Quote of the Day------Goodreads

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
Anne Lamott
April 10, 1954: Happy birthday, Anne Lamott! The humorous and heartfelt advice giver was born in San Francisco, California, 59 years ago today

Quote of the Day---Goodreads

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
April 9, 1859: When Samuel L. Clemens got his steamboat license, 154 years ago today, he had no idea that he'd end up taking a common boatman's call, Mark Twain, as his pen name.

Hope you are reading a good book, and have one very good and loyal friend, as do I, who will be with you on your life's journey.

The Girl With No Shadow - a novel by Joanne Harris

Well, as typical, I started reading Joanne's "Peaches for Father Francis", and realized that I needed to read this one first.

Vianne, Anouk and baby Rosette, are living in the Montmartre area of Paris, things are not going well with her current shop. However, Zozie, who happens to work across the street in a run down cafe, has her eyes on Vianne - she wants to steal her identity. Zozie is a master identity theft - she is also a witch. With her powers she not only turns Vianne's shop around, she also manages to ensnare Anouk's affections. Rosette is a very unusual child, who Vianne's current "boy-friend" cannot abide - he is constantly saying that he will send her to professionals to correct her inabilibty to speak and behave properly. Roux will make an appearence, which will set things in motion for everyone.

Will Zozie's attempt to steal Vianne's identity work?

Hope you will consider this title.  It was hard to get into, as each chapter is told from Anouk, Vianne and Zozie's point of view. Once I figured that out, I really enjoyed it.

"Seven Minutes in Heaven" an Israeli film

Film by Omri Givon, from Israel

As I stated to my husband after watching this " when hearing the phrase 'suicide bomber/bombing', I shall forever have images of what it must be like" . 
This is a very "slow-moving" story, going from the present to the past - Galia is searching for memories of what happened on that fateful day.  With subtitles, however, the dialogue is sparse so one need not worry about trying to keep up.

This movie was "spell-binding" to the point that I could barely breath at times, not a Light and fuzzy enjoyable movie, but one that certainly makes a statement about the troubles in the Middle East.  I would suggest you might consider this one.

Quote of the Day-----Goodreads

Don't you just "love" words, some words roll around on your tongue and fly out of your mouth, some are nasty tasting, they shouldn't even be considered.....  I like the following Quote of the Day from Goodreads.....

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.
Bohumil Hrabal
March 28, 1914: Celebrated Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal was born 99 years ago today. His coffin is engraved with the name of the brewery where his mother and stepfather met: Pivovar Polná.

Have a good day, and enjoy a good word, and read a good book.

Quote of the Day------Goodreads

I just love this one

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
Flannery O'Connor
March 25, 1925: Southern Gothic novelist, short story writer, and exotic bird breeder Flannery O'Connor was born 88 years ago today in Savannah, Georgia.

Are you reading a good book?

I just started  "Peaches for Father Francis"

"A Time for Drunken Horses" an Iranian film

"A Time for Drunken Horses" an Iranian film, award winner at Cannes, Chicago and Santa Fe.

Once again, a film featuring children, yet hardly a childrens' film.......  A riveting, disturbing, heart-touching film about the life of Kurdish children living along the Iran-Iraq border.  Watch this with a coat on - even when we think we are cold, we certainly are unable to imagine life without electric or propane heat - also, have a tissue or hankie at hand.
The harshness of the winter in this film is hard for most Americans to fathom, yet the filming of this story at this time of year is amazing with stark reality.
We often hear of forced child labor, yet when children lose their parents what option to they have to survive?
The "drunken horses" are really mules, and they truly are drunk when they cross this pass while smuggling "tires and other such things" by their owners - just after their loads are in place, and just before they leave on their journey, they are given various alcoholic beverages to drink, probably to confuse them during such awful weather conditions.
This is a movie filled with awful things, yet LOVE is what makes the children go on - LOVE of their siblings, the things they do to keep going.
As my husband stated - "this was NOT light and fuzzy", yet it was an incredible movie with such powerful statements of different cultures that Americans really do not understand. 

Usually I say "Enjoy" light-heartedly, this is one that "Enjoy" takes on a different meaning, I do hope that you will consider watching this.