Maine...I am thinking of you...

I know we are in the midst of winter but...I am yearning for Maine...so many fun memories...and the best part of going to Maine over and over and over again...is that LucyGrace comes all of the time...she has stayed in our houses and hotels and the last time...an amazing inn where she even had her own babysitter...or should I say kittysitter...there were even toys waiting for her in our room.  She does not love her new kitty backpack...that is a certainty...but she seemed to love getting up close with chickens and pigs at our favorite restaurant in Maine...Primo's!!!   And she loves staying at The Porches in the Berkshires on our way home...our amazing room comes with pet bowls...just in case you forget!!!

The Immortal Series by Alyson Noel

Hmm...I am totally compulsively hooked on these...the  first one was lovely...and now that I am into Blue Moon...I am again totally absorbed...I am totally amazed by readers who can just dive into more than one book at a time...I have to immerse myself in each book and I do truly feel as though I am cheating myself if I don't give each book my total attention...I love this book trailer that I accidentally found on YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrZ7IsA79ck

Another Snowed In Weekend...Sort of...

This was sort of a quiet laid back week end...we were too coughy to go to dinner yesterday...so we cancelled until next week.  We were to sick to do more than lie around and read and watch the Olympics...

We really truly wanted to be more snowed in than we were...we managed to shovel about 3 feet of snow off of one deck and then were too exhausted to do the other deck and no one can get near our front door...I wonder how creative UPS will be with some packages I am expecting...I finished...sadly...Betrayals by Lili St. Crow and fell in love with her blog.  I didn't expect to love love love  my next book...Evermore by Alyson Noel but I am deeply totally into  it...already Damen has taken on the allure of Edward...I will, of course, have to read all four books in a row...because that is what I do.   I found out this morning that my parent's house is now sold...so that was sad...it has been in our family for a very long time...and now it will not...just one more sad sorrowful thing to get used to when your mom and dad die...Today is a quiet peaceful day...more snow is expected...I am ensconced in Evermore...and there is not a need to cook dinner this evening...I am a bit concerned about my total absorption with fantasy but...not that concerned...

Happy Valentine's Day, Mom and Dad...

It has not been a year since my mom and dad died...and one of my new coping habits is to write letters to them...nothing organized...just every once in a while when I want to tell them something.  I also make a mental note of what holidays they both have missed.   They missed the Fourth Of July, and they missed Halloween...my mom loved and hated Halloween because in the town where my parents lived and where I grew up...Halloween was celebrated on the Saturday before the real Halloween...my mom would sit outside on the front porch and arm herself with bags of candy...and chat with the neighbors and munch on chocolates...they missed Thanksgiving and they missed Christmas and New Year's Day...and Eve...and now they are missing Valentine's Day...I hope they have chocolate covered almonds in heaven for my mom and  for my dad.

I just finished Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

I literally raced through this book...I loved every spine chilling tremor causing word but I could not put it down.  I began reading on Super Bowl Sunday just after I finished reading the New York Times...I finally put it down just when New Orleans officially won.  It was so delicious.   I have just begun reading her next book...Betrayals...I have this innate compulsion to read every book in a series before being able to go on to a new book.   I think it is quite possible to read faster on a Kindle...there is no time wasted turning pages or going back to reread...you just press next page and off you go...I will let everyone know how Betrayals was in a day or so...and...to be truthful...I have successfully avoided all things ZOMBIE...in my life...and now...I kind of have an interest in them along with Werwufen and all kinds of other creepy creatures of the night...read these books...they are good...really good...