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Today’s Question: Who’s your favorite author that other people are NOT reading? The one you want to evangelize for, the one you would run popularity campaigns for? The author that, so far as you’re concerned, everyone should be reading–but that nobody seems to have heard of. You know, not JK Rowling, not Jane Austen, not Hemingway–everybody’s heard of them. The author that you think should be that famous and can’t understand why they’re not…
I have two authors that I was introduced to since I started blogging. One author I won her books from The Suspense Zone and the other author, the publisher sent me his book for review. Both authors’ writing are exceptional and their characters came to life whereas you wanted to be friends with and root for. I will name them in the order that I read:
Amy Wallace wrote The Defenders of Hope Triology. I read all three books and was disappointed when I finished as I wanted the story to continue. The characters and story line was so believable and touching. When I catch up with reviews I will be reading her other books.
Crossing The Bridge by Michael Baron. Another brilliant author. I could relate to his characters as they went through so many trials in their lives. Mr. Baron has another book that will be released in May titled The Journey Home and I plan on reading it as soon as I can get it in hand.
I highly recommend both authors especially if you enjoy reading romantic suspense books.
I don’t know about you…..but I totally enjoy “daily memes”….what a great way to meet more bloggers and find new sites. However on Tuesday and Thursday, I only have one for each day. I am on the search to find some more. So if anyone has any suggestions, even for other days, that I might have missed and sound like fun, please send them my way !!!!!! I am off to do some PI work for memes. Have a great Thursday !!!!
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**What are you currently reading?
Original Sin by Allison Brennan
**What did you recently finish reading?
Watchlist Based On An Idea by Jeffrey Deaver
Invisible Boy by Cornelia Read
**What do you think you’ll read next?
Among Thieves by David Hosp
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“Our main ingriedient is just charisma, Astrid, the very quintessence of ephemerality“.
1. 1lasting one day only – an ∼ fever
2. 2lasting a very short time – ∼ pleasures
“Out there, however, it’s a GD crap shoot. Entropy…chaos”.
a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system’s disorder, that is a property of the system’s state, and that varies directly with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the systembroadlythe degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system
Both words from Invisible Boy by Cornelia Read
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**What are you currently reading?
Original Sin by Allison Brennan
**What did you recently finish reading?
Watchlist Based On An Idea by Jeffrey Deaver
Invisible Boy by Cornelia Read
**What do you think you’ll read next?
Among Thieves by David Hosp
Hosted By Bermudanonion’s Weblog http://bermudaonion.wordpress.com
“Our main ingriedient is just charisma, Astrid, the very quintessence of ephemerality“.
1. 1lasting one day only – an ∼ fever
2. 2lasting a very short time – ∼ pleasures
“Out there, however, it’s a GD crap shoot. Entropy…chaos”.
a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system’s disorder, that is a property of the system’s state, and that varies directly with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the systembroadlythe degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system
Both words from Invisible Boy by Cornelia Read
I have sent an email to those bloggers that I have passed this award to. I hope they enjoy it as much as I did. I felt so honored and humble when I received mine yesterday. Here are those blogs that I have enjoyed visiting, reading reviews, enjoyed the graphics and overall appearance (in no particular order):
**Pudgy Penguins Perusals
**Xmas Dolly
**Peeking Between The Pages
**So many precious books, so little time
2010 Challenge #10 12×12
Another challenge…I couldn’t resist especially since I plan on reading a lot, wanting to get close to or even be able to complete in J.Kaye’s Book Blog challenge of 100+, and I found this new challenge from J.Kaye’s Blog.
Read a fictional novel every month and a different blog hosts it every month. Here is the link for this challenge: http://livebythefoma.blogspot.com/2010/01/national-just-read-more-novels-month.html
The rules are whatever you want to make of them, but here are the guidelines the creator of NaJuReMoNoMo goes by:
The rules are whatever you want to make of them, but here are the guidelines I go by:
Must Be A Novel. Works of fiction only, please. Memoirs, non-fiction, how-to books, and Garfield collections don’t count.
