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(Meme) Top Ten Tuesday

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I found the blog and bloggers who started Top Ten Tuesday, and its The Broke and the Bookish blog. They have several bloggers who contribute to the blog. If you haven’t already discovered this blog then you should check them out.

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is Top Ten Favorite Book Quotes.

I have to admit that I don’t tend to keep track of my favorite quotes but after today’s meme I think I will start to keep track of them more.

I am not sure if I will be able to come up with ten but I am going to give it a try. Here is my Top Ten Favorite Book Quotes.

  1. “Metabolisms are evil, wicked, vile things.” — Johanna Edwards, The Next Big Thing. ( I remember when I read this I had to laugh and I agree.)
  2. “There was more scope for imagination,” Anne of Green Gables
  3. “Would you rather be if you had the choice- divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever, or angelically good?” Anne of Green Gables. ( I always wanted to be divinely beautiful.)
  4. “We’ve all got meanness in us but we’ve all got goodness too and the only thing worth living for is the good and that is why we’ve got to make sure and pass it on.”
    (Where the heart is)
  5. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Oh The Places You will go
  6. “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.”
  7. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (To Kill a Mockingbird)
  8. “But if you took every memory, every moment and stretched them out end to end, – they’d reach forever” (My Sister’s Keeper)
  9. “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” (To Kill a Mockingbird)
  10. “Yeah, man school just started, and already you’re reading way too many book,” (The Queen of Cool)

So these are some of my favorite quotes, what are yours?

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Magazine Monday

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Its that time of the week again when I show case the magazines I bought or received in the mail.

I don’t tend to buy alot of magazines on a weekly bases and if I do its because of an article or the cover that catches my eye.

This weeks loot is:

BOUGHT:
In Touch Weekly Sept 27 issue
People
Womans World

Subscriptions:Canadian Living October issue
Chatelaine October issue

Borrowed from Library:
I just discovered these Magazines this summer at the library and they are called New York Tines Book Review. I got Aug 8th, Aug 22 and Aug 29 issues. They are a weekly book review newspaper like magazine. Not only do they have book reviews but they also have the Best Sellers list (Fiction, Non Fiction, trade fiction, mass market fiction,etc) along with the Editors Choice. This is something I would like to subscribe to but its a little pricy for me so I will continue to borrow them from the library.

I love buying Womans World every week because there is always great recipes such as Warm Ginger Spiced Apple Cider and tomato & corn salad, books this week its Sophie Kinsella’s Mini Shopaholic and Coco Chanel by Justine Picardie and many great articles such as how to sail through allergy season sniffle free, 5 ways on how to get back to sleep (which I need) and bed bugs plus many more.

As for People and Us Weekly I like picking them up for a quick read. People this week had a great book section. They mentioned The Wave by Susan Casey (this sounds really good), and out in paperback is Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls, Where the Money Went by Kevin Canty and Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel(which I am dying to read but sadly I don’t like the paper back cover)plus other books mentioned were Mini Shopaholic, Salvation City, Half Empty, Rock What you got (she was on the view last week) and lastly Some We love, Some we Hate, Some we Eat by Hal Herzog. Thanks to the article Fresh Crops I actually took one of the haircuts and had my hair done like theirs.

I don’t subscribe to too many magazines as you can see to date from these posts. This past week was the time that Canadian Living and Chatelaine came in. I was thrilled to get Canadian Living because our Thanksgiving is just around the corner and we always have turkey/chicken (tons of leftovers)and there was 10 recipes for turkey/chicken left overs which I will be trying them out as well has Harvest Bounty recipes (I love trying new recipes). There was also an article on hassle free homework tips which thankfully I read and thankfully we don’t have an issue with homework yet since Michael is only in grade 2.

Another great Canadian magazine is Chatelaine and I have been reading this for ages now. I checked online and unfortunetly they don’t have the October Issue online yet but once they do I will link that in a future Magazine Monday post. For the October issue there are recipes for Thanksgiving and pizza night. I love homemade pizza. I loved the October book Club section as it was jammed filled with great titles such as Nightfall (Michael Cunningham), Safe Haven (Nicholas Sparks), I love your laugh (Jessica Holmes), The Night Bookmobile ( Audrey Niffenegger)and many other titles. Also was an excerpt of Mini Shopaholic. Which I read and makes me want to read my copy of Mini Shopaholic all the more.

