As the holiday season gets into full swing it seems that everyone is compiling their list of Best Books of 2010 or Gift Book lists. It is always interesting and fun to see what others are reading and recommending. So without further ado here is this years Best Teen Books […]
The after Thanksgiving panic of shopping has started. The holidays are fast approaching and how to find the perfect gift for everyone on your list? And how to avoid the fruitcake and cheese balls? Without being too biased books are the most wonderful solution. And to make it even better […]
A little something for your after Thanksgiving fun!
After interviewing Presenting Lenore and seeing her lovely cats I though I would share my lovely cats too. Incase you have not visited my Cat Page, this is my cat Merlin named after the wizard. Click here to see a history about Merlin and Harry. Merlin has been his normal […]
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Friday is the big day for Harry Potter fans. Friday is when Part 1 of the Harry Potter finale is starting. The day that all the Harry Potter Series fans have been waiting for. Well the waiting is over and if you have not bought your ticket you just might […]
The time has come for the Book Bloggers Holiday Swap to come around again. If you would like to make a book blogger out there feel really happy then you should join in with the fun. But if you do not know what you are getting yourself into then go […]
Just getting this in before midnight………Bram Stoker the author of Dracula was born this day in 1847. This was the book that started it all. Before Twilight. Before Buffy. Before everything. Vampire stories are legend and found in many cultures. But the gothic Prince of Darkness who left his home […]
I know that we are 7 days into November but it is never to late to start. NaNoWriMo is a writing “project” where your goal is about 50,000 words and all you do is write, write, write, write, write all the month of November. 50,000 words might not seem like […]
Wow! More here. Click through the pictures. Not just functional, but beautiful too.
As we are moving into a new season, and summer time will end this weekend (do they still call it summer time?) we are wrapping the blog in a new look for the season. With a nod to our Scottish heritage (Grandma was from Edinburgh). And we are enveloping our […]
We are well into autumn now and have tucked Halloween away (sorry, we didn’t really touch on it) and now we are into November. The festive season. Well, the beginnings of it. Much to read and write about. Poems and pictures. Can’t wait!
by M.O.M. This is a book blog, simple and to the point. Occasionally there are brief related topics – movies, poems, book related things, fun things that somehow connect to the printed word. It is written (for the most part) by a rampant book reader who is young, and found […]
Hey, it saves a lot of room when folded.
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Have you been keeping up on the Chilean mining situation? After what must have felt like an eternity in the dark, so far underground, the miners are being rescued. Slowly and carefully, one by one. To read of their ordeal is sobering. But did you know that while they have […]
Some of us here at MLCWO are old enough to remember John Lennon, and some of us aren’t. But we both love his music and the poetry of words and music he left us. If he had been alive he would have been really old today. No matter. Wherever you […]
The Upside-down Cafe!!!!! Source
There is nothing better than a good ‘who done it’. Everyone loves a good mystery whether it is Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie, Stephen King or Jonathan Frazen. WHO? Jonathan Frazen. Who is he you might ask. A writer of some merit, but not YA or children’s books. He is a […]
Trinity College Library I know this might not be a weird bookcase or something interesting, but just look at all the books. There must be thousands and thousands. That is one library that I would love to get lost in. You can tell they have a lot of books because […]
