A love-hate challenge for Valentine's Day

Do you like the candy hearts with sayings on them?  Here's a challenge for you.  Tell me in the comments what you love and what you hate, using these hearts to guide you.  "I love to see..."  "I love it when..."

I responded to these back in 2008.  See what I said by clicking that blue link.  By the way, don't blame me for this meme; it's all Colleen's fault.  As her candy heart says, the idea is AW SUM.

Kindness and the Fauci Ouchie

I like this motto:  "Be the reason someone smiles today."  I post humorous things here and on Facebook so people will have something to smile about during this pandemic.  The motto is from an article about a school in Ireland.  The title of the article is inside these hands forming a heart.

People are loving this cute name for the COVID vaccination.  Here's an article about the Fauci Ouchie, and there are already memes.  One meme shows President Biden at his desk signing a document, supposedly this one:

"BREAKING:  President Biden signs an executive order renaming all corona-virus vaccines the Fauci Ouchie."

There's even a tee-shirt, so I guess that makes it official.  Would you wear this shirt?

Have you ever? – quiz

I saw this quiz today on Helen's Book Blog.  This sort of thing used to be passed along to friends in email back in the 1990s, but it's been a long time since I posted a meme on my blog.  Feel free to answer these on your own blog and/or in the comments.

Have you ever.....

• Fired a gun ― yes, I had a 22-rifle to shoot snakes on our woodsy acre when my children were growing up.
• Been married ― yes, and divorced.
• Fallen in love ― yes
• Gone on a blind date ― yes, it's how I met my husband whom I later divorced.
• Skipped school ― no
• Watched someone give birth ― only myself, though I had my eyes closed when my son was actually born.
• Watched someone die ― yes
• Been to Canada ― no

• Ridden in an ambulance ― yes, as the top photo attests.  The EMTs laughed at me, taking pictures after I broke my shoulder.  This photo shows the emergency room while I lay there waiting.  Hey, it took my mind off the pain!
• Been to Hawaii ― no
• Been to Europe ― no
• Been to Las Vegas ― no
• Been to Washington, D.C. ― yes
• Been to Nashville ― yes, to attend doctoral classes, to take a friend to doctor appointments there, to take our children to museums, etc.  We lived only a couple of hours away in Chattanooga.
• Visited Florida ― yes, first as a 7-year-old riding the train there with my Aunt Bonnie, but a number of times to visit my Aunt Lillian and her family.  Oh, yeah, also on my honeymoon.
• Visited Mexico ― no
• Flown in a helicopter ― no
• Partied so hard you puked ― no
• Been on a cruise ― no
• Served on a jury ― yes
• Been in a movie ― no
• Been to New York City ― yes, while visiting a Connecticut friend (by train to see the Vermeer exhibit at the art museum) and while working on my doctorate at Drew Theological School in New Jersey (by car and Staten Island Ferry to see 4th of July fireworks over the water with friends)
• Been to Los Angeles ― no
• Played in a band ― yes, while in junior high, high school, and college.
• Sung karaoke ― no
• Made prank phone calls ― no
• Had children ― yes, twin daugters and a son

• Had a pet ― yes, dogs and cats and fish and turtles and a hamster.  This photo shows Clawdia napping on a book I was reading recently.
• Been sledding on a big hill ― no
• Been water skiing ― no
• Ridden on a motorcycle ― no
• Traveled to all 50 states ― no, I've never been west of Kansas.
• Jumped out of a plane ― no
• Been to a drive-in movie ― yes, these were popular when I was growing up.
• Ridden an elephant ― no
• Ridden a horse ― yes, two or three times.
• Been on TV ― no
• Been in the newspaper ― yes, lots of times.
• Stayed in the hospital ― yes, when I had my children, when I had foot surgery, and when I had quadruple bypass surgery.
• Donated blood ― yes, and I was even called to come donate in the middle of the night once.
• Gotten a piercing ― no
• Gotten a tattoo ― no
• Driven a stick shift ― yes, it's how I learned to drive.  I even bought a new car when it was time for my children to learn to drive, so they could learn the basics on a stick shift.  That means we can drive just about anything.
• Driven over 100 MPH ― yes, just to see what it was like.  I was young and foolish.
• Been scuba diving ― no
• Ridden in the back of a police car ― no
• Gotten a speeding ticket ― yes, but I wasn't going 100 mph that time.

