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myjaxon August 8th, 2009

Shiloh Walker is looking for our help. Her local library has had a major catastrophe and they are looking for books. Here’s the information from her website:
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On August 4, heavy rains caused flooding in Louisville, Kentucky and the surrounding areas. The Louisville Free Public Library’s main branch was hit hard and the damages are estimated at $1 million.

I’m putting to together a book drive in effort to help.

How you can help:
Everybody:

• Donations of new books, all genres.
• Information about monetary donations can be found at WFPL.

Authors & Publishers:

• Donations of both signed and unsigned books. All genres, from children’s books to romance to non-fiction, etc, etc.
• Signed books can be used in fundraiser purposes. Unsigned books can be used to help replenish the books that were lost due to the flood.

I have spoken with somebody with the library and at this time, they have no place to store books. However, I’m close and I will keep the books at my house until they are able to take them.

For those wishing to donate books, there are two ways you can send them. I can either receive them my post box address or a friend will receive them at her home.

If you wish to mail them via the USPS, send to:

Shiloh Walker
PO Box 976
Jeffersonville, IN
47131

For those wishing to use Fedex or UPS, send to:

LFPL Book Drive
C/O Jennifer Kennedy
20813 State Rd # 62
Marysville, IN 47141

Feel free to repost this information in it’s entirety.

Shiloh Walker

http://shilohwalker.com

http://shilohwalker.wordpress.com

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myjaxon June 20th, 2009

cross posted from Literary Escapism…

I saw this meme over at Carrie Vaughn’s blog and the whole idea of it makes me want to do it.  Here’s the details: Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

So here’s my fifteen:

1. Amber Flame by Hannah Howell
2. The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop
3. Charlotte’s Web by EB White
4. Dark Elf Trilogy by RA Salvatore (series)
5. Daughter of Fire by Quinn Taylor Evans (series)
6. Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison (series)
7. Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur (series)
8. Grimspace by Ann Aguirre (series)
9. Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K Hamilton (series)
10. Halfway to the Grave by Jeaniene Frost (series)
11. Midsummers Night Dream by William Shakespeare
12. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (series)
13. Poison Study by Maria Snyder (series)
14. Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
15. Wicked by Gregory Maguire

These are the ones I’ve gone back and have read multiple times.  Typing up this list has made me want to go back and read them again too.  Quite a few of these are the beginning of some great series and more often than not, the entire series stays with me just as much as any single novel does.  So I’m really including the entire series in this list, but using the first novel as  starting point.

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myjaxon March 12th, 2009

I’ve never joined a book club before.  Well, I am a member of the Paranormal Romance Lovers Yahoo! Group, but that’s completely virtual and we’re more of a discussion group than strictly a meet once a month type of book club.

I’ll be honest, I’ve never thought about joining one since I used to be so…picky about what I read.  I read because I love to and I really didn’t want to have to read something I wasn’t particular interested in.  I know a book club is completely volunteer, but if you’re going to join one, then you should participate, right?  Besides, if I wanted to join a book club, shouldn’t I join one that has similar tastes to mine?

So I’m thinking of starting, not one, but two different book clubs.  One virtual and one that does meet once a month to discuss a book.  The reason I’m thinking of starting two is easy – one is going to be sponsored by Literary Escapism and will be strictly paranormal/fantasy fiction and the second would be in conjunction with my mom’s group.

The virtual one is actually going to help launch a new feature at Literary Escapism – a forum.   I’ve been told I need a forum for the site (why, I’m not sure), but Jesse has been working in the background on getting one up and running and what better use for it than a book club?  I am such a book junkie (what?  You didn’t know?) and I love talking about books. I especially love talking about books that I’ve read that are spectacular.  So once the new forum gets launched (I just need to do a few tweaks yet), I’m going to start a virtual book club at LE.

For the other one, there’s been some interest with a couple of the other moms in my group about starting a book club, but it kind of fizzled out before it really got started.  However, it was brought up again and I thought – why not.  If there isn’t the interest through the group, that doesn’t mean I can’t invite other people to join.  It doesn’t have to be strictly a mom’s group either.  The plan is to meet once a month, so nothing that should disrupt someones plans too much and I wouldn’t mind finding a place to hold it, but if it means everyone trooping over to my house, whatever.  Granted, I know not everyone in my mom’s group is as gungho about paranormal as I am, so there’s going to be a mix of genres that we’ll be reading, but that’s okay.  It’s one thing to join a book club with people who I don’t know and reading something I wouldn’t vs joining with friends and finding out why they like certain books.  So I have no problem expanding my horizons with different genres as long as I have friends to talk about them with.  Besides, there isn’t anything saying that we can’t throw in a paranormal novel every once in awhile either.

So yeah, those are my new projects right now.

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myjaxon October 28th, 2008

Something everyone may not know about me is that I tend to be a little too organized with my files.  That kind of includes books, CDs, DVDs, comics, etc.  Anything collectible.  I have all of our books, cds, dvds, video games, and comic books (well, I’m still working on this) in a database.  Each category has their own file and I keep a lot of info within the files.  Have you ever heard of Tellico?  It’s this great database engine that syncs up to Amazon, the Library of Congress, and a few others sites depending on what you’re using it for.  It’s great.  For example, here are all the books my family has.  Tellico so helps me with this addiction.

Anyway, we bought a house this summer and since the move, I’ve been wanting to go through and audit what books we have.  I found a used book store this summer, so I have been giving away and buying a few books over the past couple of months.  Plus with all the ones I’m getting for reviews, I’m not sure what I have anymore.  So I’m doing an audit. I’m not going to be able to do all of them simply because Jesse’s office isn’t unpacked yet.  We haven’t built his office downstairs yet, so his stuff is still in their boxes.

Here’s the first phase….what do I say I have at this point.  According to my records…

• Ian has 59 books (3098 pages worth)
• I have 317 books (131,305 pages worth)
• Jesse has 178 books (71,176 pages worth)
• and as a family we have 59 books (22,371 pages worth) – meaning books that all of us read, not just one of us.

That’s a collective total of 613 books (227,950 pages worth).  That’s a lot of books.  So here I go…once I’m done, I’ll let you know how it turned out.

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myjaxon September 24th, 2008

So our Open House/Housewarming Party is this weekend and I’m going to be spending the next couple of days cooking and we finally figured out the menu. Here it is, what do you guys think?

Entrees:

1. Sloppy Joes
2. Macaroni Salad
3. Biscuits
4. Watermelon
5. Tostidos with Salsa & Guacamole
6. Potato Salad (provided by Marcia)
7. Veggie Tray (provided by Lori)
8. Ham Muffins (provided by Adrian)

Deserts:

1. Chocolate Cheesecake
2. Peanut Butter Cheesecake (recipe to follow)
3. Dark Chocolate Cake w-German Chocolate Cake type filling (recipe to follow)
4. White Cake w-Lemon filling (recipe to follow)
5. Oatmeal Cookies
6. No-Bake Cookies

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