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Book Meme: 123

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on February 9, 2008
Posted in Memes  | 1 Comment

Marg at Reading Adventures tagged me for a really fun meme.

The rules of this particular meme are:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages)
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the next three sentences
5. Tag five people

This is a really easy one for me, as I just so happen to have Sula by Toni Morrison right by my computer waiting for me to write a review. (Tune in later for the review).

For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She went then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes’ of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tidy bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.

Not funny, I know, but that is what is on page 123.

Now to tag 5 people:
Michelle at 1morechapter.com
Jill at The Magic Lasso
Stephanie’s Confessions of a Book-a-holic
Dana at Once Upon a Book
Aarti at Book Lust

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YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN!

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on February 7, 2008
Posted in Barack Obama  | 8 Comments


I have been glued to CNN during all of the primaries!

As many of you may know, I live in Canada and have duel citizenship. I was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Whenever I have told people that I am from the U.S.A., I have felt shame. Not for the USA and her people, but for our politics and politicians (you know whom I’m talking about).

Obama makes me feel proud to be an American again!

Yes I will vote and I hope you will too! It’s more important than ever!

YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN!

This is a great video the Stephanie from Confessions of a Bookaholic shared with her readers. Now I want to share it with you. It brought me to tears.

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The Time in Between by David Bergen

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on February 5, 2008
Posted in Books Read 2008CanadaDavid BergenHistorical Fiction  | 14 Comments

Deservedly Won the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Charles Boatman, a solder in the Vietnam war is haunted by what happened there, and spend most of his life trying to come to terms with it. Plagued by nightmares, he goes to Vietnam in an effort to reconcile his life.
When he disappears, his children Ada and Jon go to Vietnam to try to find him. This is the story of Charles and his children, all lost in the confusion and chaos we call life.
This novel is deeply depressing and haunting. Bergen’s lyrical prose takes us to were most of us do not want to go, but should. It is not just Charles lonely journey trying to find life, but also that of his children and more in this cast of characters.
At times I found myself wanting to put this book down to catch a breath of fresh air, but I couldn’t! Bergen is amazing at his craft and I look forward to reading more by him. I wish I would have read this one sooner!
I highly recommend this book to all, however if your suffering from depression, you may want to wait to read it until your feeling better.
5/5
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