March 2012 ~ Shannon's Book Bag

A diva kitty's love is irreplaceable!
Love is...a good book and a sleeping kitty!
Reading keeps me up at night!

Saturday, March 31, 2012

A to Z Challenge - Here we go...

http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/2012-to-z-challenge-sign-up-list.html The A to Z Challenge starts tomorrow! I am excited, and hopefully prepared enough. The only question is whether I will be successful?! Given the ever-busy state of my life, it's a bit scary to think I will blog for...

Friday Faves - 03/30/12

By Shannon 11:19 AM // No comments

Welcome to Friday's Fave Five. It's Friday so that makes it time to look back over our week and look for those things we are grateful for. It may be big or it may be small and you have to dig for it, but there are always things we can be thankful for. Please...

Teaser Tuesday - 03/27/12

By Shannon 9:49 AM // No comments

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: -Grab your current read -Open to a random page -Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that...

Monday - 03/26/12

By Shannon 11:39 PM // 1 comment

Sheila at Book Journey hosts this weekly event where we celebrate what we are reading for the week, as well as books completed the previous week. Finally finished The Help! Seems like I just can't speed up my reading this year, I am just slow... I've just got so much else going on its...

Friday Faves - 03/23/12

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Teaser Tuesday - 03/20/12

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Mondays - 03/19/12

By Shannon 8:04 PM // No comments

Sheila at Book Journey hosts this weekly event where we celebrate what we are reading for the week, as well as books completed the previous week. Still reading, but slowly... Currently Reading: The Help (Kathryn Stockett) Just Finished: Hazel Creek (Walt Larimore) On...

Friday Faves - 03/16/12

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A to Z Challenge 2012

By Shannon 1:30 PM // 9 comments

http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/2012-to-z-challenge-sign-up-list.html Last year, I signed up for the A to Z Challenge and then, days later, my fiance informed me that we were buying a house. We moved, but the house (an inter-family thing) had a lot of damage. We hemmed and hawed. The family finally...

When She Woke - Jordan

By Shannon 1:49 PM // No comments

Called a retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter "via Margaret Atwood", When She Woke by Hilary Jordan introduces us to Hannah Payne, who wakes to find her skin bright red and her life changed forever. Despite growing up in a very religious family, Hannah has always been a bit of a ...

Hazel Creek - Larimore

By Shannon 1:49 PM // No comments

*This book was an advanced reading copy sent to me, free of charge, for my honest review and opinion. All comments in this review are the honest opinion of the blogger. Hazel Creek by Walt Larimore is a sweet story about a family living in the Smoky Mountains in the 1920's. Times are tough,...

Teaser Tuesday - 03/13/12

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Monday - 03/12/12

By Shannon 11:10 AM // No comments

Sheila at Book Journey hosts this weekly event where we celebrate what we are reading for the week, as well as books completed the previous week. Finally getting around to reading this... Currently Reading: The Help (Kathryn Stockett) Just Finished: Hazel Creek (Walt...

Friday Faves - 03/09/13

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Teaser Tuesdays - 03/06/12

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Monday - 03/05/12

By Shannon 1:20 PM // No comments

Sheila at Book Journey hosts this weekly event where we celebrate what we are reading for the week, as well as books completed the previous week. Currently Reading: Hazel Creek (Walt Larimore) - ARC Review Coming Just Finished: When She Woke (Hillary Jordan) On Deck:...

February 2012 ReCap...

By Shannon 7:34 PM // No comments

Image courtesy of http://www.chaoticcompendiums.com/ February 2012 Update It feels like February was a slow reading month as well, but I got through five books, one of which was my very first blog tour, which makes it an average month. As usual though, I was really busy and felt like my focus...

Library Loot - 03/02/12

By Shannon 5:55 PM // 2 comments

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course...