tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26885718788016564972024-03-13T22:38:37.339-04:00Lu's Raves and RantsA place where I may rave or rant, and maybe even ramble about all kinds of things!Luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15406358193003579148noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688571878801656497.post-36081286961970395802011-10-22T15:06:00.001-04:002011-11-04T02:27:05.504-04:0024 hr Read-a-thon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UOvTNvmf2jk/TKj3spwkbuI/AAAAAAAAAF4/obMONFPW8zk/s1600/readathon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UOvTNvmf2jk/TKj3spwkbuI/AAAAAAAAAF4/obMONFPW8zk/s320/readathon.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It’s sort of a reading challenge, only everyone participates at the same time. For 24 hours, participants read books, post on their blogs about their reading, and visit other readers’ blogs. They also participate in mini-challenges throughout the day.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This year's read-a-thon starts at 8 AM ET on October 22nd , and goes until.....you guessed it.... 8AM ET October 23rd!</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was created by the beloved </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://deweymonster.com/" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #345c2a; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dewey</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (her blog has since been taken down, so the link won’t work). The first one was held in October 2007. Dewey died in late 2008. The read-a-thon was renamed to honor its founder in 2009.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f2ee; color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px;"> I had scheduled a post about the readathon a couple of weeks ago, and am quite surprised to see that it didn't post! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Here are the questions that are asked in the introductory meme. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">1)Where are you reading from today? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. I will be reading in various locations today - my living room, my kitchen, my bathtub, in the car (of course, I won't be driving!!)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2)Three random facts about me…</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafafa;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">I love ketchup. I hate mustard. I hate any fish and seafood.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3)How many books do you have in your TBR pile for the next 24 hours? </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">LOL! Well, that depends which pile you are referring to! In total I have about 40 books here that are options for today! I couldn't choose just a few!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4)Do you have any goals for the read-a-thon (i.e. number of books, number of pages, number of hours, or number of comments on blogs)? </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would like to read for at least 12 hrs. ( I have to do groceries, make meals, and care for my kids so I am aiming for at least 12) </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafafa;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">5)If you’re a veteran read-a-thoner, any advice for people doing this for the first timers? </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fafafa;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> not really. I guess the only thing I can say is good luck, and happy reading!</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">My daughter turned 13 last week. So this week I decided on listing the 13 most popular names for girls born in 1998.</span><br />
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<ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kaitlin</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Emily</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sarah </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hannah</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ashley</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Brianna</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alexis</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Samantha</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Taylor</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Madison</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Haley</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jessica</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Alyssa</span></li>
</ol><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My daughter's name is not on the list! Actually, her name didn't even make the top 100, or top 375!! Her name is # 377 on the list I used for reference. Hard to believe that Vivienne, Priscilla, Essence, Fatima, and Regina were more popular!!</span></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. I always refuse to admit </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my age when it doesn't matter, because I don't understand why some people even ask!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. I won’t eat </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">anything that once lived underwater!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3. I would like to hang out with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">for a day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. I would like to learn how to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> knit something other than a square or rectangle.</span><br />
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</span></div><ol><li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Deadly Lies by Cynthia Eden</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Deadly Heat by Cynthia Eden</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pursuit by Karen Robards</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels </span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Payback by Fern Michaels </span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Next Time You See Me by Katia Lief</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Damage by Pamela Callows</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Indefensible by Pamela Callows</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blood Stains by Sharon Sala</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Vendetta by Fern Michaels</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Jury by Fern Michaels</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Blood Ties by Sharon Sala</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">All The Pretty Girls by J.T Ellison</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">14 by J.T. Ellison</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Green Mile by Stephen King</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;">This Is Where I Leave You by Johnathan Trooper</span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">My Life and Other Lies: Tales from the Writer's List by Steve Pitt</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Never Knowing by Chevy Stevens</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Welcome to Last Chance by Hope Ramsay</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">The</span> Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">This is Gonna Hurt by Nikki Sixx</span></span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back With One Of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen by Vince Neil</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Alone by Lisa Gardner</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Fixing Delilah by Sarah Ockler</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Missing Max by Karen Young</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">The Taken Inger Ash Wolfe</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Got You Back by Jane Fallon</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Discipline without distress : 135 tools for raising caring, responsible children without time-out, spanking, punishment, or bribery by Judy Arnall</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You can go to the potty / William Sears, Martha Sears, and Christie Watts Kelly </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The discipline book : everything you need to know to have a better-behaved child-- from birth to age ten by William Sears and Martha Sears </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Playskool toddler's busy play book : over 500 creative games, activities, crafts and recipes for your very busy toddler by Robin McClure </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span itemprop="name" style="text-decoration: none;">Late-Talking Children by </span> <span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name">Thomas Sowell</span> </span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">Escape by Barbara Delinsky</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">The Vinyl Cafe Unplugged by Stuart McLean</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">My Life and Other Lies by Steve Pitt</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">The Absolute Value of Mike by Kathryn Erskine</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Love In Bloom by Sheila Roberts</span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella</span></span></span></li>
</ol></div>Well, it looks like I am almost there!! I am thinking I will definitely achieve my goal!! I have not included any of the picture books that I have borrowed from the library to read with my son!! The books listed for this challenge are strictly books that I have borrowed for myself!<br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Max</span></li>
<li>Chelsea</li>
<li>Chloe</li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bailey</span></li>
<li>Nikita</li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dakota</span></li>
<li>Sandy</li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Roxy</span></li>
<li>Jake</li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Brandi</span></li>
<li>Sam/Sammie</li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mitch/Mitchell</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">13 Friends whose friendship I cherish (no particular order of course!)</span><br />
<ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Nicole</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Sarah</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Marie</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Sara</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Janet</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Tom ( RIP my dear friend!)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Lisa</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Debi</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Sarah K</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Tanya</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Josetta</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Marg (RIP my dear friend)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Erickah</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></li>
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The challenge will run from January to December 2011, and you can join at anytime! The rules are simple, and you can see them by </span><a href="http://bookdout.wordpress.com/2010/12/30/borrowed-book-challenge-2011/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">clicking here.</span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am participating at the Library Lust level. In order to complete this challenge, I need to borrow, read, and return 48 books between January 1st 2011, and December 31st 2011. This seems achievable to me, since books I borrow to read to my son definitely count towards this goal! </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now I just have to go to the library website, and check out my history so far this year. I am probably already near the goal since I do read a lot of library books. (I love supporting my local library, but borrowing so many books from the library means that my own books sit on Mt. TBR for too long! )</span></div><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; text-decoration: none;">The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars and Neil Strauss</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hidden Wives by Claire Avery</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">i'm not her by Janet Gurtler</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Still Alice by Lisa Genova</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Green Mile by Stephen King</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Trooper</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Envy by Sandra Brown</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Love Story by Erich Segal</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oliver's Story by Erich Segal</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck</span></li>
</ol><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">WOW, that was easy! I could have easily thought of 13 more. I'll save that for another Thursday though!</span></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On July 4th, a friend of mine passed away unexpectedly. She lived 3 doors down. I had been walking my dog at about 9:30 pm. I stopped and chatted with her for a minute, and she had said there was something she wanted to talk to me about, and asked if I had time to sit and have a tea with her. I told her that since my son was awake, and at home, with my daughter, I didn't really have time. I asked if she would be up for awhile, and told her that I was going to go home and bathe my son, get him into bed and come back when I was done. She said that she was a bit hungry so she was going to go grab a snack, and that she did want to talk, so I should just come back whenever I could. I told her that I would be back between 10:30 and 11:15. I told her not to bother making me a tea, I would bring a coffee, and she laughed at that because she has been offering me tea for almost 7 years, and I have never accepted, but always brought my own coffee.