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Book Blogger Hop

15 Apr

Book Blogger HopI’m participating in this week’s Book Blogger Hop!

This week’s question is

 ”Pick a character from a book you are currently reading or have just finished and tell us about him/her.”

My answer–

I’m currently reading The Cat, the Professor and the Poison by Leann Sweeney (The second in her Cats in Trouble series).  Jillian Hart is a fairly typical cozy mystery heroine.  She’s in her 40′s, and lives alone with her cats.  Her husband died last year, shortly after they moved to a new community, and she’s trying to find a place for herself there.  She makes her living by handcrafting quilts for cats, she helps out at the local animal shelter, and it seems like she has a nose for trouble when that trouble involves cats (and humans).

Here’s what the Book Blogger Hop is:

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list!!

Drop a comment and say hello! Point me to your post and check out the other blogs on the hop.

 
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Posted by on April 15, 2011 in blogging, books, meme

 

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Book Blogger Hop

31 Mar

Book Blogger HopI’m participating in this week’s Book Blogger Hop!

This week’s question is
“Since today is April Fool’s Day in the USA, what is the best prank you have ever played on someone OR that someone has played on you?“

My answer–

I used to put together a newsletter for our playgroup, and each of the 3 or so years, I put in an April Fools event that seemed really over the top to me, but I always had someone RSVPing.  The only one I remember was saying we’d drive all night, spend the day at Disneyland (with our toddlers) and then drive all night to get home again.  I guess I’m not a dedicated enough Disney fan!

Here’s what the Book Blogger Hop is:

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list!!

Drop a comment and say hello! Point me to your post and check out the other blogs on the hop.

 
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Posted by on March 31, 2011 in blogging, books, meme

 

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Book Blogger Hop

25 Mar

Book Blogger HopI’m participating in this week’s Book Blogger Hop!

This week’s question is
“If you could physically put yourself into a book or series…which one would it be and why?”

My answer–

This is a tough one!  I’m tempted to say Jasper Fforde’s Thurdsay Next books, because Thursday has the ability to jump into a book :-) .

Beyond that, I don’t really know.  Every Utopia has its dark side, every friendly community has its outcasts. I might enjoy the world of a book from the view of its characters, but where I live now is the life I’ve chosen in the location I’ve chosen.

Here’s what the Book Blogger Hop is:

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list!!

Drop a comment and say hello! Point me to your post and check out the other blogs on the hop.

 
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Posted by on March 25, 2011 in blogging, books, Me, meme

 

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Book Blogger Hop

17 Mar

Book Blogger HopI’m participating in this week’s Book Blogger Hop!

This week’s question is
“Do you read only one book at a time, or do you have several going at once?“

My answer–

I always have at least two books going at a time– one audio book and one paper book.  I often have a book going on my Nook as well.

Sometimes I’ll be caught without the book I was reading, and start another (I keep an emergency backup book in my car at all times, except when my husband cleans out my car for me.).  Sometimes I’ll need to take a break from my book club book or a review book, so I’ll pick up something light and fluffy for a quick change of pace.  I’ll often have a non-fiction book that I’m reading slowly, no more than a chapter a day. Right now, I have a non-fiction book I’m reading over the course of the school year with a group from my daughters school.

I generally try to make sure that the books are of different genres, although even that isn’t always enough– I’ve had occasions where two very, very different books will have characters that are similar enough to confuse me, for instance.  Sometimes I just cope, sometimes I’ll postpone one book until I finish another.

Here’s what the Book Blogger Hop is:

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list!!

Drop a comment and say hello! Point me to your post and check out the other blogs on the hop.

 
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Posted by on March 17, 2011 in blogging, meme

 

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Book Blogger Hop

11 Mar

Book Blogger HopI’m participating in this week’s Book Blogger Hop!

This week’s question is
“If I gave you £50 (or $80) and sent you into a bookshop right now, what would be in your basket when you finally staggered to the till?”

My answer–

Another week with a hard question!

I’m trying to cut back on the size of my TBR piles before they injure someone.  Particularly those piles on the headboard of my bed.

Really, what I’d enjoy doing with $80 in a bookstore is browsing and making some impulse buys, something that I’ve successfully avoided for a while.

I’d look in the mystery section, maybe find some series I used to read regularly, but haven’t picked up recently.

I’d check non-fiction for a book that my husband heard about on NPR, one about the Pythagorean theorem.

Maybe I’d look in the romance section, since I have some authors in the genre that I’d like to read more of.

