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…………
                    

Mystery Read-A-Thon Wrap Up:
Yesterday was a great day.  I never have enjoyed football as I did yesterday.  My hubby and son were in front of the TV watching some game…don’t ask me who since I wasn’t wathcing…but it gave me hours of uninterrupted reading time.  I met goals that I was hoping to.  They were:
**I read for 6 1/2 hours
**Finished one book
**Started another
**Wrote a review
Thank goodness for Sunday Football !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about tidy reading around people.
When is it inappropriate to read in front of others? Is it ever appropriate?
  My Opinion:
I think the only times that it is inappropriate and/or rude is if a person is entertaining company and/or visiting someone (unless it is predetermined that reading was scheduled)  Example: This past summer friends would visit to lay by the pool.  We would converse but it was stated that those who are book buddies, would be bringing books with plans of visiting, relaxing and reading.  For those who are not readers, I would not read, but that doesn’t mean that I would have liked to.

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*Books Completed Last Week:
  Invisible Boy by Cornelia Read
  Watchlist Based On An Idea by Jeffrey Deaver
*Books I Gave Up On:
  None
*Books I Am Currently Reading/Listening To:
  Original Sin by Allison Brennan
*Books I Need To Write Reviews On:
  None
*Up Next:
  Doors Open by Ian Rankin

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  Mailbox was full this week…I have a lot of reading to do!!

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…………
                    

Mystery Read-A-Thon Wrap Up:
Yesterday was a great day.  I never have enjoyed football as I did yesterday.  My hubby and son were in front of the TV watching some game…don’t ask me who since I wasn’t wathcing…but it gave me hours of uninterrupted reading time.  I met goals that I was hoping to.  They were:
**I read for 6 1/2 hours
**Finished one book
**Started another
**Wrote a review
Thank goodness for Sunday Football !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hosted by Just One More Page http://rebeccavoy.blogspot.com/
Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about tidy reading around people.
When is it inappropriate to read in front of others? Is it ever appropriate?
  My Opinion:
I think the only times that it is inappropriate and/or rude is if a person is entertaining company and/or visiting someone (unless it is predetermined that reading was scheduled)  Example: This past summer friends would visit to lay by the pool.  We would converse but it was stated that those who are book buddies, would be bringing books with plans of visiting, relaxing and reading.  For those who are not readers, I would not read, but that doesn’t mean that I would have liked to.

Hosted by J.Kaye’s Book Blog http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/
*Books Completed Last Week:
  Invisible Boy by Cornelia Read
  Watchlist Based On An Idea by Jeffrey Deaver
*Books I Gave Up On:
  None
*Books I Am Currently Reading/Listening To:
  Original Sin by Allison Brennan
*Books I Need To Write Reviews On:
  None
*Up Next:
  Doors Open by Ian Rankin

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  Mailbox was full this week…I have a lot of reading to do!!

Invisible Boy by Cornelia Read (Rating–4)

Published by Grand Central Publishing (Hachette Book Group)
ISBN 978-0-44651134-6
At the request of Hachette Book Group, an ARC copy was sent, at no cost to me, for my honest review
  Synopsis:  The year 1990, Madeline Dare, returns to New York City. Boarding school educated, self proclaimed liberal, liberated and very much opinionated. She accepts an invitation to help in the clean up and restoration of a historical family cemetery that is generations old and has been vandalized for years and not been tended to professionally. She comes upon skeletal remains in the tall grass and weeds and determines that the bones are of a child and freshly placed. Who is this child, who put him here and why here in this family plot? She has some misfortunate accidents or are they intentional?
  My Thoughts:  From page one, I was pulled in with the writing style and, at times, funny New Yorkese narrative. During her quest to find justice for this child, Teddy, Madeline also learns that there has been abuse in her own family. She is also trying to be honest and loyal to a long time friend from boarding school. Madeline has to deal with the dynamics of her relationships with family members, old and new friends, and a little boy she never knew.
  My Opinion and Rating:  I found the style and narrative unique and enjoyable. I gave this book a rating of 4 for the following reasons. Without giving anything away, I felt that there were two major traumatic incidents that should have been written with more of an in depth and detailed explanation. I also thought the same regarding the dynamics of the relationships that were involved.