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!

What's On Your Nightstand

FEBRURARY

It's a Meme! Go visit 5 Minutes Books blog and join “What’s on Your Nightstand?”

The books on my TBR stack for this month are:

1. The Tale of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski (Audio)

2. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

3. The Centurion's Wife by Davis Bunn & Janette Oke

4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

5. When She Was Bad by Jonathan Nasaw

6. Adam by Ted Dekker (Audio)

Whew, hope I can get them all read! These all fit several challenges and of course this list might change at any moment, depending on what comes in to the library or what is new on the book shelves at Barnes & Noble!

Have fun reading!