monday What Are You Reading? 

Hosted by Sheila at Book Journey, 

 This meme is what we use to share what we've read this past week and what our plans are for the upcoming week.  It’s a great way to see what others are reading and add to your own To Be Read list. :D  You never know where that next great read may come from!

This week I am reading and listening to:

I'll let you know how it goes.  I am going to be diligent about recording what I have read this year--even tho I am not a reviewer.  

Just a humble little reader.

~grins~

okay--- little is subject to interpretation.

~grins again~

Last week I read:

Delicious by Ruth Reichl

The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

My favorite, by far, last week was Big Little Lies.

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The Musing Monday 'random' question for this week is:

Do you have people in your life (face-to-face) that are readers like you? Or, do you find that you have to reach out to those online in order to find like-minded folk?

my answer is:

I have friends who are readers.  I have book club friends who are voracious readers --- but even tho they read, they love to read, they are not truly obsessed as I am.

I do reach out a little bit on-line, but I am not reliable in keeping in touch (unless you want me to write you a real,live, letter and send it snail mail.  I do love that!), and then I feel really bad for being that kind of 'on-line' friend.

I meander too much.

The simplest answer would be:

No. No one in my life is a reader like I am.

What about you?

My month in books

Before I begin to share what I'm reading, I just wanted to remind you that today is  "It's Monday, What are you Reading"
Hosted by Sheila over at Book Journey.
You should check it out for many great reads and many great blogs.
Trust me.

Sometimes January depresses me--birthdays never do, but the turning of the new year does.  It's the same thing I figure--that feeling of where does time go?
I am 54, this year I will be 55. That number doesn't bother me, but January? With the whole blank year just waiting to be written...and it always kind of scares me to what might be written.
Just for a week or so tho, because basically I am a glass half-full kind of person.
Life's too short to not enjoy the ride,  right?

But having said that--there is still that short period of time, the first of January, after cleaning your house of the holiday and it's cold and gray and boring, where I do embrace the melancholy of the  "blank year" mystery.

But not this year!! 
I am so excited for this month to begin (yes, I know it's the 6th today, but I've been gone)--it's like a new clean slate--FOR BOOKS!

This month I am reading:

For the Library Book Club
We  meet once a month for one hour in the library.

For the UMW (United Methodist Women) Church Book Club 
We meet quarterly in the church conference room, usually with sack lunches or a quick bite, visit and book discussion.

For Lit Wits
I love these women!!
We meet once a month at someone's house where the host cooks dinner for all of us!
It's the book and cook club.
Let's just say:  what happens in book club, stays in book club. (like the boob cake when we read 50 Shades of Gray)
One night 2 1/2  years ago, one of our members had her baby on a book club night--it was quite exciting, as we all stayed at book club to get updates together, etc.

For Totally Lit
I love these women too!
We meet once a month at a member's home.
Or at the wine bar
An annual dinner at a local (35 miles away) bed and breakfast.
We also have a semi-annual pageant for:
Miss Hot Dish
Miss Appe-TEASE Her
Miss Congealdiality  (congealed salads--a word we don't use in the west: congealed, so we thought it was a fun one.)

I know I talk about them all the time--my book clubs.  I just love them.

All of them.

This is what I'm reading just for fun this month:

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There is also a fun little meme over at Should be Reading called

 Musing Mondays.

I always like to 'muse' a little.

One of the musing questions is:

• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).

and my answer is:

I had to leave fast a few days before Christmas to go be with my parents.  I didn't take any of my Christmas gifts with me---and honestly, I knew the Handyman had not yet bought me my annual gift of new slippers, etc---so I knew I was going to be at my brother's house for Christmas morning, and I ran into a book store and bought myself two books, wrapped them up and put them under their tree!

Manson--because I read about it on NPR books and it just sounded interesting

and a David Sedaris book (Naked) because  my friend Kathy at Bermudaonion told me that anything by Sedaris is funny.  (she thinks I forget stuff, but I do not.  I also  have her Neil Young autobiography audio  CD's that I need to blog about and get back to her someday.  I'm looking for some really cool Nevada stuff to send, but I can't find any really cool Nevada stuff.  Lots of sand and sagebrush... tumbleweeds, etc)

They were all very surprised that Santa had not forgotten me. (they too, got me a nice little gift)

And that answers my Musing Monday---the most recent books I have bought for myself and why.

Happy Monday!

