tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41142915704560555602024-02-20T08:43:30.475-08:00Signy's Reads for the SummerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114291570456055560.post-32119696724535766622009-09-03T12:23:00.001-07:002009-09-03T12:23:48.443-07:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114291570456055560.post-38192614596436681742008-08-04T12:42:00.000-07:002008-08-04T12:48:11.152-07:00Wrapping UpIt is hard<strong> </strong>to believe that summer is practically over. I still want to know how we lost the month of August to school!<br />Anyway, I finished 'North Toward Home' and ended up really liking it once he got out of Mississippi. I just prefer more stories - even if it is autobiographical.<br />I have not been faithful to my blogging and for that I am sorry. I guess I never read a book this summer that I was passionate about!<br />I just finished 'Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead' by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The amount of time she spent writing was incredible! But then I realize she never had to cook, clean, do the yard work, walk the dog, laundry, etc. I am sure she would have been an excellent blogger! It was very interesting.<br />Now I am going to look at what my fellow bloggers have been reading and select a book from one of them!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114291570456055560.post-6096383729454903752008-06-18T11:56:00.000-07:002008-11-13T15:03:57.324-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzGPvxML7i0El0PLsD84jwtRD0TskjviItth26ih5KHsl0PvIJ54S1k6dtCD1wreChdcd-JhFx0FaO7Ce-n2HrF5nRdF8EfW7P-dbh5ItawTPBdU71hSaEbF83OqoRw_xmZQhiC1ME4G-/s1600-h/womanreading.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213298989751134770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzGPvxML7i0El0PLsD84jwtRD0TskjviItth26ih5KHsl0PvIJ54S1k6dtCD1wreChdcd-JhFx0FaO7Ce-n2HrF5nRdF8EfW7P-dbh5ItawTPBdU71hSaEbF83OqoRw_xmZQhiC1ME4G-/s320/womanreading.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCKkk1_d6qt2YVgu8VHkFDeqoO4__vhQCdAaAOFVwZAzuzIiJ9IwgyBrajMHF9WpBW8H4zeIj30m1o5kcbcbBE9zDhJMfBkA9p9oc7b5eEbJNlt0KC4grarM5k0jju2_aJG9n9sHLJ9zNI/s1600-h/womanreading.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt20uxpMeKwk5w-BR4VBB-72eIPxbp18L5fTW6RklKq1YKja6SHEM4OOQeFl4H7MgLz4X9-DMhLF9W3LTqCBX91-imbHyYdRYx1LnT2neb2xMQNS4DcH9DTiudI8SszT5y-lMo_Rx8aR5P/s1600-h/north.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213297822181384562" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt20uxpMeKwk5w-BR4VBB-72eIPxbp18L5fTW6RklKq1YKja6SHEM4OOQeFl4H7MgLz4X9-DMhLF9W3LTqCBX91-imbHyYdRYx1LnT2neb2xMQNS4DcH9DTiudI8SszT5y-lMo_Rx8aR5P/s320/north.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><br /><div>This is the book I am reading now: <u>North Toward Home</u> by Willie Morris. I am enjoying reading it but for some reason I cannot sink my teeth into it. I think it is just me and not the book, however. Usually we go to the beach in the summer and I "save" books to read while lounging on the beach. This summer we do not have a beach trip planned and so I keep putting off reading...I am going to have to just pick my book up, relax and read at home! Ah, a novel idea!!</div><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div></div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div><div> </div><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCKkk1_d6qt2YVgu8VHkFDeqoO4__vhQCdAaAOFVwZAzuzIiJ9IwgyBrajMHF9WpBW8H4zeIj30m1o5kcbcbBE9zDhJMfBkA9p9oc7b5eEbJNlt0KC4grarM5k0jju2_aJG9n9sHLJ9zNI/s1600-h/womanreading.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCKkk1_d6qt2YVgu8VHkFDeqoO4__vhQCdAaAOFVwZAzuzIiJ9IwgyBrajMHF9WpBW8H4zeIj30m1o5kcbcbBE9zDhJMfBkA9p9oc7b5eEbJNlt0KC4grarM5k0jju2_aJG9n9sHLJ9zNI/s1600-h/womanreading.jpg"></a><br /></div><br /><div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114291570456055560.post-6595735494491189352008-05-23T06:44:00.000-07:002008-11-13T15:03:57.568-08:00Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXjblzI1PBY0ItLFLSqD_XwMA8MAwK8FyyeUkEx8pyvTTWYf-6mbcpIDnIeyyBXPV9jp_jR33AVu7zYV7fSQGGgim677shObs7-igmDUVgQ0gO6x5Fd2teX53Pb4J88wdnv34yZr3Ao21S/s1600-h/eudora.