Look what I Found

So I was reading 'Fresh Air' on my Kindle and came across the words, 'skipjack corum' in a sentence with little context I googled the words and lo and behold the first hit was the book -- wait for it-- called 'Fresh Air'...upon scanning the other hits I realized that it probably was referring to eats as in a type of tuna and that corum seeds are a type of spice similar to cumin....interesting....but of course I had to look at the pdf of the book I am actually reading and one thing led to another and I landed here...

Who wouldn't want to read this? Here's a hint, chocolate...

So I did and it was cool in a nostalgic sort of reminds me of the library in our one room school (a bookcase actually)  It smelled like this books looks - old...

By the by this is a pic of the Weeks Plantation house we visited in Louisiana to put you in the mood...

Fresh Air by Sinclair Lewis

Fresh Air is a travel book written in the 20's in the common vernacular.  It is really cute and a bit of a love story I guess.

T and I were watching Boardwalk Empire on HBO and he noticed Jimmy reading this book while travelling by train to Chicago... of course I had to look for it at the library. They didn't have it but it was a free download for my kindle.  Sweet.

Follow the adventures of Claire driving her father and herself in an imported Gomez-Deperdussin with an American made body.  Yeah almost another language. 

When I mentioned it to my Mom she recognized the author. 

J.D. Robb, Time of Death

More candy, this one has 3 books in one...

Yeah...

a lot like chocolate

The Lightkeeper's Bride by Colleen Coble

I liked that has a cool job like a telephone operator.  But as with Colleen's other book that I read recently, called Lonestar Sanctuary, I found myself loosing interest.  Maybe the stories are just not long enough for a full length novel.  I don't know I just started to loose it around 2/3 through.

Facebook Marketing/

I am very fascinated by what is happening in the marketing end of the world.  I'd like to understand how the internet will convince me to look at their ads.  Ok, not counting those really cute dog ads at Subaru...

Then I thought that the facebook one was too specific for me and this one might be more readable...

Quilt Fiesta by Cheryl Lynch

Surprising Designs from Mexican Tiles indeed.  I was very impressed at how much these fairly simple blocks looked like the Mexican tile walls and floors we saw in Mexico.  Very interesting.  I think she did an extremely good job of the fabric selections that carried out the designs.

Open Road's Best of Paris

Yes, I am planning a trip

A Cup of Friendship by Deborah Rodriquez

I am just getting into this.  I can barely put it down to write this.  Deborah does an amazing job of setting the scene of a part of the world I have never been to.  But I have been to Turkey, I wonder if her cafe is on a street like this...

Wow, now I have read the whole thing.  It was just too good to put down.  I suspect that it is a pretty good insight into life in Afghanistan.  It fit with my current idea that sometimes people need to figure things out for themselves.  

Orphan Blocks / Quilt a Gift

These two books were ones I picked from the library website but both fell a little short.

The orphan blocks one didn't help much with the single orphan my sister sent me from Texas.  And the baby Quilt a Gift for little ones was too fussy....