Waiting on Wednesday.... Morsel

So today's agenda for Once Upon A Week is Waiting on Wednesday...

Which isn't a meme I usually do, and since I spent all of Tuesday feeling crummy, I haven't looked too closely at what it entails.

But I know that it's basically all about a book you're waiting for-- excited about.

So, I thought I'd give you a Wednesday Morsel from a book I've been waiting on!

(Yes it's now out and I have it sitting here, so it's not a true WoW, but still.)

From the very first page of The Mermaid's Madness (by Jim C. Hines, sequel to The Stepsister Scheme)--

"The queen had discarded the royal gowns of court for clothes that bordered on improper. With her dark blue breeches and loose, pale shirt she could almost have passed for a sailor."

Now that's my kind of queen. Now if only Danielle (aka Cinderella) can keep from being horribly seasick....

Wednesday Morsel-- Play Along!!

Grab the nearest book. Turn to page 170.

Find the LAST sentence on the page.

"It took a month for him to recover from the pickles, but he did get a lot of reading done on the toilet as a result."
No Mad by Sam Mofie

Hmm... maybe I should have checked what the sentence would be.... :)

Sooooo, play along! Either here or on your own blog-- but leave me a link so I can check it out!

(My sentence is 26 words long... Who's got something longer?)

Wednesday Morsel-- Revisited

Wow it's been a long time since I did a Wednesday Morsel. Hmm.

I had a new thought. Actually, I saw it on Facebook. But since I'm too lazy to go to Facebook to look up the actual details, I'm going to make it up.

Grab the nearest book. Open to page 56. Find the 5th sentence.

"In the end, the good guys would win the shootout, and the hero would ride off into the sunset on a beautiful and faithful horse named Boy."
--Journal According to John by Sheryl A. Keen (review coming soon... like Monday.)

So, that was a major deja vu moment. Maybe I remembered the details from Facebook without having to go look it up....

Play along! Add your own pg 56/5th sentence either here in the comments or on your own blog!!

Wednesday Morsel

Name that book!

Pluto

Pluto was a planet.
But now it doesn't pass.
Pluto was a planet.
They say it's lacking mass.
Pluto was a planet.
Pluto was admired.
Pluto was a planet.
Till one day it got fired.

:D:D

Wednesday Morsel

Actually today, instead of a quote, I have a recipe. Shared by Ingrid Law, author of Savvy (AWESOME book!) on Maw Books in this fabulous author interview.

Close to Perfect Chocolate Pie
Crust:1 1/2 cups Nilla Wafer crumbs

6 Tbsp melted butter
Mix well and pat into pie pan.

Chill for one hour (more or less) OR bake it at 375 degrees for 15 minutes.
Filling:

Blend for a minute with a mixer or in a blender:

1 package INSTANT (don’t make the mistake and not get instant) vanilla pudding

1 package INSTANT chocolate pudding

1 1/2 cups milk
Now add one pint (2 cups) of softened vanilla ice cream and mix it into the pudding blend. Pour this into the crumb crust and chill for several hours. Top it with grated chocolate, mini chocolate chips, mini marshmallows, or whatever your heart desires! I tried whipped cream once, but it put it too far over the top!

Does that not sound beyond all amazing???

Now go: read the rest of the interview... enter the giveaway... visit Ingrid Law's website... all that fun stuff!

I'm gonna go make me a pie.

Wednesday Morsel

(Yeah, I know. It's Tuesday night. It's been one of those weeks.)

"Furniture Drive for Homeless Launched"

"Researchers call murder a threat to public health"

"Tribal council to hold June meeting in June"

"Man admits killing violated probation"

"Animal unit seeks rabbit witnesses"

"Jail's $34-million price tag doesn't include cell doors"

"Genuine fake eelskin"

"8 bagels for $1.49 (limit 3)"

"9-volt smoke alarm with silencer"

"NEED Plain Clothes Security. Must have shop lifting experience."

And finally: (I love this one)
"NEED BABYSITTER at my home, bring own lunch and dinner. Stay until I get home. 6:15 am until whenever. No overtime pay."

Now I may be crazy... but as a MOM that sounds a LOT like MY job description!!

:D:D

Wednesday Morsel-- Special Edition

That's right, in honor of National Library Week, I'm doing Wednesday Morsel a little differently this week.

Rather than a "name that book" quote, I'm going to give you clues and you guess a title I have checked out from the library right now. Pick a title, any title. (I have a lot checked out, so you have options.)

I have 4 DVDs checked out.

I have 9 nonfiction- one of which is a biography by an author I have reviewed before.

I have 5 JF/YF/Early Readers. At least 2 are for me. They may or may not be by Lois Lowry. ;)

I have 10 fiction-- at least 4 of which are Reader's Choice... that I have not read yet.

