I can't do it...

I try everyday....sometimes all day but that is a dream.  I am happy if I can do it in the morning or afternoon but most of the time I can only do it at night.  I am happy if I do it after dinner but life gets in the way.  I am always busy and my house is constantly having people or children in and out all day.

I love the summer because I get to do it all day, on my patio or on the deck with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine.  This summer I plan to go to the beach and do it.....

Do you do it? and when? and how often?

Actually you are doing it right now...............READ

I am a READAHOLIC....in between working full time, watching grandkids and taking care of hubby and the house....how about you?

Review: Too Quiet In Brooklyn

Too Quiet In Brooklyn by Susan Russo Anderson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book is the first in a series about PI Fina Fitzgibbons who also owns Lucys, a home cleaning business. When someone is murdered in front of her business, Fina goes on a mission to find out who did it. You see her mom was also murdered in the vicinity and it starts to look like they are connected. This is part mystery, part romance (she has a detective boyfriend on the case also) and part dangerous. There is a wild hunt for the murderer whom they also find out has kidnapped the victims grandson.

They story itself turns around a bit because three-quarters way through you are not sure who is mixed in this caper and who is innocent. But Fina cracks the case - and gives us a bit of a surprise ending....

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Goodreads Book......

I like giveaways.....and I try to enter as many as I can....Well, Goodreads.com has a continuous giveaway for books....by so many authors, by Goodreads authors.  I have found many a great author on the site.

I enter so many giveaways that I was pleasantly surprised by the email I received recently that said I won a book....I would have told you sooner but Blogger was down and out......

The book called......The Solacers by Arion Golmakani (check out his blog here) and he tells us that...

"Solacers tells the touching story of a 5-year old child’s search for family life and safety following the divorce of his parents in Iran during the 1960’s. The first child of a heartless father and a discarded mother is left to fend for himself on the streets of Mashhad, seeking food and shelter wherever he can. His lonely early years are an unbelievable tale of cruelty and betrayal on the part of nearly everyone who might be expected to help, save for one aunt who does her best to keep him from starving."

I plan to read this book and will post a review on my blog under the tab.....Book Review.....so keep in touch..

Do you read books? Then.....

Check out my bookshelves on Goodreads - where you can see what your friends are reading.

https://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM2MDM4MzM2OTQ6MzU3

Most of my books come from this great website....www.goodreads.com......where I have found friends who love to read.....I got away from the most famous authors (still love them and read them) and found some new authors who write great books....

Have you found a great author?  Tell us about them and what books you have found.....what types of books do you read?  I love a good mystery.....and I love my Kindle....do you have an e-reader?

Doctor's Office

How do you feel about Doctor's Offices.....As I get older, and its getting there a bit too quickly, I find myself in the doctor's office quite often.  I have had my share of hospitals and now there are many things that are creeping up on me that I have to look into.......you know, aching this and aching that.

Well, I wont go into my illnesses, that is not what this blog is about.  The other day I was sitting in the doctor's office and jotted down a note to blog about how people react in them.  I took the time to check out my fellow patients and was amazed that everyone reacts differently.

Now - me - I take this long period of time of waiting to read....I am an avid reader and feel that this time is perfect for me and my Kindle......I observed there were those who got up every 20 minutes to ask the receptionist "how long"  (that's a fav of hubby).....others were content to watch the tv they so nicely supplied in the area. 

Others actually left the room - to where? - and came back an hour later....and then there were the phoners.....(no such word).....they took this time to talk, and talk, and talk....very annoying to us readers.....I silence my phone.....and dont want to hear from anyone.....

So, tell me..how do you spend that long, long time you spend in the doctor's office waiting to be seen for your appointment?

Goodreads Readers.....

Are you out there?  Do you read lots of books?  Are you a Goodreads follower?  I must confess you meet the nicest people who are members of Goodreads.......

I just finished reading All the Pretty Girls by JT Ellison

and if you want to be surprised by who the killer is.....read it......and if you join Goodreads you can then give your two cents worth......comments, groups, friends......I have found alot of new authors here.........great place to be.............


I am now reading a new book...............as part of my 50 book challenge this year............


Night Road by Kristin Hannah which is new but I had to buy because a friend from Goodreads recommended it.............

Happy Reading...........and for those avid readers....I have just added a tab "Book Reviews" where I will review books I have read.....or you can always find my reviews on  Goodreads

How many have you read????

Books

Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here. Instructions: Copy this.  Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.  Post on your blog.....



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 
  
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

 6 The Bible

 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Harding

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 

 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 

 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

 19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown  

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante 

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exuper

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo