Books for Christmas

I'm not doing Mailbox Monday since I didn't actually get any books in the mail this week, but I did get these under the tree. For Christmas my DH got for me audio books!


And Another Thing. I loved the Hitchiker series by Douglas Adams so this was a must have for me. It promises to be just as funny. We shall see.




Unseen Academicals. Well, I've read many Terry Pratchett books and found them all highly entertaining. This is the newest and I wanted it. I expect to be highly entertained! It works out good since I joined the Terry Pratchett Reading Challenge and the Totally British Reading Challenge.



He also got some books for me, not on CD. They are:

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

Had to have it. I was going to go ahead and read it now but then I joined the Terry Pratchett Reading Challenge, so I'll just hold it over till next year!

Elvis and the Dearly Departed. This single book has several things I have a soft spot for: dogs, cozy mysteries, southern settings, & humor. With any luck I've found another series to read!


The Greatest Generation. I've been wanting this one for awhile so now I have it! Thanks DH.

What Are You reading on Monday & Mailbox Monday

What Are You Reading

It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week.Feel free to pile on a little extra.If you'd like to join in this weekly event, please go to J. Kaye's and leave a link. That way others can find it and join in. Hosted by J. Kaye

I will be reading :

New Tricks by John Levitt

This Week I'm listening to:

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (still)

Ten Big Ones by Janet Evanovich

Last week I finished:

Boneshaker by Cherie Priest
The Wailing Wind by Tony Hillerman

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t count, eBooks & audio books do).Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists. Mailbox Monday is hosted by The Printed Page.

From Amazon I got:

New Tricks by John Levitt

Unleashed by John Levitt

Going Rogue: An American Life by Sara Palin

Over the Whispernet I got these for my Kindle:

Psych: Mind Over Magic by William Rabkin

I got these absolutly free for my Kindle:

Jerry of the Islands by Jack London

Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London

The Jeeves Collection P.G. Wodehouse

(Well, I paid $1 for The Jeeves Collection)

Happy reading everyone!

Sunday Stealing - Holiday Meme

I visited HODGEPODGESPV and decided to participate in the Sunday Stealing: Lola's Holiday Meme I saw at her place. 1. What is your favorite holiday show/animated show? A Christmas Story. This one makes me laugh every year.
2. What holiday character do you think you're most like? Mrs. Claus
3. What holiday character does your spouse think you're most like? Santa Claus
4. Favorite Christmas/holiday song? I love the old songs
5. Most hated Christmas/holiday song? Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.
6. If you have an all holiday music radio station when do you start listening to it? I don't listen to it. I listen to Christmas CDs at home.
7. If you have an all holiday music radio station do you love it or hate it? I'm sure I would probably like it if I listened to it.
8. Have you ever wrapped yourself as a Christmas present? YIKES!!.
9. Who is Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer's father? Donner.
10. Do you drive your neighborhood or one near you at night to look at other people's holiday decorations? YES
11. When you see a heavily decorated house do you think, 'oh that's lovely'? Or do you think, 'oh criminy, that looks like Christmas threw up all over their lawn'? I enjoy looking at them.
12. Are you counting the days to Christmas with excited anticipation or dread? A little of both.
13. When was the last time you had your photo taken with Santa? Did you sit on his lap? When I was 5. My dogs have had their picture taken with him the last 3 years.
14. Do you make a Christmas list for your spouse or significant other or do you rely on them to pick your gift(s) without a clue from you? He wants a list to choose from, so.....
15. When do you put up your tree? I haven't put up one in the last 3 or 4 years..
16. Real or fake? Fake, no needles to clean up.
17. When do you take your tree down? Back when I put them up I always took them down around the 31st. It must be done before I have to go back to school.
18. Do you shop the day after Christmas sales? What do you shop for? Yes, I like to go to Lifeway for gifts for next year, and to other stores for boxes, bags, tissue paper etc.
19. Is your work/office having a holiday party this year? Will you attend? Yes and Yes
20. Do you have your New Year's Eve Plans set yet? Yes, we always get together with family friends that night.

