I NEVER DREAMED…
I’ve done other posts about some strange dreams I’ve had….about following your dreams…..but of this, I NEVER dreamed!
I’ve been given the “Booker” Blog award….The lovely, lovely, Lorna of http://lornasvoice.com/ bestowed this honor upon me and I am truly grateful and humbled…If you love to laugh you need to follow this girl….she has the most amazingly fun way of telling about her life…whether it’s a trip out to eat dinner, or prepping for the Kentucky Derby…she always “knocks it out of the park”…She is working on the completion of her memoir and I can’t wait to get my hands on it!! Now..on to my duties..This award is given, as I understand it, to people who read…and also write….the award is intended to get the recipient to let their poor hapless readers know what books they like to read, their all-time favorites…not including the ones they are about to write or have written. I think we are to name five…but I’m going to fall short..
So I’m jumping in …..My all-time favorite…GONE WITH THE WIND! Maybe it’s the drama, maybe it’s the way Margaret Mitchell just made me SEE the clothes, the road leading up to “Tara”….It could be the way she made my heart thumpity-thump when Rhett Butler made his appearance….maybe it’s the way she made me want to have feet as tiny as Scarlett O’hara’s………….I’ll never know….but this, this, is my favorite…..now me being me,,,I also love this…and I know it’s not a book, but this is the way I would have lived gone with the wind…(It’s long, but even a few minutes are worth watching)…
Agatha Christie……..The Queen of the murder mystery….I could complete my list of five books, wrapped up with a bow…just telling you of the books that I love that she wrote..My favorite…”They Came To Baghdad”……I can feel the sun reflecting off the River Tigris…..feel myself wandering through a bazaar….imagine myself hiding a man under the pillows on my bed…oops..oh yes..that IS in the book…feel the chloroform soaked cloth being pressed to my nose………..and then there’s her famous detective Hercule Poirot….for some reason I’d like to stick a pin in him….I don’t know why….but he does make me want to curl up in a chair and take a nap…And let’s not forget Miss Marple,,the nice little old lady..who can knit an afghan and figure out who poisoned the Lord of the manor all while sipping a cup of chamomile tea.
My last but not least…”Giant”, by Edna Ferber….they made a movie out of this, with Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean….I loved it so much that I chose my son’s name from this book…”Jordan”…..soon after that EVERY little girl born was named Jordan. But…a story that just had to be done on the big screen…it takes place in Texas..the land of oil…hard struggle, but big money..all I have to do is start typing this and I can imagine and see the landscape of that story…feel the undercurrent that runs through it..to me it’s epic.
Now….the rules of this award state that you must name five bloggers to receive this award…but you know me….SO..I am naming one blogger…Anneli Purchase….of http://wordsfromanneli.wordpress.com/ …She is an amazing writer…I have read her book The Wind Weeps…and now have in my possession her latest book, O’rions Gift, that I can’t wait to get started on..”The Wind Weeps” really stayed with me and I know that she is going to go far in her career as a writer….So Ms. Purchase…your job, should you decide to accept it, is to mention who gave you the award..IT’S ME!! ZANNYRO!!,,post the award on your blog, name five of your all time favorite books and why you listed them and pass the award on, ( if you so choose).
Now I’m off to buy a hat with a book on it…so that I can tell the world that I won the Booker Award…..or that I have appalling taste in fashion…
Congrats!!
October 9, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Thanks!!
October 9, 2012 at 7:17 pm
WOW! Congratulations dear Suzanne, you deserved. Thanks and Love, nia
October 1, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Thanks so much! It was a big surprise
October 1, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Congratulations on your award. I’ve enjoyed your photos of animals both large and small, and look forward to you sharing more.
September 30, 2012 at 1:57 am
Thanks Suzanne. Am on holidays right now and don’t always have a connection but will respond properly when I’m able.
September 28, 2012 at 11:28 pm
Oh no worries! Just have a great time and let us know all everything you see!
September 29, 2012 at 2:01 am
Woo hoo for you! … and what a great Carol Burnett clip!
September 28, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Congrats! Totally deserved. I just read my first Agatha Christie novel and now I’m hooked!
September 28, 2012 at 7:40 am
AHA! You’re a goner now…
September 28, 2012 at 1:11 pm
Congrats, Miss Z … that’s awesome!
September 28, 2012 at 3:21 am
Congratulations to you Suzanne. You deserve it
September 27, 2012 at 9:41 pm
Awwwwwww..Thanks Colline..I love you guys
September 27, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Congratulations! You’re going to need a bigger blog just for the awards.
September 27, 2012 at 9:11 pm
LOL! I still need to address yours!! Yours is going to take some doing…I need to be VERY creative!
September 27, 2012 at 9:40 pm
Just give us your best potato salad recipe.
September 27, 2012 at 9:54 pm
LOL!
September 27, 2012 at 9:55 pm
Congratulations on your much deserved award.
September 27, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Awwwww..Thank you!!
September 27, 2012 at 9:40 pm
So well deserved, Suzanne. I’m dying to see you in your book- hat.
September 27, 2012 at 6:52 pm
What have I done?! It looks like I have to get the book hat in a HURRY!!!
September 27, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Teehee. That will teach you a lesson.
September 27, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Aaaarrgghh!
September 27, 2012 at 7:15 pm
If anyone can make a hat with a book on it work, it’s you!
Congratulations, and off to check out the blogs you named…
September 27, 2012 at 3:18 pm
I think you and Lorna would get along quite nicely
!
September 27, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Congrats Suzanne
I am a huge Agatha Christie fan. I think I might just have read every Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple book available 
September 27, 2012 at 2:57 pm
I think I’ve read them all too!! Nothing is more “comfort food” to me then settling in with an Agatha Christie…..Agatha Christie lovers UNITE!!
September 27, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Nicely done and I LOVE the clip of the Carol Burnett skit–right up my alley!
September 27, 2012 at 2:48 pm
ABSOLUTELY UP YOUR ALLEY
September 27, 2012 at 2:56 pm
You deserve it…. congrats.
September 27, 2012 at 2:46 pm
Thanks Bulldog!!
September 27, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Congrats
September 27, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Thanks!
September 27, 2012 at 2:18 pm
Congrats! Nice way to handle the award.
September 27, 2012 at 2:14 pm
LOL! Thank you
I wish I could nominate EVERYBODY..that’s the one problem I have with these awards.
September 27, 2012 at 2:19 pm