January 1 – December 31, 2011 A Year of Feminist Classics is a project started by Amy, Ana, Emily Jane and Iris, four book bloggers who share an interest in the feminist movement and its history. The project will work a little like an informal reading group: for all of 2011, we will each month [...]
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Wrapping up Challenges for 2010
Here is my final wrap up post for challenges in 2010… Thank you to Book Chick City for hosting the Thriller-Suspense Challenge for 2010. The goal was 12 books (to see links to from participants for ALL REVIEWS for this challenge, go here). I reached my goal right at the end of the year. My [...]
Reading Challenges Update
Since we are well into November and the end of the year is fast approaching, I thought I should go through my remaining reading challenges and see where I am. Here is my update as of today: COMPLETED Challenges in the last couple of months: The Women Unbound Challenge asked that participants read nonfiction and [...]
Winners of GRACE
My apologies for the late posting of this contest…but with no further ado, I want to announce the winners of the signed editions of Grace by Melinda Marchiano. Winners must contact me within FIVE days by email (I’ll be emailing those whose email address I have, or leaving a comment on a blog post for [...]
Reading for a Cure – Third Quarter Update
I have been terribly remiss in posting regular updates on this project, in large part because I am traveling my own personal journey through cancer with my sister, Paula, who was recently diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer. The other day I was ruminating on the irony that when I decided to dedicate a year to [...]
Grace – Book Giveaway
Grace: A Child’s Intimate Journey Through Cancer and Recovery, by Melinda Marchiano 289 pages ISBN 978-0984271207 Happy Quail; 2 edition (October 1, 2010) Recently I read Melinda Marchiano’s moving memoir about her triumph over Hodgkin Lymphoma (read my review), and I am thrilled to announce that Melinda and her publisher have generously offered to give [...]
Completed: Nonfiction Five Challenge
Many thanks to Trish’s Reading Nook who hosted the 2010 Non-Fiction Five Challenge. I love this challenge because it encourages me to read some of the amazing non fiction books I have on my shelves. Since I typically read about 90% fiction…and I need a challenge like this to get me to pick up some [...]
Wrap UP for Random Reading Challenge (and a Giveaway)
Well, I failed miserably in my own hosted challenge – but many of you completed this challenge with flying colors! There were 109 participants and 160 linked reviews for your random reads. I’m going to leave the review and wrap up links open for another week for those of you who haven’t had a chance [...]
Social Justice Challenge: Poverty
This month’s theme for The Social Justice Challenge is poverty. We all know what poverty looks like, right? We see it on our streets daily – the homeless sitting on street corners, the elderly struggling to pay for medications and groceries, the young who are often hungry and sad. Most of us probably have a [...]
Quilts for Kids – Finished!
As part of the Social Justice Challenge in May, I decided to make a quilt for an organization called Quilts for Kids whose mission is: Transforming discontinued, unwanted and other fabrics into patchwork quilts that comfort children with life-threatening illnesses and children of abuse. I finished this quilt over the weekend and mailed it off [...]
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