• Lived on your own ― yes, like right now, for example.  On the other hand, I live with about 300 people in this retirement center, many of whom I see every day.  The good part is being able to go to my own one-bedroom apartment whenever I want to be alone.  This photo shows the view from one of my windows.
• Broken a bone ― yes, my right shoulder, as you see from the ambulance ride (and ER visit) photos above.
• Gotten stitches ― yes
• Traveled alone ― yes, lots of times, for business and for pleasure.

Books to be read

Jennifer @ The Relentless Reader hopes some of us will do this "TBR Tag" meme (TBR means books "to be read") that came from Lori @ Palmer's Page Turners.  I decided immediately to do this because of Jennifer's excellent answer to the first question:  "What is this 'keep track' you speak of?"  It could also be my answer, since my unread books don't make a simple "pile," but encompass shelf after shelf after shelf.

1.  How do you keep track of your TBR pile?

I have a bookshelf dedicated to my library books, so I won't lose track of them.  Those are my immediate TBRs.  Other than that, I don't separate books I own into those I've read and those I haven't.  The majority of my books are nonfiction, so I want them where I can find them for reference.  Since I don't keep many novels after I've read them, they usually come from the library.  And their shelf is next to my bed, where I read before falling asleep.

2.  Is your TBR mostly print or eBook?

Mine is all print, since I don't have (or desire) an e-reader.

3.  How do you determine which book from your TBR to read next?

If a library book is due soon and cannot be renewed because others have it on hold, that's the one I choose.  Otherwise, it's simply a matter of what I'm in the mood to read.

4.  A book that’s been on your TBR list the longest?

No idea.

5.  A book you recently added to your TBR?

One I got last week is The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland, a 1995 novel set in the Dominican Republic and in France.  As you can see in the illustration at the top of this post, it's the first book in a trilogy.  If I enjoy it, I'll also read the other two.

6.  A book on your TBR strictly because of its beautiful cover.

"Strictly"?  Nope, I don't do that.  Some of my books have beautiful covers, but I got them because of the content, not the cover.  I'm not sure why I like this elegant design, but I consider this edition of Lao Tzu's classic book beautiful.  I did not, however, buy the book "strictly because of its beautiful cover."

7.  A book on your TBR that you never plan on reading.

Jennifer had another great response:  "I can't answer this.  My books are listening!"  I love it!  My answer is that I've been culling books.  If I don't plan to read it, I've given it away.

8.  An unpublished book on your TBR that you’re excited for.

I have mostly quit taking books for review and have never done a "tour" of books.  I read what I choose, when I choose, and because I'm in the mood to read it.  Retirement allows me to do that.

9.  A book on your TBR that basically everyone has read but you.

I don't choose books by how many other people like it.

10.  A book on your TBR that everyone recommends to you.

Same answer, though friends occasionally say they liked this or that book they notice on my bookshelf.

11.  A book on your TBR that you’re dying to read.

If I'm dying to read it, then I'm reading it.

12.  How many books are on your Goodreads TBR shelf?

I'm not on Goodreads, but I've been collecting books all my life (almost 75 years old) and have NEVER counted my unread books.

NOTE:  I won't tag anyone in particular, but let me know if you answer these questions on your blog.

Monday Memories ~ answering five questions

In 2007, I answered five questions put to me by Wanderlust Scarlett @ From the shores of Introspect and Retrospect.  Memes were much more popular then.  I answered on one of my other blogs, so this isn't really a repeat here.  And I've updated parts of my answers.




1.  You live in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  How did you wind up there, and what's it like to live there?  Do you enjoy it?

 

Chattanooga is a beautiful city, as you can see in these photos.  I love this city!  How did I wind up here?  My parents and grandparents all lived here, so it's where I was born.  I lived in Atlanta for three years and for a couple of years in and near Knoxville, Tennessee; however, the mountains cradling Chattanooga always drew me home.  It also helps that my three married children, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren are here.  They all live in the same part of town, within minutes of each other.

2. What encouraged you to start "Weekend Wordsmith" (which is a fascinating idea and project), and what do you like best about it?

A great variety of prompts for writers can be found all over the blogosphere, but usually they are limited to words.  I'm a visual person, so I offer both words and pictures.  I recently revised the blog, so check out what prompt we weekend wordsmiths have this week (and consider becoming one of us).  I like seeing how many directions a word or two can take us.

