101 posts tagged “favorites”
I finished A Catch of Consequence over the weekend, moved on to Taking Liberties (which I just finished at lunch today), and am now on The Sparks Fly Upward. I think all in all, this book series only cost me about $12. It's worth that and more!
I am so glad I happened upon The Serpent Garden at a local library months ago.
Since reading that, I've been trying to get my hands on every other novel by Judith Merkle Riley. Just today I finished A Vision of Light, and now I've been sucked into the world of Margaret of Ashbury, a woman (unfortunately for her) before her times. The character is a bright midwife in the Middle Ages who receives a gift of healing. A lot of other stuff happens, as well, and she decides to have a book written about her life. My only complaint is that A Vision of Light seems too long at times -- I admit that I skimmed some of Brother Gregory's passages. Still, I greatly enjoyed it, and can't wait to read the next book of the trilogy.
What Ash Wednesday means to me: time to break out my Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack!
I'm including The Far Pavilions in this month, even though I haven't completed it yet. I read 282 pages out of 960 during January.
As of this date, our DVR is about 75% full, and it tends to stay that way. Currently on it are all these things we've watched, but I hate to clear off:
- My Sister Eileen - this will probably stay on the DVR til we have to replace it, because it's not available on DVD
- Bachelor Mother - ditto
- Most of Season 2 of Pushing Daisies, even though we've watched all the episodes so far
- our favorite episodes of King of the Hill: "Livin' on Reds, Vitamin C and Propane" and "Revenge of the Lutefisk"
- a recent CBS Sunday Morning which featured a profile on Kristin Chenoweth
- a Lifetime Christmas movie
- a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother from last season and this current one
- an episode of Private Practice
- a couple episodes from this season of 30 Rock
- an episode of Samantha Who?
- an episode of the cancelled series Men in Trees
- an episode from this season of Burn Notice
I just bought Mindy Smith's My Holiday album last year, but it seemed to become an instant classic for both me and my sister. There are some original songs mixed in with classics, and they all add up to a sweet work.
Here's one of my favorite songs off the album:
Stop me if you've heard this one...