Steampunk

I am reading Boneshaker which says on the front that it is Steampunk, a genre I hadn't heard of before. I had to look it up and this is what Wikipedia says:

Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments .... Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or digital mechanical computers (such as Charles Babbage's Analytical engine); these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or with a presumption of functionality.

I found this interesting and will keep my eyes peeled for other odd genre or sub genre names. I'd like to hear if you have any in mind.

Giveaway at Sweeps4Bloggers

Sweeps4Bloggers is giving awaw 5 copies of I Alex Cross. Go check it out for the rules!

Give Away at Jen's Book talk

KNIGHT OF PLEASURE by Margaret Mallory!

Jen has 5 copies to giveaway thanks to Hachette!

The deadline to enter is December 20, 2009
There is a FORM to fill out and then just leave a comment to let her know you filled in form. Only residents of the U.S. or Canada are eligible to win

Click on the picture or on Jen's Book Talk for the details.

Giveaway at The Eclectic Reader

Win one of these books at The Eclectic Reader

To celebrate blogging friendships, the end of 2009 and the start of the new year, Two Lucky Readers of The Eclectic Reader will win the book of their choice from above. All books are brand new and the winners choice will be purchased by me from The Book Depository in the UK or the US specifically for the winner. Please click on the picture or HERE to read the post and join in the fun!

What Are You Reading & Mailbox Monday

What Are You Reading & Mailbox Monday

It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week.

Feel free to pile on a little extra.If you'd like to join in this weekly event, please go to J. Kaye's and leave a link. That way others can find it and join in.

Hosted by J. Kaye

I will be reading :
Boneshaker (Sci Fi Essential Books) by Cherie Priest

This Week I'm listening to:
The Wailing Wind by Tony Hillerman
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Last week I finished:
Dakota by Martha Grimes
Dog Days by John Levitt

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t count, eBooks & audio books do).Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists. Mailbox Monday is hosted by The Printed Page.

I got these books this week from half.com :

From the book: In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940's - Keiko Okabe, whth whome he foraged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel's basement for the Okabe family's belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even gegin to measure. His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country.


Amazon Product Description:
It’s 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma’s reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she’s been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence’s most powerful girls—and their foray into the spiritual world—lead to?

Saturday 9

Saturday 9 is hosted by Sam at Saturday 9. Welcome to Saturday: 9 . What we've committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's meme!

Saturday 9: Don't Talk to Strangers
1. Tell us about a night that you spent with someone who was a stranger, yet by the end of the night you were very close. The only time I've ever spent the night with a stranger was back in college, the first night with a room mate in the dorm. We did become friends.
2. When is the last time you rode the bus?
Last year when I took my 2nd graders on a field trip.
3. Describe the last time you stood up for a cause.
Happy, fulfilled.
4. What is something you would like to do, but you're afraid of the risk(s)?
Buy a new house, but I'm too close to retirement.
5. What would you most like to accomplish before the year is over?
Not enough time to accomplish much.
6. Name something you'll miss about 2009.
Nothing that I can think of.
7. If you could invent something, what would it be?
Something to clean my house and keep it clean.
8. What first got you started blogging?
Finding someone to talk about books with.
9. How did you find this meme?
Visiting HODGEPODGESPV

What Are You Reading & Mailbox Monday

It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to pile on a little extra.If you'd like to join in this weekly event, please go to J. Kaye's and leave a link. That way others can find it and join in.
Hosted by J. Kaye

I will be reading :
Dog Days by John Levitt
Burning Bridges by Laura Anne Gilman

This Week I'm listening to:
Dakota by Martha Grimes
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Last week I finished:
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Sudden Fury by William W. Johnstone

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t count, eBooks & audio books do).

Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists. Mailbox Monday is hosted by The Printed Page.

From The Book Depository:

Product Description:
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.

But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.

Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue’s widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.

His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.

