Brrrrr..........winter in Wisconsin can sure be brutal and this is one of those days even though you'd never know by looking outside. It looks very peaceful and calm, sunny and bright........but when you step outside. Yikes!
Happy Birthday Katherine! Katherine is one of my oldest friends and I hope she has a wonderful day today.
I've been busy today getting TJ ready to go back to Denver and Stuart's sister Deb, her daughter Kaitlin and their dog Maggie ready to move in. They'll be staying with us for a month or two while they find a place to live. It will be fun having them here. I'm sad that TJ is leaving...it's always hard to say goodbye to the kids when I've gotten used to having them around but he's ready to go back and this is his last semester at The University of Denver....the next time we'll see him he'll be graduting......so hard to believe.
I finished the book "No More Tears Left Behind" today and thought it was a good story. The editing in some parts could have been better...i'm a stickler for spelling and punctuation but all in all a good story about the Holocaust and some of the incredibly sad, horrible things that happened at that time in our history. Why on earth do human beings treat each other like they do? It's such a mystery to me....why can't everyone just get along. Anyway, the couple in the book eventually made it back to the US and lived in Madison for many years. That is a neat part of the story as they talk about State Street and some of the neighborhoods I'm familiar with in Madison. The book ended really abruptly though and that was a little disappointing. I'm sure that the story was supposed to be mainly about their struggles in Berlin during the war but it just seemed to end a bit awkwardly. Anyway, our book group will be discussing this book on Thurs nite so i'll let you know what others thought. I'm on going to start "Olive Kitteridge" tonite. On deck will be a book called "The Cellist of Sarajevo" by Steven Galloway. I am really looking forward to reading this book as I heard about it from someone else that had read it and they said it was very good. I'm off to make a mug of tea and to stay warm today. Happy Reading!
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Friday, January 1, 2010
Another Year, Another Resolution
Happy New Year Everyone.......
i had a hard time finding this blog and remembering my password to get in to it at all but finally made it. I realize the last time I wrote was in April so hopefully this year I'll get way past that...I vow to try again and read my book per week to get to my yearly goal. I actually think that I got pretty close last year, just didn't tell you all about it so this time around you will get the facts. Another thing that will help is that my wonderful hubby got me a new laptop for Christmas so I don't have any reason not to tell you about the multitudes of books I've read.
Speaking of books, even though it's the first day of 2010 I finished a book today that I loved and wanted to tell you about. It's called "The Piano Teacher" by Janice Y.K. Lee. It takes place in Hong Kong when the Japanese invaded there during World War II. It has such interesting characters and parts of it are hard to read and that such atrocities could happen but it's a great book.
The book I just started is something I'm reading for one of the book clubs I belong to and is called "No More Tears Left Behind"by Arthur and Ursula Rathburn. I'm not that far into it but is about a couple who is Jewish and living "underground" in Berlin during WWII. ( I seem to be reading a lot of war books lately) I'm not that far into it and the writing style is a little different than what I usually go for but I respect this person and how brave she and her husband were during this horrific time in history. They managed to get out alive and to the US and now live in Madison, WI. I will keep you posted as I get more into the book. On deck is the book I need to read for my other book group and it is called "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout. I have heard great things about this book and am excited to start it as soon as I finish the one I'm reading now.
I hope everyone has a great start to a new decade and is looking forward to the coming year. Read as much as you can!
Barb
i had a hard time finding this blog and remembering my password to get in to it at all but finally made it. I realize the last time I wrote was in April so hopefully this year I'll get way past that...I vow to try again and read my book per week to get to my yearly goal. I actually think that I got pretty close last year, just didn't tell you all about it so this time around you will get the facts. Another thing that will help is that my wonderful hubby got me a new laptop for Christmas so I don't have any reason not to tell you about the multitudes of books I've read.
Speaking of books, even though it's the first day of 2010 I finished a book today that I loved and wanted to tell you about. It's called "The Piano Teacher" by Janice Y.K. Lee. It takes place in Hong Kong when the Japanese invaded there during World War II. It has such interesting characters and parts of it are hard to read and that such atrocities could happen but it's a great book.
The book I just started is something I'm reading for one of the book clubs I belong to and is called "No More Tears Left Behind"by Arthur and Ursula Rathburn. I'm not that far into it but is about a couple who is Jewish and living "underground" in Berlin during WWII. ( I seem to be reading a lot of war books lately) I'm not that far into it and the writing style is a little different than what I usually go for but I respect this person and how brave she and her husband were during this horrific time in history. They managed to get out alive and to the US and now live in Madison, WI. I will keep you posted as I get more into the book. On deck is the book I need to read for my other book group and it is called "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout. I have heard great things about this book and am excited to start it as soon as I finish the one I'm reading now.
I hope everyone has a great start to a new decade and is looking forward to the coming year. Read as much as you can!
Barb
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