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So glad you loved The Book of Flying. It's one of my favorites!
Hi there. I just wanted you to know that if you have sent me a private message through Shelfari in the last month or so, I was not able to receive it. When I first joined Shelfari, I didn't have any problem with receiving e-mails through them, whether it was private messages from friends, friend requests, updates, or whatever. The last 6 weeks, I have not been receiving anything through Shelfari. I sent an e-mail to them a few weeks ago explaining the problem. They gave me suggestions but to make a long story not too much longer, it didn't work. I have opened a second e-mail account today through yahoo to be my primary e-mail account for Shelfari. Hopefully, this one will work. Just wanted to let you know agian that I wasn't ignoring you if you sent a private message, I just didn't receive it. By the way, what are you reading now?Have a good day. :)Jan
I actually read The True Story of The Three Little Pigs for the Tag It To The Max challenge and covered 6 tags with it. Helps that it's also a fairy tale. I even took it in and read it to the kids in the nursery at church and they loved it.
Hi! I'm from Play Book Tag and am playing Meet Greet and Be Sweet. I took a quick look at your shelf (though not in detail) - I don't see anything tagged "fairy tales", so I thought I'd suggest a couple. I don't know if you are currently reading a fairy tale or not, but here are a couple of really quick ones - The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales; and Sleeping Ugly. They each took me about 5 minutes to read, so even if you don't like them (Stinky Cheese Man is getting really mixed reviews... 1, 3 or 5 stars, depending who you ask!), they take next to no time out of your life. :-) Be warned that they are both geared towards kids, though (which explains all of 5 minutes to read them!).I just looked further down in your notes, and see that you just moved, so you are probably busy unpacking. 5 minute books might be what you need! Good luck with the unpacking and I do hope you get a chance to do some reading!
Glad you got my blog comment! Your blog is a fun one to read. I have two girls as well, one just turned 7 and the other will be 6 at July's end. One of my favorite things about this stage is the handwritten notes. One night after dinner was over and I was working on the computer, my 7 year old quietly came in and placed a note on my desk, then left. The note said, "Thank you for the dealishus meal." It's on my fridge now where it will remain for years to come and it helps me make those 5 meals a day! My youngest is a pistol - strong willed as all get out! But my older one is a people pleaser. I go back and forth day to day wondering which one I should worry about more! :-) Wouldn't trade 'em for anything, though, and I'm sure you can relate! Take care! Happy summer!
Hi! I saw on the PBT forums that you just moved? Congratulations!! We've been trying to sell our house for about 7 months with no luck. And now we have to sell another one (it was a rental). Anyway, I'm the shelver for PBT & I've been trying to get everything straight on the bookshelves. For the historical fiction tag, I have you as reading"God's Behaving Badly" and "The Many Lives & Secrets Sorrows of Josephine B". Can you tell me how you would rate those? And any comments about them? Whenever you get the chance. I know you have two kids & are probably unpacking. Also, I'm going to check out your blog. I have one too, but I really need to update more :0( Thanks for helping me with this!!
Hi again,well if I could reach, I would kick my own a** ! I was looking over my notes, checking the ones I had answered... and lo and behold... I hadn't answered your last one (where I said how much I like to talk/write). Trust me on this, I'm kind of blushing from embarrassment right now ;)I started a Flickr site, where you can see photos of Iceland (and Greenland) so you can judge for yourself, how much of Iceland is green and if Greenland is ice :DI think that Erik the Red would have had the first lawsuit for false advertising... if lawyers had been around then :DI haven't found any good books on Africa at my local library. The ones I want to read seem to be very difficult to find. I have managed to find my copy of "King Solomon's Mines" but haven't gotten to reading it yet. Work is getting more hectic since so many people are going into their summer vacations.Ok, now my conscience is clear for the moment ;) Take care,MaddýP.Shttp://www.flickr.com/photos/maddymagnificent
Hi ! I'm glad that you added me as a friend :D When you mentioned that you looked Selfoss up on wikipedia...my first reaction : "We show up on Wikipedia???" ;) We aren't a very large town. But I've only lived here a year, moved here from Reykjavík and I drive every day to and from work (I work in yet another town, Hafnafjörður, which is next to Reykjavík).Anyhoo, as you might notice, I talk/write alot :D Hope you don't mind if I let my motor run. Talk to you later ! ;)MaddýP.SI'm telling everyone this, but my avatar was taken last Monday b/night/b !! around 10pm ;) Yeah, we get 24 hours of sunlight and that peaks around June 22nd. Another tidbit ;D
I'm a historian, so I loved Devil in the white City - but from what I've heard from other members, they didn't like it as much as I did. It was slow in spots, but I would say that it read more smoothly than a scholarly book. I'm reading A Tale of Two Cities right now - which felt weird to me because it's about the 18th century, yet Dickens is 19th - so everything's good. Anyway, I'm rambling - I'll see you at Book Tag!
