Life...It's All Good: Dogs...just capture my heart...

This says it all...

Thanks to Lynn Johnston for her wonderful comic strip!

Quotes

“Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” Al Bernstein

"The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it."

-Elizabeth Drew

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
— Max Frisch

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion
- Unknown

'I wonder,' he said to himself, 'what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the same, something must be happening, because as soon as I open it, there's a whole story with people I don't know yet and all kinds of adventures and deeds and battles. And sometimes there are storms at sea, or it takes you to strange cities and countries. All those things are somehow shut up in a book. Of course you have to read it to find out. But it's already there, that's the funny thing. I just wish I knew how it could be.'-- Michael Ende, in The Neverending Story –

Books I've Read in 2010

Play Dead, David Rosenfelt
6th Target, James Patterson
Room, Emma Donoghue
Secrets of Eden, Chris Bohjalian
Caught, Harlan Coben
Summer on Blossom Street, Debbie Macomber
Men and Dogs, Katie Crouch
Sizzling Sixteen, Janet Evanovich
Ape House, Sara Gruen
This Is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper
The Woods, Harlan Coben
Tell No One, Harlan Coben
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
The 5th Horseman, James Patterson
The New Yorkers, Cathleen Schine
Everything Matters! Ron Currie, Jr.
4th of July, James Patterson
Her Mother's Shadow, Diane Chamberlain
Dead Center, David Rosenfelt
Therby Hangs a Tail, Spencer Quinn
Promise Me, Harlan Coben
Through a Dog's Eyes, Jennifer Wilson
Secrets She Left Behind, Diane Chamberlain
Just Breathe, Susan Wiggs
Don't Tell a Soul, David Rosenfelt
A Dog's Purpose, W. Bruce Cameron
No Second Chance, Harlan Coben
Breathless, Dean Koontz
Sudden Death, David Rosenfelt
Bury the Lead, David Rosenfelt
Mothers & Other Liars, Amy Bourret
The Last Detective, Robert Crais
The Dogfather, Susan Conant
King of Lies, John Hart
The Innocent, Harlen Coben
9 Pacific Boulevard, Debbie Macomber
Dark Lover, J.R. Ward
Mr. Murder, Dean Koontz
First Degree, David Rosenfelt
Open and Shut, David Rosenfelt
Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris
2nd Chance, James Patterson
1st to Die, James Patterson
Relentess, Dean Koontz
House of Thunder, Dean Koontz

Books I've Read in 2009

Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult
Finger Lickin Fifteen, Janet Evanovich
Three Cups of Tea, Mortensen & Relin
My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult
Dockside, Susan Wiggs
White Sister, Stephen J. Cannell
Night Play, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Remember When, Judith McNaught
The Middle Place, Kelly Corrigan
Dance with the Devil, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Faithless, Karin Slaughter
Your Heart Belongs to Me, Dean Koontz
Stone Cold, David Baldacci
The Watchman, Robert Crais
The Collectors, David Baldacci
Blaze, Richard Bachman
The Mephisto Club, Tess Gerritsen
Blood Brothers 7, Nora Roberts
The Regulators, Richard Bachman
Plague Ship, Clive Cussler
The Rainmaker, John Grisham
The Chase, Clive Cussler
From the Corner of his Eye, Dean Koontz
Dog On It, Spencer Quinn
Just One Look, Harlen Coben
Night Embrace, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Watchers, Dean Koontz (favorite thus far)
Turning Angel, Greg Iles
Shadowfires, Dean Koontz
Two Little Girls in Blue, Mary Higgins Clark
The First 48, Tim Green
Dead Sleep, Greg Iles
Your Psychic Pet, Richard Webster
Spoken in Whispers, Nicci MacKay (A Horse Whisperer's Autobiography) --good read!
A Three Dog Life, Abigail Thomas
Divine Evil, Nora Roberts
Mortal Fear, Greg Iles
The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
Night Pleasures, Sherrilyn Kenyon (2nd in the Dark-Hunter series)
Fantasy Lover, Sherrilyn Kenyon (1st in the Dark Hunter series)
Into the Storm, Suzanne Brockmann
Shelter Me, Juliette Fay (good book for her first book)
The Shack, WM Paul Young
Dragon Tears, Dean Koontz
8 Sandpiper Way, Debbie Macomber

Movies I've Seen Recently (rated 1-5 stars)

Never Back Down***
Clash of the Titans*
Wolverine**
The Lovely Bones***
Avatar****
Blind Side****
Hachi, A Dog's Tale****
Pelham 123***
Eclipse***1/2
Twilight***
Punisher 2**
Push**
The Day the Earth Stood Still***
The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons****1/2
He's Just Not That Into You**1/2
Gran Torino***
Taken***
Happy Feet****
Yes Man**** (funny)
Fireproof**** (good message)
Marley and Me****
Hancock***
Secret Life of Bees***
Nights in Rodanthe***
Someone Like You***
Baby Mama***
Mirrors**
Eagle Eye***1/2
Wanted**
Twilight****
Maid of Honor***
Seven Pounds ***
Ironman****
88 MInutes**
The Happening**
The Kingdom***
The Eye***
Vantage Point***
Death Sentence***
Juno**
27 Dresses **
Ocean's Thirteen*** (better than 12)
Untraceable***
P.S. I Love You****
Into the Wild***
I Am Legend ***
Wedding Crashers**
Michael Clayton***
The Brave One****
Evening****
In the Land of Women***
The Lookout****
If Only ****
Eight Below ***** (seen it before but I still love it even though it makes me cry)
Mr. Bean's Holiday *** silly fun!
Sicko ****
Live Free or Die Hard*****
The Invisible***
Transformers****
Spiderman 3 *** and 3/4 *'s
Next ****
Mr. Brooks *** too twisted.
Reign Over Me** (too depressing.. the film.. and weird to see Adam Sandler in the role)
Fracture ****
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer ***
Second Hand Lions ****

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Dogs...just capture my heart...

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