Showing posts with label new author 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new author 2016. Show all posts

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Sunday Salon

Well the week has once again flown by, and it'll be Monday in a few hours.  This week I finally finished
A little more graphic than I usually read, but very good, a page turner indeed.  I sat in Macdonald's (without eating anything) to finish the last chapter, it was raining outside.   A great recommendation by Nise from Under the Boardwalk.  
If you are the least bit squeemish, don't read this one.  I had no idea there was such ugliness in the world, I thought for sure I'd read it all, but after The Devils Punch Bowl, this one takes the cake.  I can't imagine how much therapy these people will need.

here is a description from amazon.ca

More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed.

The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it.



Happy Reading, and Happy Sunday Salon.

Monday, May 2, 2016

It's Monday what are you reading.

Well it's May already.  April just flew by, it was very busy, and May doesn't look like it's going to slow down.  I didn't read great amounts, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading my Irish authors throughout the month of March, and finished Maeve Binchy, The Glass Lake, into the first week of April.  And then I had a Sarah Addison Allen thing happen to me.  If you've read Sugar Queen, you'll remember the character found books appropriate to her life, at the moment, dilemma.  Well I went to my monthly Antique Assoc. meeting and didn't we have a guest speaker on Stain glass windows and their history.  She focuses on Notre Dame.  Meanwhile in the book world,  Margaret from Books Please, had recommended, The Cleaner of Chartres.  I really enjoyed the read, and was now able to visualize the lovely descriptions.

Up next Pretty Girls

Sunday, April 24, 2016

Simple Woman's Daybook

http://thesimplewoman.blogspot.com/ 
For Today
Outside my window...
Sunny but cold, only 8degrees
I am thinking...
I'll be getting out there soon, to clean up and plant
I am thankful...
for this cooler weather, not quite ready to "dig in"

I am wearing...
oh dear, my p.j.s, it's one of those mornings

I am creating...
I need to finish up a painted piece and pack it for my niece
I am wondering...
why I decided what to make for a potluck,  than means I have to shopping for ingredients

I am reading...
it took me way too long to finish my last Maeve Binchy book, Glass Lake, loved it of coarse, and now I'm on to 
this choice of book was sort of coincidental,  The Canadian Antique Association had a guest speaker, illuminating us on stain glass, and Charters was a highlight of the talk, well low and behold I had it in the hold bin at our local library... weird ... or what?

I am hoping...
to find a easy solution to attaching curtain rods to a ceiling, I'm not so tall these days.
I am learning...
I'm getting too old for some of my adventures
In my garden...
my bulbs are up and the ready to bloom, hopefully it will stay warm

In my kitchen...
I'm baking a cake,  and in the a.m. I'll be making a wicked Curry Vegetable dish for our Pot Luck. 

Here's a picture I'll share with you, it's me getting my table ready for a charity luncheon.
my friend Lois took this photo as I was setting up, my theme was Jingle all the Way.
each of my 10 guest received one of these hand painted stockings (painted by me)(design adaptation from Wendy Fahey) a bit of work, but fun. My Lenten rose which is also in this design is in full bloom, it sounds like  it a showy flower but it really isn't, it's just interesting.


In the school room...
both my boys are finished University, for now, I hope they will be life long learners
Quote for today...
 Thought for the Day:
People who shine from within...don't need the spotlight.
Most days a lovely lady Tracy Moreau , post a thought for the day
One of my favorite things...
a great cup of tea, in a beautiful china cup/mug

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to my wonderful son,  it's bee 33wonderful years. Hope this year proves to be the best yet.