7 MONKEYS: What is it?

Anyone want to venture a guess?

Great Quotes

At dinner on Christmas Eve Hazel says "I know why Christ was born on Christmas Day". Why? "to save us all from Satan's power."
"When can we have some Barf Turkey?" - Hazel (It was beef jerkey she wanted)
5 miles into Havasuai Hazel says to me "you are taking pictures of this aren't you? I want to see this on your blog"
Mom, I'm cold could you turn on the hot-ditioning - Hazel
"Mother, I am drinky," -Hazel
"It's not so much that your hair is grey, it just makes it extra shiny and silvery," -Truman.
On our sunday afternoon dog walk, we walked past a house where the people were in the yard and came over to see the puppy. Nate announces "Our dog will relieve himself on any surface!"
Watching two musicians play together, "Mom is that a dudette?" - Nate
"If everyone had a Mom like you... I would be ordinary!" - Christian
Mom, I'm gonna write you a song. It's gonna have some high notes and it's gonna have some low notes.. It will be to the tune of Dr. Seuss. That's why I like his books, because they are good to sing." - Nate
"what is in your hair?" "Oh it's just wetness" - Hazel
"Hazel why aren't you eating your lunch?" "oh sorry mom, I was eating but then I got extracted"
Abby made a list titled "Nouns I do not Like". On it were the names of her brothers.
"Mom put this in the microwave to get some more hottness in it" - Hazel

2012 Recommended Reading

A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel
A hundred flowers - Tsukiyama
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Book Thief, The - Marcus Zusak
Cabinet of Wonders - Marie Rutkoski
Cat among the Pigeons - Agatha Christie
Death Cure, The - James Dashner
Everything on a Waffle - Polly Horvath
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Long Winter, The - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Man's Search For Meaning _ Victor Frankl
Maze Runner, The - James Dashner
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Riggs, Ransom
Murphy's Law - Rhys Bowen
Night Circus, The - Erin Morgenstern
On The Banks of Plum Creek - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
Scorch Trials, The - James Dashner
Snowflower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
Tepper isn't Going Out - Calvin Trillin
The Chosen - Chaim Potok
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley
These is My Words - Nancy E. Turner
Three Musketeers, The - Alexandre Dumas
Tofu Quilt - Ching Yeung Russell
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
When you reach me - Rebecca Stead
Where'd you go Bernadette - Maria Semple

2011 Recommended Reading

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
A Million Shades of Gray - Cynthia Kadohata
Darke - Angie Sage
Farmer Boy - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford
I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett
Inheritance - Christopher Paolini
Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mao's Last Dancer - Li Cunxin
Name of the Wind- Patrick Rothfuss
Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
Ramonas World - Beverly Cleary
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel - Michael Scott
The Emperor's Tomb: A Novel - Steve Berry
The good Thief - Hannah Tinti
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Last Olympian - Rick Riordan
The lightening thief - Rick Riordan
The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel - Michael Scott
The Necromancer: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel - Michael Scott
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York - Deborah Blum
The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
The Softwire: Awakening on Orbis 4 - PJ Haarsma
The Softwire: Betrayal on Orbis 2 - PJ Haarsma
The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1 - PJ Haarsma
The Softwire: Wormhole Pirates on Orbis 3 - PJ Haarsma
The Sorceress:The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel - Michael Scott
The Supernaturalist - Eoin Colfer
The Titans Curse - Rick Riordan
The Warlock:The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel - Michael Scott
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos - R.L. LaFevers
Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris - R.L. LaFevers

2010 Recommended Reading

1000 Autumns of Jacob De Zoet -David Mitchell
A Thief of Time -Tony Hillerman
Ark Angel - Anthony Horowitz
Beezus and Ramona - Beverly Cleary
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
Crocodile Tears - Anthony Horowitz
Eagle Strike -Anthony Horowitz
Eleven - Patricia Giff
Fablehaven - Brandon Mull
Forward Foundation - Issac Asimov
George Washington Carver - Geoff Benge and Janet Benge
Keys to the Demon Prison - Brandon Mull
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Ramona and her Father - Beverly Cleary
Ramona and her Mother - Beverly Cleary
Ramona the Pest - Beverly Cleary
Rise of the Evening Star - Brandon Mull
Scorpia -Anthony Horowitz
Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary - Brandon Mull
Shadowheart - Tad Williams
Shadowrise - Tad Williams
Simon Bloom, The Gravity Keeper - Michael Reisman
Skeleton Key -Anthony Horowitz
Snakehead -Anthony Horowitz
Stormbreaker -Anthony Horowitz
Team of Rivals -Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Wailing Wind - Tony Hillerman

2009 Recommended Reading

A Hat Full of Sky - Terry Pratchett
Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Flyte - Angie Sage
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov
Gathering Blue - Lois Lowery
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Life and Death in Shanghai - Nien Cheng
London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd
Look Me In The Eye - John Elder Robison
Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor
Magyk - Angie Sage
Messenger - Lois Lowry
Number the Stars - Lois Lowery
Peter and the Starcatchers - Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Physik - Angie Sage
Queste - Angie Sage
Seeing Redd - Frank Beddor
Tea Time for the Traditionally Built - Alexander McCall Smith
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
The Naked Sun - Isaac Asimov
The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
These is my Words - Nancy E. Turner
Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett

7 MONKEYS

April 30, 2012

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