I have jokingly poked fun at my fellow LOL'ers who come to book club for the wine and the food and of course, the fun. Some of us read more than others. There's Vikki, consumer of books extraordinaire. A member of three book clubs, she...
One of the things I am enjoying about my Kindle reading experience, is the capability to record notes at specific points in the text. Where as I used to run around with sticky notes and a pen, inevitably finding myself without one or the other...
Abraham Verhese, New York Times bestselling author of Cutting For Stone Why is it that the months seem to be soaring by this spring? According to my Kindle, I'm 27% of the way through our current novel, Cutting for Stone. With our book club meeting to...
The first quality I noted when I started this month's book, Cutting for Stone, was the beautifully descriptive prose. Certainly author Abraham Verghese is poet. Right off the top, a lovely description of the change of seasons in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia,...
The Story of Cutting for Stone from abrahamverghese.com The story is a riveting saga of twin brothers, Marion and Shiva Stone, born of a tragic union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their...
Wishing you a great Good Friday & a Happy, Blessed Easter! Yes, I love Friday's, especially holiday ones. For the LOL, festivities began early when we met for our monthly get-together @ Ruth's house to discuss her selection, the Kitchen House. Without fail, following every meeting,...
Hello, Dear LOL Followers! Yippee! It's the first Wednesday of the month which means tonight brings an evening we LOL'ers wait for (or sometimes scramble to)...
Never Argue with a Woman One morning, her husband returns the boat to their lakeside cottage after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors,...
Maybe it's because I see summer in the sunny distance; maybe it's because I have several friends' big birthdays this year and two weddings to attend, but I'm on a mission: get fit for the fun. Determined to eat well and exercise daily, I've renewed...
Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive. - Sir Walter Scott (Marmion, 1808) Let me begin by humbling admitting I have been wrong about one of my favourite quotes--that of the tangled web we spin when we get caught up in...