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Dewey Read a Thon – Mini Puzzles

Posted on April 27, 2013 by kavyen

I have chosen an eazy puzzle and I am excited to see what you are going to guess 🙂

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I have been focussing on my reading since I started a little late. I did not focus on my challenges; now I have done some substantial catching up.. 🙂

Mini Challenge – Book Sentence Challenge

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When the wind blows, the Innocent man and the Pilots wife have the wedding. (Makes sense!! Sort off!!! )

Mini Challenge – Picture It

This is an esay one!!

Paul Coelho

Mini Challenge – Share a Quote

“And yet no one life is the same as any other life. It might be that we will never meet again, and I need you to know that I’ve loved you all my life. ”

From Brida by Paul Coelho

Mini Challenge – Turn the Page

“I would rather read than muddle the past and the present any day!”

Just started ‘Dorchester Terrace’ and found this challenge a little tough 😦

Mini Challenge – Cover Me

Kudos for coming up with some innovative categories..

Best Title: Lets Explore Diabetes with Owls (LOL!!!)
Best Dressed: The Elite
Best Couple: Star Crossed
Most Delicious: Bake it like you mean it
Cutest Animal: The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs
Cutest Kid: The Real Mother
Best to Avoid: In Search of Goliathus Hercules
Best Tattoo: Walking Disaster
Best Cover: The Last Camellia

kavyen

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Dewey Read A Thon…

Posted on April 27, 2013 by kavyen

Ok, so I am starting my day a little late.. but that is because today is a gorgeous day outside and we had so many spring events happening.

I participated in the Read-a-Thon two years back. I was forgetting my original love of book reading then and the read-a-thon reminded me to get back to books. I am all geared up for this day with a few audio and a few books in my list… Loving it so far!

Introductory!
1) What fine part of the world are you reading from today? Virginia, USA

2) Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? Momzillas

3) Which snack are you most looking forward to? Cheese Cake 😉 Yes, snack!!

4) Tell us a little something about yourself! I am an avid reader, a mom and a full time software consultant.

5) If you participated in the last read-a-thon, what’s one thing you’ll do different today? I did not do last year 😦

Hour 5 to Hour 8:

Fixed myself a lunch (real quick one) and started reading Momzilla. Loved the book , once I got through that.. I spent sometime listening to an audio and napped off 😥 Yeah!!! Too bad.. I know.

Hour 8 to Hour 10:

Started reading Brida after a refreshing cup of hot steaming tea and some Yummy (hopefully healthy snack 😉 ) Ok, the picture does’nt do it enough justice really!

Mid Event Survey
We are mid way already??? Where did the time go…

1) How are you doing? Sleepy? Are your eyes tired? I cheated and took a nap inbetween, so I feel perfectly fine 🙂

2) What have you finished reading? Brida by Paul Coelho and Momzillas by Jill Kargman

3) What is your favorite read so far? I think I liked Momzilla better

4) What about your favorite snacks? I had some craisins and I loved it.

5) Have you found any new blogs through the readathon? If so, give them some love! I have been focussing on reading, going to be doing a lot of checking out blogs in the second half surely.

Hour 12
Time for an audio book while cooking some dinner and eating (hogging!) on some more snacks.. This is so darn good!!

Snacks

Hour 14
Dinner is served and my audio book is taking longer than what I thought it would. Maybe I should go ahead and do some laundry. After the next 30 minutes, I will move back to my unfinished reading book :).

Did I say, I love this read a thon. 🙂

Hour 19
Wow, hour 19 and still going strong. I started a new book some 30 minutes back but I am really starting to slip. I am rummaging through my bookshelf to find something else that will keep me going .. seriously going 🙂

Ate a big and I mean a big piece of cheesecake.. some more tea… some chips and still snacking. Heck, I can always exerise tomorrow…. Cos it is not everyday we get a read-a-thon 😉

Wrap Up

1.Which hour was most daunting for you? It was definitely hour 20. Definitely that!

2.Could you list a few high-interest books that you think could keep a Reader engaged for next year? James Patterson never goes wrong.

3.Do you have any suggestions for how to improve the Read-a-thon next year? No, I think it is just super duper awesome just the way it is.

4.What do you think worked really well in this year’s Read-a-thon?E V E R Y T H I N G

5.How many books did you read? 3

6.What were the names of the books you read? Momzillas by Jill Kargman, Ghost shadow by Heather Graham and Brida by Paul Coelho.

7.Which book did you enjoy most? Momzillas

8.Which did you enjoy least?I cant decide, I liked Ghost Shadow and Brida equally

9.If you were a Cheerleader, do you have any advice for next year’s Cheerleaders?I was not a cheer leader, but the current ones did great!

