TBR Thursdays

To be Read Thursday meme is hosted by Drea which was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday by BreakingTheSpine. 

TBR Thursday highlights all those book that are already out (whether you own them or not) that you're dying to ready but haven't had the chance yet. This can some old books, some new books, and some that are in between but they have to be books that you want/hope to read and review!

I was intrigued by the title and the summary provided was interesting too. :D 

The Tangledwood Murders by David Weedmark

Summary from Goodreads:

All Detective Ben Taylor wants is to get away from the police force where he has been an undercover operative for the past three years and from the intense publicity of his last case. The RCMP has cleared his name in a shooting that took the life of a young child, but that hasn’t cleared his conscience. Ben needs time and distance, and arrives anonymously at Tanglewood Farms where he once worked in the summers of his youth. Back then, it was a simple farm, but it is a far different place today. When a missing woman’s body is discovered on the edge of the farm, Ben is drawn in. Ben’s investigation is compromised when he is reunited with the woman who was once the love of his life. As she begins to reveal her own dark secrets, it is not long before they both become suspects in the eyes of the police, and even of each other.

Waiting on Wednesday (1)

by breakingthespine

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted here, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

I hope I can find a copy 

Farsighted by Emlyn Chand

Publication date: October 24, 2011

From Goodreads:

Alex Kosmitoras’s life has never been easy. The only other student who will talk to him is the school bully, his parents are dead-broke and insanely overprotective, and to complicate matters even more, he's blind. Just when he thinks he'll never have a shot at a normal life, a new girl from India moves into town. Simmi is smart, nice, and actually wants to be friends with Alex. Plus she smells like an Almond Joy bar. Yes, sophomore year might not be so bad after all.

Unfortunately, Alex is in store for another new arrival—an unexpected and often embarrassing ability to “see” the future. Try as he may, Alex is unable to ignore his visions, especially when they begin to suggest that Simmi is in danger. With the help of the mysterious psychic next door and new friends who come bearing gifts of their own, Alex must embark on a journey to change his future.

In this enthralling debut novel, Emlyn Chand creates a world in which friendship, perseverance, and a handful of psychic powers come together to fight against what appears to be the inevitable and all-too dangerous future. This is a book you won’t want to put down—even after you finish it! 

Monday Running Conversations

Monday Running Conversations is a weekly picture meme focusing on animals having to carry a conversation. ☺

• Just take one minute from your blogging time
•  Post a favorite random picture you found from the Internet (please credit the person who took the shot) or it can be a pic you took! ☺ 
• Write a little conversation happening from the picture
• Make the conversations GP-rating and 
• Most of all just have fun!

Anyone can participate and if you do, just leave your links on the comment page. ☺

by halex

Andre (the seal): No can do, Icebox. I won this cup fair and square.

Icebox: Look Andre, agree for a re-match, will ya? 

Quibs:  More tuna fish for you. 

Andre: The answer is no. No go, Mumble is heading this way. 

"The Loner" from Graphic Audio

The Loner

I was browsing Goodreads and came about this ad for Graphic Audio, which tickled my curiosity.  Are all audio books carry these much sound effects?

Fringe Opening Titles/Credits. Friends Style

Sure you remember F.R.I.E.N.D.S right? :D

This was tweeted by Mr. Joel Wyman.☺ I can't help but clicking the replay button all the time. Toni, we see Joshua Jackson all smiles. yay! Heck, all the cast have put on their smiley faces even August ( I think or it could be September, you know the baldy guys known as the Observers).

Strange huh. I guess with a show that's always serious, seeing everyone breaking into a grin just flips a viewer once in while. ☺

Minus Ten days and counting :D

Concert paraphernalia

So I guess that's me finally saying to myself that I'm starting to get excited for

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I didn't plan of buying those glowing things but I was drawn to them. Hahaha

Mondays Running Coversations

Monday Running Conversations is a weekly picture meme focusing on animals having to carry a conversation. ☺  

• Just take one minute from your blogging time
•  Post a favorite random picture you found from the Internet (please credit the person who took the shot) or it can be a pic you took! ☺ 
• Write a little conversation happening from the picture
• Make the conversations GP-rating and 
• Most of all just have fun!

Have you got aspirin by luna

Okay, I know this meme is about animals having to carry a conversation but this one was too cute to pass up. I'll be doing a off-camera type of caption. Enjoy☺

Mommy Cat: Stay still, Catch. I'm setting the camera. 

Catch: But Mommy, my head hurts a lot now. 

Saturday Snapshots: Wispy clouds

Early morning 

I stumbled out bleary-eyed and barely managing to open my eyes because of the glare. I'm going to repaint our walls to green. White's too bright. lolz. 

To participate in  Saturday Snapshots meme hosted by Alyce @ at home with books, post a photo that you ( or a friend or a family member) have taken and then leave a direct link to your post at her site. Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes to see How much detail you give in the caption is entirely up to you. Please don't post random photos you find online.

Mr. Rob Spera directing! Heaven help him by TG

This was shared by Mr.Thomas Gibson from his tumblr page and from viewing the photo, it looked like Penelope's clicking the control and doing her own thing, Agent Rossi, seemed to be well... he appeared to be reacting to something said around the round table whilst the director in the background tried to keep the mild chaos under wraps as the other crew members watched on. Someone has found the colorization feature quite entertaining. Lolz. 

TBR Thursday

To be Read Thursday meme is hosted by Drea which was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday by BreakingTheSpine.

TBR Thursday highlights all those book that are already out (whether you own them or not) that you're dying to ready but haven't had the chance yet. This can some old books, some new books, and some that are in between but they have to be books that you want/hope to read and review!

Thanks to Trish at Deskstopretreat for this find. My TBR Thursday book for this week is:

Summary from Goodreads:

A New York Times BestsellerWords can bleed.
In 1865 Boston, the literary geniuses of the Dante Club—poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J. T. Fields—are finishing America’s first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante’s remarkable visions to the New World. The powerful Boston Brahmins at Harvard College are fighting to keep Dante in obscurity, believing that the infiltration of foreign superstitions into American minds will prove as corrupting as the immigrants arriving at Boston Harbor.
The members of the Dante Club fight to keep a sacred literary cause alive, but their plans fall apart when a series of murders erupts through Boston and Cambridge. Only this small group of scholars realizes that the gruesome killings are modeled on the descriptions of Hell’s punishments from Dante’s Inferno. With the lives of the Boston elite and Dante’s literary future in America at stake, the Dante Club members must find the killer before the authorities discover their secret.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and an outcast police officer named Nicholas Rey, the first black member of the Boston police department, must place their careers on the line to end the terror. Together, they discover that the source of the murders lies closer to home than they ever could have imagined.
The Dante Club is a magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly realized paean to Dante’s continued grip on our imagination, and a captivating thriller that will surprise readers from beginning to end.

If you could return to a place you once lived, where would you go?

I didn't realize that almost a week came when I came back in here. ☺ I was visiting nablopomo with prompts and this question was listed. I thought I give it a try.

So far I haven't been to a lot of places and if we're going to use two places where I once lived, I chose neither because both have issues of crowded neighborhoods and getting burgled too. *shudders* 

TBR Thursday

To be Read Thursday meme is hosted by Drea which was inspired by Waiting on Wednesday by BreakingtheSpine.

TBR Thursday highlights all those books that are already out (whether you own them or not) that you're dying to ready but haven't had the chance yet. This can some old books, some new books, and some that are in between but they have to be books that you want/hope to read and review!

Here's my TBR Thursday Book for the week: Thanks to Trish at Desktopretreat.

The Shadow of the Wind

Summary from Goodreads

Barcelona, 1945—Just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes one day to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again.

Daniel’s father coaxes him to choose a book from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the book he selects, a novel called The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax’s work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last of Carax’s books in existence.

Before Daniel knows it, his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness, and doomed love, and before long he realizes that if he doesn’t find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.

Hallmark Treat: Three Weeks Three Kids

Three Weeks Three Kids 

Twenty-five-year-old Jennifer Mills (Anna Chlumsky) lives her life without commitment, relieved her boyfriend isn’t even close to putting a ring on her finger. Not at all like her older sister, Mandy (Chelah Horsdal), who married young and settled into family life, Jennifer loves being carefree. But her mother, Kathryn (Susan Hogan), sees Jennifer’s wild ways as a fear of settling down, and hatches a secret plan to take her from playful to parent in just three weeks. When Mandy and her husband plan a three-week European vacation without their three kids, Kathryn convinces Jennifer to help watch them until she can get into town.

