Getting to know each other

Sing along with me:

Getting to know you,
Getting to know all about you.
Getting to like you,
Getting to hope you like me.

Getting to know you,
Putting it my way,
But nicely,
You are precisely,
My cup of tea.

Getting to know you,
Getting to feel free and easy.
When I am with you,
Getting to know what to say.

Haven't you noticed
Suddenly I'm bright and breezy?
Because of all the beautiful and new
Things I'm learning about you
Day .. by ... day.

We need to get better acquainted, so in the comments let's all tell each other something about ourselves. I have a meeting tonight, but I promise to leave a comment soon telling you about ME. So who's willing to go first?

Books in general

Hi Buddies,
I am trying to catch up on my 10 blogs. Toby, thanks for the great info on the Kindle. I bought my Mom and myself each a Sony Reader this last Christmas. But my big problem is that I love the actual BOOK. I just can’t help myself, I told my self that I would not buy as many now since I have the reader. Plus the selection here is not so great but as soon as something new is on the shelf I grab it. Now is worse than ever, I feel so starved for a new book I will get what ever comes in on the next shipment to the PX (Post Exchange).
Can’t help myself ~Marylyn

Hi Bonnie!

I just wanted to mention we have the 40's Club up and running on the Oprah boards again. We'd love for you to stop by. The board is very pretty but they are still working out the kinks. I'm working on a blog for the group. We are reading "East of Eden," right now and would love to have anyone who has read it to join us. We have a yahoo board but don't use it. We can't get new members there. I was so busy working that I didn't get time to take part in the "Devil in the White City." It is one of my favorite books. Just wanted to say hi. Hope to be able to drop by more often.

Mary

Hi Bonnie!

It's Mary from The 40 Something post. I haven't quite figured out where to post. Could you help me? The 40's are reading "East of Eden," but the O boards have undergone their yearly update and the boards have been up and down. I'm working on a blog for the group but it's hard when I work full-time. Hope things are well with you.

Mary

Happy Independance Day

As my Fourth of July comes to an end here in Korea most of you are just beginning yours. So Happy Fourth of July to you!

I figured out how to do a new post!

Question...off to the right of the blog down to the bottom it says a list of "Our Participants" and for me it says Loren, Lori. They are not underlined. Also, I wondered how Loren (that is my name but I do not think I entered it anywhere) got there. Then below that it says "Our Profiles" and my "Lj" is there with a link line there. I wondered how I can get the top area to have a link line!

Did that make sense?

Thanx!
Lj

And Tango Makes Three

Penguin tale tops list of `challenged' books By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer Tue May 6, 3:42 PM ETNEW YORK - A children's story about a family of penguins with two fathers once again tops the list of library books the public objects to the most. "And Tango Makes Three," released in 2005 and co-written by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, was the most "challenged" book in public schools and libraries for the second straight year, according to the American Library Association."The complaints are that young children will believe that homosexuality is a lifestyle that is acceptable. The people complaining, of course, don't agree with that," Judith Krug, director of the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom, told The Associated Press on Tuesday.The ALA defines a "challenge" as a "formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that materials be removed because of content or appropriateness.

Any opinions about banning books for children?

Action figure of librarian

I see you met THE LIBRARIAN Nancy Pearl too. What fun! Did you buy an action figure of Nancy?

Toys for tots

Here's what Marylyn was doing at Christmas. Read Marines deliver toys to young orphans in Seoul to see this and another photo of our book buddy. Way to go, Marylyn! (She also visited Essencia Island in January, with husband in tow.)

Hola Book Buddies Ladies

I have been sick with a cold-flu-like thing for the past week or so and am just now beginning to feel better (although still very tired a lot and without energy). I just got done reading all the posts and wanted to say I plan on finishing reading the third part of ILE as soon as I get done reading March for RGG and I'll comment on it once I'm done.

After reading Bonnie's posts and checking out a copy in Costco today (they have three stacks left and it's $14), I really want to read POB with ya'll this month. I am going to get a library card at the county library by my parents and see if I can get the book from there on Friday before I buy it though.

In regards to posting comments/etc., I know for me because this is a blog and not a forum/bulletin board, I feel compelled to post when I'm thinking clearly and watch my spelling/grammar more rather than posting off the cuff. I'm not really sure why this is and I know it's misguided. I mean to be mindful and make more of an effort to just post when I have something to say. Also, I have have to say ILE was just an odd discussion book to me (from what I've read so far) and I didn't particularly hate the book either.

Anyways, just wanted to check in and say hi and... ramble. I tend to ramble/type as I think in forums/boards and that seems somehow wrong in a blog too. I mean I know I can get wordy and run on lengthly. My high school English prof told me so. lol. I believe she used the words pompous and witty to describe my writing style as well though.

Postings

I do hope that the discussions will pick up. The boards are a lot more fun when there is discussions, but at the same time if there gets to be too much discussion then I wind up spending more time reading about the books than reading.

Since there were so many ahead of me on the library's list, I ordered the book from amazon.com for next month. How many plan to read it?

I have also reduced my reading time and trying to spend more time on other projects such as quilting and sewing. I also reduced the number of boards I am in to this one board.

Thanks ladies

Thank you for your trouble, Marg. I would think about joining the book depository, but in the meantime I've decided to do other things with my time.

