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What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Category: Meme
Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading
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!
You will fall to your knees, pressing down on your gushing wound with the flats of both helpless hands. Your blood spurting from your innards-all over your clothes-in your agony you will topple. What will you do next?
page 83
Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading
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!
You will fall to your knees, pressing down on your gushing wound with the flats of both helpless hands. Your blood spurting from your innards-all over your clothes-in your agony you will topple. What will you do next?
page 83
Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading
This week’s question:
Is there a book you absolutely love, but for some reason, people never think it sounds interesting, or maybe they read it and don’t like it at all?
My answer:
Absolutely!!! And it’s not a book but a series, of 13 books. It is my favorite read of all time and called The Left Behind Series. I am not sure if its because that when I tell someone what the premise of the books are or that it is a series of 13 books that kind of scares someone away. It did me at first. A friend of mine tried on different occasions to get me to read it and I finally gave in. All it took was the first few chapters, I was hooked, and the series was done in a little over a month. I am not sure if anyone has taken my advice to read it but whenever I am around readers, I always ask if anyone has read it, and the majority of the time they have, and the discussion turns directly to those books and similarities of the wold today. Would love to know if any bloggers have read them and what they thought!!!
January is being hosted by Rose City Reader
Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia of The Printed Page and is now on tour.
According to Marcia, “Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.”
For Review from The Hachette Book Group
Won from Gina at Hott Books
Free EBook download from Sony
Hosted by Java from Never Growing Old
“Meet Me On Monday!”
Blogging is a funny thing…we tell our most intimate thoughts for all to read and yet most of the time I find myself sitting and wondering, “who is this person!?” I know them…but yet I don’t know them! I want to know who the person is behind all those words so I thought of a great way for all of us to “meet” each other!
Questions:
1. What is your favorite kind of fudge?
Chocolate peanut butter fudge
2. Is there snow outside your window?
Yes and more on it’s way!!
3. What is your favorite meal of the day?
And it is even better, when served at a restaurant.
4. Do you text on your cell phone?
No
5. Waffles or pancakes?
Blueberry pancakes
Hosted by Michelle from The True Book Addict
Before I give my final wrap up progress report, I want to thank Michelle for hosting this week long Read-A-Thon. Than You Michelle!!! It has been fun and when there were moments that I wanted to slack off a bit, I felt like you were sitting on my shoulder saying…” Bad girl!! You should be reading” lol and I would pick up my book. So thank you for spending the week with me.
Total Wrap Up: 20 hours read.. 1 book finished ..1 review finished… 1 book into the DNF pile
Hosted by Maw Books
Progress Wrap Up:
*Organized mail folders
*Created button/banner
*Created mock google document
*RSS feed
*Cheat sheets
*Favicon/gravatars (need more work on that one
*Bookmarked other sites with certain issues that I will be addressing throughout the coming months
Hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading
This week’s question:
Is there a book you absolutely love, but for some reason, people never think it sounds interesting, or maybe they read it and don’t like it at all?
My answer:
Absolutely!!! And it’s not a book but a series, of 13 books. It is my favorite read of all time and called The Left Behind Series. I am not sure if its because that when I tell someone what the premise of the books are or that it is a series of 13 books that kind of scares someone away. It did me at first. A friend of mine tried on different occasions to get me to read it and I finally gave in. All it took was the first few chapters, I was hooked, and the series was done in a little over a month. I am not sure if anyone has taken my advice to read it but whenever I am around readers, I always ask if anyone has read it, and the majority of the time they have, and the discussion turns directly to those books and similarities of the wold today. Would love to know if any bloggers have read them and what they thought!!!
January is being hosted by Rose City Reader
Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia of The Printed Page and is now on tour.
According to Marcia, “Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came into their house last week. Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.”
For Review from The Hachette Book Group
Won from Gina at Hott Books
Free EBook download from Sony
Hosted by Java from Never Growing Old
“Meet Me On Monday!”
Blogging is a funny thing…we tell our most intimate thoughts for all to read and yet most of the time I find myself sitting and wondering, “who is this person!?” I know them…but yet I don’t know them! I want to know who the person is behind all those words so I thought of a great way for all of us to “meet” each other!
Questions:
1. What is your favorite kind of fudge?
Chocolate peanut butter fudge
2. Is there snow outside your window?
Yes and more on it’s way!!
3. What is your favorite meal of the day?
And it is even better, when served at a restaurant.
4. Do you text on your cell phone?
No
5. Waffles or pancakes?
Blueberry pancakes
Hosted by Michelle from The True Book Addict
Before I give my final wrap up progress report, I want to thank Michelle for hosting this week long Read-A-Thon. Than You Michelle!!! It has been fun and when there were moments that I wanted to slack off a bit, I felt like you were sitting on my shoulder saying…” Bad girl!! You should be reading” lol and I would pick up my book. So thank you for spending the week with me.
