There are a lot of “awe” moments in the latest installment of the #1 Ladies Detective Agency series, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive. Mostly there are happy endings for all of the major characters – but poor Charlie, poor poor Charlie!
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I occasionally leave a comment on my friend (from us/them) Ed’s blog and I’ve linked him over here on various topics, including the ever popular search term “discardia”. He has linked to my posts about my bookshelves by color or my library. I often spurl things I’ve found by checking out Ed’s delicious links. Ed is part of my blog community and part of my books community. Because of this, I have an awesome new tool that has improved my life. I don’t think I can even begin to explain how this one tiny thing has made a difference. It hasn’t solved the energy crisis, brought about world peace or provided me with winning lottery numbers (nobody wins those things anyway) but it has made me smile. A lot. And given TW more control over her reading list and taken full responsibility off of me.
Christina found me through Ed. Christina used to live in Gainesville, though she doesn’t live here now. She used to work at the Alachua County Library (which is my library, the one I love and often blog about). She wrote a script that she wanted me to try. I tried it. It didn’t work quite right. The next day, she had me try it again. It worked. Oh my how it works!
If I look at a book on Amazon with this nifty little Amazon Gainesville Library Greasemonkey script installed text will appear on the Amazon page, underneath the title of the book, that tells whether it is available at my library. If it is, I can click the link right there on the page and it will let me reserve it immediately. No clicking back and forth. No searches on the library website (which can occasionally, ok often, be slow). No moving back to Amazon to save the title on my wishlist when I discover my library doesn’t have it.
And, what’s really cool is that TW has the script and can reserve her own books! We’re not used to this system yet and every now and then TW sends me an email or an AIM asking me to reserve a book. That makes us laugh.
Christina is cool. Ed is cool. My library is cool.
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I’m finding it a little weird that TW is sitting here emailing my ex mother in law. It’s bad enough that when we go to visit them I get NO attention and TW gets all of the attention. Hell she may get more attention than Michelle and I know she gets more attention than Christopher does. Have I mentioned my ex mother in law makes food that she knows TW loves because she “promised TW last time that she would”? Sheesh.
My ex mother in law loves TW. It’s weird. And I’m jealous! I’m also happy. And lucky. There are good people in my family.
I should disclose the fact (to new readers or those wandering in from Google) that I am a Jodi Picoult fan. I have liked everything she’s written and I think I’ve read everything she’s written except her new Wonder Woman comics (and I am going to get those!). Some of her books I’ve liked more than others. The Pact is and probably always will be my favorite. Nineteen Minutes has no surprises if you are a Picoult reader, you probably figured out the ending long before you finished the first half of the book.
Nineteen Minutes does what all Picoult novels do – it takes a very very difficult subject involving teenagers and parents and spins it hard. It isn’t a feel good book, though there are moments when you will feel good. It doesn’t have a happy ending, none of her books really do. How could books about teen suicides and school shootings even have a happy ending? They can’t and they shouldn’t and that is why I am a Picoult fan. She takes those horrible difficult things that can and do happen to good people (and good teens) and she tells the stories that come along with them. She puts a parent’s worst fears on paper.
I’ve been putting off reading Surveillance for at least a month, maybe two. The cover did not look appealing and I couldn’t remember why I had reserved it from the library or if one of us had just picked it up off of the shelf. I had better things to read. When I saw it was due back to the library this week and had already been renewed to the limit, I went ahead and picked it up. It was good, at first.
Actually, it was good through til the end. What the hell? I feel like I’m missing chapters or something. It ended like that? But, but, but. Huh? I don’t even get it now. I almost re-read the last chapter thinking I missed something by trying to rush through it this morning so we could hit the library early. But I didn’t. I’m pretty sure I couldn’t have missed THAT much. It just ended badly. Very badly. Because of that – don’t read this book. Sheesh.
(Oh goodness, I should have read the Amazon reviews – they all were disappointed in the ending. What crap! The author should be shot!)
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Are sombreros sexy?
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Happy Nurse’s Week!
In celebration, make your favorite nursing staff a batch of cupcakes and decorate them accordingly: mini bear baby nurse, nursing wine glass charms, nursing charm bracelet charms and of course the I Love Nursing Button.
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this sucks. Good luck Kate. Once The Riverdale Goddess – always The Riverdale Goddess. Blog or no blog.
I’d like to be a fly on the wall of the person (people) who initiated this. When they read her post, will that be enough? Is taking down the content really enough for them? I rather doubt it. They’ve made a decision that “The River Goddess” needed to go but now that it is (or will be once google cache disappears) won’t they expect something else from her? Won’t they insist she change something else about who she is? Why would removing her blog content be enough for these people?
I’m afraid this is only the beginning of The River Goddess’s problems at her “real job”. In my experience people who say “do this and you can keep doing that” tend to come back again with more demands, until they’ve taken everything they can possibly take – and then some.
I understand her compliance but I don’t like it. I don’t like that she was forced to choose.
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It took me a long, long time to finish Zoia’s Gold. It was slow until the end and then it picked up nicely and I was turning pages as quickly as I could. Interesting, though I was troubled that it took so long for them to figure out what Zoia was hiding with the gold… it seemed obvious to me, which is probably why I found it moved so slowly.
Heh, I had forgotten this was on the A to Z challenge list! Yea! One more to cross off. Not a bad book either. I’d like a Zoia painting, I think.
Can they still be considered newly discovered blogs if I discovered them three months ago? I have no idea how so much time passed without me introducing you to new blogs. My life is nuts, obviously.
So, let’s see… what’s new, or relatively new, in my Bloglines?
Ah well, another time, I’m sure.Happy Blog Surfing!
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