Yikes, I’m a day late on this one. Yesterday was a crazy day, so although I read the short story (ate the chocolate) and filmed the video, I never had time to upload it. So, here it is, a day late but you’ll see why during the video! Thanks to everyone who’s hanging in there with me, I’ll upload Day 17 later today.
A Beginner’s Guide to Murder by Rosalind Stopps seems like a cozy mystery at first glance; a bunch of little old ladies plotting a murder together to save a friend. This appeals to the Murder She Wrote lover in me because I relish the idea of getting older but not losing my ‘spunk’. But as…
I love reading about a fed-up lady. There is nothing more entertaining than reading the inner (and sometimes outer) thoughts of a middle-aged woman who is just sick of it all. One of my favourite books in past years was this little gem, which is why I was so eager to read Her Turn by…
I’m not quite sure what prompted my purchase of Dare to Lead by Brené Brown, perhaps I saw it listed on some leadership book list and decided I needed to take the plunge. I read a few pages when I first got it, and then quickly abandoned it for more fun (fictional) pursuits. Right before…
So now that my summer book club has successfully completed its first meeting, it’s time to turn our thoughts to our July meeting and book pick. In June we voted on what our next book would be; the choice was between Taylor Jenkins Reid’s The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Nicole Lundrigan’s The Substitute-the…
I’ve been called a ‘bleeding heart’ liberal before, mainly by my husband (whom I typically don’t see eye to eye with politically, although this makes for a more interesting marriage in general), so when I heard about a book that satirizes liberal hypocrisy, I knew I had to read it. Class by Lucinda Rosenfeld features a…
Its fabulous title originally drew me to the short story collection Not the Apocalypse I Was Hoping For by Leslie Greentree, but the fact that it’s a locally published and authored work, right here in Calgary at the University of Calgary Press, was reason enough for me to read this one; I love a book…
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Okay, some funny notes:
#1 when you’re looking for the chocolate box and I see it before you, I’m all “Top right! Look up, Anne!”
#2 am I the only one mad that the chocolate calendar has, like, 3 kinds of chocolate and that’s it??
#3 turn the duckie on your tree around. He’s backwards and it makes him sad.
#4 I have never not commented on the advent calendar posts 😄
#5 why is the story named something about a machine?
Answers for you:
#1 It’s probably because I’m not wearing my glasses, or I’m just having trouble reading all the numbers/letters
#2 I’m mad about it too, which is why I won’t be purchasing this calendar again
#3 Done
#4 I so appreciate your comments, please keep them coming
#5 Towards the end of the story, the piano teacher calls the protagonist a ‘tremendous machine’ because of the crazy amount of practicing she doing :)
…….*high fives* 😃
#4 was a double negative. Get it Anne? Ha ha. Yes, the OCD in me was saying “turn the duck around on the tree” also. Now I can relaaaaax. 😉😉
hahaha ok point taken! Sometimes it’s hard to reverse those double negatives, but I’m not a published author :)
Yeah, I think the chocolate selection box is a big disappointment! I sooooo agree about writers complicating things just for the sake of it – great rant!