Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Books - 2 Winners in Challenge






My reading challenge was over two days ago, but I just notified the last winners!



Congratulations to:



4th Quarter Reader - Susan of Well-Mannered Frivolity

Prizes include: 2 Moleskin Notebooks, Persephone bookmark, a pencil, and a rabbit postcard by Teesha.

For reading all 9 books in the challenge - Cafe Shree
Prizes include: Occupied City by David Peace, a handmade journal (with letters) by BookGirl’s Studio, a rabbit postcard by Teesha, and a Moleskin notebook.

I enjoyed hosting this challenge and am seriously thinking of doing another one.



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Monday, December 28, 2009

Greetings

I hope that you had a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Winter Soltice!

I just came back from Texas and have a lot to do:

1. Announce two winners for my Reading Challenge. I'll take care of that in the next two days.

2. Write reviews for: The Year of the Flood (Margaret Atwood), The Glass Room (Simon Mawer), The Book of Fathers (Miklos Vamos), and The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins).

3. Get together with some friends who arrived in the New Orleans area for the holidays.

4. Get an oil change for the car.

5. Catch up with my favorite blogs.

Hope your holiday is also fun!
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Friday, December 25, 2009

Blogs That I Visit

BOOK BLOGS
I follow a few and use their links to get to other blogs
That's why my list is so short.
BOOK FESTIVALS
FAVORITE LOCAL BOOKSTORES
HAIKU
I have also participated in Haiku Winter 2006 to Spring 2009
FUN!
VISUAL & CREATIVE
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2010 Reading Challenges

If you need to find reading challenges, go to A NOVEL CHALLENGES!

(NOTE: ** = Finished reading and reviewing the book)

This is part of my reading plan for 2010.




I received these books as presents and haven't read them yet.
Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck


I need to read more poems and short stories in my TBR.
Fume o Peak - John McDonald
New Voices - A Collection of Soviet Short Stories - Raduga Publications - Moscow
Shorter Fiction - Oscar Wilde


I read these books and forgot to blog about them. So, I will re-read them and review them this time.

Lady Susan - Jane Austen

Martin Sloan - Michael Redhill


I am a Board Member of Save Our Cemeteries and need to read about them.


New Orleans Architecture - Vol. III - The Cemeteries - Leonard Huber, Peggy McDowell, and Mary Christovich





The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood - Kien Nguyen


This Must Be My Brother - Leann Thieman and Carol Dey




2010 Reading Resolutions Challenge - My goal is to read the TBR books that are 3 years or older or books that I didn't finish in last year's challenges.


1. Moby Dick - Herman Melville (I've read about 3/4 the book on Daily Lit but won't finish it before Christmas 2009)
2. Aesop's Fables (I've read about 1/2 book and don't think that I can finish by Christmas 2009)


The following are in my TBR and need to be finished:

3. Wildflower - Nick Bantock

4. Fort Amity - A Story of French Canadian Life in the Time of Wolfe and Montecalm by "Q" (A. T. Quiller-Couch)

5. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

6. We - Evgeny Zamyatin

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Book Reviews - Alpha by Author

Click on the title or author's name to read my reviews.



A

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition - Caroline Alexander
Garden Spells - Sarah Allen

The Locust and the Bird - Hanan al-Shaykh

A Cafecito Story - Julia Alvarez










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Q

R


T


W
Haiku - Everyman's Literary Pocket Poets - Peter Washington (Editor)
The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty

Breath - Tim Winton

Cloudstreet - Tim Winton


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