Friday Posts...January 11

Alison Can Read.
Parajunkee's View

Feature and Follow Friday.
Congratulations to the featured blogs:  Never Too Fond of Books and The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia

Question of the day:

If you could choose one supernatural being/creature to really exists what would it be and why?

Answer: 

I'd like The Incredibles to really exist.  They are the good guys and have really "incredible" gifts. And, of course, I'd like to be Elasti-Girl, or have her gifts!

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Rose City Reader

Book Beginnings on Friday

Book: Boy 21 by Matthew Quick, from the preface: "Sometimes I pretend that shooting hoops in my backyard is my earliest memory."

Thoughts: I've only read the preface so far. What I know to this point: the boy's mother is gone, his grandfather lives with them, and the boy wants to please his father by being really good at basketball. I liked Matthew Quick's first book, Sorta like a Rock Star so I am looking forward to this one. I am hoping that it will be a book that attracts male readers, a hard audience to please.


Have a fun Friday!

Friday...Dec. 28

Alison Can Read

Follow Friday---
It has been a while since I've joined in the Friday hops.  Please join in the fun by taking a look around my blog, visiting the featured blog Bookworms Avenue, and then leave me a comment.  Have a wonderful day.

Q: What book do you think everyone should read? If you could gift the entire population with one book?

I love two books that I read this year that I wish everyone would read, each for different reasons:

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green ...touching topics of relationships and death and dying.

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline... geektastic, gaming fun

Book Beginnings at Rose City Reader hosts...

Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

From Prologue- "Every airplane, no matter how far it is up there, I send love to it."

Though I haven't got far in this highly reviewed book I think this opener sets me up to understand that the narrator can't talk to people in her life, so she talks to strangers 10,00 feet in the air. It is sad how isolated some people can be.

Friday Hops...Follow Friday...TGIF!

It's time to do the Friday Hops!  Hopefully new friends will be made along the way.  First up: Follow Friday hosted over at Parajunkee and Alison Can Read.  The idea is to visit new blogs and to follow (both directions!) In addition there are featured blogs every week.  The featured blogs this week are: In Which Ems Reviews Books and Reading in the Corner. Congratulations.  I am following!  Are you?

Now for the question of the week:

Q:  If you could have dinner with your favorite book character, who would you eat with and what would you serve?

Hmm...So many characters, so little time to dine.  I'd choose... Captain Corelli from Corelli's Mandolin because I want to learn to speak Italian and I want an excuse to make Eggplant Parmesan.  Silly reasons, but true!

TGIF at GReads

Question: Spooktacular Reads: Which books do you consider festive Halloween reads? Which stories have chilled you to the bone?

I am not much of a horror genre reader, nor am I a horror movie goer, for that matter.  But when I do read a book that has some sort of "spook" in it, I get very scared.  Case in point: The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, the ghost in the closet/mist/garden had me terrified.

Friday...Blog hops 10/7/11

TGIF, hosted by GReads, question of the week:

How big is your pile? Which book keeps getting pushed down the stack, but you keep meaning to read it?

I have the ability on my library catolog to create personal and public resource lists.  When I find a book I want to read, if it is in my library,  I add it to my personal "I want to read list." I currently have 45 books on that list that I really want to read someday but most of them keep getting shoved off to the side in favor of the "popular" books of the day. Eight of these books have been on the virtual "pile" for a long time:

• The Radioactive Boy Scout: the frightening true story of the whiz kid and his homemade nuclear reactor by Ken Silverstein*
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers*
• The Burn Journal by Brent Runyon*
• A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
• Dreamland by Sarah Dessen
• North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley
• The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
• The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whelan Turner

Quite a diverse list, if I do say so myself.  *Books are nonfiction.  I wonder if there is a correlation between that and continually getting shoved to the bottom of the pile?  Hmmm.....

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Follow Friday hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee.
Featured blog this week: A Neverending Fantasy Congratulations!!!

Q.If you could pick one character in a book, movie or television show to swap places with, who would it be?

Easy answer: Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice or Emma Woodhouse in Emma both by Jane Austen.

Friday Fun. September 2.