3. You owned a bookstore... (curiouser and curiouser!).  How did that happen, what did you love/hate about it, would you do it again?

My best friend Donna and I both love books.  After my retirement and after a couple of years of learning the bookstore business by working for other bookstores, we decided to take a leap of faith and start a used book store.  We were ready to buy, sell, and trade when we signed the lease on a quaint brick building at an intersection where two main roads meet.  Then my mother died and her funeral was the same week we opened.  We did manage to get books on most of the shelves before opening day, but it was not an auspicious beginning.  We discovered that traffic on those busy roads zipped by without noticing we had a big parking lot behind our building.  So we started book clubs, tried advertising in print and on the radio, and struggled to pay the bills.  But I loved it!   I absolutely loved helping customers find the right book, tracking down out-of-print books, bringing in local writers for book signings.

Then less than a year into our 5-year lease, the floor started sinking and 9-1-1 sent fire and police, who evacuated the building and wrapped it in yellow tape.  We couldn't go back inside!  Long story short:  we found another location, moved a store-full of books, lost the money we had spent on signage on the building and at the street, paid movers and packers, had to sign new contracts for phones and utilities, and watched our customers melt away because we "disappeared" from their radar.  The new place was less visible, had less space, was not as cozy (which changed the atmosphete) ... and by that time we couldn't afford the kind of lighted signs required by the landlord.  It didn't stand a chance and closed after a few months in that location.  Do it again?  Nah, I don't think so, especially not after I developed back problems from lifting all those heavy boxes of books.  But it was fun while it lasted.

4. Your fortune cookie says "You will pay for your sins, if you've already paid, please disregard this message."  What was your favorite sin (PG-13), and what are some that you thought about but didn't follow through with?

My favorite sin? Hmmm, must be my book addiction, always buying or borrowing or lusting after one more book, or six, or ten. Some sin I thought about but didn't do?  Oh, I think I've managed to do all I thought about, including that BIGGIE:  indulging in a bookstore binge!

5. You took a mini vacation under my hidden palm tree.  Where would you go with a blank ticket in hand?  Why?

It seems foreordained that "wanderlust" Scarlett would ask me a traveling question!  Her beautiful photo of a single palm tree by an ocean beach looked something like this one I found online.  I'd probably go around the world, visiting the settings included in the book I am writing, Around the World in 80 Books, which covers both fiction and nonfiction accounts of people living in the widest possible variety of places I can find in print.  Though my intended audience is book clubs and individuals who have no one to discuss a book with, I can imagine travelers using my book before going on trips.

Good questions, Scarlett! I had fun, though my answers were probably longer than you had anticipated. Thanks.

Here are the rules of the game, in case anyone else wants to play:

1.  Leave me a comment saying "Interview me."
2.  I will respond by emailing you five questions.  I get to pick the questions.
3.  You will update your blog with the answers to the questions.
4.  You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5.  When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

I have one taker, do I have two?

Helen @ Helen's Book Blog has answered five questions.

BTT (#19) ~ book blogs

Booking Through Thursday has a guest questioner, so it is Yvonne who asks:

What do you look for when reading a book blog?

Does the blogger have to read the same genre?

Do you like reviews?  Personal posts?  Memes?  Giveaways?

What attracts you to a book blog?

When I first started blogging, I couldn't see the point in doing memes.  Gradually, I realized it brought people to my blog, even if only the five or six people I was supposed to "tag" to do the meme with me.  When memes are related to books in some way, I'm more likely to read them, but I have always disliked long memes with no connection to books or reading.  I remember being especially annoyed by a long meme that started by asking about eating and drinking.  My testy answer:

"Food, and now drink?  When do we get to the books?  That's what reading is all about.  I drink when I get thirsty, not because I'm reading."

Bloggers differ widely in what we call reviews.  Dewey had a list of questions that helped me jump-start my thinking, and I came up with additional questions, based on whether the book was fiction, nonfiction, or memoir, for example.  Eventually, my "reviews" became more like stories showing how I connected with a book — or not, as the case may be.

If a blogger sticks solely to reviews, with every post paraded out in identical shape and format, I lose interest.  I think we became a book blogging community because we got to know each other.  And that means telling something about our lives as well as the books we've read.

