Saturday, October 8, 2016

#StackingtheShelves #53! Plus blog updates, week's end, and upcoming! Come see the NEW books I have for review!


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How Stacking the Shelves works! 

Hello everyone! It's that time of week again, that time to do an awesome "SHOW AND TELL" of the books I have been given, from authors, from publishers, I bought, borrowed, or received somehow, the library, a yard sale, or some way this past week! I LOVE showing books off like this! This is one of MY favorite posts to write!!
I also use THIS POST EACH WEEK to do somewhat of a wrap-up AND to post my NEW REVIEWS, NEW GIVEAWAYS, and whatever else I should bring to your attention!
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I will also be linking this post AND my reviews to Saturday Situation as well from now on, too! That is a place to link ALL THINGS BOOKISH! I'm anxious to start posting there!! Check it out, too!

Hello Everyone!!
I don't know if any of you have Comcast for your Internet Service Provider, but they STINK!!! I've had problems with them for the last several years and it was a FIGHT to get them out here September 2nd, well OVER a month ago to come out and put in a NEW cable because my internet CONTINUED to go out! They came and told me that they would be back out to BURY the line. It's an orange line, I learned from the photos today, but Comcast left a TON of extra wire so the LAWNMOWER PEOPLE would NOT drive over it and shred it!!! Comcast rolled it into a HUGE CIRCLE so you could NOT MISS IT!!! What does the lawnmower do? They RUN OVER MY INTERNET CONNECTION WIRE!!!!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! I call Comcast and ask them WHY HAD MY CABLE NOT BEEN BURIED???? It is well OVER a month - someone forgot and someone tried to cover it up!!! I am without internet service now!!!!!! HOW am I typing this? I am using the complex's internet service here where I live! They CLAIM it is safe as LONG AS you sign in on Xfinity's Home Page, which I did. I guess I'm lucky I have this, but they did NOT tell me about this yesterday! ROTTEN PEOPLE! They told me this afternoon! I am used to being ON the internet! When you cannot go on the internet at ANYTIME you prefer, I tend to get VERY CRABBY!!!!! So while talking to Comcast TODAY, I find out they had NOT PLANNED ON COMING OUT HERE TO FIX MY EMERGENCY UNTIL TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY MORNING!!!!!!!! YES!!!! I THREW A FIT! They had me SOOOOO ANGRY I STARTED BALLING MY EYES OUT FROM SHEER FRUSTRATION!!!!! I HATE COMCAST! I HATE COMCAST! I AM STUCK WITH COMCAST! THE LANDLORD WILL NOT ALLOW ANY OTHER COMPANY IN HERE WHICH TELLS ME HE IS GETTING PAID BY COMCAST TO KEEP THE OTHER COMPANIES OUT OF HERE, IN PARTICULAR, AT&T!!! I AM TAKING THIS TO THE FCC AND REPORTING MY LANDLORD TO WHOEVER IT IS I AM SUPPOSED TO REPORT HIM TO! LET HIM "TRY" TO KICK ME OUT OF HERE - IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN!!! It can't! I'm disabled, as well, and he just would NEVER get away with it, and if he tried, he'd have a lawsuit up his behind within 24 hours! 
