Melissa_W
The Booker winner was announced a few minutes ago:
The Sense of an Ending (nook: The Sense of an Ending)
It was Barnes's fourth nomination and first win! I bet Knopf is pretty happy they moved the pub date up from January 2012 
Melissa_W wrote:The Booker winner was announced a few minutes ago:
The Sense of an Ending (nook: The Sense of an Ending)
It was Barnes's fourth nomination and first win! I bet Knopf is pretty happy they moved the pub date up from January 2012
Thanks, Melissa! I posted a quoted comment of his about the Booker on the Fiction board this morning -- I believe it is in the introductions thread. But, now he finally has his! Sometimes seems to be like waiting for an Oscar.
2012 365 Cats Page-A-Day Calendar
GS2991 wrote:
Oh found the OT. Okay then. If one touches a bug zapper what happens? Does it tickle? Anyloo. Anyone have a favorite type of calender? I like the wild life ones or one of my favorite TV shows like Deadliest Catch, Billy the Exterminator, well I don't know if there are any Billy ones but I could only imagin the pictures. Knarly awesomeness! Haha. Okay what of you?
My favorite calendar, and the only one I buy, is the 365 Cats calendar. Every year I get one for myself and one for my mother as a Christmas gift. Other than that, I get about a dozen or more free calendars from various charities and my colleges, so I choose one to hang in my kitchen and one for work.
Okay, I am a book lover, what can I say? Many years, this one is a gift for doing work with our local library friends and I have always enjoyed it:
I usually choose an artsy calendar for somewhere (Art deco this past year, often Vermeer, Monet, or some other from the Met, either as a wall calendar or one those that are inserts into a desk top easel.). Then there has to be a place for the ugly town recycling calendar -- it sometimes gets hung under another calendar. Most troublesome is the one I want to see from my PC work area -- that wall is narrow and it is difficult to find a calendar that fits and still has print large enough to read ten feet away. I don't get very many freebe calendars, except the real estate refrigerator magnets.
For my purse, since I am retired, I carry a tiny book that has both monthly and weekly pages -- I must always buy it in August when the next year calendars first appear or I risk not having it for the year ahead!
Happy 2012!
Pepper
Peppermill wrote:Okay, I am a book lover, what can I say? Many years, this one is a gift for doing work with our local library friends and I have always enjoyed it:
I usually choose an artsy calendar for somewhere (Art deco this past year, often Vermeer, Monet, or some other from the Met, either as a wall calendar or one those that are inserts into a desk top easel.). Then there has to be a place for the ugly town recycling calendar -- it sometimes gets hung under another calendar. Most troublesome is the one I want to see from my PC work area -- that wall is narrow and it is difficult to find a calendar that fits and still has print large enough to read ten feet away. I don't get very many freebe calendars, except the real estate refrigerator magnets.
For my purse, since I am retired, I carry a tiny book that has both monthly and weekly pages -- I must always buy it in August when the next year calendars first appear or I risk not having it for the year ahead!
Happy 2012!
Pepper
Hi Pepper! I do the same thing with the calendar in my kitchen - I want to be able to see it from the couch in the living room when I'm working on the coffee table (use my laptop there, pay bills, etc.). So I really always end up using the same one, that has the largest numbers, which is from the Paralyzed Vets. They send a whole variety of calendars - the wall one, a planner somewhat similar to what you describe, that I keep in my purse, a magnetic year for the refrigerator, those little cards with the year on them (get those from WWF, too, and stick them in wallets), and even cute bookmarks (those aren't calendars)! I also get lots of greeting cards, gift wrap, and notepads from charities. Some of them I do contribute to, and some I don't; maybe they get me off a list from another that I do. This year, unfortunately, I have cut way back on my charitable contributions due to my unemployment. I just chose a few favorites. So maybe next year I will not get so much stuff!
Hmmm, as for seasonal drinks, I do like hot chocolate, especially different flavors, like hazelnut, raspberry, vanilla, mint, etc. I also like eggnog, but I just buy the cartons. Sometimes they have special flavors, like gingerbread, pumpkin, etc. Yum! But I don't really drink either frequently, even during the holidays.
. Mmmm coffee I could go for some now but I'm all out. Drats! Hmm what about food? I like the pies. Chocolate pie mmm.
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Melissa_W
Melissa_W
Now that March is underway, what do you want to read for April?
I'd like to suggest Eleanor Brown's The Weird Sisters if not many others have read it. I picked it up last year and it was SO MUCH fun to read. A great pean to reading, family, and Shakespeare .
Love and Freindship and Other Early Works (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Melissa, your suggestion sounds more in line with the type of books the group is currently reading, but I thought I would mention that I am planning to read Jane Austen's Minor Works in April, in case anybody would be interested in that (if they've read the novels, but not the juvenilia and short works in this volume. I couldn't find the exact edition I am using (parrt of the Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen), but this one may have a lot of the same works.
Melissa_W
Hey, you know me - I am ALWAYS up for Jane Austen And we haven't done the Juvenilia as yet.
We could maybe do Jane for April and The Weird Sisters for may.
dulcinea3 wrote:Love and Freindship and Other Early Works (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Melissa, your suggestion sounds more in line with the type of books the group is currently reading, but I thought I would mention that I am planning to read Jane Austen's Minor Works in April, in case anybody would be interested in that (if they've read the novels, but not the juvenilia and short works in this volume. I couldn't find the exact edition I am using (parrt of the Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen), but this one may have a lot of the same works.
Melissa_W wrote:Hey, you know me - I am ALWAYS up for Jane Austen
We could maybe do Jane for April and The Weird Sisters for may.
The two choices are fine with me. I have say that I already have two book group reads scheduled for April and since Austen is not for me, I would bow out of that one. However, dulcinea deserves a turn at a nomination!
