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The Sunday Salon #20

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Well my Sunday Salon is pretty late. And the biggest reason for that is I decided to pretend that Sunday was not even happening this week. Mostly because my husband failed majorly at Valentines Day. I do not ask for much I do not expect big gifts and lavish this. I told him 8 times all I wanted was a card and my favorite chocolate.

Well at 11am on Valentines Day, I was asked to write down my favorite chocolate. That…really hurt. I mean seriously that he didn’t think enough of me to get the card before the day of. Or to remember the chocolate I like. I mean we have been a couple for almost 6 years and I ask for the same damn chocolate 3 times per year. It is not rocket science.

Of course, at present he thinks I have blown it out of proportion. Maybe I have. However, my feelings and I am entitled to them. So I am avoiding Sunday and I am going to be going to read now.

Quotable Sunday #25

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Mothers Day Gift Ideas

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell. ~Lance Armstrong

Cancer is a word, not a sentence. ~John Diamond

My cancer scare changed my life. I’m grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life. ~Olivia Newton-John

Bill Hemmer: “You said cancer changes your life, and oftentimes for the better.”
Joel Siegel: “Yes…. Gilda Radner… said this in her book. What cancer does is, it forces you to focus, to prioritize, and you learn what’s important. I mean, I don’t sweat the small stuff. I used to get angry at cab drivers. It’s not worth it…. And when somebody says you have cancer, you realize it’s all small stuff. And what Gilda said is, if it weren’t for the downside, everyone would want to have it. But there is a downside.”
~American Morning, CNN, 13 June 2003

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats. ~John Cheever, letter to Philip Roth, 10 May 1982, published in The Letters of John Cheever, 1989, concerning his cancer and its treatment

During chemo, you’re more tired than you’ve ever been. It’s like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you’re out. You don’t know how you’ll answer the door when your groceries are delivered. But you also find that you’re stronger than you’ve ever been. You’re clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it’s instantaneous. ~Melissa Bank

We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. ~Gilbert Adair, “Under the Sign of Cancer,” Myths and Memories, 1986

Women agonize… over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend’s breast. ~Martha Weinman Lear, Heartsounds

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin


Saturday Sanctuary #14

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The Saturday Sanctuary will be a Weekly Writing Post. I will ask something or give a topic. Sometimes it will be short, sometimes it might be longer. The idea is just to write! So others can read. I thought it would be a great idea for a Book Blog to do something about writing. We are bloggers after all so we must have some enjoyment of writing too! So hop on in and Join the Saturday Sanctuary, grab our link and our picture and post your replies here. Make sure you visit others blogs out there and leave comments. Mostly have fun.

Not to much to write about today the week has been a little bit of a bad one. I had some issues and some Doctor trips and had that settled but I don’t want to worry about that.

I have started reading a fantastic book that I cannot wait to review. The Tea House Fire by Ellis Avery. Also, I have been in a happy go lucky giving mood and have put stationery on sale on my Lady Ambrosia’s creations site. Super discounted prices on the fantastic G.Lalo Stationery: D

*If Mr Linky is down please leave a comment. Mr. Linky has been a pain lately*

Friday Firsts #11

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The first line can make or break a reader’s interest. Just how well did the author pull you in to the story with their first sentence? To participate in this weekly book meme is extremely easy.

Grab the book you are currently reading and open to the first page.
Write down the first sentence in the first paragraph.
Create a blog post with this information. (Make sure to include the title & author of the book you are using. Even an ISBN helps!)
Did this first sentence help draw you into the story? Why or why not?
Link back to Well-Read Reviews in your blog entry.
Come back to this blog post, hosted on WellReadReviews.com and add your direct link to Mr. Linky! ** Very important!

“When I was Nine, in the city now called Kyoto, I changed my fate.” ~ The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery

I picked this book up at a bargain price at Borders over a year ago and on a whim. Tonight when I was trying to decide what book to read next I picked it up and read this line. Knowing I had to do my Friday Firsts and needed a new book to read. And even though I had 4 other maybes in my lap after reading that first line, I continued to read the first several pages. This book became my next choice. The first line pulled me in for sure and made me hook onto the story. I want to know how she changed her fate and what happens.

