Thinking out loud....

I've been doing a lot of thinking lately about family. There are just so many things that you don't really think about until someone else says something to you about it.

Just_a_boy and I both are quite interested in history which leads you to the road of genealogy. Of course that right now just means using Google and whatever free resources there are on the internet. A recent check on, ancestry.com led me to a startling revelation on my family history, okay really not such a revelation but a realization of the past. I guess if your parents were born here in the states you just assume that your family has been here, that your family has always lived in America. On my dad's side of the family that just isn't true...I happen to be just a third generation American. That really isn't that far removed from the old country if you think about it, less than 100 years.

Trying this out...

I'm not sure how this is going to go. This post is coming from my phone. New phone means a new chance to learn how  everything that is simple and easy on your phone can actually be difficult and annoying. But I do like that this means that I now have more access to this pretty much everywhere. That doesn't mean that I will be blogging more it just means I have more options of when and where.

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30 before 30...

I keep seeing these kinds of posts and I liked the idea of pushing myself to read. So really here it goes this is my list of thirty books before I turn thirty and I am sure that I will be adding books to this list because well I already have. Actually as I was reading over the list I saw that there was one book that I had accidentally put on there twice which is no big deal because I already read a book since I started this and I have started another, both of which are not on the list. The rules which I promptly broke were that these were books that at some point I had started or where already in my possession. I also didn't want it to be that I read thirty books at random, that I would set a goal and just write down the books as I read them. All of these books I had when I made this list with the exception of Eat Pray Love. It took the place of the duplicate Catch 22 which I had not seen until tonight. 

So here goes...

1. Great Expectations April 29, 2016

2. Emma

3. The Savage Detectives

4. Hard Times

5. Sacred Hunger

6. Brave Men Gentle Heroes

7. Catch 22

8. The Hobbit

9. The Clue in the Diary

10. The Bear

11. Across Five Aprils

12. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister oops! Not sure.

13. Doctor Zhivago

14. Quarterdeck & Bridge

15. Shiloh in Hell Before Night

16. The Gangs of New York

17. Hello Charlie

18. Tarnished Scalpels

19. Eat Pray Love  April 20, 2012

20. Women in Vietnam

21. Elizabeth the Struggle for the Throne

22. Pigs in Heaven

23. Animal Dreams

24. Debt of Honor

25. The Origin of Species

26. The Screwtape Letters

27. The Unknown Soldier

28. The Concrete Blond

29. Anne of Green Gables

30. Anne of Avonlea

Each of these books probably has a story as to why it is on the list and I will go into that with each post about the book.

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