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I keep this little magnetic clip bookmark in the guest room.   

This is the room where I keep all my treasures from the sea. 

Sea Themed Books

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley

The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Steadman

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The Little House books entertained my childhood more than any other book or series.  They were read to me over and over by my grandmother.  Then when I was old enough to read I read them to her over and over.  Many a summer evening and winter day were whiled away with the Ingalls family.  My favorites are the later years; Silver Lake, The Long Winter, and of course These Happy Golden Years.

What Are You Reading Wednesdays (4)

What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature here on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate. You can answer the questions in the comments section of the weekly #WAYRW post or link back to your #WAYRW post on your blog in the comments section as well. 

How to participate:

Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:
1. What’s the name of your current read?
2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

'Til Death Do Us Part by Amanda Quick

"For days she had felt as if her every move was being watched.  And now she faced another night alone."

Victorian London.  There was a time I would have said "Yes, take me back time machine."  But I have become a little more practical and the answer is "Yes, but only if I can be wealthy, titled and male."

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Bookmarks, yes or no?

I love bookmarks, but unless I especially pick one out when I start reading the book, I am just as likely to use whatever is at hand.  Old receipts, strip of paper torn off of sales paper, tissue, etc.

Whatever I use, I do so with the knowledge that bookmarks make the BEST cat toys and the tassel or whatever hangs off the end outside of the book is the first thing to go.  In fact, cats seem to be a little OCD in that they can't stand to see the edge of anything poking out and ruining the artistic line of a closed book.  No matter what I use, they work and work until they pull out my place holder, unless I hide the book.

Since I have so many lovely bookmarks I thought I would do a regular post to feature some of my favorites here.

Say what you want about Twilight.  Even I will agree the writing could have been better and yet....there was something about it.  Edward and Bella were the IT couple of the decade (until Katniss and Peta came along).   There was no YA when I was a teenager and to me this will always be the series that made YA mainstream not just a niche genre and opened up a whole new world.

Edward and Bella 

Forever

July Reading Wrap Up

Best book of the month:  And the Mountains Echoed

Most Anticipated:  Lair of Dreams

Least favorite:  The Great Gatsby

Most likely to re-read:  The Dream Thieves

Learned the most from:  The Invention of Fire

Favorite Character:  Lisbeth Salander from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Tidbits

Handguns were invented in Europe in the 1300's.

The expression, often used in Victorian Romance novels, 'beyond the pale' to refer to someone's bad social behavior comes from this period also.  The Pale was actually a place; the last bastion of English rule just across the channel in France.  To go 'beyond' the Pale was to leave civilization.

I met my Good Reads 2016 reading challenge of 30 books already so I bumped it up to 50.

I also started a book journal to help me remember the cool things I want to share.

What Are You Reading Wednesdays (3)

What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature here on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate. You can answer the questions in the comments section of the weekly #WAYRW post or link back to your #WAYRW post on your blog in the comments section as well. 

How to participate:

Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:
1. What’s the name of your current read?
2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire

"She had tasted unicorn at one of those feasts and gone to her bed with a mouth that still tingled from the delicate venom..."

My answer is....maybe....
The idea of portals that open to strange and amazing places is very Alice in Wonderland and since I'm also reading book 2 of The Looking Glass Wars can't be coincidence.