From half.com:

Product Description: First in a new urban fantasy series-with a bite as magical as its bark. Mason used to be an enforcer, ensuring that suspect magic practitioners stayed in line. But now he scrapes out a living playing guitar. Good thing he has Louie, his magical...well, let's call him a dog. But there are some kinds of evil thateven Louie can't sniff out. And when Mason is attacked by a supernatural assailant, he'll have to fall back on the one skill he's mastered in music and magic-improvisation.

Mary Stewart

I read a lot of her books in the 60's and 70's and remember wanting to read more and more. I've seen her books popping up in the book blog blogosphere. Needless to say, I'm considering reading some of them again. The one I remember as liking the most is Airs Above the Ground.

Which Mary Stewart novel should you read? Your Result: Airs Above the Ground Lovely Vanessa March did not think it was strange for her husband to take a business trip to Stockholm. What was strange was the silence that followed. Then she caught a glimpse of him in a newsreel shot of a crowd near a mysterious circus fire in Vienna and knew it was more than strange. It was downright sinister.
The Ivy Tree
Touch Not the Cat
Wildfire at Midnight
My Brother Michael
Nine Coaches Waiting
Madam, Will You Talk?
This Rough Magic
Which Mary Stewart novel should you read? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

What Are You Reading on Monday?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to pile on a little extra.If you'd like to join in this weekly event, please go to J. Kaye's and leave a link. That way others can find it and join in.

Hosted by J. Kaye

I will be reading :
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Sudden Fury by William W. Johnstone

This Week I'm listening to:
Dakota by Martha Grimes
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Hope your week is full of great reading opportunities!

Last week I finished:
Call After Midnight by Tess Gerritsen(on iPod)
Your Heart Belongs to me by Dean Koontz(listening to in car)
Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol inside the Baptist Church by Clayton Sullivan
Murder Packs a Suitcase by Cynthia Baxter

Treasure Hunt

Last week J. Kaye had a question: "My question is what is up with paperback books costing over $10?" Her question made me think about my own purchasing of books. I pay less than cover price for most of the books I buy. I hunt around at used book stores, online sources, and sales for books.

The first thing I do is to search half.com for books I want. The used book sellers there will usually combine shipping. While there a couple of days ago I found the book
Dog Days by John Levitt and paid $5 for it. That includes shipping. At another provider at Half.Com I bought two paperbacks: Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs and Biting the Moon by Martha Grimes and it cost $8.38 inc. shipping.

Yesterday I hit a used bookstore I had some credit with. I used up all my credit and got three books for $3.63. They were:
1. Dogs Never Lie About Love by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
2. City In The Sky by Max Brand
3. Destry Rides Again by Max Brand
I've recently had a surge of desire to read westerns. I haven't really read westerns in years. Recently a friend got me interested in Robert B. Parker's three westerns Appaloosa, Resolution and Brimstone. They were great. They put me in the mood for more westerns!

At the same store I found Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater for 8.99, half the cover price.

So basicaly I got 9 books this week for $41.33. These were all books I've been wanting, all books I'm able to get off my wish list! Well, the westerns were just a general desire and I will be getting more. That averages about $4.60 per book during this little splurge of book buying. I'm set for awhile!

It seems that my book buying has become a treasure hunt!

Happy Thanksgiving

On My Wishlist

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme thought of by Book Chick City. It allows us to share the books we haven’t bought yet but are waiting to be bought and devoured. This meme gives us a chance to share authors/series we are looking forward to! Check out the ‘On My Wishlist’ post from Book City Chick here.

My wish list is huge. I intend to share only one or two books at a time. The first book I'm sharing is:

Don't you just love that cover? I had to find out what it was about when I saw this. Imagine my surprise when I found it was a zombie book! Here is a quote from the cover:

“A steampunk-zombie-airship adventure of rollicking pace and sweeping proportions, full of wonderfully gnarly details.” Scott Westerfeld

Gotta have it!

What Are You Reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to pile on a little extra.If you'd like to join in this weekly event, please go to J. Kaye's and leave a link. That way others can find it and join in.

