My Two Blessings

It's book week 22 in our 52 Books Quest and honoring Memorial Day.  I’m in between as well.  Reading Brandon Sanderson’s Words of Radiance in his Stormlight archive series, and George Eliot’s Middlemarch.  Inbetween reading, I’m still binging on Korean Drama’s. This week, it’s Her Private Life.  We’re right at that in between stage between May and June, so instead of starting something new, here’s a poem in honor of Memorial Day. We Honor You Today By Susan R. Smith To all of our veterans Far and near. We thank you for your service For all those years. You sacrificed your time, And some gave your life. You preserved our freedom By willingly paying the price. Many of you Were sent overseas. You were wounded in battle, With scars and disease. But courageous and brave, You weathered the storm. You faced every battle With faith and beyond. We honor you with joy For all that you've done. You stood strong for our country, For our daughters and sons.  So no one st...

  Happy Sunday! I'm in a mood. Can't tell you which one, but a mood. So today, you get a bit of this, a bit of that.  A bit of this from my wild mind as well as a bit of that from the world wide web.  One of the dusty books in my virtual shelves is A.S. Byatt's  The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye . It's one of those one day I'll get round to it. Saw George Miller Presents His “Anti-Mad Max” in  Three Thousand Years of Longing Trailer  on Tor which is based on Byatt's book and is quite intriguing.  Especially since Idris Elba is in it. Yum.  I'll be diving into  The Djinn  soon.  I recently got sucked into a Korean drama on Netflix,  Romance is a Bonus Book  which is set in a publishing company.  It was quite fascinating and wondered if any of the books mentioned were real.  Quite pleased to discover they are !  Discovered there are a few K drama's that are  based on books .  Stumbled across...

 It's book week 20 in our 52 Books Quest and this week our 52 Books bingo category is Ensemble casts. My favorite kind of book. I love books with ensemble casts, especially series books because they make it seem like the story goes on and on and on.  There are books in which the cast revolves around one main character and others which rotate through a series of characters, all working together for a common end.  finished Jayne Castle’s The Hot Zone in her Rainshadow series this week and look forward to reading the rest of the series.  Stephen Lawhead Taliesin –I don’t particularly enjoy Lawhead’s writing which I remember now is what stopped me when reading the King Raven Series, so reshelving it for now.   My sip read is George Eliot’s Middlemarch which I’m reading at breakfast and very slow going because Eliot tends to be very wordy.  Rereading S.K.Dunstall’s Stars Uncharted (ebook) before I start the 2nd book in the series, Stars Beyond. Started Jodi...

 It's book week 19 in our 52 Books quest and this week we're highlighting Mother's of course.  Reading a very dusty series from my shelves starting with Taliesin in Stephen Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle Trilogy.  "A magnificent epic of cataclysmic upheaval and heroic love in a breathless age of mythic wonders It was a time of legend, when the last shadows of the mighty Roman conqueror faded from the captured Isle of Britain. While, across a vast sea, bloody war shattered a peace that had flourished for two thousand years in the doomed kingdom of Atlantis.  It is the remarkable adventure of Charis—the courageous princess from Atlantis who escapes the terrible devastation of her land—and of the fabled seer and druid prince Taliesin, singer at the dawn of the age. A story of an incomparable love that joins two astonishing worlds amid the fires of chaos, and spawns the miracles of Merlin . . . and Arthur the king!" Watched the first movie in the Hobbit trilogy which w...

  It's book week 18 in our 52 books quest and this month is all about historical mysteries.   Since we're saying goodbye to April, it's time for a reading wrap up.  I finished eight books in April; all of which were dusty books except for The Bone Shard Daughter.  I cheated once, and broke my buying ban in February for Bone Shards Daughter, which was so worth it.  However, I've been good since then and haven't added any new books to my stacks. My wish list though is growing ever longer.  One more month.... maybe.  Bone Shard Daughter - Andrea Stewart (Historical Fantasy) Ice Hunt - James Rollins (Thriller, reread) Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro (Dystopian Fiction) Library of the Unwritten (#1 Hell's Library) - A.J.Hackwith (Fantasy, e) A Cold Day for Murder (#1 Kate Shugak) - Dana Stabenow (Mystery, e) The Round House - Louise Erdrich (Native American mystery) City of Dark Magic  (#1 Dark Magic) - Magnus Flyte (Fantasy, Prague, e) Reliqu...