Women Unbound Reading Challenge

Hello blog!
I haven’t seen you for awhile and I couldn’t  remember your password when I showed up this morning to see how you have been. It’s a good thing that I take care of my daughters better than I have taken care of you over the past year or so. You’re always [...]

Harry, I’m late.

While most of my reading compatriots were enjoying the excitement over each new Harry Potter release I sat back and watched.  At the time I was in my full on reading snob mode and didn’t feel the need to lower my literary standards for the likes of a young adult book about magic and wizards, [...]

What I Didn’t Do on Vacation

One of the things that didn’t happen while I was on vacation the past two weeks was reading.    Not everyone is a reader so not everyone will get why that’s such a big deal.  I on the other hand am a reader.  I’m not a prolific reader like some  book bloggers that I follow that [...]

Call Me Alyce

So this past weekend was my first time participating in Dewey’s Read-a-Thon.    I have to be honest and let you all know that I mocked it relentlessly.  C’mon REALLY???   Reading for 24 hours straight with a bunch of people you don’t know or even communicate with is pretty darn ridiculous.  Ridiculously wonderful.
Prior to  this [...]

The After Party

Here is a quote for those of us who might not have gotten as deep into our To Be Read Pile as we had hoped during Dewey’s Read-A-Thon.
“What shall I do with all my books?”  was the question; and the answer, “Read them,” sobered the questioner.   But if you cannot read them, at any rate [...]

Umm

Okay I’m planning on taking this reading thing a whole lot more serious now!  I’m home and in my reading attire and all of the other distractions are done for the day.
I mean it I’m going to really finish this DAMN wonderful book that I’m reading!
Now I just need to stop TALKING about reading and [...]

Not So Live Blogging the Read-A-Thon with a Hangover

7:00 am
As usual I was up at 5:30 am this morning.  The not so usual part was that I am a tad bit hungover.  Vodka is such an evil drink.   It’s so sneaky and by the time you realize what it’s doing to you you’re too far gone to do anything about it.  I’m up.  [...]

Read-A-Thon (Say What?)

Okay,  I broke down and signed up to participate in this coming weekend’s Dewey’s Read-a-Thon.
Despite the fact that I have plans for a few hours in the afternoon it’s the PERFECT weekend since the girls will be with their Dad and I’ll have a quiet house to myself.  I’ll do what I can and see [...]

Pre-Birthday Survivalist

Whew! Tomorrow is my birthday and so far I’ve survived the week prior without any major events happening.  I just need to make it through today and tomorrow and all is good.  I
I’ve had two miscarriages the week just before my birthday and been dumped on my birthday.   It’s made me a little [...]

The Literary Addiction

From this point until the end of year I vow to not purchase any new books.  This is RIDICULOUS.  I have more unread books in my house then any literate human being really needs.  This weekend I purchased TWO books at Borders, simply because I had an educators discount and TWO at a conference I [...]