Friday Finds #21
Booking Through Thursday – Turkey Day
It’s Thanksgiving in the U.S.A. today, so I know at least some of you are going to be as busy with turkey and family as I will be, so this week’s question is a simple one:
What books and authors are you particularly thankful for this year?
I am thankful for all of my books. I love the fact that no matter how many books I read I will never read them all. That said I am praticularly thankful for the Charline Harris series, P.C Cast and Kristin Cast and Tasha Alexander. Just to name a few. Happy Thanksgiving.
Grand Opening- Giveaway @ Lady Ambrosia’s Creations
It is Grand Opening Time. At my new Design Website. Lady Ambrosia’s Creations And I am going to be giving away a COMPLETE Blog Makeover design to the Winner of this giveaway. This is going to be a surprise Mega Makeover that is not even currently listed (but will be) as a choice for purchase.
Don’t leave your comments here head over to Lady Ambrosia’s and Leave them there!
This Giveaway will Start Thanksgiving 11/26/2009 and will Run through 12/10/2009 so get signed up!!
It will include:
2 or 3 column design
Header design with image (yours, or scrapbook or both!)
Custom Signature with image (or without your choice)
fancy background with multiple layers (if you choose)
matching favicon
Unlimited Sidebar Images Fancy or simple your choice.
Post Divider
Net Working Buttons
Matching Custom Grab Button
Installation
Any other goodie’s we can make that you want on your blog!
This Custom Blog Design giveaway is limited to Blogspot users.
**Required for Entry* Post about this giveaway on your blog. Leave a link to the post in the comment**
For extra entries (leave a comment for each thing you do):
1. Tweet about the giveaway linking to http://www.ladyambrosiascreations.com/ at least once (must leave the link to your Tweet in comment). – 1 entry (you can retweet every day).
2. Follow LadyAmbrosia’s Creations on Blogger. – 1 entry
3. Subscribe to Lady Ambrosia Creations in on feed burner – 1 entry
4. Add Lady Ambrosia’s Creations button to sidebar/blogroll. – 1 entry
5. Follow @LadyAmbrosia on Twitter. – 1 entry
6. Head to Fire & Ice and Follow me there – 1 entry
7. Head to Birth of a Notion and follow me there – 1 entry
Wicked Wednesday #15
Wicked Wednesday a place to be wicked to other book readers and make them get those TBR piles growing. The concept is simple. Pick a book or two and tell s about them. If its one you read tell us what you liked. If its one you found tell us about that to. Than leave a comment to let us know where to find your Wicked Wednesday titles. Make sure to link back in your posts for other people to follow Wicked Wednesday.
Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. In Fathers of the Republic, Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal’s splendid and percipient prose, in ways we have not up to now-their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate.
Blogversery Soon
So my blogversery on this blog, or should I say on the re-launch of this blog is coming in 26 days. And I am going to be doing some giveaways in honor of the blogversery. I will host some here and host some on my other blog just to get some re-readership there as well. Just what is she giving away they ask? Oh you shall see what I gather up.
But I can promise you my reader friends that ONE item for sure will be to help a new project I am launching. Lady Ambrosia’s Creations will be opening after thanksgiving! What is that you ask? Well first it is a blog design blog. I have picked up my paint shop pro (not that I will be redoing this design I LOVE the work Sara did) and I am getting pretty darn good. I have several completed projects I have been doing for friends to get my chops going. And one has been a FULL website for a Jewelry Seller. (I am going to be trying to get her to donate a piece to a giveaway wink wink)
So keep your eyes peeled for the give always for the anniversary. And I promise I will be starting to give things away with Hatchett again. I have just been away from them trying to catch up on my own health and all that. But Have no Fear I am still affiliated.
Teaser Tuesday #28
TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!Please avoid spoilers! Garrett felt a deep sense of emptiness after Mia left.He stood for several minutes looking at the gate through which she had passed through into garden. No doubt she was safely in the house by now. Pg. 71 A Lady of High Regard by Tracie Peterson
2010 Read from my Shelves Challenge
Diane from the Bibliophile by the Sea is Hosting this One.
Does this sound like something you’d like to do as well??? If so, feel free to join in:
• grab the button
• decide how many books you want to read from your shelves (minimum of 20 – no maximum)
• find a new home for the books once you read them
• post the titles and the authors of books you’ve read and passed on
• project runs from January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010
• crossover challenge books are allowed
I am setting my goal for this one at 50 books. Thats half my goal for my other challenge and perfect I think as I do give away most of my books.
4 / 50 Books. 8% done!
1. Scandal’s Bride by Stephanie Laurens
2. Tempted by P.C Cast & Kristin Cast
3. Don’t Miss your Life by Charlene Anna Baumbich
4. The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
2010 100+ Challenge
1. The goal is to read 100 or more books. Anyone can join. You don’t need a blog to participate.
–Non-Bloggers: Post your list of books in the comment section of the wrap-up post. To learn how to sign up without having a blog, click here.
2. Audio, Re-reads, eBooks, YA, Library books, Young Reader, Nonfiction – as long as the book has an ISBN or equivalent or can be purchased as such, the book counts.
3. No need to list your books in advance. You may select books as you go. Even if you list them now, you can change the list if needed.
4. Crossovers from other reading challenges count.
5. Challenge begins January 1st thru December, 2010. Books started before the 1st do not count.
6. When you sign up under Mr. Linky, put the direct link to your post where your books will be listed. Include the URL to this post so that other viewers can find this fun challenge. If you’d prefer to put your list in the sidebar of your blog, please leave your viewers the link to the sign up page. Again, so viewers can join the challenge too.
13 / 100 books. 13% done!
My Goal for this Challenge will be the same as my Challenge will be for PBS. 100 Books in one year.
1. Scandal’s Bride by Stephanie Laurens
2. Tempted by P.C Cast & Kristin Cast
3. Don’t Miss your Life! by Charlene Ann Baumbich
4. The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
5. Unmasked by Author: Janet Dailey, Jennifer Blake, Elizabeth Gage
6. Big Girls Don’t Cry by Author: Donna Hill, Brenda Jackson, Monica Jackson, Francis Ray 7. The Culture of Excess by J.R Slosar
8. Gordon Ramsay The Biography by Neil Simpson
9. Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
10. Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
11. The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
12. Plain Pursuit by Beth Wiseman
13. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
2010 Read and Review Challenge
Hosted by Miz B
* review each book you read between January 1st and December 31st of the current year.
* PLEASE keep your reviews clean & respectful ~ these books we read are the hard work of an author, and we don’t need to be mean. Even if you didn’t like the book, please try to find something you can say that would be encouraging to the author.
* reviews can be as short, or long, as you wish
* you MAY overlap with other challenges
* eBooks and Audiobooks ARE allowed
* if there will be spoilers in your review, please note this in the subject line of your post so that those who don’t want to read them can skip that review. Thank you.
1. Scandal’s Bride by Stephanie Laurens
2. Tempted by P.C Cast & Kristin Cast
3. Don’t Miss Your Life by Charlene Anna Baumbich
4. The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
Musing Monday #28
Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about your bookshelf…
Tomorrow I have my first teaching job (yes, I’m sharing my non-book bloggy news!) and it’s inspired today’s Musing Monday.
What books did you read while in school? Were there any that you particular liked, or even hated? Did any become lifelong favourites?
One of my favorite books reading in school was the Giver it has become a life long favorite and there is just something about it that stays with you. There were a lot of books I didn’t like but honestly I can’t recall the names. Because generally if I don’t like it I don’t remember it. But the classics Shakespeare and anything by Jane Austen were always good reads. The Giver however is one I will never forget.
