Hour 11: Self Portrait

Thank you Estella Society for an easy one!  My Punkin' Pie wanted to be a part of it since he's joined me for about an hour of the read-a-thon:

Hour 10: Book Trailers

Jehara is asking for our favorite book trailers, which I generally only get through the first 10 seconds of, but I think this one for Marliss Melton's Show No Fear would count as my favorite - it's short, the narrator's voice is yummy, and it always makes me grin and reach for one of her books.

Hour 9 - BookTube Challenge

Here my Hour 9 Challenge video - thank you Estella's Revenge for getting me out of my comfort zone!!

Hour 8: Books on Books Challenge

I can get 7 of Stacey's Books leaf-covered books:
The Uncommon Reader
The 13th Tale
The Reader
Bridget Jone's Diary
This Book is Overdue
The Know-It-All
My Reading Life

And here are my books with books:

Hour 7: Mad Libs

Yay! Mia & Jessica are back on Nisaba Be Praised.

And hosting a mad lib challenge.  Good thing I'm back to The Secret Keeper - this would be pretty impossible with manga.

My original paragraph:

Laurel closed the album.  She'd lost the spirit for narrating the past.  Instead she smoothed her mother's sheet across her chest and said, “I went to see Gerry last night, Ma."

Okay, so two famous people, 4 nouns, 3 verbs.

2 Famous people (thank you, Google):
Mary-Kate Olsen
Dr. Phil

Nouns (thank you, madglibs.com):
Football
Experiment
Sky
Sister

Verbs (again, from madglibs):
Conjecture
Defer
Tantalize

New paragraph:

Mary-Kate Olsen closed the football. She’d lost the spirit for conjecturing the experiment.  Instead she deferred her mother’s sky across her sister and said, “I went to tantalize Dr. Phil last night, Ma.”

Okay, that was so messed up.

Hour 6 - skipped

I had to skip this one - it required a tea bag art project and I'm really bad at art and don't have any tea bags. :-(

Hour 5: Blackout Poetry

This challenge is from Elizabeth-Michelle.  Take a section of newspaper, magazine, or anything else you don't mind butchering with a black marker, and black-out sections so you're left with something very different and poem-like.  Here's my effort (thanks, VegNews!):

Hour 4: Spine Poetry

I love spine poetry - thank you CapriciousReader!! Here's a travel spine poem for you:

In case you can't see the picture:

Mountains beyond mountains
Postcards from the edge
A different kind of dream
The road to Unafraid

Hour 3: A Puzzling Challenge

This hour's challenge is brought to us by Just One More Thing and is a guess-the-cover challenge so I'm not posting my answers here. ;-)

Black Bird, vol. 12 by Kanoko Sakurakouji

I switched to manga in between chapters of The Secret Keeper since it's such a big book.  Vol. 12 of the Black Bird series is the best so far - very dramatic but with plenty of humor.  My favorite moment is when Kyo's grandfather tells him he needs to start picking out successors for his captured friends and bodyguards since they're as a good as dead and Kyo turns to him with a look of genuine confusion and says "Old man...I only speak Japanese. I don't understand Crazytalk."  And Misao's all "Gasp! Kyo!!"  Bwahahaha!