The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Title:  The Looking Glass Wars Author:  Frank Beddor Hardback:  364 pages ISBN:  0803731531 From the website: The Looking Glass Wars unabashedly challenges the world’s Carrollian Wonderland assumptions of tea parties, dormice and a curious little blonde girl to reveal an epic, cross dimensional saga of love, murder, betrayal, revenge and the endless war for Imagination. [...]

BTT ~ If the Corn and the Mashed Potatoes Touch, the World Will Implode!

Follow-up to last week’s question: Do you keep all your unread books together, like books in a waiting room? Or are they scattered throughout your shelves, mingling like party-goers waiting for the host to come along? Okay, I was not going to do Booking Through Thursday this week, I was going to start back on [...]

The Inconvenient Adventures of Uncle Chestnut by Paul Nowak

Title:  The Inconvenient Adventures of Uncle Chestnut (Based on the Life and Works of G.K. Chesterton) Author:  Paul Nowak Paperback:  55 pages ISBN:  0977223493 Miscellaneous:  This book is intended to be the first of a series on “Uncle Chestnut.” Challenges:  2009 ARC Reading Challenge  “You see, Jack, an adventure is only an inconvenience considered the [...]

Viral Video Wednesday ~ Mash-ups

Well, after a couple weeks hiatus while setting up the new computer and importing bookmarks (all my VVW ones, especially), Viral Video Wednesday is back on.  And this week’s topic, per Maggie’s request, is:  Mash-ups.  A mash-up is when you take scenes from one move and add scenes or the audio from another movie to and [...]

Neil Armstrong Is My Uncle by Nan Marino

Title:  Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me Author:  Nan Marino Hardcover:  160 pages ISBN:  9781596434998 Challenges:  2009 ARC Reading Challenge From the back of the book: Muscle Man McGinty is a squirrelly runt, a lying snake, and a pitiful excuse for a ten-year-old.  The problem is that no [...]

Sunburnt and Weary, I Return…

Waves.  Wind.  Sun.  Seagulls.  Maglit berserking a flock of seagulls (NOT the 80s rock band made famous by their weird hair and referenced by Sam Jackson in Pulp Fiction).  It all proved too much for my ADD to overcome.  I had dreams and visions of doing damage to my ARC-alanche pile!  But, I only managed [...]

Blog and RUN :-D

Today Mags and I are going on a long trip to Michigan City, which is about 2 hours from here, and spending the day at the beach with people from our church.  Gwen was going to go with us, then the opportunity came up for her to go to the zoo with some friends, so she’s going to [...]

The Sunday Salon ~ In THIS Corner, Wearing the Blue Trunks…

And now for a mostly video Sunday Salon… Well, we did read Fruits Basket, volumes 1 and 2 this week… So now for some fun stuff. We went for a walk out in the gorgeous day yesterday… it was a little on the warmish side, but not too bad.  We decided to go to Hardee’s [...]

Fruits Basket Volume 2 by Natsuki Takaya

Title:  Fruits Basket volume 2 Author:  Natsuki Takaya Softcover:  200 pages ISBN:  1591826047 Challenges:  Manga Challenge From the back cover: A family with an ancient curse… And the girl who will change their lives forever… Ever since Tohru Honda discovered the Zodiac secret of the Sohma clan, her eyes have been opened to a world [...]

Fruits Basket volume 1 by Natsuki Takaya

Title:  Fruits Basket Volume 1 Author:  Natsuki Takaya Paperback:  216 pages ISBN:  1591826039 Challenges:  Manga Challenge From the back cover: A family with an ancient curse… And the girl who will change their lives forever… Tohru Honda was an orphan with no place to go until the mysterious Sohma family offered her a place to [...]