Genre — okay.  If someone reads all the same kinds of books and those are books I rarely or never read, there really isn't much point in checking out their reviews.  Romance novels don't interest me, whereas you may find it boring to read about history or religion or culture.  The "curse" of reading book blogs is adding to our own growing TBR stacks.  I visit blogs where I'm likely to find titles I want to read.

Giveaways?  Sure, I'll enter your contest if the book looks good to me, but that isn't the primary reason I dropped by.  I'm there because, as with friends in real life, you are someone whose interests and opinions matter to me.

Celebrating our elderly relatives

1.  What's your favorite holiday song?

"Silver Bells"

City sidewalks, busy sidewalks
Dressed in holiday style
In the air there's a feeling of Christmas
Children laughing, people passing
Meeting smile after smile
And on every street corner you'll hear

Silver bells, silver bells
It's Christmas time in the city
Ring-a-ling, hear them ring
Soon it will be Christmas day

2.  What's your favorite holiday tradition?

Whichever child had learned during the year about the Santa tradition got to fill stockings that year.  We did it when I was a child, when my children were growing up, and once more — when my "baby" brother, who had no younger siblings, spent Christmas eve at my house and filled the stockings for our three children.  I'll tell you "the rest of the story" on Christmas Eve.  Mark your calendar to return to my blog for that special story.

3.  If you could travel one place with an elderly family member where would you go?

My first thought was to "go back in time," because I'd like to be with the ones who were my elders.  Just yesterday I realized that, as the oldest child, I am now the oldest member of my birth family.  Our parents and their generation are all gone.  The "elderly family members" in my family are all younger than I am.  Okay, I'll pick one of them — my mother's mother, Inez, who died when I was only three.  Yes, I do remember her, but only as a sick person whose bedside table was filled with pill bottles.  I'd go with her to our old family home in Chattanooga.

4.  What questions would you ask?

I would ask my Grandmother Inez to  "tell me what it was like when you were growing up."  Her mother died when she was six, but I want to know about life in the 1880s.  I would ask her to tell me about the flowers she planted at the house where my mother — and I myself — grew up.  She planned those flowers to bloom almost year round.  I especially remember the sweet smell of hyacinths near my sandbox in the backyard and the rock garden near the corner of the house.

5.  What is a non-tangible gift have you received from an elderly relative?

Although Grandmother Inez died when I was very little, she left me a gift that came through my mother — by way of a story.  One day my mother, then about twelve, was helping serve refreshments to the ladies of the church, meeting at their house.  The women started complaining about the new preacher, and my grandmother clapped her hands loudly (greatly embarrassing my mother) and said something like, "Now ladies, we're going to have him for a year, so we might as well get used to it."  (Methodist ministers are appointed for a year at a time.)  The women began finding good things to say about him.  Mother and I both learned from her mother that one person can make a difference.

6.  What is the best/worst/strangest gift you've received from an elderly relative?

My other grandmother, Gladys, gave me a Bible when I was four.  In the notes at the back, she X'd out one section about the coming of the Kingdom of God.  She believed the church (her church) was the kingdom.

NOTE:  This is a meme dreamed up by Tricia Goyer, to advertise her latest book:  Remembering You.  It's a story about a girl and her grandpa, so she wants "to give a shout-out to our elderly relatives this holiday."  Hmm, I am one of the elderly relatives.  I tag all of you to answer these questions and add your name to the linky on Tricia Goyer's blog.  You'll have a chance to win one of the ten 4-book prize packs on December 22.  You can have the four books sent to yourself or to a friend.

Bonnie's request:  If you do this meme, please come back and tell me so I can come read your answers.

Reading Roots

Carina of Reading Through Life interviews book bloggers about their reading roots.  This week, it was Reading Roots: Christina from Chrisbookarama, whose blog I read regularly.  Carina asks them about the early influences and experiences that formed them into readers.  How would you answer her questions?

1.  What is your earliest memory involving books or reading? How were books, reading, and literacy approached in your childhood home? Were your parents or other family members readers?

My dad was an artist, and my mother was a poet.  They met when she was a hall monitor in high school and he left his art class to go wash his hands before the next class.  Both of them read to me until I could read for myself.  And they were expressive readers who put a lot of life into how the characters would speak.  My parents told me I would learn to read when I went to school, so I was extremely excited on my first day of first grade (no kindergarten for me back in 1945).  However,  I came home from that first day of school very disappointed that my teacher didn't teach me how to read after all.

