Recommended
I love tools that give you recommendations for things you might like based on books you’ve read, or music you love, or things you’ve purchased. It’s like they somehow have insight into my brain! (Not really, I know). That’s one of the reasons I love to visit Amazon.com’s Recommended for You page… I’m constantly updating my preferences so my recommendations are up to date. What can I say… I’m a weirdo. Anyway, here are the top 10 recommendations for me as of today, 18-Nov:
- For the Kids: Various Artists:
- Toot and Puddle: Let It Snow, by Holly Hobbie:
- Viva La Vida, by Coldplay:
- Little Voice, by Sara Bareilles:
- Toot and Puddle: I’ll Be Home For Christmas, by Holly Hobbie:
- Toot and Puddle: Top of the World, by Holly Hobbie:
- Toot and Puddle: The One and Only, by Holly Hobbie:
- We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things, by Jason Mraz:
- I Was Told There’d Be Cake, by Sloane Crosley:
- Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl’s Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?, by Jen Lancaster:
Now, what does it say about me that Toot and Puddle feature so prominently in my recommendations? I like pigs, sure. I like children’s books. I love Holly Hobbie’s fantastic illustrations. Hmm. Maybe I really am just a big kid?
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Hey, yesterday’s post was #100! I didn’t even realize it.
Have you been watching True Blood on HBO? I have. I’m a big fan of the Southern Vampire mystery series, and when I found out they were making a TV show based on the books, I couldn’t wait. But I’ve been so disappointed! Anna Paquin is not the way I thought Sookie Stackhouse would be at all. I do think Stephen Moyer is an excellent Bill. They’ve changed some of the characters and storylines, and I don’t necessarily think it enhances the show. I’ve still watched it, and look forward to next week’s season finale. I hope it gets renewed, ’cause there’s nothing I like more than my favorite books brought to life.
Bookworm
When Wia was born, I decided I was going to be the aunt that gives books. I’m a lifelong reader – it’s my relaxation method of choice – and I’d love nothing more than to instill that same love of reading in my nieces.
Wia loves to be read to, and so it’s a good thing that Grandma has enrolled her in the Children’s Book of the Month Club. So far, she’s received:
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Numeroff
If You Give a Pig a Pancake, by Laura Numeroff
Mother Goose, illustrated by Mary Engelbreit
Last year for Christmas, I gave Olivia four of the Bing Bunny books. She loved them, and now Emma loves them, too. She’s happy to sit on the floor all by herself and “read” the books to herself. It’s the cutest thing – she has those stories totally memorized. Her favorite is Bing: Paint Day, by Ted Dewan.
It’s only my favorite because of the way she tells it, with all the same inflection that we adults put on the words when we read it to her. She’s so smart!