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203570094807616642" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXjblzI1PBY0ItLFLSqD_XwMA8MAwK8FyyeUkEx8pyvTTWYf-6mbcpIDnIeyyBXPV9jp_jR33AVu7zYV7fSQGGgim677shObs7-igmDUVgQ0gO6x5Fd2teX53Pb4J88wdnv34yZr3Ao21S/s320/eudora.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I really took a wide turn from <strong>All Over but the Shoutin'</strong> when I chose my second book: <strong>Delta Wedding</strong> by Eudora Welty. I suppose they are about as opposite as two stories could be! Where <strong>All Over </strong>is all about poverty and a family who literally scratched the dirt for survival, <strong>Delta</strong> is about a family that is so spoiled and seems to have nothing much going on. The entire book is about a daughter's wedding and covers just a few days. As much as I like Eudora Welty and admire some of her work and photographs, I found the book a little lacking. The book is set in the 1920's but the people act as if it were the 1850's. I prefer a better story and I am going to go to Maggie's list and choose another. I have never read William Percy so I am thinking about that. I definitely want to read the two sequels to <strong>All Over</strong> but I am not going to count those towards this reading program. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114291570456055560.post-26782242161760995812008-05-20T11:22:00.000-07:002008-11-13T15:03:57.755-08:00Blog Braggin' with Rick Bragg<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkn8GgECsMpbcOK5laVmuPzwXPByD8hcmnyKCJ5XAGkpzRfV4P0vAXAPw_jUde5m1r4L_wkVxxbNQUYhPVpXA2lvGbdYA50RN8C7HulpcKl9ZCB6ConQ73etqKiQE4t8hmsg6i1lXhNgxM/s1600-h/Bragg.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5202527471682811314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkn8GgECsMpbcOK5laVmuPzwXPByD8hcmnyKCJ5XAGkpzRfV4P0vAXAPw_jUde5m1r4L_wkVxxbNQUYhPVpXA2lvGbdYA50RN8C7HulpcKl9ZCB6ConQ73etqKiQE4t8hmsg6i1lXhNgxM/s320/Bragg.JPG" border="0" /></a> How is this for luck? The author of my first book, Rick Bragg, came to Oxford last week to Off Square Books and I asked him if I could take a picture with him for my blog! It was so neat to get to meet him. He was in town promoting his third book, <strong>The Prince of Frogtown. </strong>He read an excerpt from it and answered questions and spoke a while. It was interesting to me because I liked his book <strong>All over but the Shoutin' </strong>but I am not sure I really like <em>him</em>. He is very honest and open about his childhood spent in poverty and that he still has a chip on his shoulder. He does not like rich people - in fact in Oxford he said, "I still hate rich people." I figured he probably had more money than anyone in the room! I did not like the way he treated women. (Although now he has remarried.) But what I did like is his stark honesty. I liked the way he has used his understanding of poverty to help other poor people and get their story out. I like that he never has tried to be someone he is not and has no patience for people who think too highly of themselves! All in all I think this is a book I would recommend. I plan to read his next two but not as a part of my three books. <em><span style="color:#cc0000;">Lettura felice!</span></em>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114291570456055560.post-70287851361421712652008-05-06T11:22:00.000-07:002008-11-13T15:03:57.902-08:00Why I Love to Read!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-7QuJMy5BRQP9BvXCSiMXdgjJd5Jm9ZzWSNEYd4sX4vuPixRA5p4EpvPYC864iEJ5i717aIQzLBj4Kxe_qQ_3aCUFaTJeH9a8WyDeoZSbDywhUKEF0sTLeIB0-zdEP8RTDBLBnKpFqW1Q/s1600-h/WORK+229.