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2008 has gotten off to a slow and quiet start - THANKFULLY!

The last few weeks of 2007 were hectic, I was working alot of hours at Chapters and trying to get ready for Christmas as well as dealing with all the crap at my "real" job (hahaha - to the real job part not the crap part).

The boys were thrilled to get PlayStation3 for Christmas and I was thrilled with my turquoise IPOD shuffle. I love it.  I've been mostly relaxing this week before next week and the kids are back at school and work will be back in full swing (both places) and I want to start back at Humber to do the Canadian Human Resources Professional program....9 courses, 3 years.  Not sure what I want to do with it, but know for sure I want out of my current position and nothing I say or do is seeming to get me out.

I think I just about hit 100 books for 2007, I"m not going to put my full comments here, I haven't even done them on BookCrossing yet...but here they are:

By The Pricking of My Thumbs - Agatha Christie (audiobook)
Love Tommy and Tuppence. In this novel they are in their golden years (probably mid-50's - oh how times have changed) and Tuppence just  can't seem to stay out of trouble. She gets coshed over the head while investigating the disappearance of an old biddy from a nursing home..and sends Tommy into a tither trying to find her.

Lethally Blonde - Kate White
Bailey Weggins is back in fighting form...men and murder surround her.

The Poet and The Murderer by Simon Worrall
The semi biographical story of a forger who forged an Emily Dickinson poem and fooled the world.

Black Dogs by Stephen Booth
Read this all in one sitting last night. A British procedural mystery in the style of Peter BRobinson


I think there may have been a few more, actually I am sure there was at least one more but I can't remember the title!

Hello everyone. I've been so busy working at Chapters  and  also just tired when I'm not that I haven't had time to check in and update.

I am really liking Chapters, I'm on cash most of the time now, which really makes the time go by quickly and it is really busy right now.

Other than that, I've not been up to much, not reading much either. Liam, Iain and Den are doing well....

Will write again soon,,,,,,I promise.

First night off since last Wednesday so I am off to bed early. Will try and catch up everything, including book logs this coming weekend, or Friday night as I'm off Thurs and Fri this week.

Chapters is going ok...feet are sore though!

Just a quick update. Orientation went well and my first "shift" is tomorrow night. Off to bed now as I was out with some bookcrossers for dinner and I am exhausted.

Will probably not catch up here til Sunday as I'm busy untl then.....

Yes!

I'm in.

I go tomorrow night for orientation and then my first shift will probably be this coming weekend!

Some info about working at Chapters

My tarot card for today, perfect!

Three of Chalices

Well, what to say about this book.

It seemed like a rather long book to convince the reader that the statistical probability of so many names in Jesus' family being inscribed on ossuaries in one tomb and the family NOT being Jesus' family is pretty high. Does that make sense?

Mostly, the researchers used mathematical formulas and probablility calculations to determine if the bodies found in the tomb "could" belong to Jesus and his family. Their reasoning was that although, Jesus, Joseph, Mary, James, Jose and Judah were very, very common names in the time Jesus lived, the chances of more than one family having all the same names is unlikely, therefore this must be "the Jesus" family as opposed to any other Jesus family.

The book also touches on the subject of whether or not Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child, again, inconclusive, but the researchers use text from the bible and the Talmud to prove that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were more than Master and disciple and that Mary herself was a Master and that Jesus "knew" her in the biblical sense.  The reason they hid the birth of their child, Judah, was that he would  have been in danger after Jesus' arrest and crucifixion so his family pretended he was Jesus' younger brother rather than his son.

Although there was some human tissue that could be used for some DNA tests, there is no known DNA to match to Jesus.

Did the book convince me that Jesus' family tomb was found? I am not sure, I agree it would be a huge coincidence if it wasn't his family's tomb, but in the end, really what difference does it make?  There is some argument that Jesus can't have a tomb as he ascended to heaven and did not die a mortal death, so there should be no body, ergo no tomb and no ossuary.  However, if you believe that Jesus was a real person who had a message to impart and that he did die on the cross, mortally, and his body was removed from the tomb of Joseph of Arithamea as soon as possible, then his remains would be resting in his family tomb - in their rightful place.

I got a call from Chapters this afternoon while I was on the way to Michele's (this is my friend Michele, not my brother Michele, also known as Mike) baby shower (more about that later), and I have a second one to one interview tomorrow afternoon with the General Manager of the store....so it looks like all is going well and most likely I should be in...but still keep your fingers crossed for me...it can't hurt.

Second piece of good news when I came home tonight was that an article I submitted to BookCrossing has been accepted for their newsletter, here's the link:

BookCrossing Article by me :)

Michele's shower was lovely and she received alot of nice gifts, she is going to have the cleanest, loveliest smelling and best dressed baby for miles around :) She looked tired but happy and her family and Doug's seemed very nice. She only has 4 weeks left...I can't wait, I love babies :)

I have finished this but I'm not writing about it until my friend Shelley has read her copy so we can talk about it :)

It took me so long to listen to this and I'm not sure why as I love these types of books, not sure if they are travelogues or memoirs...or what to call them.

British family buys rambling, rundown farmhouse in the south of France and spends holidays renovating it and becoming part of the community and absorbing culture.

The story is narrated by the author, Ruth Silvestre, a British actress and singer.  For a singer, her narration of the novel is odd, her voice fluctuates and breaks and it seems at some points she loses her breath while reading and has to stop to catch it.  That aside, it wasn't until the 3rd CD, that I became really interested in the story and it would be more honest to say I was interested in the story of Anais and Alais and Bel-air rather than the story of Ruth and her family.

When Ruth finds the hatbox of old letters and begins to delve into the history of the people who lived in the house before her talks with grandma about "l'autre fois" , I became fascinated with their stories.

To be honest, I had become fed up of reading about one more "ramasser" of anything by the end, no matter how charming it seemed and how wonderful the meals afterwards were!

All in all, this was an entertaining listen and I think a good insight into life in the south of France in the early 1900's (based on the hatbox letters and grandma's memories) and for me, this is what made the book come alive.