I have had so much fun since Friday, when BlogFest began.  This being my first time ever to be participating.  I have found new blogs and entering many great giveaways.  And  then to make it even more special,  I got that warm and fuzzy feeling.  That’s right…you guessed it…I was presented with an award.  I know I keep repeating myself but its the truth.  No matter how many awards I get, I still get excited just like the first award received.  I really never thought my “private personal journal of books read” would become the blog I have today… I am in awe.

Thank you so very much for thinking of me and passing on this award to me.  If you haven’t visited, I wish you would, and say hi.  LibrarysCat Book List, Reading in 9 Lives (I just love that blog name) has presented me with this award:

Now for the criteria:
The Cherry on top Award Rules are:
 Answer this question: If you had the chance to go back and change one thing in your life, would you, and what would it be?
My answer is the same from last week:
What would I change. There are many answers to this question but the main response, which comes with age and wisdom, would be to Enjoy Every Minute, don’t sweat the small stuff, because life goes by as quickly as the snap of your fingers.

PICK 6 people and give them this award. You then have to inform the person that they have gotten this award.
And now I pass this fantastic award on to the following (in no particular order):

I have had so much fun since Friday, when BlogFest began.  This being my first time ever to be participating.  I have found new blogs and entering many great giveaways.  And  then to make it even more special,  I got that warm and fuzzy feeling.  That’s right…you guessed it…I was presented with an award.  I know I keep repeating myself but its the truth.  No matter how many awards I get, I still get excited just like the first award received.  I really never thought my “private personal journal of books read” would become the blog I have today… I am in awe.

Thank you so very much for thinking of me and passing on this award to me.  If you haven’t visited, I wish you would, and say hi.  LibrarysCat Book List, Reading in 9 Lives (I just love that blog name) has presented me with this award:

Now for the criteria:
The Cherry on top Award Rules are:
 Answer this question: If you had the chance to go back and change one thing in your life, would you, and what would it be?
My answer is the same from last week:
What would I change. There are many answers to this question but the main response, which comes with age and wisdom, would be to Enjoy Every Minute, don’t sweat the small stuff, because life goes by as quickly as the snap of your fingers.

PICK 6 people and give them this award. You then have to inform the person that they have gotten this award.
And now I pass this fantastic award on to the following (in no particular order):

From Danielle’s blog:
   We all leave our “footprint” on the world, in one way or another. We each, individually, do something or are someone that makes the world a little better just by being here. I created this weekly meme to get to know the blogging community I love just a bit better. To know what makes them tick, outside of books, that is. Each week I will post a question to be answered in the following week’s “A Bit of Me(Me)”. Check back each Saturday to get the info for next week’s post and link up with your current post right here.
This Weeks Question:
(Brought to us by Gwen from Chew and Digest Books): Do you have any other hobbies(not necessarily talents) besides reading?

Read more: http://www.theresabook.com/category/a-bit-of-meme/#ixzz0zA06YW53
Like all of us, who are members of this fantastic community, reading is definitely #1

My #2 hobby is fairly new, and that is blogging,  I did not even know this world existed a year ago.

this one is MINE by Maria Semple
Published by Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
ISBN: 978-0-316-03133-2
At the request of the author’s friend, a PB copy was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.
  Synopsis (from back of book): Violet Parry has a picture-perfect life: a beautiful house, a successful husband, a darling daughter. Violet can speak French, quote Sondheim, and whip up dinner from the vegetables in her garden. She has everything under control-except her own happiness. All it takes is a chance encounter with Teddy Reyes, a roguish small -time bass player with a highly evolved sexuality to open Violet’s eyes to what she’s missing and upend her life completely
  My Thoughts and Opinion: This week I asked advice for getting out of my reading slump because I felt that I just couldn’t and didn’t want to pick up this book and read. And then today, in my google reader, another book blogger/reviewer answered my question. Alayne from The Crowded Leaf, posted her review of this very book and made me realize why the slump. She could not finish it. I read 90 pages and did not like, nor could I relate to any of the characters. This is my opinion, and only my opinion, but without giving away a spoiler to the plot, I had a hard time with the story line. I have read other books with a similar theme but this book was difficult to read in the way it was presented. Unfortunately, I had to set this one aside and place in the DNF pile.