~Spring Into Summer - Update #4~

Update:

• Total Books Read: 0
• Total Pages Read: 160
• Book I'm Currently Reading: "The Midwife's Confession" by Diane Chamberlain.
• Books Read Since Last Update: N/A
• Pages Read since last update: N/A
• Total time read: 5 hours
  
• How I'm currently feeling:  Feverish, and sluggish. Took a break to have lunch so am even further behind on my reading, but enjoying the challenges and my book! :)
  
  Mini Challenge:
  
  Below is a puzzle made up of pictures - but the pictures actually denote the title of an upcoming book. Hint: It's an adult novel published by Simon & Schuster, set to release on July 5th, 2011. Leave your answers in the comments section if you figure it out! I'll provide the answer in my next update! :D Have fun...
  

~Spring Into Summer - Update #3~

Update:

• Total Books Read: 0
• Total Pages Read: 105
• Book I'm Currently Reading: "The Midwife's Confession" by Diane Chamberlain.
• Books Read Since Last Update: N/A
• Pages Read since last update: N/A
• Total time read: 4 hours
• How I'm currently feeling: Tired. I've been sick with a fever & a sore throat, and as much as I want to continue reading, my head is heavy, and I'm feeling sluggish and tired. My pace has been super slow because of being sick too! :(

Mini Challenge:

The Shaman wiped the sweat off of his forehead, and squinted in concentration. But being a 7th generation Shaman, he knew that all of his work was merely a combination of science and faith. One without the other, and the charm of it all dissipated. He aimed the laser at the emaciated billy goat in front of him, and fired. After a resounding pop and a bright flash of light, out of the goat's butt popped out a lime!

"Drat!" He glared at the poor, indifferent goat, and reprimanded him. "I need you to be dropping lemons, not limes!"

~Spring Into Summer - Update #2~

Update:

• Total Books Read: 0
• Total Pages Read: 84
• Book I'm Currently Reading: "The Midwife's Confession" by Diane Chamberlain.
• Books Read Since Last Update: N/A
• Pages Read since last update: N/A
• Total time read: 2 hours.
• How I'm currently feeling: Again, I'm worried that I'm not really reading fast enough (as you can tell by my updates) - but it's because there's so much to do, I'm only reading in between my errands/work. It's not 2 straight hours of reading - but I wish that was the case! :S

Mini Challenge:

Create a "Wordle" - The wordle for my blog is pretty well-suited to my blog. Apparently, "books" is the most commonly used word (are you surprised!?), and then "read", "supernaturally", "love","shopping" etc. I'd say that's pretty darn accurate! :) So here's my Wordle - hope you enjoy! 

~Spring Into Summer - Update #1~

Update:

• Total Books Read: 0
• Total Pages Read: 67
• Book I'm Currently Reading: "The Midwife's Confession" by Diane Chamberlain.
• Books Read Since Last Update: N/A
• Pages Read since last update: N/A
• Total time read: 40 minutes.
• How I'm currently feeling: Worried I won't be able to complete my goal given that I have so many things to do later on during the day. But going to continue to read.

Mini Challenge:

What is your favorite and least favorite movie adaptation of a book. 

Favorite book-movie adaptation: I believe my favorite book-to-movie adaptation was Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. You see, as much as I absolutely LOVE the Harry Potter adaptations, because they are so creative, Jurassic Park was my first foray into a "fantasy" like novel, which was turned into a movie. It was the first book of it's kind that I had read, and it being brought to life was just so absolutely exciting for me. Plus, as much as the book had made me interested in dinosaurs, I still didn't do half the research that the movie had employed; the result of which was the absolutely life-like dinosaur models, which totally surpassed my expectations. I loved it! 

Least favorite book-movie adaptation: My least favorite book-to-movie adaptation was "The Scarlet Letter", which starred Demi Moore. The Scarlet Letter was one of my most favorite classic novels, and the script was not an adaptation of the book at all. So MANY facts were changed, and I never really saw a reason why this was done. The beauty of that book lay in the amazing literary devices employed in it - such as allegory, and some of its biblical illusions. None of those were properly explored in the movie. I absolutely despise it when they change facts, historical facts at that, because that's not innovation, that's re-invention - and you cannot re-invent a classic! 

~Spring Into Rummer Read-a-Thon~

This post is to announce to the world that I'm participating in the Spring into Summer read-a-thon hosted by Enna Isilee of Squeaky Books!