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I went home, bathed my son, got him settled down for the night and made my coffee. At about 10:35, I let my daughter and my other half know that I was headed over to her place because she wanted to talk to me. I walked out my door and saw 3 police cruisers, a firetruck, and 2 ambulances. I was thinking " what the heck is going on?" I saw a bunch of neighbours watching , talking, speculating or whatever I should call it - I'm not sure. Anyway, I thought it was weird, and proceeded to walk to my friend 's place. I still had no idea where all the "commotion" was since the emergency vehicles started at my place and went past her's. As I was walking over, her daughter called out to me and in that instant I knew something was wrong. I thought it was just a reaction to a new medication her doctor had prescribed a few days prior, so did her daughter. (it happened before, with one of her meds). Her daughter asked me to stay, and one of the police officers started asking both of us a couple of questions. A few minutes later her nephew came to me and said " I did everything I could, but I don't think it was enough." At this point I am still wondering what the heck happened. He told me that he walked into the living room and she looked like she was sleeping, but her mouth was open, he tried to wake her to tell her to go up to her bed, and she was unresponsive, so he grabbed her hand/wrist to try to wake her, and didn't feel a pulse. At that point he called 911 and started CPR, and continued until EMS arrived. About 15 minutes later, I overheard someone in the house say that they tried to intubate, but there was an obstruction. A few minutes later an officer came out, and just from the look on his face I knew it wasn't good. (They removed what they could, and tried to intubate again, but by then it was too late. Cause of death - choking.) The officer asked to talk to me for a minute, and broke the news to me first, so that I was already aware, and could help them with her daughter. I stayed as strong as I could for her sake. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I felt horrible. I felt like maybe if I had stayed and talked with her, rather than arranging to come back in a bit, it may not have happened. Maybe if I had gone over earlier, I could have helped her. I know her nephew did all he could, but maybe it would have been different if I was there. I would like to think that I would have done the Heimlich, he mentioned something that happened when he was doing CPR & the first thing that popped into my head immediately was- she needed the Heimlich (though of course, I didn't say that). ( I have worked in health care, and have had to do the Heimlich on a patient in the past). Anyway, I just feel guilty because I wasn't there for her. And, I will never know what she wanted to talk to me about. I miss her terribly. To be 100% honest, sometimes she was a real pain in my @$$, but I loved her. Funny thing about that is - she used to say to me, I know sometimes I am a pain in the @$$ , but you'd miss me if I wasn't around. ( she was thinking of moving- and I was too) She was right. I really miss her.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Her funeral was nice, considering why we were there. I was holding up pretty well, until her brother mentioned me by name in a speech he made. At that point it really hit me. I have been having a hard time with it. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ok, so back to the photo. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The picture is of my son walking my friend M's dog Mag. Mag was M's best friend. Quite often when I had my son at the park to play, M would walk up there with the dog, and we would sit and chat while my son and the dog played together. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My son used to like walking with M and her dog, and occasionally we would just go over and get the dog, and take her for a walk, since our 110 pound dog is too hard for my not yet 3 year old son to walk! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Unfortunately, Mag HATES my dog. She is quite mean to him.(yup, my 110 pound dog is scared of the 15 pound dog!). For that reason, I was unable to take her into my home and care for her. However, I found her a great home. She is still in the neighbourhood, and my son visits her daily, and walks her at least 3 times a week. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well, I better post this. I am getting teary-eyed again, and it's time for Mag's walk. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There was a total of 72 entries for my copy of Of Mice and Men. I wrote every entry down on a sheet of paper, in the order in which they were posted, using the entrants name. I then used random.org to randomly select a number between 1 and 72. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The winning entry was </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I followed the same steps to select a winner for the bookmarks, for which there was 51 entries. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The winning entry was</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Congratulations to both of the winners! I hope you enjoy your prizes! I will be sending you both an email within the next day or two requesting your address. If you see this post before receiving an email from me, please email me at lusravesandrants AT gmail DOT com</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am not sure that I can come up with ten, but I really wanted to participate since there are some bookish websites I just love!! Other than the first two, which I spend </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strike> too much</strike></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> a fair amount of time on, they aren't in any particular order. (I linked them! You should check them out if you aren't familiar with them!)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/">Bookcrossing</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.librarything.com/">LibraryThing</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <a href="http://www.bookmooch.com/">Bookmooch</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/">Fantastic Fiction</a></span><br />
6. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/"> Book Depository</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">7. <a href="http://www.freshfiction.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Fresh Fiction </span></a></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Okay, so I only came up with seven. I can't really think of any more, which is probably a good thing because I spend way too much time of a few of these ones....lol!! </span><br />
