Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Dec 4, 2009, 5:00 am
When life doesn’t seem to go our way, at some point in our lives, the inevitable question appears: Why? Many times we ask that question to God and we usually expect a grandiose answer in return....
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Dec 2, 2009, 6:40 am
Becoming a stepparent is one of the most difficult things that I’ve ever done. When I first met my husband, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I thought I knew, since I have a step-da...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 30, 2009, 6:39 am
In the future, all plant life is dead, the sun no longer shines, there is constant rain and snow, it is cold and strangers are deadly. What keeps a person moving? What would keep you moving? These are...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 26, 2009, 7:25 am
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matte...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 25, 2009, 6:30 am
One of the very first classes that I took in college for English was Introduction to Poetry. Until then, I liked poetry, but I wasn’t quite in love with it. That class started my love affair wit...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 24, 2009, 6:22 am
While returning home from work, Sookie Stackhouse finds a naked vampire running through the woods. Sookie stops to help the guy out and is shocked when she sees that it is an amnesiac Eric. Normally, ...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 23, 2009, 6:40 am
New Moon was everything that I expected to be and maybe a little more. There was lots of scenes of boys with their shirts off, corny kissing scenes, lots of furrowed brows accompanied with longing loo...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 20, 2009, 7:00 am
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm. ~ Oscar Wilde from The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Share this on FacebookTweet This!Stumble upon something g...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 19, 2009, 6:36 am
Booking Through Thursday Challenge for November 19, 2009: Do you think any current author is of the same caliber as Dickens, Austen, Bronte, or any of the classic authors? If so, who, and why do you ...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 18, 2009, 7:42 am
FreeVerse is a weekly meme created by Ooh…Books. The idea behind in the meme is to celebrate poetry is some way or fashion. Two of my favorite poems are by e.e. cummings have completely differe...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 17, 2009, 6:58 am
I lose bookmarks all of the time. I have no idea where they go. I always think that I left it in the last book that I read, but somehow its never there. Kind of like socks. You think that you put two ...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 16, 2009, 6:54 am
In I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak, Ed Kennedy is a bit of a loser. I think that we all know the type: lonely, friends are misfits, not very good with the ladies. Kennedy is a cab driver and doesn&...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 13, 2009, 6:59 am
The Help by Kathryn Stockett is about three women in 1962 who become united through writing. The book is set in Mississippi where black maids and their white bosses have a very interesting relationshi...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 12, 2009, 6:21 am
Booking Through Thursday Challenge for November 5, 2009: “Life is too short to read bad books.” Do you read everything all the way through or do you feel life really is too short to read bad boo...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 11, 2009, 7:06 am
dys·to·pi·a (dĭs-tō’pē-ə) n. An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror. My favorite genre of novels is fill...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 10, 2009, 6:29 am
At the  center of Burned by Ellen Hopkins is a young Mormon girl, Pattyn Scarlet Von Stratten, who is struggling with her identity and her faith. Pattyn is starting to have feelings and dreams about ...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 9, 2009, 7:08 am
... Cody Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Start of Challenge Questions: 1. What does feminism mean to you? Does it have to do with the work sphere? The social sphere? How you dress? How you act?...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 6, 2009, 7:22 am
... but she is less dependent on me. Granted, I’m not looking to kill anyone anytime soon like in The Road, but honestly, I don’t know what I would do if I felt like my daughter’s l...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 5, 2009, 5:46 am
Booking Through Thursday Challenge for November 5, 2009: Which do you prefer? Biographies written about someone? Or Autobiographies written by the actual person (and/or ghost-writer)? Ah, the might...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 3, 2009, 9:20 pm
... falls in love with. With that movie as my introduction to time travel, I was hooked. I’ve never been so much interested in the mechanics of time ... amp; Then is a wonderfully, entertaini...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Nov 3, 2009, 7:01 am
FreeVerse is a weekly meme created by Ooh…Books. The idea behind in the meme is to celebrate poetry is some way or fashion. In This meme, you can either sharing poetry you wrote, others wrote an...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 30, 2009, 7:26 am
The the third installment of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Club Dead, Sookie is not trying to find out who is murdering women in her home town of Bon Temps (Dead Until Dark), nor is she trying to figu...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 29, 2009, 6:34 am
Booking Through Thursday Challenge for October 29, 2009: What words/phrases in a blurb make a book irresistible? What words/phrases will make you put the book back down immediately? Irresistible Wor...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 28, 2009, 6:28 am
The Sum of His Syndromes by K.B. Dixon is about a young man, David, who is having a life crisis.  From the job that he hates to the girl that he is dating, he just can’t seem to figure out how ...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 27, 2009, 8:00 am
Last week, I finished listening to The Road by Cormac McCarthy. After I listened to the last CD in my van, I did  not turn the radio on and I did not put in another CD. I just drove in silence. I wan...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 24, 2009, 10:34 pm
This is my first year participating in Dewey’s Read-a-thon and I have to say that I am completely amazed at how involved the community of readers are. I had no idea that there were so many peopl...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 23, 2009, 8:00 am
Defenders of the Scroll by Shiraz is about a teenage boy, Alex, who is pulled into another dimension by a young princess, Dara. Dara is seeking to protect her kingdom from the Shadow Lord and she mist...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 22, 2009, 6:47 am
Booking Through Thursday Challenge for October 22, 2009: If you could ask your favorite author (alive or dead) one question … who would you ask, and what would the question be? Last month, I read...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 20, 2009, 5:57 am
Callapidder Days is hosting a challenge called Fall Into Reading. The challenge is to basically catch up on your reading and/or accomplish some kind of reading goal. This is a wonderful challenge for ...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 19, 2009, 2:10 pm
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick is a story full of broken characters searching for something to make their lives full and happy. In 1907, Ralph Truitt advertises for a reliable wife in a newspaper....
