The Happiness Tag and What I Read Lately

I've been tagged by Anne at My Head is Full of Books to complete The Happiness Tag.  Thank you very much, Anne!

Rules:
1. List 5 things that make you happy.
2. List 5 songs that make you happy.
3. List 5 bloggers that make you happy and let them know that they have been nominated.

So here goes...

5 Things That Make Me Happy

Reading

Paris, Chicago, and Other Travels

People I Love and People I Like

Walking and Swimming and Doing Yoga

God

5 Songs That Make Me Happy

This is quite easy. I have actually made myself a mix tape of songs that make me happy.

Happy. Of course. 

  Simon and Garfunkel's 59th Street Bridge Song

Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World

Bob Marley's Don't Worry Be Happy

Bing Crosby's Swinging on a Star

5 Bloggers That Make Me Happy You know who you are.  (There's a lot more of you than five.) So consider yourself tagged. If you wish. If it makes you happy.

What I Finished Lately I've gotten a bit behind with posting my reviews. This ought to catch me up. cover title author review The Nightingale Hannah, Kristin  You should write a review as soon as you finish a book, I think, and I would write this review for this book that I just finished if I could just stop ...more Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s Worth, Jennifer The power of this story is that it takes you to another world than our modern day, first world lives. A world where mothers have eight children and th ...more The Thirteenth Tale Setterfield, Diane The genre for this book is gothic novel. It was my mother's favorite kind of book. Because I didn't want to go against my mom, and because it was at l ...more With Any Luck I'll Drive a Truck Friend, David Ah, this one is good. You kids out there who love big machines? This one's for you. Read it and you can drive 'em all, too---18-wheelers...concrete mi ...more Return (Journey Trilogy, #3) Becker, Aaron Everything you want in a picture book...beautiful illustrations...fantastic story...adventure...action...magic....Journey. It was a Caldecott Honor bo ...more Quest (Journey Trilogy, #2) Becker, Aaron Everything you want in a picture book...beautiful illustrations...fantastic story...adventure...action...magic....Journey. It was a Caldecott Honor bo ...more Journey (Journey Trilogy, #1) Becker, Aaron Everything you want in a picture book...beautiful illustrations...fantastic story...adventure...action...magic....Journey. It was a Caldecott Honor bo ...more The Gingerbread Man Loose at The Zoo Murray, Laura  Is there a genre called "Gingerbread Man books"? There should be. There are so many of them. And there's a good reason for that...kids love gingerbrea ...more A Tiger Tail: Boldt, Mike Marvelous. Anya wakes up on the first day of school and discovers she has a tiger tale. Eek. What to do? Her parents aren't much help. Finally, she st ...more The Dragon's Hoard: Stories from the Viking Sagas James, Cate There's a reason why folk tales and fairy tales and sagas and legends last: they are good stories. The Dragon's Hoard is a collection of old stories t ...more Dark Matter Crouch, Blake  When you read a book in one sitting, it says something about the book. I read Dark Matter in one sitting. I couldn't stop reading. Jason teaches physic ...more How to Party with an Infant Hemmings, Kaui Hart  Mele tells her boyfriend that she's pregnant and he tells her he is engaged. Mele has her baby, Ellie, alone and joins a parent group for support. Tha ...more Top Secret Twenty-One (Stephanie Plum, #21) Evanovich, Janet  I got a little behind on the Stephanie Plum mysteries, so I got to enjoy two Plums this summer. Enjoy is a good word when it comes to the Plums. You a ...more A Weird and Wild Beauty: The Story of Yellowstone, the World's First National Park Peabody, Erin  Erin Peabody takes us along with a team of thirty-two men who headed out in 1871 to explore Yellowstone in the first scientific expedition there. It's ...more Thunderwith Hathorn, Libby Lara's mother dies and Lara is sent to live with a father she doesn't know and his new family. Her father's wife and her new sisters are not all eager ...more The Light of Paris Brown, Eleanor  It had Paris in the title and an Eiffel Tower on the cover...I'm helpless in the face of these things to stop myself from nabbing this book. It didn't ...more The Bookshop on the Corner Colgan, Jenny Nina has troubles. She's just lost her job. She's lost her home. She doesn't know what to do next. And then she gets a crazy idea. What would happen if ...more F Is for France: A Curious Cabinet of French Wonders Eatwell, Piu Marie  It's a trivia book. It's an encyclopedia. It's a curious cabinet of wonders. And it's all about the most wonderful place on earth, France. You really ...more Of All Sad Words: A Dan Rhodes Mystery(Sheriff Dan Rhodes #15) Crider, Bill  We listened to two mystery audiobooks, one on the way to West Texas, and one on the way home, both by my favorite mystery writer, Bill Crider. That's ...more The Little Paris Kitchen Khoo, Rachel I finally finished my foodie Paris books, The Little Paris Kitchen and Bonjour Kale. I've had The Little Paris Kitchen for a while, but I've been savi...more Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life David, Susan I can't say enough good about Emotional Agility. It is sad to realize that in this day of plenty so many people suffer from depression and anxiety. Em ...more A Mammoth Murder(Sheriff Dan Rhodes #13) Crider, Bill  We listened to two mystery audiobooks, one on the way to West Texas, and one on the way home, both by my favorite mystery writer, Bill Crider. That's ...more Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love, and Recipes Beddard, Kristen  I finally finished my foodie Paris books, The Little Paris Kitchen and Bonjour Kale. I've had The Little Paris Kitchen for a while, but I've been savi...more The Sun Also Rises Hemingway, Ernest Good grief. How did I get to be almost-sixty without reading this book? It's a brilliant story of a group of lost souls drifting, drifting, drifting, ...more Satori in Paris & Pic Kerouac, Jack This confirms it for me: I'm not and never will be a fan of Jack Kerouac. Oh my, how this man does ramble. About nothing. On and on and on. And carous ...more The Story of Diva and Flea Willems, Mo It's Mo Willems. It's (surprise!) a chapter book. It's (surprise!) not illustrated by Mo himself, but by the wonderful Tony DiTerlizzi. It's a sweet ( ...more Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower Pizzoli, Greg Having known Greg Pizzoli from his fun little picture books like Number One Sam and Templeton Gets His Wish, I was taken aback when I saw he's written ...more Girl in Dior Goetzinger, Annie How serendipitous it was to read this book at the same time I read Mrs. 'arris Goes to Paris. Both take on Dior and fashion and Paris as they were, an ...more Bonjour tristesse Sagan, Françoise This could be the ultimate French book. A young narrator, Cecile, drifting into adulthood, in France, is learning about the pleasures of a first love ...more Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris Gallico, Paul (Some spoilers) Mrs. Harris is a cleaning woman who sets her sights on a Dior dress, a dress that costs a year's wages, a dress she hasn't a place to w ...more In the Café of Lost Youth Modiano, Patrick Yes, it's brilliant and true, but it's full of sadness, too. Ennui on every page. Louki is the poor daughter of a single mother and she has lost out o...more Takedown Twenty(Stephanie Plum, #20) Evanovich, Janet  If you are thinking about reading this book, the twentieth book in the Stephanie Plum series, I don't need to tell you much about the plot. You alread ...more Paris Is Always a Good Idea Barreau, Nicolas A little mystery...a little romance...and, of course, Paris. That's the gist of this book. Rosalie is the owner of a tiny postcard shop in Paris. One ...more 750 Years in Paris Mahé, Vincent Now isn't this fun? Mahé takes a building in Paris from the time it was first built until the present day, stopping now and then to take a close look ...more Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light Baxter, John John Baxter takes on yet another tour of Paris, this time at night. Baxter spouts out story after story as he leads us around the city in the dark for ...more The Runaway Wife Birkelund, Elizabeth  No, the setting isn't France, but it's so close that you can see France just over the border. To add to the book's France factor, most of the characte ...more Sixty: A Diary of My Sixty-First Year: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning? Brown, Ian I'm turning sixty this year, and my husband did so last month, and all my old friends either just have or are just about to, so how could I pass up th ...more Sacred Clowns Hillerman, Tony My first Tony Hillerman mystery. We took it along with us on our trip to New Mexico at the suggestion of some book blogger friends. It was a great sug ...more Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story Baskin, Nora Raleigh  Whew. I finished this book an hour ago and I'm still crying a little. Let me see if I can stop this weeping and tell you about the story. Four kids wit ...more My Mrs. Brown Norwich, William Ah, Mrs. Brown. You probably didn't notice her as she's quiet and modest and dresses plainly and sews and cleans up to make a small living. She's the ...more

What have you been reading lately? Can you share any recommendations? 

           

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