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Hello everyone, I hope you all had a sweet Valentine's Day.

I had a nice one here. Hubby treated me with takeout (chicken milanese) from one of my fav restaurants so I wouldn't have to cook dinner.
He knows the key to my heart is chocolate, so he also got me chocolate covered strawberries and little heart shaped chocolate mousse cakes:P







A frog balloon to boot...








As far as reading goes, I'm almost done with Wuthering Heights and am truly enjoying this re-read. It's all so dramatic and gloomy, the perfect read for curling up on the couch during these cold winter nights.




I'll sneak in a teaser:





Teaser Tuesdays asks:

Grab your current read

Open to a random page

Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

'He might spare himself the trouble,' said Heathcliff: 'I could do as well without his approbation. And as to you, Catherine, I have a mind to speak a few words now, while we are at it. I want you to be aware that I KNOW you have treated me infernally - infernally! Do you hear? And if you flatter yourself that I don't perceive it, you are a fool; and if you think I can be consoled by sweet words, you are an idiot: and if you fancy I'll suffer unrevenged, I'll convince you of the contrary, in a very little while! Meantime, thank you for telling me your sister-in-law's secret: I swear I'll make the most of it. And stand you aside!'

I'm also reading and will be reviewing very soon:




The Shepherd








The Case for Falling in Love






The Liberation of Alice Love




Last but not least, I made Devil's Food chocolate cupcakes this past week as part of a Valentine's office party. I'll leave you with a few pics. For quick and fluffy icing, I like to mix even amounts of Cool Whip with canned icing.










Enjoy your Tuesday. What are you up to this week?

Really Random Tuesday is hosted by Suko.






January is coming to an end and we are in the midst of a deep freeze over here. Last week my kids had two snow days since the white stuff fell in the beginning and in the end of the school week. We're expecting another snowstorm tomorrow as well.

I love how pretty untouched snow is, but it does get tiresome after a while with the shoveling, commuting in it and the freezing temps. It was -3degrees yesterday morning as I drove to work. I'd give anything to be on a tropical beach right about now sipping my drink and reading a book.



I've been hibernating at home most weekends and evenings now and reading or playing Angry Birds on my iTouch :)



If any of you play this game, you know how addictive it is.




Another thing I've been busy with lately has been changing my blog look.
I've had my book blog for almost 4 years. Can you believe that?

Anyway, for those who may not know, my blog looked like this:




I created this new blog header myself and finally upgraded my template on Blogger.
Another thing I realized, my profile on blogger finally works. I gave a little squeal of joy when I saw this last week. My profile had been a broken link for years. I contacted blogger several times to no avail, then I just gave up. That's why I always left a link to my book blog when I would comment on other peoples blogs, so they could find me.


Thank you all for the nice comments on my new blog look.

I do have one question for my visitors. Is my blog taking a long time to load?









Teaser Tuesdays asks:

Grab your current read

Open to a random page

Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

I wanted to leave you all with a teaser from a book I'm currently reading as part of a TLC Book Tour. Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide is Linda Gray Sexton's powerful and
moving memoir. Linda is the daughter of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Anne Sexton, who committed suicide. A few pages into this moving read, I found myself teary eyed.

After my mother's death, I began to fold myself down into the rich fabric provided by the details of her life, and when I matured into my late thirties, still entranced by her, I first began to admit to myself, on some conscious level, that a legacy of suicide both existed and flourished in the growing muck of my life. It became hard to see beyond the murk. In the thrall of the strong and desperate love we had shared, I began to ask myself where she ended and I began.
p.27

Last but not least, I discovered wordsmith.org over @ Carol's blog. You enter a word, then get tons of anagrams for it.

Here's an anagram for my first and last name:


A Nomadic Evil Kin


Does that mean anything? lol




Enjoy your Tuesday everyone, stay warm.

Teaser Tuesdays asks:

Grab your current read.

Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

She met my eyes across the crowded hall. Everyone was pretending that they had not seen the exchange between her and the king, as if they were not speculating whether he would make her his mistress, and when.

The Queen's Pawn by Christy English

Teaser Tuesdays asks:

Grab your current read.

Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

She did not know she was drunk, drunk with fatigue and whisky. She only knew she had left her tired body and floated somewhere above it where there was no pain and weariness and her brain saw things with inhuman clarity.

She was seeing things with new eyes for, somewhere along the road to Tara, she had left her girlhood behind her.

Teaser Tuesdays asks:

Grab your current read.

Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

"If you're teasing me Westley, I'm just going to kill you."

"How can you even dream I might be teasing?"

"Well, you haven't once said you loved me."

"That's all you need? Easy. I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I love you.
Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I."

- The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman

Teaser Tuesdays asks:

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Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

He waded out across the drifted fields. The snow lay deep and gray.
Already there was a fresh fall of ash on it. He struggled a few more feet then turned and looked back.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Teaser Tuesdays asks:

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Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

"I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this-have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley..."

title: Dear John

author: Nicholas Sparks



Teaser Tuesdays asks:

Grab your current read.

Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

I know in my heart that this isn't over, and that we'll make it through this. Lots of couples do. Granted, lots of couples don't, but they don't have what we have.

Teaser Tuesdays asks:

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Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

"I have wanted you since the first time I laid eyes on you, in the hall of Twelve Oaks, when you were bewitching poor Charlie Hamilton. I want you more than I have ever wanted any woman-and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman."

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Teaser Tuesdays asks:

Grab your current read.

Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

"And you do look gorgeous when you are mad. I'll squeeze you again-there-just to see if you will really get mad. You have no idea how charming you were that day at Twelve Oaks when you were mad and throwing things."

"Oh please, won't you forget that?"

"No, it is one of my most priceless memories-a delicately nurtured Southern belle with her Irish up-You are very Irish, you know."

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Teaser Tuesdays asks:

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Let the book fall open to a random page.

Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.

Elizabeth gasped. Her closest friend, striken by the plague! Condemned to serve Satan! Her instincts demanded she back away. She listened as Charlotte recounted the unhappy event, which occured during her Wednesday walk to Longbourn.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Seth Grahame-Smith