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Friday 56

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http://www.fredasvoice.com "We were both young and from England, and we had each married just before moving to Canada. Doreen's ethnicity was Czech, and her parents had escaped just prior to the Nazi occupation of their country. They had been put into an English refugee camp. Doreen was in utero when her parents arrived in England, and she was named for the woman who had masterminded their escape. "

Follow Friday Four Fill-In Fun

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http://www.feelingbeachie.com If I eat too many_____, I_______  Running a____is______ Why is it that_________? Where do you_____? 1. If I eat too many cookies, I feel overstuffed. 2.Running a house is not easy. 3.Why is it that I can't get organized? 4.Where do you go to church?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

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http://bookjourney.wordpress.com I finished Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck. I finished Breaking All The Rules by Rhonda McKnight. I finished Return to Love by Kathleen Shoop. This is a courtest copy for review. This is from Beck Valley. The blog tour is listed at the top of the page. Now I'm reading for KREGEL Candle Prayers for Kids by Claire Freedman. I am also reading Sister Betty Says I Do by Pat G'org Walker. Also, The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier.

Teaser Tuesday

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" The men found me weeding among the strawberries. I have planted them so that there's a place for me to kneel easily and weed. I don't think much of them as plants--the flowers don't smell and the leaves are neither soft nor  prickly nor thin nor fat. But the fruit is heavenly. Now in early summer the berries have begun to grow but are still small and hard and have little scent. Once the fruit is ripe, though, I would happily spend all day in this square of the garden, crushing the berries between my fingers to smell and taste...I am happiest in my garden. It is the safest place in the world." http://www.shouldbereadingwordpress.com

Wondrous Words

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"Alienor didn't seem to be listening to him, but was wrinkling her nose in disgust. Then I smelled it, and a moment later Noiclas did too. " Bon Dieu, what is that" he cried. " It smells like a barrow full of piss!" "It's Jacques Le Boeuf," I said. " The woad dyer." "Is that what woad smells like? I've never been near the stuff. In Paris they have to work outside the city walls in a place no one goes near."  a European herb ( Isatis tinctoria ) of the mustard family formerly grown for the blue dyestuff yielded by its leaves; also :   this dyestuff http://merriam-webster.com " http://bermudaonion.net

The Lady And The Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier

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" The messenger said I was to come at once. That how Jean le Viste is-- he expects everyone to do what he says immediately. And I did. I followed the messenger, stopping just briefly to clean my brushes. Commissions from Jean Le Viste can mean food on the table for weeks. Only the king says no to Jean Le Viste, and I am certainly no king." http://rosecityreader.com

Friday 56

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http://www.fredasvoice.com " The current pulled and sucked her away as though she were a gull feather taken up by a wind gust. But before she could....someone gripped her wrist and dragged out of the current and then toward shore."