My thanks to Msspears.co.uk for this awesome graphic!

If you find yourself in a corner defending your 'need to read' Just pull out this fabulous cheat sheet and quote away. Extra points for handing book to your critic resulting in an impromptu group reading session. You win the game forever if this action directly results in regular reading sessions. The link takes you to the homepage.
http://www.msspears.co.uk/415628143

Books for everyone!

This Press Release is almost a year old but if I just found it then there might be others who missed it, too.

First Book, one of my favorite charities, is teaming with the Digital Public Library and the White House to publicize an application developed for kids who might have access to a smartphone or digital reader but not to ebooks. The app allows these kids to read books donated by publishers of wonderful children's books. Teachers and caregivers who work with qualified children can request access codes so they can give one to each child. For better instructions and generally more factual information can be found at FirstBook.org or the Digital Public Library at its site: dp.la. (almost as awesome as my site: Sharienne.com) The app is at this address: https://www.imls.gov/sites/default/files/publications/documents/get-started-openebooks.pdf.
I hope that all kids get to see that a screen can expand your mind as long as you look at the right things. I have more than 5,000 e-books and thousands more publications and booklets in my reading applications (ISSU is really putting out some great content! BTW). How could I sleep with 5,000 books under my head if we didn't have ebooks? I never want to have a day without my books and digital has made that dream possible. The last thing I do each night is put my reader under my pillow so that I don't even have to lift my head in the morning to get my reading for the day started.

go forth! read books! (or pamphlets or instruction manuals I won't discriminate. Reading is all good.)
shari

Too much for Facebook but I still want to share it.

I have recently experienced a greater need to have two levels of sharing. Facebook is for all family and friends. Like most people with a family and friends total greater than zero I have people whom I love and care about who don't agree with me about everything. I am deeply thankful that there are people who are willing to overlook my flaws and errors to care about and love me back. I treasure their patience with my hard-headed stubbornness and I am an angel to look the other way when I see their idiosyncracies showing (JOKE, I kid). Yet, there's no need to make someone raise their hackles every time they want to see cute kid pics, though. SO, starting today I am splitting my FB page in two. The opinionated, ignorant, obnoxious or the preachy will be re-located to my blog page that I use rarely (last year I had 4 visitors from the 7 billion of you. Thanks and checks are in the mail!) Obviously I haven't got an audience that I need to relocate so it is move-in ready. For the 99% of you who care more about my kids than my opinion I will make sure Dennis keeps posting pics of them regularly. (Daniel's pre-school holiday concert is tonight. Cuteness prediction is 11 of 10 points.)
You may all return to your lives.
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