Booking Through Thursday – Encouragement

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How can you encourage a non-reading child to read? What about a teen-ager? Would you require books to be read in the hopes that they would enjoy them once they got into them, or offer incentives, or just suggest interesting books? If you do offer incentives and suggestions and that doesn’t work, would you then require a certain amount of reading? At what point do you just accept that your child is a non-reader?

In the book Gifted Hands by brilliant surgeon Ben Carson, one of the things that turned his life around was his mother’s requirement that he and his brother read books and write book reports for her. That approach worked with him, but I have been afraid to try it. My children don’t need to “turn their lives around,” but they would gain so much from reading and I think they would enjoy it so much if they would just stop telling themselves, “I just don’t like to read.”

Well I do not have any kids of my own and both of my step kid’s love books so not an issue there. However, if I did have a child who was a non-reader I think I would select books that went for their interests. I have always been a reader I cannot honestly remember a time when I was not interested in books. My sister was a different story however, she took a while to warm up to books and I remember many summers when I was baby sitting her I would purposely select a few books from the library that were more her interests. Sometimes she did start reading them.

Now she reads a lot. I like to think I helped.

Wicked Wednesday #24

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Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie Antoinette leaves behind in her prison cell a diary telling the story of her life—from her privileged childhood as Austrian Archduchess to her years as glamorous mistress of Versailles to the heartbreak of imprisonment and humiliation during the French Revolution.

Carolly Erickson takes the reader deep into the psyche of France’s doomed queen: her love affair with handsome Swedish diplomat Count Axel Fersen, who risked his life to save her; her fears on the terrifying night the Parisian mob broke into her palace bedroom intent on murdering her and her family; her harrowing attempted flight from France in disguise; her recapture and the grim months of harsh captivity; her agony when her beloved husband was guillotined and her young son was torn from her arms, never to be seen again.

Erickson brilliantly captures the queen’s voice, her hopes, her dreads, and her suffering. We follow, mesmerized, as she reveals every detail of her remarkable, eventful life—from her teenage years when she began keeping a diary to her final days when she awaited her own bloody appointment with the guillotine.

Teaser Tuesday #39

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TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!Please avoid spoilers!

“Casey knew she’d ordered to much. She could’ve easily given back two of the cheaper entrees.” pg. 316 Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Book Review: Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern

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Lose yourself in the magical new novel from Cecelia Ahern — the No.1 bestselling author of PS, I Love You

How can you know someone you’ve never met? Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn’t. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair. When she leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, Joyce moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of deja vu is overwhelming her and she can’t figure out why! Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets attractive doctor Sarah, who persuades him to donate blood. It’s the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time. When Justin receives a basket of muffins with a note simply saying thank you,he is sure someone is playing a trick on him. But then a series of gifts begin to arrive. Intrigued and disturbed, Justin is determined to find out who is sending them. What he discovers will change his life forever.

This book took a little bit of time for me to get into. It was not as instantly gripping as P.S I Love you, however once you get into the book more it is a good read. The idea that a from the heart giving up some blood is connecting between the giver and the one who got the blood is interesting. It was a bit hard to get a handle on at first however the way it has been set up in this book.

But over all it turns out to be a very good plot. There is a scene where both people go into a Salon to have their hair cut at the same time that made me giggle a bit. If you are looking for a good heart warming chic lit book and do not mind a slightly slow start (I promise it does pick up!) I recommend this book as one you should read. By the end, you will be smiling and feel very warm and fuzzy.

Musing Monday #39

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I’ve seen several bloggers mention reading multiple books this week. Do you frequently read more than one book at a time? Do you try to limit this to a certain number? Do you have different books for different purposes/topics?

Nope I cannot read more than one book at a time. When I am reading a book, I am into that book jumping around and different stories just makes my brain have a little heart attack. Especially because lately I have been having issues even concentrating on one story at a time. I applaud people who can read more than one book at a time.

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