It's Christmas Time again?

The Red Lady is giving away a copy of THE PAPER BAG CHRISTMAS by Kevin Alan Milne

Check it and her blog out!

Can you believe it will be November is 5 days!

To Be Read

Today I posted some of my To Be Read shelf for comment on my BookTalk message board.

Here is what I posted:

The Brothers K by David James Duncan
The Stand by Stephen King
Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Mary called Magdalen by Margaret George
Peter and the Starcatchers by Barry Pearson
The Tin Drum by Gunther Grass
The River Midnight by Lillian Nattel
Sophie's Choice by Willian Styrone

Giving Up!

I am reading BLAZE by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) it is so terribly slllooooowwww! I thought it would be more creepy but it really isn't that creepy or scary and it keeps jumping back and forth but I am only about 1/2 way and he is just now committing the crime and doing a bad job of it!

It's about a mentally retarded guy who is going to commit the crime of the century without his side kick George. George died but he hears him in his head sometimes.

I am giving up on this book... no review.... and onto Bookmooch it goes!

Going to read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley instead for my creepfest challenge.

Book Discussion

About Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone.

I attended a book discussion last night which turned out to be another person's account of her experience in the Internment camp. She lived in California and was interned at a camp in Gila River area in Arizona.

The author of the book was also there and they answered questions together. It was a very interesting dialogue and a new perspective on the experience of the Japanese Internment Camp.

I hope to attend a real book discussion in early November to talk about it with those who have read the book.

For each event we get tickets to the KIMONO exhibit in Feb 2009 at the Canton Museum of Art.

Books Received

I recently got some books from bookmooch.

"Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself" by Alan Alda

"The Best Nonrequired Reading 2007" edited by David Eggers

Apparently the Alan Alda book is a sequel to a previous memoir "Never Have Your Dog Stuffed" which I will need to borrow from my Dad.

Interview with Monica Sone & Preview of KIMONO Exhibit

Last night I went to the kick off event for the One Book/One Community Program in Canton, Ohio/Stark County.

The evening started with an interview of Monica Sone, author of Nisei Daughter. She talked about her experiences in her life, what she thought about the Japanese evacuation, the camps, and finally what happened to her parents and siblings after the camps were closed. She also read the letter of apology that was sent by George Bush Sr. to all of those of Japanese descent who were in the camps. She is 88 years old and still lives in Canton Ohio.

The second half of the evening was a short talk by the Executive Director of the Canton Museum of Art about the upcoming KIMONO exhibit in February 2009. He showed a short video about Kubota, the artist, and the exhibit. The exhibit is only being shown in San Diego, California (now) and Canton, Ohio. Previously it was at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.

Among the Book activities and events there will also be a lot of events about Japanese culture such as Madame Butterfly performed by the Canton Civic Opera.

Nisei Daughter

by Monica Sone

Nisei means second generation and is the term used to describe children born to Japanese immigrant parents.

Monica writes the story about her life growing up in the Seattle area where her father owned and ran a small hotel. She writes about her family, the Japanese community and the relocation of her family during World War II to an internment camp in Idaho.

What a wonderful story. She writes with such humor and fun that you sometimes forget it's a true story. Her family always made the best of things despite the racism during WW2 and being in a terrible camp with mud and dust and small quarters.

Monica will be interviewed Wednesday October 15th in Canton, Ohio as part of the kick off of the One Community/One Book program and the KIMONO exhibit at the Canton Museum of Art.

I highly recommend the book and check back for my review of her interview and the kick off event.

5 of 5 rating

Tagged again for another meme

Bella tagged me....

Here are the instructions: What you are supposed to do...and please don't spoil the fun...Copy/paste, type in your answers and tag four people in your lists! Don't forget to change my answers to the questions with those of your own.

A) Four places I go over and over: to the grocery store, to my sisters, to my Aunt's, to the library

B) Four people who e-mail me regularly: my little sister, my Aunt, my sister in law, my husband

C) Four of my favourite places to eat: Bender's Tavern, BRAVO!, my kitchen, and my mom's

D) Four places you'd rather be: at the beach, in San Francisco, in wine country in CA, DisneyWorld

E) Four TV shows I could watch over and over: CSI (the original), Three's Company, Golden Girls, and I Love Lucy

F) Four people I think will respond: I don't know enough bloggers... so I can't put 4 people since 3 will be the same as Bella's.

Books Books Books!

Well I got my library card and had to christen it by checking out some books.

I checked out

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos

I also got a bookmooch today! Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself by Alan Alda.

I got my library card today!

I got my library card for the City Library which also has access to County Libraries.

I checked out 2 books - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos.

Halloween Books... Creepfest Challenge

My friends at the WW Booktalk are having a Creepfest Challenge... read a Halloween book during the month of October.

I will be participating and here are my 2 choices:

Blaze by Richard Bachman (Stephen King) OR

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice (if I get my books unpacked in time)

Look for my review and more Creepy book list soon.

I was tagged! Six weird and Random Things about me!

I was tagged by The Red Lady's Reading Room for the six quirky things about me meme. This is the first time I’ve been tagged for a meme.

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

Weird things about myself, in no particular order:

1) I can not nap unless I am on a long car trip and then BAM I fall asleep.
2) I have become a bookaholic in the past year... trading, buying, collecting BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS!
3) I can barely read 1 book a month and have tons and tons of books on my TO BE READ shelves
4) I am a Talbot's shopaholic too!
5) I have a husband who not only widows me during Football season but fully immerses himself in the sport via television, radio, and internet 5-6 days a week from August to February each year
6) I treat my dog like she is a small kid, like she understands anything I am saying :-)!!!!

Now the question is who to tag next? I don't even know 6 bloggers but I'll at least tag my one follower Bella!