Always be a first rate version of yourself...: Loss of Loved One

What's Going On Here?

There are SO MANY wonderful book review blogs out there and I can't compete with them, that is for sure. So this is not a book review blog. This is just a way for me to organize what I have read so that I can be better at matching the right book to the right person. The blog title comes from the brilliant mind of the most talented woman who ever lived, Ms. Judy Garland. The full quote is, "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." That is what I hope to do here and in ever aspect of my life.

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Saturday, February 15, 2020

Happiness is

I remember this little Peanuts book that we had at our house when I was little. I loved that book! It was one of the first books I read on my own! The Other Half of Happy by Rebecca Balcárcel is just outstanding. Finding a book like this is happiness. Just. Excellent.

Monday, September 11, 2017

Had to Read It and Really Loved It

In a book group now! Well, I don't know if it will be a forever book group, but I hope so! It's with ladies from work and we are trying it! This was the book chosen for the first month, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry. Let me tell you, if you HATE books that sound like this, "I am 30 and single and I can't find a nice guy and I am going to be all alone and all of my friends are getting married and I just have my cats and I am battling my weight because David Levithan will hate me." you MIGHT have the same experience that I did and want to end this book after the first scene but DON'T. It is not like that at all. This is a really beautiful story.

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Faith Done Well

The Serpent King was one of those rare books that does faith really, really well. And even more well because there were SO many opportunities to turn this book into an anti-faith book. Dill being the son of a preacher who handled snakes before he ended up in prison for child porn and corruption of minors. But this book...wow.
I can just imagine Jesus reading this book and thinking, "Man, that was really, really well done. Thank you, good and faithful servant, Jeff Zentner. I learned a lot about snake handling when it comes to churches, too! How interesting!

Monday, January 2, 2017

Creepy...

Cyn Balog wrote Sleepless and Fairy Tale and I really, really liked them so very much. She is a creep-tasticly good author. I should read more of her stuff. I didn't love Unnatural Deeds as much as FT and Sleepless and I wonder if that is because I listened to it and it was hard to follow that way? Because I truly think that Balog is good good good!!! The only thing is that I did figure this out before the end. Which is really unusual for me! I also wish I would have learned more about Z. Still, I would recommend it, but to read, not audio unless one is smarter than I- which is probably 99.99% of the population!