The View From Sari's World

Wow, it has been awhile since I have written anything about my life. It has been a tough couple of months but as always I am weathering the storms that come my way.

Back in May I switched jobs. No big surprise, as my ex-husband said “so what else is new?.

I now work for the Division of Forestry for the State of Nevada. Not a bad switch I might add. I work with a great bunch of people, no drama queens in this crowd! Oh and the firemen, well worth the job switch!

I have been reading a lot this summer. I have not reviewed many of my reads as I do not want this blog to be just another book review site, though I do enjoy reviewing and talking books.

If you noticed, I finally placed a real picture of me on the site. I got brave and took some pictures. Now there is a real person behind this blog.

I am reading Terra Incognita by Ruth Downie. It is book two in her Roman Empire series. If you like historical fiction I would give this series a try. Next up is Mathew Pearl’s The Last Dickens. I have a pile of books I want to read before school starts again. This next semester is going to be tough. I am taking three writing intensive classes. By spring I will be a senior. The time has flown by! Next up my Masters in Medieval History.

I hope to spend more time on my blog. I am looking forward to expanding what I put on it. Tonight was all about updating. Next up some musing from my ever wandering and wondering mind.

From this week’s Weekly Geek challenge:
Though I’m really not very good at it, I love trivia. Put books and trivia together and you’ve got a perfect match. So I thought it would be a fun Weekly Geek activity for us to come up with some book trivia questions to ask each other.

So take a moment, don’t stress about it all, and write down five to ten questions that pop into your mind. You could center all your questions around a particular theme or genre, maybe something in which you specialize. Or ask questions about one certain book. Or teach us about your favorite author through your questions.

You could do really easy ones that you know we’ll all get or really hard ones that will challenge even the best of us.

I have put up five first lines from books written by award or honor winning authors. I picked well known books but have first lines that are not obvious (okay, one is obvious, I included it because it is a great first line).
Post your answers in the comment section, I will let you know if you are right. Have fun!

The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o’clock.

Shadow had done three years in prison.

I was born in the city of Bombay…once upon a time.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.