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</span>Luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15406358193003579148noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688571878801656497.post-69759701415684553712011-06-24T18:19:00.002-04:002011-06-30T22:36:05.352-04:00Welcome to stop 69 of the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">*** It is June 25th in some places, so go ahead and enter!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The Literary Giveaway Blog Hop is being hosted by hosted by</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span><a href="http://leeswammes.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/the-literary-giveaway-blog-hop-starts-here/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Leeswammes</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #38761d;">The hop starts on Saturday, June 25th and lasts until Wednesday, June 29th. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Y</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">ou can hop to over 70 different blogs, all offering one or more giveaways of books or bookish things! I have included a list of participating blogs, at the bottom of my post. ( Please keep in mind that some giveaways will go live at different times throughout the day due to the blog owners being in different time zones!)</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">I will be giving away 2 prizes. I was originally going to have my giveaway limited to Canada and the US, but have decided to open it internationally!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">The first one is</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1239412348l/40698.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1239412348l/40698.jpg" width="193" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40698.Of_Mice_and_Men"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck</span></a></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">This is one of my old favourites. The copy I am giving away is one of my gently used copies.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">The 2nd prize will be an envelope containing some bookmarks. Not exactly sure how many, but at least 4, probably more. This giveaway will end on June 29th </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">at 11:59 EST.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">To enter </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> Leave a comment </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">and</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> let me know which prize you would like to enter to win. You may enter for both. Please also leave your email address in your comment, so I can contact you for your mailing address if you win! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Want an extra entries??</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">1. F</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">ollow my blog</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> through GFC. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">( Make sure that you follow publicly as I will check to confirm your entry)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">2. Like Lu's Raves and Rants on</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lus-Raves-and-Rants/165942013443722?sk=wall"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">facebook</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">. Leave a comment with your first name and last initial. </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Don't forget to leave your email in your extra entries! Good luck, and have fun hopping around to the other participating blogs! Here is the list</span><br />
<ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #38761d;"><a href="http://leeswammes.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Leeswammes (Int)</a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #38761d;"><a href="http://boofsbookshelf.com/" target="_blank">The Book Whisperer (Int)</a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #38761d;"><a href="http://kristilovesbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kristi Loves Books (Int)</a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://teadevotee.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Teadevotee (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.bookwormwithaview.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Bookworm with a View (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://bibliosue.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Bibliosue (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://sarahreadstoomuch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Sarah Reads Too Much (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://writemeg.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">write meg! (USA)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://books-love-affair.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">My Love Affair With Books (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.seasidebooknook.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Seaside Book Nook (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://uniflamecreates.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Uniflame Creates (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://chinoiseries.net/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Always Cooking Up Something (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Book Journey (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.thirtycreativestudio.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">ThirtyCreativeStudio (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.colreads.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Col Reads (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://thebookdivasreads.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The Book Diva's Reads (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://hawthornescarlet.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The Scarlet Letter (USA)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://parrishlantern.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The Parrish Lantern (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://lizzysiddal.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Lizzy's Literary Life (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://readwriteandlive.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Read, Write & Live (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.bookdout.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Book'd Out (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.readerssuite.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The Readers' Suite (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://iamareadernotawriter.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">I Am A Reader, Not A Writer (USA)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://ephemeraldigest.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Ephemeral Digest (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://mieletlait.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Miel et lait (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://bibliophilebythesea.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Bibliophile By the Sea (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://bokunosekai.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Polychrome Interest (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://bookworldinmyhead.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Book World In My Head (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.inspringitisthedawn.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">In Spring it is the Dawn (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://everybookhasasoul.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">everybookhasasoul (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://nishitak.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Nishita's Rants and Raves (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://freshinkbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Fresh Ink Books (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://teachwithpicturebooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Teach with Picture Books (USA)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://howtoteachanovel.