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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It's a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.
Do you bring the book(s) you’re reading with you when you go out? How? Physically, or in an e-reader of some kind? Have your habits in this regard changed?
Yes, I do carry a book with me always. A print copy as I do not own a e-reader. My habits have remained the same as ever. Carry a book means I am never ever bored!!
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From the Review Pile is a meme hosted by Stepping Out of the Page every Thursday. The aim of this meme is to showcase books that you've received for review. (or any book that you own and really want to read/review) but haven't yet got around to reading, in order to give the book some extra publicity.
The Meaning Of Me by Emmett Wheatfall
Many of the poems in The Meaning of Me are revelatory, remarkably pronounced, and prudent, all the while taking into consideration the multiplicities of life and imagination. Readers of this poet's poetry will see humanity in its glory as well as its toil. The verse in this his third collection captures the essence of himself and his image of humanity.
Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at A Girl and Her Books. Kristen of BookNAround is hosting MM for the month of September.
I received TWO books in my mailbox:
Lightning Rods by Helen DeWitt
All I want is to be a success. That’s all I ask.’ Failing salesman Joe has a dream — or rather an outrageous fantasy. Because holed up in his trailer Joe comes up with a jaw-dropping plan that will stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace and make his fortune. Win-win? As he turns his life around, Lightning Rods takes us to the very top of corporate America…
Helen DeWitt follows her extraordinary debut The Last Samurai with a sharp, uproarious satire on modern life and corporate culture.
The Ares Decision by Robert Ludlum and Kyle Mills
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group--Covert-One--only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out.
In northern Uganda, an American special forces team is decimated by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries.
Covert-One's top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it's different. The parasite had been purposely kept alive and crudely transmitted in acts of terrorism. Now the director of Iranian Intelligence is in Uganda trying to obtain this biological weapon to unleash it on the West.
Smith and his team are ambushed and cut off from all outside support just as they begin to suspect that forces much more powerful than the Iranians are in play-forces that can be traced to Washington itself.
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila of Book Journey
I finished reading:
Honor Bound by Brenda Novak
I am in the midst of reading:
Suzy's Case by Andy Siegal
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I collect stamps, coins and of all things, anklets although I don't wear those! I also love to sketch, embroider and do puzzles..
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It's a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.Busy week due to ongoing Ganapati Festival. I have been kinda unwell too. Mostly sleeping. Yet I posted the following in my lucid moments:
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| Ganesh Puja at a Friend's Place |
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| Ganesh Puja at another friend's place |
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| All of us in front of Lord Ganesh |
From the Review Pile is a meme hosted by Stepping Out of the Page every Thursday. The aim of this meme is to showcase books that you've received for review. (or any book that you own and really want to read/review) but haven't yet got around to reading, in order to give the book some extra publicity.All I want is to be a success. That’s all I ask.’ Failing salesman Joe has a dream — or rather an outrageous fantasy. Because holed up in his trailer Joe comes up with a jaw-dropping plan that will stamp out sexual harassment in the workplace and make his fortune. Win-win? As he turns his life around, Lightning Rods takes us to the very top of corporate America…
Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea hosts this weekly meme. The idea is that you post the opening paragraph (sometimes maybe a few ) of a book you decided to read based on the opening paragraph (s).
Sister (from page 53 of Hurrah's Nest)
I selected your name from the tagged partition
in the Black Pearl taxicab. Shaquana, the one who defies
in permanent marker, you are bold letters among faded
ink-whispers of people afraid to make their mark too strong.
Born to us with six-pointed hands, newborn half fingers
planted with a seed of bone, a possibility of intricate cross hatches
and indelible strokes, an isotopic rising and dipping of terrain.
You lined with a person’s symmetry and pointed it right into their face.
On that night, your hands broke the hold Cornel had on me.
In my left eye, our mother is statue.
Her hands lack dexterity for saving.
He’s in my right eye, drunk and primed—
the man you’ve disowned as your father.
He chokes me into a silence that turns
everything purée, telling me he loves me.
My eyes focus on you, and you see I am in need.
Your scream cuts the silence;
you lift your arms and the vase cries down.
He releases me to catch blood and glass.
You flee for the police. Shaquana, your flight, my first breath.
Hurrah's Nest by Arisa White : A vivid and varied collection that addresses family loyalties, dysfunction, violence, and differences, Hurrah's Nest is White's imaginative and emotionally honest exploration of growing up the second oldest, first daughter of seven siblings. Childhood experiences are looked at with rawness, sensitivity, and crafted with precision: be it the cutting of her dreadlocks, mother's abortion, drug trafficking, or her sister's developmental disability, the language is tender and startling. Hurrah's Nest--from the confusion of our lives--asks us to make meaning and good from what we've bargained and haven't bargained for.
