Currently
reading: Size 12 and Ready to Rock - Meg Cabot
Pages read: 64
Time spent reading: 60 minutes
Total of pages read: 215
Total of time spent
reading: 3.25 hrs
Total of time spent blogging: 1 hr
Snacks: SUSHI!!!!!
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Hour 5
Currently
reading: Size 12 and Ready to Rock - Meg Cabot
Pages read: 86
Time spent reading: 90 minutes
Books finished: none yet
Total of pages read: 151
Total of time spent
reading: 2.25 hrs
Snacks: trail mixes and coffee
So excited to be reading a Meg Cabot book! She is one of my favorite authors and I have been looking forward to reading this book all month!
My cat, Susie has decided to join us. Although she prefers looking at birds out the window over reading.
Here I am! Hour 4
I'm here, back from my short work day. Joining in on hour 4 with these books and snacks!
Currently
reading: Size 12 and Ready to Rock - Meg Cabot
Snacks: Trail mixes, chocolate covered espresso beans, dried fruit etc.
Challenges Entered: Intro Meme
It's Here... pick up your books and...
READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? Central NY
2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? Oh gosh, so many good ones, I can not pick! I have been very excited to finish the Size 12 series though!
3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? Sushi!!!
4) Tell us a little something about yourself! I'm an only child, a mamma's girl, a wife and a mother to two adorable cats. I work as a Chiropractic Assistant to the most amazing Chiropractor/Boss a girl could have, I am a Young Living Essential Oils distributor because I believe in healing your body naturally, and I am a born again Christian. I'm hopelessly addicted to coffee, books and my smartphone, but I love being out doors, hiking, sun bathing or sipping wine on the porch.
5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to? This is my umpteenth readathon and the only difference is that we are hosting this one at MY house this year instead of my mom's house! I am looking forward to the new cheerleading system, I hope it brings more cheers!
And on that note:
Mom is here, snacks are out, books are stacked and blogs are ready! I have to work for a few hours this morning so I did a little reading last night in pre-RAT preparation.
Currently
reading: Orange Is The New Black
Pages read: 65
Time spent reading: 45 mminutes
Ok, I am off to work and will join you around 11! Have a fabulous morning reading!
Friday, April 25, 2014
The Ratting Hour
Get some sleep tonight ladies and gents because tomorrow is the day we've all been training for! All those sleepless nights, gripping the pages with anxious fingers, eyes tracing the words of our latest addiction... all in preparation for this one event...
That's right, it's here! And with it comes hours of snacking, blogging and propping our eyes open with toothpicks through all hours of the night! This has become a tradition for my mother and I, and while we have always done this at her house in the past, tomorrow we will be RATing at my house! AND my husband will be there to cater to our every need... err... ahem... I mean, to keep us company as we read. (See the rhyme I just made) And although he would love nothing more than dropping everything to read with us for 24 hrs, he has something called responsibilities to attend to. However, he will join us here and there as he gets a chance, and yes (be jealous) he offered to make us all kinds of snack platters and refill our cups when they are empty. Yes, we are newly weds and no, I don't expect this kind of willing servitude to last forever.
So here is the pile of books that my mother and I have accumulated and will share:
Please hop over to my mom's blog Wall-to-Wall Books and cheer her on as well!
That's right, it's here! And with it comes hours of snacking, blogging and propping our eyes open with toothpicks through all hours of the night! This has become a tradition for my mother and I, and while we have always done this at her house in the past, tomorrow we will be RATing at my house! AND my husband will be there to cater to our every need... err... ahem... I mean, to keep us company as we read. (See the rhyme I just made) And although he would love nothing more than dropping everything to read with us for 24 hrs, he has something called responsibilities to attend to. However, he will join us here and there as he gets a chance, and yes (be jealous) he offered to make us all kinds of snack platters and refill our cups when they are empty. Yes, we are newly weds and no, I don't expect this kind of willing servitude to last forever.
So here is the pile of books that my mother and I have accumulated and will share:
The snacks we will be consuming are:
Apples & Peanut Butter
Veggies & Dip and homemade Hummus
Chips & homemade Salsa
Strawberries
Clementines
Cheese & Crackers
Trail Mix
Chocolate covered Espresso Beans
Shrimp Cocktail
Sushi
Pizza
Iced Tea
and of course lots and lots of COFFEE
Please hop over to my mom's blog Wall-to-Wall Books and cheer her on as well!
Can't wait to see you all! Happy Reading!!!
Thursday, April 3, 2014
It's Almost Here!!!!!
Guess what time it is!?!?! Time for the 24 Hour Read-A-Thon!!!!!!
