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Kabul Beauty School

Kabul Beauty School is a book that stays with you. It gets under your skin in ways you don’t realize as your reading the book. Amelia turned me onto this book.
Deborah Rodriguez is an interesting person who has amazing determination to get things done and doesn’t take no for an answer. You learn enough of […]

Edgar Winners.

Not only have I not read any of these, I had not heard of them either.  Have you read any   What’s good
Edgar Winners
BEST NOVEL
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR
The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Random House)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara (Bantam […]

Thursday Thirteen: 58

1. My NEW camera came. It has so many features I will be learning how to use for awhile. I got a:
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1S 5MP Compact Digital Camera with 10x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Silver)
2. I bought it from Amazon. 40% off!
3. Here is a picture of the […]

Spellbinder

Spellbinder is the first book I’ve read by Melanie Rawn. I picked it up at the library, because of the title and I saw the word “magic” on the cover. It was only when I got it home that I saw that it said: “A Love Story with Magical Interruptions”. I did not have high […]

Pinks

My husband is a car junkie. Anything with an engine and he’s in love. His favorite cars are muscle cars from the mid-sixties to early seventies. More than once I have watched him take a car down to the frame and put back together. No books, no manuals. A pile of nuts, bolts and metal […]

Thursday Thirteen: 57 Post Storm Edition

1. Our cable just came up. I am connected to the world. Dancing a jig here.
2. I intend to take another extremely hot shower tonight.
3. I missed my coffee in the morning.
4. I have an empty fridge. I cringe at how much it is going to cost to fill it back […]

Update 2

I never realize how noisy my house is until we lose the power.  At midnight I woke up to all this noise.  The furnance was working and there was light!  Woo-Hoo! 
I took the hottest shower I could stand this morning.  And, it was wonderful.
Cable is still out: no tv, phone or internet.  That’s ok.  We […]

Are you sure you want a beach house

 
A powerful surf has been pounding homes along the shore of Ferry Beach in Saco, causing two of them to collapse. What’s left of the buildings are now resting on the ocean’s edge. Both are in danger of being swept out to sea.

Update 1

This is Shore Road.  I drive this route everyday.  Shore Road has been closed since yesterday. In fifteen years I have never seen this happen.
And this lovely item:
Tens Of Thousands Of Mainers Left Without Power
It’s going to be another busy day for power line crews, they’re now dealing with more than 115,000 outages across the […]