This read-a-thon is going to be so great! It's two days where you try do NOTHING but read. It's a great chance to get rid of some of those books that have been sitting on your TBR pile forever.

But that's not all! There will also be awesome mini-challenges and a TON of giveaways! In fact, just for signing up you are entered to win a $25 gift card to Amazon! SO GO SIGN UP! And if you say that HIRA HASNAIN sent you, you'll get 5 extra entries to win that gift card! CLICK HERE to enter to win, and know all there is to know about the read-a-thon.

Here's my goal:

I plan to participate on: both days, the ENTIRE weekend, really.
I plan to read:  At least 830 pages
I hope to read: "Midwife's Confession" by Diane Chamberlain and "Very Bad Men" by Harry Dolan, and possibly finish "The Sweetness of Tears" by Nafisa Haji

Well, have you signed up yet? DO IT NOW!

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP

~Sunday Stew - June 12th, 2011~

Sunday Stew is a Weekly Meme hosted Here at Books Devoured

Bookmark of the Week

This is not actually a bookmark but is, in fact, a piece of cloth. I had been shopping with my mom at Jo-Ann's one day, and I saw it, and instantly fell in love. It totally reminded me of my uncle's darling (albeit slightly temperamental) Tibetan terrier named Cedric (pictured below). Of course, my mother saw no reason for me to have it, since we don't have any pets - but the lady at the counter was a darling, and cut me a piece, and I now use it as a bookmark. 

Around The Web:

 

"DREAM" is a soon to be launched free book giveaway site bringing book lovers FREE copies of new books released via authors and publishers. All you have to do share the book on Twitter and Facebook, and write a short review on it - that's easy peasy, right? They are projected to launch towards the end of June, or early July. So keep an eye out for them! But in order to receive an invite from them, you have to be on their invite list, for which you have to sign up. So, what are you waiting for? Click on the "DREAM" banner up top, and sign up right NOW! You can also find the "DREAM" Team on Twitter - make sure you follow them for any and all updates! :)

Around Me: 

Okay, not very much has been going on around me, yet again. I did, however, go shoe-shopping last week. Actually, the truth is, I went shopping for my DAD! It's Father's Day, and in addition to that, his birthday is coming up (on the 18th of this month!). I went with my mom, who (for a mom) has some AMAZING taste. I mean, I'm not too into dressing up and what not. But I love shoes, make-up and purses/bags - and my mom has excellent taste in all those (and clothes too, me...enh!) so she's almost always my shopping partner. I bought the following beauties.

I fell in love with these heels, I felt sexy just wearing them along with my ratty screen tee, and my ratty jeans! lol :P But the next pair are the ones I ABSOLUTELY fell in LOVE with - because not only are they sexy, but incredibly comfortable as hell well.

Anyhow, I hope you enjoyed this week's ~Sunday Stew~, I definitely enjoyed writing it. With this, I conclude this week's Sunday Stew post! Thank you for reading, feel free to leave me any comments/feedback you may like. I wish you a blessed rest of the week, and that you'll continue to visit! :)

The "Supernaturally" Awesome Giveaway by Kiersten White

Kiersten White is the tiny, albeit infinitely adorable, author of "Paranormalcy" and her book "Supernaturally" is out next month! In honor of the release, Kiersten is giving away THREE copies of "Supernaturally" to three lucky winners! :) 

All you have to do is look at this GORGEOUS cover of "Supernaturally", and write a FAKE SYNOPSIS of 150 words of less, about what YOU think this book would be about. Now, remember, this is a fake synopsis - not a guess at what is really happening in this book! 

Make sure to check out the rules and guidelines, and to enter the contest, over on Kiersten's blog. You can read the ACTUAL synopsis for the book here. And without further ado, I present to you, MY synopsis of "Supernaturally" by Kiersten White.

"Supernaturally" by Kiersten White

The clock is about to strike 12:00 midnight, and Kierra is stuck in this unkempt field of flowers, waiting on Prince Charmin (he's the prince of the toilet paper conglomerate, duh!) - who is three hours late. She's tired, she's hungry, and she's uncomfortable in this dress fashioned out of her stepmother's drapes. To make matters worse, she has a mysterious rash on her neck which she isn't sure is because of the dress, or because she's allergic to perennials.

Will her Prince arrive before her glass slippers turn to furry bunny slippers? Will he kiss her passionately, and will his kiss release her from indentured servitude to seven really tiny men? Will it be a kiss of true love? Or one of mild, easily-fizzled-out infatuation...and how will she tell the difference?