Congrats to Dangerously Cold Tea for winning the challenge! I’ll be notifying Dewey and shooting an email your way sometime tomorrow afternoon after packing and traveling is all done!
Make sure to go visit all of the blogs for some incredible ideas! And who knows.. maybe someone out there will see these and start fulfilling some of those wishes!
Wow! You all have some AMAZING responses! I had so much fun reading through everyone’s posts when I got home from the wedding (it was fantastic, but massively cut into my reading time!).
I have the winner chosen and am letting the Readathon folks know. I’ll be contacting the winner then to work out the details of the prize.
Fantastic job to everyone who participated and good luck on your evenings reading!
Here’s my Readathon Update!
Time Started: 9:00 AM CST
Time Now: 10:00 PM CST
Currently reading: The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone
Total pages read: 367
Books finished: 1
What’s up next: The Sea and the Silence by Peter Cunningham
Total Time Spent Reading: 4 hours
Time Spent Blogging: 70 mins
Mini-challenges completed: 0
Food/drink consumed: Most importantly… wedding cake.
Other Activities: Wedding, reception, lots of chatting, talking and dancing!
Mentality: Exhausted and needing to pack.
Welcome Readers and Cheerleaders! You are over half-way, so exciting! I hope your eyes are still as bright and your minds are filling with amazing stories and thoughts!
This is a fairly easy challenge – no pictures or anything that will require a bit of work from you. All I’m wanting from you is to know the answers to a two-part question! I will choose a winner at random and the winner will receive a book from their “wishlist” (will be purchased through Amazon so you will need to start a wishlist there with at least that book). This challenge will last 1 HOUR.
Here is your question: Think of your favorite book – has it been made into a movie? If not (and maybe you’ll need to go to your 2nd favorite book and so on), tell me if you’d like to see it made into a movie and pick one character from the book and give me information on which actor you’d love to see cast in the part. Make your post as fun as possible, tell me why you think the movie would be amazing and why the actor/actress you chose would be perfect in the part!
Once you’ve created your post leave the link to it in Mr Linky here!
I’ll play along.. because I’m constantly wishing some of my favorite books were movies.
My Movie Wish:
The Fiddler’s Gun by A.S. Peterson. This book was fantastic! One of my favorite characters in the book was Bart – the fiddle-playing ex-pirate. He was an incredible character and I kept trying to match him up with a “famous” face.
After much deliberation I thought.. hm, who was that guy in The Cider House Rules? That’s right.. Michael Caine. This is exactly how I pictured Bart. And the more I think on it, the more I like it.
So what about you? Leave your link here!
($15 maximum purchase)
Time Started: 9:00 AM CST
Time Now: 11:44 AM CST
Currently reading: The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone
Total pages read: 179
Books finished: 1
What’s up next: The Sea and the Silence by Peter Cunningham
Total Time Spent Reading: 2 hours
Time Spent Blogging: 40 mins
Mini-challenges completed: 0
Food/drink consumed: Sour Octopus (and soon to be toast)
Other Activities: Preparing for a wedding (eek)
Mentality: Groggy but excited!
Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold
Pre-Order on Amazon: Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingold
First of all – beautiful cover. It caught my eye instantly and I was so excited to receive the opportunity to read and review this book.
Paper Daughter is a double entendre. At first the book appears to be a story of a young woman, the daughter of a newspaper reporter who was killed suddenly. She has plans to follow in her father’s footsteps and becomes involved in investigating an interesting story about her local government.
In addition, Paper Daughter or Paper Son has another meaning.
Q: What is a “Paper Son”?
A: “Paper Son” was a term coined for young Chinese males attempting to enter the United States on identity papers that were bought for them. The identity papers were established by American citizens of Chinese descent who left the US to travel back to China. Upon returning, they would claim a marriage and the birth of several sons. Years later, these young Chinese males would appear claiming to be the sons of these citizens. In fact, a substantial number of these boys were sons “on paper only”, thus the term “Paper Son”. (from http://www.paperson.com/faqs.htm)
This short, to-the-point book had every ingredient necessary for an interesting novel. I read it in a single sitting and will be encouraging the teens that I know to check it out as well.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from NetGalley. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”
In the midst of my vacation and all the chaos there… I’ve been totally lapse in posting updates and about, most importantly, the fact that today is the 24 Hour Readathon!
While it is impossible for me to devote every hour of today to reading, I’ve signed up to do a mini-challenge later on in the day and also.. am going to attempt to read as much as possible. So with my awesome Kindle in hand, today I plan to knock out at least three of the books on my list! Can I do it? Well.. in the last three hours I’ve already knocked one out!
I will be posting my review of Paper Daughter by Jeanette Ingol here shortly.. and up next is The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors by Michele Young-Stone. So looking forward to knocking these books out of my TBR list and so excited for all the challenges happening today!
Hop on over to the Readathon website. There will be challenges happening all day and an enormous amount of blogs to be reading. So much fun!
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