Dewey’s Readathon Kick Off Post!
Good morning! Today I am participating in the Readathon for the, um, seventh?sixth time. I’m an old pro at this, it seems, and yet I am at the end (I hope) stages of a cold so ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN....
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Hour 12 Updates Title of book(s) read since last update: I finished Seconds Away by Harlan Coben! Number of books read since you started: But I Really Wanted To Be An Anthropologist by Margaux Motin...
View ArticleLazy Sunday: Pumpkins & Readathon
Today I went to visit some of my family in Connecticut. Every October my aunt and my cousins and I get together to celebrate birthdays (one of my cousins has a birthday in September and my other cousin...
View ArticleTop Ten Tuesday: Favorite LGBTQ Authors
Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. I will entirely admit that I narrowed down today’s list based on the projection of how loudly I would squeal excited I would be if...
View ArticleTop 10 Tuesday: Books to Get You In the Halloween Spirit
Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman: An adopted family of ghosts? Yes, please. Horns by Joe Hill: You know when you wake up and...
View ArticleTop Ten Tuesday: Kick-Ass Heroines
Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. Top Ten Kick-Ass Heroines Frankie Landau-Banks (The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks): Frankie came immediately to...
View ArticleTop Ten Tuesday: Books About Presidents
Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. Today’s topic was a freebie and I chose books about presidents since it is election day and, you know, I love presidential...
View ArticleTop Ten Tuesday: Books I’m Hoping to See Under the Tree
Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. This week we’re sharing ten books we “wouldn’t mind” getting for Christmas. How to Be Gay by David M. Halperin: I need this book...
View ArticleVirtual Advent: Favorite Christmas Movies
Virtual Advent is hosted by Marg and Kelly, and is one of my favorite events in book blogger land. Here’s the thing: I love Christmas. I love kitchy decorations and hot cocoa and stocking hung by the...
View ArticleTop 10 Tuesday: My Favorite Books Before I Started Blogging
Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish S/He by Minnie Bruce Pratt: I remember where I bought it (used bookstore), where I read it for the first time (while “working” in...
View ArticleDewey’s Read-a-Thon: Update 1
Good morning! I am so excited to be participating in this spring’s Readathon–especially since I missed out on the last two. I’m starting off the day by listening to Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell...
View ArticleTop 10 Tuesday: Light and Fun Books
Top Ten Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling: I’ve come back to these books for the fourth time this year, an impulse I get occasionally when...
View ArticleTLC Book Tour: ‘Very Recent History’ by Choire Sicha
Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (C. Ad 2009) in a Large City by Choire Sicha ARC Received from publisher via TLC Book Tours Published August 2013 by Harper Read August 2013...
View ArticleIt’s the Perfect Time for a #Readathon
UPDATE: Hour 8 Books read: Blockade Billy by Stephen King (112 pages) Dog Songs by Mary Oliver (144 pages) Currenty reading: Audio: Back Spin (Myron Bolitar #3) by Harlan Coben E-Book: Twisted...
View ArticleDewey’s Readathon – Happy Spring 2014!
Hour 6: Food Has Arrived! Books Read Calling Dr. Laura by Nicole J. Georges–288 pages Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting: Poems by Kevin Powers–96 pages Back to Our Futures: How the 1980s...
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