1) Novel, Memoir, Historical Fiction
2) Popcorn, Pringles, Pretzels
3) Running Shoes, Dress Shoes, No Shoes
4) Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep
5) Smile, Kiss, Wink
Pick Ones:
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Tag Archives: reading
Take your pick
I recently told Drew “People are my books.” I think a better way to say it would’ve been “blogs are my books” – I used to be great at keeping up with other blogs, then I got all busy with moving and life and moving. Now things are settling down & I’m returning to some blog reading – namely during the weekend. And only some. BUT, maybe there’s time and room for a few more. So, I thought it’d be fun to share our favorite blogs here. And check ‘em out this weekend.
So here’s the way this’ll go down:
1) the name of the blog, with link.
2) why you like reading it
3) why you think Mandy will like reading it
And we’ll go from there. Mkay?
The best thing I can say is, “I do not want to finish this book.”
“My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.” ~Thomas Helm
I read this quote on a friend’s blog recently, and immediately went through all the books in my head that fit this category (granted, there aren’t many, because I’m not a huge reader):
The Help
Redeeming Love
Julie & Julia
What would you add to the list?
“Perfecting the Art of Laughter”
Last night, somewhere between Books-A-Million and home, I decided that if I ever wrote a memoir I’d title it “Perfecting the Art of Laughter.”
What would you call yours?
If I had more time…
1) I don’t even know how, but I started following (or following-back?) @PreMiddleAge on twitter. (For those who might not understand the previous jargon, just know: I somehow found this chick on the internet.) Eventually, I started paying attention to the little things she wrote the twitter-net, and in a late-Saturday-night-wandering I decided to click on over to her blog. It is fantastic, y’all. Funny. Witty. Sarcastic. Witty-some-more. And, if I had more time, I’d read on…
2) I sat on my couch with a friend recently, and the more she told me about Madeleine L’Engle’s writings, the more I wanted her books in my hands. ”Our truest responsibility to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find the truth.” See? How could I not want more of that wisdom in my life? According to my friend, this woman knew faith, knew doubt, and knew the fitful path of creativity. If I had more time, I’d let her words mentor me…
3) My kitchen is avocado green. A wall in my bedroom is Boston-Legacy brown, with white birch trees stretching up it. (Yes, it’s my fave wall in the whole house and it was Alece’s idea.)Everything else is a pale creamy off-white. If I had more time, I’d paint our living and dining rooms a corresponding color.
4) Well, let’s just be honest. If I had more time, I’d think of a fourth thing to put on this list.
What would you do if you had more time?
