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What I’m Reading

November 30, 2011 by Jenn

Time for reading?  Who has that?

If you count five minutes of reading when I get to bed before my eye lids shut, then I do!

This book has kept me interested right from the start, and despite the limited amount of time (um, ZERO) that I have to sink into an easy chair, curl up and read, I’m still enjoying getting through it bit by bit, in bed . . . challenging my eyelids to focus and stay open.

When you’re faced with this kind of a situation (an extreme lack of time for relaxing enjoyment), a good, quality book is the only thing that will keep you coming back for more.  Many books have laid on my bedside table, unfinished, and covered with dust as they just didn’t keep my attention between times when I was able to pick it up.

On a recent trip to Vancouver, having finished my previous book, I was in the market for a new one.  I was at a large bookstore chain, trying to remember the name of a book that had been suggested to me by a friend this summer, and the customer service representative recommended this one . . . and it was the book from the summer!  Two random recommendations had to make it good!

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Random-Jenn-ness

June 1, 2011 by Jenn

Here are four things that you must do, that I have done lately . . . not related to baking . . . or cardio.  What’s this blog about again?

1.  Go and see the musical Wicked.  It is incredibly fabulous, surprisingly deep and an overwhelmingly great production.  It’s Wicked.  Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

2.  Watch The Social Network.  Tonight, I had the pleasure of finally watching a movie!!  Yes, I know that I should have already watched it (like the other 99% of the world’s population) but I haven’t had time . . . or two consecutive hours in a row where I am not covered in flour, icing sugar, butter or cocoa.  Having learned so much computer-speak in the last couple of years (that’s what happens when you’re dating a genius) I had a new vested interest in hearing about “codes” and “servers” and “hosts”.  It’s really a good movie.  I have to research how accurate it actually is, but if it is, man is Zuckerberg a true business man.  Whether you like Facebook or not, it’s an interesting story in friendship, business, and entrepreneurialism.  If I haven’t coerced you yet, Justin Timberlake is in it.  Does hearing the word “Facebook” make you want to check your page?  Perhaps I have a problem.

3. Read The Hunger Games. Young adult, science fiction, fantasy story . . . I’ve turned myself off with that description . . . but it is seriously worth it!  I listened to it as an audio book this weekend on my twelve hour drive to and from Sylvan Lake for my cousin’s graduation.  It made the drive(s) fly by . . . and helped me blank out the ugliness of the prairies, as I drove by fence post after fence post.

4.  Go to The Donut Mill in Red Deer, Alberta!

How can you go wrong with Oreo, and Rolo flavoured donuts! I had to try them.  For the sake of the blog.  I HAD to.  And boy, were they good.  The Donut Mill donuts are filled with a whipping cream filling instead of a heavier creme middle.  It was different (from ole Tim Horton’s) and absolutely worth every calorie.  The Rolo was the best hand’s down.  It had caramel flavoured whipping cream in the middle, and a chocolate caramel ganache topping.  Thank god it’s six hours away.

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What I’m Reading

December 31, 2010 by Jenn

Yes, this book counts!

And so does this one!

Thanks for the great Christmas presents K and G!  I can’t wait to use them.

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What I’m Reading

December 4, 2010 by Jenn

I finished Nick Hornby’s Slam (really funny by the way), and now I’m on to Wicked by Gregory Maguire.  Wicked is a story about how the Wicked Witch of the West ended up so wicked . . . and hopefully they explain how she became green.   We’ll see how it is . . . I’ve heard mixed reviews.  Some people say they love it, some people have said it is hard to get into.

The travelling Broadway production of Wicked is coming to Spokane in the spring, and I’m thinking that will be a great Christmas present for my mom (uhhhh . . . and I).  A fun mother/daughter getaway in May!

The thing I like about reading the book the most right now is that the edges of the pages are vibrant emerald green . . . I think I like it so much just because it’s different than the same old newsprint.

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What I’m Reading

November 19, 2010 by Jenn

After Sarah’s Key….I’m on to something a little bit lighter.  The holocaust is a heavy subject to read about….but very important.

Onto a new-lighter book…I have read most of Nick Hornby’s other books, so hopefully this one lives up to the rest.  One of the greatest movies eva…was About a Boy…but, thinking about it, I was a teenager, so perhaps my judgment of movies was slightly …..off.

Here is a synopsis of this story….it is about teenage pregnancy, and it is told from the teenagers perspective.  That is the gist of what Wikipedia had to say!

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What I’m Reading

November 11, 2010 by Jenn

I have just started Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Summary (from BookBrowse.com):

Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family’s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.

Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France’s past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl’s ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d’Hiv’, to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah’s past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.

Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and silence that surround this painful episode.

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What I’m Reading

October 31, 2010 by Jenn

Secret Daughter – Shilpi Somaya Gowda

A volunteer at the hospital noticed that I was reading this book, and she had nothing but great things to say about it, and about Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s other two novel’s.  I’m planning to find those to read as well.

So far, it’s pretty gripping . . . gets you interested right from the start.

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