October 26, 2015 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday ~ October 26th

Welcome to Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia of To Be Continued, a place where readers share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.

After several years of being on tour with different blogs as the monthly host, the Mailbox Monday Blog is now the permanent home for the meme.

Only one book last week — a candy cookbook. I am looking forward to creating some yummy treats for the upcoming holidays. Other than fudge, I have never tried making candy before, so this should be fun!

New Arrivals

Sally’s Candy Addiction: Tasty Truffles, Fudges & Treats for Your Sweet-Tooth Fix by Sally McKenney. A win from Shelf Awareness.
Complete with easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes, Sally’s signature photography for every recipe, and snippets from Sally’s own kitchen experiences, Sally’s Candy Addiction has a recipe for every candy lover in your life.

How was your week?

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October 21, 2015 / Leslie

Wordless Wednesday: Milkweed Bugs

Almost wordless: Destructive little critters were eating the Milkweed seeds. Interestingly, they have the same coloring as the Monarchs, who also feed on the Milkweed. And like the Monarchs, the sap they eat from the Milkweed makes them toxic to predators. These were in the prairie. I prefer they not visit my milkweed patch.

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October 19, 2015 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday ~ October 19th

Welcome to Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia of To Be Continued, a place where readers share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.

After several years of being on tour with different blogs as the monthly host, the Mailbox Monday Blog is now the permanent home for the meme.

Another fairly busy week but I managed to carve out a block of time for reading by participating in Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon this past Saturday. Here’s what arrived last week . . .

New Arrivals

Butterflies by Ronald Orenstein and Thomas Marent from Amazon Vine.
From the common swallowtail to the iridescent blue morpho, Thomas Marent’s stunning photographs provide a close-up view of the remarkable family of insects known as Lepidoptera.

The Tears of Dark Water by Corban Addison from HarperCollins.
Daniel and Vanessa Parker are an American success story. He is a Washington, DC, power broker, and she is a physician with a thriving practice. But behind the gilded facade, their marriage is a shambles, and their teenage son, Quentin, is self-destructing. In desperation, Daniel dusts off a long-delayed dream a sailing trip around the world. Little does he know, the voyage he hopes will save them may destroy them instead.

Audio Downloads

From Penguin Random House Audio

Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams
Indomitable heroines, a dazzling world of secrets, champagne at the Paris Ritz, and a sweeping love story for the ages, in New York Times bestselling author Beatriz William’s final book about the Schuyler sisters.

A Common Struggle by Patrick J. Kennedy
Patrick J. Kennedy, the former congressman and youngest child of Senator Ted Kennedy, details his personal and political battle with mental illness and addiction, exploring mental health care’s history in the country alongside his and every family’s private struggles.

Host by Robin Cook
The explosive new thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, takes readers back to where the genre began, with Coma: what happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medical “incubators” against their will.

How was your week?

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October 17, 2015 / Leslie

Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon

Let the Reading Begin

Many of you are familiar with the Readathon, a twice yearly event which begins today at midnight GMT and continues for 24 hours.

Hundreds of readers are participating and posting on their blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Goodreads.

I will be participating most of the day with a few breaks for errands and other unavoidable chores. The pet birds really do need to be cleaned and fed! But that is what audiobooks are for.

The Readathon began for me at 7 a.m. Chicago time, and this is my eighth Readathon. I have yet to make a full 24 hours and probably won’t this time either since I have a few unavoidable things to do tomorrow, but it’s always a great time.

I will be updating this post throughout the Readathon.

Rather than fill my feed with posts that some of you may not be interested in, I will use this one post for my updates and mini-challenges throughout the day and on twitter at #readathon.

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Hour 1 – Introduction

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?

I live in the USA in a suburb of Chicago.
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October 14, 2015 / Leslie

Wordless Wednesday: Acrobatic Goldfinch

Almost wordless: There were a lot of acrobatic little Goldfinches busy harvesting seeds on the prairie plants last week.

October 12, 2015 / Leslie

Mailbox Monday ~ October 12th

Welcome to Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia of To Be Continued, a place where readers share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.

After several years of being on tour with different blogs as the monthly host, the Mailbox Monday Blog is now the permanent home for the meme.

It has a been a bit slow here at Under My Apple Tree for the past month or so. Even my garden has suffered some neglect as I have taken on two foster birds and more work for the bird shelter, including being on the adoption committee and managing a facebook page for the shelter (likes are greatly appreciated) to increase awareness of birds needing new homes.

Plus, I’m helping to get my father-in-law’s home ready for sale. Fifty years of stuff is a lot to sort through – what to keep, what to sell, and a lot of junk! That is motivating me to clean out my own closets and attic and get rid of things I’m not using.

New Books

The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende from Atria.
An exquisitely crafted love story and multi-generational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War.

Not Black and White by G.A. Beller from Tandem Literary.
A fictional account of many of the events that led to the meteoric rise of a local charismatic street politician to become America’s first African-American president, and the downfall and imprisonment of two consecutive governors in the State of Illinois, along with several of their most trusted advisors and cohorts.