Hmm! Interesting idea. If you all think that will help, I'll put a link to the next week's thread at the end of the old one. I have checking every day though and if I don't see the thread in the first 5 pages, bump it.

I'm always looking for books to read with my 10 yr old. The Mad Scientists Club looks great. Yep, I just got over the cold with the lost voice syndrome. Sounded like Lauren Bacall most of the time. Made reading aloud really fun. (not!)

I am having a giveaway, courtesy of the publisher of "Double Eagle" by Collard Sneed on my blog and the 52 books blog. He will be visiting my blog next week and I'll be announcing the winner next week as well. Check it out, check him out. He's written some great nonfiction books about science. Your boys will be interested. Who can say no to a free book! Leave a comment with your name and email in the post and winner will be picked via random.org

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I finished The Scarlet Lion by Elizabeth Bethwick. Excellent - had me laughing, crying, smiling. Really puts you into the life of William Marshall and his wife Isabelle and the reign of Prince John. Will be reviewing soon. Now reading Sci Fi book "Spin" by Robert Charles Wilson. Okay gang - don't let me down here. Come enter to win the book Double Eagle by Sneed Collard. And if you have any questions for him, let me know. He'll be visiting my blog next week.

Bump - getting lost in the shuffle.

I am hosting a giveaway of a book Double Eagle by Sneed B. Collard III. Good book for the 9 - 15 age range, but I enjoyed it as well. Check it out on my blog and the 52 books blog. Sneed will be doing a guest post next week and will announce the winner at that time. The giveaway is open through March 10th. Just leave your name and email address in the comments of the post on one blog or the other if you are interested.

Welcome to book week 9 which means you should be starting book # 9. Mr Linky is all set up for you to link to your most current reads. I is for Irish: Yes, we're starting our St. Patrick's day celebration a couple weeks early. Thanks to Carrie of Books and Movies, I have discovered some great books and wanted to share them with you. She started an Ireland Reading Challenge and I was the winner of An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor. The challenge sparked my interest, since after all I am part Irish and my father's parent's parent's came from the county of Cork. I started looking up some of the authors and fell in instant like with Frank Delaney and his book "Ireland: A Novel." The luck of the Irish was with me, because when I decided to read "Ireland", I was offered the chance to be a stop on one of his book blog tours for his latest novel "Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show." Another coincidence - I had been thinking of reading Dracula and while I was looking up information on Bram Stoker, I discovered he was Irish. The first novel he wrote is called "Snake's Pass" and is set in Ireland. It about a traveler who arrives in a village that is haunted by the legend based on St. Patrick's battling the king of the snakes. Sounds too good to pass up. I joined in the challenge with a commitment to the Kiss The Blarney Stone level which is 6 books. The challenge includes any books written by Irish authors, set in Ireland, has Irish characters or involves Irish history and can be fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or children's books and runs through the end of November. My challenge to you for the month of March is to read a book by an Irish author. Here is a list of some interesting authors who are Irish which include a variety of classics and fiction authors such as Samuel Becket, Maeve Binchy, John Connolly, Frank Delaney, Tana French, C.S. Lewis, Patrick Taylor and Oscar Wilde to name a few. So you may be already be reading something by an Irish author and not be aware of it. I'm also part English which means I'm conflicted. :) I just started reading "The Scarlet Lion" by Elizabeth Chadwick which will be released tomorrow. It is historical fiction set in England about William Marshall, who is in service to the King of England. Philip has just died and John has just taken over. What are you reading this week?

Nope, no medications. I think it's been lack of sleep and stress. Doesn't seem as bad today.

Thanks all! Will keep an eye on him and keep track of what's going on.

hmm! Sleep? I go to bed around 12:00 and he's usually still lying awake. So that could have something to do with it. Nope - He hasn't had strep in the past year. Tourette's - that does seem to run in hubby's familiar. One cousin had it and I'm not sure who else. Will have to check with his brothers and see.

