Meet Me On Monday - June 13, 2011

Questions:

1.  What is your favorite yogurt flavor?
2.  Ankle or knee socks? and on the same theme, white socks or coloured??
3.  How is the weather right now?
4.  Are you a fast typer?
5.  Red or White Wine?

 

1.
 I would have to say Cherry or Strawberry depending on my mood. 

2. 

Ankle socks and usually white.  Just because I am cheap

3. 

Cloudy.  The Sun keeps coming in and out and it a little humid.

4.

Yes.  I use to play a game on one of the first computers that was a typing game I loved it.  So I learned to type fast pretty early.

5. 

White wine .  My favorite are made from concord grapes usually called Niagara's 

TGIF - YA Too Dark

Who's ready for the weekend?!  I know I am!  I'm introducing a new feature for Fridays to re-cap the week's posts & to propose a question for my followers.  Feel free to get involved by linking up at the bottom. If not, I'd love to read your responses in the comments. Thanks!

This Friday's Question:

YA Saves: How do you feel about the "dark" books 

filling the YA shelves today?

 I am going to share with you an answer author David Michael Slater posted on Facebook that actually comes from screen play of LOTR

"Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for."

This to me really says it all.   Now if you have a child you are Guiding let say she/he is spooked real easy and can't for the life of them watch/read a scary book without sleeping in bed with you for week, then by all means guide them away from the dark until they are ready to deal with the dark on there own but there is always going to be darkness so prepare them for it too.

Show Me 5 Saturday

This event starts at That's a Novel Idea


1 Book you read and/or reviewed this week
2 Words that describe the book
3 Settings where it took place or characters you met
4 Things you liked and/or disliked about it
5 Stars or less for your rating?



1. The Sneakiest Pirates by Dalton James
2. Great Imagination
3.There was Peg Leg Chuck on his boat, Then Pirate Pete and Scurvy James chasing Chuck to land where he laid his treasure.
4. I like the imagination that was put into the story. I loved that this was written by a 7 year old. The drawing also cute where done by the author, and Glad to know that Pete and James go on other adventures.
5.

6 Weird Things About Me

Trish over at Hey Lady, Whatcha Reading tagged me for the six quirky things about me meme.

Ze rules are:
1. Link to the person who tagged you
2. Post the rules on your blog
3. Write 6 random things/unspectacular quirks about yourself
4. Tag 6 people at the end of your post and link to them
5. Let each person you have tagged know by leaving a comment on their blog
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is posted.


Okay, so six quirky things…
1. I like to dip those cheap cream cookies from the grocery store into peanut butter and eat them.
2. NyQuil makes me hyper not sleepy.
3. I am not really into jewelry. I do have jewelry but I don't treat if very nice. :-/
4. I love dragon, faeries and anything purple.
5. I sometimes like soda warm and without it's fizz.
6. I would never get a belly button ring because I hate for my belly button to be touched even by myself. *squirm*

What’s quirky about you?

I tag anyone who reads this and has not done this meme. Just post in comments if you do because I am nosy. Is that a quirky thing too?

I have been tagged-----to write about blogging!

gautami tripathy of Reading Room tagged me for this:

Here are the rules:
1. Write about 5 specific ways blogging has affected you, either positively or negatively.
2. link back to the person who tagged you (and leave a comment on his/her blog after you do the tag)
3. link back to this parent post
4. tag a few friends or five, or none at all (and inform them about it)
5. post these rules— or just have fun breaking them

Okay Wow five things!

1).Maybe I should start with why I started blogging. I started as kinda of way of therapy from my depression. I got tired of making arts and craft things because I wasn't feeling anything good while doing them. I have always been obsessed with books and I was told maybe writing about them would be a good way to get that "Yay me" feeling of accomplishment when I finished a book. So I also thought there might be people out there who would like to hear about some of the books I have read.

2). I just started blogging on books maybe a few months and it is the first thing in a long time that I have done constantly, everyday (except maybe three days) and that makes me feel good because I always feel like I start something and never keep with it. And so far *knock on wood* I think I have done I think a pretty good job. :-D

3). I have learned that blogging on other blogs is hard work because you want to give that happy feeling to someone else when you comment(and you would like traffic ;->). I know every comment I get makes me smile which you guys don't know how much I need sometimes. Lately I have been a little down that why most posts have been late stuff but writing this and remembering why I do this does help. So thanks to who ever started and gautami tripathy for tagging me.

4.)I will agree that blogging does eat up reading time and that is a bad and sometimes restful thing. lol

5). A funny thing about blogging. Maybe this just happens when you are starting out and you first start to talk to people but for maybe one second or longer you are famous to someone. I'll explain... after while with all the book sites (maybe this goes for other blogging sites too) you start to find the bloggers you comment to or get comments from. Like you could go to goodreads.com and find people you recognize. And for that one second or more you go "Hey I know her/him!" I don't know about you but I think that is pretty cool. Except for when people look at my pic they probably go "Ewww look at her" which I am thinking of changing.

Now the tagging bit:

I read so much how some don't like to be tagged so I am not going to really tag anyone. Except for those who have not done this meme. When you read it if you have blog you ...Yeah I mean you, have to do it. ;-P

If you do do the meme leave a comment if you don't leave a comment Shannon's smile quota is low.