Scenic Sundays #01: Desire and Georgette Heyer

Taken on November 3, 2013 in at Squaw Creek Park in Marion, Iowa with an Canon EOS Rebel T3i.

"As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do." Georgette Heyer

Quote of the Week #36: Clare Boothe Luce

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable." --Clare Boothe Luce

Learn why this is the last Quote of the Week.

Quote of the Week #35: Phyllis McGinley

"A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet." --Phyllis McGinley

My Share: Definitely the Sookie Stackhouse novels while they lasted. Any chick-lit/romance novel.

What do you consider your trash books? Or as I like to call them, bubble gum books?

Quote of the Week #34: Louis L'Amour

"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on." --Louis L'Amour

Quote of the Week #33 + Birthday #Giveaway: Terri M. LeBlanc

Today's my birthday!

"Everything in my life is measured by the number of books and bottles of wine money will buy!" --Terri M. LeBlanc (FB status on 02/13/2014)

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Quote of the Week #32: Tennessee Williams

"I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?" --Tennessee Williams

Quote of the Week #31: Erica Jong

"Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads." --Erica Jong

Quote of the Week #30: Henry Murger

"The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines." --Henry Murger

My Share: I love red wine. And I love to visit Ramsey's Metro Market. If you are in the area, you should drop by! Tell Conrad that one half of the Dynamic Duo sent you.

Quote of the Week #29: Maya Angelou

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Maya Angelou

Quote of the Week #28: Robert Bloch

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Robert Bloch

Quote of the Week #27: Eleanor H. Porter

Be glad. Be good. Be brave. Eleanor H. Porter

Quote of the Week #26: Paul Klee

One eye sees, the other feels. Paul Klee

Quote of the Week #25: Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Quote of the Week #24: Paul Auster

"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head." Paul Auster

Quote of the Week #23: Stewart O'Nan

"You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved." Stewart O'Nan

Quote of the Week #22: John Guare

"It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday." John Guare

Quote of the Week #21: Victor Hugo

“To love another person is to see the face of God.” Victor Hugo

An early Happy Birthday to my sister!

Quote of the Week #20: Mary Leakey

"Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity." Mary Leakey

What's the number one thing that makes you pick up a book?

My Share: I'll admit it...the title and the cover. What makes me want to buy a book? The description and/or first few pages of the story.

Quote of the Week #19: J.M. Coetzee

"Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?" J.M. Coetzee

Quote of the Week #18: Abraham Lincolin

"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be." Abraham Lincoln