7 January 2009 by Bonnie.

Last weekend we had a great time visiting our corgi breeder, Gloria– as well as her five corgi puppies! They were 7 weeks old, and super cute. And chewed everything! But after about 15 minutes of playing, they all conked out, curling up together.

This one really liked my shoe.

Another shoe fan:

Getting sleepy…

The grownups and Scott

We had a fun time up there!

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7 January 2009 by Bonnie.

I love the author Mercedes Lackey. I picked this book up off the shelf and immediately had to get it. And I wasn’t disappointed!

Take a Thief, by Mercedes Lackey

To Catch a Thief

Skif was an orphan. For as long as he could remember he had worked as a drudge in his Uncle Londer’s dreary inn in the slums of Haven. Sleeping on a pile of rags under the stairs, wakened before dawn to do the lowliest and filthiest of tasks, Skif would have died from malnutrition and exposure if he had never met Deke.

Deke was a pickpocket. The oldest member of a group of young boys who, with the guidance of their teacher and leader, a crippled man naed Bazie, survived by their wits and their nimble fingers. But Bazie was more than just the head of a band of young thieves-Bazie cared about the boys. Uncle Londer barely cared whether Skif was alive or dead. It was an easy decision for Skif to abandon his former life and throw in his lot with Bazie’s crew.

By the time Skif was twelve, he was an accomplished cat burglar and one of the leaders of Bazie’s gang. LIght on his feet, silent as a ghost, small enough to slide between portective window bars, his “take” had evolved from silk hankies slipped from laundries and pockets to gold and silver jewelery stolen from “hidden” cupboards in affluent houses.

But it wasn’t until Skif decided to steal a finely tacked-out white horse, which was, oddly enough, standing unattended in the street, that this young thief discovered that the tables could be turned on him….

This book was great! I couldn’t put it down. I’ve read a trilogy by Lackey as well, the Last Herald-Mage trilogy, which was fantastic. It also helps you understand Heralds much better, which this book doesn’t do as well because they aren’t the biggest part of the story.

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7 January 2009 by Bonnie.

Well, I’m back, after a little bloggie crisis. Somehow my old blog was deleted! So here I am, starting anew, and still determined to give you good advice for books to read! As well as the cutest corgi pictures ever, of course!! The crazy book-reader-corgi-lover is back!

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