So what great Thanksgiving recipes do you enjoy? What magazine articles caught your attention this past week?

Have you read any of the books mentioned in this post?

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(Meme) Top Ten Tuesday

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I am not quite sure who started this meme because I only saw it today on a new to me (local) blogger’s page. If you haven’t checked out Tales and Treats by Amanda you really should. Also if you happen to know the person behind Top Ten Tuesday please let me know.

This week’s question (I think it is) is Top 10 Books you are dying to read:
1. Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick
2. The Julian Game by Adele Griffin
3. Plain Kate by Erin Bow
4. unraveled by Gena Showalter
5. The Secret Society of the Pink Crystal Ball
6. Nevermore by Kelly Creagh
7. Behemoth by Scott Westerfield
8. The Ivy
9. Room By Emma Donoghue
10. Betrayal by Gillian Shields

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I can’t believe I have caved….

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If you know me from either online or in real life you know I have been very apprehensive of the ereaders. Not really sure why though?

I think they are a great idea for the person who travels and doesn’t want to carry a ton of books with them but for me I am a stay at home mom and I can honestly say I travel about once a year so why would I need one?

Recently I have been thinking about them and I think I would have loved to have one when I was on vacation because I had brought a ton of books with me. I actually was looking at one in the US and was thinking about it and the price was pretty good. The only thing for me was what happens if something happens to it that leads to alot of hassles since I live in Canada. So needless to say it stayed there.

Coming home I was still thinking about it and when I had an offer you basically can’t refuse I jumped at it and got:

As you can see I got the black one and it also comes out in white. (sorry for the quality of the pics)

The battery charge lasts roughly 2 weeks or about 8000 page turns.

Supports multiple content types: eBooks, PDFs, Newspapers & Magazines. (Which I see on the website is coming.)

Pre-loaded with desktop software to organize your library.

Book-like reading: No glare 6″ E Ink screen with 8 level grey scale.

Pick up where you left off: automatically book mark pages.

Size: 120mm x 184mm

Slim: Only 10mm thick

Lightweight: 221g (Very light)

Quick Navigation: soft 5-way button

Store up to 1000 titles†: 1 GB memory

Add additional storage: up to 4GB using SD Memory card slot (memory card not included). (Which is good for me.)

You can change the fonts to make it easier to read.

It comes loaded with 100 classics such as: Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, Jane Eyre, Treasure Island, The Phantom of the Opera and so many more.

You can look at your books by title, author or I’m reading.

As you can see on the left hand side there is buttons for home, menu, display and back all pretty easy to understand.

Its all pretty easy to navigate but the only problem I found was once I downloaded a book I thought it would appear in the books but it doesn’t it appears under documents. Which is okay once I figured it out.

There is a slight waiting period when you open the Kobo and are doing things such as opening a book but its okay.

So after playing around with it and trying to figure things out I was brave enough to download some books from Net Galley . This was one of the first books I downloaded to how it would look:

As you can see its Winter Passage by Julie Kagawa. Its a little novella that came out after the Iron King. Then to show you what the page looks like this is page three from the book. I think the only down side is that the covers are black and white.

The books I have downloaded so far onto “Blackie” is:
-ABC is for Circus Chucky ( I was curious to see what a children’s book would look like)
-A home made Christmas
-A Simple Amish Christmas
-Dining with the Dollar Diva
-It all started with a dare
-b is for bufflehead (another picture book)
-Manifest
-The Painted Darkness
-The Mermaids mirror
-The Oracle Rebounds
-Tyger, Tyger
-Amish Friends Cookbook volume 2 (I have had this on my computer since last year)
-Wildthorne

So my overall impression so far is pretty good. No major problems to date and its been fun reading from it although I have to say nothing beats the good ole book. I won’t be giving up on the actual books any time soon but I thought it would be nice to have if I am ever present with the chance to review books with this format.

As for downloading I have no problems once I figured out the program (I am not very computer savvy and I basically need to be told how to do things when it comes to modern technology.) It was really simple to do since I already had adobe digital editions on my computer and it just involved of few clicks here and there and then it was on my ereader.

Although I have to say only having it roughly over a week I have already downloaded more then I can handle right now as you can see. Hopefully I can have them read before the 60 days is up.

Do you have an ereader? What do you think of yours?

