MAILBOX MONDAY (TUESDAY EDITION)

Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at The Printed Page and is currently on a monthly blog tour.  This month's host is Chick Loves Lit.

I fell asleep so early last night that I didn't even get my MM post done..hence the Tuesday edition! I guess the weekend read-a-thon really caught up with me!

(Click the titles to read the book descriptions at Goodreads)

In the Mail:

For review from the author:

Dante's Journey--JC Marino

For blog tour with Crazy Book Tours:

The Wives of Henry Oades--Johanna Moran

Ordered from BOMC 2:

The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World--John Demos





Bought:

From library sale:

The Maze Runner--James Dashner

The Sweet Far Thing--Libba Bray

The Scandal of the Season--Sophie Gee

Best Friends Forever--Jennifer Weiner

A Factory of Cunning--Philippa Stockley

Pharoah:  Volume II of Kleopatra--Karen Essex

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READ YOUR OWN BOOKS READ-A-THON--WRAP UP POST

I SO love read-a-thons, but every time I participate in one, I only manage to completely finish one book.  Well, let me take that back, I think I may have finished two before! Anyway, I'm hoping someday that I will be able to read as others do, like Lydia at The Lost Entwife, who read a phenomenal 9 BOOKS for this one! Maybe my attention span is not up to par and/or I'm an incredibly slow reader.  I know on Friday, my sons were less than cooperative and very distracting.  Then, I was out and about on Saturday for around 5 hours...shopping at a library sale and lunching with Mom.  I keep saying I'm going to get a hotel room  where I'll have no distractions! I just may treat myself since the next Dewey's 24 hour Read-a-Thon is close to my birthday.  A hotel room as a treat for my birthday...yay! It sounds totally dreamy to me. =O)

Anyway, here is what I read this weekend:

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen--completed (367 pages)
Under the Dome by Stephen King--read a total of 333 pages out of 1074 pages

Total pages read:  700
Total hours spent reading:  I have no earthly idea...LOL!

I really enjoyed doing the read-a-thon, despite the less than stellar performance on my part.  Any excuse to sit and read for long periods of time is always fun for me.  I'd like to thank Monica at Bibliophilic Book Blog for hosting such an awesome event.  I hope she will do it again some time soon!

Stay tuned next week for the From Dusk Till Dawn Read-A-Thon, August 25 at 8pm through August 29 at 8am! Jenn should be posting more information about it soon.  Click on the badge to go to her blog.  I can't wait! =O)

READ YOUR OWN BOOKS READ-A-THON--UPDATE #2

Okay, so I finished Sense and Sensibility! What a wonderful book...I so enjoyd it! That means 367 pages complete plus the 211 pages I read of Under the Dome.  Now I'm going to pick up Under the Dome again and try to read all night (I was somewhat over-indulgent in my napping on Sunday).  I will either read a couple hundred more pages of Under the Dome and pick up something else (perhaps The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier) or I will plod on with the 1074 page Stephen King tome.  It is a great read so far.  The official end time for the read-a-thon is 9:00 am Monday, but since I started at 12 noon on Friday, I will read until 12 noon on Monday.

Stay tuned for my wrap up post later today!

READ YOUR OWN BOOKS READ-A-THON--UPDATE #1

Well, I didn't get much reading done during the day on Friday, but my momentum picked up late Friday and now in the early morning hours of Saturday.  I have been reading Under the Dome by Stephen King and have made it to page 211 of 1074 pages.  I think I'm going to take a break from it for a time and start reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.  It's the large print version so a little easier on the eyes at this late (early) hour.  Don't know how long I'll last before falling asleep!

I'm going to step out for a few hours today to go to my monthly library sale and out to lunch with my mom.  She will be driving so I will take my book with me and read when I can.  I will have another update for you when I return tomorrow afternoon.

Officially, I have been reading for 17.5 hours (I started at 12 noon CT on Friday).  Of course, there were TONS of interruptions by my sons, fixing supper, eating supper, shower, etc. so I guess 211 pages isn't too shabby...considering!

Read Your Own Books Read-A-Thon

Of course, I'm starting late! The boys had their first day of school yesterday so they slept in late recuperating.  So anytime they oversleep, I do too because they're not bugging me to get up...LOL! Anyway, I'm starting now (at 12:00 noon CT).

My list is kind of long and I know I probably will not get to them all, but I want to have a variety available:

Under the Dome--Stephen King (I'm starting off with this, but I probably will not finish it...it's a monster!)
Sense & Sensibiltiy--Jane Austen
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane--Katherine Howe
The Lady and the Unicorn--Tracy Chevalier
The Other Queen--Philippa Gregory
Scarlet Women--J.D. Christilian
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister--Gregory Maguire
The Stone Virgin--Barry Unsworth
Paint It Black--Janet Fitch
People of the Book--Geraldine Brooks
Echoes from the Macabre--Daphne Du Maurier (stories...possibly to break up the monotony)

I'll be checking in with people I follow who are participating and perhaps making new friends along the way!

And here we go...

Cat Thursday

Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite LOL cat 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! Enjoy! (Join us...share your post in the Mr. Linky below)

Okay, LOL Cats is pushing me closer and closer to adding a kitten to our family! Look at these pics and you'll see why...SO adorable! I think Alis would be thrilled to have a little companion...hopefully. =O)

And then, after I get a new kitten, I'm getting a new couch.  What do you think?