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What to do during the Bloggiesta?

• Write book, movie, TV, product reviews.  Any reviews really.
• Write backup posts for a rainy day.
• Write that great post idea from three months back.
• Work on series posts.
• Write guest posts.
• Put out invitations for guest posts.
• Conduct and edit author interviews.
• Create template posts for your future reads (ie: title, images, linking, tags, etc,) so you can open up, write review and post without being bogged down with technicalities
• Clean up your tags, archives, books reviewed list, etc.
• Improve your blog template, clean up sidebars, add a favicon, install those plugins that you’ve been meaning to do.
• Add or edit your about me page, review policy, create landing pages (for example – an about me for Twitter readers page) or any other pages you might have.
• Any bloggy type housekeeping that you’ve been neglecting.
• Clean up and update your challenge lists.  Link up your posts with hosts.
• Make sure all of your social network profiles are up to date.  Brand yourself through those profiles with color scheme, images, etc.
• Go get a gravatar.
• Visit the Blogging Tips group on the Book Blogs Ning and find ways to improve your blog.
• Work on any specialized projects that you may have going.

Boy do i have alot of work to do! So what are my Bloggiesta goals?

• Post some new reviews.
• Review book to movie.
• Rearrange items.
• Fix any dead links.
• Maybe find a new blog layout.

I guess i’ll add on as i go.  A great idea and incentive for people to stop putting things off and just get it done! Thanks to Mawbooks !!

Trudys Promise By Marcia Preston

From Amazon:
From Publishers Weekly
It’s been three months since East Berliner Trudy Hulst saw her husband, Rolf, a political activist who fled to the West just ahead of the Stasi in the early 1960s. So when the Stasi summons her for interrogation, she knows what’s in store. With the help of Rolf’s friend Wolfgang, now a state policeman, Trudy escapes to West Berlin, only to find out that her husband was shot and killed while he was going over the wall. Trudy finds a room in a dingy boarding house, works as a waitress and bides her time until her young son and his grandmother can join her. But when President Kennedy comes to town, Trudy’s story so captivates a member of the presidential entourage that he takes her to America as a symbol of the Cold War’s devastation. Meanwhile, Wolfgang’s ties to the Hulsts put his career and his life in jeopardy. Though the portrayal of deprivation and suffering in East Berlin is by-the-numbers, Trudy’s struggle to adapt to the free world is refreshing, particularly her experiences in 1960s America. (Mar.)
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Names My Sisters Call Me By Megan Crane

From Amazon:
From Publishers Weekly
In this witty novel by the author of Frenemies, Philadelphia cellist Courtney Cassel decides the occasion of her engagement is the perfect time to heal family wounds. Six years ago, wild-child middle sister Raine ruined oldest sister Norah’s wedding and ran off with longtime friend Matt Cheney, with whom Courtney was having a secret affair. Accompanying her supportive fiancé, Lucas, on a business trip to San Francisco, Courtney drops in on Raine unannounced and discovers Raine is still with the smoldering, charismatic Matt, whose mere presence can still reduce Courtney to the emotional state of an adolescent. Soon, Courtney’s questioning every choice she’s made. When Matt and Raine show up for the engagement party, scores are settled, lives are examined and a few secrets about strait-laced Norah come to light. Crane’s brisk voice and knack for finding the humor in Courtney’s angst keep the mood upbeat all the way to the rosy resolution. (Apr.)
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Enlightenment By: Maureen Freeley

From Amazon:

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. At the start of Freely’s complex, often riveting novel set in contemporary and Cold War Turkey, a journalist known only as Miss M returns to Istanbul in 2005 after a long absence at the request of Jeannie Wakefield, whose father, William, was an American spy. Jeannie hopes that Miss M will write an article to help her husband, once Miss M’s lover, who’s been detained in the United States and sent to Guantánamo. A few months later, Jeannie disappears, leaving behind a long letter detailing events from the 1960s. The main narrative threads—extracts from Jeannie’s letter; Miss M’s memories of Istanbul from that same period and her present-day account of investigating Jeannie’s long-ago indoctrination into a Communist cell, which was at one point charged with the infamous but possibly apocryphal Trunk Murder—interweave toward a quietly stunning conclusion. Both mystery/thriller and mainstream literary readers will be well rewarded. Freely is the English translator of Nobel Prize–winner Orhan Pamuk’s novel, Snow. (May)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Excited to read them all!

