Double-Stacked Bookshelves

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 Books That Have Recently Been Added To My TBR .  I am horrible at adding books, willy nilly, to my TBR.  It's ridiculously (and embarrassingly) massive, but I can't seem to bring myself to stop!  People need to just quit writing books I want to read....  Regardless, here are the last ten I added: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald Passenger (Passenger 1)  by Alexandra Bracken The Siren by Kiera Cass This Is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp All Stories Are Love Stories: A Novel by Elizabeth Percer Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild Maplecroft (The Borden Dispatches 1) by Cherie Priest The Sacred...

Bout of Books 15 Progress To keep track of my progress for the challenge, I will be updating this post, periodically, listing what I'm reading, what I've finished (if anything), pages read, challenges completed, and thoughts on how the event is going for the week.  Here we go! Day 6 Progress Current Read :  Winter by Marissa Meyer and Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling Pages Read :  178 Total Pages Read :  695 Books Finished :  Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K Vaughan and Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie Challenges :  Again, none :( Thoughts :  One more day left and I want to get some massive reading done.  Tomorrow will be interrupted by cleaning the house, laundry, and going to look at a house for sale.  We'll see how much I actually get done. Day 5 Progress  Current Read :  Winter by Marissa Meyer and Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling Pages Read :  136 Total Pages Read :  517 Books Finished :...

Day 2 of the Bout of Books Read-a-Thon has commenced and I'm finally getting around to participating in my first mini challenge of the week.  Woohoo!  Today's mini challenge is hosted by Lori @ Writing My Own Fairytale .  This one is super simple and pretty straight forward:  answer the Would You Rather question.  Here we go! Would You Rather... Lend books to someone who dog-ears pages or to someone who reads with cheesy Cheetos fingers? I would much rather have someone who dog-ears pages borrow my books.  As a dog-earer myself (I'm really trying to be better about it), it wouldn't bother me as much.  I hate when there is something spilled on books or food/bugs smudged in them.  It disgusts me!  Though Cheetos are delicious...mmm Would You Rather... Be able to meet one character of your choice or meet one of author of your choice? An author of my choice, no question.  JK Rowling, I'm coming for you! Would You Rather... Nev...

Bout of Books 15  I'm totally getting a late start on signing up and getting organized for the next round of Bout of Books, but I will definitely be participating!  There is still time to sign up, if you're interested.  Here's the link you'll need. What is Bout of Books, you ask?  Well, here's a little blurb from our esteemed hostesses: The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal.  It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 4th and runs through Sunday, January 10th in whatever time zone you are in.  Bout of Books is low-pressure.  There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional.  For all Bout of Books 15 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. --From the Bout of Books team It's such an exciting event and really low-key, which is something I am definitely in the mood for! Here is w...

Sorry for the lack of posting these past two months, dear Readers.  I spent the entire month of November, and the majority of December, out of my office doing high school recruitment events for the university I work and, wouldn't you know it, my laptop decided to take a vacation at the same time!  So...no office time and a lack of computer doesn't really help in the consistent posting department.  Also, I worked quite a bit of overtime and didn't want to look at a computer or think very much once I plopped myself down on the couch.  Ha.  Regardless, I received a shiny new HP laptop/tablet thingy (clearly technology is my forte), on which I'm typing away, for Christmas.  This should significantly help my posting habits!  Word.  Things to look forward to in the future:  Getting back into posting in conjunction with other blogger memes/events More book reviews Visiting bloggers.  WHAT!  That's right :) Some original writing And...

I grew up in the country...in a pseudo-farm house that had been built in the early 40s by distant relatives, one of whom still lived next door in another house he and his father had built together when he was younger.  When we moved in, the previous owner (not related to the family in any way) claimed that she would wake up in the mornings and cupboards in the kitchen would be open, the coffeepot would be on, and the toaster would be down.  My parents thought nothing of it.  I, on the other hand, am convinced that the house was definitely haunted based on several personal experiences.  Footsteps in the upstairs hallway were a constant occurrence when everyone was downstairs; everyone said it was just the house settling, but I knew different. Incident 1 Fast forward a few years and my sister and I were probably in late elementary school; I was about 10 or so and she was 8.  It was summer and we were sitting at the kitchen table color...

Teaser Tuesday:  Furiously Happy:  A Funny Book About Horrible Things 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: "That's the moment when I realized how incredibly lucky I am to have spent eighteen years with a man who can laugh at bad gun-control jokes while a severed bear head is lying on his pillow" --page 76           Furiously Happy:  A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson I have been eagerly anticipating Lawson's second book since she announced it was in the works and I have not been disappointed!  And I'm super stoked that she doing a book tour and actually coming to Powell's in Portland.  Yeah, buddy!  If you've never heard of Jenny Lawson, I highly recommend her b...