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Celebrate National Reading Month – Read with Me! #SignUp
March is National Reading Month and I invite you to “Read with Me” and share your love of reading by:
- Create a post about reading. Why do you read? Who taught you to read? Where is your favorite reading spot? What do you read? What is your favorite book? Who is your favorite book character? Or a topic about reading that is unique to YOU!
- Include the supplied banner/button on your blog sidebar for the month of March.
- Share your link on social networks and/or in your subscriber newsletter.
- Consider doing a giveaway of your favorite ebook to a random commenter. (NOT A REQUIREMENT – just a suggestion!)
There is a selection of buttons and banners below. Please forgive my meager artistic ability. Be sure to include one in your sidebar menu and link it back to the landing page. (Link found at bottom of signup page under the signup link!) If you don’t link back, visitors will NOT be able to “hop” from your blog to the next one!
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please coment below or message me on Twitter (@MsFelicia) or Instagram (@fle_d)!
Use the link below to access the Linky tools signup! (New browser will open) It will be easier for blog visitors if you sign up using the URL link directly to your reading post! If you choose to use your main URL, PLEASE make sure a link to your special post on reading is prominently posted!
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~~ My Life in Books ~~
Snapped up this idea from blogger-bud, Didi Oviatt! Please stop by Didi Oviatt, Author – and tell her I sent you! 😉
Find a book for each of your initials. I’m using books from my Review page!
F – Four (The Republic #2) by Archer Kay Leah
E – East to West by Lolita London
L – Long Time Coming (Hot Rods Book 8) by Jayne Rylon
I – If I Stayed (Let Love In)(Amish Romance) by Becca Fisher
C – Complexity (The Kinky Connect Chronicles #4) by Harper Miller
I – If Only in My Dreams (Seven Brides Seven Brothers #5) by Belle Calhoune
A – Avarice: A Hell on Earth Novella by A.C. Melody
Count your age along your bookshelf: What book is it?
Number 56 is Lucian Bane’s Reginald Bones.
Pick a book set in your city/country.
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks. The ending tears me apart, but still love the story!
Pick a book that represents a destination you’d love to travel to.
It is a purely fictional town, but after reading Farrah Rochon’s six-book series located in Maplesville, I’m always wondering why I can’t find a sleepy little southern town like that. Moments in Maplesville (Bundle Edition)
Pick a book that’s your favorite color.
Purple is my favorite color and I’m going to choose MY book, In the Best Interest of the Child, since the cover was made especially for me! *Shameless self-promotion!*
Which book do you have the fondest memories of?
Without a doubt, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye! I was a teenager and before that book, I read mostly mysteries and fairy tales. But The Bluest Eye was the first book that had me bawling like a baby and connecting with Morrison’s use of simile and hyperbole. She counts it as one of her lesser works, but for me, it’s simply the best!
Which book did you have the most difficulty reading?
The Millionaire’s Regret by Nicholas Field! And no, it’s not about some brooding, dominant, rich guy romancing some silly broad! It’s a Suspense/Thriller…which is what I had a problem with – no suspense, no thrills. I tried THREE times to read this book. It was so dry and uneventful, I’d move on to something else. I hate DNFs and tried a fourth time and stuck with it…and was rewarded with a great story and the MOTHER of all plot twists! It’s not the best book I’ve ever read, but it is tightly written…once you get past page thirty or so, however, the plot twist IS the best I’ve ever read. It’s a shame this author didn’t continue writing. (My review!)
Which book in your TBR pile will give you the biggest accomplishment when you finish it?
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideals in America by Ibram X. Kendi. If I can make it through a nearly six hundred page book about ideals, beliefs, and practices that only serve to destroy, I will more than deserve the several drinks I’ll have after I finish.
If you enjoyed reading this, consider yourself tagged! 🙂
Celebrate National Reading Month – Read with Me! #SignUp
March is National Reading Month and I invite you to “Read with Me” and share your love of reading by:
- Create a post about reading. Why do you read? Who taught you to read? Where is your favorite reading spot? What do you read? What is your favorite book? Who is your favorite book character? Or a topic about reading that is unique to YOU!
- Include the supplied banner/button on your blog sidebar for the month of March.
- Share your link on social networks and/or in your subscriber newsletter.
- Consider doing a giveaway of your favorite ebook to a random commenter. (NOT A REQUIREMENT – just a suggestion!)
There is a selection of buttons and banners below. Please forgive my meager artistic ability. Be sure to include one in your sidebar menu and link it back to the landing page. (Link found at bottom of signup page under the signup link!) If you don’t link back, visitors will NOT be able to “hop” from your blog to the next one!
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please coment below or message me on Twitter (@MsFelicia) or Instagram (@fle_d)!
Use the link below to access the Linky tools signup! (New browser will open) It will be easier for blog visitors if you sign up using the URL link directly to your reading post! If you choose to use your main URL, PLEASE make sure a link to your special post on reading is prominently posted!
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Step Outside Your (Reading) Comfort Zone
Sitting in the doctor’s office a couple of weeks ago, I overheard two women across the room talking about books, so naturally my ears perked up! One of the women seemed quite distraught over the direction a love triangle was headed, to which the other woman quickly responded, “That’s why I only read murder mysteries. Too much drama in all those other books.”
Wait, what? Too much drama? “Other” books? Isn’t there ‘drama’ in murder mysteries? Isn’t that the point…enduring the dramatic buildup until you find out who the killer is? Had my husband not given me the “Please, please, please do not start anything” look, I’m pretty sure I would have been all over their conversation. I tweeted about it, though.
That conversation was a minor blip in my memory by the time I heard this in the liquor aisle at Albertsons (and do not ask why I was in the liquor aisle), “…she goes on and on about werewolves and such craziness. Men and women shifting into bears, kitty cats, sea otters…I can’t remember it all. Told her maybe one day, I’d read one, but I live for my vampire stories. With those and my Joyce Meyer books, I have little time for anything else.”
*Blink*
The juxtaposition of those two genres made me smile…and gave me an idea for a short story!
But, why do some of us camp out in one reading genre, never raising our heads to see what’s around us? When we ‘only’ read a certain genre/author/subject matter, we limit our possibilities. We accept the ‘usual joy’ from reading, which isn’t a bad thing. As a lifelong reader, I can’t think of any other way I’d rather pass the time. But by opening ourselves up to new genres/subjects, we could have excitement and a new sense of accomplishment! We take a journey already familiar to us that we KNOW we’ll like, when we could be traversing eras, times and cultures once foreign to us, and coming out of the experience enlightened.
Let’s face it, not ALL reading is a learning experience nor is it meant to be, but it should be a growing experience, even if it’s just in your level of enjoyment.
Browse a genre new to you today. Find something that isn’t on your ‘only’ list and dive in. You may wonder what took you so long.
Around The Blogosphere #1
Excellent reading challenge! Check out the blog, then follow the link! Step out of your comfort zone and explore. You may find a new favorite author or genre!
Okay, so my girl Codie over at Reader’s Anonymous made this awesome post about books to read in 2016, but not just any books. It’s a reading challenge where you pick books based on specific categories like reading a new series, a story from a male POV, cool shit like that. I am so down with this! Head over to her blog and check it out, then spread your reading wings. I am definitely going to give this bad boy a shot! I follow the best people:D
Nesie's Place 