VeraJ Lounge

Vera's Starbooks Lounge is a blog about books,celebrity gossip, and reality show comments and updates, and my day to day observations. I am a wife, a mother of 2 daughters, and an administrative assistant full of flair, compassion,good humor, and positive energy. I am finishing my B.S. degree in Accounting and eventually will obtain a CPA. Now, I know you are saying Accountant, boring. Well, I love creative writing and an avid reader. If you looking for a place where you can let your hair down and express yourself, this is the spot. No inhibition. I just ask we respect each other opinions and insights. Well, let the fun begin.

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The Best ATM Withdrawal Defense

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I’m here for women with powerful dogs!

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My land lady is a 90lb 88 year old woman with 5 full grown Rottweiler boys. They sit around her when she gardens and watch her like the secret service. If you show up to pay rent they all stand up and stand between you and her.

It’s intimidating to have 5 pony size boys all staring at you until she stands up realizes it’a you and walks to you.

My favorite part is she wades through them like swamp water saying in her cute old voice ‘move’ ‘move please’ and each one she nudges to move wags his whole body at her touch and stumbles out of the way like he’s been knocked over by a truck. It gives me life paying my rent.

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I am back from my brief hiatus. Between my studies, job, home and social life, I was able to take one book and start another. I also purchased a Nook Color which is one of my most favorite item. Anyway, I was introduced to 2 books: 1) Something Borrowed, and 2) Something Blue by Emily Giffen. I just finished reading the first one and started the second one. Lets just say some of my studies have been neglected. And none of my t.v.shows have been watched. One of the best chick lits I have read in a long time.

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True love is felonious. You take someone’s breath away. You rob them of the ability to utter a single word. You steal a heart.

Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper (via libraryland)

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Book #3: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

The book starts off with all of the weres and shapeshifter coming out to the public- known as the Great Reveal. During the event,  a murder of one of the well known weres is discovered in front of Merlotte. Who did it? And why? At the same time, Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with the residual effects of the explosive catastrophic explosion of the Pyramids. She is also pawn (again) with one of the most powerful and secretive supes as as war is waged between them.

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It's Friday!

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fridayreads:

And you know what that means!  Reblog this post and add a note about what you’re reading this week.  There are prizes! And books! And it’s exciting!

 I just started reading the 9th installation of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

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"Marry?''He laughed. "I learned my lesson with Eugenia. That would be the last thing I would ever do. If you are going to continue in my service, why do you want to be freed?" "We all want to be free". "Women are never free, Tete. They need a man to look after them. When they are unmarried they belong to their father, and when married to the husband".

Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

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" He could not demand morailty and decency from a slave, but it was his duty to impose his will on her"

Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

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"The masters did not perfect that those symptoms could be provoked, undetected, by sticking a fine needle into a soft part of the baby's head before the cranial bull bones hardened. In that way the baby went happily to the island beneath the sea without ever experiencing slavery". Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende.

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Word of the Day

katzenjammer: the discomfort and illness experienced as the after effects of excessive drinking; hangover

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Book # 2

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Book #2: Island Beneath the Sea

My second choice for my book challenge is Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende. I love Isabel Allende as an author. I also love historical fiction novels on Antebellum America and Caribbean history when the Americas was young.

Island Beneath the Sea focuses on a young mulatto (bi racial) slave who becomes a concubine and eventually a free woman of color. Allende delves into the brutality of slavery, economic overtures of plantation life in Santo-Domingue (Haiti), religion and superstitions of both the Africans and Europeans, and the portrayal of women in early Caribbean( all women). The book is beautifully written. I am looking forward to getting lost into clear skies, blue waters, and green, hilly lands. I want to feel the beat of the African drums, the pain of slaves being used as beast of burdens, the desperation of women as they try to sustain in a male European dominate world, the call of freedom, and ultimately call of ancestors that lie in the Island Beneath Sea. 

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Listing of Books I will read for the 50 Book Challenge

Im partaking in the 50 Book Challenge. I usually keep a list of books I am reading. I usually do not keep a list of books I will start reading. I usually list as I go. However, I have a few books that I am reading for sure in 2011. Here are the books:

The Body Farm by Patricia Cornwell ( reading now)

Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende

Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro

Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris

Freedom by Jonathan Franze

The Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson

Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

Secrets of the Grave by Tami Hoag

The Color Purple by Alice Walker ( one of my favorite books)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge by Jackie Collins ( going retro)

From Potter's Field by Patricia Cornwell

Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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I have several books lined for 2011 reading. It includes Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta series, the last two books in the Sookie Stackhouse series, and a few of my most favorite books. I planned to delve into Isabel Allende, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. I've read all of Toni Morrison's books. I love to reread her work because I always get another prospective.  Since I drive to work instead of using MTA, it has been a challenge finding quality time with the first love of my life. However, between my lunch breaks, laundry, cooking dinner, and helping with homework, I always find time to squeeze in a few chapters a day.

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We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea of passing those books on to our children. Indeed, how many of us started reading with a beloved book that belonged to one of our parents? We force worthy books on our friends, and we insist that they read them. We even feel a weird kinship for the people we see on buses or airplanes reading our books, the books that we claim. If anyone tries to take away our books—some oppressive government, some censor gone off the rails—we would defend them with everything that we have. We know our tribespeople when we visit their homes because every wall is lined with books. There are teetering piles of books beside the bed and on the floor; there are masses of swollen paperbacks in the bathroom. Our books are us. They are our outboard memory banks and they contain the moral, intellectual, and imaginative influences that make us the people we are today.

Cory Doctorow (via shereadeverything)

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