Total Wrap Up: 20 hours read.. 1 book finished ..1 review finished… 1 book into the DNF pile
Hosted by Maw Books
Progress Wrap Up:
*Organized mail folders
*Created button/banner
*Created mock google document
*RSS feed
*Cheat sheets
*Favicon/gravatars (need more work on that one
*Bookmarked other sites with certain issues that I will be addressing throughout the coming months
WELCOME!!!
I would like to explain how this came to fruition. Hubby and I were having a discussion about the old days, (for the young’ens reading this..a little history lesson) but before the dark age. When Sundays were special and had traditions and rituals. Sunday mornings Church, come home to a big gravy (sauce) cooking on the stove, a big Sunday dinner, then either off to visit relatives/friends or wait for relatives/friends to drop by. We would spend the afternoon sitting around the table, talking, catching up, having coffee, pizza, calzones, etc etc, dessert. And now, how sad, all those traditions are gone. And then I got to thinking, why not have something similar here on my blog. This past year, I have met so many amazing and wonderful people (some I now call friends) through blogging, and how I am in awe of what they do and accomplish. How much respect I have for them, for their honesty, integrity, credibility and so enjoy when a bit of their personality shines through. So every Sunday, here at my place, the coffee will be on, the dessert is on the table and friends will be stopping by. And I will be rolling out the red carpet for my Sunday Shining Star Blogger guest.
Has this happened to you during your blogging experience, you meet someone online, start chatting, find you have similar likes in books, start visiting that person’s blog and from her posts you get a feeling of her personality, start chatting some more, then find more similarities in real life and then something just clicks, and you know, that if you were to meet, that you would be bffs in real life too? Well that has happened with my next Shining Star. So please help me welcome this week’s guest, JULIE FROM READING WITHOUT RESTRAINT
*When and why did you start blogging?
I was cruising the internet late one night in April ’10 and I stumbled across Reading With Tequila, a wonderful book blog. Before then, I didn’t even know that book blogs even existed! After that, I was hooked and I started my own book blog. No one in my immediate family is an avid reader, so it is a great way for me to share my thoughts with like-minded book addicts!
*How and what made you decide on the name of your blog?
I thought of it right away. I wanted something catchy that flowed well. I think I did pretty good!
*What would you say is the main content of your blog?
Book reviews, bookish memes, etc……
*If books, what genres do you mostly read?
My favorites (at the moment) are thriller/suspense, chick lit and women’s fiction.
*How often do you post?
I try to post every day, but sometimes real life does get in the way. I am sure everyone knows how that goes?
*What are some of the things that you love about blogging?
The community! I have “met” some wonderful people that I consider true friends. I also love all of the book recommendations I have gotten. Before I started book blogging I never would have thought of reading paranormal or young adult, but now I do and I enjoy them.
*What are some of the negatives?
It is soooooo time consuming!
*Name 1-3 favorite items/postings that you have/do on your blog?
I love the memes In My Mailbox and It’s Monday What Are You Reading. I find the best books to add to my TBR list that way!
*Any advice you would give to new bloggers?
Be patient–your blog will grow on its own. Be honest in your reviews. Integrity in the book blogging community is very important!
*What draws you to follow someone’s blog?
The design catches my eye first. Second to that is if the blogger enjoys the same genres that I do.
*Do you have any “pet peeves” that other bloggers do?
Not really. None that I can think of anyway.
*Would you please share 5-7 things about the person behind the screen so that we get to know the “real” you!!
1. I am newly single
2. I am a horrible bookaholic! I can’t seem to stop buying them.
3. I have one sister and one baby niece in Phoenix
4. I have two dogs & one cat
5. I work for the federal gov’t
Julie and I have become very good friends, to the point where we even talk on the phone and are hoping to make plans to meet later this year. It is difficult since we live on the opposite coasts of the United States. She has such a kind, genuine, caring and huge heart. A very emotionally strong and unconditional loving single mom who is trying (and succeeding) to teach her sons the morals and values of life. She has been there for me during some rough times and I hope that I am offering her the same kind of support to her as she faces a difficult journey in her life. If you haven’t stopped by her blog, and you have some time, her link is provided above, she writes phenomenal reviews. Julie not only are you a Shining Star but I have the honor to call you my friend!!
Murphys Law..I have decided that from this point on, I will not be announcing any mini challenges that I sign up for….lol…it never fails, whenever I do, real life has a tendency to interfere. Yesterday, I think we (hubby and myself) had a total of 2-3 hours to ourselves, the rest of the day, we were tending to and taking care of the responsibilities and business of being a sole “early baby boomer”. So not much got done on this front.
Progress report: Not much accomplished.
*Did organize some of my folders.
*Did read up on Favicon and Gravatars (did find a favicon, read and reread the directions…but computer language…..GINA!!!! HELP!!! now I need to get it to the top of the page lol).
*Copied and pasted a lot of sites that I plan on using as references in the future since there are so many ideas and tips that I want to learn about. I plan on this Bloggiesta being year long and tackling a project at least one a month!!!
Hosted by Michelle from The True Book Addict
Progress report: Status quo the same..Did not open my EBook yesterday
