I have read a lot of inspirational romance in the past few years.

This post has been building for about three of those years.

Things that annoy me in Christian fiction

I really am not going to tolerate much more of these things:

• Stories in which the women are stronger in their faith than the men. GIVE ME SOME STRONG GUY LEADERS. Also? GIRL NO SAVE ( Read more... )

This challenge comes is And the Nominees Are and it's SUPER HARD! I'm going to be thinking about this the whole hour, probably!

Favorite Female Character in a book:  Jo March in Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys.  Easy!
Favorite Male Character in a book: *headdesk!* WHY OH WHY DO YOU TORTURE ME SO?  Maybe Peeta in The Hunger Games books? I ( Read more... )

 For the Kick Off of Champions mini-challenge:

What have you surrounded yourself with for these early hours of the challenge besides your books? Is there a coffee thermos, lucky book mark, snacks, pillow.... We want to know how you have prepared so you do not have to leave your cozy reading space (by the way - we'd like to know what is too.... ( ( Read more... )

 Yep, once again it's time for the 24 hour read-a-thon!

Where are you reading from today?  Reading from home! I'm sure I'll split my time up between my cozy bed, the cozy library, and the living room.  And if it warms up like it's supposed to, I'll definitely hang outside some.

3 facts about me …

How many books do you have in your TBR pile for the ( Read more... )

 The ms is out into the world. THANK YOU SO MUCH, lovely peeps who are reading it!  Especially the four of you who have suffered through previous drafts to get to this one!

I had another dental appointment today.  It must have been more stressful than I thought because tonight after Bible study, I came home, hopped online for a few minutes, and then ( Read more... )

So...

My best bud and I love to read, right?  And our birthdays are really close together.  And it's snowy outside.  So it only makes sense to read all night once in a while, right? Right?

We found a local B&B, The Inn at the Green, found out we could afford it, and dude, we're totally staying there tonight, reading, and we're both about 100 pages ( Read more... )

 Okay, so I didn't read a lot of new YA/MG releases.  There was a TON of Debs books I didn't get to because of scheduling, other reviews I promised to do, judging, critiquing, and, um, yeah...the whole deteriorating eyesight issue.

I did read 71 books last year.  Only 16 of them were 2009 YA/MG releases.

The top 5 books of 2009:
1. Eyes Like Stars ( Read more... )

I am home from SC, I have run errands, I have unpacked, I have had lunch, I have my jammies on, and now I'm going to get as much of the Read-A-Thon in as I can today.  Already my eyes are tired, and I've only just sat down!

Eat to Read Mini-Challenge Entry

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Just as I'm winding things down from this summer and getting everything ironed out for fall, I'm leaving again.

Miss V and I will be road tripping to South Carolina mid-week, staying until sometime next week.  This is a Cool Thing (TM) because I read Paper Towns last week and am all about hitting the road right now.

I will be taking sboman 's revision ( Read more... )

Last Saturday I had a complete manuscript-related breakdown that culminated in big fat baby tears and me saying, "This is STUPID and it makes NO SENSE and I HATE IT and CAN YOU PLEASE TORCH MY WRITING FOREVERRRRR ( Read more... )