10.How likely are you to participate in the Read-a-thon again? What role would you be likely to take next time?I know I am signing up for Oct definitely!!

kavyen

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Challenges 2010 – Wrap Up

Posted on January 4, 2011 by kavyen

Hello
Here is my wrap up post for the challenges that I participated in 2010. I think I did poorly but that is not going to stop me from participating in them this year.

I chose to take up four challenges and completed just 2 of them. I did not even start with the “What’s in a Name 3” challenge. What a Shame? This was such an exciting one and I had only managed to short list on the books I was going to read.

I did just OK with the “A to Z Challenge” and managed to finish 19 books. I was reading 3 of them but dint get to complete them before the 31st December. SAD!

James Patterson Reading Challenge – 100% Completed
2010 Chick Lit Challenge – 100% Completed
A to Z Reading Challenge – 73% Completed
What’s in a Name 3 Challenge – 0% Completed

PS: I am looking forward for the challenges of 2011, so please recommend some interesting ones that you are participating in.

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Void Moon by Michael Connelly

Posted on December 28, 2010 by kavyen

The Book:

Cassie Black has never looked back. She walked away from her life as a criminal after one disastrous night that left the man closest to her dead and her life in a shambles. Now she’s thriving at a job selling Porsches to Hollywood hot shots. Through everything — even her darkest moments — she has been able to keep going by holding on to one perfect thing, her greatest secret, dearer to her than life itself.

When that secret is threatened, Cassie tosses her new life away like a bad hand of cards and goes back in a sprint to her old line of work. Her trade was robbing casino gamblers, and she was the very best. Now it’s the only way she can make enough money fast to maybe make everything right. Quickly she lines up a mark, a man who has been winning steadily for a week at high-stakes baccarat. The job goes smoothly until she opens his briefcase…

And discovers a world of trouble she never dreamed of. Her superstitious friend who lined up the job says it’s the bad-luck void moon having its malignant way. Cassie knows it’s worse. She’s crossed paths again with her life’s nemesis, the man who destroyed everything six years before. He’s Jack Karch, a private investigator by day who does bloody work for casino owners by night. Walking back into his sights is the worst thing that’s ever happened to Cassie. Getting out alive will take all her skill and luck and faith in that one good thing…

Source: Michael Connelly homepage

The View:

This book was so-so-so unbelievably good. I have read quite a few books by Michael Connelly in the past and I think “Void Moon” is a class apart. The Las Vegas setting was perfect. The author seems to have done a lot of research into what he was writing about. Well written fiction about casino thief’s do please me; but because of the gross deficiency of well-written books I prefer movies. As I read the book I could picture every scene or event and was wondering why a movie had not yet been released. When released this would definitely be a blockbuster.

The characters were all well portrayed and genuinely real. All of them had a good and bad side and fit like a glove in the Las Vegas environment. I loved the way the characters played each other; there was a selfish agenda to each and every one of them and they did utter justification to it. I cannot praise this book enough and have already recommended it to a few of my friends. Needless to say they loved it too.

I don’t think there is any question in my mind about the rating this book deserves. A 5 on 5 with a note stating as “HIGHLY recommended”.

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Judge & Jury by James Patterson and Andrew Gross

Posted on December 25, 2010 by kavyen

The Book:

From #1 bestselling author James Patterson comes the ultimate legal thriller where the judge and jury are terrified. The verdict: run for your life. Failing to escape jury duty, aspiring actress Andie DeGrasse ends up as Juror #11 in a landmark case. In this new Trial of the Century, a Mafia don known as the Electrician is linked to hundreds of gruesome crimes. Tracking this ruthless killer for years, senior FBI agent Nick Pellisante fears that the defendant’s power reaches far beyond the courtroom, even if the FBI’s evidence is ironclad. Just as the jury finishes deliberations, the Electrician makes a devastating move that shocks the entire nation – and shatters Andie’s world. Now she and Pellisante must hunt for the Electrician before he executes his most horrifying endgame.

Source:
Amazon.com Product Description

The View:

In spite of my busy life, I managed to read this book in just one day. Short chapters, a fast paced plot, extreme cruelty and a smart stunning hero – this book had everything that one would expect from James Patterson.

I typically do not like books that are based on the mafia because they are always filled with viciousness and malice. “Judge and Jury” was slightly different from the others I have read; and I would attribute it to the writing. It was a notch above, managing to throw light on the extreme cruelty of the mafia but projecting it in a subtle manner. There were instances when the brutality had to be detailed specially when Cavello is in South America but I felt that was needed for the ending. It was so close to the end and it makes us justify Nick’s action of leaving him to die.

A powerful and revengeful story with just the right mix of motherly love, grief, passion and courage.
Rated a 5 on 5 because I enjoyed it thoroughly and I am sure you will too.

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