It is time to announce the winners from The Banned Book Week Giveaway! We had 68 comments so I have 6 winners. Thank you everyone for sharing the banned books you have read!
The winners are:
Category: Book Stuff
A Royal Spotlight!
I am so excited! I logged on this morning to discover that the Spotlight Interview I completed with Amy at Park-Avenue Princess is on her beautiful blog today! Color me *Giddy*!
I love interviewing other book bloggers and hearing their stories and it was fun to share mine with Amy. If you go over and read the Spotlight post I am offering up an Amazon Gift for her to give away – and who doesn’t like gift cards? Amy’s giveaway is open international so everyone click your way over to Park-Avenue Princess.
In honor of this great guest spot that Amy has given me, I too want to offer up a $10 Amazon gift card here as well. To qualify here is what you can do:
1. You must leave a comment on the Spotlight post over at Park Avenue Princess
2. For an additional entry – come back here and comment on one thing you learned about me from the spotlight interview
That’s it! 🙂 This giveaway is open internationally as well and I will end this on the same day that Amy is, on October 30th (mine will end in the morning however as that is the day I leave for Honduras).
Faith N Fiction Saturday
My Friend Amy has this wonderful weekly meme that just recently came back into play after a little time off due to life business. I can so relate to that! 🙂 So today I anxiously head over to Amy’s Blog to see what question she will post for us to ponder over today and she asks this:
Today’s Question
We mostly talk about Christian fiction during Faith’n’Fiction Saturday but I’m curious if you have ever read fiction of other faiths. I am not aware of a lot of fiction of other faiths like I am about Christian fiction, so this is a good time to chime in with anything you’ve read! If you are of another faith, maybe you can chime in and tell us about some options.
Honestly… I had to think on this one… have I read a fiction read on other faiths? I checked my book shelves and found that I had:
Kabul Beauty School (ISLAM) but it is non fiction
Reading Lolita in Tehran (ISLAM) also non fiction
I looked on line and was surprised that I did not really find any fiction reads in other faiths other than a few that were written for children. Perhaps I was looking in the wrong areas?
GAH! I think I am coming up empty. If any of you have read any faith and fiction reads that are not based on the Christina Faith, please stop over to My Friend Amy’s and add your link and/or your comments.
Morning Meandering…
Listen.
Hear that?
Mmmm hmmm. Silence. Glorious silence.
Chance stayed at a buddies home last night, Al got up early to go to an auction. I am in the house alone except for Coffee Cup who never has to much to say anyway. 😉
These moments lately are far too few and far between in our household. I am usually up and running around by this time, taking Chance to school, or going into the office… but not today. Today I am looking at the books I had wanted to read this week and I am thrilled to say that I am on the last few pages of the last one out of this group, VIOLA In Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani. I am enjoying this read and earlier this week over at Book Club Girl’s we had a live chat with this author.
Listen to this first paragraph:
I’m marooned. Abandoned. Left to rot in boarding school in the dust bowl of Indiana like the potato we found in the cupboard in our Kitchen in Brooklyn after months of searching for it. It was only when the entire kitchen began to smell like a root cellar from Pilgrim days that we figured out why – and when we finally found the poatato it was soft, rotten. and breeding itself with white barnacles with totally disgusting green tips.
Don’t you just love that? By the time I finished those words I could clearly smell the potato that had seen better days and the description of the white barnacles… very visual. I cant wait to review this book.
My plan today is to complete the book, clean the house a bit, maybe depending on when Chance gets home – maybe take in a movie this afternoon and tonight Al and I have a retirement party to go to for a guy he used to work with at UPS.
Current status for me? I am up but stil in the p.j.’s… and may stay that way for at least another hour… 🙂 Coffee Cup and I are on our 2nd cup, the weather is cool and the sky is overcast. Perfect reading weather.
Read on my friends! Enjoy your Saturday wherever you may be!
Morning Meanderings….
7 a.m. here in Minnesota and it is DARK. Spooky dark. The change in the seasons happened quickly and we went from a couple weeks of really beautiful 80 degree weather to the now wake up to 40 degrees and top out your day at 53 degrees. Yup… to me, that’s the downside of where I live.
However – the cold weather does keep me inside a lot more and my reading time does increase. Get a good major snow storm and I can have my own personal snow day and cuddle in a thick soft blanket surrounded by a couple great reads and a never ending pot of coffee, tea, or cocoa.
And fall also brings out the game board addict in me. I love board games. In fact we have a whole double wide closet dedicated to board games. Balderdash and Beyond Balderdash, Scruples, Cribbage, Pictionary, puzzles, Blurt, I think currently we have about 5 different versions of monopoly (Vikings monopoly, Disney monopoly, millennium monopoly, Star Wars monopoly…) and more.
Yesterday I was reading on a bookish website (I know… how different for me!) and discovered this little gem:
I know, right? How super cool is that? Bookopoly is available at Amazon. They also had banned book bracelets and Literati Challenge for the wordies out there!
How about you… any fall favorite things? How about a favorite board game?
