Archive for November, 2008


>EarlyReviewer

>I just checked my Library Thing account and I am getting another book to review. Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin, it’s about a child that goes missing and sounds spooky, creepy good.

From Publishers Weekly

Set predominantly on the Baltic island of Öland, Theorin’s deeply disturbing debut will remind many of Henning Mankell both in its thematic intensity and dark tone. Two decades after the unsolved disappearance of a young boy, Jens Davidsson, who vanished one foggy autumn afternoon in 1972 and was presumed to have drowned, Jens’s grandfather, Gerlof, a retired sea captain, receives one of Jens’s sandals in the mail. Gerlof enlists his alcoholic daughter, Julia, who’s still struggling to come to grips with the loss of her only child, to help solve the mystery. All leads point to infamous thug Nils Kant, who was rumored to have killed numerous people. But Kant allegedly died years before the fateful day that Jens disappeared, so who could’ve killed the boy? And why? Further investigation leads the unlikely sleuths to some startling revelations about their isolated island community and its much-storied history.

>Train delays

>After missing all day Monday and yesterday coming in at noon, I was happy to catch my regular train. Now I am sitting on the train looking at the River (I don’t know which one) and the bridge over it and a green sign that I can’t read. The problem? A red light! We have been sitting here for over 30 minutes I hope we get moving soon. I have to go to the potty.

Looking at the map, I figured out I was looking at the Harlem River and I think the bridge I saw was the George Washington. We had this training, meeting, video conference because of the budget cuts. As long as my position doesn’t get cut, I don’t really care. Anyway, part was O.K. and part was so boring!

More train problems coming home. Not mine, the train before mine, we stopped in Cold Spring to pick up passengers from that train, one said the train just died.

So now I am getting ready to go to bed. Nothing else to do.

>Argh!

>Missed another day. Yesterday I had a doctor’s appointment. I wanted to get new medicine for my migraine headaches. They have come back. I don’t know what is triggering them. Anyway, I was running around all day yesterday. Took Stitch to school and Gwen and I went to see WALL·E at the $2 theater. I hadn’t seen it and she didn’t mind seeing it again. It was cute, I need to record it on my list before I forget. I can’t find the receipt so I have to do it tonight. Then took Gwen to class, went to get Stitch, but he wasn’t at school, he was at a friend, one of his classes got canceled. I told him he was taking a chance thinking I could remember how to get there. Anyway, I found it. Then got Gwen and home. I feel like I was in my car all day.

This morning I went for blood work. Dr. Nejad also wants me to have an MRI. Not looking forward to that. I have a bruise on my arm where the technician took the blood. I got a headache, I don’t know if it was exactly a migraine, but it wasn’t going away so I took one of the tablets Dr. Nejad gave me and “WOW”, that is strong stuff. So I should sleep good tonight because no headache.

>Last night

>Anyway, I didn’t tell you that this morning when I came upstairs Em told that Fred had been throwing up. I didn’t quite grasp it then but evidently it was all night he was throwing up. Anyway, Tigger is now in competition for Best Big Brother award because he got up with Fred every time, and D got up ‘once’. Em says, “That’s what fathers are for.” Someone else I know would say something about the flat spot on his cranium just fitting a frying pan!

Tonight he seems to be feeling better. I am sure he will be staying home tomorrow. As I will be since I have a doctor’s appointment. Want to get something for these migraines I have been having.

>I read about this challenge and decided to do it. Thanks to Vickie for the link.

ARHHH!! There be a new challenge for 2009!! I really enjoyed this one this year and look forward to doing it again in the new year.

Hop on over to What’s in a Name 2 and sign up!

ROE:

*This is a challenge that anyone can join, no matter what types of books they like to read. You should be able to find books from any genre that will work.

*Dates: January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009

*The Challenge: Choose one book from each of the following categories:

1. A book with a “profession” in its title. Examples might include: The Book Thief, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Historian

2. A book with a “time of day” in its title. Examples might include: Twilight, Four Past Midnight, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

3. A book with a “relative” in its title. Examples might include: Eight Cousins, My Father’s Dragon, The Daughter of Time

4. A book with a “body part” in its title. Examples might include: The Bluest Eye, Bag of Bones, The Heart of Darkness

5. A book with a “building” in its title. Examples might include: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Little House on the Prairie, The Looming Tower

6. A book with a “medical condition” in its title. Examples might include: Insomnia, Coma, The Plague
My choices:
1. Profession – The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
2. Time of Day – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
3. Relative – The Rapist’s Wife by Kathryn Casey
4. Body Part – Cold Eyes by Romina Wilcos
5. Building – The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
6. Medical condition – Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>Sick!

>Again. I am getting tired of this. I am all stuffed up and getting a headache. I really wanted to go to the meeting today. I don’t think I will make it. I really just want to curl up in bed and sleep, but I also don’t want to. Does that make sense?

>Missed a day

>I just saw that I missed a day posting. Almost missed today. Em and Tigger and I went to Manhattan, Em and I got our faces done at Lancôme, Em actually got a facial and her make-up and the guy doing her face talked her into getting her hair curled. I was a little perturbed because it was making us late for our next appointment, looking back I am kind of glad, we had to take a taxi to make it to Rockefeller Center on time. We went to the Top of the Rock, cause Tigger hasn’t been up there, he wanted their pictures taken on Top of the Rock, but they didn’t turn out so they didn’t buy them. We then went to a store I wanted to go to where I got a hat, from there we walked to Little Italy. We ate at a place in Little Italy where D and Em went to when Stitch was a baby. Then Tigger asked if we could take a taxi part way back so we took a taxi to Harold Square. We went to Macy’s in Harold Square and Tigger got a shirt and tie. Very nice. Then we walked back to GCT and had dinner at Annie Moores. Em and I bought make-up at Lancôme and Macy’s.