Memoirs Aren’t Novels. No matter how made up the story, anything ostensibly true isn’t a novel. Also known as The James Frey Rule.
Start and Finish in January. I guess if you got some cool books for Christmas, Hanukkah or some other gift-giving event and jumped the gun, you can’t be blamed. But I only count books I start and finish within the 31 day window.
Re-reading Doesn’t Count. Try something new. Read something by your favorite author or try an entirely new author or tackle that novel you have always wanted to read.
Have Fun. Nobody is grading you or paying you or judging you. Read what you like and like what you read.
I am still on cloud 9 from yesterday when I was honored with a blog award from Vicki over at ReadingAtTheBeach.com. It states that I am to pass on this award so I will be notifying and posting those blogs a little later. It is going to be difficult to choose which ones since I have so many great sites to choose from.
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teaser:
The movement had sounded too big for a rat. Then, a faint sob, so faint she wouldn’t have heard it if she wasn’t listening with every cell in her body.
From Original Sin by Allison Brennan page 272
I have sent an email to those bloggers that I have passed this award to. I hope they enjoy it as much as I did. I felt so honored and humble when I received mine yesterday. Here are those blogs that I have enjoyed visiting, reading reviews, enjoyed the graphics and overall appearance (in no particular order):
**Pudgy Penguins Perusals
**Xmas Dolly
**Peeking Between The Pages
**So many precious books, so little time
2010 Challenge #10 12×12
Another challenge…I couldn’t resist especially since I plan on reading a lot, wanting to get close to or even be able to complete in J.Kaye’s Book Blog challenge of 100+, and I found this new challenge from J.Kaye’s Blog.
Read a fictional novel every month and a different blog hosts it every month. Here is the link for this challenge: http://livebythefoma.blogspot.com/2010/01/national-just-read-more-novels-month.html
The rules are whatever you want to make of them, but here are the guidelines the creator of NaJuReMoNoMo goes by:
The rules are whatever you want to make of them, but here are the guidelines I go by:
Must Be A Novel. Works of fiction only, please. Memoirs, non-fiction, how-to books, and Garfield collections don’t count.
Memoirs Aren’t Novels. No matter how made up the story, anything ostensibly true isn’t a novel. Also known as The James Frey Rule.
Start and Finish in January. I guess if you got some cool books for Christmas, Hanukkah or some other gift-giving event and jumped the gun, you can’t be blamed. But I only count books I start and finish within the 31 day window.
Re-reading Doesn’t Count. Try something new. Read something by your favorite author or try an entirely new author or tackle that novel you have always wanted to read.
Have Fun. Nobody is grading you or paying you or judging you. Read what you like and like what you read.
I am still on cloud 9 from yesterday when I was honored with a blog award from Vicki over at ReadingAtTheBeach.com. It states that I am to pass on this award so I will be notifying and posting those blogs a little later. It is going to be difficult to choose which ones since I have so many great sites to choose from.
Hosted by Should Be Reading http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
*Grab your current read
*Open to a random page
*Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
*BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
*Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My Teaser:
The movement had sounded too big for a rat. Then, a faint sob, so faint she wouldn’t have heard it if she wasn’t listening with every cell in her body.
From Original Sin by Allison Brennan page 272
I received this beautiful award today !!!! My first !!!!!!!! It brought a huge smile to my face and sincere and happy tears to my eyes. Vicki from ReadingAtTheBeach.com passed this award on to me. Honestly, this award is half Vicki’s.
When I stumbled onto a book blog a few months ago, it inspired me to create a page, which at the time, was going to be a personal diary of books I read. There were a few sites that I would visit and read the reviews. But then I started to read more and it sounded that it would be fun to join in on memes and challenges. I am honest in saying that I am not computer savvy and had many, many questions. And I found such a kind, patient, and giving person in Vicki. She would assist and explain and she never made me feel as if I was bothering her. I considered her a new friend.
She had told me once in an email…that book bloggers were going to be the nicest people that I met. She was right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To Vicki…………