I couldn't stand some books through the email lit thing. Lets replace every "classic" book with one of our own :)
Hi Virgaux I am playing Book Tag, I see we both have read Huck Finn. I can't say that I rated it very high either. It was very hard to get through it in fact for me. I also noticed that you have not rated many of the classics book very high. I hate to do it but I am going to suggest one anyway. How about Persuasion by Jane Austen, it is one of my favorites! ;)
You mentioned Anna Karenina-I've tried to read it so many times :) I just signed up for dailylit.com. Once a day they mail you a page of a book to read with your email. It breaks up email monotony and I just may be able to finish a few classics!
Just stopping by to say hi! /wave
A couple of days ago you replied to a Discussion that I started on the PLAY BOOK TAG group. Here's what you wrote: "Here are my essentials in order to maximizing reading pleasure:1. Comfy chair/sofa2. Big glass of whatever tastes good at the time (wine, coffee, Kool-Aid)3. Peace4. Quiet5. Oh yeah, a juicy book with a thoroughly engaging plot and characters"Since I've joined shelfari, I've gotten away from watching TV and movies during the day. I'm early-retired, and my day used to be spent doing, of course, the things that need to be done. But in between these 'things', I would take a break and hit watching TV/movie. But now in-between I read instead - I save the TV/movie for an hour or two before I go to sleep.It's a little after twelve noon, and here's what I did to MAXIMIZE my reading pleasure. Jealous?1. Woke up around six, made a pot of coffee, read a little.2. Did a load of wash, went shopping, checked computer for mail and shelfari responses.3. Went to library, returned books and music CDs. Went across the street to Japanese restaurant to buy some Mirin. 4. What's Mirin? you ask. It's used to make Teriyaki Sauce. 5. Bought some Saki.6. Got home, kicked off sneakers, read a little while listening to some jazz.7. Made homemade Teriyaki Sauce...made homemade Chinese fried rice...sauteed sliced mushrooms...sauteed a variety of bell peppers, jalapenos, cayenne peppers, and tasty others.8. Sauteed a bunch of steak slices...............................added peppers and mushrooms...........added a lot of Teriyaki Sauce. Seasoned with salt and pepper.9. Poured over Chinese fried rice.............heated a full coffee cup of Sake...........10. Am now sitting down, munching, drinking, reading, listening to mellow music.How's THAT for reading pleasure?
Virgaux78, thanks so much for trying! I had a hard time too so any help is help. Thank you again!! krisT J
Hi Virgaux78, I am playing on a Play Book Tag team and the challenge this round 7 is to answer a survey but also see if we can get other non-team members to answer the survey too and then your points will go to our team. I would love it if you would try the survey at this link:http://www.surveymethods.com/EndUser.aspx?B793FFE6B2F2E4E6 and submit whatever answers you can for my team which is D for D-Stroyers. I would really appreciate it! ;) thanks krisTJ
Tag! You're it! I just loved "The Time Traveler's Wife" and I recommend it to everyone I can too! I was at Le Target a few days ago and saw a woman next to me looking at books and I couldn't help but pick the book up and say "This is really an excellent book!" She didn't get it and additionally, thought I was a nut! Nice shelf! We have 31 in common!
You have a nice shelf too , I think we have 26 books in I put all of the Harry Potter books as the box set on my shelf .You may want to read Young Wizardsby Diane Duane . Her books are a lot like the Harry Potter books .
It's so AWESOME to "see" you!! Rendezvousing with Harry Potter, ey? lol! I'm glad you enjoyed that. I've definitely missed you, but I know life gets so busy. Play Book Tag is positively frenetic. There's been some "drama", but I think it has passed (thank goodness - - I don't really do drama very well). Missed you lots! Thanks for the note :).
Hi there! We've been totally missing you around Play Book Tag! Have you been reading a lot or busy with other stuff? Looks like you are whipping through those Harry Potters! Miss you :). Please stop by soon, Anita