Month: February 2014

Sibling Quiz – guessing closed

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In yesterday’s mailbox post I said that author Laura Moriarty was the sister of  Liane Moriarty and Sheree thankfully pointed out that I was wrong.   Australian Laine has two sisters, but they are Nicola and Jaclyn.  Oops! But it did give me the inspiration for this quiz about siblings!

Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize.  No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying.  You have til Sunday to enter.  All extras can be found here.

Leave your guesses in the comment section.  You only need to guess one to be eligible for a prize :)

I’m giving you the fictional family name and how many siblings there are and you fill in the names.  If you tell me what book they’re from you’ll earn 2 extra points 🙂  Don’t worry-I’ve provided all the names you need at the bottom.  You just need to put them in the right spot!

March (4)  Jo, Meg, Beth, Amy (Little Women)

Bennett (5)  Elizabeth, Jane, Mary, Catherine, Lydia (Pride & Prejudice)

Everdeen (2)  Katniss, Primrose (The Hunger Games)

Pevensie (4)  Peter, Edmund, Susan, Lucy (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)

Lear (3)  Goneril, Regan, Cordelia (King Lear)

Boatwright (3)  August, June, May (The Secret Life of Bees)

Finch (2)  Scout, Jem  (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Dashwood (3)  Elinor, Marianne, Margaret  (Sense & Sensibility)

Weasley (7)  Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, Ginny  (Harry Potter series)

Fitzgerald (3)  Anna, Kate, Jesse (My Sister’s Keeper)

Siblings-Katniss, Elizabeth, Jo, Lucy, Elinor, Marianne, Scout, Ginny, Anna, Kate, Meg, Jane, Jem, Goneril, August, Regan, Peter, Edmund, Amy, Beth, Primrose, May, June, Cordelia, Bill, Charlie, Percy, Lydia, Mary, Jesse, Margaret, Fred, George, Catherine, Ron, Susan

Happy Guessing! Answers to last week’s Cover Me quiz here. Leaderboard here.

Mailbox Monday – February 10

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mmb-300x282Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

IMG_5360I received The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh from Lloyd (The Book Sage) after a win on his blog. He raves about it so I’m excited 🙂  Thank you Lloyd!

I received a copy of Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen from the publisher and since I already purchased a copy it looks like there’s a giveaway coming up!

I picked up While I’m Falling by Laura Moriarty for under $2 at Barnes & Noble yesterday 🙂

So what showed up in your mailbox this week?

Weekends with Gage – A long week of hellos and goodbyes

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This last week has been a looooong week.  I took a 2 1/2 hour nap today and feel human again.  Here’s what’s been going on this week…

Goodbye Scout. We adopted Scout in August 1998 when she was around 3 months old.  We had to say a sad goodbye on Wednesday after 15 and a half years.  I admit that I still hear her meows around the house.  Gage knows that she lives in Heaven now and not with us. What he understands about that is a mystery.  Some cute kitty pics I could get my hands on fast.

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Hello Flu!  It started with vomiting early last Sunday morning, followed by a runny nose, cough, fever, not eating.  A week of sleeping in bed with mom, watching Madagascar way too many times, three trips to the doctor and a very sad boy who didn’t get to go to school or do anything fun.  Not that he had the energy for it.  Jason and I snuck away for dinner last night and came him right after to another fever.

Goodbye Marissa.  Marissa is one of Gage’s ABA tutors who has been coming to our house to work with Gage for the last year.  She is such a positive person and was so good with him.  We will all miss her, but she earned her Master’s degree in December and found  job in Pittsburgh.  Her last day was this morning.

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Hello Grandma and Grandpa!  They are here and not a moment too soon.  They moved into their apartment on Monday and have been over every day this week to give me some help/relief/distraction with Gage.  It’s so nice to have back-up. I think I could get used to this.

Goodbye (fingers crossed) Flu.  Today is the first day all week that Gage hasn’t woken up with a fever. Yea!  He may actually be able to go to school tomorrow.  Double Yea!

Cover Me Quiz – guessing closed

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Take your best guesses, be entered to win a prize.  No cheating (using the web to help find answers) or copying.  You have til Sunday to enter.  All extras can be found here.

Leave your guesses in the comment section.  You only need to guess one to be eligible for a prize :)

As the final wrap up to last year (yes, I know it’s February already!) I just want to see if you can recognize a few covers from last year’s books.  I know the book mark spoilers make it more difficult!

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1.The Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs  2.Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen  3.The Engagements by J Courtney Sullivan  4.The Last Word by Lisa Lutz  5.MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood  6.Inferno by Dan Brown  7.Identical by Scott Turow  8.The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty  9.Daddy’s Gone A Hunting by Mary Higgins Clark  10.Looking for Me by Beth Hoffman

Happy guessing!

Mailbox Monday – February 3

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mmb-300x282Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.

I received 3 things things in the mail this week.  Two books and a canvas bag.

IMG_5333If You Were Me and Lived in Turkey by Carole P Roman is part of a children’s book series that I’ve posted about before and I’m looking forward to sharing it with Gage.  Schism by Michael Phillip Cash doesn’t look like something I would read at all, but I will give it a few chapters at least. Both of these were surprises from Red Feather Productions.

IMG_5336This Agatha Christie canvas bag was a win from Dewey’s 24 hour read-a-thon last October sent from Harper Collins, thank you Angela!  Can you believe the size of the box and amount of packaging used to send me a flat bag?  I love the bag, but hate the waste.

So, what came in your mailbox this week?