Month: October 2010

Read-A-Thon Finish Line

Read-A-Thon Finish Line

I love being able to set aside a full day dedicated to reading, and got quite a bit accomplished.  I’m already looking forward to April’s Read-A-Thon Read-A-Thon Stats Currently Reading: Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt Books Completed The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris Pages Read […]

Posted October 10, 2010 by Whitney in read-a-thon / 1 Comment
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Read-A-Thon Mid-Event Meme

Read-A-Thon Mid-Event Meme

1. What are you reading right now? Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 2. How many books have you read so far? Two so far 3. What book are you most looking forward to for the second half of the Read-a-thon? I’d love to get a least halfway through Angela’s Ashes, it’s one of my favorites […]

Posted October 9, 2010 by Whitney in read-a-thon / 6 Comments
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Love To Hate Mini-Challenge

Love To Hate Mini-Challenge

Love To Hated is hosted by Brandileigh from Blkosiner’s Book Blog Make a list of your Top 5 Love to Hate characters. Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights) Professor Snape (Harry Potter) Scarlet O’Hara (Gone with the Wind) The Wicked Witch (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Mr. Collins (Pride and Prejudice)

Posted October 9, 2010 by Whitney in read-a-thon / 1 Comment
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Read-A-Thon Updates

Read-A-Thon Updates

Rather than doing several mini-posts throughout the day I’m just going to have one main post that I will update along the way. Hours 1-5 Currently Reading: Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk by David Sedaris Books Read: The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest Mini Challenges: Introduction Pages Read: 103 Hours Read: 3 Hours and 15 Minutes […]

Posted October 9, 2010 by Whitney in read-a-thon / 6 Comments
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Read-A-Thon Starting Line

Read-A-Thon Starting Line

I’ll be starting the Read-A-Thon soon and I’m super excited to set aside a whole day for reading!  But before I begin, here is a quick introductory meme for Hour 1. Where are you reading from today? I staked out a chair to glue my butt to (or at least for most of the time). […]

Posted October 9, 2010 by Whitney in read-a-thon / 8 Comments
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Friday Memes #17

Friday Memes #17

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. Not only can we discover new blogs but great books to add to the ever growing wish-list. So hop on over and join the fun! This week’s […]

Posted October 8, 2010 by Whitney in Friday Memes / 10 Comments
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Femme Fatale Fridays: Jean Muir

Femme Fatale Fridays: Jean Muir

“A femme fatale, translating to “Deadly Woman” in french, is an alluring, seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire.  Often this leads them into compromising, dangerous   and deadly situations.” ~ Wikipeda Innocent “19” year old Jean Muir is hired as a governess by the wealthy Coventry family.  She quickly enchants all members […]

Posted October 7, 2010 by Whitney in Femme Fatale / 4 Comments
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Halloween Read-A-Thon

Halloween Read-A-Thon

Another Read-A-Thon for me in the month of October, the Halloween Read-A-Thon hosted by  Lesley at Young Adult Books Reviewed  and is the weekend of October 15-17 Here’s what Lesley says: For this readathon: read Halloween themed stuff. Not necessarily with the day of Halloween, or even the month. None of that (unless you want […]

Posted October 4, 2010 by Whitney in read-a-thon / 2 Comments
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Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire

Review: The Girl Who Played With Fire

I was still on the edge of my seat while reading The Girl Who Played With Fire I did find some of the plot to be rather tangled and the link between Bjurman and the sex trade to be rather poor and took me some time to completely understand it as it wasn’t written in […]

Posted October 3, 2010 by Whitney in Review / 6 Comments
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The Bad Seed Movie Review

The Bad Seed Movie Review

I will never look at little girls with pigtails the same way again.   Rhoda Penmark is an eight year old who if doesn’t get her way goes far beyond a childhood tantrum but resorts to cold-blooded murder, in this case, to obtain a penmenship medal she feels was wrongly awarded to another classmate. Patty McCormack […]

Posted October 2, 2010 by Whitney in movie review / 8 Comments
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