MEME/ Sunday’s In Bed With…. Vacation Books Part 1 (#57)

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The awesome blogger behind this mem is Kate from Midnight Book Girl  . If you haven’t checked out her blog yet you really should hop over there and check it out.

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Sundays In Bed With….is a meme I’ve started to share the book we’re spending the morning in bed with, or the one we’d like to stay curled up in bed with all Sunday if only our busy lives would allow! For fun, take a picture of the book in your bed, or simply write up a post or comment below sharing your Sundays in Bed With book. Quoted from Kate’s blog.
 

I hope everyone is having a good Sunday and is curled up reading a book today. I am currently on vacation so I am not sure what I am reading/what I have read since I might not have access to the internet so I thought for the next two weeks posts I would share with you the books we are bringing on vacation with us.

I am going to go first since at the time of writing this post I had my books all picked out and ready to go. Some of these will be in my tote bag (the cover pictures) and the rest in my carry on (suitcase)

 
 

I had hoped to have taken pictures but as you can see I didn’t. So I will just list the other books I am bringing with me:

  • Losing it by Cara Carmack
  • Faking it by Cara Carmack (ebook)
  • Follow the White Rabbit/ Mortality / End Dayz by Kellie Sheridan (ebooks)

I am also bringing some magazine such as People, In style, In Touch, Chatelaine and Canadian Living. Those will probably be left on the plane as I am done reading them.

I am sure I over packed but you never know what will happen so its best to be prepared right?
What about you? What are you reading today?

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Smashing Saturdays #2 Another Kind Of Journal You Can Use

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Last week I made my very first Smashing Saturday post talking about my essentials that I will be using in make my Smash journal.
 
During that same trip to Michael’s when I was looking for the Smash journals and items I noticed right beside that display I noticed another kind of journal that you can use to make a Smash journal and its by Recollections and its a Creative Chaos Journal.
 Creative Chaos Journey Small Binder by Recollections™
Begin by selecting a binder (small or large) in the theme best suited for your needs. Then add photo insert pages, pockets, envelopes, stickers, journaling cards, and more to your basket. Whether you are a seasoned scrapbooker, a novice at journaling, or somewhere in between, you will treasure your Creative Chaos journal for years to come!

Our Journey/Travel binder measures 19 cm x 22.8 cm (7 ½” x 9″) and includes 36 sheets of beautifully designed double-sided cardstock prints.

 
 

The one I got is the small one. I was talking to the lady at Michael’s and she was telling me that she uses both the Smash journals and the Creative Chaos ones. The thing that I like about this one is that its a binder style one unlike the Smash journal were its a coil one.

As you can probably tell this will be my NYC journal and I will be putting all three years of NYC in this one. I also thought that the Smash journal would be better to travel with then this one.

I didn’t go all out on buying supplies for this because nothing was really on sale for it so I just stuck with a package of Dividers (5 in a pack), a package of the Fill in the Story cardstark paper pad, package of airplane stickers (which will be used in my Smash journal) and a package of New York stickers.

Now with that being said you can use anything you want in your journals you don’t have to stick the just purchasing Smash items or Recollections items you can use everything and anything.

Be sure to click on the button below to take you to Katie’s blog to see what she is up to with her Smash Journal.

Call Me Crazy
 
I am not sure if I will have a Smashing Saturday post up next week as I am currently writing these posts and scheduling them to appear on my blog (while I am on vacation) before leaving for my trip. I guess it will all depend on what I get down before leaving. If not then I will back post when I get back.
 
Is anyone taking part in this?
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Book Spotlight/ Untimed

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ABOUT UNTIMED
Charlie’s the kind of boy that no one notices. Hell, his own mother can’t remember his name. So when a mysterious clockwork man tries to kill him in modern day Philadelphia, and they tumble through a hole into 1725 London, Charlie realizes even the laws of time don’t take him seriously. Still, this isn’t all bad. Who needs school when you can learn about history first hand, like from Ben Franklin himself. And there’s this girl… Yvaine… another time traveler. All good. Except for the rules: boys only travel into the past and girls only into the future. And the baggage: Yvaine’s got a baby boy and more than her share of ex-boyfriends. Still, even if they screw up history — like accidentally let the founding father be killed — they can just time travel and fix it, right? But the future they return to is nothing like Charlie remembers. To set things right, he and his scrappy new girlfriend will have to race across the centuries, battling murderous machines from the future, jealous lovers, reluctant parents, and time itself.

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ABOUT ANDY GAVIN

Andy Gavin is an unstoppable storyteller who studied for his Ph.D. at M.I.T. and founded video game developer Naughty Dog, Inc. at the age of fifteen, serving as co-president for two decades. There he created, produced, and directed over a dozen video games, including the award winning and best selling Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter franchises, selling over 40 million units worldwide. He sleeps little, reads novels and histories, watches media obsessively, travels, and of course, writes.
His latest book is the young adult time travel novel, Untimed.
Visit his website at www.andy-gavin-author.com.

