Category: Book Related

As I mentioned in this post, I can't wait to participate in my first blogger read-a-thon! I picked a good one to start with, since I love holiday themed books. They are not usually known to be too heavy or emotionally demanding, but that is just what I like during this hectic time of year.

Here are the books I have lined up to read. As you can see, I tend to go overboard on the holiday books, so I'm probably going to have plenty to still keep me busy after the read-a-thon is over 🙂

 

From my bookshelf:

 

 

From netgalley (on my Kindle):

 

Arriving any day:

 

Cannot wait to get started! Are you joining me?

 

Thursday November 6

What I'm Reading: My True Love Gave to Me

Pages read today: 149 pages

 

Friday November 7

What I'm Reading: My True Love Gave to Me

Pages read today: 172 pages

 

Saturday November 8

What I'm Reading: Winter Street

Pages read today: 246 pages

 

Sunday November 9

What I'm Reading: The Reluctant Elf & Mr. Miracle

Pages read today: 230 pages

 

Monday November 10

What I'm Reading: Mr. Miracle & The Little Christmas Kitchen

Pages read today: 117 & 7%

 

Tuesday November 11

What I'm Reading: The Little Christmas Kitchen & The Polar Express

Pages read today: 18% & 32 pages

 

Total: 4 books completed, 1 18% done, and 1 children's picture book

Grand total pages read: 946 pages + 18% (of appx 300 pages=54) ===== 1000 pages!

I love Christmas/holiday/winter themed books so I'm going to be participating in my first ever read-a-thon! Anyone want to join me? You don't have to be a book blogger to join. Head on over here for the rules, and happy reading!!

 

To check my daily progress, and what I'm reading, please head over here to this post.

 

Back by popular demand, Jennifer @ The Book Shelfery  and Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer are once again hosting the Ho-Ho-Ho Read-A-Thon. So break out the cocoa, the coffee, and cookies! Grab those holiday theme books and bring your holiday spirit. Prepare to enter challenges, win prizes, meet new friends and Twitter chat with us. You can join for a day or sit by the fire and hang out every day. The more you participate the more entries you will earn for the Participant Giveaway.

 

 

We love holiday themed reads from the covers to the warm & fuzzy tales on the inside. For this read-a-thon you must read holiday themed or winter setting reads. For bloggers, we have spoken to most of the main publishing houses and for ARCS of holiday books released in Sept/Oct, they are fine with you posting a review in November and December since that is when folks look to buy them. For our non-blogger friends you can join too. Just link your Goodreads, Tumblr or Facebook account.

 

 

 

My husband and I are currently building a new beach house. This will likely be our main home once our two daughters are out of the house. When we looked at the house plans, I made it very clear that having bookshelves built around the fireplace was an absolute MUST HAVE! He could have anything he wanted in the way of kitchen stuff, I only had three things on my list: a walk-in closet with custom shelves (anyone see a pattern with me and shelving?), a pool (to relax and read by, of course), and bookshelves! We went to check on progress over the weekend, and while the house is about 3 weeks from completion, my shelves are up!! They are not finished yet, but I'm so excited about them. I can't wait to update my header photo, after I get them loaded up.  🙂

This past Sunday evening, I had the pleasure to attend an evening with Jan Karon at my local Indie bookstore (Quail Ridge Books & Music).

Jan's newest novel Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good was recently released. It's been 5 years since we've had a Father Tim novel, and 10 years since we've been back in the loveable town of Mitford. For those who follow the series (10 books total), there have been two Father Tim books where he has traveled outside of Mitford, but he is back in this latest novel! It was fun to hear Jan talk about how many letters she received from people wanting the story to be back in Mitford.....she definitely listens to her readers, that was very evident at this event. Truly a delightful sprite of a thing (I look like the Jolly Green.....er.....purple Giant in my pic next to her), she was lovely, and very humbled by all of her success. She talked a lot about some of her favorite characters, two of whom she had to "let go of" when they died in the novels (Uncle Billy and Sadie).  She revealed that there is another Mitford novel in the works, which will hopefully be released next fall.

I have not had the chance to read the new novel yet, but stay tuned for my review soon.

Hi there, and welcome!

I'm Donna, and I've decided to delve into the blogging (specifically book blogging) world. I've been reading so many great blogs by readers, and it's given me a great selection of new books to read (to say nothing of the amount my "to be read" pile has grown!). I thought I would like to start reviewing the books I've read, to hopefully help others discover if a book sounds like a good fit for them. While I occasionally go outside of my normal style, I mostly read literary fiction, and chick lit books. I will also add any fun articles I find relating to the book world.

So if that is of interest to you, by all means keep coming back to check out what's new on "D" bookshelf 🙂