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  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:     Morning Person or Night Owl?
     I am definitely a morning person, waking up between 5am-6am.  If for some reason I sleep in, I feel that I have wasted the entire day.

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And…here we go!
1. A cup of tea is what I drink when not feeling well.
2. Family and friends around the kitchen table makes a place feel like home. 3. Everything has its beauty if you look deep.
4. NO whipped cream added to the taste of strawberries?
5. Art makes me jealous, I can only draw stick people.
6. LOL I just noticed I forgot where I put my Friday To Do List.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to writing 2 reviews, watching some olympics, quality time with hubby, tomorrow my plans include the usual, laundry, taking care of my mom’s bills, computer to do list, reading and Sunday, I want to do nothing but RELAX & READ!

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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
     But our friendly freedom fighters turned into foes.
     From Starting Over by Andy Serwer

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  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:     Morning Person or Night Owl?
     I am definitely a morning person, waking up between 5am-6am.  If for some reason I sleep in, I feel that I have wasted the entire day.

http://fridayfillins.blogspot.com/
And…here we go!
1. A cup of tea is what I drink when not feeling well.
2. Family and friends around the kitchen table makes a place feel like home. 3. Everything has its beauty if you look deep.
4. NO whipped cream added to the taste of strawberries?
5. Art makes me jealous, I can only draw stick people.
6. LOL I just noticed I forgot where I put my Friday To Do List.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to writing 2 reviews, watching some olympics, quality time with hubby, tomorrow my plans include the usual, laundry, taking care of my mom’s bills, computer to do list, reading and Sunday, I want to do nothing but RELAX & READ!

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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
     But our friendly freedom fighters turned into foes.
     From Starting Over by Andy Serwer

I’ve seen this quotation in several places lately. It’s from Sven Birkerts’ ‘The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age’:
“To read, when one does so of one’s own free will, is to make a volitional statement, to cast a vote; it is to posit an elsewhere and set off toward it. And like any traveling, reading is at once a movement and a comment of sorts about the place one has left. To open a book voluntarily is at some level to remark the insufficiency either of one’s life or one’s orientation toward it.”
To what extent does this describe you?
  I read for a very simple reason…..enjoyment !!!!!  It isn’t that I am looking for fullfillment of an insufficiency of life or even orientation toward it.  Some people enjoy movies and/or tv.  Since I was in elementary school, I loved to have a book in hand and escape into a book.  My favorite genre is mystery/suspense but in real life I am a wimp when faced with scary situations.  I believe I have a very vivid imagination and would rather use my own visualization of the books I read instead of say. a movie director’s perception.  I recall images of books I read as a child to this day.  Very simple…enjoyment and the love of the written word.

  Today I will not go on my “Thursday Treasure” blog hunt, which can be computer time consuming.  I am behind in my reading and feel that today I am going to dedicate my time to reading.  I am behind due to activities of daily life issues that seem to get in the way of our reading schedules, but such are the priorities of life.  Here in New England this week, we have had days of rain, today too.  Since weather affects the pain level in my back, physical activity will be interrupted due to today’s forecast, I will be retreating to my reading chair, with my mug of coffee and hopefully get close to finishing, or if really lucky finishing, my current read.  So have a great Thursday and Happy Reading !!!!

I’ve seen this quotation in several places lately. It’s from Sven Birkerts’ ‘The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age’:
“To read, when one does so of one’s own free will, is to make a volitional statement, to cast a vote; it is to posit an elsewhere and set off toward it. And like any traveling, reading is at once a movement and a comment of sorts about the place one has left. To open a book voluntarily is at some level to remark the insufficiency either of one’s life or one’s orientation toward it.”
To what extent does this describe you?
  I read for a very simple reason…..enjoyment !!!!!  It isn’t that I am looking for fullfillment of an insufficiency of life or even orientation toward it.  Some people enjoy movies and/or tv.  Since I was in elementary school, I loved to have a book in hand and escape into a book.  My favorite genre is mystery/suspense but in real life I am a wimp when faced with scary situations.  I believe I have a very vivid imagination and would rather use my own visualization of the books I read instead of say. a movie director’s perception.  I recall images of books I read as a child to this day.  Very simple…enjoyment and the love of the written word.

  Today I will not go on my “Thursday Treasure” blog hunt, which can be computer time consuming.  I am behind in my reading and feel that today I am going to dedicate my time to reading.  I am behind due to activities of daily life issues that seem to get in the way of our reading schedules, but such are the priorities of life.  Here in New England this week, we have had days of rain, today too.  Since weather affects the pain level in my back, physical activity will be interrupted due to today’s forecast, I will be retreating to my reading chair, with my mug of coffee and hopefully get close to finishing, or if really lucky finishing, my current read.  So have a great Thursday and Happy Reading !!!!

  *What did you recently finish reading?
      Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan (awesome….gave it a 5 rating)
  *What do you think you’ll read next?
      Starting Over by Andy Serwer
I am a little behind schedule due to activities of daily life (lol thinking reading should be the priority over mundane chores) but am determined to catch up !!!

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          conundrum   ….solution to my literary conundrum……
      A Note from an Old Acquaintance   page 48
  1. riddle whose answer is or involves a pun
  2. question or problem having only a conjectural answerb. ban intricate and difficult problem

  *What did you recently finish reading?
      Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan (awesome….gave it a 5 rating)
  *What do you think you’ll read next?
      Starting Over by Andy Serwer
I am a little behind schedule due to activities of daily life (lol thinking reading should be the priority over mundane chores) but am determined to catch up !!!

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          conundrum   ….solution to my literary conundrum……
      A Note from an Old Acquaintance   page 48
  1. riddle whose answer is or involves a pun
  2. question or problem having only a conjectural answerb. ban intricate and difficult problem

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
  My Teaser:
No, she hadn’t told him the whole story because she sensed, no she knew, it would have discouraged him, and she couldn’t bear the thought of that, either.
  From A Note from an Old Acquaintance by Bill Walker   page 114

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  Its 1991 and I am in Boston with my friend Brian Weller, PR and want-to-be published author.  He has just met a wonderful woman, Joanna, but is there a future with her?