Monday Ketchup or How to Make Goulash

I've been busy with wrapping up my mom's end of life business (there's a lot, believe me) and seeing to my son's care since his accident. Therefore, I've not really been HOPPING or FB+ING or SOCIAL MEDIA+ING very much. It's going to take a few more months before I'm at full strength, but I will be. In the meantime, here's what's up.


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Today is very special because I get to share BISH DENHAM'S book with you. First, look at this cover. Who wouldn't pick this from a shelf or a webpage?
Please add this to your GOODREADS TBR 
About the Book


How do you escape a hungry tiger? Why do ram-goats smell? What happens if you get too greedy? In this collection of ten retold Jamaican stories, Anansi the spider tricks, sings, and dances his way into and out of trouble.

But who is Anansi? It was the Ashanti of West Africa who brought the spider into the Caribbean. He clung tight to the web he wove in the minds of those who had been captured, surviving not only the harrowing passage across the Atlantic Ocean, but hundreds of years of slavery.

As a trickster, Anansi has both good and bad traits, which makes him very human. Sometimes he wins, sometimes he loses. When he wins he dances and sings for joy. When he loses, he shakes it off and keeps on living, a lesson for us all.


About the Author
Bish Denham, whose mother's side of the family has been in the Caribbean for over hundred years, was raised in the U. S. Virgin Islands. She still has lots of family living there and visits them regularly.
She says, "Growing up in the islands was like living inside a history book. Columbus named them, Sir Francis Drake sailed through the area, and Alexander Hamilton was raised on St. Croix. Pirates plied the waters and hundred of years of slavery left its indelible mark. It was within this atmosphere of magic and wonder that I grew up. My hope is pass some of that magic and wonder on to my readers."
"LIKE" HER FACEBOOK PAGE. 
FOLLOW BISH ON TWITTER.


******If you missed this on Michael's Blog, the link to his post about his very COOL and FUN COFFEE BLOG HOP is below. It's a commitment, guaranteed to wake you up! MICHAEL DI GESU'S HOP
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How did this Goulash taste? I love it when I have just the right ingredients to make a great stewy kind of blog post. Hope you'll check out Bish's book and join Michael's Coffee Hop.



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Published on January 12, 2014 19:29
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