Jennifer quickly finds out playing house isn’t for kids. It doesn't take long for Jennifer realize she has to go from cool aunt to strict parent if she’s going to keep her sister’s trust. But, with a little help from the handsome new neighbor across the street, Will (Warren Christie), Jennifer manages to pull it together to prove to everyone, and even herself, that taking responsibility can be rewarding.

Mini-Review

It was great seeing Anna Chlumsky back and she looked at ease as she portrayed Jennifer Mills in the movie. Man, I wish I had her boss, Charlie Marshall (portrayed by Garry Chalk), head of a local graphics/advertising  company. He was very considerate and understanding for giving her that much time off from work. I wonder if Jennifer's mom had anything to do with it. However, it wasn't shown so it was left to the viewer's imagination. I was giggling when older sister Mandy (the mom) has the children's life put together, tagged, coded and highlighted in an instruction manual AKA the clear book. Wow. I have friends with kids and they said it was almost similar at their households when they have the in-laws to take care of their kids. 

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: 

• Grab your current read
• Open to a RANDOM page 
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page 
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure what you share doesn't give too much a way! You don't want to ruin the book for others!) 
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! 

The Angel

But it didn't disappear. She could see wings, a beautiful, delicately featured face and, in the angel's arms a small Celtic harp.

Page 98. The Angel by Carla Neggers

Monday Running Conversations

Monday Running Conversations is a weekly meme which I started several Mondays ago in this blog. This is a picture meme focusing on animals having to carry a conversation. ☺

• Just take one minute from your blogging time
•  Post a favorite random picture you found from the Internet (please credit the person who took the shot) or it can be a pic you took! ☺ 
• Write a little conversation happening from the picture
• Make the conversations GP-rating and 
• Most of all just have fun!

Anyone can participate and if you do, just leave your links on the comment page. ☺ 

Brown Lorikeet and Mindanao by PictureGirl

Apollo: Basil, can you check if there's something crawling in there? 

Basil:  You're forgetting I need my eyes check.

Saturday Snapshots: Moon Bolt

The moon 

I thought I share one of my funny photo explorations. I don't have a tripod so I relied heavily on placing my elbows on the ledge to take this photo of the moon.  No need to photoshop as the moon sort of gave that bolt of light in the sky. The treetops are barely seen.  

To participate in  Saturday Snapshots meme hosted by Alyce @ at home with books, post a photo that you ( or a friend or a family member) have taken and then leave a direct link to your post at her site. Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes to see How much detail you give in the caption is entirely up to you. Please don't post random photos you find online.

Break time Joke: A day in the office

My aunt forward this e-mail and well, it was funny to me. 

from pureclipart.com

Employee:    Excuse me sir, may I talk to you?

Boss:            Sure, come on in.   What can I do for you?

Employee:    Well sir, as you know, I have been an employee of this prestigious firm for over ten years.

Boss:            Yes. 

Employee:    I won't beat around the bush.   Sir, I would like a raise. I currently have four companies after me and so I decided to talk to you first.

Boss:    A raise?   I would love to give you a raise, but this is just not the right time. 

Employee:    I understand your position, and I know that the current economic down turn has had a negative impact on sales, but you must also take into consideration my hard work, pro-activeness and loyalty to this company for over a decade. 

Boss:   Taking into account these factors, and considering I don't want to start a brain drain, I'm willing to offer you a ten percent raise and an extra five days of vacation time.  How does that sound? 

Employee:  Great!   It's a deal!   Thank you, sir!

Boss:  Before you go, just out of curiosity, what companies were after you?

Employee:  Oh, the Electric Company, Gas Company, Water Company and the Mortgage Company!

Please not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome....

I did the stretches and it did help me relieve some of the stiffness I was feeling running along my arms and back. Now, I have to make it as often as possible to prevent going to the doctor. These days you can't afford to get sick.

My polymer clay adventure starts....

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Funny that stress can make you find some book treasures at the thrift shot. Last weekend, I had to get out of the house and check out titles and this one caught my attention. My clay adventures ended when I had my OJT back in college at one of the counseling center in Manila. Anyway, opening the pages, made me grin with delight. and anticipation.