My Two Blessings

  It's book week 22 in our 52 Books quest and our fictional librarian of the month is the Cheshire Cat in Jasper Fforde's world of alternative history in the Nextian Universe.   I Finished #6 The Secret Chapter in Genevieve Cogman’s Invisible Library series in which Irene and Kai are forced into a heist with an odd group of characters and chaos reins as they have to watch their backs while trying to stay one step ahead of the mob and the police. #7 Dark Archive is up next.  Also finished  Nora Robert’s Legacy which hit me with all the feels and had me teary eyed several times through out the book. It’s both light and dark, coming of age, life and grief, friendship and family, making something of yourself, working through the good and the bad, suspense novel with terror, humor, and romance, with a great cast of characters including two very cute dogs and one of those that once you start, you won’t want to stop reading stories. Five hanky read. Keep a box of ...

  Oh lord love a duck. I'm only halfway through Nora's Legacy and it's been a five hanky read so far.  Gut wrenching beginning and doesn't stop. Enough humor thrown in to balance it out.   

  Grandpa and grandmom decided to stop for a visit on their way through town. The plan - meet them at the hotel, have dinner, talk.  Howdy! Well, my gut feeling, intuition, whatever it's called was spot on.  So happy I decided we needed to get the house guest visit clean.  We arrived at the Hotel to pick them up and discovered the restaurant was indeed closed to service.   We took them over to see the new office building since they hadn't seen it since it was finished, then came back to the house and had a BBQ. Hubby took them out for breakfast the next morning before they went up to the hill to have a relaxing scenic vacation before grandmom gets a hip replacement in a couple weeks. Great visit, albeit too short and it was really nice to see them and get to hug family again. Book wise, I dove back into the world of The Invisible Library with # 6 The Secret Chapter in which Irene and Kai are thrown from the frying pan into the fire again with chaos, deceit,...

  Courtesy of Troy Mayne Today is  World Turtle Day .  Did you know that all tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises?  What's the difference?  So glad you asked. The key difference is where they live: Tortoises are exclusively land creatures, while turtles live in the water or at least spend most of the time in the water.  Physically their shells, legs, and feet are difference and turtles stay away from water unless they are drinking or bathing because they can't swim.   I finished Elizabeth Hunter’s four book Elemental Mystery series with our Librarian of the month Beatrice De Nova. She has various spin offs with different characters including Ben and Tenzin in the Elemental Legacy series and I have Midnight Labyrinth in my stacks. Will get back to them soon.    I also finished Karen Hawkins the Book Charmer which was very charming as well as emotional story with magical realism about books, friendship, grief, and ...

  It's book week 20 in our 52 books quest and our next 52 books bingo category is high adventure.  I'm still emmeshed in the world of Beatrice De Nova, our librarian of the month.  Finished #1 Hidden Fire and #2 This Same Earth.  Starting # The Force of Wind.  "Giovanni and Beatrice travel to a hidden island on the far edge of China to seek the help of an ancient immortal court. Can they weave their way through the tangled web of centuries-old alliances and ruthless vampire feuds to find what they’ve been looking for? Friends will be revealed, enemies will find them, and a dangerous secret will come to light. How far would you go to protect the ones you love? What would you sacrifice to kill the one you hate?" We watched Sphere with Dustin Hoffman last night.  I saw it back when it came out and and totally forgot everything about it and it totally blew James mind away. Of course, we watched it way too late and ended up not going to be until 2:00 a.m. It too...

  It's book week 19 in our 52 Books Quest and this week is dedicated to all mom's everywhere including our angel moms. She who rules the roost and goes by many names including ma, mama, mum, mother, mumsy, mamman, mutter, mathair, mor, madra, majka, maji, and the favorite one, mom. Motherhood by   Katherine L. Dykstra Baby dolls and dinosaurs- one that cries, one that roars The pitter patter of little feet- a bike race in which they want you to compete Fruity Pebbles, pancakes, no wait! a pop-tart- those daily moments that steal your heart One throws tantrums, the other just pouts- ahh, the joys of motherhood- what life is all about Another birthday - two paychecks in all- but, it is so worth it with smiling memories on the wall From late night tears to early morning grumps- through all the bruises, scrapes and bumps The kisses and hugs, the encouraging words- from nursery rhymes to the bees and the birds The laughter, the memories, those looks in their eyes- never trade ...

   Dealing with ill cats this week who are all off their feed and being persnickety. Luna has ear infection and have to dose her once a day, Gracie has a broken molar and will have dental procedure at end of the month, and poor Melvin has intestinal lymphoma and we're dosing him with prednisone and lots of tlc.  I have Wild Sign in my stacks. Sticking with comfort reads and currently on #3 Blood Magic in Nora Robert's Cousin O'Dwyer's Trilogy.

  I t's book week 18 in our 52 Books quest and the fictional librarian of the month is Beatrice De Nova in Elizabeth Hunter's Elemental Mystery series. And it's may, the month to celebrate mysteries, mothers, Memorial day, macaroons, and much much more including all things Star Wars.  May the fourth be with you! I'm currently rereading Nora Robert's Dark Witch and Elizabeth Hunter's A Hidden Fire is waiting in the wings.    We watched The Abyss last night and I'd forgotten how intense the movie is. Probably why I didn't get to sleep until really late. 

  Arrggg! It ended in a cliff hanger. I immersed myself in Jennifer Armentrout's world in the Blood and Ash series.  Really fat books at 600 some odd pages each full of vampires, wolves, gods, deities, royalty and magic.  And of course, hot sex.  #1 From Blood and Ash, #2 A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire, and #3 The Crown of Gilded Bones which are all so very good but damn, now I have to wait until the next book comes out in a year or so probably. I really hate that.   But it just means I'll reread the series again when the new one is set to come out.   It's all J.R. Ward's fault since she talked up the books in her latest video and managed to distract me from reading her latest book in the Black Daggerhood Brother series.  It will be next once I've soothed my angst and book hangover with Nora Roberts and reading Dark Witch.