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">How to Teach a Novel (USA)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://thebluebookcase.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The Blue Bookcase (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://gaskella.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Gaskella (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://pburt.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Reflections from the Hinterland (USA)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://chasingbawa.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">chasing bawa (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://51stories.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">51stories (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://nopageleftbehind.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">No Page Left Behind (USA)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://silversolara.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Silver's Reviews (USA)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.noseinabook.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Nose in a book (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://litinthelastfrontier.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Lit in the Last Frontier (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.thebookclubblog.co.za/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The Book Club Blog (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://undermyappletree.net/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Under My Apple Tree (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.caribousmom.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Caribousmom (USA)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://breieninpeking.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">breienineking (Netherlands)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://headant.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Let's Go on a Picnic! (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.rikkidonovan.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Rikki's Teleidoscope (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://boekblogger.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">De Boekblogger (Netherlands)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.knittingandsundries.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Knitting and Sundries (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.elle-lit.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Elle Lit (USA)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://indiereaderhouston.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Indie Reader Houston (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://thebookstop.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The Book Stop (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://lizclutterbuck.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Eliza Does Very Little (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.joyweesemoll.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Joy's Book Blog (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://litendeavors.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Lit Endeavors (USA)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.roofbeamreader.net/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Roof Beam Reader (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://homeofaimala.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">The House of the Seven Tails (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.tonysreadinglist.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Tony's Reading List (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://thinkingaboutloud.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Sabrina @ Thinking About Loud! (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://reviews.rebeccareid.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Rebecca Reads (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://kinnareads.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Kinna Reads (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://inoneeyeouttheother.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">In One Eye, Out the Other (USA)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://booksnyc.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Books in the City (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://lucybirdbooks.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Lucybird's Book Blog (Europe)</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.exurbanis.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Exurbanis (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://lusravesandrants.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Lu's Raves and Rants (Int)</span></a></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.dolcebellezza.net/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Dolce Bellezza (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://lenasledgeblog.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Lena Sledge's Blog...Books, Reviews and Interviews (Int)</span></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><a href="http://www.bookquotes-bookquotes.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">a Thousand Books with Quotes (Int)</span></a></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3. The first time I saw the beach/mountains was when I was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>younger. I don't remember the first time I saw the beach. I remember the first time I saw mountains. I was about 11 or 12 and I was in Italy. They were beautiful, but driving up them made me feel nauseous. </b></span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This post is to announce to the world that I'm participating in the Spring into Summer read-a-thon hosted by Enna Isilee of</span> <a href="http://www.squeakybooks.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Squeaky Books</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This read-a-thon is going to be so great! It's two days where you try do NOTHING but read. It's a great chance to get rid of some of those books that have been sitting on your TBR pile <em>forever</em>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But that's not all! There will also be awesome mini-challenges and a TON of giveaways! In fact, just for signing up you are entered to win a $25 gift card to Amazon! SO</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.squeakybooks.com/2011/06/spring-into-summer-read-thon-sign-up.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">GO SIGN UP</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">!</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">And if you say that <b>Lu </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> sent you, you'll get 5 extra entries to win that gift card! </span><a href="http://www.squeakybooks.com/2011/06/spring-into-summer-read-thon-sign-up.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">CLICK HERE</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> to enter to win, and know all there is to know about the read-a-thon.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here's my goal:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>I plan to spend as much time reading as I can. I am aiming for at least 12 hrs, but it really all depends on my kids....lol</strong></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>I plan to read:</strong><strong> at least 500 pages</strong></span><br />
