October 2009

Teaser Tuesday – October 20, 2009

October 20, 2009

MizB says it goes like this: Grab your current read Let the book fall open to a random page Share two teaser sentence from that page, between lines 7 & 12 Share the book title Please avoid spoilers My Teaser for today is from Perry Moore’s young adult novel Hero: She’d been growing fainter and [...]

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Mailbox Monday – October 19, 2009

October 19, 2009

Marcia, at The Printed Page, hosts Mailbox Monday each week. She writes: “Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t count, eBooks & audio books do). Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.” Here [...]

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Mailbox Monday – October 12, 2009

October 12, 2009

Marcia, at The Printed Page, hosts Mailbox Monday each week. She writes: “Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books came into their house last week (checked out library books don’t count, eBooks & audio books do). Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.” Here [...]

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The GLBT Challenge 2009 – Completed

October 5, 2009

January 1st to December 31st 2010 Sign Up | Reviews | Completed List I’ve signed up for The GLBT Challenge 2009 at The Zen Leaf. It runs from July 1st to December 31st, so I’ve signed up a bit late, but that’s okay. I still have time to finish the challenge. Rules/Guidelines: 1. Read 6 [...]

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The R.I.P. IV Challenge – Completed

October 5, 2009

I had planned to read more than one book for Carl’s R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril IV Challenge, but October was much busier than I was anticipating. Even so, it was fun! Vintage: A Ghost Story by Steve Berman

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New books and such

October 3, 2009

Today, my son and I spent a few hours browsing the bookstore and after much grabbing and drooling, we selected two picture books and a little something longer. We had a terrible time finding the copy of The Little Prince. Instead of being in Kid’s Fiction, or even in Kid’s Storybooks, it was in Fiction [...]

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