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

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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.

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

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

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.

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 very related to the ear – any action that you do with your ear.

HEAR
listen, anything else you can come up with the ear’s actions etc

My THURSDAY THEME for HEAR is here.

“She won’t listen to her husband, and she won’t listen to me, but she may listen to you.”

[and one more snippet...]

What good is your conscience if it doesn’t tell you what you don’t want to hear.

Taken from “Escape” By Barbara Delinsky

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My Teaser:

“You weren’t supposed to hear that. I’d appreciate it if you keep it to you yourself.”
Taken from Escape By Barbara Delinsky

Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s voice.

My Friday 56 is from “Heat Rises” by Richard Castle.

“There’s that money we found,” she said.
“There’s the agreement we had,” he said.

Source for ‘The Book’ section : From Goodreads
For One More Day is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that covers a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one?
As a child, Charley “Chick” Benetto was told by his father, “You can be a mama’s boy or a daddy’s boy, but you can’t be both.” So he chooses his father, only to see the man disappear when Charley is on the verge of adolescence.

Decades later, Charley is a broken man. His life has been crumbled by alcohol and regret. He loses his job. He leaves his family. He hits bottom after discovering his only daughter has shut him out of her wedding. And he decides to take his own life.

He makes a midnight ride to his small hometown, with plans to do himself in. But upon failing even to do that, he staggers back to his old house, only to make an astonishing discovery. His mother—who died eight years earlier—is still living there, and welcomes him home as if nothing ever happened.

What follows is the one “ordinary” day so many of us yearn for, a chance to make good with a lost parent, to explain the family secrets, and to seek forgiveness. Somewhere between this life and the next, Charley learns the astonishing things he never knew about his mother and her sacrifices. And he tries, with her tender guidance, to put the crumbled pieces of his life back together.

The View:

I picked this book yesterday and had the urge to finish reading it immediately. Many times a book that triggers strong emotions from me is always a complex one, so I was genuinely surprised by this book. ‘For One More Day’ is a thought-provoking book and yet a simple read

This book is more of an experience – an experience that will make a difference in our daily life. I am a grown woman and like everybody else I have problems with my mother, we argue, we discuss and we debate. But the very first moment I need a friend, I turn to her for her advice or criticism. This book reminded me of how much I cherish the love of my mother and now that I am one I want my daughter to love me the same way I love my Mom. Deep thoughts yes, but this is what this book did to me. I particularly loved the sections that said “Times My Mother Stood Up For Me” and “Times I Didn’t Stand Up For My Mother”. They are simple life moments that all of us must have gone through but never realized it in the way it has been written.

Charley Benetto’s mom is like all our mother’s, she loves her son unconditionally and shows it in every way possible. Her little handwritten notes are my inspiration and I want to do that for my girl soon. Her disappointments and sacrifices will surely bring a tear to your eye.

Rated a 5 on 5 for the fantastic writing, heart rendering story and for the emotions it rekindles in the user.

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 very related to the eye – any action that you do with your eye.

SEE
WINK, VISION, ROLL etc

My THURSDAY THEME for SEE is here.

“Oh, absolutely,” said Heat, returning his wink.

[and one more snippet...]

“You should see units any minute.”

Taken from “Heat Rises” By Richard Castle

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