<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am not sure what book or books I will be reading, but I will update this post as soon as I decide! </span></strong><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well, have you signed up yet? DO IT NOW!</span><br />
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I signed up for this challenge earlier this year, but I did not do a post! I have been keeping track of all of the challenges that I signed up for in a discussion thread on <a href="http://goodreads.com/" style="color: #337914; text-decoration: none;">goodreads.com</a> . </div><div style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;"><br />
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Deadly Fear by Cynthia Eden</div><div style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">Pursuit by Karen Robards</div><div style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">Weekend Warriors by Fern Michaels </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">Payback by Fern Michaels </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">Next Time You See Me by Katia Lief</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">Damage by Pamela Callows</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">Indefensible by Pamela Callows</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">All the Pretty Girls by J.T. Ellison</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">Vendetta by Fern Michaels</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">14 by J.T. Ellison</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px;">Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #608a35; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;">One more to go and I have completed the challenge!!! I should be finished the challenge by the end of the week, as I am starting the 3rd book in the Sisterhood series by Fern Michaels tonight!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Edited to add : Apparently, I did do a small post back in December! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">( </span><a href="http://lusravesandrants.blogspot.com/2010/12/once-i-will-be-participating-in-mystery.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">http://lusravesandrants.blogspot.com/2010/12/once-i-will-be-participating-in-mystery.html</span></a> )<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not sure why I couldn't find it when I looked for it, which was what prompted me to post this one!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 20px;">Have you guys seen the headlines? There is a lot of buzz about the new Canadian legislature which seeks to provide stay-at-home parents with "workplace equity and safety" under a proposed revision to the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 20px;"> </span><a href="http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Employment Standards Act</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">..</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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<div style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sis22w0dJtA/TZVHoVopleI/AAAAAAAAAmo/roGET4hkLH4/s1600/nanny.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sis22w0dJtA/TZVHoVopleI/AAAAAAAAAmo/roGET4hkLH4/s320/nanny.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; position: relative;" width="105" /></span></a></div><div style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">If it passes this new bill would see the government hiring a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"> "<a bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" href="http://www.selectnannies.ca/06_about/index.cfm" style="color: #ac1818; text-decoration: none;">nanny force</a>" </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">to step in and provide the legally required breaks. That's right, Ontario parents could see a government paid "nanny" stopping in at their home up to three times a day for 15-45 minute periods to provide breaks. While on the premise these child-care workers would only be responsible for the welfare of the children. They would not be allowed to take part in food preparation or other household chores.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Under the new law stay at home moms or dads would be able to apply for "sick leave coverage". There would be a limit on the number of sick days a year that a parents can apply for coverage for, and a doctors note would be required as well.</span></div><div style="line-height: 20px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">It's been a long week. I haven't been getting my breaks, and have fallen behind on news!! Thank you Deanna from </span><a href="http://www.mapleleafmommy.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Maple Leaf Mommy</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"> for bringing this to my attention, you rock!!</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://brokeandbookish.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Broke and the Bookish</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. This meme was created because they are particularly fond of lists over at The Broke and the Bookish. They love to share their lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists! So, every week, a topic is posted. Bloggers create their Top Ten List based on the topic. </span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">This week's topic : Top Ten Bookish Pet Peeves.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 19px;">1. Spelling and grammatical errors - I feel that these should be caught and corrected by an editor. If there is one, ok maybe a typo, but really when there are more than that it irks me! I recently started a book, and while I was enjoying the storyline, I had to stop reading it due to the fact that there were so many grammatical/spelling errors . (made me kind of sad since I had heard that it is a really good series!)There must have been at least two places that I noticed a word printed twice in a row, and a few times there were words that did not belong in the sentence at all. With those words in the sentence, the sentence just didn't make any sense. Of course, I knew (or could figure out) what the author had intended it to say, but I shouldn't have to. While it may not seem like a big deal to some people, it bothers me. It makes me wonder how the books even got printed with these errors, and if they had been edited at all. Another example, in a novel written by one of my favourite authors about 100 pages into the book a character's name suddenly changed from Sharon to Susan, and then about 100 pages later she was Sharon again! That really annoyed me- the first time I saw the name Susan, I was thinking who? Susan- who is that? It didn't take long to realize it was an editing error- a big one!</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 19px;">Any book that is published should be free of spelling and grammatical errors, with the exception of ARCs of course!