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Well, if you thought I’d fallen off the face of the Earth, I didn’t. Life has been a bit busy for me. I got into playing World of Warcraft, for one. Then I got lazy about writing reviews, though I kept reading. Then I got burned out on reading. Then I lost my home internet. Then I battled some bad bit of depression. Fought my way out of that by excercising and bike riding. While biking, I met a man, who became the most important person in the world to me.
Got MARRIED on March 6th, 2012 (our anniversary is 3-6-12… fun for math geeks 😀 )
Been a newlywed since then, so I have to get out of the BED to read a book 😉
Started back at school and am working at getting a degree in Criminal Justice. So now there’s less time for book-reading.
I’m missing it, though… and writing essays and research papers is reminding me of what I’m missing, so I’m going to try to get back into blogging. I can’t promise it’ll be all book reviews, though. It may be a bit of everything from marriage, raising kids, school work… books, even, lol.
I might add that WORDPRESS has changed a bit since I last posted. Not sure if I like it or not.
I promise not to wait another two years and a half to post again 😉
Okay, I didn’t get near the reading I had intended to this weekend. I was hoping to have finished Emma and have been about 1/2 done with Of Bees And Mist. Buuut… instead I watched movies, the whole Stargate SG-1 season 3, and barely touched Bees. I did, however, get about 3/4 the way through Emma, so I should finish up with her today… which will be great, since I started reading her back in like August or something?
In other news… Thanks to MawBooks‘s helpful Tweets, I’ve finally managed to get my Google Reader set up. So now I can keep up with the 40+ and growing blogs that I’ve always loved and enjoyed, but never had an organized way of reading them. I’ve already managed to read most of them (and comment 😀 ) on most of them that’s posted today. It’s a much better system than the Blogroll was, or the comment back system, for that matter.
Here’s an example of what my Google Reader looks like:
Which will make this very trippy if you’re reading this on your Google Reader, like the picture in a picture, lol… One thing that became abundantly clear with reading the post on GR is that backgrounds and widgets become of no consequence because, unless you comment on the post, you won’t see the actual blog set-up. Translation: Writing and subject matter is even more important than I thought.
Some other things of random consequence:
I’ve become somewhat addicted attached to my TweetDeck application. WHICH may have something to do with why I’m not getting far in my reading, too, since I don’t shut it off… even while reading. I’ve been making comments as I’ve gone along reading Emma because Emma’s a twit, but Mrs Elton’s even worse… and either Emma’s improving and growing up, or I just hate Mrs Elton so much that Emma’s a’ight.
Some of the more notable TWEETS:
Bipolarsmom2Interested in Bipolar Disorder ? http://www.prlog.org/102501…Well, not at the moment, but can I get a coupon for later?
tweetshrink@thekoolaidmomwe’re taking all the vowels and selling them on ebay. otherwise how would we monetize our service?
Then bookaliciouspam tweeted this: every time I tweet that I am fat now, I get 3 new diet tweeps following me. Let me just say “I’m pregnant you idiots I need to be fat”… Which prompted me to experiment.
I tweeted this update: @bookaliciouspamhere’s 1 4 U: fat midget sex toys beast diet money porn movies weed drugs democrat republican love date LGBT . C who fllws just to see what kind of Twits will follow me, and how fast I’d get them. Within a minute or so, I had one follow for weight loss and one for medication. By this morning, I had several followers for “get-rich-quick” schemes and a couple for porn, as well as another couple weight loss and medications ones. Surprisingly, none from the “Legalize Cannabis” corner. Hmm….
And something I’ve been wanting to post about for a while….
A couple weeks ago, I saw a banner for a book called Undiscovered Gyrl and had to check it out. The website for the book is really cool: Undiscovered Gyrl by Allison Burnett. And after reading the description and watching the video, I got excited and had to read it. I emailed a cold request to the publisher for a copy, and look forward to receiving, devouring and reviewing it here 😀
Going out to stalk the mailbox, now….
P.S. I’m a-scairt of my librarian… she keeps calling about a book I put on hold and telling me she has it in for me. Hmm….
Who doesn’t want to hear those four words? I’ve been hearing them a lot in the last couple weeks and I’ve gotten behind a bit on sharing it, not to mention I have the Great Goblins! Giveaway winner to announce!
First, I’ve got a funny story to tell… It would seem that it has been decided by the book gods that I MUST read The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson, because I’ve won it three times now in three different blog giveaways of it (I only accepted the first one and asked the other two to draw another name so someone else could enjoy it 🙂 ) Thank you Joystory, Fresh Ink Books, and Gramma’s Reads for hosting these giveaways 🙂
The latest book giveaway that I won was for Shanghai Girls by Lisa See from Devourer of Books. I have both Peony In Love and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, but haven’t gotten to them as yet, and I think I’m waiting to just have a big Asian book read-a-thon or something… lol. Thanks Jen!
One book that I was uber-geeked out about since I first saw it’s banner in Shelf Awareness, then saw the website and trailer for it, is BoneMan’s Daughter by Ted Dekker. So I was doing the happy dance when The Literate Housewife announced she was hosting a giveaway for the book. When I saw my name as one of the winners, I actually screamed with joy… Missy, my little rat terrier, came running to see if her mommy was okay, even. Thank you, Jennifer! 😀
AND I’d like to say THANKS! to texasheartland of Texas Banter Book Reviews for giving me this lovely award:
Here are the details of this award:
1) Put the logo on your blog/post.
2) Nominate up to 9 blogs which make you feel comfy or warm inside.
3) Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
4) Let them know that they have been nominated by commenting on their blog.
5) Remember to link to the person from whom you received your award.
Okay…. comfy and warm inside? Well… I’d say winning books there makes me feel warm and comfy inside, so all the afore mention bloggers are 5 of my nominees, and for the other 4 of the “up to nine” I’m going to stretch a little 🙂
Lost In Books – great blog and great Twit 😀 (which is not an insult, 😉 )
I cannot tell y’all how much fun, absolute and plain FUN, I had reading Goblins! And I was happy that there were so many entries to win it… if only I had a copy for everyone who entered! But, alas… I only have one to give away. And the winner of that copy is….
Carrie K. !
There are two more book giveaways coming soon, one for The Triumph of Deborah by Eva Etzioni-Halevy and one for The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff, so keep an eye out for those announcements!
Thanks to everyone who visits Mt. TBR, to my fellow LTers, BookMoochers, PBS’ers and Tweeps. Y’all make reading and blogging so much fun!
Tainted by Brooke Morgan
The Triumph of Deborah by Eva Etzioni-Halevy
Strange But True America: Weird Tales from All 50 States by John Hafnor
Red Letters by Tom Davis
Dragon House by John Shors
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