This has been a very busy week! Reading, blogging, and real life has been a driven affair. I’ve read and reviewed Dough: A Memoir by Mort Zachter and Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. I’m also halfway through The White Mary by Kira Salak, which is a really good book… Right now, I’m in the Krit Village eating cassowary bird meat and admiring a Krit boy’s magic object: A Pulitzer Prize gold medal. And I’m nibbling on Why You Shouldn’t Eat Your Boogers by Francesca Gould… It’s quite the conversation starter, though not dinner reading.
I know, I know… last Sunday I said it was only going to be ARCs this week, as I am behind on them, and I hadn’t intended to read all of Rant, but I wanted a book on CD while I was working in the kitchen (I read and listen along) and got caught up in it. It’s really weird and mind-bending, and I like that kind of reading. ALSO, not dinner reading. The Booger book is in my purse to read while out and about.
Next up on the report: I managed to knock out three ARCs (well, two and a half with White Mary only half finished), and got three in the mail last week: Surviving Ben’s Suicide by C. Comfort Shields, Stealing Athena by Karen Essex, and Tan Lines by J.J. Salem. Well at least I’m even. This week, the plan is One More Yearby Sana Krasikov, Tan Lines by J.J. Salem, and The Aviary Gate by Kate Hickman. It would be lovely to be able to fit a fourth in there, but next week’s the County Fair, and I doubt I’ll find any peace until it’s over. “PLEASE MOM!! Can we go?!?”
AND NOW, an update on the $20 Borders gift card giveaway! The response has been overwhelming for My First Ever Giveaway! As of right now, there are a total of 465 entries… which means it’s now a $20 and $10 Borders gift card giveaway! When it hits 500, I’ll add a $5 gift card, and since I’m certain we’ll hit that, HERE IS THE NEW SCOOP:
If it hits 600 entries, I will add a second $10 Borders gift card! That will make 4 prizes totalling FORTY-FIVE DOLLARS!
So my question is, any suggestions on what should be pictured on the gift cards? They have “The Giving Tree” and “Spiderwick Cronicles fairies” and a couple others at my Waldenbooks.
AND DON’T FORGET TO ENTER TO WIN!
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In the Shadow of Mt. TBR 
Congrats on sooo many entries! I think that whatever card is the cutest, that is is the one that you should buy.
Wow, you received so many entries! I’m pretty sure it’ll hit the 600 mark…anything is possible. 😀
Love the idea of The Giving Tree!
Congrats on all the entries for your contest. =) Its such a wonderful idea. I think that you should pick up whatever cards you are drawn to most. This will then let the givee see a little bit of your personality as they are on the reciveing end of your generosity.
I vote for *The Giving Tree*, it is so appropriate!
What a great number of entries.
I’m drowning in books. I need to get to White Mary soon and I received a copy of One More Year earlier this week. If I hired a maid, do you think I’d have more time to read? If only money grew on trees . . .
oh i’m so excited, i hope i’m a winner
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