Theme Thursdays [Smell] – 23Feb12

Theme Thursdays is a fun weekly event that will be open from one thursday to the next. Anyone can participate in it. The rules are simple:

• A theme will be posted each week (on Thursday’s)
• Select a conversation/snippet/sentence from the current book you are reading
• Mention the author and the title of the book along with your post
• It is important that the theme is conveyed in the sentence (you don’t necessarily need to have the word)
  Ex: If the theme is KISS; your sentence can have “They kissed so gently” or “Their lips touched each other” or “The smooch was so passionate”

This will give us a wonderful opportunity to explore and understand different writing styles and descriptive approaches adopted by authors.

This week’s theme is related to the nose – any action that you do with your nose. I can only think of SMELL and BREATHE for now, but go ahead and come up with something more innovative.

SMELL Breathe, Anything else you can come up with the nose’s functions

My THURSDAY THEME for SMELL is here.

“I swear I smell a wet dog.”

Taken from “Skinny Dip” By Carl Hiaasen

Leave a comment here with a link to your post. Do make sure to visit and comment on other Theme Thursdays.

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Sweet Jiminy by Kristin Gore

The Book:

Source for ‘The Book’ section : From Goodreads
In the throes of a quarter-life crisis, Jiminy Davis abruptly quits law school and flees Chicago for her grandmother Willa’s farm in rural Mississippi. In search of peace and quiet, Jiminy instead stumbles upon more trouble and turmoil than she could have imagined.

She is shocked to discover that there was once another Jiminy – the daughter of her grandmother’s longtime housekeeper, Lyn, who was murdered along with Lyn’s husband four decades earlier in a civil rights era hate crime. With the help of Lyn’s nephew, Bo, Jiminy sets out to solve the cold case, to the dismay of those who would prefer to let sleeping dogs lie.

Beautifully written, and with a sure grip on the tensions and social mores of small towns in the South, Sweet Jiminy will captivate its readers, and fans of Kristin Gore’s earlier novels will be intrigued and compelled by this new direction for her fiction.

The View:

I have been struggling to keep up with my reading and blogging and even took a week’s break to get my life in order. Don’t ask me if I did manage to do that, because the answer is an obvious NO. The only difference … is now I am ready to face the chaos that life throws at me. Ok, so now about the book.

Kristin Gore was recommended to me by my Librarian and God save those who don’t listen to a librarian. With high recommendations, a lovely book cover and just under 250 pages this was my first read last weekend. Jiminy Davis leaves her busy life behind and decides to visit her grandmother for a peaceful retreat. Urging to do something during her time there, she pokes around her grandfather’s belongings and finds a piece from the past that needs to be solved.

The characters in this book are unbelievably believable (does that make sense). They are honest and unique in their own rights. The emotions that they are wrapped in plays very diligently with the events their life places them in. The budding romance between Jiminy and Bo was gentle and sweet. I liked that it was underplayed and did not drive the plot. The plot was a mixture of violence, racism and immigration issues which I thought was unnecessary and in some cases even forced in. The story with its basic plot would have been just as interesting.

Rated a 4 on 5 and I still have to make the visit to the library to thank the librarian for the wonderful choice she made for me.

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Teaser Tuesdays – 21st Feb 2012

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Here are the rules for participating in this meme..

Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:

Stranahan waved. “Over here, numbnuts!”
Chaz approached tentatively, continuing to affect the coiled pose of a kung fu master. He seemed alarmed to see his blackmailer sitting in a small canoe.

Taken from page 195 : Skinny Dip By Carl Hiaasen

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It’s Monday! What are you reading? 2012/02/20

This is a weekly meme hosted by Sheila from Book Journey. The books I read in the past week is here. I didn’t read too much as I am entering a new phase of life that is keeping me busy. But I try to squeeze in an hour’s read every night during bedtime.

I am not aiming for too much this week and am just hoping to finish the one book I am holding onto now.

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Out this week

Hello everyone

Hope you are all having a good time.. I am leaving this quick post to tell you that I am out this week and hence will not be participating / hosting any meme’s or posting any new reviews.

Lets say .. This is my holiday week (virtually)

Will catch up with you all next week.