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Hi, I'm Ti! I blog about books and life over at http://bookchatter.net

The Creative Writer Blogger Award

Diane of Bibliophile by the Sea has given me an award.  Many times bloggers are asked to share some little-known or not so little-known facts about yourself. I don’t participate in many memes but this Bald Faced Liar…whoops….”Creative Writer” award sounds like harmless fun.

I like guessing games as much as the next person so here’s what this is all about.
1. Thank the person who gave this to you. ( Thanks Diane!)
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you.
4. Tell us up to six outrageous lies about yourself, and at least one outrageous truth.
5. Allow your readers to guess which one or more are true.
6. Nominate seven “Creative Writers” who might have fun coming up with outrageous lies. (I will skip this)
7. Post links to the seven blogs you nominate. (Skipping this too)
8. Leave a comment on each of the blogs letting them know you nominated them. (You guessed it!)

The 7 items that I have listed below contain  (6) untruths and (1) absolutely true statement. I make no promises that the 6 don’t include some part of truth. Guess which one is absolutely true. I’ll share the answer tomorrow. Hope you enjoy and feel free to speculate as much as you like. Now to the tall tales or not…

1. I wrote a screenplay adaptation of A Separate Peace when I was in college and it was optioned, but never made into a movie.

2. Steve Martin asked to borrow my toothpaste when he was filming The Jerk on location.

3. I was a witness to two murders when I was 5-years-old.

4. I failed Geometry two times and had to have a 13-year-old tutor me when I was a high school senior.

5. I was a tour guide for Universal Studios Hollywood.

6. I planned a big wedding and then ended up eloping after it got too stressful.

7. I climbed Half Dome.

I apologize for the spacing. For whatever reason I could not get the spacing right even after tweaking the code.

Library Book Club Reading List for 2010

My book club met last night for our annual book selection meeting. We choose our books for the entire year. This seems to work well for us and we all look forward to the meeting.

I took this screenshot off of Goodreads, but it’s the exact opposite of how we plan to read them. If you start on the lower right with Finn and then read from right to left, bottom to top, then you have the order. I also listed it down below. I always make a shelf in Goodreads for my  book club reading list, just to keep track of it. Next time, I’ll start with the last book first.

I’m really pleased with this list. We actually added two more books that take us into the next year so I did not list them officially here, but those two are Last Night in Twisted River and The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

2010 Library Book Club Reading List

Jan –  Finn by John Clinch [review]

Feb – Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Mar  – True History of the Kelly Gang byPeter Carey

April  – The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon [review] Changed to The Book Thief.

May – First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung

June – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

July – Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink

Aug – The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Sept – Invisible by Paul Auster

Oct – Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Nov – Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors

Dec  – Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton