Favorites of 2011

It's another fun Mini Challenge!!! This Mini Challenge is all about the books you read this year!!!

Challenge: Write up a blog post telling me the top 5 books you read in 2011 that you loved! That were your favorite! 

Make sure to link up on Princess Bookie's blog to be entered to win!

My faves:

Amber Frost, here's my review

 Haven by Cook, here's my review

 Wither by Destefano, here's my review

 Accused by Kate Kaynak, my review

 Half Blood by Jennifter Armentrout, my review

These are ones on my read list on goodreads (I didn't set all my dates so I may have missed/forgotten something)

Collections

  Today's Mini Challenge is all about Collections!

You know what I'm talking about, right? It's those important items that mean a lot to us that we can't help collecting. 

Enter at Princess bookie's blog

Me and my husband collect books, board/card games, especially munchkin. Otherwise, I try not to. For awhile I bought everything Twilight and as a kid I loved to buy stuff for my Playmobile. When my daughter is big enough for it, I will probably start that again. 

 

 

Alternate Ending

You have to pick one of your favorite books and write an alternate ending to it, must be at least two paragraphs long (can be longer) and post it to your blog, then leave a comment with the link. (Be as creative as you can!)

Prize: a $10 Amazon gift card

My alternate ending to Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma

Even though I totally appreciate what she did, I am a sucker for happy and well wrapped up. 

  I looked at Lochan and could hardly believe we'd made it. The day when Kit busted in on us naked and ran to get mom, I thought that we'd never be able to keep everything together. It turns out he was just embarrassed because Lochan had interfered and his coach outed his fear of heights to the team. I don't know what he thought he'd accomplish by getting mom but after an hour of yelling, she passed out. She left the next morning and never came back. 

  We got checks once a month until we graduated, and Lochan got a scholarship to the local university. He wrote on the side for the newspaper and made enough to support us. It's been a long fifteen years, but Willa is in college now, and they've all come to accept our relationship, and why we left town. 

   I looked into Lochan's eyes and still felt the same passion, longing and I was glad that we'd started over, and our new friends all thought we were the sweetest couple. I could do something about my love.
 

Who should be a couple?

Today's Mini Challenge is hosted by Princess Bookie

Challenge: Write up a blog post telling us who should be a couple but are NOT a couple. This can include tv, movie, music videos, or book couples.  In a separate paragraph, tell us why you think they should get together.  They can be characters from different shows or the same show.  Be creative. Who would go well together? These are fictional characters, not the real actors. 

Make sure you tell us which show you are going off of (if it's a show and your behind a season, tell us). If its two different shows, and two different characters, tell us. Details please! If it's a book, make sure you tell us what book it is from in your blog post.  This is so people know not to ruin it by telling you spoilers from the next book or season! LOL

Prize: Mystery Prize Pack of books
-Winner Picked using random.org

Don't forget to link your blog post ON Cindi's blog but feel free to let me know in comments if you have any ideas.

My pick: 

Aura and Zachary from Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready. I've only read the first one, but I wish circumstances were different so they could just get together already. 

Scariest Word

Scariest word at

• Grab a book you're currently reading (and hopefully loving)
• Go to the 13th Chapter (if the book doesn't have 13 chapters, go to the closest to it)
• Scan the chapter for the scariest word
• Using Google/Yahoo images randomly pick on picture that comes up when you search the word
• Write a blog post that has the book's cover, title, your word and your image

 Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
Poisonous Snakes 

One True Pairing

One True Pairing

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To enter this challenge:

• You should create a blog post with your OTP (One True Pairing), meaning your favorite couple from young adult books. Explain why they’re your favorite YA couple. If you don't have a blog, you can share your answer in the comments section.
• To make it fun, add pictures of who you think can portray the characters. 
• Add the link to your blog or comment to the linky tool at the bottom of this post to participate.

It is so hard to pick because I've had a hard time picking 10 guys/great couples, but I'll have to go back to what got me started in the blogging world and reading after a really long slump...
Edward and Bella

Lucky 7

Lucky Number 7 at 

TO ENTER:

• Open a book you are currently reading.
• Turn to page 7.
• Count to the 7th word.
• If the word is an article (a, an, the, etc), go to the next real word.
• Type the word into a Google Images search, and select a picture that you can stand.
• Create a blog post with the following information:
• Picture of book
• Book title and author
• 7th word on 7th page
• Randomly selected picture
• Link to this post and Princess Bookie's Contest Craze.

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  Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready

Top 5 in 2012

Challenge: Write up a blog post telling me your top 5 books that you are looking forward to releasing in 2012.  Be creative, you can use summaries, pictures, etc. 
For Princess Bookie's Contest Craze


Here we go:
1. Fever by Destefano 
2. Dreaming Awake by Haves 
3. Awake at Dawn By Hunter 
4. Hallowed by Hand 
5.  Golden Lily by Mead 

Mini-Challenge Character Photo

Hosted by At home with Books- the challenge is My challenge for you is to take a photo of something in your house that represents a character in one of the books you are reading for the readathon.  This could be as simple as taking a photo of a rolling pin to represent the role of cooking in your book (a la The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister) or if you want to be more adventurous - a photo of yourself with the rolling pin.