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Happy 4th of July

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Wishing all my American friends a happy and safe 4th of July.
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Book Spotlight/ The Wonderful Adventures of Godfrey and Chucky

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ABOUT THE WONDERFUL ADVENTURES OF GODFREY AND CHUCKY

Godfrey is young, wealthy and able-bodied. He has all the women you can imagine, and unbelievably deep pockets. But Godfrey wants more. His Great Greatness wants to rid the world of a menacing scourge, and restore what is truly superior to an elevated position. Why would anyone stop him? Who could possibly stop him?
Chucky arrives as the new assistant, and tries to perform every duty that is handed to him. What challenges for a dull servant! Look at him muddling through! With passports of exclusive privilege, the two adventurers make a splash in tropical Langkawi, where the water is blue and the girls are brown. Then they rendezvous with the locals in Singapore, where pleasures are plentiful and multicolored. Food and money are found in piles. Life in a global city should be, possibly, one of uninterrupted leisure…shouldn’t it?
Desire is a seductively red piece of jade, which resides even in our dreams.

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ABOUT DAITOKU DAIICHI

Inspired by English and Japanese gardens, Daitoku Daiichi is committed to sharing scenes of beauty with his readers. He hopes that through the mansion-like device of the novel, he can host a tea party to serve his readers exotic delights. In the day, he is a tutor, essayist, gourmet and world traveler. People somehow love to share their secrets with him, and he wants use his gifts of perception to tell innovative stories. Check out his works at:
www.godfreychucky.com

The Wonderful World of Godfrey and Chucky Virtual Book Publicity Tour Schedule

Wednesday, July 3 – 1st chapter reveal at Mom with a Kindle
Friday, July 5 – Interviewed at Literal Exposure
Monday, July 8 – Interviewed at Examiner
Wednesday, July 10 – Book featured at My Devotional Thoughts
Friday, July 12 – Interviewed at Review From Here
Wednesday, July 17 – Book featured at Read 2 Review
Monday, July 22 – Book review and 1st chapter reveal at splashesofjoy
Wednesday, July 24 – 1st chapter reveal at Books R Us
Thursday, July 25 – Book featured at Mary’s Cup of Tea
Friday, July 26 – Book featured at My Cozie Corner
Friday, July 26 – Book featured at Authors and Readers Book Corner
Friday, July 26 – Book featured at Musings by Maureen

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On Vacation and a Give Away

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Hey everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I probably will be unable to check my blog for the next 16 days (I am hoping to get some internet access where we are going but if not it is what it is right?) because we are leaving on a jet plane. So if you leave me comments or send emails and get no reply that is the reason why.
 
We are leaving from Montreal and flying to here:

 We have an almost 5 hour layover here. This is a city that I wish we could have at least spent the night in as its one of my must see cities. Perhaps one day we will return and visit. On the upside I have been told there is alot of shopping that can be done in this airport 🙂

Then after that lay over we are flying here:

We will actually be staying an hour away from this part of the country but I know we will be visiting this city.
 
Any ideas where we will be going?

Enter Here

Please note that this is open to anywhere that Book Depository ships too.

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Book Spotlight/ Magnolia & Lotus

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Magnolia and Lotus

ABOUT MAGNOLIA AND LOTUS: SELECTED POEMS OF HYESIM

Enlightenment as a process: what might it have been like for a Korean Buddhist monk who lived hundreds of years ago?

If enlightenment is an unfolding of wisdom, what progressive awareness is suggested by that unfolding?

Imagine, then, this same monk becoming the leader of the nation’s most important Buddhist Order: the Chogye. Magnolia and Lotus: Selected Poems of Hyesim suggests what Hyeim might have valued in life; as a monk; and as an early founder of Korea’s largest Buddhist sect.

Despite his achievements, this collection asks, did Hyesim eventually relinquish his position? If so, why? What were Hyesim’s thoughts in his final years?

Each of the translated poems, attentive to the nuances of Hyesim’s Buddhist and Confucian background as well as the landscape of Korea, posits the point of view of Hyesim, his voice, and his time.

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ABOUT IAN HAIGHT

Ian Haight was a co-organizer and translator for the UN’s global poetry readings held annually in Pusan, Korea, from 2002-4. He has been awarded 5 translation grants from the Daesan Foundation, Korea Literature Translation Institute, and Baroboin Buddhist Foundation for the translation, editing, promotion, and publication of Korean literature. Ian is the editor of Zen Questions and Answers from Korea (2010), and along with T’ae-yŏng Hŏ, the translator of Borderland Roads: Selected Poems of Kyun Hŏ (2009) both from White Pine Press. Ian’s translations, essays, poems, and interviews have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Writer’s Chronicle, Barrow Street and Hyundae Buddhist News, among many other publications.

For more information, please visit ianhaight.com.

His latest book is Magnolia and Lotus: Selected Poems of Hyesim

Magnolia and Lotus Virtual Book Publicity Tour Schedule

Tuesday, July 2 – Book featured at Cindy’s Love of Books

Thursday, July 4 – Guest blogging at Read 2 Review

Friday, July 5 – Book featured at Parenting 2.0

Tuesday, July 9 – Guest blogging at The Writer’s Life

Thursday, July 11 – Interviewed at Literal Exposure

Friday, July 12 – Guest blogging at Allvoices

Monday, July 15 – Up Close and Personal at Between the Covers

Wednesday, July 17 – Book featured at Beyond the Book

Thursday, July 18 – Guest blogging at The Book Barista

Friday, July 19 – Interviewed at Book Marketing Buzz

Monday, July 22 – Book featured at I’m Shelf-ish

Tuesday, July 23 – Interviewed at Review From Here

Wednesday, July 24 – Guest blogging at The Story Behind the Book

Friday, July 26 – Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book

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