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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?

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Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about keeping books.
Do you keep all the books you ever buy? Just the ones you love? Just collectibles? What do you do with the ones you don’t want to keep?
  There is no way I could have kept all the books I have ever read.  I have always dreamed about having a libray room with built-in floor to ceiling book cases and a few very comfortable reading chairs.  If that dream ever came true, my family would never see me, because thats where I would be.  However, even with that, I wouldn’t be able to store all of the books.  I try to pass on my books to family and friends that do enjoy reading.  If they feel that a book doesn’t interest them, I then donate to different organizations.  I could never put a book in the garbage.  That is just so wrong…to just toss it and not give someone else the opportunity to enjoy it.   I do keep those that have a personalization by the author.

 

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This is a meme to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finished this week.
  Completed: Great Book…highly recommend 

 

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Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about keeping books.
Do you keep all the books you ever buy? Just the ones you love? Just collectibles? What do you do with the ones you don’t want to keep?
  There is no way I could have kept all the books I have ever read.  I have always dreamed about having a libray room with built-in floor to ceiling book cases and a few very comfortable reading chairs.  If that dream ever came true, my family would never see me, because thats where I would be.  However, even with that, I wouldn’t be able to store all of the books.  I try to pass on my books to family and friends that do enjoy reading.  If they feel that a book doesn’t interest them, I then donate to different organizations.  I could never put a book in the garbage.  That is just so wrong…to just toss it and not give someone else the opportunity to enjoy it.   I do keep those that have a personalization by the author.

 

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This is a meme to list the books completed last week, the books currently being read, and the books to be finished this week.
  Completed: Great Book…highly recommend 

 

Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan (Rating 5)
Harper-Collins Publishers
ISBN: 78-0-06-154778-2
At the request of the author’s friend, a PB copy was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.
  Synopsis (from book’s back cover): Anna O’Shea has failed at marriage, shed her job at a law firm and she’s trying to re-created herself when she and her recalcitrant nephew are summoned to the past in a manner that nearly destroys them. Her twenty-first-century skills pale as she struggles to find her nephew in nineteenth-century Ireland. For one of them, the past is brutally difficult, filled with hunger and struggle. For the other, the past is filled with privilege.
  My Thoughts: This was definitely not the type of book that I would have picked up for my reading pleasure. I also have to say up front that I misunderstood the synopsis of the plot in regard to time travel, given to me by Mr. Frank Daniels, the author’s friend, until I received the book. With all that said and the fact that there was a genuine warmth from Mr. Daniels’ initial email for his friend, I was going to try and give this book a fair and undivided attention that I would give books that are from my usual genre of books.
  The main character, Anna O’Shea was likeable and could be identified with, which pulled me into the book from the start. The author initially conveyed the fast paced corporate world of today where personal relationships are ships passing in the night until it’s too late to turn back or is it? What about other relationships where bitterness lies instead of forgiveness? Where childhood experiences mold us as adults or should we learn from them? Can love be found in the simple life, do we make our own happiness or do we depend on others? In a split second Anna and her troubled nephew, Joseph, are about to find out! The reader is taken back to Ireland in 1844 when the British ruled and owned Ireland. Do our ancestors mold our futures? Does the saying “history repeats itself” true?
  My Opinion and Rating:(Rating 5) This book was hard to put down. Amazing!! Interesting!! A little bit romance, mystery and history all in one book. The author’s writing style, nothing less than phenomenal, in the way she interweaves a gripping fictional plot with non fictional facts of history without boredom. The characters are bigger than life. I had a very hard time putting this book down. I thank Ms. Sheehan and Mr. Daniels for giving me the opportunity to read this exceptional story and I strongly recommend that everyone read this book.

This will be a very short post.  Hope everyone is having a great weekend.  Any special plans today?  Are your Sundays for relaxing or is it hectic like every other day?  I am going to take my own advice today and check off my action items from yesterday’s “To Do List” that  I didn’t accomplish.  I didn’t even open a book yesterday, which never happens.  I carried it everywhere I went but didn’t read one page.  Today will be different !!!  I will be posting a book review that I highly recommend everyone read.  It was exceptional !!!  I will be RELAXING and READING !  Hope you find time to do the same.

