Books Read and Red

Since I shared with you a few of the titles in the blue notebook I thought would also share a few reviews from its companion the red notebook.

The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exupery

This sweet story of love, devotion and magic will make you cry. A classic for all time it is no surprise that is is so well loved.

One Sunday Morning by Amy Ephron

A small book, ironically about the smallness of ourselves. The story takes place in the twenties but is very similar to an Edith Wharton story. A young lady is accidentally seen leaving a hotel with a young man who is engaged to her friend. Her peers - who watch from a window - assume the worst of her, and the story of both them and the young lady takes off from there. Since I am an Edith Wharton fan I enjoyed this book very much.

Both the blue and the red notebooks are slim Mead 1 subject notebooks. I used to keep them bound together with one of the gold elastics that comes around stationary. Our cat, Marcelle, decided she liked the gold elastic better as a cat toy. So now I keep them together with a plain rubber band.

Books to Read

I have two notebooks for books. The blue notebook is for books I would like to read. The red notebook is for notes on books I have read. Get it? I thought you would. The following list is from the first two pages of the blue notebook.

Books to Read

Field Guide to Getting Lost
-Rebecca Solmit

Catherine the Great: Memoirs of

Faith and Betrayal
-Sally Denton

Freddy & Fredericka
-Mark Helprin

The Summer We Got Saved
-Pat Cunningham Devoto

Cloud Atlas
-David Mitchell

Misfortune
-Wesley Stace

Any Bitter Thing
-Monica Wood

Miss Leavitt's Stars
-George Johnson

The Friend Who Got Away

Until I Find You
-John Irving

Penderwicks
-Jeanne Birdsall

Dog Sense
-Kathy Santos

Broken as Things Are
-Martha Witt

Complete Book of Vinyasa Yoga
-Srivasta Ramaswami

Fannie Farmer Baking Book

Uniform Numbers of the NFL
-John Maxymuk

Fanicful Paper Projects
-Michaels Crafts

Memory Keepers Daughter
-Kim Edwards

The Hill Road
-Patrick O'Keefe

Quite a diverse list of books. The italicized titles are books I have since read. I also keep a list at Goodreads.com. The blue notebook has many more pages of books I want to read. It also has many empty pages to keep the list of books I want to read growing, it is one of the reasons I like the blue notebook so much.

22 Random Things About Me

Some of you may have already seen this on Facebook. But it started in my polka-dotted notebook. The one I use for everyday stuff.

1. I have a notebook obsession. I have one for almost every purpose, and I carry one with me at all times.

2. I used to wish I was a redhead, but whenever I use hair-color it is always blonde.

3. In school I suffered from bloody noses and deja vu. I've since outgrown them both.

4. I've named all of Sonya's dog toys, and she knows them all by name.

5. I have 27 first cousins.

6. My bedtime is 1:00a.m., and no matter what I do I cannot change it.

7. I prefer to write in pencil.

8. I've learned that although there is much in this life that you cannot control, you still have choices. I choose to be happy.

9. I have two light fixtures in my house that I want to replace, but at the store I get overwhelmed by my choices, and end up with a stiff neck.

10. I refuse to hate.

11. I learned from my mother all about cooking but I learned how to best use a kitchen from Alton Brown.

12. I regularly pray for my friends.

13. Smiles are what I judge a person by.

14. The fact that I am from the Buffalo area comes up in conversation more often than I ever thought it would.

15. I'm not satisfied with a single outlet for my creativity, so I have a lot of hobbies.

16. I killed my T.V. unintentionally - if I had resolved to kill it, the T.V. would have won.

17. I love audio books and short stories because I believe the art of story telling is the most beautiful of all.

18. I have not made up my mind on kids. But since adopting my dog, I have decided that time and biology are not an issue.

19. People never cease to surprise me, and I love that.

20. I learn something new every day.

21. I live by several mantras (who says it has to be 1?)
"There is no such thing as a bad day."
"Live well, laugh often, love much."
and my favorite, "just keep riding and singing."

22. I love being an Aunt.

An Obsession

I have an obsession. I'm not even sure how many notebooks I currently own. I know that each has its own purpose. Some I've discovered, some are still waiting to be discovered. Instead of keeping them all to myself I've decided to share them with you. Here you will find lists, ideas, notes and more. Some seem to serve a purpose, others are just to amuse, and all were written by me.