What can i say? This book was one of the best books I’ve read in a very long time. I didn’t want it to end, i wanted to keep reading , to follow the rest of Virginia Kates life.
Virginia Kate, along with her older brother Micah, younger brother Andy live with their Daddy Frederick and Momma Katie in West Virginia.
Their Momma and Daddy met when Grandma Faith invited Daddy to their house for supper . They were married shortly after but the happiness didn’t last forever, they soon were arguing and fighting which escalated day by day and Daddy ends up leaving to Texas to live his Mom while finishing school. Everything goes downhill from there. I wanted to hug Virginia Kate and tell her everything will be ok and i wanted to slap Katie for destroying their kids life. I also wanted to slap their dad too and throw every bottle of booze in the garbage.
A passage from Chapter 1 : All my tired flies out the window when i see Grandma Faith standing in the mountain mists that drift in and out of the trees. She’s as she was before, like one lick of fire hasn’t touched her, whole and alive and wanting as she beckons me. Grandma whispers her wants as she’s done all my life. I put my hand out the car window as Momma used to do, and say “Wheeee…” then holler to the owl flying in the night. “I’m Virginia Kate, and i’m a crazy woman.” He keeps his wings spread to find his supper. I don’t feel silly one bit………

A Beautiful Video:

The Red Scarf By Kate Furnivall

What an awesome story. Loved every minute of it. I wanted to run to Anna and rescue her from that horrible place and i wanted to help Sofia convince Vasily to help her rescue Anna.  The story is touching and sad and happy and heartbreaking,  of course everything you want in a good book.

The story set in Russia, during the reign of Stalin. The labor camps for so called “criminals” were harsh and torturous, similar to the holocaust camps. Sofia and Anna as slaves, living hour by hour, minute by minute. Anna is dangerously ill and Sofia decides that she must escape to find Vasily , Annas lost love, to help her rescue Anna before she dies.

Sofia  finds the town Tivil, where Anna says Vasily is living and falls in love with Mikhail who she thinks is Vasily. WELL you’ll have to read the story to find out what happens to Anna, Sofia, Vasily and Mikhail.  You won’t be able to put it down.

Release date June 26, 2009 is the movie from the book My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult. I loved the book as well as all of Picoults books.
I can’t wait to see it!

Starring: Cameron Diaz as Sara Fitzgerald  , Sofia Vassilieva as Kate Fitzgerald, Alec Baldwin as Campbell Alexander, Jason Patric as Brian Fitzgerald,  Abigail Breslin as Anna Fitzgerald  .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdZZLdjBfCI

The bookshelf my husband made me. I just love it!

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To Michael J. Fox

June 9, 1961

Happy Birthday Glitter Graphics

This fun book is a great tool for parents to teach their children about the pitfalls of whining.

I had my 8yo son read this with me.  My son whines constantly, and when he read this , he could relate!! It made him think about those things and i asked him, “are you going to whine anymore?” and he said “probably not except for the car ride” hahahahha . I would say this book would be good for any young child, not just preschoolers.  I highly recommend  I Like to Whine
By William G. Bentrim.

Well I’m half way thru the book and i can hardly put it down. Its so powerful, sad, exciting! Its about Sofia and Anna are in a labor camp in Siberia, Soviet Union.  The girls in this camp have to endure horrible living conditions, crammed in a hut with dirt floors and rats, with sickness especially TB  and walking 2 miles to where they endure hard labor while sick, weak and starving . I dont’ want to tell to much exept Anna decides she needs to escape and try to get someone to help get Sofia out who is ailing.

I can’t wait to read the rest and see what happens!

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