Now & Then by Jacqueline Sheehan (Rating 5)
Harper-Collins Publishers
ISBN: 78-0-06-154778-2
At the request of the author’s friend, a PB copy was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest opinion.
  Synopsis (from book’s back cover): Anna O’Shea has failed at marriage, shed her job at a law firm and she’s trying to re-created herself when she and her recalcitrant nephew are summoned to the past in a manner that nearly destroys them. Her twenty-first-century skills pale as she struggles to find her nephew in nineteenth-century Ireland. For one of them, the past is brutally difficult, filled with hunger and struggle. For the other, the past is filled with privilege.
  My Thoughts: This was definitely not the type of book that I would have picked up for my reading pleasure. I also have to say up front that I misunderstood the synopsis of the plot in regard to time travel, given to me by Mr. Frank Daniels, the author’s friend, until I received the book. With all that said and the fact that there was a genuine warmth from Mr. Daniels’ initial email for his friend, I was going to try and give this book a fair and undivided attention that I would give books that are from my usual genre of books.
  The main character, Anna O’Shea was likeable and could be identified with, which pulled me into the book from the start. The author initially conveyed the fast paced corporate world of today where personal relationships are ships passing in the night until it’s too late to turn back or is it? What about other relationships where bitterness lies instead of forgiveness? Where childhood experiences mold us as adults or should we learn from them? Can love be found in the simple life, do we make our own happiness or do we depend on others? In a split second Anna and her troubled nephew, Joseph, are about to find out! The reader is taken back to Ireland in 1844 when the British ruled and owned Ireland. Do our ancestors mold our futures? Does the saying “history repeats itself” true?
  My Opinion and Rating:(Rating 5) This book was hard to put down. Amazing!! Interesting!! A little bit romance, mystery and history all in one book. The author’s writing style, nothing less than phenomenal, in the way she interweaves a gripping fictional plot with non fictional facts of history without boredom. The characters are bigger than life. I had a very hard time putting this book down. I thank Ms. Sheehan and Mr. Daniels for giving me the opportunity to read this exceptional story and I strongly recommend that everyone read this book.

This will be a very short post.  Hope everyone is having a great weekend.  Any special plans today?  Are your Sundays for relaxing or is it hectic like every other day?  I am going to take my own advice today and check off my action items from yesterday’s “To Do List” that  I didn’t accomplish.  I didn’t even open a book yesterday, which never happens.  I carried it everywhere I went but didn’t read one page.  Today will be different !!!  I will be posting a book review that I highly recommend everyone read.  It was exceptional !!!  I will be RELAXING and READING !  Hope you find time to do the same.

As I stated earlier, my day got off to a late start.  But my routine was the same, only a few hours later.  One blog that I visit daily had not posted her Aloha Friday question yesterday by the time that I signed off, so I headed straight over to her site to see what her question was so I could comment.  With coffee mug in hand and only 1/2 cup down, I started reading her new posts.  Still not fully awake I thought I saw my name…..read it again….and sure enough….my name was there.  It was like winning the gold medal !   Xmas Dolly (http://thenewxmasdolly.blogspot.com) had passed this award on to me…..

Our blogs are so different in content but through emails, we have found that we have a lot in common in “real life”.  She has a wonderful sense of humor that comes across on her blog…stop by when you get a chance.  However, I will admit, I am trying to convert her when it comes to reading.  She has promised to read at least one book and post her review on my site….only thing…she hasn’t yet said what year that will be (lol).  Now for the criteria:
The rules for accepting this award:
1.Thank the link to the person that gave you the award (I did that immediately).
2.Pass this award on to 15 bloggers you’ve recently discovered & whom you think are fantastic (since I am a new blogger, I feel that all blogs I follow fall under this category)
3.Contact said Blogs to let them know they’ve won
4.State 7 Things about yourself!
  1. “Mash” is a nickname I was given by a coworker..it is the first syllable of my last name when pronounced correctly (most people think its because I was a nurse by profession)
  2.  Talking about my name….my sis-in-law, hubby’s sister…we have the same exact name first, middle and last name
  3.  I wish I still had my last job…loved it…but had to leave due to medical reasons.
  4.  Hubby and I will be married 29 years in April (day before my surgery) and we were together 7 yrs before (started dating him when I was a senior in high school and then through college)
  5.  While in high school (school trips) I visited Italy, Spain and Africa (what an education !!)
  6.  I usually wake up between 5-6am (thats why I was off kilter today)
  7.  Favorite season is spring. 
Passing this on to (in no particular order):
     Reading At The Beach              Rundpinne   
     Booking With Bingo                 Libby’s Library News
     Bermudaonion                          The Crazy Life of a Bookaholic Mom
     Bibliophile By The Sea              Socrates Book Reviews
     Book Chick City                       Peeking Between The Pages
     I’m Booking It                          The Ladybug Lounge
     Crazy For Books                       Books Are My Magical Escape
     One Persons Journey Through A World of Books
ENJOY !!!