I hope I'm not offending anyone of the reading group, but I find the total lack of discussion not inspiring at all. I know I have been spoiled by the vibrant times at the O site, now almost 5 years ago (gasp!) when we started. It's just the way it is, and it's not for me anymore.

I'm Out

Sorry, but when I saw the price of this book, I decided to back out. I couldn't get it on my Sony Reader, so as to save on shipping. I had decided not to spend too much extra money this month, since I had enough expenses to pay for March. Also, I want to get Amazon's Kindle, another Reader, so I want to save money for that. Minding my own business, I got a link to a book, on one of my groups, Carnet ...by Craig Thompson. I felt compelled to buy it, so I ordered it from one of the sellers on Amazon, saving around $1.70. For the last few nights, I kept being drawn to a graphic novel that he wrote. I've never read a graphic novel before, although this is mostly a memoir. The name is Blankets. Well, last night, after reading the many positive reviews, I decided to get it or rather I HAD to get this book. I don't know what happened next, but I got knocked off the Internet while scrolling down the page. Then, it took a full 5 minutes, to "copy things." Usually, it takes a few seconds. Then I noticed that my Norton Anti Virus wasn't checked, like it usually is. Don't know why, as I use the laptop everyday. I had to decide whether to order on the laptop without the protection, or go to my desktop, which was still on. Since it was really late, I chanced it on my laptop & ordered it. After, in the glow of buying this book, which turns out to cost more than next months book here, I realized....idiot....now I'm paying shipping on 2 books. I could have gotten free shipping if I just ordered the books together saving around $6.oo. So much for trying to save money.

Marg.

Marg,
I'm sorry to hear you won't be joining us. The book is $25 full price here, but is on line at Barnes and Noble 18.16. Do you have access to ordering from American companies on the web?

Justme
Jo

You Make My Day

I've already received this award over at my Bonnie's Books blog, so I thought I would share it here, especially since this Book Buddies blog was mentioned. Kristina of Kristina's Favorites said:

Bonnie of Bonnie's Books makes my day all the time! I know she has already been given this award but I couldn't resist. Bonnie is the best Book Buddies host and a really fun person. She loves to gather us all together to discuss! Thank you Bonnie for the first book club I've joined, I love it!

Now I get to pass along the award to ... ta-da! ... those of you who have blogs, whether in the making or a work of years and years. My hope is that you will get to know each other by reading these bloggers who "make my day" by posting HERE for the Book Buddies, as well as on their own blogs:

Stephanie of Stephanie's Confessions of a Book-a-holic
Marg of Reading Adventures
Kailana of The Written World
Tricia of The Miss Rumphius Effect
Alison of So Many Books, So Little Time
Teddy Rose of So Many Precious Books, So Little Time
Kristina of Kristina's Favorites
Shelley of Chain-Reading
Mary of Books I Read
Gigi of What's Gigi Reading?
Sharon of Bibliobibuli
Ellen of Vanilla Extract
Anne of Neco's Notebook
Marylyn of Marylyn's Travels

Your turn! Pass it on.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Wishing all my friends here a Merry Christmas, and all the best for the New Year. May all of your wishes come true, and may your lives be filled with great books to read!!
~~~ Margreet
EDITED by Bonnie to add Snoopy, one of my favorite characters, to the greeting from Margreet, one of my favorite people. Merry Christmas to all book buddies ... and a happy New Year!

OT - I'm back!

Hey ladies, I'm still here. Just wanted to let you know what happened. I was admitted into the hospital on November 12th for severe preeclampsia. Then on November 14th at 955am, my son Ethan was born. He had to be taken 10 weeks early because my blood pressure was through the roof. Anyway, we are all better now, and he is recovering in the NICU. I'm with him all day every day so I have plenty of reading time but no time to blog. I actually finished the Boy in the Striped Pajamas in November. By the way I loved it and I can't wait to go thru the discussions. I have CCF but haven't started it yet, I will soon though. I hope that I can actually join in this discussion!!

OT

Just wanted to check in and say Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it.
Welcome all new members. I am not reading this months selection but I did buy the december book yesterday at B&N.
I look forward to reading this one with all of you.
Gerry

OT ~ Invitation

Hi Everyone! I want to thank Bonnie for the invitation to Book Buddies! Sorry it took so long to reply but I had computer problems and totally forgot about the invite until Oprah's new book announcement the other day. I went to her site and couldn't believe what a state it was in. It makes me sad. So I decided to respond to the invite and come here and see all of you instead!

Happy to be here. I will come back later tonight and tinker a bit and read some of the older posts to get a feel for things. I was happy to see a lot of names from the old Book Buddies, like Granita! It's been a long time.

Candy

Life

My mother-in-law passed away last Friday. She had been in hospital for 4 days after a massive stroke, and she never regained consciousness after that. Her death was peaceful, and her family was with her when she died. She was 92, and active, bright and reasonably independent til her last day. Her death at this age wasn't a complete shock ofcourse, but now that she's gone, I feel that the centre figure of my husband's family is gone. We'll need time to adjust to that new phase in our lives.

We take comfort in the many sweet and moving reactions of family and friends.

For distraction I read Harry Potter. JK Rowling's masterpiece is the perfect way to get your mind of things, as many of you already know. I'm in book 3 now, The Prisoner of Azkaban. And I love it!!!!!