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!

Hour 2 Challenge: Book Tunes

River City Reading is hosting this first challenge. Her challenge is to pick a song that goes best with the book you're reading and explain why.

I'm reading Kate Morton's The Secret Keeper. While Morton has everyone in WW2 London listening to Glenn Miller, as I'm reading I've got The Car Chase music from A Beautiful Mind playing in my head for it's growing sense of darkness - you just know something really bad is about to happen.

Hour 1 Post - It's Back!!

The October Dewey Read-a-thon starts now!

1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today?

Hampton Roads, VA

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to?

The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

3) Which snack are you most looking forward to?

The waffle fries my husband will bring me. (hint, hint, sweetie ;-) )

4) Tell us a little something about yourself!

I love reading, video gaming, discovering great new restaurants, and my family.


5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? If this is your first read-a-thon, what are you most looking forward to?

This is my second read-a-thon.  I'm planning on eating more real food vs snack food, moving around more, and my to-read pile is bigger with more variety.