I have 10 picture books-- one of which is a retelling of a nonfiction I've read and reviewed recently.

I also have 4 books on hold... and 1 DVD.

Have at it. Guess a title, any title. And support your local library!!

Wednesday Morsel Answer Time

Wow. No guesses on last week's morsel. Interesting.
It was from Poisoned Pedigree by G G Vandagriff. Really really fun book.



You should start reading at the beginning, though-- Cankered Roots is first, then Of Deadly Descent, then Tangled Roots and then Poisoned Pedigree.

Wednesday Morsel

Here we go, another week, another Wednesday...

Another fun quote for you to ponder...

Name that book!

Perhaps that last plea finally did it. She started placing one foot in front of the other. Opening her eyes, she felt the light pierce them and shut them quickly. Her head was pounding. "If you seduce Kerry, I'll kill you," she murmured to Charles.
"Not much chance of that. I'm a little busy right now," Charles told her.

Okay, yeah, it's kind of a hard one. I know.

I'll give you a hint. The "she" is named Alex.

Wednesday Morsel Answer Time

That's right it was indeed--
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron



I just LOVE that part. Don't you?

Now I'm dying to know why it's been banned in some libraries! I've read it, but what did I miss? What am I forgetting?

And how on earth could anyone ban The Giver?????????? That's positively criminal.

Wednesday Morsel

Name that book:

"Well," Lucky finally said, "what's the deal with the sign?"

"Did you read it?" Lincoln asked.

Lucky skirted around to the front of the sign, which was bolted to a metal post, and studied the words in large black capital letters against the orangy-yellow background:

SLOW CHILDREN AT PLAY

Lucky frowned. "So?" she asked.

"That sign is about us," Lincoln said. "Where's the pen?"...

Next to SLOW, he drew two neat perfect-size dots, one like a period and the other a little above it. Lucky knew it was a colon and it made the sign mean, "You must drive slow: There are children at play."

"Wow," she said. "That is... presidential."

:D

Wednesday Morsel Answer Time

Congrats to those that said Eats, Shoots and Leaves! It is indeed.

Actually, though, I was sneaky and used the caption from an illustration in the Illustrated Edition-- which you can find out all about it that cute little Amazon widget over there in the sidebar.

I really want to post the picture, but the publisher hasn't responded to my email yet, so I don't know if I can legally do that. If they say I can, it'll go up!

Mrs. B Roth, it's only open-ended brackets, so you're fine. :D

"Brackets" because it's really a British book and they call () brackets and [] square brackets, while here in America they are parentheses and brackets, respectively.

The use of emoticons has actually increased this problem. How many times have you seen this: (blah blah blah :) ? That my friends is an open-ended bracket. It should be: (blah blah blah :) ) which yes, looks awkward, but it's still right.

(Sticklers Unite!)

Wednesday Morsel

"An open bracket inflicts existential suffering."

Name that book.

:D (It just makes me giggle.)

Wednesday Morsel

So I had a thought. (Yeah, it happens... sometimes they're even useful thoughts.)

I should see if anyone can guess where the quote came from rather than just telling you. Fun, right?

So here goes-- this week's quote: (we'll start with an easy one...)

"She stopped again, and then said, in a very matter-of-fact tone, 'You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you die, you need not hand it in.'"

Name the book! (Bonus points for knowing what character "she" is.)

Wednesday Morsel

What do you think of that name for this weekly feature? It's not the alliteration that I was looking for, but it's not bad, right?

Okay, this one is pretty silly, and totally not seasonally appropriate, but it cracks me up and it's running through my head!

The Perfect Pumpkin Pie by Denys Cazet
(Which is a picture book)

"Pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin pie
I must have some before I die
It must be round and brown as toast
or I'll haunt this house a hungry ghost.
I'll haunt this house and here I'll stay
I'll haunt this house and never go awaaaaaaay."

(On a tangentially related note- the "block quote" text option hates me.)

Wednesday Quote Time

Which, yeah, needs a better name. Any ideas?

One bit of Blog Business first-- the list of March Possible Reads at the moment includes Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card and Dragon Slippers by Jessica Day George. I'll keep taking suggestions until the 12th or so....

On to today's quote!

From The Planets by Dava Sobel

Nothing could summon water from those dark seas of the Moon because they are, all of them, dry. Nor have the Moon's so-called seas ever known the presence of water. Though the lunar maria hintedd off a fluid interconnectedness to the first astronomers who eyed them and names them through telescopes, the first Moonwalkers to tread them retrieved the driest imaginable materials from their shores.
"Bone-dry", the lunar samples were described, though they are much drier than bones, which form inside the Earth's wet living systems, and retain the memory of water long after death.
Dry as dust then? No, drier still. On Earth, even dust holds water.