Quotable Sunday #24

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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George Washington

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.
George Washington

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington


Saturday Sanctuary #13

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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.


Saturday Sanctuary again. Is it already Saturday?

My question for the Sanctuary today will be simple. What are your plans for Super bowl Sunday?

I plan to write and do some reading. Because my husband will be rabidly watching the game. And I will give you one reason.

This guy

He is a Colts fan. To the end. I had been hoping that we would have a household divided. However, alas my Vikings lost. Therefore, I guess in the end I am going to be a Colts Fan because I do not want the Saints to win. Sorry today’s Saturday Sanctuary is short but it is all I can think about on my sleep-deprived state of mind. I will give a weekly update in the Sunday Salon.

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

Friday Firsts #10

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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!

Competence can be a curse. ~ Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Well now, that is one heck of a statement for your first sentence isn’t it. It is brazen and bold and it sucked me in right away. Any book that can start out that bold and curious is going to keep my attention for a while.

100 Followers!

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I just noticed I this blog has reached 100 followers! HURRAH! It took a while but who can complain. I want to thank each and every one of you who follow me and read this humble review blog. It is the readers that make it worth while.
I am going to hunt through my book stacks and my have reads and put together a giveaway!

Booking Through Thursday – Winter Days

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The northern hemisphere, at least, is socked in by winter right now… So, on a cold, wintry day, when you want nothing more than to curl up with a good book on the couch … what kind of reading do you want to do?

It depends on what kind of mood I am in, and what is going on. I usually do not want to read books that are specifically set in winter though. Mostly because I am already freezing and stuck in the snow so why do, I want to go there in my books too (on purpose). However, as far as genre it really does not matter what time of year it is, it is all about what I am in the mood for. I just finished a chic lit book and now I am onto something semi historical.

Wicked Wednesday #24

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Wicked Wednesday a place to be wicked to other book readers and make them get those TBR piles growing. The concept is simple. Pick a book or two and tell s about them. If its one you read tell us what you liked. If its one you found tell us about that to. Than leave a comment to let us know where to find your Wicked Wednesday titles. Make sure to link back in your posts for other people to follow Wicked Wednesday.

Free Food for Millionaires, the debut novel from Min Jin Lee, takes on daunting themes of love, money, race, and belief systems in this mostly satisfying tale. Casey Han is a Princeton grad, class of ’93, and it is her conflicts, relationships, and temperament that inform the novel. She is the child of immigrant Korean parents who work in the same laundry in Queens where they have always worked and are trying hard to hang on to their culture. Casey has catapulted out of that life on scholarships but now that college is over, she hasn’t the same opportunities as her white friends, even though she has acquired all of their expensive habits.

The concept of free food for millionaires is the perfect irony that describes much of what Casey faces. Walter, one of her bosses, says, when a huge buffet lunch is delivered to the floor: “It’s free food for millionaires… In the International Equities Department–that is, Asia, Europe, and Japan Sales–the group you’re interviewing for–whichever desk that sells a deal buys lunch for everyone in the department.”

Casey is ambivalent about everything–her love life, work, friendships, her family, dating a Korean man–but she seems to believe that money would sort everything out and smooth any rough spots. She works part-time for a fashion maven who would like to “adopt” her by paying for business school, but Casey can’t quite accept all that she offers. She pulls back from help, digs herself deeper in debt, works like a slave during an internship and then, when she is offered the job, finally begins to realize what she might really want–and it isn’t only money.

There are several loose ends left dangling, some bad behavior toward others on Casey’s part and an unlikely and too coincidental passing acquaintance with an old bookseller whose wife was crazy about hats, as is Casey. When he dies, he leaves all her hats to Casey–which just might just be the start of something. The author runs out of steam after 512 pages and ends the book without really finishing it, but it is a thoughtful treatment of many of the questions Lee raises, and an emninently worthwhile debut. –Valerie Ryan Amazon.com –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.







Teaser Tuesday #38

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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!

“Sorry. He’s Sorry. I try to fiqure out what to mouth back but I’m smiling.” Pg. 109 Cecelia Ahern Thanks for the Memories.

January Wrap Up

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So here is my wrap up for the month of January, over all even with the set backs and not feeling well I feel I did pretty well on my reading. I am behind on the book I say I am currently reading, I have not even started it except for the first page, but I am planning to remedy that after I catch up on a few other things I need to work on.

So over all for the challenges, I finished 8 books for the month so that put me 8 books into my main challenge, my 100+ challenge, Read and Review. 7 books also counted towards the Read from my Shelves challenge. 1 book is finished from the Read the book see the movie challenge. 1 What’s in a name, 1 YA and 1 from my Chic Lit challenge.

I also stayed on top of my own-hosted Historical Fiction Challenge of reading one historical fiction every month (at least) by reading one. So, over all so far so good and here we go into the second month of reading. A short month but I hope to get at least 6 books done preferably more.

Musing Monday #38

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Go to your bookshelf and pick a random book. No cheating now, just reach out and pick one. Now tell us about it – where did you get it? Why? Was it a gift? Does it hold any special memories? Did someone recommend it to you? etc.

Well first off, I have to shake a fist for making me go to my shelf and grab a book but I did go and do it like a good girl. I closed my eyes had a mountain of books fall down on me but I picked one out. And it is…

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee .

Moreover, I honestly do not remember where I got it. However, I know I did not buy it. Therefore, it came from either my book-swapping site or a publisher or friend sent it to me. I am slightly embarrassed I cannot even remember where it is from but with close to 600 books on the TBR there is going to be a few I do not remember. It does not have any special memories, and I do not remember why I got it. However pulling it out of the shelf made me read the back and the first sentence and I am putting it on my pile of books to read for this month, so see something good came out of it.

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