Carol's Notebook

Here's the info: The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01 am Monday, August 22nd and runs through Sunday, August 28th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 17 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team Today's Challenge Book in a Song - at Janey Canuck She wants us to talk about what connections you have between a book and some music.  Anything goes, really.  Some suggestions to get you thinking: Rename your book with a song Give a lyric that sums up the plot of your book A song or album that is forever associated with a particular books in your mind I don't actually connect books to music much....

Here's the info: The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01 am Monday, August 22nd and runs through Sunday, August 28th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 17 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team Today's Challenge Titles in the Tabloids Laura at The Book Junkie is challenging us to take some of our book plots and make them into fun tabloid headlines. https://twitter.com/carolsnotebook/status/768828493224222720 Day 3 Update: Books/Stories finished: Murder in G Major by Alexia Gordon Books/Stories started: The Terra-Cotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri and Dark Matter by Blake Crouch In the middle of:  "The Invisible Man" by G. K. Chersterton Pages read: 45 Time listened: 50 mins Running Total: Books/Stories finished: Good Morning, Superman! by Michael...

Here's the info: The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01 am Monday, August 22nd and runs through Sunday, August 28th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 17 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team Today's Challenge Show Off Your Shelves Photo Challenge Share a picture of your books/shelves/nightstand/e-library/wherever you keep your books on Twitter, Instagram, or on this post. Use the hashtags #boutofbooks and #shelfie4boutofbooks I posted a couple on instagram - a day late but that's okay. https://www.instagram.com/p/BJiPOexDLn1/?taken-by=carolsnotebook https://www.instagram.com/p/BJiOvmhjIHn/?taken-by=carolsnotebook   Day 2 Update: Books/Stories finished: The Rook by Daniel O'Malley, "The Musgrave Ritual" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Books/Stories started: "The Invisible Man" by G. K. Chersterton In the middle of: Murder...

Here's the info: The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01 am Monday, August 22nd and runs through Sunday, August 28th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 17 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team   Today's Challenge Mix 'n Match Pick out 10-15 books from your shelf, from your local library, or from a local bookstore. They can be any genre, any language, and any length. In each book, flip to a random page and pick the 1st word (articles such as "the", "and", "an", "or", etc. don't count as the 1st word). Use all these 1st words to try to create an actual sentence....