December 2011
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Specific reading goals for 2012
Updated 3/1/12
done! 11/22/63 * Stephen King
done! The Help * Kathryn Stockett
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo * Stieg Larsson
done! Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children * Ransom Riggs (Christmas present from Mom)
done!/currently reading begin the Sherlock Holmes series
next two Oz books—#4 and #5: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, and The Road to Oz (43Things goal)
done!:...
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Goodreads | Forgotten Frights: Overlooked and... →
—-> my own votes
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Goodreads | Best Books About Psychopaths (53... →
Care to add more?
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What Will 'The Hunger Games' Sound Like? |... →
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read the entire Oz series →
One of my 43 things goals (aka, my bucket list).
Current progress: first 3 read:
1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 2. The Marvelous Land of Oz 3. Ozma in Oz
Next in line:
4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
3 down, 11 to go!
Anyone want to join me in this goal? Just go to 43things.com and click “I’m doing this” on the goal’s page.
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Review: Deliver Us From Evil: True Cases of...
Deliver Us From Evil: Taken from the files of Ed and Lorraine Warren by J.F. Sawyer My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is the weakest, by far, of the books about and by the Warrens. The reason: the writing caliber, combined with weak editing. Misplaced commas abound, and sentence structure is, at times, odd. At some points the prose is strangely florid:
The silence in that valley of shadows is...
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It's a very Mockingjay Christmas!
Guess who received one of the limited edition Katniss Hunger Games movie posters from her husband for Christmas? This girl!
He’s going to frame it for me, and hang it in my home office.
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Goodreads | Carla Hufstedler's bookshelf:... →
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BookBook for iPhone - BookBook for iPhone - Twelve... →
Want. Covet.
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The Hobbit Blog | The official blog of THE HOBBIT... →
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Movie Trailers... →
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Boo! and Happy Christmas!
8. A Ghost Story for Christmas (1971-1978)
In case you want a break from Christmas revelry, the BBC had just the thing for audiences in the 1970s: scare the life out of them! From 1971 to 1978, they would adapt a spooky story, usually by horror-fantasy writer M.R. James, into a truly chilling TV play. (One of them, The Signalman, was from a story by Charles Dickens, who was no stranger to...
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“I can’t change the past, but if I stay mortgaged to it, I will fail to...”
– Carolyn Jessop, Triumph: Life After the Cult—A Survivor’s Lessons
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“What was revealed in their abuse [of me] was their character, not mine.”
– Carolyn Jessop, Triumph: Life After the Cult—A Survivor’s Lessons
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speakcelebrity:
“[i carry your heart with me...
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Review: The Giver (The Giver #1)
The Giver by Lois Lowry My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Thank you for your childhood.
This book is on the list of best books I have ever read—perhaps in the top ten, or even top five. I read it in one exquisite, gasping, weeping session. View all my reviews
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Stephen King's Bag Of Bones - A&E Television →
One of my very favorite Stephen King books. I’m really looking forward to this! —> Dec. 11 and Dec. 12
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Goodreads Choice Awards: Best Books of 2011 →
Hooray! I’m pleased with the results.
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“Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front...”
– The Pilot’s Wife * Anita Shreve
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