Fun and games....

The Original Round Top Antiques Fair---the show that started it all!

WINTER ANTIQUES SHOW
January 14, 15, 2012
Big Red Barn
9AM to 5PM Saturday
10AM 4PM Sunday
Admission $5 Good for all days.

I have been reading a lot......

School starts today....

My great-granddaughter, Zoe, starts 7th grade today. Time flies.....

On Aug. 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died at the age of 42 at his Graceland home.

Summer ending.....

Oh, my goodness...where have I been??
Well, I guess a better question would be where have I not been?
Summer is almost over and I am getting back to business.

Christmas fabric....

Look what I found at Equilter.com....I love this fabric. Does this get you into the Christmas spirit in June, or what?!

Jeff Deaver and James Bond....

From Shelfawareness:

"Jeffery Deaver told a crowd gathered at the downtown Manhattan restaurant Imperial No. Nine that when the estate of Ian Fleming had asked if he'd be interested in writing an authorized James Bond novel. "I debated all of five seconds," he joked, and soon after got started on Carte Blanche, which Simon & Schuster released in the U.S. this week. The main challenge, he said, in updating Bond for the 21st century was to retain the flair and panache that Fleming gave Bond in the 1950s while making him a believable figure in a more politically correct contemporary setting. In addition, "I had to make the character work in my type of thriller"--plot-driven, where Fleming placed greater emphasis on character, he explained.

What did Deaver make of the mild controversy that's emerged in the U.K. about Bond being handled by an American thriller writer? "It's an author's job to create credible, living, breathing characters," he said. Bond was just another challenge... and it was just as challenging for me to write about Felix Leiter, the American CIA agent." Deaver did plenty of research for the novel, spending months overseas studying the intricacies of the British intelligence network and the nuances between American and British English. "And the book's been out for three weeks there," he noted, "and nobody has caught me in any slip-ups."--Ron Hogan