2009 YA Challenge
Being fairly new to the whole book blogging thing I have been pretty careful on which Challenges I have signed up for. Now that I am a bit more comfortable and have a good feel for the reading that I am currently doing and the genres that are interesting me at this time, I am a bit more open to try some of these out.
Over at J Kaye’s Blog I was looking into the challenges that she is leading and this YA caught my eye. In the last few months I have had the opportunity to read some wonderful YA books and have discovered I really enjoy this genre!
The challenge is to read 12 YA books in 2009.
Guidelines for 2009 Young Adult Book Challenge
1. Anyone can join. You don’t need a blog to participate.
2. Read 12 Young Adult novels. No need to list your books in advance. You may select books as you go. Even if you list them now, you can change the list if needed.
3. Challenge begins January thru December, 2009.
4. You can join anytime between now and December 31, 2009.
So here we go!
1. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
2. New Moon by Stephanie Meyer
4. breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
5. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
6. Nothing But Ghosts by Beth Kephart
7. North! Or be Eaten! by Andrew Peterson
8. Dreaming Anastasia by Joy Preble
9. Bran Hambric by Kaleb Nation
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12.
Any great ones I have missed this year? Please leave a comment to let me know! 🙂
Word Verification Balderdash (The Thursday Thing)
GAH! Something must be wrong with me… I keep forgetting to do this and in my head I thought I needed to post it 
tomorrow. I think I am going to get more organized and actually prep this ahead of time so Thursday mornings it will be like “TA DA!” Already there.
Baderdash fans… this fun meme is for you! I love word games (not as much as commenting). To entertain myself and maybe some of you… I decided to share with you a little thing I do while I type in the word verification. I play Balderdash in my head. Yup. As I am typing in the word, I think if it was a real word… what would it mean. Some come easy. Others…. I really have to stretch the imagination.
The definition of Balderdash: An oft used strategy to elect your own fake definition in an attempt to give it credibility in the minds of your fellow players. …
So here is this weeks contribution:
Perminia: A perm that is all the rage in Europe! It is hair designed to look like a flower. Very popular is the rose and carnation. For a bit more moola you can go all out with the begonia which is pricey – but gorgeous!
Hednesti: Italian for morning hair. 😉
Poneater: The newest game for the PS2… your kids will love it! This great chess style game actually has an upgraded peice called the poneater that will of course, eat your pawn. The pawn is normally considered the weakest peice in the game but the poneater adds a whole new lever of excitement.
Equatic: A person who really just flips out if they things are not fair or equal in all circumstances. “Traci just went totally equatic on me when I said that Carol would get first choice on the theater seats.”
There you go! What are yours? Leave me a link here and I will gladly add you to this post! Have fun! 🙂
Morning Meandering….
Rainy cold morning in Minnesota. I drove Chance to school hurried to the office and realized that I must have left my keys on the filing cabinet yesterday as I am keyless….
Locked out. No entry. Nada.
No one else comes in until 9 and since I work in a building that has many other businesses I am sitting in the foyer at a little round table, Coffee Cup in one hand and writing this post with the other until someone else comes in. And of course I have the book with me that I was going to write my review for this morning, Sir Dalton and the Shadow Heart by Chuck Black.
Lap top. Coffee Cup. Book. … things could be much worse. 🙂
Today I am kind of nostalgic…. maybe it is the music being piped in through these halls. Mariah Carey is singing a Hero comes Along and I am actually tearing up. What’s with that?
And now I’m Too Sexy For My Shirt is playing by Right Said Fred… the nostalgic spell is broken. Now my eyes are rolling… LOL
Have a great morning everyone. Any favorite rainy day reads out there?
Morning Meandering…
I am up and active and I even have Coffee Put with me (YES!!!)! Chance has a bus pass! 
Pause for gratuitous dance in my living room…
It may not seem like a big deal but it has earned me about an hour of free time between the running to school and going back at 3:15 to pick him up.
This morning, I want to talk about a set of books that have been on my mind lately….over at J Kaye’s Blog I had read about the 39 Clues by Patrick Carman. I believe I have seen these or at least one of them on another blog prior to this, but something about the way J Kaye talked about these books made me really dig into what she was saying. I think these would be books that Chance and I could enjoy together. There are currently 5 books out and J Kaye reports that the series will end with a total of 10 in 2010.
I encourage you to go visit J Kayes Blog (it is a ROCKING blog by the way)… read about the books and see if they peek your interest. They have mine and are on my wish list tab now.
*Stay tune as in a couple hours my Wednesday Book Club Feature is making what could possibly be its final showing here. I hope not, but that will be up to all of you my wonderful readers and especially those of you in books clubs.
It’s Tuesday, Where Are You?
This is hosted by An Adventure in Reading
I am in Rome with Alexander and Selene, the orphaned children of Marc Anthony and Cleopatra. We have just returned from an execution and I am horrified. As we are going to the Ludi Romani, we are discussing Selene’s sketches for a home for the foundlings (the homeless children). I like that Selene is so caring and we are well on our way to becoming fast friends… if only Julia would go away and allow Marcellus to follow his heart which at this time, I am believing really must belong to Selene.
Page 211 of Cleopatra’s Daughter by Michelle Moran