My favorites are pretty diverse - I'm more likely to buy books by them than anyone else: Nora Roberts Aka J.D. Robb Ted Dekker Robyn Carr Karen Rose Bodie Thoene Mercedes Lackey Elizabeth Lowell Linda Howard Charles De Lint Stuart Woods Suzanne Brockmann A bit of romance, mystery, sci fi, christian

I noticed my 10 year old has suddenly developed an eye twitch. Blinking his eyes twice rapidly and it looks like the muscle in the side of his eye is spasming. This started a few days ago. Now he is doing a shoulder shrugging thing as well. I asked if his eyes hurt or bother him. He says no. We have a kid's physical coming up in a couple weeks but this is just weird. What could possibly cause this? Allergies - mold - stress - what?

It's the last Tuesday of the month which means it is time for What's On Your Nightstand hosted by 5 minutes for Books. My TBR pile overfloweth and I have instituted a buying ban until I've whittled the pile down a bit. Do you want to see my whole list - then look here. I finally decided to organize it by genre, instead of just one long list. Sometimes I'm in the mood for sci fi, other times mystery or occasionally a non fiction read. So I split up the list and we'll see how long that works. I've been picking books out by using Random.org because they all look so good and I just can't make up my mind. I even put their nifty widget in my sidebar. What's on my reading plate for this month? I just started The Bible of Clay by Julia Navarro which is a biblical historical and archaeological thriller wrapped up in one. A famous archeologist's grand daughter is searching for cuneiform tables which are said to have the first book of Genesis written on them by a young scribe in the time of Abraham. The problem, they are somewhere in Iraq and it's just days away from the start of the Iraq invasion. Monday, March 1st is the start of my Nobel Literature class and the first book we will be reading and analyzing is "Nausea" by Jean Paul Sartre. This will be an interesting experience dipping into Sartre's existentialistic writings. My classic read for the month will be an old historical fiction novel that's be on our shelves for a while: Stargazer: A Novel of the Life of Galileo by Zsolt De Haranyi. During Lent I am reading Pope Benedict's The Apostles. I thoroughly enjoyed reading Jesus of Nazareth which was very enlightening and educational, so looking forward to what he has to say about the apostles. For my Mind Voyages science fiction challenge, I will be reading two more Hugo winners: "To Your Scattered Bodies Go" by Philip Jose Farmer (1972 Hugo) and "Fahrenheit 451" (1954 Hugo) by Ray Bradbury. And since I love mysteries and thrillers, I'll be rounding out my reading month with Lethal Harvest (a medical thriller) by William Cutrer, Untraceable by Laura Griffin, author of the Borderline Series which I thoroughly enjoyed. Also J.T. Ellison's Judas Kiss and her newest psychological thriller The Cold Room. It's supposed to be scary, creepy, chilling good. What's on your reading plate for this month?

I just finished "Under the Dome" too. Good vs evil - Kept me reading and reading and reading. Ack! I forgot about my own challenge to you all to read a classic each month. Off to pick out which one to read next. :)

I know, I'm supposed to be working on our taxes, getting everything organized and ready to plug into turbo tax. On our next off week that is what I'll be doing. I commiserate, I'll be reading lighter fare during that period of time as well.

I applaud your persistence in reading it. I took one look and decided "later." I did give up on susan's WEM reading method. I just wasn't enjoying reading and don't have time to read things twice, nor take notes. Lost the train of thought of the story too many times. So decided instead to take the list and read for enjoyment and my edification. Sink myself into the books and not resurface unless necessary. Looking forward to hearing your satisfaction of "I finished it" and what you thought of it when you're done. Keep plugging away.

