Buy One Book & Read It Challenge

Amy at My Friend Amy has posted a challenge for 2009. There are 2 options for this challenge. #1: Buy one book and read it. The challenge for me is that it must be a novel read just for fun, not for work or for children. #2: Buy one book and read it each month of the year.

I am going to complete #1 and may increase my goal to #2. If I complete #2, I think that I will expand my goal to include the banned professional and children's books. Since there is only one day left in January, I guess that I get to go shopping tomorrow!

Celebrate the Author - Reading Challenge - January

Happy Birthday Harley Jane Kozak! (January 28)

This month I read Dating Dead Men by Ms. Kozak. Keeping me awake is a feat for almost any book these days and I stayed up reading this one on several nights. Wollie Shelley, greeting card store owner and artist, is busy attempting to date forty men in sixty days while staying in touch with her hospitalized brother. During a visit to P.B., her brother, she encounters a dead body and gets swept into an adventure that involves meeting an interesting guy and trying to outwit the mob. I'm glad that I tried this one and look forward to the next Wollie adventure.


Becky at Becky's Book Reviews has posted this challenge. Click here to read more.

Racing By....

Okay... I can count and realize that this is not 15 words or less as required by Laura at laurasalas
so I did not leave it in the comments. But... unfortunately, this poem really expresses the way I have been feeling about the school day. Laura's choice of picture this week inspired the following poem.

Take a deep breath and...

Zoom!
We're off.
The day has begun.
Here come the kids!
Math is first -
Number one.
Then comes reading,
A trip to p.e.,
More reading ,
And then
Let's go to lunch.

Breathe....
For...
A minute or two.

Inside recess,
Oh what fun!
Some spelling,
And writing
Science is done.
Pack up.
Coats zipped.
Hugs goodbye.
Another school day
Has raced right by!

Year in a Sentence

Kevin at Kevin's Meandering Mind has asked for a sentence describing 2008.

Here is my contribution,

A roller coaster year is completed!

2008 included friends' new babies, friends' and grandma's deaths, friends' marriages, mom's hospitalizations, and my completed master's' degree.