My Two Blessings

  It's book Week 17 in our 52 Books quest. Did you know today is World Penguin Day? My favorite documentary is March of the Penguins narrated by Morgan Freeman, and the movie Happy Feet always makes me want to dance and sing along with Mumble, and Mr. Poppers Penguins makes for a  charming, amusing read as well as a wonderful movie.  This week's odd holidays include taking time out this week to eat a pretzel or a steak, tell a story, kiss your mate, read a poem or dance by the light of the moon, to the music of a sax or trombone, while the horses race a mile and we have fun with a new hairstyle.  I'm sure I can find a book theme in there somewhere.  The latest book in J.R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood has been released - Lover Unveiled . Have added it to my stacks to read soon.  While watching Ward's Facebook Virtual release day video, she very enthusiastically talked about Jennifer Armentrout's newest book in her Blood and Ash series - The Crown...

  Good morning from my part of the world.  New read is from Michelle Diener's science fiction series Verdant Springs -  #1 Breakaway "She's the key to everything . . . Sofie has a choice--she can eke out an existence in the shadow of Felicitos, the tethered way station where she works on the breakaway planet of Garmen, or she can to bring it crashing down. When she teams up with Leo, a man who's dedicated his life to fighting her enemies, her choices start to narrow, until her secrets are the only thing keeping her alive. Leo is all too aware he doesn't know enough about Sofie, something his own security detail is not slow to point out, but he can't keep away. When Sofie reveals her links to the resistance, and shows him those in control of Garmen have begun swimming in dangerous waters, he realizes his plan to overthrown them in a careful operation of a thousand cuts is no longer workable. The time has come for a single, lethal strike--and that will not be wit...

  It's book week 16 in our 52 Books quest and  April is  National Poetry Month .  T ime to build a rhyme.  Use a letter, use a vowel, write an ode to a towel, or write rhapsodies about an owl. From blank verse to free verse, from haiku to dodoitsu, from nonet to sonnets, from the abstract to the sublime, be it weighty or flighty, anyone can do it, if you dare write a line.        Ode to C  Big C  Little C What Begins with C Thanks to Dr. Seuss We won't end up in a Tree  Calliopes and carousels chugging, chanting, caroling.  Circling without a care.   Courteous citizens develop the knack, Reaching, stretching. Fingers to snatch That colorful, oval,  brass ring.   Homonyms  As the son walked in the sun, he couldn’t decide if he was right to write about the tale of the tail.  Who would believe it would affect him so and change the effect of the rain when he decided to reign? Nobody told him ...

Saint Guilhem Cloister It's week 15 in our 52 Books Quest and this week's 52 Books Bingo category is The Cloistered Life.  Years and years ago when I was a teenager...  Why does it sound like the opening crawl to Star Wars?   "In a galaxy far far away...."   *grin*  No, I did not wish to become a nun when I was younger, but was always fascinated by the idea. Our high school religious class took a field trip to a cloistered convent and it was an interesting experience to say the least.  We were allowed to talk to the sisters through a screen in which they could only see us from the waist up, a privacy screen raised in case any outside visitor was inappropriately dressed. They were a giggly group of ladies who enjoyed their simple life of prayer and work inside the convent walls.   The experience stuck with me which is probably why I enjoy stories about hermits and anchorites, monks and nuns, abbeys and monasteries, and lives lived in soli...

 It's week 14 in our 52 Books Quest and this month's fictional librarian is Irene Winters from Genevieve Cogman's Invisible Library series.  I'm in a flufferton state of mind and thoroughly enamored with Julia Quinn's  Bridgertons.  I currently on #6  When He Was Wicked .  I haven't been able to get into my space opera  Ancestral Night  so will set it aside until I'm, Ahem, in a sci fi state of mind.  * Grin *  The poor Count is also idle but I hope to get back to him soon.   Meanwhile he has the Abbe to keep him company.   I have  The Plot Hole , # 4 in the Invisible Library series waiting in the wings and #5  Mortal Word  on my shelves as well.  Irene is a wonderful character and enjoyed the first three books.