A Book Lover’s Tag

I just saw a lovely post over on Ivon Prefontaine’s blog called A Book Lover’s Tag  and it inspired me to answer the questions and post them here and give a call out to all of you book lovers who have been on this journey with the book tour for Jay.  This was my post contribution for Jay’s debut novel #Watching Glass Shatter!  I’m not nominating anyone in particular, but if you feel so inclined, please let me know you did it as I’d love to read your responses!

1. Do you have a favorite place to read? Yes, I like to read in bed or on the couch.
2. Do you use bookmarks or random pieces of paper? I use random pieces of paper if it’s a real book.  If not, then I use the bookmarks on the kindle.
3. Do you eat or drink while you read? Not usually.
4. Do you listen to music or watch TV? No, I like to read in silence.
5. Do you read one book or several at a time? If I’m power-reading (meaning so into the book I can’t put it down) like I was with Jay’s book, then it’s one at a time.  But I enjoy reading a few books at a time too.
6. Do you prefer reading at home or elsewhere? I will take the kindle on trips with me, but normally, I just read at home.
7. Do you read silently or out loud? I read silently.
8. Do you read ahead or skip about? I read straight through the book.  I never like to skip about or read ahead.
9. Do you break the spine or treat it like new? I usually don’t break the spine and I tend to treat the book well so that I can pass it along in good shape.
10. Do you write in books? If it’s a favorite self-help book, then I will turn down pages or maybe even underline.  But for the most part, I don’t mark them up.
11. What books are you reading now? I am reading The Tao of Equus:  A Woman’s Journey of Healing & Transformation Through The Way Of The Horse by Linda Kohanov on my kindle.  Thanks Karel at Peace With My Life for the suggestion.
12. What is your childhood favorite book? The Secret Garden comes to mind as well as Gone With The Wind which my best friend read to me in sixth grade when I was home sick for awhile.  For children’s books, Goodnight Moon and Dr. Seuss’ books.
13. What is your favorite book of all time?  Oh my, I don’t think I have a true absolute favorite book – maybe Gone With The Wind if I had to choose one.  But I have many books that I enjoy re-reading.  The authors Louise Hay, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Doreen Virtue, Tosha Silver, Florence Scovel Shinn and many others come to mind as favorites that I can reread at leisure when I need a little pick me up!  I also like the romance author Kaitlin O’Riley’s many historical romance novels.

Thanks for playing along and reading my post!  I love to read other people’s responses so feel free to answer the questions in a post and let me know so I can visit you too!

Shine On!

xo

P.S.  The Daily Prompt’s HONK made me think of making a bumper sticker!  What do you think of mine?

 

Duck, Duck GOOSE!

I’m giggling today from inside my home.  I live on a country road now and as I’ve told you in an earlier post, we have corn fields across the street that the migrating geese have chosen to call home for now.  Literally hundreds of geese are covering the acres of corn fields that the farmer has recently razed.  Did you know that a bunch of geese on the ground are called a gaggle of geese?  But when they are flying, they are called a flock of geese?  There’s your new fact for the day if you didn’t already know it!

Ok, back to my story…

Today it’s drizzling and from my quiet living room, I keep hearing car horns.  Every third or fourth car that travels down the windy road pushes on his car horn in a succession of beeps and slows down.  From my window, I can’t see the reason and it’s a very unusual occurrence here to hear the cacophony of car horns.

So I finally went out to investigate.  It seems that the geese are sometimes stepping off the farmer’s property into the road or getting so close the edge that the drivers are feeling wary and in warning, are honking their car horns.

Every time a car honks, the geese honk back in greeting!  It’s got me in a fit of giggles.  I can’t help myself.  Frustrated drivers are swerving in anticipation of the possibility of hitting an unaware goose who ambles close to the road and the rest of the flock fuss at his car horn!  A few even have rushed the car, wings outstretched, necks out, honking and trying to bite the car wheels.  Not that they even get close because usually the car speeds up once it realizes that there may be a goose chase.  But it’s funny to watch!  Laughter is the best medicine!

It reminds me of that childhood game….Duck Duck —-GOOOOOOSE!

Shine On!

xo

P.S.  The photo above is not by me as I didn’t feel like getting sopping wet in the rain or having the geese who are already agitated decide to goose me too! LOL