We have had an interesting couple of days in our household. Argus has been a very, very patient big brother. Raven loves Argus. She follows him around and whatever he does, she also does. She wants to be near him, touching him, chewing on him…in essence, driving the poor boy crazy. But despite all of [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
Introducing Raven…
Kip and I had not planned to bring home a new puppy so soon after the loss of Caribou, but fate seemed to intervene and here we are with a new member of the family. No dog can ever replace Caribou, but God gives us room in our hearts to love again. Raven was born [...]
Book Give Away: Galway Bay, by Mary Pat Kelly
Contest open March 17 – March 24, 2009 Book Description (from the Hachette website): Here at last is one Irish family’s epic journey, capturing the tragedy and triumph of the Irish-American experience. In a rousing tale that echoes the myths and legends of Ireland herself, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start a [...]
Blog Talk Radio – Mary Pat Kelly
Hachette is hosting a live interview with the author of Galway Bay tomorrow: Time: March 17, 2009 from 11am to 12pm Location: (646) 378-0039 and http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/HachetteBookGroup/grandcentralpub/2009/03/17/Live-St-Patricks-Day-Interview-with-Mary-Pat-Kelly-author-of-GALWAY-BAY Organized By: Miriam Parker Event Description: Join us on St. Patrick’s Day and Blog Tour Day to chat with GALWAY BAY author Mary Pat Kelly. She is the author [...]
Mailbox Monday – March 16, 2009
Visit Marcia at The Printed Page to read today’s Mailbox Monday post and provide links to YOUR Mailbox Monday. I had a great week in book acquisitions… Palace Circle by Rebecca Dean arrived as an Advance Reader’s Edition from Doubleday (via Shelf Awareness). This novel is the first in an anticipated trilogy. Publishers Weekly writes: [...]
Sunday Salon – March 15, 2009
March 15, 2009 2:45 PM I am late to post today as I spent the weekend (beginning Friday evening) attending a Crime Scene Tracking Training class with my county Search and Rescue team. It was a terrific class with some interesting scenarios on Saturday afternoon which we had to figure out by using our tracking [...]
Bleeding Heart Square – Book Review
Hearts. This is all about hearts, restless or yearning, broken or bleeding. – from Bleeding Heart Square, page 229 – Andrew Taylor’s latest crime mystery is a literary whodunnit set in London in the early 1930′s. Lydia Langstone, leaves her abusive marriage and arrives to live with her father, Captain Ingleby-Lewis, at Number 7 Bleeding [...]
Mailbox Monday – March 9, 2009
Visit Marcia at the Printed Page to participate in today’s Mailbox Monday. Books which arrived free for review from a variety of sources: Broken Angel by Sigmund Brouwer arrived via a contest through WaterBrook Multnomah’s Library Newsletter. This book deviates from the books I normally read in that it is futuristic with a “post-apocalyptic edge.” [...]
Sunday Salon – March 8, 2009
March 8, 2009 Good morning Sunday Saloners! Are any of you as peeved as I am about the clocks springing forward this weekend? Isn’t it a bit early for that? Okay, so maybe it is nice to have the days be a little bit longer, but why rush things? I guess I just hate the [...]
Fun with Statistics…
Many thanks to all of you who stop by to visit me at Caribousmom!! Do you love to look at your blog stats? I love cruising around to see who comes to visit and from how far away. Today I was doing just that and thought you might want to see some of the stats [...]
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