Author: CMash

An avid reader for many years. Married for 31 years with 2 fantastic adult sons who I am so very proud of with great gfs. Am disabled. Found this wonderful community of book blogging in approximately December 2009 and have loved every minute of it. Am now a reviewer for authors, publishers, publicists, etc. And am also a partner in a Virtual PR tour company, Partners In Crime Tours for authors of novels of mystery, suspense and crime (www.Partnersincrimetours.net)

Friday Newsletters (1 of 5 posts)

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Aloha Friday (post 2 of 5 )

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Hosted by An Island Life http://islandlife808.com

From An Island Life: In Hawaii, Aloha Friday is the day that we take it easy and look forward to the weekend. So I thought that on Fridays I would take it easy on posting, too. Therefore, I’ll ask a simple question for you to answer. Nothing that requires a lengthy response.
If you’d like to participate, visit An Island Life answer the question and then post your own question on your blog and leave your link below. Don’t forget to visit the other participants! It’s a great way to make new bloggy friends!
My question is:  People celebrate Easter Sunday according to beliefs and traditions.  Do you celebrate with a special Easter Sunday dinner and if so, what is the main entree?   
  Being Catholic, Easter Sunday is a religious holiday for us and we celebrate starting with an antipasto then a baked ham and all the fixings.

Photobucket in the fun. You don’t need a blog to comment, but if you do and want to join in, links provided for each and all memes.

Book Blog Hop (post 3 of 5)

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Hosted by Jennifer from CRAZY FOR BOOKS http://www.crazy-for-books.com/
Here are the instuctions from her site:

Every day I seem to find another book blog that I start following. In the spirit of the Friday Follow, I thought it would be cool to do a Book Blog Hop to give us all bookies a chance to connect and find new blogs that we may be missing out on! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed!
So, if you’d like to participate, just repost this on your blog, sign MckLinky below, and check out other blogs in MckLinky! Let’s connect and make new book bloggy friends!! So, if you consider yourself a book blogger, come join the fun!
Pretty please – Your blog should have content related to books, including, but not limited to book reviews.

Friday 56 (post 4 of 5)

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Hosted by Storytime With Tonya and Friends http://storytimewithtonya.blogspot.com/
Rules:

* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
*Post a link along with your post back to this blog.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
    He held a video camera in one hand and a light bar in the other, and had worked alongside them diligently but intelligently, treading in areas they’d declared safe.
                                 From Silent Scream by Karen Rose

Friday Fill-Ins (post 5 of 5)

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Happy Easter to all who celebrate it! And…here we go!
1. All you need is love.
2. My family fills me with laughter.
3. Each generation, as it grows up, has a same generic wisdom.
4. Someone lying to me is something I have a hard time dealing with.
5. A trip to ARUBA is what I need.
6. Kindness and respect given and you get back.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to spending time with my hubby and sons, tomorrow my plans include laundry, packing for surgery, trying to stay calm, reading and Sunday, I want to spend as much time with my family before surgery on Monday!

Reminder

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Monthly Wrap Up

Another month comes to an end !!!!  Which means another month closer to nicer weather, I hope.  As far as reading, this month I am not at all happy with myself.  I went into a mini reading slump, which thankfully, doesn’t happen often but it did so I will need to play catch up in the coming months.  And I am on planning on doing it in a very enjoyable way.  I have already informed hubby and my sons that they need to open our pool early this year. so that the best way I can recuperate after surgery is to be sitting by the pool, with my stack of books and my Dunkin Donuts Iced Coffee…sounds like a plan to me !!!

Ohhhhh myyyy…I just looked at my spread sheet/records and it is worse than I thought….
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OK..telling myself…”Self..you promise to and will do better in April….lol  don’t think it could get any worse.  So here goes…..
  BOOKS READ:
   *Waking Up In The Land Of Glitter by Kathy Cano-Murillo Photobucket
   *Live To Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub Photobucket
   *The Cutting by James Hayman Photobucket
  CHALLENGES PROGRESS TO DATE:
  *Lisa Jackson 5/10
  *Awesome Author 0/3
  *RYOB 1/10
  *Romance 2/3
  *EBook 2/6
  *Reading from my Shelves 12/20
  *Thriller/Suspense 11/12
  *Books Won 1/6
  *100+ 15/100
  *FOMA 12×12 13/?
  *Buck A Book 15/100
  *Reagan Arthur 1/?
  *50+ 3/50
 

Wednesday

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Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/
 *What are you currently reading?
     Silent Scream by Karen Rose (from The Hachette Book Group)

 *What did you recently finish reading?
     The Cutting by James Hayman (awesome…rated it 4.5 out of 5…great read)
 *What do you think you’ll read next?
     The Memory Thief by Rachel Keener (The Hachette Book Group)
     Our Promised Land by Michael T. Darkow (Phenix & Phenix Publishers)
Photobucket in the fun. You don’t need a blog to comment, but if you do and want to join in, links provided for each and all memes.