Lovely World

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{Calendar Week 25}

Book 24/52:

Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games

I really liked this book. I'll be picking up the other books in this trilogy.

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{Calendar Week 24}

Thank you Johannes Gruger

Book 23/52:

Deborah Copaken Kogan's Between Here and April

✿ Have a nice start to the week.

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{Calendar Week 23}

Book 22/52:

Mary Karr's Lit

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{Calendar Week 22}

Book 21/52:

Benjamin Wallace's The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the world's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

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I bought this book, "Birds that Hunt and are Hunted," at the library book sale last month. I liked that it was a book about birds, although the title is a little creepy.

The 48 illustrations are photographs of birds on a painted background. I think some of the photographs are hand painted as well. It was published in 1902.

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On a completely different note, here is a video of David Bowie's "Modern Love." I saw his "Serious Moonlight" tour with a friend when I was in high school. We were so excited we could barely contain ourselves. As I watched this video, it reminded me that back in the 1980s we had no cell phones, iphones, ipods, digital cameras, or video cameras. But, we did have big hair and interesting clothes. (If this doesn't play right here- just click the link to youtube)

 

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{Calendar Week 21}

Book 20/52:

Kathi Appelt's The Underneath

I read this book aloud to my son. I really liked this one. It is a Newberry Honor Book and a National Book Award finalist.

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{Calendar Week 20}

Book 19/52:

Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

(This is an amazing book - science and storytelling woven into a gripping read. It is long - 470 pages - but a page turner.)

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I bought this early reader at the library book sale a few weeks ago. It is a graphically-striking mid 20th century Russian or other slavic language book. Perhaps one of you dear readers recognizes the language?

I spent time thoroughly cleaning my work room over the weekend. It was very satisfying to clear the decks for new ideas.

Have a nice Tuesday. The sun is shining here, and we finally have a decent canopy of foliage developing on the trees. This is my favorite time of year.

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{Calendar Week 19}

Book 18/52:

Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories

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Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there!

My family made me a mother's day perennial garden over the last couple of days. I'm a lucky mother! The bleeding hearts and violets are already beginning to bloom.

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{Calendar Week 18}

Book 17/52:

Karen Russell's Swamplandia!