Month: April 2010

Read-a-thon Midway Point

Read-a-thon Midway Point

1. What are you reading right now? Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 2. How many books have you read so far? Still reading my first 3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon? All of them 4. Did you have to make any special arrangements […]

Posted April 11, 2010 by Whitney in read-a-thon / 11 Comments
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And the Nominees Are…

And the Nominees Are…

‘Till We Read Again is hosting a mini-challenge for Dewey’s Read-a-thon  And The Nominees Are… This asks you to nominate things literary in several respected categories. To be perfectly honest I could nominate Pride and Prejudice for all of these but I will try to restrain myself Favorite Female Character in a book: Elizabeth Bennett […]

Posted April 10, 2010 by Whitney in read-a-thon / 13 Comments
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Let the Read-a-Thon Commence

Let the Read-a-Thon Commence

I’m about to start my first ever read-a-thon and I’m so excited!  I would be amazed if I can stay up the whole 24 hours, so I will aim for between 12-16 that seems more realistic to me.  My game plan is to have fun!  That’s it, nothing more.  Although, I have picked out a […]

Posted April 10, 2010 by Whitney in read-a-thon / 11 Comments
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Friday Memes #3

Friday Memes #3

It’s Friday! Time for another Book Blogger Hop hosted by Jennifer at Crazy for Books  The Hop is designed to discover great book bloggers and be discovered yourself.  So hop on over and join the fun!

Posted April 9, 2010 by Whitney in Friday Memes / 9 Comments
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Character Connection: Sir Percy

Character Connection: Sir Percy

The Introverted Reader is hosting a weekly meme entitle Character Connection We all have characters we love. Let’s spotlight these fantastic creations! Whether you want to be friends with them or you have a full-blown crush on them, you know you love them and want everyone else to love them too! This week’s literary crush […]

Posted April 9, 2010 by Whitney in Meme / 7 Comments
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Wuthering Heights Wednesday Week 1

Wuthering Heights Wednesday Week 1

Wuthering Heights Wednesday is all about the Wuthering Heights Read-along hosted by Jill at Fizzy Thoughts with each week we will read three chapters from the classic novel and then post our thoughts on, you guessed it –Wednesday! Chapters 1-3 Synopsis: In the first three chapters we are introduced to Heathcliff, master of Wuthering Heights […]

Posted April 7, 2010 by Whitney in read-along / 6 Comments
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Gone with the Wind Read-along Check In #5

Gone with the Wind Read-along Check In #5

The Gone with the Wind Read-along is host by My Friend Amy  Proposed Chapters  for April 4 Chapters 37-45 Where am I? Chapter 37, Scarlett has just married Frank Kennedy, in order to pay the taxes on Tara. I will be playing major catch-up this week.  Other than Scarlett’s attempt to win Rhett over with […]

Posted April 7, 2010 by Whitney in read-along / 3 Comments
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Two Awards

Two Awards

Kals from At Pemberley and Vaishnavi at Dust Jacket have bestowed upon me two fabulous awards  the Beautiful Blogger Award and the Honest Scrap Award. For the Honest Scrap Award I need to list ten facts about myself and pass this on to ten other bloggers, Ten Honest Things: My first boyfriend had a summer […]

Posted April 6, 2010 by Whitney in Uncategorized / 16 Comments
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Teaser Tuesday #4

Teaser Tuesday #4

Miz B at Should Be Reading hosts a weekly meme entitled Teaser Tuesday 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 […]

Posted April 6, 2010 by Whitney in teaser tuesday / 20 Comments
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Wuthering Heights Read-along

Wuthering Heights Read-along

Starting this Wednesday, April 7 and running until May Jill at Fizzy Thoughts is hosting a Wuthering Heights Read-along. The pace for this event is very laid back with participants posting their thoughts each Wednesday.  I have already joined the Gone with the Wind Read-Along at My Friend Amy  but Wuthering Heights is another favorite […]

Posted April 4, 2010 by Whitney in read-along / 5 Comments
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