Ready...Set...READ: A Winter's Respite RaT Starting Line

A Winter's Respite 

Read-a-Thon

Mon. Jan 21 at 12 a.m. 

to

Sun. Jan 27 at 11:59 pm

Central Standard Time

Hosted by Michelle of The True Book Addict at Seasons of Reading. Sign-up here

RaT's twitter hashtag is #WintersRespite
The Lair's twitter hashtag is #bookdragonslair

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I have three women specific running books in my reading pile. They're all library books so I'd like to compare the three, read bits and pieces, take some advice, wonder if I should just buy it, and get them back to the library!

• The Complete Book of Running for Women by Claire Kowalchik
• Joan Samuelson's Running for Women
• Women's Complete Guide to Running by Jeff & Barbara Galloway

Other books in my pile:

• Fiction: Black List by Brad Thor
• Short Stories: The Eight of Deeds by Eli Thorpe (on page 149, need to review)
• Memoir: The Cat Who Came Back for Christmas (on page 3)
• Non-fiction: Howard's Gift by Eric C. Sinoway (on page 24, need to review)
• Cookbook: The Kitchen Diva's Diabetic Cookbook by Angela Shelf Medearis

edit:
Still reading: Worth the Weight (on Chap 16)
still reading: A Soldier's Choice (on Chap 3) ~ end edit

Plus I've got six health books!  WOW, that is a lot to ask of the week, specially as I can't pause real-life :-(
~don't you sometimes wish you could clone yourself? Clone one cleans/cooks, Clone Two crafts, Clone Three exercises and studies, Clone Four works. . . you could go on and on. You get all the benefits of what each clone does of course while spending your time in a comfortable spot with a good book.

sigh

until then, read when you can and enjoy what you read!

~Books Read~

92 :: It's a Good Life by Carol Lynne

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A Winter's Respite Read-a-Thon is coming!

A Winter's Respite 

Read-a-Thon

Mon. Jan 21 at 12 a.m. 

to

Sun. Jan 27 at 11:59 pm

Central Standard Time

Hosted by Michelle of The True Book Addict at Seasons of Reading. Sign-up here

Ready? Here's the info. . .

Of course, like most read-a-thons, the books read must be novels or novellas, adult or young adult are fine, and you can read children's books too (as long as you do read some novels too). You DO NOT have to participate the entire week. Join in when you can, start in the middle, end early...whatever works best for your schedule. As long as you sign in at the sign-in post and do some kind of wrap up post, you're in for the big giveaway at the end. As with my previous read-a-thons, it will be a week of relaxed reading during which we can personally challenge ourselves and whittle away those ever looming TBR piles/shelves/libraries. I hope you will join me!

I will not be hosting any mini-challenges, as we learned from my last two read-a-thons, focusing on the reading rocks. However, if anyone else would like to host a mini-challenge, you are more than welcome. We will have a few scheduled Twitter chats again (and perhaps some more reading sprints).

Our twitter hashtag is #WintersRespite

Sign up in the linky at the sign up page. You do not have to do a post now, unless you want to help spread the word (hint, hint...) If you don't have a blog, use Facebook, Twitter or Goodreads. Having a blog is not required. Be sure to grab the button at the top of this post. (Don't forget that this is just the sign-up linky. There will be starting line sign-in and wrap-up linkies during the read-a-thon and doing both is required to be eligible for the giveaway).

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The Lair's twitter hashtag is #bookdragonslair and I hope to update here and there. Other than that I have no goal or ideas of what I'll be reading.

Yet.

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Silent Night Read-a-Thon Blog Hop

Silent Night

Read-a-Thon

Dec 15 - Dec 22

Hosted by Svea at The Muse in the Fog Book Reviews
sign up here! or below, it's a Blog Hop

Are you ready for a scrumptious week of cozy nights curled up with a stack of books and unlimited warm drinks? I hope so, because the day has finally arrived...

Welcome to the The 1st Annual Silent Night Read-a-thon! This is the official kick off post, and the place where you can enter to win a new copy of The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman.

Yes. Yes I am.

Not sure how well I'll do as I've got more activities going on this week then I usually do but I'm always up for a RaT!

The giveaway is international so be sure to check out Svea's sign up post

Are you ready? Join us!





What I'm reading. . .
The Lady Chosen by Stephanie Laurens ~ finished
A Gentleman's Honor by Stephanie Laurens ~ finished
A Lady of His Own by Stephanie Laurens 
Second Chances by Carol Lynne ~ finished
Toppling Pedestals by D.J. Manly ~ finished
Unconventional at Best by anthology ~ finished

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Read-a-Thon at Book Drunkard

Week Long Read-a-Thon

Dec 2 - Dec 8

hosted by Book Drunkard

More information can be found here

So, it’s pretty simple.

• Sign up on this post with the number of books you plan on reading during the week of December 2 – 8.  
• You can even leave a list of books you’re reading!  If enough people sign up, there will be a prize, so tell your friends!  
• Leave a link to your read-a-thon blog post (if you have one) but you don’t need one to participate.
• The more the merrier!  Let’s get together, cheer each other on and try to read our reading goals before the end of 2012.

I have several challenges left to complete and while I know that most of them will be unfinished, it would be nice to get a couple more checked off.

311 Pelican Court by Debbie Macomber
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Eyes of Prey by John Sandford
Room by ...
Two to finish The Eclectic Reader (Literary Fiction - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Classic - The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Color Coded: red, yellow, green, brown, black
Getting Lost in a Comfortable Book (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Princess Bride, and two others)
In His Stead by Judith Sanders, The Book Lover by Maryann McFadden and 10 other ARCs
Christmas!


Goals
one book read and reviewed
one Christmas book
one other from list
two fun ones? check.

Books Read
fun: The Injustice of Being by Carol Lynne
fun: Griff and Ash by D. J. Manly
unlisted. . . finishes a challenge: Death by a Honeybee by Abigail Keam

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Fraterfest Goals and Progress

Fraterfest Read-a-Thon

October 5 - 8

There will be mini-challenges, prizes and a Twitter Party (Twitter hashtag: #Fraterfest) so be sure to get out the sign up post for more information, here
Requirements:  a Rhiannon Frater novel or a bump in the night book or a mystery for the faint of heart

Goals

finish Alex Van Helsing: Voice of the Undead by Jason Henderson
read a witch book Witch Way to Murder by Shirley Damsgaard or Witch  High edited by Denise Little
maybe and she was by Alison Gaylin



dang, this is only three days? I'll be lucky to finish Van Helsing!

Wish me luck

I did it!!

I finished Alex Van Helsing: Voice of the Undead by Jason Henderson. AND I'll be writing a review :-)

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Getting ready for a week of reading with LibraryThing

LibraryThing's 

Summer ReadaThing

July 26 to August 2

I'm on the West coast of North America so my start and end time is 5 a.m. This is not a read-a-thon, what they want is to have us sign up for a specific time slot so that during that week, someone, some where, will be reading.

I'll be on vacation but my time will not be my own so I've signed up as a "no timeline reader". Still haven't figured out where to list books read but I will.

Why don't you join us? Information and sign-ups are here

Books I'm taking on vacation with me

1. Brave New World
2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
3. Room
4. Heaven is for Real
5. the Eighty Dollar Champion
6. A Killer Read
7. Pies and Prejudice
8. Chihuahua of the Baskervilles
9. It Sucked and Then I Cried
plus my laptop with the Kindle app :D

Twitter: @bookdragonslair
I'm at LibraryThing as BellaMariposa, here

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