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Winners List

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Sorry for the delay in annoucing all the winners of my blogiversary giveaway, real life got in the way.

Anyways here is the list of all the winners. Congrats everyone and thanks to all those that entered.

Just a reminder you have 48 hours to email me your mailing addresses failure to do so will result in a new winner being announced.

Day 1 $5 Tim Horton’s or Starbucks Giftcard
–$5 Tim’s Card winner is Jonita –emailed me–
–$5 Starbucks winner is gcpeach17

Day 2 assorted BEA and ETC goodies
—Laura Fabiani

Day 3 Signed copy of The Queen of Cool
—avisannchild

Day 4 goodie bag
—Sheila(bookjourney)

Day 5 Amish Proverbs book
—Marie –emailed me–

Day 6 book of your choice
—amandawk

Day 7 $25 visa gift card
—Tina

Congrats to all the winners once again.

As if 10:22 pm Friday night I can officially say that all the winners have emailed me back with their mailing addresses. Thank you winners and to all that entered my giveaways.

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(Review) The Duff

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TITLE: The Duff (designated ugly fat friend)
AUTHOR: Kody Keplinger
PUB DATE: September 2010
PAGES: 288
PUBLISHER: Poppy (Little Brown Books)
SOURCE: Signed copy that I received at BEA in May.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “Duffy,” she throws her Coke in his face.

But things aren’t so great at home right now. Desperate for a distraction, Bianca ends up kissing Wesley. And likes it. Eager for escape, she throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with Wesley.

Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out that Wesley isn’t such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she’s falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone.

MY THOUGHTS:
This was one of those books that I had to get or at least try to get when I was at BEA in May. I had heard alot of buzz about it before hand and it sounded really good. So I was really happy to find out that Kody was going to be signing her book at BEA and thankfully thanks to I believe it was Natasha from Maw Books for pointing it out to me.

I was standing a few lines over when I had saw Natasha standing in line and I asked her who she was in line for and she told me so once I was done getting my book signed for the line I was in a ducked under the ropes(if you were at BEA you know that it was a mess in the signing area) to the line (which was closed so I was lucky to snag my copy)So thank you Natasha for telling me and helping me sneak under the ropes.

When I was packing up to leave NYC I made it a point to pack this in my backpack so that I could read this on my way home on the train. I did manage to read this on the way home and I really enjoyed it.

I could really relate to Bianca and I think she is exactly how I was in at her age in high school. Reading this brought back alot of memories and it felt like I was reading a part of my story.

We were both loyal, we both thought that we weren’t the prettiest girls in school (this was something I always dealt with and still do to some extent) and I knew a line if it was given to me and still do.

I enjoyed the characters and I found them to be real. I mean I am older then the entended audience of the book but I realize that the way I felt back then is the way kids feel today and I am sure that they will always feel that way.

The male character in the book is Wesley(playboy and it boy) and honestly I have to say he started out as a huge jerk in my opinion but gradually I think Wesley started to win me over. They had a unique relationship that was one of need and physical but gradually through out the book it turned into a relationship of needing and depending on each other.

As you are reading you can see the chemistry between them and for me I kept hoping that they would connect and take their secret relationship out of the closet. I realized that even though Wesley was a jerk and a playboy (and he knew it) he is actually just like Bianca he has his flaws.

You can check out Kody’s site by clicking HERE and HERE


This is actually the cover of the book I picked up at BEA its the ARC cover. The top cover is the finished copy one.

What cover do you like and why? I actually like the ARC cover more. I think it suits the book more and it leaves you to wonder more about the person on the cover.

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Toying with this idea

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For about the past month or so I have been toying with an idea and its really funny because I am always thinking about it. Actually the name is always popping into my head and I am just not sure how I want to work this feature. I have a few ideas but I guess I would like to know what you guys think and your input would be greatly appreciated.

So the name of this feature will be called Magazine Monday and I would be using this as my regular Monday post/feature.

As you can see from the picture below this is some of the magazines I have (recently taken). I subscribe to three monthly magazines: Canadian Living, Chatelaine and Today’s Parent. Plus I tend to buy on a weekly bases Woman’s World and People and as for monthly I always pick up Family Fun and usually what ever peaks my interest when I am at the cash.

What about you, what magazines do you get?


Okay so what do you guys think of this new upcoming feature and what would or wouldn’t you like to see? Is this something I should persue?

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