2.  Did you enjoy language arts/English classes as a kid, or were you more of a reluctant reader? When did you first consider yourself a reader?

I was never reluctant about reading.  One day my mother saw me reading to my baby brother when we were both preschoolers.  She soon realized I wasn't exactly reading, but had memorized the whole book.  Is that a reader, or not?  I was about six when I wrote the earliest "poem" I still have — I wrote it for my daddy. (Was I trying to be a poet like my mother?) I continued to write and even joined the writer's club in high school.  My English teacher liked one of my stories, written for an assignment, and had me read it at a meeting of English teachers. Even though everything I've published has been nonfiction, I've considered writing a novel.  My friend Donna got me a tee-shirt with this across the front:

3.  Did you have any interesting reading habits when you were growing up? Do you still have them now?

Habits?  I was in the habit of reading everything, even the backs of cereal boxes.  Books have always been like friends, and I can't imagine not taking care of them.  I never, ever dog-ear a page.  I underlined and wrote in the margins of college and graduate school textbooks, and I do that still when I'm teaching from a book — simply because it's easier to use that way.  On the other hand, if I don't plan to keep and re-read a book, I keep it unmarked and in good shape so I can exchange it at a used-book store for some other book I want to read.

I'm not rich enough to buy all the books I read, so visiting the library is a lifelong habit.  Starting in my elementary school years, I'd wait every Thursday for the bookmobile to arrive in our neighborhood.  I'd be among the first in line so I could find and check out the three-book limit; then I'd rush home, read one of the books in less than two hours, and rush back to the bookmobile to exchange it for another, my FOURTH library book of the week.

I habitually read several books at a time, usually two or three or four nonfiction books that require thinking on a deeper level and taking notes — I should probably call it studying, which I do for my own edification or in order to teach a class — but I usually read only one novel at a time.  Unless books of fiction have greatly different stories, it's too easy to confuse them when read simultaneously, and I'd rather be immersed in only one.

Even so, I continue to read a lot.  So far this year, I've completed 93 books, averaging 21 books a month.

4.  Where was your favourite spot to read as a kid? Are there any books you distinctly remember from your childhood? Why?

Someone snapped a photo of me in my early teens, sprawled on the sofa reading, with my legs over the back of the sofa, my feet up the wall, and my hair hanging off the edge of the sofa.

As for the actual books, at a very young age, I loved Epaminondas, who was even more literal in his understanding of the language than I was, and Little Black Sambo, who was such a smart little boy that he convinced wild tigers they would really rather wear his bright clothing than eat him.

From my elementary school years, I distinctly remember a series of biographies about famous people, including Abe Lincoln: Pioneer Boy and John Paul Jones: Naval Hero, which made me want to grow up to be a sailor climbing a ship's rigging.  In the sixth grade, I fell in love with the book Little Women when I was chosen for the part of Marmee in our class's two-hour play, performed in period costumes (the girl who played "my" oldest daughter Meg is still a close friend, and we're now 71).

5.  How have your reading tastes developed from childhood until now? What were the phases that you went through along the way?

I read books I found on the shelves at home, both as a child and when I was first married — when the only books we had were college texts, mine and my husband's.  He was studying engineering, so I once read and studied a third of the way through his trigonometry textbook in two days.  (Honestly, I read anything!)  Since I am curious about everything, numbers as well as words, I have gobbled up books like cookies my whole life — books about people, places, things, ideas, and anything I'm curious about.  I read fiction mostly for the ideas.

I keep broadening my interests, then reining myself in to focus long enough to get another degree.  I've been known to tell people I had to hurry and graduate so I could to pursue a line of inquiry about something that I never had time to do while studying what the professors gave tests on.  When I became an adjunct professor, I could read as widely as I liked — and assign some of those really good books to my students.

6.  If you have children, how did you encourage them (or how are you encouraging them) to become readers? If you do not have children of your own, what do you think is the most important thing to focus on in order to promote reading in the coming generations?

Not only did I read to my three children, I took them to the library twice a week.  As soon as they were able to write their own names, they got their own library cards.  The children's books were on the lowest level, and my kids would browse until they found the limit they were allowed to check out, then come find me.  They knew where in the stacks upstairs I could be found — in the 100s and 200s of the Dewey decimal system — as I was teaching myself philosophy and religion, even before I went back to college and got my first degree in (what else?) philosophy and religion, with English thrown in as a second major.

