1. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
2. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder
3. Pinocchio by C. Collodi
4. Andersen's Fairy Tales (great early 20th century version; illustrated, some of the front pages missing)
5. The Giver by Lois Lowry

authorwithin  personally invited me to join the team!  I am never invited to join teams, so, in hopes of doing everything right, I'm TOTALLY COPYING HER POST (b/c I don't follow directions well at ALL, see:  ELIZA'S COOKING FIASCOS).

Team Raving Pen needs your help! So all my friends out there in blogging land, if you haven't already joined a team, please join ( Read more... )

24-hour Read-A-Thon this Saturday, starting 8AM EST.  JOIN US IN THE FUN!  There will be challenges and prizes and blogging and stuff!  Do sign up, my peeps!

My list o' books:

The Shack by William P. Young (I have to get it over with)
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

and another book I hope to finish reading.

YayBooks!

MG and YA writers?  You have to go add slappy11  to your regular reading list.  He's one of my friend's sons, and HE IS YOUR AUDIENCE if you're trying to write anything for MG and YA.  Technically, he's still supposed to just be venturing into MG, but he's WAY AWESOME and an INCREDIBLE WRITER and GETS BOOKS.

So go, read, introduce yourself, ask questions ( Read more... )

Five awesome things on a chilly Friday afternoon.

1.  Received package ofanghara 's WORLDWEAVERS series.  Dove into said series.  Loving said series.  Fangirling to follow, I'm sure.  Thea is so totally a young Hayden Panettiere in my brain.  This will easily lend itself to icon making.  Also, it reminds me that I have a bunch of Heroes to catch up on, and ( Read more... )

Lots of catch-up to do.  I didn't even crack open my MacBook yesterday.  THE BUSY IS UPON ME!

Okay.  Where did I leave off?  Thursday night.  Writing.  LOTS OF GOOD WRITING OF WHICH I AM NOT ASHAMED!  Wrote a scene I was nervous about, since it's the same basic scene as in both the first draft and the revision-that-failed.  I had to keep the same ( Read more... )

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I started writing this post when I was feeling great, and doing the evaluations.

When I pick up a book, I really, really want to like it.  I want to be all Fangirl-Squee about it.

Even if I'm dreading reading a book for whatever reason (i.e.The Shack), I want to be proven wrong.  I want to be surprised.

I do not want to feel like I wasted my time.

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I spent almost all of yesterday either in the bathroom or in bed, electric blanket on high.  Stomach virus or something like it.  I don't think it was food poisoning, because I haven't eaten anything different than Boy or Babe.  And I had a temp of 100 last night.  But maaaan, I felt bad.  It really sucked because I was finally going to hang with ( Read more... )

Church this morning.  On the way, it was a complete white-out.  And slipalee.  Eek!

I posted my review of EYES LIKE STARS over on my main review Web site, but, um, my love for this book cannot be contained to a single post.

SO HERE IS MORE!  PLUS FANGIRLY ICON OF LUUUUUVVVV!  I want Bertie to be my friend!  Will she be my friend, Lisa?  Will she?

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