I just started I was best friends with Jane Austen- which involves a secret diary- so this is all I've got :D

Mini-Challenge Ban this book!

Midnight Book Girl challenges us to be silly and argue for a book to be banned from out of context ways.

I will pick Disney Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales-
This book should be banned because it shows children they should steal what they want- it promotes beating to get back what was stolen. It is whimsical and talks of flying cows and dishes and spoons being disobedient and running away. All reading should solely be educational, after all.

Mini-Challenge Wordle

Hosted by Reading through life- wordle a post or random text (wordle is a website that makes word art). Here is mine:

Read-a-Thon Mini-Challenge: Title Word Scramble

Read-a-Thon Mini-Challenge: Title Word Scramble hosted by Sheery Hall

1.yfferil enal Firefly lane

2.aste fo eend East of Eden

3. retwa orf pntshleea Water for elephants

4.ot lkli a ckomgnrbdii To kill a mockingbird

5. het gtaer ysbtag The Great gatsby

6. yrhra tetrpo dna eth lyhdtea wollsah Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

7. ht e rat fo nrgcai ni eht nair The art of dancing in the rain

8.eth mite reslveart efwi The time travelers wife

9. eht rlig iehw eht gnodar ooattt The girl with the dragon tattoo

10.ydira fo a mypiw idk Diary of a wimpy kid

11.a kwrlnei ni emit A wrinkle in time

12. het rpoal sxprese The polar express

13.vole dewlak ni Love walked in

14.reehw eth dwli hingts rea Where the wild things are

15.eht ginnhsi The Shinning

16.dnohogigt oonm Goodnight Moon

17. vwtienrie hwti a pvmarie Interview with a vampire

18. eht cretse file fo eesb The secret life of bees

19. eht raesch The Search

20. het pelh The Help

Mid Event Meme

Wow- Its hard to believe that its been 12 hours already!  Here is my progress: 

7pm read 2 hours (total 10 hours)
finished  Nightshade, Jenny Pox for myself and read Goodnight Moon 123, Snip Snap, and Fairy Tales Disney style to my daughter

 

Mid-Event Survey:

1. What are you reading right now? The Duff

2. How many books have you read so far? 2 adult, 3 kids

3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon? The Duff

4. Did you have to make any special arrangements to free up your whole day? Not really- daughter is running around, so is hubby

5. Have you had many interruptions? How did you deal with those? My daughter- read to her, play for a few minutes and go back to reading

6. What surprises you most about the Read-a-thon, so far? page hits

7. Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year? no

8. What would you do differently, as a Reader or a Cheerleader, if you were to do this again next year? get a baby-sitter :)

9. Are you getting tired yet? yes

10. Do you have any tips for other Readers or Cheerleaders, something you think is working well for you that others may not have discovered? take a break at each hour to post, and eat or stretch if needed

I am hosting: Mini-Challenge Love to Hate

I am hosting one of the mini-challenges from Dewey's 24 hour Read-a Thon and your challenge, should you choose to accept it is to make a list of your Top 5 Love to Hate characters. These can be villians that are really well done, "bad" characters that you dig, or anything else that you think fits the title. For example- Voldemort, or the Volturi.

What is up for grabs- Choice of one:
(books US only)
Undone Brooke Taylor
Fallen Lauren Kate
The Mark Jen Nadol
Night World 1-3
Dark of the Moon
Shadow of the Moon
In a heartbeat
Flyaway Lucy Christopher
Rising Shadow
Forbidden
Blindsided
Betrayal by Shields
Angel Star
Almost to die for
Karma Bites
The Duff
Ghost and the Goth
Still the one by wells
How to ruin your boyfriend's reputation
Beautiful Malice signed
Dead Until Dark
Over the moon by Daniels
She's so dead to us
Siren
Forgive my fins
fragile eternity
other by kincy
lost for words
Penitence by Laurens
Firespell
Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
Angels in Pink: raina's story
Girl in the Arena
Emily Louder than words

OR

$5 Amazon gift card (If you can order from amazon.com or amazon.uk or amazon.ca then you are eligible for this prize, but if not amazon.com please tell me so that I can purchase appropriately)

Details: Open 3-6pm EST Oct 9th 
-Please make a post (OR you can just leave list in a comment, leave a way to contact you) and link back here.
-Please click the follow on GFC :D (not required, but I would love it and you will be able to know about more contests coming up)
-Have fun! -You have until Tues 12th 12pm EST to email me back with your prize choice and address.

Mini Challenge- Book Puzzle

From One Librarian's Book Reviews "For this challenge, you will be creating a Book Puzzle.  Essentially, this is a series of pictures, graphics, or photos that you put together that will describe a book title.  It isn't too easy to explain in words, so I'll show you.  I just started a biweekly game called Name That Book where I do book puzzles and let people guess the titles.  Here's an example from that first one:

This series of pictures illustrates the title Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale. "


And here is my entry:

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Nightshade

W/

Girl with the dragon tattoo