A busy, busy, busy reading week ahead.
My poor mail carrier.
November is my Un-birthday Book Club Month.
November is Cybils month.
Look at what arrived recently.
Un-Birthday Books:
    
Reading in the Wild
Italian Ways
The Novel Cure
The Literacy Cookbook
Stitches
|
Cybils Books:
         
Mysterious Traveler
The Two and Only Kelly Twins The Big Wet Balloon Patrick Eats His Peas Ant and Honey Bee: A Pair of Friends in Winter Otto's Backwards Day Poppy the Pirate Dog Blue Ocean Bob Clementine and the Spring Trip Stella Batts: Who's in Charge? |
What I Finished Last Week
As you might imagine, I read (mostly) Cybils books last week.
I'm happy to say that I've now read 30 of the 39 Easy Reader nominees and
30 of the 44 Early Chapter Book nominees.
|
What I'm Reading Now
Now I'm waiting for mail delivery so I can finish reading the last 23 Cybils nominees. Right now, I am reading my Un-Birthday Books, reading here and there in Stitches and The Literacy Cookbook and The Novel Cure and Italian Ways and Reading in the Wild. I'm also rereading The Happiness Project for book club on Tuesday and browsing through Americanah and Transatlantic for the author reading on Monday. |
Book-ish Events This Week This will be a very book-ish week. 
Monday night is the Inprint author reading in Houston.
Both Colum McCann and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be reading.
Tuesday night is book club.
We are discussing The Happiness Project.
Wednesday night is Anne Lamott in Houston,
talking about her new book, Stitches.
(This event is sold out, so I'm not sure I will be able to go.
Hope a seat will open up on Wednesday.)
|
I'm
also participating in
from
November 15 to November 30!
And what am I giving away?
What are you reading this week?
What is the Sunday
Salon?
Imagine some university library's vast reading room.
It's filled with people--students and faculty and
strangers who've wandered in.
They're seated at great oaken desks, books piled all
around them,
and they're all feverishly reading and jotting notes
in their leather-bound journals as they go.
Later they'll mill around the open dictionaries and
compare their thoughts on the afternoon's literary
intake....
That's what
happens at the Sunday Salon, except it's all virtual.
Every Sunday the
bloggers participating in that week's Salon
get together--at
their separate desks, in their own particular time zones--and read.
And blog about
their reading. And comment on one another's blogs.
Think of it as
an informal, weekly, mini read-a-thon,
an excuse to put
aside one's earthly responsibilities
and fall into a
good book.
Click here to
join the Salon.
Mailbox Monday was created by
Marcia at The Printed
Page. We share books that
we found in our mailboxes last week.
It is being hosted in November by I Totally Paused.
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from! I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme.
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from! I love being a part of this and I hope you do too! As part of this weekly meme Book Journey loves to encourage you all to go and visit the others participating in this meme.
Looks like you have a fun week planned with all your bookish things going on. I hope the rest of the nominees come soon so you can finish those and start making your decisions, tough as that must be!
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Un-Birthday Book Club? Just curious.
ReplyDeleteI really love the look of those picture books. Enjoy! And thanks for visiting my blog.
ReplyDeleteYes, I will have a book-ish week. I wish I'd jumped in and bought a ticket for Anne Lamott. It seems very unlikely that I will get to see her.
ReplyDeleteThe Un-birthday Book Club is an online club that a group of us started five? six? seven? more? years ago. Each person has an Un-birthday Month. We send a book to that person during their month and then we get books our month. Very fun.
ReplyDeleteAll the children's books are now read and heading to my school library.
ReplyDeleteYou always have the best weeks.
ReplyDeleteTHANKS for sharing.
BTW…Stop by for a FUN giveaway if you haven't done so yet: GIVEAWAY
Elizabeth
Silver's Reviews
My Blog
Your un-birthday books look amazing!
ReplyDeleteGood for you for doing such a great job with your Cybil reading.
Have a great week!
The Un-Birthday Book Club sounds like so fun! I hope you're enjoying Stitches. Just looking at your list of books is adding more books to my tbr list.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you have a busy week! Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteSo jealous about Anne Lamont. I hope you get a seat. I didn't realize you were reading for the Cybils this year. When are they selected? How do you organize yourself when you are reading so many books?
ReplyDeleteThis year I'm trying to listen to my gut feelings about a book. In years past, I've attempted to write reviews for every book. I decided to enjoy the whole experience more this year and not worry about trying to review everything. Much more relaxed about trying to read and evaluated 83 books.
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued by Italian Ways!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your new books and reader events!
ReplyDeleteYou have a wonderful mailbox! Happy reading!!
ReplyDeleteHere is my post.
I see you're drowning in Cybils books too. What a fun category you have! The Two and Only Kelly Twins looks cute.
ReplyDeleteThe Un-Birthday Book Club sounds like a blast!
Have a great week.
Oh my goodness, I want all of Cybil's books :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great book haul, the children's books look wonderful. Have a good week and enjoy your reads :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great book haul, the children's books look wonderful. Have a good week and enjoy your reads :)
ReplyDeleteEnjoy all of your goodies and events this week. I like the idea of the Un-birthday Book Club. :)
ReplyDeleteso many great events! I like the sound of the book Italian Ways- look forward to your review.
ReplyDeleteYou've got so much going on. Your unbirthday books all look great. I'm particularly interested in Reading in the Wild, which I see you're reading now. I hope we get to hear more about it. I haven't seen it before. Your Cybils judging always looks fun from the outside, I'm sure it's a whole lot of work. And your bookish events sound great too.
ReplyDelete