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Friday 56

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" I saw a recognizable behavior--due to manners, in this case--I felt that we weren't so different, that whatever made us different wasn't more than the random matter of life experience." http://www.fredasvoice.com

Friday Beginnings

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"Mary Ann smooths over his lap marks, and it's their quiet together that makes me feel safe. You hope for such assurance around your own parents, though mostly I remember my father's light jab, my mother's retaliations, words that hook in and stay." http://rosecityreader.blogspot.com

W...W...W...

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http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com I have finished Every Bitter Thing is Sweet by Sara Hagerty. I'm still reading Sister Betty Says I Do by Pat G'orge Walker. I'm also reading The Spark And The Drive by Wayne Harrison. 

Every Bitter Thing Is Sweet by Sara Hagerty

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Some times our children may seem too noisy. As they grow older, they seem to pick the wrong date over and over again. Through these rough days, there are times when we forget the wonder of having conceived and birthed a child. Sara Hagerty helped me regain the right perspective. Our children are gifts from God. Their childhood terrors or adult terrors are never enough to make me feel ungrateful for these living gifts especially when thinking of Sara Hagerty and her husband and many others like this couple who find difficulty in conceiving a child is to be their cross in this life.  This couple was willing to wait over ten years, willing to travel to Ethiopia, Africa in order to fight for the right to adopt children. Sara Hagerty learned many spiritual lessons during this time. Once they get the children the lessons don't stop. God continues to speak to her and she continues to speak back to God. Finally, the lesson learned is that in the place of  hunger is where she finds Jes

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

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I finished Elizabeth Bourne's A Fickle Wind. I received it as a review copy from the Cadence Group. Now I'm reading Sister Betty Says I Do by Pat G'orge Walker. Her books make me laugh so hard. I don't see how it's possible to read one without laughing.Also reading, The Spark And The Drive by Wayne Harrison. I won this one from the Bookreporter.  At first, I felt frustrated. I know nothing about cars. For me, car language is like Heiroglyphics.  The plot is good. Hope to put a dent in When Camels Fly by NLB HORTON. I love the cover of this one. http://www.bookjourney.wordpress.com

First Chapter, First Paragraph

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http://bibliophilebythesea.blogspot.com "It was only a duck pond, out at the back of the farm. It wasn't very big. Lettie Hempstock said it was an ocean, but I knew that was silly. She said they'd come here across the ocean from the old country."  

Teaser Tuesday

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http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com " Nobody came to my seventh birthday party. There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing . My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book."