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Once Upon a Read-a-thon Day 3

July 13, 2011 By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge 1 Comment

Mini Challenges! The first challenge is from Wicked Awesome Books. So in the spirit of matchmaking, I'm setting you with the task of playing cupid and shooting your arrows at two characters from different books in, what I'm calling, LET'S PLAY MATCHMAKER! I would set up David from the Wings series by Aprilynne Pike with Hermione from Harry ... Read More »

 Posted on: July 13, 2011 10:41 am By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge | Tagged With: Events, Harry Potter, readathon
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Once Upon a Read-a-thon Day 2

July 12, 2011 By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge Leave a Comment

Mini Challenges! First challenge is by YA Bliss. Top 3 Love Triangles 1. Twilight.  Super-obvious, but she set the gold standard. 2. Wings series by Aprilynne Pike.  She did a great job making each guy have strengths and weaknesses that would make it so hard to choose! 3. Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr.  It's kind of a love triangle between ... Read More »

 Posted on: July 12, 2011 8:16 am By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge | Tagged With: Events, readathon
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Once Upon a Read-a-thon Day 1

July 12, 2011 By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge Leave a Comment

End of Day 1 of the Read-a-thon at Pure Imagination. I entered both mini challenges at: IB Book Blogging The Musings of Almybnenr Though the second challenge with the close-up covers was really hard, I finally finished it!  I managed to keep both my kids alive and entertained today as well as surviving a trip to the grocery ... Read More »

 Posted on: July 12, 2011 7:22 am By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge | Tagged With: Events, readathon
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Once Upon a Read-a-Thon Kickoff!

July 11, 2011 By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge 2 Comments

I had every intention of staying up til midnight to start the read-a-thon right on time.  I fell asleep at 11:30.  Oh well.  I am going to re-read Shiver and Linger and then Forever when it comes out tomorrow (all by Maggie Stiefvater).  And if I have time, The Giver by Lois Lowry, too.  I ... Read More »

 Posted on: July 11, 2011 7:48 am By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge | Tagged With: Events, readathon
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Reading Challenge: 2011 E-Book Challenge

June 27, 2011 By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge Leave a Comment

Thanks to The Ladybug Reads... for this challenge! My favorite thing about book blogging is the community and all the fun challenges!  I {heart} my new Kindle so I thought this would be a great challenge to sign up for.  I really want to reach the Possessed level which is 50 ebooks, but we'll see :)  ... Read More »

 Posted on: June 27, 2011 7:00 am By Jessica Filed Under: Reading Challenge | Tagged With: eBook Challenge
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