Hour 11 Book Trailer Challenge

Well this will be my last post for awhile as we are going to see Night of the Living Dead!  So I thought I would post a creepy book trailer of a book that I just recently discovered and want to read!




Keep reading and I will check in when we get back!

Book Sentence Challenge and Readathon Update

The Book Sentence Challenge is the one I have the most fun with during every readathon.  I have composed 6 sentences using book titles - see all my pics below.  Sorry if some of the pictures aren't very clear - I could only find the camera where I could not control the flash!

Minding Ben Until Tuesday The Soldier's Wife Left Neglected The Christmas Shoppe.



All I Want Is You, Pale Demon, Dead By Midnight



Very Bad Men Across the Universe, Kick The Queen of Last Hopes

The Year We Left Home, Three Warm Bodies Going Cowboy Crazy Dare To Take Charge

When the Brook Dries Up Push The Ring Across Many Mountains

The Upright Piano Player Born Under a Lucky Moon Never Knowing the Final Note

Which one is your favorite?


Update - Have only read about 100 pages in to my next book.  I discovered that my facebook page for Books and Needlepoint hadn't updated since September, so I got engrossed trying to figure out why!  I am hoping that I got it fixed. 

Hour 6 update and Mini Challenge

Well, I finished A Dog's Way Home - cute middle-grade book about a lost dog.  Made me cry - a little.  But I told my daughter it was just my dry eye watering - lol.  Started The Comforts of Home by Jodi Thomas.  

Foods so far - Donut w/sprinkles, snack bag of pretzels, 1/2 peanut butter and green olive sandwich (don't knock it til you try it!) and some Harvest Cheddar Sun Chips that just came in the mail from Frito Lay!  (Thanks Frito Lay!)   I have also drank 2 cups of coffee and a mountain dew.  That might explain the jittery fingers!

I think I have done every mini challenge so far - yay!   So here is the next one -

What are the Top 5 books that I am looking forward to reading in the next few months -

So - in no particular order - Here are 5 books off my TBR list that I would like to get to sooner rather than later!

Happy reading!

Mini Challenge - Book Puzzle

For this challenge, I had to create a Book Puzzle. Essentially, this is a series of pictures, graphics, or photos that you put together that will describe a book title.

Can you guess it?

I will let you know the correct answer later today!  

Mini Challenge for Hour 17

I am to name 5 children's books - either my favorites or my children's favorites -

1. Harold and the Purple Crayon - I remember reading this one as a kid
2. Too Many People for One Little House - Currently one of my son's favorites
3. Wally the Walking Fish - another current one that my son enjoys
4. Detective Dog and the Ghost was one of my middle daughter's favorites
5. Alice and Greta was one of my oldest daughter's favorites.
6. I had to do another one - Chicken Soup with Rice: A book of Months - I haven't thought about this book in forever!

This was a neat mini challenge as it allowed me to poll my kids!

Feed Me Seymour! - Mini Challenge

Here is what this challenge is all about: over the next few hours let me know if you happen across any passages of food in your reading or you can also flip through some of the books in your Read-A-Thon stack(s) and find me a passage where the characters describe what they are eating or when they are actually eating – write up a post with the book, author, your selected passage and a picture of one the dishes-


My passage is from Last Breath by Brandilyn Collis and Amberly Collins -

Back in the room I dialed information and found a nearby takeout for pizza. We ordered an extra large pepperoni and mushroom, with Coke and paper plates. I put the cost and tip on my credit card, then told Wendell a delivery would be coming. (p126)

Doesn't Pepperoni and Mushroom pizza sound so good right now???

Mini Challenge - Collection Obsession

Ok - the title says it all - what else do you collect that is not book related?

I don't actually collect these - but I contribute frequently to my son's collection of Hot Wheels.






What kind of stitcher would I be if I did not collect thimbles! I have been collecting them since my first husband was in the Navy and would go all over the world. The only other country I have been to outside the US is Mexico - but I also have thimbles from Japan, Philippines, Germany, Bahamas.




Again - every stitcher "collects" different threads - the one with the biggest stash wins!

What do you collect????

Scott Westerfeld Mini Challenge

Becky is hosting another one. This one is to read 2 books by Scott Westerfeld before the end of 2009.

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Sarah Dessen Mini Challenge

Another mini challenge hosted by Becky. Read 2 books by Sarah Dessen before the end of 2009.

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Daniel Defoe Mini Challenge

Another mini challenge - This time to read 2 books by Daniel Defoe - and again, have the entire year to do it! Becky at Becky's Book Reviews is hosting this one.

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John Steinbeck Mini Challenge

I love mini-challenges - there are not a lot of books to read, but a whole lotta time to read them!

This challenge for this one is to read 2 books by John Steinbeck. (Can also substitute one movie for one book!) To join and see complete rules - please visit Becky's Book Reviews.

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