Showing posts with label fall into reading 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall into reading 2010. Show all posts

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Fall Into Reading 2010: Question #3

This year as part of the Fall Into Reading Challenge, Katrina at Callapidder Days has questions for us during the Fall.  I personally love this type of thing because it gives me something to post about and I love reading things about other people and their reading habits.

The first question and other bloggers' answers can be found here.


Do you eat and/or drink while you’re reading? Or do you keep food and liquids far away from your books?

I mainly snack when I have some chocolates before bed while reading. This involves Dove Dark Chocolate Squares (2) or a Ghiridelli Dark Chocolate (60%) Square and a Ghiridelli Dark Chocolate with the creamy mint center, depending on what I have on hand. 

For drinks, I can always be found with one by my side while reading, whether in my chair, on the front porch swing or outside in my backyard chair.  Sometimes herbal teas when I am at home during the cool months, sometimes beer or other malt beverage in the evening during the warmer months (Mike's Hard Lemonade is my personal favorite). Diet 7-Up can be found in hand in the evenings, Diet Mountain Dew during the day and a cup of Caffeine Free International Foods French Vanille Latte with Hershey's chocolate syrup and whipped cream added, yummy - that is my present addiction.  I'm not a coffee drinker but make it less and less like coffee and I'm there :)  I also almost always have a cup of Sleepytime tea while eating my chocolates before bed.

Detailed enough for you - I have eclectic drinking habits, but my chocolates are my pleasure - it's really the only snacking I do (besides nibbles of what is left of the kids foods - I have to quit that nasty habit!)

Monday, October 4, 2010

Fall Into Reading 2010: Question #1

This year as part of the Fall Into Reading Challenge, Katrina at Callapidder Days has questions for us during the Fall.  I personally love this type of thing because it gives me something to post about and I love reading things about other people and their reading habits.

The first question and other bloggers' answers can be found here.


What do you think is the biggest obstacle to your reading? What prevents you from reading as much as you’d like?

My biggest obstacle would be work - having to work 40 hours a week (which I am thankful for my job, don't get me wrong), and then come home and tend to the family things, seriously limits my time to read.

Another thing is guilt, I feel guilty wanting to read when the husband wants to watch something on tv together.  Thankfully our oldest watches a lot of stuff with him so I can go, snuggle up in the bedroom and read.  But sometimes I still feel guilty.

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Fall Into Reading 2010





You know me - I love challenges and I especially love the ones that Callapidder Days hosts.  They are easy going, just list books you would like to read, it can be modified any time and then read from September 22 - December 20.  I think I will set my goal at 45 books.  Here are some of my titles high on my tbr.

Join in Callapidder Days by signing up here, more information is available on the site.  She will be having weekly questions and other things to participate.  I look forward to the fun and the reading.

My Tentative List:


  1. I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
  2. Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten - finished 10/2
  3. You by Charles Benoit - finished 10/2
  4. Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin
  5. Love Means Zero by Daisy Jordan
  6. Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn
  7. The Unidentified  by Rae Mariz
  8. Call Me Kate by Molly Roe, Mary Garrity Slaby
  9. Sloane Hall by Libby Sternberg
  10. Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Linn
  11. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
  12. Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
  13. Hothouse Flower by Margot Berwin
  14. Solitary by Travis Thrasher
  15. What Alice Knew by Paula Marantz Cohen
  16. Don't Look Back by Lynette Eason
This is just a few - I'll mark these as I finish them and add more as I get them.