Good morning! This weekend is the start of book week 8. Mr. Linky is all set up on the 52 Books Blog for you to link to your most current reviews. H is for Hugo, Hugo Gernsback that is. Who you ask? Exactly...that why I wrote about him. I kind of killed three birds with one stone this weekend and posted it on all three blogs. Forgive me! Since I started the Mind Voyages challenge, reading the Hugo winners, I thought it was a good idea to find out who the man was. Very interesting! I finished "Under The Dome" by Stephen King. It wasn't so much horror, more sci fi and my husband kept saying he took the idea from twilight zone. I'll be reviewing it soon. First I will be reviewing the memoir "Keeping the Feast" by Paula Buttorini which I read for the Winter Reading Series. She'll be visiting Lisa's blog on Monday to discuss the book as well. Last night I started Double Eagle by Collard Sneed which is a young adult mystery with a bit of civil war history thrown in. Still working on the details, but will be doing a giveaway and he may do a guest post on My Two Blessings the first week of March. What are you all reading and learning about this week?

I just finished it a day or so ago so haven't written a review yet. It was interesting and strange and kept me reading. Lots of characters - full of the good, the bad and the ugly. Did I like it - mixed on that, still thinking about it.

Happy Valentine's Day -- virtual hugs and candy kisses for everyone!!!!! We are starting book week seven and should have you starting book #7 - if you haven't already. Mr. Linky is up on the 52 books blog for you to link your current reads. G is for Grace, gratitude, giving and an assortment of things it turns out. I kind of meandered a bit with this week's post. Lent's coming up on Wednesday, but I'm not planning on giving up the internet. It keeps me sane. Limiting it perhaps, but giving it up altogether just isn't going to happen. If any of you are giving up the boards for lent, I'll be waiting for you on the other side to hear all about the wonderful, thought provoking books you read during that time. My Art History class is done (Yippee) and it involved a lot of writing this time and wiped me out. I think I'm getting an A though. My next class which starts in a couple weeks will be Nobel Literature which will include some interesting reading. I just started Stephen King's Under the Dome. It is a 1000+ pages long, so that's what I'll be reading this week and probably next. What are you all reading this week?

I'm thinking about limiting my time with twitter, facebook, and the internet in general. I know several bloggers who give up blogging altogether during lent but I just don't want to. It's an outlet I need to keep me sane, plus I can't skip out in the middle of the challenges I'm hosting. I've already given up sodas and chips for health reasons. I've been limiting my book purchases until I get through the books on my huge teetering to be read pile. So I will continue that by not buying any books during lent. Twitter I could probably live without for 40 days. Though I do find out about interesting books that way from the publishers. Yep - just decided - won't do twitter. I'll be reading Lent and Easter Wisdom by Thomas Merton and Pope Benedict's The Apostles. Pope Benedict has written some great books which even if you aren't Catholic are really interesting. I read Jesus of Nazereth a couple years back and it was very good. I'm also trying to think of a character issue I should try to improve upon. If you care to share, what are you doing for Lent?

I finished The Gatekeeper by Michelle Gagnon. It had a cliffhanger ending which left me in shock. The main female character in a coma and doesn't sound like she's going to survive. I sat there saying "what?" and reread the last two chapters a couple times because thought missed something. I'm about to start Stephen King's Under the Dome. It is a chunkster at 1000 some odd pages so will take me a couple weeks probably. At least I'll be able to get caught up with the rest of my reviews. :)

Sunday is the start of Book Week six and should have you starting book # 6 - if you haven't already. F is for Fantasy. The post is up with Mr. Linky on the 52 Books blog for you to link your most current reads. I've had fantasy on my mind because I just finished The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan this week and hopefully will find time to review it soon. Next week is an off week with lessons so perhaps I'll catch up a bit with reviews. Need some ideas for books to read - check out Semicolon's Saturday Reviews. And you just may want to link your reviews as well for folks to check out what you've been reading. I haven't a clue what I'm going to read next. Not sure what I'm in the mood for. Will have to take my list and run it through Random.org and see which one comes up first. What are you all reading this week?

Yaahoo! Congratulations - it was a difficult book. Sounds like a great book. I need to read it. We are taking math slow here. More comments on your blog.

Reading is as necessary to me as breathing. I can't not read so I will make the time to read. I get up a couple hours earlier than Son or hubby, so read then, read during lunch, read while waiting for son to finish workbook pages, read while son watches a video, read during the evening instead of watch tv. Plus I'm a fast reader. Have been all my life.