MS Readathon and environmentally friendly pads
Okay here's a thing for you guys and in return a little input on my idea would be appreciated. ;)
So. klingonlady did an excellent post about feminine hygiene products mostly focusing on re-usable and/or more organic ones. I've always wondered what products were out there since reading The Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce but you don't see them in your average supermarket. So its a really interesting read! Its over here. When I have a job I'll look into getting some to try out most definitely.
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Now, another thing I've always thought about (well by 'always' I just mean a long time, I don't think I came into this world thinking about books and feminine hygiene products....or did I?).
Ever since primary school I wanted to participate in the MS Readathon in school! And then high school and then it was too late. Last year or the year before they started the Adult version, MS Novel Challenge. Same idea as the original sign-up ($10 registration fee that goes to MS Society!) read as much as you can in a 30 day period and raise as much money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society!
If I do this (I'd choose July or August for my reading month) do any of you other Aussies want to join in too, as a team? There's a secret prize for the most team members apparently. We couldn't be 'Team Awesome' because that's already taken but, still we don't need to be *that* obvious. ;)
They have a few lists of books to choose from to try and read as many in the month as you can. I also have a list that I started and thought I could try if I participate.
So a poll (because what else do I love more?). I'll list the book lists here and then you can pick over them. :P The lists are over here if you want to check out the covers or blurbs. From 'Old School', 'Young at Heart' and 'Because We Said So' I have read one of the books already but that's it!
Reading is the New Black (something for the girls list)
Alphabet Weekends, Author: Elizabeth Noble
Foursome, Author: Jane Fallon
House Rules, Author: Jodi Picoult
I Say Tomato, Author: Katie Wall
Jemima J, Author: Jane Green
Stolen, Author: Lesley Pearse
Sushi for Beginners, Author: Marian Keyes
The Help, Author: Kathryn Stockett
The Lost Book of Salem, Author: Katherine Howe
The Virginia Monologues: Twenty Reasons Why Growing Old is Great, Author: Virgina Ironside
To Love, Honour And Betray: He Made Love, And Now It's War!, Author: Kathy Lette
Old-school
Anna Karenina, Author: Leo Tolstoy
Around the World in Eighty Days, Author: Jules Verne
Don Quixote, Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Jany Eyre, Author: Charlotte Bronte
Little Women, Author: Louisa May Alcott
Nineteen Eighty-Four: Anniversary Edition, Author: George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice, Author: Jane Austen
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Author: Mark Twain
To Kill A Mockingbird, Author: Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights, Author: Emily Bronte +read
For the Young at Heart.
Anne of Green Gables, Author: L.M Montgomery
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Author: Roald Dahl
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Author: Jeff Kinney
Prada & Prejudice, Author: Mandy Hubbard
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, Author: Michael Davis
The Jungle Book, Author: Rudyard Kipling
The Secret Garden, Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Undys: Let the Games Begin, Author: Michael Wagner
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Author: L. Frank Baum
Tomorrow, When The War Began, Author: John Marsden +read
Better Than the Movie.
