To Pinterest or not, that was the question! The answer to that question was: Heck yeah! I was super overwhelmed at first, but now I’m slightly addicted. Pinterest is a website where you create bulletin boards. You can keep up with recipes, dream home ideas, sewing ideas, favorite movies or books and so on. It is very overwhelming at first, but it. is. awesome. I’ve found lots of great gift ideas, sewing ideas, book suggestions and recipes.
I finally finished this book! I loved it! Read it! So good!
Below are some very awesome glimpses into this book. I just loved the sentences!
“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.”
“Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.”
“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”
“I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame…”
That is the question. Pinterest seems cool, but do I really want another online/socialish networking obligation? Anyone out there use Pinterest?
I just started reading this book. I’m only page 2, but I’m enjoying and I’m already loving the narrator! I can’t wait to find out what happens.
Sometimes when I want to say, “ugh” I say, “blarg.” Why I don’t know. It’s a word that I think I made up. While reading Tina Fey’s “Bossypants” I found this sentence:
“I was a little excited but mostly blorft. “Blorft” is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.”
At that moment I felt very Tina Fey’ish. It was a good moment.
I just finished “Bossypants” by Tina Fey. For the record the book is hysterical and for the record she drops the occasional inappropriate word, her theology and politics are über liberal. Regardless, the book is F U N N Y and witty. Below are a few of the very funny quotes from her book.
“Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.”
“Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite, Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea; A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my “plan” was for taking down the Christmas tree.”
“To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.”
“My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.”
“I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care about them. When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.”
“Once or twice a week I would set my alarm for six A.M. so I could get up and plug in Hot Stix…I would study the curls in the mirror, impressed with both the appliance and my newfound ability to use it.
Then, without fail, at the last second before leaving for school, I would ask myself, “Am I supposed to brush it out or leave it?” Why could I never remember” That feeling of “I’m pretty sure this next step is wrong, but I’m just gonna do it anyway” is part of the same set of instincts that makes me such a great cook.”
“Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying “like” all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.”
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I’m in the midst of reading a terrifying book for my book club. “Sold” by Patricia McCormick is a young adult fiction novel about a beautiful girl that is purchased by woman who runs a brothel. The subject matter is tough, to say the least. The author deals with the subject matter well, especially considering the book is intended for a young adult audience. This is the second book in a row that I have read dealing with this horrific issue. As I read more and more on this subject matter I am baffled more and more. How can this be true? How can God allow such unbelievably atrocious events to occur? I have to fight to believe that I will see “the goodness of the Lord in the living.” Psalm 27 says to “wait and take courage,” so while I pray and pray for God to stop this, I have to believe that he is good. I have to.
>In the last year I’ve read a handful of books. One that I found particularly interesting was “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” I really enjoyed the overall story, but I also just simply enjoyed sentences from the book.
“You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.“
“If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.“
“…murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner…“
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I read this book in about 36 hours. It was one of thos books that I just couldn’t put down! I read it any second I could and I finally stayed up super late Wednesday night to finish it. Here’s a brief synopsis:
“Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family’s apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours.
Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary, journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France’s past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace the girl’s ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d’Hiv’, to the camps, and beyond. As she probes into Sarah’s past, she begins to question her own place in France, and to reevaluate her marriage and her life.”
This book is fictional but it based on the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup with did actually happen during World War II. The book is sad, redeeming (kind of), heartbreaking and interesting! I recommend it!
Whitney's Miscellany 