The Challenge Report

May 2, 2009 - Ambrosia Leave a comment

So here goes my over all update as of May 1st. I have read 15,533 pages so far this year.

And the challenges are looking like this:

Over all Challenge : 45 out of 125 WOOHOOO!

Chic Lit Challenge: added one more book to this pile of done. So I have read 3 of 6. Half done!

Dangerous Challenge: 2 more finnished on the dangerous challenge. 8 out of 12,doing good on this one!

Historical Fiction Challenge: 2 new books read on this challenge so 4 of 10. Thats progress I say.

Themed Book Challenge: 3 out of 6 done this month. Half way to getting this one done.

What’s in a Name Challenge: 2 books completed this month for this challenge. for a total of 3 out of 6, half done. I had meant to get another read, but it was pushed back to April.

Young Adult Challenge: No New Books Read for this one from last month. But I have a bunch scheduled this month. 3 of 12 books completed.

Friday Finds #9

May 1, 2009 - Ambrosia 2 Comments

This week’s Friday Find is The New Nancy Moser book, coming out in May (she says may amazon says June 1st). I found out about this one from the author herself as she was kind enough to email me back and agreed to answer some questions for my blog. So that interview will be coming up as well.

The year is 1845. Elizabeth Barrett is a published poet–and a virtual prisoner in her own home. Blind family loyalty ties her to a tyrannical father who forbids any of his children to marry. She has resigned herself to simply existing. That is, until the letter arrives… “I love your verses with all my heart,” writes Robert Browning, an admiring fellow poet. And as friendly correspondence gives way to something more, Elizabeth discovers that Robert’s love is not for her words alone. Could it be that God might grant her more than mere existence? And can she risk defying her father in pursuit of true happiness?
Nancy Moser has crafted a romantic, emotion-charged novel based on the true story of beloved poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Super Excited.

April 30, 2009 - Ambrosia 1 Comment

I am happy joy joy happy right now. The UPS man was just here. And I had no idea what the UPS man was doing here. I had not ordered anything that I knew of. Well, he delivered me my very first book for my very first book tour! I am so excited. Hehe I don’t want to spill the beans on which book it is as the tour is not for a while yet. But I am very excited about it, and had to dance to show The Drummer that “see look look all my reading and they sent ME a book to review SEE SEE ahahaha!” I don’t think he understood it as much as he was supposed to. But, I am still happy. There is nothing like a brand new book, especially when it’s for a blog tour.

Booking Through Thursday:Worse?

April 30, 2009 - Ambrosia 4 Comments

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Which is worse?
Finding a book you love and then hating everything else you try by that author, or
Reading a completely disappointing book by an author that you love?

For me I think it is worse to read a disappointing book by an author that I love. Because you get so used to reading that author and loving all of their work. If you come up to a stinker your left going, Huh?! Or you’re left also wondering if the books you read before were actually that good or if you were just being biased. At least for me anyways, that’s how I feel.

Button Burp

April 29, 2009 - Ambrosia Leave a comment

My Fantastic Blog Designer had a little button burp thing the other day. But it is all fixed now. So if you have my button on your website, can you just grab the new code? It is all fixed now. Thank you so much.

Wicked Wednesday #3

April 29, 2009 - Ambrosia Leave a comment

Wicked Wednesday a place to be wicked to other book readers and make them get those TBR piles growing. The concept is simple. Pick a book or two and tell s about them. If its one you read tell us what you liked. If its one you found tell us about that to. Than leave a comment to let us know where to find your Wicked Wednesday titles. Make sure to link back in your posts for other people to follow Wicked Wednesday.

I found this one while watching Kathie Lee and Hoda yesterday morning. I love them. Sometimes I think my insomnia keeps me awake just to see them. But this book looks interesting to me.

From Publishers Weekly: Birds do it, bees do it, but why do humans do it? In this wide-ranging look at the evolutionary reasons for sex, physiologist and evolutionary biologist Moalem says that it’s all about shuffling the gene pool and getting rid of any unwelcome guests, such as viruses, that may have latched onto human DNA. But why is one particular person attracted to another? Moalem relays the latest research showing that smell plays a very important role in attraction, and that even our genes may influence one’s smell, and thus a person’s desirability, to others. Scientists have found that women tend to be attracted to different types of men at different points in their ovulation cycles (dark and handsome hunks at their height; sensitive, care-giving types at other times). Moalem (Survival of the Sickest) whizzes through his discussion of homosexuality, neglecting angles that would have added to the book, but readers will find thought-provoking material in his chapter on differences in sexual anatomy and on how chromosomes and body parts aren’t always what we expect them to be. Moalem writes fluidly for the general reader, and when he necessarily goes into graphic detail, he does it gracefully. (May)
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Teaser Tuesday #10

April 28, 2009 - Ambrosia 8 Comments

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!Please avoid spoilers!

“We nodded at eachother in complete historical complicity. His hazel eyes caught mine. That look was an entire conversation itself…” pg 125 The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig

I know I cheated a little and did 2 1/2 but I felt it was more of a tease.

Musing Monday #9 Non Fiction

April 27, 2009 - Ambrosia 1 Comment

This week’s post asks:
Do you read non-fiction regularly? Do you read it in a different way or place than you read fiction?
(question courtesy of Diane)

I do not read non fiction regularly. And when I do read it I don’t approach it any different than my fiction, unless it’s for a research project. Being a historian I do read non fiction but it’s not something I work into my general rotation. When I am doing a research project obviously I will pick books for that topic and generally pick it apart for what I need. If I am reading it just for pleasure, I pick whatever jumps out at me at the time.

Tech Issue

April 27, 2009 - Ambrosia Leave a comment

Blogger seems to have done something with my background. But I have emailed my designer. So hopefully it is solved soon. Til than, sorry for the white out all.

The Purple Booker

Reading is…Bigger on the inside

Author: Ambrosia