I just like to live a nice, quiet, uncomplicated life. Instead, ALL OF US live at the mercy of other people who DO NOT LIKE THEIR JOBS AND BLOW THEIR JOBS OFF, SPENDING MORE TIME COVERING UP THEIR BEHINDS FOR THE WORK THEY DID NOT DO SO THEY DON'T LOSE THEIR CUSHY WELL-PAID POSITION! I SAY ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO WAS PART OF THIS REPAIR, THEY ARE ALLLLLLLL PAYING FOR WHAT THEY DID! 
I DON'T EVEN HAVE PHONE SERVICE!!!! THEY ASSUMED I HAD A SMART PHONE!! HA!!!!!!! I HAVE A CELL PHONE THAT IS ABOUT 10 YEARS OLD AND IT COST ME $1.00 PER MINUTE TO CALL COMCAST! I AM UP TO OVER 1 HOUR! $60 SO FAR!!! THEY WILL PAY FOR THAT IN CREDITS TO MY ACCOUNT!!! OH YES THEY WILL!
So sorry I vented like that, but how many of you out there have this problem with YOUR cable companies? It ALWAYS comes back to Xfinity because THEY are the ones who own just about EVERY cable company out there! Enough is enough! 
ANY of you have ANY problems, please list them below and your email addy's and I WILL be contacting the FCC or WHOEVER it is I need to contact, and if you tell me YOUR problem, I will include YOU in the complaint! Comcast cable IS PAYING!!!!!!!!! Xfinity is PAYING!!!!!!!! 
There is ONE GREAT THING that happened to me this week! We started a NEW membership at the YMCA!! I AM A FISH!!!! I may not be able to walk or do much in the way of fancy work with my legs/feet, but I sure could kick anyone's but swimming!!! I am a STRONG swimmer! I guess I've built up quite a bit of upper body strength I did not know about while I've been rolling that wheelchair around! WOW!!! I sure surprised myself!!! I became ONE with that water! I swam better than I have EVER swam! I found myself at the Y 2 days in a row this week and I swam BOTH DAYS for 4 HOURS!!! There are two pools! One pool is a warm 86 degrees which is like bathwater! Then there is the pool that is ONLY 6 degrees cooler, but let me tell you HOW MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE THAT MAKES!!!! WOW!!!!! It's FREEZING!!!!! Well, when you FIRST get in and if you don't move right away, it hurts!!!! LOL! It DOES get you swimming FAST!!! It IS an Olympic size swimming pool, which I LOVE!!!!! I did so many laps I lost count! I LOVE IT!!!!!! Like I said, I am a COMPLETELY different person IN the pool than I am on land!!! I LOVED it! Now no, I am NOT getting into all the health stuff from swimming because it will just happen on it's own, however, I DO see myself going there EVERY DAY FOR A WHILE, AT LEAST! I LOVE IT!!!!! Again, I swim BETTER NOW than I EVER have before! It is NO EFFORT to stay up, to kick my legs/feet, or to move my arms, nor to float! I felt like I was ONE WITH THE WATER!!! My favorite swim stroke is the backstroke! It feels best on my back, and looking back YEARS ago, it has ALWAYS been my most favorite swim stroke! Perhaps it's because I can see what I just passed! I like to see what is coming, too, so I switch back and forth as I'm going down my lane, however, we don't have lanes! There are only 2 lanes! YIKES! So I look down into the water and I follow the dark line at the bottom! I also watch for the board the swimmers jump off of for competition swim! It works GREAT and I feel like a NEW PERSON FROM DOING IT!!! I LOVE SWIMMING!!! 
Now, on to MORE WONDERFUL things!!!! Let's talk about the Giveaways here at the blog and the books I received this week!

