Double-Stacked Bookshelves

Today's mini challenge for Bout of Books 14 is hosted by Sarah at Rocky Top Real Talk an is a throw-back to the 90s...M.A.S.H.  What?!  I'm so excited for this one :)  Here are the rules Create a MASH game. My go-to categories as a kid were significant other, car, city (I would live in), # of kids, job, and pet, but you can choose what categories you want - this is just for fun. Don't forget to put MASH at the top! Fill in your categories with choices - I always did 4 per category. You can do 3 or 5 or how ever many you want. Here's where you can get creative! I chose to pull my s/o's from books (Braden from LA Candy, Daemon from Lux series, Adrian from VA/Bloodlines, and Jason from Heroes of Olympus), however, you can choose to live in fictional places or have fictional pets, etc. Pull from your favorite books as much as you want. Now you need a number...draw a spiral and fill in the spaces. Make tally marks and stop randomly. Use a random n...

Teaser Tuesday:  Broken Monsters Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Jenn @ A Daily Rhythm . Here are the rules: grab whatever you're reading, open to a random page, select no more than two sentence (NO SPOILERS), share the title and author, and GO! Here's today's teaser: "He could hear a rasping breath.  Shadows moved in the mist, or maybe it was all inside him, his own breath.  He kept his hand on the truck because the fog was so thick he didn't know if he would be able to find his way back if he let go.  His fingers were numb.  The flecks of paint marking the tree started wriggling into the wood like maggots.  They burned from inside, spreading to other trees." --page 42           Broken Monsters  by Lauren Beukes Creepy! Happy reading!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and it's a way to share what you're loving in list form. The topic changes every week, so there is always something new to discover! This week's topic is:  Top Ten Authors Who Are On My Auto-Buy List .  You always have those authors who, no matter what the book is about, automatically end up in your shopping cart and on your bookshelf.  These are mine: Chris Bohjalian I love everything Bohjalian writes.  It's all so good.  Seriously, he has become one of my all-time favorite American writers.  Recommendation:  Midwives Alexander McCall Smith McCall Smith's books are so much fun.  I love the nostalgia that his 44 Scotland Street series gives me.  Recommendation:  Love Over Scotland (44 Scotland Street #3) Cecelia Ahern For light, easy reads, nothing beats a Cecelia Ahern book.  They're so good.  Recommendation:  One Hundred Names Jo...

Bout of Books 14 kicked off today (I'm super excited!) and today is also the start of the mini-challenges!  There is still time to sign up for the reading challenge as well.  Simply go here ! Our first challenge is hosted by Between Library Shelves and is focused on travel...something else I totally love :)  Here are the rules for the challenge: List 3-6 books of fiction that take place in countries other than where you are currently residing.  Post on whatever media outlet you have access to and display your post as creatively as you feel inclined to.  Don't forget to link back to BLS! Here are my fictional travels... Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden...set in Japan  44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith...set in Scotland The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne...set in Russia Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier...set in the Netherlands The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian...set in Sy...

Bout of Books 14 So, with the start of Bout of Books 14 just around the weekend, here's what I'm planning on reading: Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes Checked this out from the library a while back, along with about six other massive books, and it's the last one left on my coffee table.  Hoping to get it started this weekend!   Garden of Lies by Amanda Quick I haven't read an Amanda Quick book in a very long time.  Saw this one at the library and thought it sounded good...and maybe unlike others of hers I have read.  We shall see :) A Dance with Dragons by George RR Martin I've been slowly working on this one (on and off) and would like to make some progress in it.  We'll see if this actually happens during the challenge. Here's hoping I can get through the first two and make some progress in the last.  If not, I have The Paris Wife by Paula McLain on the back burner if I need something a little more light. There's still...

This week's topic is:  Blogging?  Where do you do it?   Well, let me tell you! I have two separate places where I tend to blog... At Home I work on a laptop when I'm at home.  Often, you can find me sitting on the couch, hunched over, typing away on my 2006 Dell (yeah...) while it's sitting on the coffee table.  It's not super comfortable, sometimes, but it gets the job done.  It also allows me to take breaks easily, as in watch some mindless entertainment on the tube and get snacks, and it's easy to pick it up, place it on my lap, lean back, and relax a little.  However, my lap gets kind of hot doing this.  One day, I'll have a spiffy new laptop to crush the blog on and maybe, just maybe, an actual office where I can work on stuff!  Ah, dreams... At Work (shhhh....) When I have downtime at work (or when I need to take a break from data entry and whatnot), I'll work on the good ole blog.  This happens more often in the summer ...

Teaser Tuesday:  The Rocks Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Jenn @ A Daily Rhythm . Here are the rules: grab whatever you're reading, open to a random page, select no more than two sentence (NO SPOILERS), share the title and author, and GO! Here's today's teaser: "As the salt spray dried on her warm thighs and stomach and the thrumming vibration of the ski made itself felt in every muscle of her body, she felt tremendously sexy.  She gazed steadily, despite the bumps, back at him." --page 264           The Rocks by Peter Nichols Sorry it's been so long since I've posted a teaser... Happy reading!