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Friday, August 31, 2018

Readers Imbibing Peril 13 #RIPXIII & #SomethingWickedFall 48 Hour Kick-Off #Readathon


From the new dedicated blog...

Welcome to the THIRTEENTH year of Readers Imbibing Peril, or RIP, as it is affectionately called. For the last 13 years, we here at RIP headquarters have embraced the spookiness of the seasons’ change.

The purpose of the R.I.P. Challenge is to enjoy books that could be classified as:

Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
Dark Fantasy.
Gothic.
Horror.
Supernatural.

Basically, read scary. Yay!

The levels of participation (participate in one, all, or various) are:

Peril the First: Read four books, any length, that you feel fit.

I'm doing this level. My list:

The Narrows, Ronald Malfi
A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Bank of the River, Michael Richan
The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice
Bird Box, Josh Malerman
Shirley: A Novel, Susan Scarf Merrell
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury

This is more than four, but I'm working on a challenge so...

Peril the Second: Read two books of any length that you believe fit.

Peril the Third: We all want you to participate. This Peril involves reading one book that fits.

Peril of the Short Story: Self explanatory...read short stories.

I'll be reading Gothic short stories in September during my Something Wicked This Fall Comes event at my sister blog, Castle Macabre

I'll be picking choosing stories from the following:
Edgar Allan Poe (of course)
M.R. James
Shirley Jackson
Algernon Blackwood
H.P. Lovecraft

There's a great list of Gothic fiction on Goodreads here.

Peril on the Screen: Again, self explanatory...watch scary TV shows/movies.

Horror movies and shows are my favorite so this is a no-brainer!

Movies/Shows I will be seeing/watching for sure...
Halloween
The Nun
The Haunting of Hill House (new series)

Peril of the Review: Submit a short review of any book you read (they may even post it on the blog).

I'll try!

I've participated in this challenge since 2009, so 10 of the 13 years. I'm stoked, and it goes along nicely with my scary Fall event at Castle Macabre and the FrightFall Readathon in October at Seasons of Reading.


Coming to Castle Macabre tomorrow...Something Wicked This Fall Comes! We are kicking off with a 48 Hour Readathon hosted at Seasons of Reading. Find out all the details for the Fall event here. Sign up for the 48 Hour Readathon here


I'll be reading scary books from my RIP list above. Will probably start with The Narrows, but not sure. 

Hope you will join us!



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Thursday, August 30, 2018

#CatThursday - Mischief #Cats


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.








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Thursday, August 23, 2018

#CatThursday - #Cats in #Art (32) Sophie Gengembre Anderson 1823-1903


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.


An Opportune Moment

Awakening-1881
Her Favorite Pets




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Sunday, August 19, 2018

Bout of Books 23 #Readathon


I sign up for this and usually fail, but there just might be a twist this time. I've decided to start a personal Daily Reading Challenge to challenge myself to read more, and I'm kicking it off with Bout of Books this week. I have a tab in the menu for daily updates and then I will do a weekly post (probably during A Reading Life) to share what I accomplished each week. Yes, it will probably be embarrassing at first, but I'm willing to deal with a little of that as a way to motivate me to READ MORE!!!

Now, on to the Bout of Books business...

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda Shofner and Kelly Rubidoux Apple. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 20th and runs through Sunday, August 26th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 23 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I'm not going to set up any big reading plans, and I'm not sure how often I'll update, but these are the books I'm currently reading and plan to continue, and hopefully finish, during the readathon (except for War and Peace, as it's a year long read-along I'm hosting at Lit Collective, one that I'm horribly behind on 😑).

Ombria in Shadow, Patricia A. McKillip
The Anomaly, Michael Rutger
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
War and Peace, Tolstoy

I'm also listening to a Discovery of Witches (Deborah Harkness) on audio.

If my daily reading challenge goes well, I may be able to start another book this week. Here's hoping!




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Friday, August 17, 2018

The Actual 9 Year #Blogiversary of True Book Addict


Yes, I'm almost two weeks late AND I think part of that is because...I celebrated the wrong damn blogiversary last year. I started this blog on August 5, 2009. 2009 to 2017 is not nine years, it's eight! Oh dear.


Anyway, this is officially nine years of blogging here and though I've slowed down, I'm not tired of it. It's my own little corner of the web and it's here when I feel like sharing about books and cats and whatever else. I'm not going to have any fanfare this year. That can be next year when it will be 10 YEARS! Wow!

A big thank you to everyone who loyally reads my blog. I appreciate you so much. This blog has been instrumental in opening my world to so many like-minded people who I now consider the best of friends. What greater reward could there be?





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Thursday, August 16, 2018

#CatThursday - More #Kittens


Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite lolcat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s). It's all for the love of cats! Share the link to your post with your comment below.

I thought it was time for some kittens. We need the cuteness to distract us from the woes of the world. 












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Thursday, August 9, 2018

#CatThursday - #Authors and #Cats (75) Tasha Tudor


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The second Cat Thursday of each month is Authors and Cats Thursday. Each time I will feature an author with their cat(s), pictured with a cat(s), or guest posts by cat loving authors who also (sometimes) write about cats.



Tasha Tudor, (Starling Burgess), American children’s book illustrator and author (born Aug. 28, 1915, Boston, Mass.—died June 18, 2008, Marlboro, Vt.), illustrated nearly 100 books, many of which she also wrote; her artwork frequently shows children in old-fashioned clothing enjoying simple activities in pastoral settings, with intricate page borders of flowers and animals. She was a runner-up for the Caldecott Medal in 1945 for Mother Goose (1944) and in 1957 for the counting book 1 Is One (1956) and received the Catholic Library Association’s Regina Medal in 1971. Tudor debuted as an author-illustrator with Pumpkin Moonshine (1938). Other books include A Tale for Easter (1941), The Dolls’ Christmas (1950), and several books featuring her Corgi dogs, including her final book, Corgiville Christmas (2003). She edited and illustrated anthologies, such as The Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales(1961); provided illustrations for editions of Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses (1947), Clement Clarke Moore’s The Night Before Christmas (2002), and other classics; and designed greeting cards and prints. Tudor also wrote The Tasha Tudor Cookbook: Recipes and Reminiscences from Corgi Cottage (1993) and other nonfiction books about the 19th-century lifestyle that she adopted in her New England farmhouse. (from Britannica.com)





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Thursday, August 2, 2018

#CatThursday - #Cats bullying dogs (2)


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Not that I don't like dogs...I do...but I always find these memes so funny, pitting cats and dogs against each other. In my experience, they are usually fast friends.









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