Well, I was up late again finishing off a YA. Or maybe a MG. The book MR CHICKEE'S FUNNY MONEY by Christopher Paul Curtis (THE WATSON'S GO TO BIRMINGHAM - 1963, BUD, NOT BUDDY) was shelved as a YA in our library, but seemed more MG to me. A side note: Our small...

This is kind of fun, even if only a few people are reading this. Life's pretty busy right now, so instead of starting a new YA (reading, that is), I've been having a look at THE CULINARY BOOTCAMP, a book that I bought for research purposes for the new YA that I'm...

We had a garage sale the other day. Well, a porch sale, really since we don't actually have a garage. Anyway, we live at a resort, so a lot of the people who dropped in were from out of town. One family was from Athens, GA and there were two teenage kids. I think the...

Well, I finished FULL SERVICE late last night, even though I'd had a long day. I got too close to the end to put it down, so I willed myself to stay awake and I finished it. I highly recommend it. The author has three other books out, which are a trilogy, and...

Good morning masses of readers of my live journal!Well, I had originally intended to only write about books I'd actually finished reading, but Will Weaver's FULL SERVICE got me thinking. Set in a small town in MN in 1965, is all I'm really going to tell you though....

Hi. This is my first entry, and I'm not even sure how to tell people about it, so maybe I'll be the only one to read it, but you've got to begin somewhere, right. Start anywhere and don't stop. - Richard Marcus Anyway, this live journal is going to be primarily about...