Hour 17 Mini Challenge: Six Word Celebration

From Esetella's Revenge: Your challenge is to creative a six-word celebration of Dewey's Read-a-Thon. 


Hmmm, six words.  I hope I'm doing this right.  Here: Tea, Snacks, and Stacks of Books.

I'm getting sooo sleepy - good thing I saved my favorite author for the midnight hours.

Hour 16 Mini Challenge: Turn the Page

From Reflections of a Book-A-Holic, turn to page 32 of the book you are currently reading and fill in the blank with the most entertaining phrase to complete the following sentence:
"I would rather read than ______ and day!"

My sentence from Fool for Love by Eloisa James:
"I would rather read than see him play off the airs and graces of their neighbors any day!"  Sorry, it either that or "die in childbirth".  Yay, historical fiction! :-)

Hour 14 Mini Challenge: The Casting Couch

This mini challenge is brought to you by My Little Pocketbooks.  Basically, you assign a real life actor to play the role of a character in the book you're reading.

Book I'm Currently Reading: Fool for Love by Eloisa James (and it's great - I love Eloisa's writing!)
Character name and description: Simon Darby is the famously/notoriously well-dressed heir to a title and a fortune unless his sister-in-law is pregnant with a boy. He's also the sole guardian of his two very young half-sisters with troubling behaviour issues since his father and step-mother's death.  He needs a wife with a fortune and mothering inclinations fast.
Actor: Richard Armitage

Why: Because after North & South you know he can pull off an exquisitely dressed gentleman of the 1800's while coming across more fierce and determined than dandy-ish.

Hour 13 Mini Challenge: Cooking the Books

This challenge is from Azuki's Book Cafe - thanks, Azuki!  I'm supposed to take a popular book title and twist it into a cookbook them with a revised title and introduction.  While it's really difficult to be creative at this point in the challenge (oh gosh, what am I going to be like at 3 AM??), here's mine:

Hard-To-Miss Fowl (original title: Artemis Fowl): Follow along with Ireland's famous 12-year-old genius chef as he explores the ins and outs of cooking chicken and not-chicken as he finally shares his secret "Fairy Dust" spice blend.

Okay, I tried.

Hour 12: Mid-Event Survey

1) How are you doing? Sleepy? Are your eyes tired?
My eyes aren't tired but I am getting sleepy.

2) What have you finished reading?
Special A, vol. 12 by Maki Minami

Sweet Deception by Heather Snow
Wild Ones, vol. 3 by Kiyo Fujiwara
Wild Ones, vol. 4 by Kiyo Fujiwara


3) What is your favorite read so far?
Sweet Deception by Heather Snow - it was also the longest so far.

4) What about your favorite snacks?
Waffle fries my husband brought me from Chick-Fil-A & the hummus he made me (not together though)

5) Have you found any new blogs through the readathon? If so, give them some love!
I've posted links to everyone hosting a mini-challenge, but I've also glanced over the following:
Sherry Ann's Book Blog
Fighting Dreamer
When Books Attack

Hour 11 Mini Challenge: Picture It!

I promise didn't skip Hour 10 - it was a quiz on Bart's Bookshelf and the answers had to be turned in on the site vs. your blog.

So for Picture It!, hosted by The Book Monsters, I've got a picture of the book I'm currently reading and where I'm reading it:

Seen in this picture:
Fool for Love by Eloisa James
Reading journal
Reading pillows
Read-A-Thon Flipping Huge Big Gulp
Nook
Stuffed animal from my son to keep me company

And yes, I made the bed before I took the picture. :-)

Hour 9 Mini Challenge: Clear the Cobwebs Yoga

Thank you Elizabeth-Michelle, that was exactly what I needed!  No books for this - she let me made me do yoga.  And I did all of the poses listed in a row.  The part where you go between the cat and cow poses felt like it did the most for my muscles, although I was very glad my boys had left the house for it.  The most dangerous one for me was the Legs-to-the-Wall pose - I almost fell asleep it felt so good!  My yoga break was about 15 minutes long.

Hour 8 Mini Challenge: Book Sentence Challenge

A joint challenge by Midnight Book Girl and The Fake Steph, for this one I had to create a complete sentence using book titles, then post a picture of it.  And this was way harder than the book title poetry challenge!

My sentence:

If you can't see the picture, the sentence is "Darkness unleashed the dangerous lord to die for your wicked ways in the woods."  Thank you Linda Howard for starting a title with a preposition!

Sweet Deception by Heather Snow

5 out 5 stars

Oh, this was so good!!  I loved this heroine - she's smart, quirky, and too honest for her own good - but still  kind.  I love her love and loyalty for the hero, Derick, she's known since childhood and the mathematical equation she devises to solve the problem of convincing Derick to stay in their home county of Derbyshire: S(A+B+C) = D2. That little 2 is supposed to be squared, (Derrick in Derbyshire).  S = Seduction, the rest you'll have to read the book yourself for.  This was the perfect blend of history and romance, sweet and steamy.  The third book in this series, Sweet Madness, is going straight on my to-read list.

Hour 7 Mini Challenge: Best and Worst Covers

Reading My Way Through Life is hosting this mini-challenge: choose a book you're planning to read for the Read-A-Thon and post what you think are the best cover edition of it and the worst.

I chose Chocolat by Joanne Harris.  My favorite cover version is the one I own - it's bright, magical, and yummy looking:

My least favorite cover is the hardcover edition, because, seriously, this cover tells you nothing - certainly nothing enchanting or chocolate-y.