Hosted by J. Kaye

This Week I'm listening to:
Call After Midnight by Tess Gerritsen(on iPod)
Your Heart Belongs to me by Dean Koontz(listening to in car)

I will be reading :
Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol inside the Baptist Church by Clayton Sullivan
Murder Packs a Suitcase by Cynthia Baxter

Hope your week is full of great reading opportunities!

Last week I finished:
118. Cross Country by James Patterson (in car)
119.The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (iPod)
120. The Asylum Prophecies by Daniel Keyes

Click on them to go to the reviews. 120 books in one year is pretty good for me.

Sure Miss My Library!

Not very long ago the roof of our library caved in. Above is a picture from the Library's site that shows the fallen ceiling being propped up. The books have been removed now and are awaiting a new home. Rumor has it that the city is going to purchase the Mall in order to provide said new home. The library will go in one end where, many years ago, there was a small K-Mart store.

I really miss the library. It was small but wonderful. And it saved me a lot of money! :) I always watched for the new popular novels and I always had books on CD checked out. I've been buying used books on CD from our local used book store.

Suggestions from librarians there helped me find some of my favorite authors and series. I enjoyed talking to them and getting their views on books.

The children's librarian there is wonderful. She is very enthusiastic and energetic. She used to work at my school and did a great job engaging the children.

What Are you Reading On Monday?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to pile on a little extra.If you'd like to join in this weekly event, please go to J. Kaye's and leave a link. That way others can find it and join in.
Hosted by J. Kaye

This Week:
I'm still listening to:
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by by Muriel Barbery (on iPod)
Cross Country by James Patterson (listening to in car)

I will be reading :
Why Beulah Shot Her Pistol inside the Baptist Church by Clayton Sullivan

The Asylum Prophecies by Daniel Keys

Hope your week is full of great reading opportunities!

Last week I read:
Wild Rain by Christine Feehan
Three Weeks To Say Goodbye by C. J. Box

I liked them both and would recommend them.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading This Week? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to pile on a little extra.If you'd like to join in this weekly event, please go to J. Kaye's and leave a link. That way others can find it and join in.

Hosted by J. Kaye

This Week I'll be reading:

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by by Muriel Barbery (Listening to on iPod)

Wild Rain by Christine Feehan

Three Weeks To Say Goodbye by C. J. Box

Cross Country by James Patterson (listening to in car)

Wishing you a great reading week!

Last week I finished:

Fire Me by Libby Malin review here

Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen review here

Hold Tight by Harlan Coben review here

My favorite for the week was Fire Me!

Friday Finds

Friday Finds is hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. This week I added the following books to my wish list at Amazon.




The Day The Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan



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The Double Comfort Safari Club: The New No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel by Alexander Mccall Smith

Cleopatra's Daughter: A Novel by Michelle Moran

v>Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel by Audrey Niffenegger

Book Title Meme

I sas this meme at At Home With Books and thought I'd give it a try. So here goes.

What To Do: Using only books you have read this year (2009), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. It’s a lot harder than you think!

Describe yourself: I Am Legend (by Richard Matheson )review here (HAHAHA)

How do you feel: Paranoia (by Joseph Finder)

Describe where you currently live: Made in the U.S.A (by Billie Letts)

If you could go anywhere, where would you go? Swan Peak (by James Lee Burke) review here

Your favorite form of transportation: Appaloosa (by Robert B. Parker) review here

Your best friend is: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (by Stieg Larsson) review here

You and your friends are: Plum Spooky (by Janet Evanovich) review here

What’s the weather like: Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny with a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits (by Celia Rivenbark) review here

You fear: Mean Streets (by Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green & More) review here

What is the best advice you have to give: Kiss (by Ted Dekker and Erin Healy) review here

Thought for the day: Thanks For the Memories (by Cecelia Ahern) review here)

How I would like to die: Glory In Death (by JD Robb) review here

My soul’s present condition: Fool (by Christopher Moore) review here

Award

I am ashamed to say that the Book Bird dog gave me this award a LONG time ago and I just realized it. I didn't come to this blog for awhile and I was going back through it and found where she had given me this nice award. Please forgive me BBD!


