WWW Wednesday

 I thought this looked like a lot of fun...

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
                                                                                                                              Gathering Blue* What are you currently reading?
* What did you recently finish reading?
* What do you think you’ll read next?

Here are my answers:
I am currently reading: Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry as a follow up to The Giver...see my review here.
I am also reading Wuthering Heights

What did you finish reading?
The Giver - Highly recommend!

What do you think you will read next?
After Wuthering Heights I am going to treat myself to The Bottoms

Review taken from Goodreads: Joe Lansdale, author of several horror novels, Westerns, and some outrageous thrillers, is something of a cult writer. The Bottoms, which may be the breakout book that moves Lansdale beyond the genre category, is a resonant and moving novel. Though there is a mystery at its core, it is at heart a coming-of-age story, with a more literary bent than Lansdale usually demonstrates.
Harry, an elderly man, tells the story of a series of events that occurred in his 11th year, when the mutilated, murdered bodies of Negro prostitutes began turning up in the county where his father was the local constable. Harry and Tom, his younger sister, find the first one. Only their father, Jacob Crane, seems to care about finding justice for the victims, who are dismissed out of hand as unimportant by the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan, which warns Jacob off any further investigations. Harry and Tom think they know who's responsible: the Goat Man, a creature who's said to lurk beneath the swinging bridge that crosses the Sabine River, where the first body was found. In fact, the Goat Man has something to do with the murders, and the secret of who he is and what he really did is the key to the unsolved slayings. But that takes second place to the artfully explicated character of Jacob and Harry's changing relationship with him in the course of the loss of his boyish innocence. This is a masterfully told story and a very good read. --Jane Adams

I also have a few Janet Evanovich books books in her Stephanie Plum Series! 

I am so thankful that I am afforded a Christmas break at my work! It really helps to have this time with my family and my books and a bit of relaxation. :)


As always, Happy Reading, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Heather

Teaser Tuesday - Wurthering Heights

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 that what you share doesn’t give too much away! 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! 

 First of all, I must admit that I can't remember if I have read this...did I start? Did I finish? I'm a few chapters in and it all seems so strangely familiar. I read Jane Eyre in high school and am thinking that I read this too. I totally sound like an air head, but I guess that's what happens over 20 years of reading almost 100 books a year!

So here's to a semi-conscious reread:

page 249: "If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully, neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book (for I perceive you have sent him books), no locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings?"

Happy Reading!
Heather

Friday Finds - My secret Santa Hooked Me Up!

~Friday Finds ~

 

Friday Finds is a fun sharing of book goodies that we get our hands on through out the week, from Should Be Reading

 

All I have to say is that my "Secret Friend" at work totally took care of me. I had a little gift waiting for me throughout the past 2 weeks. Bottlecaps and Diet Mt. Dew...Hog's Heaven right there. Not to mention seed packets and gourmet candy from the shop down the street.

But today was the big reveal and she surpised me with four books from my TBR pile! On my hint list I linked my Goodreads account and she pulled it up at the used book store! I love the fact that she went to the used book store. I love old books (should say I love the new ones too!) and she got me 4 of them! Did I mention that they are on my TBR list? It's fun to note that she is our school's librarian and of course I am always yaking her ear off about books. I couldn't have been paired up with someone better!

I've been pondering what I should read over Christmas break and then the Lord answered my prayers. See he listens, especially to the important stuff! Darn right Christmas miracle! Okay, maybe not, but I have to check if you're reading this...

Happy Reading!

Heather

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only 'repentance, justice and mercy' will prevent the onset of 'the wrath of Almighty God!'.

Wuthering Heights  Excerpt from Goodreads:  "My greatest thought in living is Heathcliff. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure... but as my own being." Wuthering Heights is the only novel of Emily Bronte, who died a year after its publication, at the age of thirty. A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, are powerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, it has become a classic of English literature.

The Bottoms                                                                                          Excerpt from Goodreads: Joe Lansdale, author of several horror novels, Westerns, and some outrageous thrillers, is something of a cult writer. The Bottoms, which may be the breakout book that moves Lansdale beyond the genre category, is a resonant and moving novel. Though there is a mystery at its core, it is at heart a coming-of-age story, with a more literary bent than Lansdale usually demonstrates.                            

Harry, an elderly man, tells the story of a series of events that occurred in his 11th year, when the mutilated, murdered bodies of Negro prostitutes began turning up in the county where his father was the local constable. Harry and Tom, his younger sister, find the first one. Only their father, Jacob Crane, seems to care about finding justice for the victims, who are dismissed out of hand as unimportant by the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan, which warns Jacob off any further investigations. Harry and Tom think they know who's responsible: the Goat Man, a creature who's said to lurk beneath the swinging bridge that crosses the Sabine River, where the first body was found. In fact, the Goat Man has something to do with the murders, and the secret of who he is and what he really did is the key to the unsolved slayings. But that takes second place to the artfully explicated character of Jacob and Harry's changing relationship with him in the course of the loss of his boyish innocence. This is a masterfully told story and a very good read. --Jane Adams

The

Excerpt from Goodreads: When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. Now, it’s time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.













I think I'm gonna go with The Giver with the first one I takle. It's going to be my challenge to read all of these over my Christmas break. Wish me luck!

Happy Reading!
Heather