A Clockwork Orange, Author: Anthony Burgess
Misery, Author: Stephen King
My Left Foot, Author: Christy Brown
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Author: Ken Kesey
Schindler’s List, Author: Thomas Keneally
Silence of the Lamb, Author: Thomas Harris
The Devil Wears Prada, Author: Lauren Weisberger
The Hunt for Red October, Author: Tom Clancy
The Notebook, Author: Nicholas Sparks
Twilight, Author: Stephanie Meyer
Buff Your Brain
Madoff: The Man Who Stole $65 Billion, Author: Erin Arvedlund
Alone in Berlin, Author: Hans Fallada
Driven to Distraction, Author: Jeremy Clarkson
Moscow Rules, Author: Daniel Silva
Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House, Author: Mark Halperin John Heilemann
Terra Insegura, Author: Edward Willett
The Chase, Author: Clive Cussler
The Orpheus Deception, Author: David Stone
The Second Father: An Insider's Story of Cops, Crime and Corruption, Author: Domenico Cacciola & Charlie Cacciola
Tokyo Vice, Author: Jake Adelstein
Under Enemy Colours, Author: Russell Sean Thomas
Home Grown (Aussie authors)
A Fraction of the Whole, Author: Steve Toltz
Book Thief, Author: Markus Zusak
Breath, Author: Tim Winton
Parrot and Olivier in America, Author: Peter Carey
Seven Little Australians, Author: Ethel Turner
Siddon Rock, Author: Glenda Gues
The Bodysurfers, Author: Robert Drewe
The Family Farm, Author: Fiona Palmer
The World Beneath, Author: Cate Kennedy
Typewriter Music, Author: David Malouf
We Don't Live Here Anymore, Author: Matt Nable
Because We Said So (recs by MS team)
48 Shades of Brown, Author: Nick Earles
Dark Country, Author: Bronwyn Parry
Ella Minnow Pea, Author: Mark Dunn
Indelible Ink, Author: Fiona McGregor
Kite Runner, Author: Khaled Hosseini +read
Marley and Me, Author: John Gorgan
Our father who wasn't there, Author: David Carlin
The Bronze Horseman, Author: Paullina Simmons
Mixed Bag
American Tabloid, Author: James Ellroy
Chinese Cinderella, Author: Adeline Yen Mah
Dear Fatty, Author: Dawn French
Earthsea Quartet: A Wizard Of Earthsea; The Tombs Of Atuan; The Farthest Shore; Tehanu synopsis, Author: Ursula Le Guin
Every Day In Tuscany: Seasons Of An Italian Life, Author: Frances Mayes
Fragrant Rice, Author: Janet De Neefe
House At Salvation Creek, Author: Susan Duncan
Lunar Park, Author: Bret Easton Ellis
My Life in Verse: A Journey through Poetry, Author: Alexis Kirschbaum
Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories, Author: Ian Fleming
My list so far (Maggie is on there a lot because I'd like to read her work before she comes to Australia for the Melbourne Writer's Festival end of August/start Sep)
Just to make it clear below are six books so far...
The Wolves of Mercy Falls Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, & Forever) by Maggie Stiefvater
Books of Faerie (Lament & Ballad) by Maggie Stiefvater
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
So now, the poll!
Poll MS Readathon 'Novel Challenge'
So. klingonlady did an excellent post about feminine hygiene products mostly focusing on re-usable and/or more organic ones. I've always wondered what products were out there since reading The Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce but you don't see them in your average supermarket. So its a really interesting read! Its over here. When I have a job I'll look into getting some to try out most definitely.
~~~
Now, another thing I've always thought about (well by 'always' I just mean a long time, I don't think I came into this world thinking about books and feminine hygiene products....or did I?).
Ever since primary school I wanted to participate in the MS Readathon in school! And then high school and then it was too late. Last year or the year before they started the Adult version, MS Novel Challenge. Same idea as the original sign-up ($10 registration fee that goes to MS Society!) read as much as you can in a 30 day period and raise as much money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society!
If I do this (I'd choose July or August for my reading month) do any of you other Aussies want to join in too, as a team? There's a secret prize for the most team members apparently. We couldn't be 'Team Awesome' because that's already taken but, still we don't need to be *that* obvious. ;)
They have a few lists of books to choose from to try and read as many in the month as you can. I also have a list that I started and thought I could try if I participate.
So a poll (because what else do I love more?). I'll list the book lists here and then you can pick over them. :P The lists are over here if you want to check out the covers or blurbs. From 'Old School', 'Young at Heart' and 'Because We Said So' I have read one of the books already but that's it!
Reading is the New Black (something for the girls list)
Alphabet Weekends, Author: Elizabeth Noble
Foursome, Author: Jane Fallon
House Rules, Author: Jodi Picoult
I Say Tomato, Author: Katie Wall
Jemima J, Author: Jane Green
Stolen, Author: Lesley Pearse
Sushi for Beginners, Author: Marian Keyes
The Help, Author: Kathryn Stockett
The Lost Book of Salem, Author: Katherine Howe
The Virginia Monologues: Twenty Reasons Why Growing Old is Great, Author: Virgina Ironside
To Love, Honour And Betray: He Made Love, And Now It's War!, Author: Kathy Lette
Old-school
Anna Karenina, Author: Leo Tolstoy
Around the World in Eighty Days, Author: Jules Verne
Don Quixote, Author: Miguel de Cervantes
Jany Eyre, Author: Charlotte Bronte
Little Women, Author: Louisa May Alcott
Nineteen Eighty-Four: Anniversary Edition, Author: George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice, Author: Jane Austen
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Author: Mark Twain
To Kill A Mockingbird, Author: Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights, Author: Emily Bronte +read
For the Young at Heart.
