Staying On Topic – NOT

WOW has it been cold!  Even the cats aren’t asking to go out,  but when they do and I let them out the door, they turn around and come right back in.  The blowing wind with all the frigid air from the tundra is just breathtaking.  I remind myself how lucky I am.  I am warm, safe and have food and books.  

In order to help you understand what the future month or so might look like for you readers, I need to give a full disclosure. This occurrence only happens every four years, which is happening now.  

BTW…  look at some of  the idioms for disclosure.  

• Come clean
• Make a clean breast of it
• Own up/Fess up
• Spill the beans/Spill your guts
• Get it off your chest
• Sing/Squeal (slang)

Oh – it’s the conjunction of the Winter Olympics and the start of Baseball Season. I am totally obsessed with both.  I live and breathe baseball yearly, but add in the winter Olympics, I am enthralled. I love watching skiing and skating.  I really wanted to be an ice skater almost as much as I wanted to play baseball.  We always had skates and often a place to skate.  When I was really young, we dressed in old fashion clothes and pretended to be “fancy, rich ladies”. (It was long fancy gowns even then.)

Anyway – reading might be sporadic.  But as always there will be reviews, interviews and blogs.  

Elise sent in a review about the book, Crossing the Line by James Shipman.  The book was set in Krakow’s Jewish Ghetto during the Holocaust. The main characters had to face so much to survive.  The interview this week is with Wendy Walker and her newest book called Blade.  The book is about competitive ice skating with a murder mystery.  How perfectly relevant for the Olympics.  

As always, I hope you find time to read…

OH PS Check out Donut Daddy’s new cookbook about baking.