Uncategorized 30 Jun 2009 07:04 pm
Shana Norris!
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Uncategorized 12 Jun 2009 07:49 pm
Dismantled
Hell yeah!
I can’t decide which I like more. “Promise Not to Tell” or “Dismantled” but Jennifer McMahon freaking ROCKS!
After Promise Not to Tell I said, “wow”
After Dismantled I said, “oh wow.”
yeah, just…… OH WOW!
go read it, and if you live in NH/NE Jennifer will be at MY BOOKSTORE!!! June 21st, come to Innisfree Bookshop in Meredith NH. www.millfalls.com for more info!
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Uncategorized 10 Jun 2009 08:46 am
More Reader
Two more blogs I follow, in my Horses Header:
I Hate Your Horse: http://ihateyourhorse.blogspot.com/
and
Acacia: http://wildacacia.blogspot.com/
Same woman, but different focus for each.
I Hate Your Horse highlights the problems in the horse world, in terms of stupid people and the stupid things they do, good bad and just plain annoying.
Acacia is a Mustang being trained as part of the Mustang Challenge:
“Acacia is a four yr old Black Bay mare who came from the Three Sisters Herd. She was captured as a yearling and has been living at the BLM ever since…This is her chance to teach me…”
I enjoy both of these greatly. Hope you do too!
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Uncategorized 08 Jun 2009 08:33 am
My Reader
I wanted to give a list of some of the bookish blogs I am following in my Google Reader.
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/ Author of the Lt. Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels thriller novels Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary, and Rusty Nail.
http://bookwormygirl.blogspot.com/ lots of giveaways!
http://blbooks.blogspot.com/ LOTS OF REVIEWS HERE! I love Becky’s reviews. She reads a ridiculous amount of books though.
http://www.bookstorepeople.com/ Hey! I have actually MET THIS AUTHOR! Claire LaZebnik (I met her!) and Kim Allen-Niesen talk about independent bookshops!
http://dogfact9.blogspot.com/ AS King wrote DUST OF 100 DOGS. which yeah, ROCKED. go read it.
http://www.eileencook.com/ Eileen wrote What Would Emma Do? again, READ IT.
http://barbarabbookblog.blogspot.com/ Blog about Jewish books for children. Some great books reviewed here that you might not otherwise know about!
http://katiemacalister.livejournal.com This is Katie MacAlister’s livejournal. which I also have in my livejournal friend page, but in case I get behind in Livejournal, I have to stay up on Katie!
http://www.neilgaiman.com/ If you haven’t read anything by Neil, well, go away and read something and then come back and follow his blog! Goofball, he is fabulous!
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com haha, an addiction of mine is Romance Novels, this is where I am accepted among one of my own.
http://www.thedebutanteball.com/ “Welcome to The Debutante Ball, a group blog for debut authors, now in its third season. Join us daily for our takes on bookish and not-so-bookish topics and celebrate with us as our debuts approach. ”
http://litmaze.blogspot.com/ “Finding great books. Finding our readers. Finding our way.”
http://wondermark.com/ oh the comics. so funny.
http://yaedgebookclub.blogspot.com/ They did Dust of 100 Dogs 2 months ago, and I want to keep following them for when I actually read another book club book. good recommendatinos and discussions
OKAY! those are my current readers, what do you follow?
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Uncategorized 05 Jun 2009 08:32 am
Tack and Talk
Have you twittered lately?
I do! (I am @gracefulshrimp) and I met Larissa Cox (@ridingcoach) through there. Larissa has some awesome links and posts and her own blog. Well, I was beyond honored and thrilled when Larissa asked me to participate in her “Real Riders†series. She is going to be having riders from all over write their story of how they came to be riders, what they love most about it and include photos of their horses.
Here is my story at, TalkAndTalk.wordpress.com.
Head on over and take a peek. She has other links and stories on her site, so read away!
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Book 03 Jun 2009 08:26 am
Jillian Hunter
I borrowed two of Hunter’s books from a friend, and now have a pile of 7 more! They are fun historical romances, all based around the Boscastle family.
Head over to Jillian’s website for more information on her series. For the Boscastle family, her first book is “Seduction of an English Scoundrel” and was a good time.
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Uncategorized 02 Jun 2009 08:54 am
MIA
In case you were wondering why May was so quiet, I WENT ON A CRUISE!
We did a 5-day Carnival Easter Caribbean cruise, and it rocked. You can see my Flickr set here. It was amazing and beautiful and I loved it!