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5197332218603616786" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-7QuJMy5BRQP9BvXCSiMXdgjJd5Jm9ZzWSNEYd4sX4vuPixRA5p4EpvPYC864iEJ5i717aIQzLBj4Kxe_qQ_3aCUFaTJeH9a8WyDeoZSbDywhUKEF0sTLeIB0-zdEP8RTDBLBnKpFqW1Q/s320/WORK+229.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><p>I called my mom last night and we discussed my reading and my blogging. I can't wait to go visit her and help her set up a blog! I have thought a lot about her lately because if you were to ask me why I love to read, I would say to you that you must know my mother! Here she is with the 3rd generation of her children to sit and cuddle and read. </p><p><i><br />"You may have tangible wealth untold. / Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. / Richer than I you can never be – / I had a mother who read to me."<br />— Strickland Gillilan </i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114291570456055560.post-28445805673286561842008-05-05T06:55:00.000-07:002008-11-13T15:03:58.162-08:00My first book to review...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJOit9rbwvxA24LU8gU_ewJ94CgAjYDM-nGXk6J-wxj3_ysSTb4envyqNNFTCW5CUkd7vg-xF68M3XDUd3OejiWUXr5fvdJSe8U3WVJZJ3TP20yDaHmQ0lA9sJrsZLfiKk3YZ5pKqjjHh/s1600-h/All+Over.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196892474082048386" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJOit9rbwvxA24LU8gU_ewJ94CgAjYDM-nGXk6J-wxj3_ysSTb4envyqNNFTCW5CUkd7vg-xF68M3XDUd3OejiWUXr5fvdJSe8U3WVJZJ3TP20yDaHmQ0lA9sJrsZLfiKk3YZ5pKqjjHh/s320/All+Over.gif" border="0" /></a><br />The best part about signing up for this summer reading/blogging project is getting around to reading books I have been meaning to read for some time! I have heard about Rick Bragg from my mother and she suggested it would be a good book for me and so I decided to read his first book All Over but the Shoutin'. It is a perfect summer read and the preface gripped me. Rick Bragg and I are the same age and yet I can tell you his upbringing and his view of his Alabama are COMPLETELY different from my own which makes the book so fascinating! With this beautiful weather I hope to be able to sit out on my patio and read a few pages before the sun fades and the mosquitoes fly! I hope my fellow bloggers are enjoying their books and many thanks to Maggie for doing this!<br /><br /><p></p><p></p><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRJOit9rbwvxA24LU8gU_ewJ94CgAjYDM-nGXk6J-wxj3_ysSTb4envyqNNFTCW5CUkd7vg-xF68M3XDUd3OejiWUXr5fvdJSe8U3WVJZJ3TP20yDaHmQ0lA9sJrsZLfiKk3YZ5pKqjjHh/s1600-h/All+Over.gif"></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4114291570456055560.post-89478519454477624532008-05-01T12:57:00.000-07:002008-11-13T15:03:58.340-08:00Getting Started!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9EnvTDHkBEvC2cVmvHOLXw9f-PcM95AIAxoc0Kk3ifsbQ8EU3y8iEFSDimQkcNJQ7ayGgc2lKkUHw6cYt4VZhc3QwH9QXVdfJyphqtrXwlfCka_PgzO9E20DuNniY0cRb5Zl7LKg6jaAM/s1600-h/cottonboll.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195512153197492594" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="242" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9EnvTDHkBEvC2cVmvHOLXw9f-PcM95AIAxoc0Kk3ifsbQ8EU3y8iEFSDimQkcNJQ7ayGgc2lKkUHw6cYt4VZhc3QwH9QXVdfJyphqtrXwlfCka_PgzO9E20DuNniY0cRb5Zl7LKg6jaAM/s320/cottonboll.jpg" width="227" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfo8CEWWmTrI7BcXjZNIOWqGf7lo6QY9BHCV0Q6_WO8UK0PdOAkk2kzRvs1cwaQEoejn7sgDWUWLuRW89DS_EVNbc-ejUWOAnJjRA01q7jiGvhUI7Ejb4AhJc2XZ5sNKh_s7TblUfBA_QI/s1600-h/Water+lilies.jpg"></a><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family:verdana;">I am trying to write my first blog as my upcoming summer project! I am off to a slow start but hopefully will pick up!!</span></div><br /><br /><div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3