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 14, 2009, 8:00 am
My Friend Amy is hosting a Fall Recipe Exchange this week and amazingly, I actually started cooking this week.  My husband in the main chef in my clan. This weekend, Minnesota turned blustery cold. I...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 13, 2009, 8:00 am
The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine is about a fifteen year old girl, Batuk, who has been a prostitute on the streets of Mumbai since she was nine years old. Batuk survives the horrors of her sex-fil...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 12, 2009, 8:00 am
Awhile ago, I was on the hunt to find out more about the upcoming movie for Libba Bray’s A Great and Terrible Beauty. I came across a couple of trailers and I thought to myself, “Wow, this...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 9, 2009, 8:00 am
A couple of weeks ago I was listening to an interview with Louise Erdich, the author of Love Medicine. In the interview, she mentioned that she writes out her novels by hand.  She started writing her...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 8, 2009, 8:00 am
In Living Dead in Dallas, Sookie finds herself in the middle to two mysteries.  The first mystery is who murdered one of her beloved friends and the second mystery is why is someone kidnapping vampir...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 6, 2009, 8:00 am
In the Adirondacks during the early 1900’s, Mattie Gokey is going through a hard time. Her mother just died, her father doesn’t support Mattie’s desire to go to college, and Mattie c...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 2, 2009, 8:00 am
September 26th to October 3rd marks the annual Banned Books Week. The American Library Association states that “Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and t...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Oct 1, 2009, 9:51 am
Booking Through Thursday Challenge for October 1, 2009: Two-thirds of Brits have lied about reading books they haven’t. Have you? Why? What book? I, personally, have not lied about books that I...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Sep 29, 2009, 8:00 am
1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part‑Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Why? Masturbation 2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Why? Homosexuality, Drug use, and Sex 3.Girl, Interrupt...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Sep 28, 2009, 8:23 am
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger is about twins, Julia and Valentina, who inherit a flat from their mother’s twin, Elspeth.  In London, the twenty-year-old twins are living alone for the ...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Sep 24, 2009, 8:04 pm
My trips to the library are usually to acquire new books for my three year old daughter, Madeline (aka Magpie). Since the books are usually for her, I thought I would ask her opinion on the latest boo...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Sep 24, 2009, 9:20 am
Booking Through Thursday Challenge for September 24, 2009: What’s the saddest book you’ve read recently? Right now, I’m in the middle of reading to The Blue Notebook by James A. Levine whi...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Sep 23, 2009, 8:00 am
On Midmorning with Kerri Miller, the recent topic of conversation was “How our Fast Culture Hurts Reading.” The guests, David Ulin and John Freeman, talk about how the instant gratificatio...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Sep 22, 2009, 9:48 am
I’m testing our my RSS Feed and needed to write a quick post.  In the meantime, here is the poem that Maya Angelou read during the Inauguration. Inaugural Poem by Maya Angelou A Rock, A Rive...
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Tracie Yule posted an article on Yule Time Reading - Sep 22, 2009, 8:28 am
Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss is about an elephant, Horton, who hears a tiny voice that no one else can hear. The voice is on a tiny speck. To save the speck, Horton puts it on a clover. Danger lurk...
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