The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

By Fannie Flagg

 I love all of her books, I read this one  to fast then it was over.

The Beautiful Mystery

By Louise Penny

Merry Christmas

See you in the New Year, God willing.

Culture Warrior

By Bill O'Reilly

 

Trying to brush up on what the heck is happening to our wonderful way of life.

 

What is going to come about in 2014.

Still Life

By Louise Penny

This is my first time to read Louise Penny book.

A Chief inspector Gamache novel. I like the story and it kept my interest.

Keep it Pithy

By Bill O'Reilly

Okay reading ,Better then I was thinking it would be.

Stay Warm

And read a book

Happy Thanksgiving!

The Deadly Dance

By M.C. Beaton

 

Agatha Raisin can sure get in some messes .

As The Pig Turns

By M.C. Beaton

 

I didn't finish The last book, it was to  much for me.

Sad, sad life story.

I Have a Real Book

To read with over 500 pages. Mildred over at Blackberry Lane said she had seen

Maeve Binchy  books at the thrift story. So to day I went and found this book for $2.00's. I needed some picture frames and got four ,three were $ 1.00 each but one was .50 cents.

I enjoyed her other book, so will read this. Most books I get on the e- reader are short story's but some are 300 pages or less. 

This Tara Road was on Oprah's book club so you may have read it, I am behind a bit.

A Week in Winter

By Maeve Binchy

This book is short story's about people that come together on vacation 

in a beautiful place in Ireland.

This is the first book I have read by  Maeve Binchy and I like it very much. 



The Christmas Train

By David Baldacci

First romance I have read of his, it was not mush and full of sex.

I will read more of his books.

Agatha Raisin and The Walkers of Dembley

By M.C. Beaton

 

Mystery 

Cold Sassy Tree

By Olive Ann Burns

 

I read this book about 5 years ago, but I have enjoyed reading it again.

Death of a Kingfisher

By M C Beaton

The book is about Police Constable Hamish Macbeth of Scotland.

A Mystery !

Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet

M. C, Beaton

Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage

By M.C.Beaton

 

Great reads for bed time, no gory detail just light love and amusement.

New Book (American Betrayal)

By Diana West

 

 

 

Man is always looking for a man to believe in, a thing that a man has created.

 

I have chosen to follow the Creator because:

"This is what the Lord say's he who made the earth, the Lord who formed it and established it- the Lord is his name: "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." Jeremiah 33:2-3 NIV

And If you read this book just remember :
(Matt. 6:27; Luke 12:25)
Jesus warned against expending energy on things beyond control or on the future
at the expense of the present.



To Build a Fire

Short Stories
Man vs Nature
Yukon Territory
Published in 1902 and 1908
You can download his short stories for free on line.

By Author Jack London

1903

 

1879-1916

Until Tuesday

By: Fmr Capt. Luis Carlos Montalvan

 

with Bret Witter

 

(A must read)

Message in a Bottle

By Nicholas Sparks

(I am going back in time.)



The Notebook

By Nicholas Sparks

Three Weeks with My Brother

By Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks

The Time It Never Rained

Miss Julia Stirs up Trouble

By Ann B. Ross

The Return of Captain John Emmett

By Elizabeth Speller

The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton

By Elizabeth Speller

Death of a Witch

By M.C. Beaton

A Walk to Remember

By Nicholas Sparks

Park Lane

By Frances Osborne

Mrs Tim Of The Regiment

A delightful book By D.E. Stevenson

Trivia

Animal crackers are not really crackers. They are actually cookies

that were imported to  the United States from England in the late

1800s

 Barnum's circus-like boxes were designed with a string handle

 so that they could  be hung on a Christmas tree.

Did You Know

That the world's first singing commercial aired

on the radio on Christmas Eve 1926 for

Wheaties cereal.

Red Rover, Red Rover

The Red Rover was a steamer bought  by Confederate Navy at the beginning of the Civil War and used as a transport ship. At the Battle of Island #10 in April, 1862, near New Madrid Missouri,it was captured by Union forces. The Union Navy outfitted it as a military hospital ship, something which  had never been done before.

 

The  ship held operating rooms, amputation rooms, medical supplies, wards and accommodations for the female nurses, some of whom were members of the Catholic order: Sisters of the Holy Cross. African-American women served as paid aides.

 

On of the modifications allowed the new hospital ship to carry up to 300 tons of ice in its lowest hold, an important commodity for the sick and wounded soldiers it carried.

 

During the Civil War, the Red Rover made many trips up and down the Mississippi and other rivers, carrying soldiers back and forth to hospitals and treating lesser cases on board. Wherever it went, it was in great need, and it treated soldiers from both sides of the war.

 

Perhaps because it was called back and forth across the river so often or because it served both sides (Union and Confederate), after the war a popular children's game, previously known as  Gates of the City , was renamed Red Rover. Generations of children have played the game that features the chant "Red Rove, Red Rove, send 'so and so' right over."

 

Red Rover, the first hospital ship of  the United States Navy, the first navy ship that women served on and the apparent namesake of the popular children's game, was built and launched in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, in 1859.

 

Today, we encourage our visitors to remember a hospital ship named  Red Rover that reached out with compassion to those in need, regardless of the side on which they served. At the end of  their visit, when guests to our community head home, it is our hope that along with several great memories and a few souvenirs, they also take the idea of compassion to one's fellow man home with them as well.

 

By The City Of Cape  Girardeau Missouri

Points of Interest ----  Unique Lites and Historical Lites.