This past week I read two books kinda at the same time. One book I left in the living room and one in my bedroom and read them whenever I could spare the time. The funny thing is these books were polar opposites, but at the same time had a similar underlying theme. The two books were Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury and The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare. They both were great but like I said they could not have been more different.
Something Wicked was such a boy book. It's about 2 boys and a dad who try to figure out how to save the town and themselves from something wicked. I wont tell you how it ends but I will say that is was really well written and fun to read (except for all the swear words! but I always just read over those) It was really fun to read from a male point of view. I realized that I don't remember the last book I read that was written by a man. It's so interesting how the tone of this book is so much different than say Harry Potter which is the story of a boy but written by a woman.
The other book, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, was very cute and fun to read. It was about a girl from Barbados who had to move to Connecticut to get out of marrying a really old dude. She was the granddaughter of a Knight and so was not expected to do anything but look pretty. Coming to the colonies was not exactly what she had expected as she had to work very hard to help her Aunt, Uncle and her 2 cousins with the chores and house hold duties. Girl book through and through! I loved it and would recommend it to anyone!
These books may not seem similar in the least bit, but they are in that both have the underlying themes of love and happiness. Not that the ends of these two books are at all similar, but they still seem, to me, to have the same feel. Sam told me that I see love in all the books I read because I'm such a LOVEly person. I don't know, maybe it is just me and I'm crazy and all, but what do you think? Have you ever read a book without love? All ya need is LOVE! ;}
I can't believe my little Zekie Boy is now in school. He started kindergarten and we made it through the first week. Zeke was so excited for school and had so many ideas of what his first day of school would be like. When we went to pick him up he seemed disappointed. He said he was sad that they hadn't learned to read and that they didn't even sing the ABC song! Then he said, "I didn't even get any homework!" I'm so glad that he's excited to learn. The rest of the week went smoother because I think he realized that they were taking it a little slow. There have been a few things that have been fun. ( I have to warn you my son was born on a Wednesday! "Wednesday's child is full of woe")
invisible apple cake
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A dozen years ago I shared my mother-in-law’s recipe for apple sharlotka
(which family just calls “apple thing”), a lightly sweetened apple dessert
that’...
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