Reading List:
Goals:
Try to do all the challenges
Updates:
I’m so excited to participate in my second Bout of Books Read-a-thon!
Here Is an explanation of Bout of Books 9.0
The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 6th and runs through Sunday, January 12th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 9.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team
This Christmas I received two books as a gift.
-The Secret of the Blue Trunk by Lise Dion
-Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bool Store by Robin Sloan
I have also bought many e books this month and have a huge amazon book haul that wont arrive until the end of January that I got with my christmas money.
I will share those books in another haul.
The Secret of the Blue Trunk by Lise Dion
From Goodreads:
In this true story, Armande Martel, a young nun from Quebec, is arrested by the Germans in 1940 during a stay at her religious order s mother house in Brittany. She spends the war years in a German concentration camp. After her return to Canada, she leaves the Church, finds the love of her life in Montreal, and adopts Lise Dion.Growing up, Lise is familiar with only a few facts of her mother s past. It s when she clears her mother s small apartment after her death that Lise Dion discovers the key to the blue trunk, which was always locked. This key unlocks the mystery of Armande s early life, and Lise decides to write “The Secret of the Blue Trunk.”
Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bool Store by Robin Sloan
From Goodreads:
Global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, young love, and the secret to eternal life — mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore. The Great Recession shuffles Clay Jannon from his web-design drone job to night shift at Mr Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. Curiously, few customers come in repeatedly and neverbuy. Analysis reveals astonishing secrets …
What did you get for Christmas?
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.
This week’s pre-publication “can’t-wait-to-read” selection is:
Landline
By Rainbow Rowell
Publication Date: July 8 2014
Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems besides the point now.
Maybe that was always besides the point.
Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her — Neal is always a little upset with Georgie — but she doesn’t expect to him to pack up the kids and go home without her.
When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she’s finally done it. If she’s ruined everything.
That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts . . .
Is that what she’s supposed to do?
Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?
What’s your “waiting on” pick this week?
October 15: Top Ten Books I Was “Forced” to Read (either by teachers, friends, other bloggers, book club) — doesn’t necessarily have to be a BAD thing. Could be required reading, yes, but also book club, or just super enthusiastic friends “making” you read something!
Week Five (Oct.14-Oct.20):
Books:
Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King
In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Plan of Action:
Monday: Start Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King read 225 pages
Tuesday: Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King read 220 pages
Wednesday: Finish Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King (247 pages)
Thursday: Start In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters read 226 pages
Friday: Finish In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters (161 pages) and Start The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon read 67 pages
Saturday: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon read 223 pages
Sunday: Finish The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (196 pages)
Progress & Updates:
Monday: Finished reading The Devil In Pew Number Seven.
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
Update: I’ve been reading on and off since 10pm its now 3am. I have read about 70 pages of Devil in Pew Number Seven by Rebecca Nichols Alonzo. I cant say im enjoying it very much and feel like it has a slow starting and hope it gets better soon. I’m reading slower because of this. I taking a break to blog for an hour and then will get back to reading maybe until 6 or 7 and plan on having some breakfast and doing some more blogging before I go to sleep.
Challenge: The Geeky Bloggers Book Blog: I am asking you to setup your audiobook dream date! Super simple: Pick a book and assign who would be your dream narrator!
Answer: Narrator: Alex Pettyfer Book: Joyland by Stephen King
Where Have I Been?
Well not reading unfortunately but im back and starting at 10pm I will be participating in the read a thon until hopefully 8 am when it finishes. I will be reading Devil in Pew Number Seven by Rebecca Nichols Alonzo.
Mini-Challenge: Best of Your Reading Year:
Best Book of Your Reading Year -Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Best Romance Book of Your Reading Year -Entwined With You by Slyvia Day
Best New Adult Book of Your Reading Year -Summer In The City by Candace Bushnell
Best Mystery Book of Your Reading Year -Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
Best Non-Fiction Book of Your Reading Year -Si-cology 1 by Si Robertson
Best Children’s Book of Your Reading Year -Heaven Eyes by David Almond (More middle grade maybe)
Best Fiction Book of Your Reading Year -Between Here and April by Deborah Copaken Kogan
Best Main Character of Your Reading Year – Scott McGrath from Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Best Author of Your Reading Year -Marisha Pessl
Best Supporting Character of Your Reading Year -Adele Cassidy from Between Here and April by Deborah Copaken Kogan
Best Cover of Your Reading Year -Joyland by Stephen King
Best Setting of Your Reading Year -The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
Best Story Line of Your Reading Year -Night Film by Marisha Pessl
– See more at: http://www.lisasworldofbooks.net/2013/read-thon-mini-challenge-hour-13-best-reading-year#sthash.DjJd505L.dpuf
Now Lets Get Reading!!!
Date: Oct. 12-13 2013
Books I Want to Read:
Reading Plan for Hour: (R2P=read to page)
Hour 1 8am: Start Devil In Pew Number Seven R2P 25
Hour 2 9am: Devil In Pew Number Seven R2P 50
Hour 3 10am: Devil In Pew Number Seven R2P 74
Hour 4 11am: Devil In Pew Number Seven R2P 99
Hour 5 12pm: Devil In Pew Number Seven R2P 128
Hour 6 1pm: Devil In Pew Number Seven R2P 152
Hour 7 2pm: Devil In Pew Number Seven R2P 177
Hour 8 3pm: Devil In Pew Number Seven R2P 206
Hour 9 4pm: Devil In Pew Number Seven R2P 230
Hour 10 5pm: Devil In Pew Number Seven R2P 255
Hour 11 6pm: Finish Devil In Pew Number Seven
Hour 12 7pm: Start Dolores Claiborne R2P 25
Hour 13 8pm: Dolores Claiborne R2P 50
Hour 14 9pm: Dolores Claiborne R2P 75
Hour 15 10pm: Dolores Claiborne R2P 100
Hour 16 11pm: Dolores Claiborne R2P 125
Hour 17 12am: Dolores Claiborne R2P 150
Hour 18 1am: Dolores Claiborne R2P 175
Hour 19 2am: Dolores Claiborne R2P 200
Hour 20 3am: Dolores Claiborne R2P 225
Hour 21 4am: Dolores Claiborne R2P 250
Hour 22 5am: Dolores Claiborne R2P 275
Hour 23 6am: Finish Dolores Claiborne
Hour 24 7am: Catch Up Hour, cause I probably will need it!
Update: This was a fail I read from 10pm – 5am. Only read about 100 pages. Probably wont do this again.
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.
This week’s pre-publication “can’t-wait-to-read” selection is:
What I Had Before I Had You
By Sarah Cornwell
Publication Date: Jan. 7 2014
From Goodreads:
In What I Had Before I Had You by Sarah Cornwell, a woman must face the truth about her past in this luminous, evocative literary novel of parents and children, guilt and forgiveness, memory and magical thinking, set in the faded, gritty world of the New Jersey Shore.
Olivia was only fifteen the summer she left her hometown of Ocean Vista. Two decades later, on a visit with her children, her nine-year-old son Daniel, recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, disappears. Olivia’s search for him sparks tender and painful memories of her past—of her fiercely loving and secretive mother, Myla, an erratic and beautiful psychic, and the discovery of heartbreaking secrets that shattered her world.
What’s your “waiting on” pick this week?
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