Me and My Reading Habits

by Carol10 Comments
Today there's a fun meme to do over at the BBAW site. Do you snack while you read? If so, favorite reading snack? I don't really snack when I'm reading, although a cup of coffee is the perfect companion. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you? I don't write in books, unless it's a textbook or I'm using it as part of a class. How do you keep your place while reading a book? Bookmark? Dog-ears? Laying the book flat open? I used to be a dog-earer, but lately I've been pretty good about using bookmarks. It's my daughter's influence. Fiction, Non-fiction, or both? Both, but mostly fiction. Hard copy or audiobooks? Hard copy, unless I'm on a road trip. Are you a person who tends to read to the end of chapters, or are you able to put a book down at any point? I'll put a book down at any point, when I'm interrupted....
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Teaser Tuesday

by Carol8 Comments
Grab your current read. Let the book fall open to a random page. Share with us two (2) "teaser" sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12. You also need to share the title of the book that you're getting your "teaser" from...that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given. Please avoid spoilers! My teaser: The dragon images were intense, visceral. He recalled the frgid mountain air slicing him, the wind whipping by as he clung to the leathery scales of the dragon's back. -pg. 71,  Lucan by Susan Kearney Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Play along....
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Guest Post- J. R. Hauptman, author of The Target

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Thanks to J. R. Hauptman for taking a page in my notebook today to tell us a little about the joys of Florida.   Kickin’ Back in Florida  --Guest Blogger J.R. Hauptman, author of THE TARGET   In the Pike’s Peak region of Colorado, we don’t often suffer the “Dog Days” of August.  Almost every year, about the tenth day of that month we seem to have a major shift of the weather pattern.  It came this year on a day that seemed warm but far above the divide, we could see the high cirrus clouds revealing the jet stream winds that would soon carry the arctic air of Fall and Winter. Autumn slips up on us here in the Rockies.  The last three weeks of August flash by in a blur and the next you know, it’s the week after Labor Day and only three more weeks to the equinox.  Now is the time for football, the World Series, hunting season and the brilliant beauty of...
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Game Night- Mini-expansions to look forward to

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I just saw this over on Boardgame News and had to share. Small World is currently one of my favorite games and it looks like we have some expansions to look forward to. See what Days of Wonder has to say here. Three small expansions that will debut at Spiel 09 in October and appear in game stores shortly afterward. Thank the goddess for some new female races in the Grand Dames of Small World. Priestesses, White Ladies and Gypsies will be staking their claims. The Cused! mini-expansion will  have new powers, including Cursed, Hordes of..., Marauding, Ransacking and Were-, and a couple of new races. The third, Leaders of Small World, is a special non-race, non-special power game play option that will only be distributed through BoardGameGeek. Tales & Legends of Small World, the fourth expansion, will apparently be released in 2010....
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I love Book Bloggers!

by Carol6 Comments
I love book bloggers, all of you. It's impossible for me to list everyone whose posts I enjoy, whose recommendations I always follow up on, who just has great taste in books, who has inspired me or challenged me. I did want to take a moment today to mention a few of my favorites who were not short-listed for awards this year. If you get a chance, check them out. They each have their own unique voice and I truly enjoy visiting their blogs. The Movieholic and Bibliophile's Blog Wordsmithonia Everything Distills into Reading Drey's Library Medieval Bookworm I know I'm going to be going through my reader this afternoon and wishing I had added a couple more dozen to this list. Each blogger puts in so much work and effort, sharing their thought and feelings....
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Mailbox Monday

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Thanks to Marcia at The Printed Page for hosting Mailbox Monday. Here's what I found in my box this week.     So Into You by Sandra Hill I won this at Socrates' Book Reviews. Thanks! Angel Sabato has been in love with best friend Grace O'Brien for 10 years--but he's only just realized it. Too bad she doesn't take him seriously when he tells her about his feelings. Reeling from the rejection, Angel hightails it out of town. Now Grace is left to wonder if her problems from the past are keeping her from opening herself to love. But she brushes these "useless" musings aside, concentrating instead on the work she's doing as an apprentice to folk healer Tante Lulu and keeping up with the old woman's good deeds. Such as starting a foundation to help families still homeless after Hurricane Katrina. One family consists of 5 children who lost their parents. The eldest, only seventeen, has been struggling to take care of her siblings and lying...
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