Posted in Family, My Thoughts, Television, tagged astronauts, Challenger, Germany, Space Shuttle Challenger, Today Show on 28 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
Twenty-two years ago today the Space Shuttle Challenger came apart 73 seconds after launch. Seven astronauts–Commander Dick Scobee, pilot Mike Smith, astronauts Ellison Onizuka, Judy Resnik, Ron McNair, and Greg Jarvis and teacher Christa McAuliffe–were on the shuttle. McAuliffe was going to be the first teacher in space. I remember Sputnik, the Mercury 7, the [...]
Posted in Books, DVDs, Historical, Review, Romance, tagged Daniela Denby-Ashe, Great North and South crusade, North & South, Richard Armitage on 26 January 2008 | 3 Comments »
Based on a crusade I read about in mid January on Ramblings on Romance I ordered and watched the DVD set North & South starring Richard Armitage and Daniela Denby-Ashe. This is a 2 DVD disk set in four parts–almost four hours total.
Richard Armitage is the charismatic mill owner John Thornton in the northern England [...]
Posted in Books, Fantasy, Mystery, New Books, Romance, Science Fiction, tagged Ann Aguirre, Anton Strout, Colleen Gleason, Dead to Me, Demon Night, Elizabeth Moon, February 2008 books, Grimspace, Howling at the Moon, Karen MacInerney, Kim Harrison, Mark Del Franco, Meljean Brook, Mine to Possess, Nalini Singh, The Bleeding Dusk, The Outlaw Demon Wails, Unquiet Dreams, urban fantasy, Victory Conditions on 25 January 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’m looking forward to many books in February! What are the books you are looking forward to in February?
I have created links to the authors’ websites.
January
Unquiet Dreams
By Mark Del Franco
2nd in Connor Grey series set in an alternate Boston
Paperback for sale January 29
A mystery and urban fantasy series in one. I plan to buy the [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books, Mystery, tagged S. J. Rozan on 24 January 2008 | 8 Comments »
What’s your favorite book that nobody else has heard of? You know, not Little Women or Huckleberry Finn, not the latest best-seller . . . whether they’ve read them or not, everybody “knows” those books. I’m talking about the best book that, when you tell people that you love it, they go, “Huh? Never heard [...]
Posted in Cooking, Review, tagged Cooks Illustrated, Eating Well, Fine Cooking, Magazines on 23 January 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I love to cook and I love to read about cooking and recipes. Three magazines are my favorites.
First on my list is Fine Cooking…”For People Who Love to Cook” This magazine has great recipes with very good instructions. Not only are the instructions helpful, but the many photos in the magazine illustrate step-by-step techniques. Recipes [...]
Posted in Family, tagged football, North Carolina, Northanger Abbey on 22 January 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m in North Carolina! Wow! It was a spur of the moment decision…
My husband was in Washington, D.C. last week and when he came home on Friday our oldest daughter drove back with him! She had a four day weekend so she drove to DC from North Carolina and then on home. We all had [...]
Posted in Books, Radio, Romance, Television, tagged Jane Austen, Masterpiece Theater, Northanger Abbey, NPR on 18 January 2008 | 4 Comments »
I listened to an interesting interview with Andrew Davies this morning on NPR’s Morning Edition. Davies is the screenwriter who has adapted four of the six Jane Austen novels currently running on Masterpiece Theater each Sunday evening until April.
Davies who is a former professor of English literature has created some controversy among Jane Austen fans [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books, My Thoughts, Review on 17 January 2008 | 5 Comments »
This week’s question is suggested by Puss Reboots:
How much do reviews (good and bad) affect your choice of reading? If you see a bad review of a book you wanted to read, do you still read it? If you see a good review of a book you’re sure you won’t like, do you change your [...]
Posted in Books, Mystery, Review, tagged C. S. Harris, Candice Proctor, historical mystery, What Angels Fear on 16 January 2008 | 1 Comment »
The year is 1811. As old King George III sinks deeper into madness, and the threat of social unrest and revolution haunts the privileged classes, a beautiful young woman is found raped and savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient parish church not far from Westminster Abbey. An ornate dueling pistol discovered tangled [...]
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