It's that time of the week again!  Time for Friday Blog Hops!

*First Line Friday at A Few More Pages.
*The Friday 56 at Freda's Voice.

"Rush hour. So many armpits, so little deodorant." -Opening line

"When Auntie Sofia rang, Mum screamed. If my ears hadn't been cabled to an MP3 player, she would have shattered my eardrums." -p. 56

Ha-ha.  This books appears to be very funny, if my two quotes are any evidence.  I've only read about two chapters so far, but I am enjoying this book already.

Parajunkee

Congratulations to the featured blog this week: Lisa Loves Literature. Love your blog!

Q. If you could change the ending of any book (or series), which book would you choose? Why and to what?

 I just finished a book that I want the author to rewrite the ending: Blink and Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones.  The book is awesome.  I mean really, really good.  But the ending is just too neat and tidy.  I wish the author had left a few things up in the air or allowed for ambiguity.

 

 

GReads

  TGIF Question of the week: Which book(s) would you put in the hands of today's teenagers in hopes of making a difference in their lives?

-The Bible!

-Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories

 -A Hand to Guide Me by Denzell Washington about the role of mentors.

-You Were Made to Make a Difference by Max Lucado

 

Friday Fun! July 29

Friday Fun! July 29, 2011

*First Line Friday at A Few More Pages.
*The Friday 56 at Freda's Voice.
I just finished reading The Freak Observer by Blythe Woolston.  Here are two quotes:

I got up and went to school today because nobody said I couldn't. I have a little yellow bruise under my jaw. It's a nice piece of evidence for the physics of force. -Opening line

So that was how we spent our lives. We were a shiny bright machine, a family of planets circling our own little star. And then The Bony Guy took a sledgehammer to us. -p.56

Since I've read the book already I know what both of these quotes mean.  So let me say, that the book uses physics as the thread to pull the story along.

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Follow Friday!                      

Parajunkee

The Featured Blog this week is The Book Addicted Girl.  Congratulations!

 

 

 

 

Q. Let's step away from books for a second and get personal. What T-Shirt slogan best describes you?

 I guess I didn't step too far away from books since my T-Shirt is about them!  Ha!
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This Friday's Question:

Character Envy: If you could be one character from a book, 

who would you choose & why?

Duh! No brainer!  Elizabeth Bennet.  Why? Because she ends up with Mr. Darcy! 

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Friday Fun!

It's Friday again. Time for some blogging fun!

I'm reading Where She Went by Gayle Forman and loving it.  Here are two quotes:
*First Line Friday at A Few More Pages.
*The Friday 56 at Freda's Voice.

"Every morning I wake up and tell myself this: It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through."  -Page 1, Opening Line

"And in a few seconds my hand is at my side and it's like I've transferred a little of my crazy to Mia because it looks like her own hand is trembling. But I can't be sure because I'm drifting away on a fast current. And the next thing I know, I hear the door to her dressing room click behind me, leaving me out on the rapids and Mia back on the shore."  -Page 56

Well, it is pretty obvious from both the first line and page 56 that Adam is one depressed boy and his foul mood has a lot to do with Mia.
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 Where do you keep your books at home and how do you have them organized?

I have one large bookshelf in my family room and several smaller bookshelves where I store my books.  But I have too many books and many of them overflow into piles on the floor, stacks on my bedside table, and on my desk.  I just cleaned and tidied the main book shelf yesterday.  Now I have four new piles on the floor.  1. Books I'm going to donate to my library; 2. Books I am donating to friends or the public library; 3. Books that belong to my daughter Rita and she needs to decide what to do with them; 4. Ditto #3 except the pile belongs to my other daughter, Carly. I organize my books according to topics and authors, at least in theory.
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Parajunkee

Featured Blog this Week: We Fancy Books.  Congratulations!!!

Question of the week:  What three authors would I love to have a good sit down chat with?

1. Libba Bray- I am currently listening to Beauty Queens read and narrated by Bray herself.  She is hilarious.
2.  John Green- I am a wanna-be Nerdfighter and I love all his books.
3.  Barbara Kingsolver-She is my hero, I admire her writing so much.