</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">2. Writing in books - I just hate when I get a "new to me" book, and discover that it has been written in, or had words underlined or circled or whatever! It drives me crazy! </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">(the only exception to this is a BCID#)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> The book that I mentioned in my first point was so poorly edited, that I REALLY wanted to get out a red pen and correct all the errors. Of course, I didn't. I just think that books were meant to be read, valued, treasured, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">and</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> writing in them is disrespectful to both the book and the author.</span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 19px;">3. Dog- earring pages in a book that is not yours- Ok I am not a big fan of dogearring pages, but if you want to dogear the pages of YOUR books, whatever it's your book! A book that you have borrowed from me, or the library, is NOT your book-DON'T dogear the pages!!</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 19px;">4. Food particles in books - GROSS!!EWWWW!!YUCK!! I recently borrowed a book from the library, after waiting on the waiting list for about 4 months, and had to return it without reading it! I started reading it, and after the first 5 pages or so, I started to notice orange staining. You know, the orange stains you get on your fingers when you eat cheetos. Those will transfer to the pages of a book, when you use your fingertips to turn the pages! About 10 pages in, 2 pages were stuck together by something that had been dropped in the center of the page, once the page was turned, it stuck to the one in front of it. I am not sure what it was but I am leaning towards jam, jello, or even worse snot! I stopped reading there, but did a quick flip through and noticed that there were more pages that were stuck together! I returned the book, and pointed it out to the clerk and mentioned that not only was I disgusted by this, but I was disappointed that I had waited so long on a waiting list and because of someone else's lack of respect for library books, I didn't get to read it, so I would like a different copy. Of course I had to go back on the waiting list (at the bottom of course). I also suggest that she make a note on the account of the previous borrower, so that next time her card is swiped it would come up, and that maybe they could give her a gentle reminder that if she can't eat while reading without making a mess of their books, she should refrain from eating while reading, because other readers like me think it is GROSS!! (Rant over!)</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 19px;">5. Too much description- Obviously the setting and characters need to be described, and yes I love description, especially when it is done so well that you can really picture it. However, I HATE when so much time is spent describing an object that I start to get annoyed and want to skip over it. I once read a book where the other spent so much time describing an ashtray that I wanted to be able to reach in and smash the damn thing!! I got it after the first paragraph, and if I hadn't I would have after the first page, I really don't care that much about the ashtray, and now that I have spent ten minutes reading about it, I am not really that interested in what was going on before that, as I am now annoyed!</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 19px;">6. Price/Sale Stickers- I hate when stickers are placed on the cover of a book! I don't like the look of it when there is a sticker on the cover of one of my books, and I hate when I try to peel it off and it either leaves a little bit of the paper or just the adhesive on it! </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 19px;">7. Library Barcode Stickers - I just hate when the library barcode sticker is placed on the back of the covering part of the synopsis. I mean, can it not be placed over the UPC code and ISBN number. If I want to know the ISBN number, I can look in the book and find that with all the copyright and publishing info. I can't find the text on the back cover anywhere else in the book!! </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 19px;">8. Spoilers- Sure, sometimes I want a bit of a spoiler, so I will look for one. However, when I am reading a review I would like to know that there are going to be spoilers so that I can decide whether or not I want to read the review at that point. If I decide not to read your spoiler, chances are once I am done reading the book, I will come back and read your review. Chances are I won't come back and read any of your reviews if I just read one that spoiled a book for me because you didn't warn me that it would contain spoilers!</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 19px;">9. hmmm, not sure what to call this one, it is similar to number 8, but has nothing to do with reviews online, or in papers etc. I just hate when I am talking to someone, or even chatting online, posting in a discussion thread in a group I belong to on goodreads.com, and I mention the title of a book I am reading and they ask " Did you get to the part where........." My first thought is always " No, I didn't and am not so sure I will! Now that I know what happens, why keep reading this when I have hundreds of books on my tbr shelf! </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 19px;">10. Characters that start every sentence they speak with the name of the person they are speaking to. I didn't realize how much it bothered me until I read (or partially read) the book that I was referring to in my first point. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; line-height: 19px;">So, I was able to make it to 10!! I think I might even be able to come up with another 10! <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"> Since it is Top Ten Tuesday I will stop here. I will stop as soon as I point out that tiny text drives me crazy too! </span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What are your book/reading related pet peeves?? </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/264/F778F24D9B20608E3DC92034995E1142.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a>Luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15406358193003579148noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2688571878801656497.post-41087638661539313402011-03-22T21:00:00.003-04:002011-03-22T21:03:17.490-04:00Lucky Leprechaun Giveaway WinnerMy giveaway for the Lucky Leprechaun Giveaway Hop is now over. There were a couple of comments posted before I was able to turn off the comment option. Because it was my fault, I did allow the entries.<br />
I wasn't really sure what people would think of the prize I had chosen to give away.<br />
Before I announce the winner, I want to thank Kathy and Cindy for hosting the hop, and I also want to thank everyone that entered.<br />
I used random.org to choose the winner, and the winner is...............<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Wendy</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;">Congratulations Wendy! I will be emailing you shortly. (First, I need to get my son to bed!!)</div><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/264/F778F24D9B20608E3DC92034995E1142.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a>Luhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15406358193003579148noreply@blogger.com0