Musing Monday

What do you do when life gets in the way, and you just don’t have much time to read? Do you complain? Do you accept it? Do you do everything in your power to make time to read? Share your thoughts!



What do I do?  I quit blogging.  I am truly an introvert and when life gets too hectic  (and my job can be kind of hectic at times and I deal with people a lot) I just go into hermit mode when I can and curl up and read.

That's why I'm quiet on here (this blog) sometimes.  I just need to refuel.  On books. And quiet time.

(sigh) who am I kidding?  I  never have quiet time.  It's only in my dreams.


Musing Mondays is a weekly meme hosted by  Should Be Reading.  You are welcome to join in.

Musing Monday

This is my  799th post.  I wonder what tomorrow will bring.... well, besides the  800th post.  I KNOW that, but what the heck will I post about?  Food?  Books?  Random thoughts on life?   Even I don't know at this point.

But for now...

MUSING MONDAYS… is a weekly event where MizB from Should Be Reading,  will ask a book/reading-related question, and you answer with your own thoughts on the topic.

and this week's question is:  
What is the weirdest/strangest/craziest book you’ve read?


This is easy---I have a tie, tho.  Both books have been for one of my bookclubs,  The Lit Wits.
On Friday night we met to discuss

Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins.
It was---really strange.  It's hard to describe a strange book.  I can't find the words. So let me just give you what Goodreads says:
Jitterbug Perfume

is an epic.

Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn’t conclude until nine o’clock tonight (Paris time).

It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle.

The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god.

If the liquid in the bottle actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left

I will say again, that  although, this was tied for one of the strangest books I've ever read,  it was also interesting, and kept me reading to the  very end.  I was not about to put it down, because I had to figure out what the hell was going on.
Also, I'm sure smarter people than me  'got' this book and 'loved' it.  I feel stupid now.
I think everyone in my book club felt a bit stupid too.  It made for great discussion tho.  I mean it covered,   The god Pan, perfume and the reasons why perfume was used/invented,  present day Seattle, Paris and New Orleans, as well as ancient death rituals. Oh yeah, and kissing hadn't been discovered at the beginning of them book, but sex? Oh man sex had been discovered!  And there was lots of it in this book.
It's really a hard book to describe.    (sigh)
We had a great time at book club tho--we always do!
(these kinds of books are the ones we will talk about for months to come)



The second book which tied for the strangest is:

Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

and again, Goodreads says:

Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and pater familias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious–and dangerous–asset.


As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.



  I couldn't say it better myself.

We Lit Wits consider this book our  signature book, because we were both horrified and intrigued at the same time.  We all finished it.  And we give it to any newcomer to the group.

So those two are the strangest books I've ever read in my life.
What about you?

It's Monday (what are you reading?)

I love Monday book memes--the only trouble is--I don't start them on Sunday night, I start them on Monday morning. At work. Which, as anyone knows is going to be hard--hard with a capital H. HARD TO DO, while trying to do Monday work stuff.
So, I don't always get to them...sometimes a week or two will go by without any Monday Memes from me.  But today, is another story, because here I am--in  your face--before noon too!  (Pacific Standard time, that is)

First, let me answer this question from Miz B at  Should be Reading:
(It's the Musing Monday question)

Do you snack while you read? If so, what is your favorite reading snack?


Hmmmm....do I snack while I'm reading?   'They' say you shouldn't snack while you are reading.  So, I try hard not to, but once in a while I catch myself with a cookie.
What I do is eat breakfast while reading.  Almost every morning.  I'm all alone--the Handyman is gone to work,  and I'll eat a bowl of cereal  or oatmeal at the breakfast bar with my book held open with one of those leather/heavy book holder opener thingies.  It makes for a nice morning.  So far, I haven't dripped any milk/oatmeal on a book while reading and eating.  My chest, yes, but the books, no.
And of course, a good homemade cookie with a book ANYTIME is a nice thing.

I love to join Sheila at Book Journey for  "It's Monday, what are you reading?" on Mondays.

I don't know why anyone cares what I am reading--it's not like they get a good review, but I will give you my quick and fast opinion of the book.
Okay?   Are you ready?

Here we go.


Last week I finished:

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.

The quick and fast opinion?  YES, you should read this book!!  It's great.  A face paced mystery, psychological  thriller with a twist I didn't see coming.

The only negative thing I can think about was a character whose nickname was "Go".  (her name was Margo) but the use of Go distracted me terribly--at first.  (Come here Go.  What do you mean Go?) But then I got accustomed to it.

