sunday salon- reading and the like (oh, and a giveaway)
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This challenge just finished up for this year, but it will start up again in March!
And The Orbis Terrarum Challenge just earned itself its very own blog!
Oh, and I need help....if any of you who did the challenge this year want to step on over and see what you think of the new mini-challenges that would be so cool. I would love advice on those. On everything really!! Head over and make sure to leave a comment or two.
I just finished A Moment of Truth in Iraq by Michael Yon....it was an AMAZING book. I will have my review up this week, I can't stop thinking about it.
I did a post about me, yes I did it so as to have an about me section and so I wrote up a autobiographical type post in which you can get to know me a little better.
Be sure to comment to enter my giveaway for Love and Other Natural Disasters
snowy sunday salon
I have been mostly working on reading and reviewing so that I will have 100 books complete for this year. I started in March, so I had about three months to catch up to. Anyway, I am currently at 97 and so super excited about it.
But, if you like to cook I have some exciting news for you, I am currently hosting three cookbook type giveaways. Oh, but there is a catch, I want something from you. I want you to post one of your favourite recipes to share with us all on your blog.
Yeah, for more information and to enter the giveaways go here:
Confetti Cakes for Kids (5 copies)
The Flavor Bible (3 copies)
Katie Brown Celebrates (5 copies)
Happy holidays!!!
sunday salon- I have a read-a-thon hangover!!
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I did the read-a-thon. I was awake for all but 2 hours of it :) Today I have a read-a-thon hangover.
This is what I read:
(thank you fyrefly for helping with my pics! They aren't backwards anymore :)
The Shiniest Jewel by Marian Henley
Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
Dating Da Vinci by Malena Lott
And I started this:
Monique and the Mango Rains by Kris Holloway
You have to check out the silly posts I did. (sort of embarrassing.... with 2 am videos and all!). But it was all for an amazing cause, that I will tell you a little more about.
not like this.
I read for clean water worldwide!!! I made this button (above), and you are welcome to use it if you want. We are giving the money raised over the read-a-thon to Living Water International. I had no idea clean water was such an issue...did you?
Did you know this to be true??:
Water-related disease is the single largest killer of infants in developing countries—diarrhea alone causes 1.8 million child deaths each year—and access to safe water is the most important factor in the survival of children under the age of five. Nearly half of all people in developing countries are suffering from water-related health problems. The annual number of deaths from water-related diseases is six times greater than the number of deaths from armed violence.
Anyway, money is still coming in, but during the read-a-thon we earned/gave/were sponsored for: $165.50. I want to thank all of you for giving!!! You are amazing.....INCREDIBLE! Did I say you are AMAZING!?!?! Thank you so much.
Anyway, for the rest of the year, each book I read I will donate another dollar to Living Water International
You are welcome, at any time to give as well. I am going to leave the link up. When the $200.00 mark is met, I will let you know what will happen then.
livin' it up: sunday salon style :)
Oh, what a nice sunny Sunday day for Sunday salon :)
How is your reading going?
Mine is going just dandy, thank you!!
Here is what I have read and reviewed this last week:
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Immortal by Traci L. Slatton
Watership Down by Richard Adams
March by Geraldine Brooks
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
Half A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Out of the above reads my faves were Watership Down and Half A Yellow Sun, no question!
In case you are like so many of us book bloggers, and The God of Small things has been on your TBR for an eternity...YOU should read it this month!!! :)
I am doing a book club thingy over at Book Blogs, you should really check it out!
Click on the link below and let me know you are interested. It will be loads of fun.
Travel the World (form a comfy chair) The God of Small Things
(you will have to register, it only takes 2 seconds! if you want to be a part of the book club commenting fun.)
What am I reading now you ask?? I am just starting this:
I have been wanting to read Janeology by Karen Harrington ever since I saw a review a while back. Well, FINALLY I get to :) I will be sure to tell you how I like it. So far I am really enjoying it. I will have my review up this week fo sho.
What are you reading? What were your faves this week?
Sunday Salon- reviews, and kill word verification!
This week has been filled with reading and blogging, and altering my blog look, but mostly the last one :) I have read some and here are the reviews from this week:
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Front Porch Prophet by Raymond L. Atkins
What if...? by Steve N. Lee
Oh, and an author interview with Kathryn Maughan, the author of Did I Expect Angels?
One more thing that I just posted: kill word verification
The post is mostly for fun, but I am serious about getting rid of word verification, please, please consider it!?
I'll be back to check in later today.
Sunday Salon:books. reviews. GIVEAWAYS.
Happy sUnDAy SaLoN to you all!!
Okay, so first off I am having two giveaways right now, that you should enter :) One is for The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff and the other for Matrimony the novel by Joshua Henkin (Joshua is who graciously is sending the book out....but not without his siggie!!!! Joshua Henkin has to be the best book promoter in the universe!!)
Since the last time I stopped in to chat, I have read and reviewed some great reads. Here are the links to my reviews:
Run by Ann Patchett
The River, By Moonlight Camille Marchetta
Eating for Energy by Yuri Elkaim
The American Boy's Handy Book by Daniel C. Beard
From A Distance by Tamara Alexander
Surviving Ben's Suicide by C.Comfort Shields
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
and Annie Barrows
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Deep in the Heart of Trouble byDeeanne Gist
Oh, and one that try as I promise I did I could not read one more page of its horror:
I have also just finished The Inheritance of Loss, and am currently finishing up What if...? by Steve Lee. I'll be writing these up soon.
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That is all for me, happy sunday folks!!! Enjoy the beginning of fall!
SuNdAY sALon- books I loved that I never thought I'd even like.
I am currently reading "The Glass Castle" By Jeannette Walls. Oh, goodness I never even thought I 'd like this book and I can't stop with it. The voice is so strong. Many times memoirs are not exciting enough, and I tend to enjoy fiction because of it...this book has rocked my boat as far as non-fiction. I LOVE the kids in this book, they are strong, true, honest, and try to never give up hope in the parents that always let them down. For sure this is one of my best reads of the year. What are some books that you thought you just would have to plug through, but once you opened the cover you had never been so wrong? I know for sure that The Glass Castle for sure fits into that category. Have you read it?
Other reads this week:
my reviews:
Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist
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