Author: Ambrosia
The Challenge Report
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.
May Book List
April Page Total: 3784 pages
1st-3rd The Apothecary’s Daughter by Julie Klassen 416 pages
4th-7th- A perfect waltz by Anne Gracie 341pages
8th-11th-A rake’s vow by Stephanie Laurens 374 pages
12th-15th- The perfect rake by Anne Gracie 360 pages
16th-18th- Marked by P.C Cast and Kristin Cast 306 pages
19th-21st-The Wild Irish by Robin Maxwell 391 pages
21st-23rd- Blue bloods by Melissa De La Cruz 302 pages
24th-Dating Mr. Darcy by Sarah Arthur 187 pages
25th-27th- Betrayed by P.C Cast and Kristin Cast 310 pages
28th-31st-Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruz 305 pages
If I get ahead of schedule: Order of the Phoenix by J.K Rowling 870 pages
Friday Finds #9
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.
Booking Through Thursday: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?
Button Burp
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
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
Musing Monday #9 Non Fiction
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.