34 posts tagged “blogging”

The holes in the story were even bigger upon second viewing.  And way to ram home family values.  It was a touch over the top.  One of my FB friends made the observation that as long as you treat it as an action comedy, it's great. And can I just say that Oliver Platt never lets me down? Never. Not ever has he disappointed me.  From Three Musketeers to the West Wing, he is awesome.

And I'm going to stop tagging posts NaBloPoMo.  It was a nice thought, but really isn't going to happen, but it did get me blogging again.  So, yay. Maybe next year.

This is the last book that I read for the 48 hour Book Challenge.  I finished a scoche past 9pm CET.  I went to sign in for the Finish Line, but I couldn't find that post, so here I am. 
I think I ended up reading for about 16 hours.  I enjoyed eleven books, some of which had been waiting for me for three years. 
I think I will set aside another weekend (after the papers, after the deep cleaning of the apt) to read more. :)

I haven't read much by Bruchac, and this one was quite creepy, but I loved Molly and the interweaving of Mohawk lore.  Yeah, it went pretty quick. 

This has been on the "to be read" shelves for a while.  Just a quick, not quite a mystery but cute story about adjustment to a new life.  KayKay (this nickname drove me nuts and wanted me to smack someone) is the oldest daughter of the first female president.  She wants to be a mystery writer, is lousy at math, but good in the kitchen and has a strong personality.  Nice way to breeze through 45 minutes or so.

Just spent an hour and a half reading Haunting at Home Plate by Patneaude and Who's Got Spirit?, part of the How I Survived Middle School? series by Nancy Krulik.
One is baseball, the other peer pressure. I thought the Patneaude was better and had a much more open-ended ending than I expected.  Middle School was somewhat formulaic and fluffy, but hey, who doesn't like a little fluff?  The quizzes were cute and the story nice.  I wouldn't want stuff like this to be the only thing a pre-teen girl reads, but it sure beats the Weather Fairies, etc...

I took a 30 minute stroll around the blogosphere and then picked up Summer Ball by Mike Lupica.  Basketball is probably my least favorite sport, but I do like sports books, so I was happy to toddle through this one.  It was  a delightful 80 minutes that brought me past the three am mark at which point, I went to sleep. 
Now, it's almost eleven am and I have to start writing.  Otherwise, I will be very sad come the 12th when I have nothing to hand in.

total reading time 12h50minutes. I am already really looking forward to next year when I will have more time to read. 

An hour and forty minutes later, Katniss is still standing.  I hope that's not a spoiler for anyone. I mean, she is the protagonist and if she dies, who's left to carry the story, so you kind of had to figure that that was a gimme.  Wow, it was really good.  But as much as I enjoyed it, I'm not sure I get why everyone (in the kidlit blogosphere) is going nuts for the sequel.  Yeah, I'll definitely read it, but I'm not bidding for an ARC or anything on eBay. 
I should probably go to sleep, but instead, I think I will get another diet coke, this one hopefully without the flying protein and go to the bathroom and then see what's up.

by Katherine Neville.  This is one of the books that I ordered from amazon a few weeks ago.  I had received the ARC of The Fire sometime before Christmas, but hadn't wanted to read it without having first read The Eight.  It was excellent!  Though some of the twists I had figured out long before the end, I was totally engrossed. 

It is now 10:30, so I have been reading for five and a half hours.  I started the Hunger Games while waiting, plus earlier today, I spent half an hour or so catching up on motherreader and others. 

but off to a good start.  3 hours and 20 min.  I will see how much I can get written tomorrow and then go back to reading. :)

but that's nothin' considerin' what happened to Lottie's whole house.  This is one of those books that has sat, and sat and sat on my "to be read" shelves.  Quick, sweet read.  Oh, the angst of adolescence.  And of course, I cried at the end.  But I really liked it, it's Haworth's first novel and it's a treat.  She makes you feel like you know small town Florida.  And after Tangerine by Bloor, you already know that there are lots of lightning strikes in Florida.  Wow, can you tell it's almost midnight and therefore my iq has sunk with the time?  Perhaps I ought to just go to bed, but first, I'll see what else is in the bag!