This is it, the one time all of us readers get the chance to ignore the world around us, pick a dozen or so books, and read read read! Click the picture to be taken to the website where you can sign up for this spring's 24hr Read - A - Thon! I will be posting my list of books soon! So go get your snacks, and your books and your comfy clothes and I'll see you there!
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Oh my Gosh, it's a book review!
I know, I know... it has been a LOOONNGGG while since I have reviewed a book on here. I belong to a few other social networks and when you work two jobs, have a long distance relationship and a mother that you enjoy spending time with, it's much easier to update a status than to write an entire post. However, as I sit here at my computer I find the urge to review the book I just read... so here goes:
Lennie plays second clarinet in the school orchestra and has always happily been second fiddle to her charismatic older sister, Bailey. Then Bailey dies suddenly, and Lennie is left at sea without her anchor. Overcome by emotion, Lennie soon finds herself torn between two boys: Bailey's boyfriend, Toby, and Joe, the charming and musically gifted new boy in town. While Toby can't see her without seeing Bailey and Joe sees her only for herself, each offers Lennie something she desperately needs. But ultimately, it's up to Lennie to find her own way toward what she really needs-without Bailey.
I am naturally drawn to books that rip your heart out and provoke massive tear flow. Well, this book accomplished both of those reactions. But don't worry, by the end of the book (and your box of tissues) your heart will be back in your chest, still aching but on the road to recovery.
Bailey's death is no surprise as the book starts four weeks after her death, and though you never meet Bailey, you fall in love with who she was through the many heartfelt descriptions and flashbacks told through Lennie's mournful eyes. Lennie is "the younger sister" by every definition of the phrase. She looked up to Bailey, walked in her footsteps, planned her future around being together. When all this is suddenly gone, she has to figure out who she is without her sister: "I am no longer a little sister. I am no longer a sister. Period."
I love the way Nelson developed the story. There are many ways to mourn and Lennie's is to retreat. She hides inside herself, inside the room the sisters shared that is now Bailey's shrine. She doesn't talk to her friends, she doesn't reach out to her family, she doesn't tell anyone how she is really feeling. You can tell she is struggling to accept the reality she has been forced into. "I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her."
In between the chapters there are poems or stories or thoughts that Lennie writes on whatever scraps of paper she can get her hands on. This is when she is truly honest about what she is going through and let's herself feel the pain that she struggles so hard to avoid. I kept having to put the book down to wipe the tears from my eyes.
"For days and days, the rain beat its fists on the roof of our house - evidence of the terrible mistake God had made. Each morning, when I woke, I listened for the tireless pounding, looked at the drear through the window and was relieved that at least the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us."
"Everyone wants me to talk about it, but I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark."
"I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe."
"The unbearable fact is, I have a future and she doesn't. This is when I realize: my sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away, it becomes a part of you."
Read this book and you will never be the same.
The Sky is Everywhere - by Jandy Nelson
I am naturally drawn to books that rip your heart out and provoke massive tear flow. Well, this book accomplished both of those reactions. But don't worry, by the end of the book (and your box of tissues) your heart will be back in your chest, still aching but on the road to recovery.
Bailey's death is no surprise as the book starts four weeks after her death, and though you never meet Bailey, you fall in love with who she was through the many heartfelt descriptions and flashbacks told through Lennie's mournful eyes. Lennie is "the younger sister" by every definition of the phrase. She looked up to Bailey, walked in her footsteps, planned her future around being together. When all this is suddenly gone, she has to figure out who she is without her sister: "I am no longer a little sister. I am no longer a sister. Period."
I love the way Nelson developed the story. There are many ways to mourn and Lennie's is to retreat. She hides inside herself, inside the room the sisters shared that is now Bailey's shrine. She doesn't talk to her friends, she doesn't reach out to her family, she doesn't tell anyone how she is really feeling. You can tell she is struggling to accept the reality she has been forced into. "I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her."
In between the chapters there are poems or stories or thoughts that Lennie writes on whatever scraps of paper she can get her hands on. This is when she is truly honest about what she is going through and let's herself feel the pain that she struggles so hard to avoid. I kept having to put the book down to wipe the tears from my eyes.
"For days and days, the rain beat its fists on the roof of our house - evidence of the terrible mistake God had made. Each morning, when I woke, I listened for the tireless pounding, looked at the drear through the window and was relieved that at least the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us."
"Everyone wants me to talk about it, but I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark."
"I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe."
"The unbearable fact is, I have a future and she doesn't. This is when I realize: my sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away, it becomes a part of you."
Read this book and you will never be the same.
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