Here is a picture of Justin diving off Grand Turk:
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Uncategorized 01 Jun 2009 07:26 pm
Currently Reading, TS Spivet
AND LOVING IT. I am only a few chapters in, and I love his voice. It is fabulous. If it keeps up at this pace I will be laughing and loving my way through the entire book.
More information at the website, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Here is a full description for the link phobic:
“When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal—if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal—is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum’s hallowed halls.
T.S. sets out alone, leaving before dawn with a plan to hop a freight train and hobo east. Once aboard, his adventures step into high gear and he meticulously maps, charts, and illustrates his exploits, documenting mythical wormholes in the Midwest, the urban phenomenon of “rims,” and the pleasures of McDonald’s, among other things. We come to see the world through T.S.’s eyes and in his thorough investigation of the outside world he also reveals himself.
As he travels away from the ranch and his family we learn how the journey also brings him closer to home. A secret family history found within his luggage tells the story of T.S.’s ancestors and their long-ago passage west, offering profound insight into the family he left behind and his role within it. As T.S. reads he discovers the sometimes shadowy boundary between fact and fiction and realizes that, for all his analytical rigor, the world around him is a mystery.
All that he has learned is tested when he arrives at the capital to claim his prize and is welcomed into science’s inner circle. For all its shine, fame seems more highly valued than ideas in this new world and friends are hard to find.
T.S.’s trip begins at the Copper Top Ranch and the last known place he stands is Washington, D.C., but his journey’s movement is far harder to track: How do you map the delicate lessons learned about family and self? How do you depict how it feels to first venture out on your own? Is there a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, love? These are the questions that strike at the core of this very special debut.”
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Uncategorized 03 May 2009 08:35 am
Twitter!
So are you on Twitter?
I am!
@gracefulshrimp
(www.twitter.com/gracefulshrimp)
and Joost is too! I have blogged on Joost in the past (head over to www.joost.com to see all their new gadgetry) and they have their own twitter account! @joost_com
anyways, that is all for now! Catch you on the flip side.
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Book 01 May 2009 06:49 am
Promise Not to Tell
Jennifer McMahon wrote a DOOZY.
Seriously, I finished this novel and said aloud (to an empty room barring two dogs), “WOW.”
Promise Not To Tell was amazing. Here is the book description from the HC website.
Forty-one-year-old school nurse Kate Cypher has returned home to rural Vermont to care for her mother who’s afflicted with Alzheimer’s. On the night she arrives, a young girl is murdered—a horrific crime that eerily mirrors another from Kate’s childhood. Three decades earlier, her dirt-poor friend Del—shunned and derided by classmates as “Potato Girl”—was brutally slain. Del’s killer was never found, while the victim has since achieved immortality in local legends and ghost stories. Now, as this new murder investigation draws Kate irresistibly in, her past and present collide in terrifying, unexpected ways. Because nothing is quite what it seems . . . and the grim specters of her youth are far from forgotten.
The book alternates between the 2002 current storyline and Kate’s memories from the 1970’s of her childhood with Del. You could have a year-long monthly meeting book group on just this one book, because you can just talk about so many things; dealing with an elderly parent, alternative lifestyles, child abuse, child sexual abuse, teasing, bullying, and childhood fears.
A very VERY compelling read.
Here is the Publisher’s weekly review:
From Publishers Weekly
Part mystery-thriller and part ghost story, McMahon’s well-paced debut alternates smoothly between past and present. In the fall of 2002, 41-year-old Kate Cypher, a divorced Seattle school nurse, returns to New Hope, the decaying Vermont hippie commune where she grew up, to visit her elderly mother, Jean, who’s suffering from Alzheimer’s. Kate has avoided New Hope since the grizzly, unsolved murder of her fifth-grade friend, Del Griswold, 31 years earlier. Kate fears she betrayed Del, a free-spirited farm girl. Did her betrayal cause Del’s death? Who killed Del? Another local girl is murdered in a similar manner at the time of Kate’s return. Could the killer be loose again? Meanwhile, Jean appears to be possessed with Del’s spirit and may have the answers to these questions. As Kate investigates, she learns stunning truths about many events and people from her youth. McMahon does a particularly good job of portraying the cruelty of school children.
Also head over to Jennifer’s website for more info on her and her other novels! I have Dismantled in my stack to read next, and I’m PSYCHED.
I am also very excited (even more so now that I have read and LOVED her book) to be able to say that Jennifer will be coming to my bookstore for a signing in June.
CANNOT WAIT!
*GIDDY*
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