To accept this, I am to list seven of my favorite things and send the award on to seven blogs.
My favorite things:

1. my dogs Rusty & Riley & Bear
2. my cats Jenny & Dallas
3. my new spec ed job
4. good books and a cup of coffee or a Pepsi
5. sunsets or sunrises
6. funny movies
7. my camera

I would like to pass it along to:

Book Bird Dog (Thank you so much for this cool award. I love visiting your blog.)
I Love to Read
Alaine-Queen of Happy Endings
My Thoughts...Your Thoughts
The Eclectic Reader
Great Reads and Page Turners
Jen's Book Talk

It's Monday - What Are You Reading?

Hosted by J. Kaye

This Week:

Hold on Tight by Harlen Coben (Listening to in car)

Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by by Muriel Barbery (Listening to on iPod)

I hope to also read this week:

Fire Me by Libby Malin

I'm looking forward to a fun week of reading. I wish you the same!

Last week:

Keepsake by Tess Gerritisen review

Brewster's Millions by George Barr McCutcheon review

The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman review

Battle on the Bay by Edward T. Cotham Jr. review

Giveaway at The Eclectic Reader

GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
Teddyree is thrilled to be able to offer readers a chance to win a copy of Once Upon A Nightmare thanks to Lee Moylan. Lee will post to the winner personally, isn't she awesome!!
Competition is international

Palestine Public Library

What a sad turn of events! Our Public library, which was housed in an old school, has had to close due to structural failure of the building. The roof caved in! No one was hurt. At this time "Workmen have labored all week to stabilize the library to make it safe enough for librarians and volunteers to remove books from underneath the mangled mess that was the roof." I haven't read anything about our special collections but I hope hope that the books and papers there are all ok.

You can see a couple of pictures and read about it here.

Booking Through Thursday

Booking Through Thursday is hosted by 3m at 1morechapter.com.
This can be a quick one. Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

My books:

1. The Bible

2. Watership Down by Richard Adams

3. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee

4. Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant

5. Call of the Wild by Jack London

6. Night by Elie Wiesel

7. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

8. The House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

9. The Hitchikers Guide to the Universe by Richard Adams

10. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

11. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

12. Dracula by Bram Stoker

13. Beloved by Toni Morrison

14. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

15. Of Mice and men by John Steinbeck

I could go on.........

Kindle 2

I just ordered the Amazon Kindle 2! Actually my husband is getting it for me for my birthday. I am so excited. I even paid for one day shipping to get it here by my birthday.

Everyone that writes or blogs about it has liked it. I wish I knew someone around here who has one, but I don't.

If you have one please leave a comment about yours. How do you like it? Is it as easy to use as I've read? What accessories did you buy? What did you name your Kindle?

I Won!

Yea! This book came in today. I won it from Yvette at True Crime Book Reviews. I'm looking forward to reading this. Thank you, Yvette, this is so cool.

What Are You Reading on Monday?

What are you reading on Monday? is sponsored by

J. Kaye's Book Blog

Books Finished Last week:
*Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs
*Tea Time for the Traditionally built by Alwxander McCall Smith
*Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
*Belle Weather by Celia Rivenbark
*Power Play by Joseph Finder

Books I'll be reading this week:
*Kiss by Ted Dekker (Audiobook
*Darkness Falls by Kyle Mills
*Fire Me by Libby Malin
*Dragon Stones by James V. Viscosi

Tagged by Teddyree

I've been tagged by Teddyree at The Eclectic Reader.

Rules:

1. Mention the person who nominated you.

2. List six unimportant things that make you happy.

3. Tag six blogs, state the rules and notify them.

Six simple things that make me happy:

1. My dogs barking at me at 5:30 every day for dinner. They make me laugh.

2. Listening to audio books while driving.

3. The smell of the cologne my husband got for me.

4. Chocolate

5. Talking with friends during lunch.

6. Taking pictures of pretty sunsets.

If you think this would be fun please consider yourself tagged!

