Tuesday, March 18, 2008

BLOGGING: It's Tuesday, where are you?



Since it is the March Break here in PEI, I am literally spending much of my time at home, on the computer, while teaching my children to be more independent - fold this laundry, pour your own milk, who wants to learn how to scramble eggs? It could be seen as incredible laziness on my part, but, no, I am instilling independence. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. It's my vacation too.

Reading wise, I am in 1985 England, but it is Tuesday Next's England, so everything is topsy turvy, and we are trying to find her husband. I may decide to read two books at one time - a living room book and a bed book. In which case, I may pick up The Bleeding Dusk and see how vampire fighting in Regency England is going. I think there is a cute vampire around looking for Victoria. Oh, Sebastian, yoo hoo.

Where is reading taking you today?

24 comments:

  1. I hope you enjoy your Spring Break. My kids' Spring Break is a few weeks away yet, and I am taking the week off too. Can't wait!

    Enjoy your time!
    Jill

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  2. I'm still in Maui with a missionary I'd like to smack around.

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  3. I'm in 1960s California at the drawing board with Charles M. Schulz, really starting to develop Snoopy as a highly imaginative character.

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  4. jill - thanks, it must be quite warm by the time your spring break hits. Right now, half of PEI is in Florida, enjoying your weather. Some day!

    chris - Ah, missionaries. You have to think that anyone that goes somewhere new with the intention of channging/saving lives, would have a certain confident attitude.

    bybee - Peanuts! cool. That should be an interesting read. Is that the somewhat controversial biography of Schultz?

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  5. I love the question you've asked.

    I am currently in Wonderland with Alice, and we've just left the Caterpillar's mushroom.

    Best of luck finding Landen. It won't be an easy task. Please tell Miss Havisham that I said hello.

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  6. I'm just about to embark to the Salinas Valley to get reacquainted with the characters in East of Eden...you could probably find me in book heaven for the next week or so. :)

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  7. I haven't actually read a word, today, unless you count blogs and mail. But, I'll be jumping into Ireland in the 1960's or post-WWII England, later on.

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  8. trish - I think I am ready to try a Steinbeck after a 20 year hiatus. The Pearl really did me in. Grade 10? Not the age to appreciate that book. Enjoy yourself!

    bookfool - I love those settings, and feel like I've read a bit recently in England. How appropriate to read Ireland today/yesterday.

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  9. nicole - I am getting more interested in reading Great Expectations, except I think I just read the big reveal. What a great series.

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  10. I'm in Victorian England flirting with my dead husband's best friend (I have only read the first chapter so we haven't got to the mystery that I am going to investigate yet - reading A Poisoned Season by Tasha Alexander) and in 1750's America/Canada smack bang in the middle of the English and French who are now at war with each other (Shadowbrook by Beverly Swerling)

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  11. Hmm, I think I'd like to meet that vampire. :D

    I'm in Australia with a very eccentric father/son duo courtesy of Steve Toltz' "A Fraction of the Whole". I like it here. :D

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  12. marg - I hope that Canadian/French history novel is more interesting than the years of that history we studied in school. A Victorian mystery always sounds good

    kookie - glad you are enjoying this book after your last review. I'll look forward to hearing what this one is about.

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  13. Funny you should ask - I'm in the PEI! Oh, I am loving it dearly. Anne just finished her first year of teaching and has thrown out all the wonderful theories she had at the beginning of the year. So funny how that happens to all of us! (Anne of Avonlea)

    BTW, it was bittersweet cutting the pink ribbon off my 2 gift books. Definitely sweet reading from a book from you. Thanks, again.

    Last night, I just finished helping those crazy people of the Fourth Crusade overthrowing Constantinople. Imagine a Christian army sacking a Christian city? I was sorry for my part in the whole thing. (Crossed)

    I'm also in Tiran's capital as an ambassador of peace as one of Bayern's Own. (River Secrets)

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  14. I'm in Kent, England with Maisie Dobbs hop picking with the gypsies.

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  15. It's a blistering cold winter on the Nebraska plains in the late 1800's. But soon the summer sun will be coaxing up the corn and drying the prairie grass. (My Antonia)

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  16. I am at home relaxing in my new mega chair (if I can keep the cats from getting there first of course) curled up with a good book. Currently I am spending time alternatively in Ireland in 1968 with Paddy Clarke messing around as a kid and Forks, Washington with Bella and Edward as they look at colleges they want to apply to.

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  17. Well, I was on not-merry-olde-England during the plague years as I finished YEAR OF WONDERS for my book club. Meeting was yesterday afternoon and what a good meeting it was. We'll probably be reading PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, the new book by Geraldine Brooks, because we liked YEAR OF WONDERS so much.

    Now, I'm not sure where I'm headed. I've got an arc of SCREAM FOR ME by Karen Rose and I'm on page 2. LOL

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  18. I'm in 1900's Persia, trying to convince my father to let me choose my own husband by way of a riddle I plan to weave into my wedding carpet.

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  19. booklogged - how nice! I'm so glad you are enjoying that series. Is that the book with Dora and Davey?
    The history of Christians and Muslims is not good on either side. Istanbul (Constantinople)is quite amazing; how they have all lived together for so long. Getting to visit there was a hightlight of our Med cruise.

    tricia - Maisie Dobbs sounds good

    framed - sounds like the setting of that book matches everyone's winter this year. Hopefully summer comes for all of us relatively soon

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  20. Yesterday, I was fighting a war in Russia...well, is that war actually taking place in Germany? Hmmm....

    Oh, and I also spent some time in Pittsburg, where I'm taking care of the Down Syndrome baby that I just happened to steal from a doctor!

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  21. rhinoa - that sounds lovely, and your books sound like lovely escapism, nothing too heavy. Perfect!

    kay - I've read about that book so many times recently. I must get it.

    esther - that sounds very good. I'll have to read the reivew of your book

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  22. I am in Germany in WWII with my foster family hiding a Jew in the basement (The Book Thief by Markus Zusak) wondering why my mother abandoned me...and waiting for my sister who I haven't seen in 50 years (The Sister by Poppy Adams).

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  23. darcie - ooh, The Book Thief, what a great book.

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  24. On Tuesday I was on Prince Edward Island with Anne of Green Gables.

    Love this question. :-)

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