Other than that (and that's a personal thing--nothing to do with the story, or writing) IT'S A GREAT BOOK!

In the Kingdom of Men by Kim Barnes.
Quick and fast opinion?   This isn't a MUST READ, but it's a good book.  It's about America in Saudi Arabia and the oil companies--specifically  Aramco,  in the  1960's.  Corporate Colonization and all that.  When we thought we were better than everyone else and tried to tell them what to do and how to do it.  (I don't know that things have changed that much)  Plus, a young woman and her relationship with her husband and trying to find a way to live a life in an American Compound in Saudi Arabia.  There is a little bit of a mystery and some great history.
I'm glad I read it.
It had a couple of great quotes...one when describing 'rich' people in any county..
The princes fatten at the banquet while we beg for scraps at their feet.
The victor will write the history, but the truth we may never know.
A riot is the language of the unheard  (MLK)

Maybe it was a 'must read'...those quotes are some really thought provoking mini-themes.

And right now I'm reading:

City of Women by David R. Gillham.
I am on page  108 of  385.  And now it's really getting good!!  In fact, all I want to do is go home and read.  Lock the doors at work and sit here and read.  Stop the clocks, hide the 'to do' list and read.  I can't wait to finish it.
so far this is a YES YOU SHOULD READ IT book.  (I can't see that changing, but I'll let you know at the end of the book)

Musing Monday and the Stephen King Project

Sometimes on Monday's I participate in  "Musing Mondays" hosted by  Miz B of  Should be Reading. When I read this mornings musing, it seemed like a good idea to blend two things together....I am way behind on posting about   11-22-63 by  Stephen King for the Stephen King project, and today's musing just happens to be:

What is the longest book you have ever read? How long did it take you to read it?

This year, I've read some long books:  Gone with the Wind,  IT, 11-22-63.  Two of those are SK books, so I'd have to say,  the longest book I have ever read was a Stephen King book.  The   SK's books that I mention  are both over 1100 pages and GWTW was  53 hours of audio  (for a book club).
If a book is good and keeps my interest, I can read a 1000+ book in about a week.
If I didn't care for the book, well,  at this point in my life, I just wouldn't read it.  I would give it a good 200 pages or so before I gave up on it tho.  There used to be a time I'd finish everything I had started, but now, as time grows short in my life,  (Yes, I'm LAUGHING!!!)  there are just too many books out there I want to read, so I don't force myself.

Sitting down with a big book when you have high expectations that it's gonna be good, is like a treat!!  A couple of  long summer afternoons in the hammock.  A lot of iced tea.  Your book.  There is nothing better.  
So without anymore meandering, my answer for Musing Mondays is:
I have read a few books between  1100 and 1400 pages, and it does not take me very long at all.

Now about that Stephen King project.....(oops!!  there are only  849 pages in  11-22-63,  I must have been thinking about The Stand, my favorite all time SK book.)

11-22-63
I loved it.

This is what I wrote in my Goodreads review:
I must agree with my friends and say it was one of the best books I've read in quite some time.
That's it.


I first saw the book on Christmas morning, when my daughter-in-law, Sadie, opened a gift from her husband, my son, Mark.   I hadn't even heard of it.  I was totally out of the loop!!   She loaned it to me in Feb and I read it in April.  Why did I wait so long?  I'm not sure, as it really was one of the best books I've read in quite some time.

The thing about SK is how varied and talented he is in his writing!  Sadie and I have discussed this a few times.  You MUST like character development tho.  He is so much more than his horror persona.
Yes, there was an element of Sci-fi  (not horror tho ),  in this book, but it was really interesting and thought provoking,  and...and...also, it's a love story.   Not a mushy, chick-lit  (no offense intended)  love story, but a Stephen King kind of love story, filled with great character development and great detail and tenderness and  suspense. oh...and what could be an altered future.
Truly if you have been putting off reading Stephen King--don't put  it off any longer.  This is the book for you.

If you had the chance to change the course of history, would you?
Would the consequences be worth it?

That's the great question of all time, and Stephen King writes about his take on it.  I happened to love it.

(as a postscript,  my middle son's girlfriend's dad was born on that day,  11-22-63.  I find that interesting. )
(on the day I was born?  NOTHING.  I just Googled it.)

It's Monday--What are you Reading, Musing and Meet me on Monday (whew, that's a mouthful)

It's Monday, What are you Reading  is a fun weekly meme hosted by  Sheila from Book Journey, where we share what we have read, are reading and what we hope to read. 