It's Finally Here

I've been waiting for this all year! It runs between May 15 and August 15 during whick time you read three southern books, participate in contests, maybe win a prize, read about great southern literature and make new friends. What could be better?

Click on the picture or here to go read about this fun challenge.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

Click the picture above to go to J. Kaye's blog and join in. What are you reading on this week?

Turn Coat by Jim Butcher was finished this morning.

Tea Time for the Traditionally Built by Alexander McCall Smith is a book I've been looking forward to this for awhile. I love this series.

I am listening to Power Play by Joseph Finder. It is great so far. An edge of your seat mystery, thriller.

I'm also listening to Belle Weather: Mostly Sunny With a Chance of Scattered Hissy Fits by Celia Rivenbark. VERY funny.

Giveaway at J. Kaye's

J. Kaye is having another great giveaway. The audiobook, Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman, sounds like a very interesting read. Go there and check it out. She is also giving away several other books.

Tuesday Teaser

MizB of Should Be Reading hosts this cool weekly event.



Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share (2) “teaser” sentences from that page. Share the title & author of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR list if they like your teaser. Please avoid spoilers!

Here is my teaser:

So I guess you could say that Murphy was threatening

to bust me if I didn't talk to her and you'd be right.

And you could say that Murphy was offering to put her

life on the line to help me, and you'd be right.

Turn Coat by Jim Butcher page 38

Anya Bast Contest

How cool is this! There are some GREAT prizes plus chances to win every day! Go there and check it out!


Grand Prize: $100 GC to Amazon.com

Runner Up: $25 GC to B&N and a box of surprise paperbacks and other goodies (like chocolate, bath goodies, ect). This is going to be a NICE prize!

Runner Up: $25 GC to B&N and a box of surprise paperbacks and other goodies. (same as above)Plus chances to win books (almost) every day for a month!Go to http://www.anyabast.com/blog/ for details on how to enter.

Challenges

Since I joined my first challenge last year I've read a greater variety of books, more classics, more genres. I remember toward the end of last year feeling trapped, so I held back on the number and type of challenges I joined this year. However just today I joined 3 more challenges. Two were mini challenges of only two books each the other was a commitment of 10 books from the Guardian's list of 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read Before They Die. That makes a total of 11 challenges. Two of them will be ongoing, Books Around the States and Books Around the World. My personal challenge, the 5x4 Challenge, includes 4 books in 5 areas that I don't normally choose books from. These of course will all go toward my goal of 100+ books this year. The rub is that I don't plan out my reading just buy or check out anything that catches my fancy. I figure I had better start planning if I want to get these all in. So.........

ON MY NIGHTSTAND FOR THE REST OF MARCH:

Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Audiobook Challenge, 100+ Challenge, Library Challenge)
Tarzan and the Golden Lion (5x4 Challenge - Books older than me on my shelf, RYOB Challenge, 100+ Challenge)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe Mini Challenge, Audiobook Challenge, 100+ Challenge, Library challenge)
Bleak House (5x5 Challenge - Classics, Guardians 1000 Novels Challenge, RYOB Challenge, 100+ challenge)
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid (5x5 Challenge-nonfiction, RYOB Challenge, Audiobook Challenge, 100+ Challenge)

I Won!

Just look what I won at J. Kaye's Book Blog! I have wanted to read a Baldacci book but have never gone ahead and picked one up. Thanks! J. Kaye.

J. Kaye is always having contests and I was lucky enough to have won this one. You'll enjoy reading the reviews there as well. The number and variety of books she reads and reviews is staggering! I joined several of the book challenges she is hosting.

Another Giveaway!

J. Kaye is having another great giveaway! This looks like a great read and I would love to win it! why don't you go by her place and check it out. Ther are lots of other interesting things there to see.

Give Away at J. Kaye's!

J. Kaye is having a great give away. It is the Camel Club series in audio book! Go check it out!