Certainly, I’d check YA for books to share with my daughter.

I don’t know what I’d get, and that would be why it would be fun.

 

Here’s what the Book Blogger Hop is:

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list!!

Drop a comment and say hello! Point me to your post and check out the other blogs on the hop.

 
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Posted by on March 11, 2011 in blogging, books

 

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Book Blogger Hop

04 Mar

Book Blogger HopI’m participating in this week’s Book Blogger Hop!

This week’s question is
“Who’s your all-time favorite book villain?

My answer–

This is a tricky one for me.  I’m not someone that loves to hate the villain, and I actually don’t usually think about the bad guy once I’m finished with a book (or movie, or whatever).

Then there’s the problem that listing the villain could be considered a spoiler for many of the books I read.

With that said, I’m going to leave off here with a vague mention of Mary Russell’s nemesis in The Beekeeper’s Apprentice.   Mysterious clues, misleading attacks, playing with the victims before moving in for the kill!  Actually, I’ll say that Laurie R. King does a great job with her villains in the Mary Russell series– they tend to be nuanced, not just flat out evil.

Here’s what the Book Blogger Hop is:

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list!!

Drop a comment and say hello! Point me to your post and check out the other blogs on the hop.

 
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Posted by on March 4, 2011 in blogging

 

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Book Blogger Hop

24 Feb

Book Blogger HopI’m participating in this week’s Book Blogger Hop!

This week’s question is
“Do you ever wish you would have named your blog something different?“

My answer–

No, I’m no good with clever names, and I’m quite pleased with mine!

Here’s what the Book Blogger Hop is:

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list!!

Drop a comment and say hello! Point me to your post  and check out the other blogs on the hop.

 
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Posted by on February 24, 2011 in blogging

 

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Book Blogger Hop

18 Feb

Book Blogger HopI’m participating in this week’s Book Blogger Hop!

This week’s question is
“What book(s) would you like to see turned into a movie?“

My answer–

I don’t have any books I’d really like to see be made into movies, since I know how easy it is to really mess up what’s really good about a book in the process.

I’d love to see an art film adaptation of The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond.  If they could capture the aspects of the book reflecting on memory as well as the incredibly compelling plot about searching for a missing child, it could be amazing.

 

Here’s what the Book Blogger Hop is:

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list!!

Drop a comment and say hello! Point me to your post or to a favorite link from the week, and check out the other blogs on the hop.

 
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Posted by on February 18, 2011 in blogging, books, meme

 

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Book Blogger Hop

11 Feb

Book Blogger HopI’m participating in this week’s Book Blogger Hop!

This week’s question is
“Tell us about one of your posts from this week and give us a link so we can read it (review or otherwise)!”

On Tuesday this week, I posted an update as to what one of my book clubs has been reading, and (if I hadn’t posted one already) an overview of what I thought of the book, and how our group’s discussion went.   I also posted a review (with audiobook comments and book club notes) of my other book club’s most recent read.  On a completely different note, I also posted about a mildly disappointing read from a favorite romance author.

Here’s what the Book Blogger Hop is:

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list!!

Drop a comment and say hello! Point me to your post or to a favorite link from the week, and check out the other blogs on the hop.

 
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Posted by on February 11, 2011 in blogging, meme

 

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Book Blogger Hop

04 Feb

Book Blogger HopI’m participating in this week’s Book Blogger Hop!

This week’s question is

“What are you reading now and why are you reading it?”

Well, you did ask…

I’ve got 5 books I’m reading right now.  This is more than usual for me, I’m usually at around 3-4.

On my Nook, I have a very fluffy romance via NetGalley, Seducing the Governess by Margo Maguire.  I started reading it yesterday because my brain was tired.

On my MP3 player I have Solar by Ian McEwen, which I’m reading for one of my book clubs.

On paper, I’m just starting Moonface by Angela Balcita.  I’m reading this for a TLC book tour.

Also on paper and MP3 I’m over half way through Measure For Measure by William Shakespeare, which I’m reading one act per week so I can discuss it with a group of 7th/8th graders in my daughter’s class.

And last, I’m slowly making my way through Drive by Daniel Pink for discussion with a group of parents and staff at my daughter’s school.  My schedule here is set by our how much we’re talking about at a given meeting.

Here’s what the Book Blogger Hop is:

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word!  This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books!  It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read!  So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list!!

Drop a comment and say hello! Let me know what you are reading or point me to your post.

 
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Posted by on February 4, 2011 in books, meme

 

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