Anne of Green Gables, Author: L.M Montgomery
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Author: Roald Dahl
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Author: Jeff Kinney
Prada & Prejudice, Author: Mandy Hubbard
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street, Author: Michael Davis
The Jungle Book, Author: Rudyard Kipling
The Secret Garden, Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Undys: Let the Games Begin, Author: Michael Wagner
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Author: L. Frank Baum
Tomorrow, When The War Began, Author: John Marsden +read
Better Than the Movie.
A Clockwork Orange, Author: Anthony Burgess
Misery, Author: Stephen King
My Left Foot, Author: Christy Brown
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Author: Ken Kesey
Schindler’s List, Author: Thomas Keneally
Silence of the Lamb, Author: Thomas Harris
The Devil Wears Prada, Author: Lauren Weisberger
The Hunt for Red October, Author: Tom Clancy
The Notebook, Author: Nicholas Sparks
Twilight, Author: Stephanie Meyer
Buff Your Brain
Madoff: The Man Who Stole $65 Billion, Author: Erin Arvedlund
Alone in Berlin, Author: Hans Fallada
Driven to Distraction, Author: Jeremy Clarkson
Moscow Rules, Author: Daniel Silva
Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House, Author: Mark Halperin John Heilemann
Terra Insegura, Author: Edward Willett
The Chase, Author: Clive Cussler
The Orpheus Deception, Author: David Stone
The Second Father: An Insider's Story of Cops, Crime and Corruption, Author: Domenico Cacciola & Charlie Cacciola
Tokyo Vice, Author: Jake Adelstein
Under Enemy Colours, Author: Russell Sean Thomas
Home Grown (Aussie authors)
A Fraction of the Whole, Author: Steve Toltz
Book Thief, Author: Markus Zusak
Breath, Author: Tim Winton
Parrot and Olivier in America, Author: Peter Carey
Seven Little Australians, Author: Ethel Turner
Siddon Rock, Author: Glenda Gues
The Bodysurfers, Author: Robert Drewe
The Family Farm, Author: Fiona Palmer
The World Beneath, Author: Cate Kennedy
Typewriter Music, Author: David Malouf
We Don't Live Here Anymore, Author: Matt Nable
Because We Said So (recs by MS team)
48 Shades of Brown, Author: Nick Earles
Dark Country, Author: Bronwyn Parry
Ella Minnow Pea, Author: Mark Dunn
Indelible Ink, Author: Fiona McGregor
Kite Runner, Author: Khaled Hosseini +read
Marley and Me, Author: John Gorgan
Our father who wasn't there, Author: David Carlin
The Bronze Horseman, Author: Paullina Simmons
Mixed Bag
American Tabloid, Author: James Ellroy
Chinese Cinderella, Author: Adeline Yen Mah
Dear Fatty, Author: Dawn French
Earthsea Quartet: A Wizard Of Earthsea; The Tombs Of Atuan; The Farthest Shore; Tehanu synopsis, Author: Ursula Le Guin
Every Day In Tuscany: Seasons Of An Italian Life, Author: Frances Mayes
Fragrant Rice, Author: Janet De Neefe
House At Salvation Creek, Author: Susan Duncan
Lunar Park, Author: Bret Easton Ellis
My Life in Verse: A Journey through Poetry, Author: Alexis Kirschbaum
Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories, Author: Ian Fleming
My list so far (Maggie is on there a lot because I'd like to read her work before she comes to Australia for the Melbourne Writer's Festival end of August/start Sep)
Just to make it clear below are six books so far...
The Wolves of Mercy Falls Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, & Forever) by Maggie Stiefvater
Books of Faerie (Lament & Ballad) by Maggie Stiefvater
Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
So now, the poll!
Poll MS Readathon 'Novel Challenge'