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)