GIVEAWAYS!!!

Fall Into Books $250 #CASH #GIVEAWAY! NOW TO 10-15! ENTER HERE! 

#BOOK #GIVEAWAY "Only Daughter, a novel, by Anna Snoekstra" to 10-15-16: HERE!

REVIEWS THIS WEEK:

Little Boy Blue, A Detective Inspector Helen Grace novel #5, by MJ Arlidge! HERE! 

REVIEWS THIS COMING WEEK (as long as I continue to have internet!):

Twelve Days of Christmas by Debbie Macomber (The QUEEN of Christmas stories!)

Miracle on 5th Avenue by Sarah Morgan

Books I received this week:


Stalked, The Profiler #4, by Elizabeth Heiter - Release Date: 12-27-16
The author, Elizabeth Heiter, will have a Guest Post on my blog ON THE RELEASE DATE talking about how she writes authentic FBI characters! I'm DYING to read how she does it!! I KNOW she MUST interact with the real FBI to do her research to be able to write this series of books which relies very heavily on the characters who work for the FBI. I am a HUGE fan of thriller novels, and this one, well, listen to what it's about:

If you're reading this, I'm already dead… 

Whoa!!! Sounds GREAT, huh!!! I WANT to read this one ASAP!!! Lucky me, I get to read what the author wrote right away, too! Don't worry! You will, too! You must wait, though, until 12-27! It's ONLY 2 days AFTER Christmas, so think of it as a nice BONUS Christmas present! LOL! 


The Good Daughter by Alexandra Burt - Release Date: February 7th, 2017 - I think I missed sharing this one with you last weekend, so here it is! Yes! Another thriller! I KNOW! Lately it seems that is what I've been reading a LOT of, but I LOVE them! I LOVE a book that gets my blood pumping! Thrillers do that and I am a happy camper!! You can't deny these get your blood pumping in a good way! We are safe reading about our characters, but we are rooting for them that they get to safety!! I'm addicted to these! That's okay, they are books! LOL! I have read this author before, and I loved her! I'm really looking forward to this book as well!


The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff - Release Date: February 21, 2017

Description

The Nightingale meets Water for Elephants in this powerful novel of friendship and sacrifice, set in a traveling circus during World War II, by international bestselling author Pam Jenoff.
Seventeen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier during the occupation of her native Holland. Heartbroken over the loss of the baby she was forced to give up for adoption, she lives above a small German rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep.

This sounds like such a sad book to me, I HAVE to read it! I believe this books hold a LOT of positive in the face of negativity! I LOVE to read books like these! Throw me a challenge and I'm going to meet it head-on, and it sounds like this once young, pregnant girl, has found her way to fight, and to fight out of the poverty and away from the people who took her child! I like that! This should be VERY interesting!! In fact, I was granted permission to read this, but I had to wait for it! It must be super great! They mention Water for Elephants, and I happen to be reading Sara Gruen's newest book after Water for Elephants called, At the Water's Edge, and she is an outstanding author! If this book is being compared to Sara Gruen's book, this book MUST be good!

That is all of the books I received, borrowed or bought this week, ALL books for review from the publishers! I can't wait again for NEXT week with MORE!

Have a WONDERFUL week ahead! Don't let ANYTHING get in your way! Even if your internet goes out! I WILL admit, tomorrow we ARE going to buy Smart Phones!!! This is the END of EVER being without the internet!!! We NEED the internet! There is nothing we CAN DO WITHOUT THE INTERNET ANYMORE TODAY! I was SO depressed, too! I have a bunch of friends I hang out with, and I couldn't contact ONE of them because EVERYTHING depends on the internet! It was a rough night! You might be laughing at me, but seriously, take your internet away for ONE day, especially from those who LOVE books, and NO! WE CAN'T DO IT! We need a slogan for that! LOL!
Anyway, again, don't allow anything to get in your way, and if a task sounds difficult, like I thought it might be to swim, yet I REALLY wanted to get IN that water and have it take some of the weight OFF my body and see how well I could or couldn't swim, as it turned out, I AM A FISH! SWIMMING 4 HOURS 2 DAYS IN A ROW, yes, I DID need today to rest! LOL! Face ANY AND ALL challenges that may come your way! Bring those challenges ON so you CAN face them! You might just be surprised at how WELL you CAN do them!
Toodles, till next week!
Laurie

1 comment:

  1. Swimming will be fabulous for you Laurie - on all levels! So glad you are finding yourself so good at it :)

    Not so good your internet. We changed from Sky to Virgin. Had so many problems with Sky we decided too change - and the beauty of that is of course that did have a choice but you don't! Good luck with getting justice.

    I have Sarah Morgan's on my TBR. LOVE a Sarah Morgan novel. Look forward to reading your thoughts.

    Take care x
    #TalkoftheTown

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