A Girl Could Get Misty

The internets can be a wonderful place. Some of my favorite bleeps are writers/aspiring authors/book reviewers. They have book giveaways on their blogs on a regular basis.

In the span a few short days I won not one but TWO book giveaways! Thanks to Green Girl For "News To Me" and to Jenn for "The Red Queen"!

If you don't hear from me you can assume I'm off on a reading jaunt!

Burning Questions

I am 42 pages into The Used Word by Haven Kimmel. I bought it because I LOVED A Girl named Zippy. But I'm just not getting into it, you know? So tell me, have you read it? Do I press on or abandon ship book?

Shameless

I stole this photo meme, quite blatantly, from Vanessa.

• Find five things around your house that say something about the person you are
  
• and snap a picture of them.
  
• Tell us about them.
  
• Link back to me in your post.
  
• Tag five (if you feel like it) folks via their comments and tell us who you tagged

Let's begin by recalling that I have a "no pictures of family" policy. So my pictures will be of THINGS. And let's also agree that my skills as a photographer are..well..not the best.

I am in awe of artists of all kinds because I couldn't draw, paint, or sculpt to save my life. We've become friends with an artist here in town whose work I enjoy. We own several of his pieces, but this is my favorite:

This is a shot of the bottom shelves of my wine rack. Under pain of death, no one touches those bottles but me. I have these stashed away for special occasions and days when nothing but a really good glass of wine will make you feel better.

Books. Love them. Own some, borrow the rest.

(And there is another bookcase exactly like this on the other side of the window!)

My Tub:



It has soothing jets and is nice and deep.

A soak, a glass of wine, a good book....

And I'm ready for this:

Consider yourself tagged and show us your pictures!

Re-Cap in Pictures, Part I

Sorry for the delay folks, but I started reading The Other Boleyn Girl (by Philippa Gregory) on the flight home and I could not put it down. SOOOO Good!

This is the view from the bedroom into the sitting room. There were amazing wooden shutters that kept daylight out of the room (good for sleeping in!) but you could still hear the waves breaking on the beach.

Oh, and the balcony was breathtaking.

With wonderful banquettes for napping.

Or having your morning coffee!

There was quite a lovely view.

There were two monstrous television sets that we never turned on once.

The turn down service included chocolate covered strawberries

and bottle service. (Whee!)

To be continued...