As I wrote recently about age-appropriate books, my children were allowed to read anything that interested them. I regularly bought them books, like at school book fairs.  Once while we were on vacation, I took them shopping in an unfamiliar mall and they started trying to distract me by pointing to things over to the left.  Suspicious, I looked to the right — and saw a bookstore.  They didn't want to spend their whole vacation in a bookstore, but I bribed them ... uh, I mean I persuaded them ... by promising to buy a book for each of them, in exchange for fifteen minutes in that store.

When a new library was opened near our home, my son happened by on his bicycle and came home to tell me, "Mom, you have more books than the library." It was true. I went to check on the veracity of his report and could see the library had a long way to go to be very useful to my family.

For the record, they are all still readers.  And so are all my grandchildren, except one who prefers to spend her time drawing.  Could that relate back to my father, the artist?

Four things ~ a meme

I haven't done a meme like this lately, so here's one for ya!

Four jobs I have had in my life:

1. file clerk ~ making 75-cents an hour, back in 1954, when I was in junior high school and working part-time

2. stuffer ~ I helped work my way through college by stuffing comics and advertising flyers into the local Sunday newspaper

3. freelance writer ~ one who, as Robert Benchley said, "is paid per piece or per word or perhaps"

4. editor ~ of two in-house publications, where I took all of the photos we published and wrote nearly all of the articles

Four books I read over and over:

1. Tao te Ching ~ by Lao Tzu ~ translated by Stephen Mitchell

2. Herland ~ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

3. Genesis, the first book of the Bible ~ Stephen Mitchell's translation is among the best

4. Time and Again ~ by Jack Finney

Four places I have lived:

Kiki

1. in an apartment with a lovable gray cat named Duchess

2. in a house with a gray and white Persian cat named Jack

3. in a house with a gray and white Manx cat named Hobbit

4. in an apartment with a tabby-point Siamese cat named Kiki

Four books I recommend:

1. Remarkable Creatures ~ Tracy Chevalier, 2010, fiction, 9/10

2. The Secret Life of Bees ~ by Sue Monk Kidd, 2002, fiction, 10/10

3. Miss Rumphius ~ by Barbara Cooney, 1982, children's fiction, 10/10

4. The Gnostic Gospels ~ by Elaine Pagels, 1979, religion, 10/10

Four places I have been:

1. in hot water
2. in love
3. indisposed
4. in the know

Four of my favorite foods:

1. fried okra, like my mother used to make

2. Greek salad

3. little green olives

4. grilled salmon with lime juice, and maybe asparagus and a baked potato (now I'm hungry)

Four of my favorite drinks:

1. a tall glass of iced tea
2. cuppa hot tea
3. peach tea
4. green tea ... these all fit me to a "tea"

Four places I would rather be right now:

1. chatting with you over tea

2. stretched out on the sofa or my bed, reading a book

3. writing about books I've read

4. at a book-signing, with my adoring readers lined up across the lobby waiting for me to sign my bestselling book (well, nobody said it had to be likely!)

Four things that are very special in my life:

Bonnie and Cady

1. three children, seven grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren (in other words, my family)

2. good books

3. my best friend

4. my cat who loves me

Four bloggers I hope will do this meme:

Sheila

1. Sheila of Book Journey

2. Helen of Helen's Book Blog

3. Beth of Blue Ridge Blue Collar Girl

4. Laurel-Rain of Accidental Moments

Addendum:
The memes come in!

Helen wrote Four Things--A Meme
Laurel-Rain wrote Four Things Meme--April 19
Sheila wrote Morning Meanderings…. Well Everyone Else Is Doing It….

Book cover meme

Instructions for this meme:   Go to the advanced book search on Amazon, type your first name into the Title field, and post the most interesting or amusing cover that shows up.



My favorites were three books by Julie Andrews Edwards (yes, the one of Mary Poppins fame):

1. Little Bo: The Story of Bonnie Boadicea
2. Little Bo in France: The Further Adventures of Bonnie Boadicea
3. Little Bo in Italy: The Continuing Adventures of Bonnie Boadicea, which was published this month.

I like cats and Bo, short for Bonnie, is okay.  I'll take the set. It's better than books about Bonnie Raitt or Bonnie and Clyde.

Dewey posted this meme back in September 2007.  Her search turned up mostly books by or about John Dewey, but she liked this one best: What Would Dewey Do?