Mango and Ginger Sorbet by cindychae.
"Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life." ~ William Hazlitt
Hope you’re having a beautiful Sunday!
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HAPPY EASTER!
april menu: national poetry month
So many cupcakes, so little time!
Where did March go? Time sure flies when you’re busy licking frosting.
Since I still haven’t found the "perfect chocolate cupcake," I’ll just have to keep looking (twist my arm). Serious bakery research is tough work, but as I said before, I’m willing to make the sacrifice for you, dear readers. So stay tuned for a few more cupcake capers this Spring, as well as more "Cuppie-o-Grams," which will continue to pop up ever-so-randomly here at alphabet soup.
credit: helga_ni.
Meanwhile, the April menu looks even more tantalizing. In honor of National Poetry Month, I’m hosting my first ever POETRY POTLUCK! Each weekday, I will post an exceedingly tasty poem and favorite recipe from one of the many uncommonly good-looking, highly talented poets who regularly participate in Poetry Friday. Just wait till you see what they’ve cooked up! Get your literary bibs on, cause we’ll be serving some seriously amazing food for body, mind and spirit!
three quick bites
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1. The March Carnival of Children’s Literature is up! Click over to The Miss Rumphius Effect and treat yourself to a delicious selection of book reviews, author interviews, storytime activities, author tributes, and posts about writing and literacy from all over the kidlitosphere. Tricia has arranged the links in such a fun way, guaranteed to get you caught up in all the carnival excitement.
2. Special thanks to Janet at Across the Page for presenting alphabet soup with the Prolific Blogger Award: "A Prolific Blogger is one who is intellectually productive . . . keeping up an active blog that is filled with enjoyable content." It’s always nice to receive an enthusiastic nod of approval from a fellow blogger!
3. Have you seen the Periodic Table of Cupcakes? These were specially made for Jacqueline Houtman’s book launch party; her debut novel, The Reinvention of Edison Thomas, was just released this month by Front Street/Boyds Mills Press. The cupcakes were even flavored according to their chemical group. Très cool!
TTFN!
2010 Library-Loving Blog Challenge Wrap-up
Hooray for you!
With 174 beautiful, heartfelt, impassioned comments, you stated loud and clear just how important libraries are in your lives. You are definitely my kind of people!
I love knowing that many of you consider the library a second home, how it’s the first place you look for when you move to a new town, how you take your children there every week for storytime, how your neighborhood library made you into a lifelong reader when you were little. For people passionate about reading, lifelong learning, communicating, building a strong community and investing in the future, there’s nothing like the public library.
I said in my 2009 post how I couldn’t have written my third book without the interlibrary loan service at Fairfax County Public Library (FCPL). I taught a woman how to read at the Chantilly branch, met my first writing group and volunteered at Centreville, sat in tiny chairs at the old Fairfax branch reading hundreds of picture books so I could learn how to write one. I’ve been a patron of this library system for over 25 years, and it’s always given me more than I can ever say.
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