2010 Support Your Local Library Challenge

Here’s another favorite challenge from 2009! For the 2010 Support Your Local Library Challenge, I’ll be signing up for the Mini Level: 25 books. Hop on over to J. Kaye’s blog to sign up and join this challenge.
Goal: 25 books.

Sunday Salon: Audio Book 11/29/09

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This month I listened to my first audio book! Well, I’ve tried listening to a few other audio books, but never was able to finish them. This time I listened to the entire 8 hours and loved every minute of it! [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

I’m looking forward to spending time with my family and a wonderful dinner at my aunt’s house. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving! Enjoy the holiday!

Sunday Salon: November 22, 2009

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Oh to feel well again! By Wednesday of this week I finally was feeling like myself – thanks to the antibiotics I started on Tuesday. I had energy and I stopped coughing! I honestly didn’t realize how awful I have been [...]

2010 100+ Reading Challenge

I loved this challenge in 2009 – even though I didn’t complete it. I’m hoping to get closer to my goal of 100 books in 2010 with the 100+ Reading Challenge from J.Kaye’s Book Blog.
Goal: 100 books

2010 Young Adult Reading Challenge

I loved this challenge last year so I’m back for the 2010 Young Adult Reading Challenge! My goal is the Just My Size level – 25 books.

GLBT Reading Challenge 2010

I’m joining the GLBT Reading Challenge for 2010. I’m signing up for the Lambda level (4 books) and hopefully I’ll end up reading more. I will keep track of the books I read on this post.

Nan’s Notes: The Strain, by Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan

Pub. Date: June 2009

401 pages

I am so behind in putting up reviews! I am finally starting to feel better (I’ve been dealing with a bad cough and a general feeling of blech  for a month) – antibiotics are kicking in today! Over the next week and a half I hope to get up some short, [...]

Nan’s Notes: The Giver, by Lois Lowry

by Lois Lowry
Pub. Date: September 2002
180 pages
Awards:

Newbery Medal (1994)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee
Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (1994)
Garden State Book Award for Teen Fiction Grades 6-8 (1996)
American Library Association (ALA) Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Best Books for Young Adults for Young Adults (1994)

The Giver is one of the books I read for the read-a-thon. [...]

Sunday Salon – What a week!

It’s another Sunday and what a week it has been!
Reading and book wise, I don’t have much to update. I finally started feeling better on Wednesday. I had been sick for about 10 days, fighting off a cold or flu. Wednesday I got out of bed and about an hour later, one of my dogs [...]