Well,  I am half-way thru  "It" by Stephen King.  I really, really am enjoying it.  I just love his writing. But I've had a some road blocks in my reading time--company last weekend and we began to take out our kitchen cupboards this past weekend.  Half-way thru is still over  500 pages tho.

I just started an audio book,  "Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen" and am really loving it.  Funny thing is that I have checked it out of the library a couple of times but had to take it back before getting it read (I do that a lot), so I was really excited when I came across   "5 audios you don't want to miss" from She Knows Book Lounge.  I downloaded it right away.

Sometimes you have to return to the place where you began, to arrive at the place where you belong.


It’s the early 1970s. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. The daughter of Ringgold’s third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted, more than a little stubborn, and dying to escape her small-town life.

Every Saturday afternoon, she sits at the Dairy Queen, eating Dilly Bars and plotting her getaway to Atlanta. And when, with the help of a family friend, the dream becomes a reality, she immediately packs her bags, leaving her family and the boy she loves to claim the life she’s always imagined. But before things have even begun to get off the ground in Atlanta, tragedy brings Catherine Grace back home. As a series of extraordinary events alter her perspective–and sweeping changes come to Ringgold itself–Catherine Grace begins to wonder if her place in the world may actually be, against all odds, right where she began.

I must say, that it is a total  360 going from IT to Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen in one day.  But I am liking them both.

Then this is what we've been doing this past weekend in the Friday Friend Kitchen....

 

They are taking out all my cabinets!!

 

But the nice thing is, our new ones are just sitting in the garage.

The Handyman has to do some tiling under the new ones, grout and then tomorrow we will begin to bring in the new cabinets.

 

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Musing Monday this week asks:

Would you choose to review a book if its description sounded interesting but the cover was terrible?

 

 

Um......I must say I love a good cover.  Cover art can be so gorgeous, that I am swayed by a good cover, but that doesn't necessarily mean I wouldn't pick up a less attractive book, if it sounded good.   Not necessarily, but most likely, if they were side by side, I would pick up the one with the better cover.

But then again....art (book covers, as well) lies in the  eye of the viewer.

 

 

I was reading      "Henry's Sisters" while at my son and daughter-in-law's,  and she said she probably wouldn't read that book because of the cover--which I thought was very pretty.  So...generational differences or preferences in art, make a difference too.  Like I said...in the eye of the beholder.

What about YOU?

 

 

and last but not least   Acting Balanced's  "Meet me on Monday" Questions are:

1. How do you like your eggs?

2. Who is the last person you spoke to on the phone?

3. Do you have a place you keep 'junk' in your home?

4. What is on your 'spring cleaning' list?

5. What blog post have you written recently that you'd like more people to know about? (don't forget to link it up)

My answers are:
1. I like dippy eggs.  I like to have basted or poached eggs with a runny yolk to dip my toast in to.
 
 
 
3.  Right now, junk is all over my dining room (we cleaned out the kitchen cupboards).  But really, doesn't every one have a junk drawer?  (or more in my case.) 
 
4.  Cleaning out and reorganizing my kitchen cabinets---I have  4 sets of measuring spoons.  FOUR SETS.  nobody needs for sets of measuring spoons!
 
5.   What blog post have I written that I'd like  more people to know about?  That strikes me as funny, because  I don't think I am dependable enough to write every day, every week, or am that good, that people flock to read me.
I  just blog because I get some weird satisfaction in doing so.  Not for any other reason.  I just like to.
BUT having said that....  My beer steamed mussels!  Because it's Lent and Fish on Fridays and all that...and they are really good!      (it was hard to choose, because they are all so... random. )

It's Monday!

What am I reading?

I am still reading....  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"  not because I am not enjoying it, but because it dawned on me that I have bookclub  (Totally Lit) this coming Wednesday and I haven't even started the book!  It is our  'classic'  read month--we use the term loosely--and we are reading  GONE WITH THE WIND.  1101 pages.   49 hours of audio.   I decided on audio.  As I write this,  I have just finished 17 hours of the story.