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week, we get a theme to list our top tens.
This week's Top Ten pick : Top Ten Bookish People You Want To Meet
I am listing in no particular order:
1) Rabindranath Tagore
2) Geoffrey Chaucer
3) Robert Browning
4) Sylvia Plath
5) Albert Einstein
6) Richard Feynman
7) Robert Frost
8) G B Shaw
9) Arthur Conan Doyle
10) Crime Fiction writers
She leaned in. "How many men do you know who can move their fingers and push in and out at the same time?"
~Page 201
Title: Pushing Up Daisies
Author: Rosemary Harris
ISBN: 9780312943721
Publisher: St. Martins/2008
Pages: 288
Paula Holliday, a television executive in New York City quits her job and moves to Springfield, CT. She wants to turn her interest in gardening to a career. She gets her chance in the restoration of the gardens of a property left to the Historical society, by Dorothy Peacock. She knows it will either make her or break her.
While digging, she discovers a body of a baby, which seems to be very old. The local authorities, thinking it would bring bad name to the Peacock sisters, drop the case. But Paula can't. She finds too many loose ends to rest.
Then one her helpers is arrested for attempted murder of a old lecher. She knows Hugo is innocent although the local police does not believe her. She has a friend in an aging rocker, babe who owns the greasy diner in that place. There is this mysterious Mexican labourer and more secrets tumble out. The list of suspects include the local congressman, and his gin drinking mother. With more interesting characters thrown in, Paula has a field day unearthing all the town's deeply buried secrets. In the way, she makes a few enemies too. She also solves a 50 year old case.
With varied mix of characters, a good town setting, long buried secrets and of course a past and a recent murder, this cozy mystery is also filled with wit. It has great gardening tips too, for the gardening lovers!!
Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at A Girl and Her Books. Kristen of BookNAround is hosting MM for the month of September.
I received ONE book in my mailbox:
The Prophet by Ethan Cross
OLD ENEMIES... Francis Ackerman Jr. is one of America's most prolific serial killers. Having kept a low profile for the past year, he is ready to return to work – and he's more brutal, cunning, and dangerous than ever.
NEW THREATS... Scarred from their past battles, Special Agent Marcus Williams cannot shake Ackerman from his mind. But now Marcus must focus on catching the Anarchist, a new killer who drugs and kidnaps women before burning them alive.
HIDDEN TERRORS... Marcus knows the Anarchist will strike again soon. And Ackerman is still free. But worse than this is a mysterious figure, unknown to the authorities, who controls the actions of the Anarchist and many like him. He is the Prophet – and his plans are more terrible than even his own disciples can imagine.
With attacks coming from every side, Marcus faces a race against time to save the lives of a group of innocent people chosen as sacrifices in the Prophet's final dark ritual.
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila of Book Journey
I finished reading:
Promise Me by Dee Julian
Free to Love by Sydell Voeller
A Time to Love by Barbara Cameron
Liar's Fire by Dee Burks
I am in the midst of reading:
Varied Novels!
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I would say Ulysses by James Joyce. I could never ever read it beyond four pages. Don't ask me why.....pick it up to know for yourself....
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It's a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.
Bloggiesta is co-hosted by There's is a book and Suey from It’s All About Books.
If you decide to participate in the Fall 2012 edition you can expect:
I love waking up to a wet morning in Summer....!!
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| And my flowers bloomed! |
Share a highlight of this year’s BBAW. Whether it’s a blog you discovered or a book you’re going to read or a way you felt refreshed, this is the day to celebrate the week!
This year BBAW did away with the awards. That is a good thing. Because the same old blogs got the awards. No doubt a few of those are good but most got because of cliques. That might sound a bit harsh but it is the truth.
This year, I did all the daily posts and also visited quite a lot. But I have had very few visitors. My pimp a book post was almost a wash out. Does that mean book bloggers are a closed community? They are not open to explore newness even in the blogs?
I discovered a few new blogs, rediscovered some forgotten ones. I have been blogging since 2005 and evolved over the years. So have many books blogs. There are a few book blogs, which help me find totally different kind of books. And I look forward to their posts. The book blogging community has so much to share.
Yes, we need to rant too. At ourselves, at others.....and also stick to each other, no matter what.....
One of the best parts about book blogging is the exposure to books and authors you might never have heard of before. Pimp the book you think needs more recognition on this day. Get creative! Maybe share snippets from other bloggers who have reviewed it or make some fun art to get your message across.
I will do this differently. I am well aware, not many would even bother to read my post. But I feel there is no world without the pure sciences. So why not highlight a GREAT Physicist?