Let me back track a bit---I wasn't going to read the book.  I have never read Gone with the Wind nor have I ever seen the movie.  It did not call to me.   The characters didn't speak to me.  An epic love story?  Uh....not that I haven't read love stories, but, like I said,  it just wasn't for me.
But then my good reasoning came back to me and I thought---it's what we chose for the book club, and I LOVE the book club, LOVE the members, LOVE the times we get together.  So on Saturday, I downloaded the book from Audible.com and began to listen to it.
Well, guess what?  I am sorry I didn't start sooner, because I am finding it a really good book.  It's interesting, it is a part of American literature, and the narrator is doing a wonderful job.   I do have to say that  the character of Scarlett, still is not one I love, but I do find her interesting.
I don't believe in changing the language of literature to fit into a more politically correct time,  so I would never want a word of Mitchell's novel to be changed, BUTTTTT......
the language bothers me something terrible.  It's vulgar to my ears.  I understand that is how they talked during that time  (and sad to say, sometimes now), but it wasn't part of my life growing up or now.   I'm talking, of course, of the racist language.  I cringe when I hear it.
But again...I am liking it and wish I had started earlier.  Book club is Wednesday night and I think the best I can do is 3/4 of the book/audio.  I'm going to give it my best shot tho.

This is what I said about the choice of Gone with the Wind on this blog last April:
I have never read "Gone With the Wind." I have no intention of ever reading Gone With the Wind, but for 2 things.

One is that a lady in my book club has chosen this as her 'book'. A re-reading of an old classic she says. I love and respect her. But I don't want to read "Gone". The second is that  Pat Conroy says it is the novel that shaped the South he grew up in. He says Gone with the Wind is a war novel, an historical romance, a comedy of manners, a bitter lamentation, a cry of the heart.....


he goes on.


I am resisting Gone With the Wind, with all my might. I do not want to read it. In my mind, it's a silly romance about a spoiled girl which takes place during the civil war. With tons of clichés.


I could be wrong. It's been known to happen. Quite often in fact.


I love everything about Pat Conroy's books. And I've often envied his friendships.


So...should I really read "Gone with the Wind" when it comes around in book club time?


Since I profess to love Southern Writers, will this be the ultimate experience for me? Or will it be as I thought... a silly romance about a spoiled girl, taking place during the civil war?


How funny.  It is all those things, but it's also ---interesting.   And good.   And the narration is great.

Another exciting part of book club on Wednesday is  our annual crowning!!  This year, we are having an appetizer contest and will crown
Ms  AppeTEASERher.   Last year,  we crowned Miss Hot Dish and the year before that  Miss Congealediality  (Jello salads).   Yes, we are just a barrel of fun.
I can't wait.

Of course,  It's Monday, What are you reading is hosted  by Sheila from  "Book Journey".  Check out her wonderful blog!

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The Musing Monday question for the week is:
What devices - if any - do you read books on? Do you find it enjoyable, or still somewhat bothersome? Or: If you only read the print books, why haven’t you chosen to read on any devices?

(Musing Mondays is a fun blog hop/meme hosted by Miz B at Should be Reading--another fun blog to check out)



My answer?   I use them all.  This was not always the case tho.  I used to be a book purist, but....  the Handyman said I was acting like an old fuddy duddy.
HE KNEW, that would get me!  Because I don't want to be an old fuddy duddy, grouchy, cranky....

Well read this blog post from last year:
and the bottom line is:
And guess what? I LOVE MY KINDLE!! I. Love. It. While I still do love a good paper book, there is something to be said for the convenience of having access to practically any book I want, at any time I want it, or any newspaper or magazine, or....I could go on and on. That and I can make the print as big as I need it to be ~grins~.


and as for audio books?  I love them too.   Last year, I participated in Audio book week and it was so much fun. 
I love audio books, because you can walk, and walk and and ride in a car for hours and still have/listen/read a book.  Audio just opens up the door to so many more books.  IF you don't mind being read to.... and I don't.

My first love tho is a printed book.  An old fashioned book....but.... technology is not stopping for any of us....it's best to embrace it.

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and just because I told you last week what I was listening to.....(it was Pink Martini), today I am listening to the Everly Brothers --All Time Original Hits.  My kids say I listen to weird music.  I'm actually listening to  Pandora and my Leslie Gore channel, in which the Everly Brothers are singing.
I like listening to music early in the morning. And in the afternoon too.   And any old time, I love the sound of  music.   So much more than having the TV in the background.
Now, it's Ricky Nelson!!

Yay!

Not weird music....just old music.  (for now)

These songs remind me of my parents.  They are old songs/artists even for me.

I would play my parents  old  45's and dance around my room listening to this music.

I like it even now.