Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon Dream Character Challenge

Dream Character Challenge! 

Instructions:

1. Pick your favorite character from a book.

2. List the name, the book he/she is from, and why that was your choice.

3. Pick a celebrity or picture of who you would dream cast for that character.

4. Post or link that picture (or leave the name of the celebrity) with the character's info.

My Pick:

I chose Willow, from Legacy (The Biodome Chronicles #1) by Jesikah Sundin.  She is strong and independent, yet naive.   This is how she appears on the book's cover:

My choice to portray her is Anna Sophia Robb.  I enjoy her work, and I think she looks remarkably Willow like.

Tackle Your TBR Readathon, Day 12 Update

Friday, September 19, 2014
What I read today: 368 pages

Total pages read for challenge so far: 4067

Today's finished books: 
Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story

Books I made progress in: 
The Affair, by Alicia Clifford--49%
No Safe House, by Linwood Barclay--22%

Total number of finished books: 16

Titles of finished books: 
The Book Stops Here, by Kate Carlisle
Dissonance, by Erica O'Rourke
Watercolor Dreams, by Sherry Kyle
Confessions of a Teenage Rape Survivor, by Holly Dae
An Inconvenient Year, by Yvonne Joye
Chocolate Covered Murder, by Leslie Meier
The Moment Of Everything, by Shelly King
Baby Talk (Book 1), by Mike Wells (novella)
Blood Psychics, by Lindsay Edmunds (two short short stories)

Keep Your Friends Close, by Paula Daly
The Kennedy Connection, by R.G. Belsky
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler
Landline, by Rainbow Rowell
If I Stay, by Gayle Foreman
A Taste For Murder, by Claudia Bishop
Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story

Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story--A Beautiful Photographer, Her Mormon Lover, and a Brutal Murder, by Shanna Hogan

Synopsis: Travis Alexander was a handsome, hard-working, practicing Mormon who lived in Mesa, Arizona. His good looks and easygoing manner made him popular with everyone, especially the ladies. So when he was found with a bullet wound in the face and his throat slashed, the brutal murder sent shock waves throughout his community. Who could have done something so sinister?

But soon a suspect was singled out—Jodi Arias. A beautiful, aspiring photographer, Jodi had been in a long-distance relationship with Travis the year before. But Travis wasn't interested in a serious commitment; he was seeing several women during that time. When he broke up with her, that didn't stop Jodi from leaving California, moving to just a few miles away from Travis's home, and inserting herself into his daily life. Investigators found one piece of startling evidence in Travis's home that implicated Jodi. But in a bizarre turn of events, Jodi would claim self-defense. Was she a victim—or a devious femme fatale?

Thoughts: A great book about the case, which stuck to the facts which were brought forward in the investigation and the trial. The author's personal thoughts were left to the end, so they did not cloud the rest of the story. Through Arias's own words and actions, we see her for the lying, manipulative, obsessed woman she has always been. This was a marvelous way to refresh my memory on the case while waiting on justice to be served.

My rating: Five stars

Tackle Your TBR Readathon, Day Eleven Update

Thursday, September 18, 2014
What I read today: 256 pages

Total pages read for challenge so far: 3955

Today's finished books: 
A Taste For Murder, by Claudia Bishop

Books I made progress in: 
The Affair, by Alicia Clifford--49%
No Safe House, by Linwood Barclay==22%

Total number of finished books: 15

Titles of finished books: 
The Book Stops Here, by Kate Carlisle
Dissonance, by Erica O'Rourke
Watercolor Dreams, by Sherry Kyle
Confessions of a Teenage Rape Survivor, by Holly Dae
An Inconvenient Year, by Yvonne Joye
Chocolate Covered Murder, by Leslie Meier
The Moment Of Everything, by Shelly King
Baby Talk (Book 1), by Mike Wells (novella)
Blood Psychics, by Lindsay Edmunds (two short short stories)

Keep Your Friends Close, by Paula Daly
The Kennedy Connection, by R.G. Belsky
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler
Landline, by Rainbow Rowell
If I Stay, by Gayle Foreman
A Taste For Murder, by Claudia Bishop

Clash of the Titles Turns Four and Celebrates with Amazing Giveaways!

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Happy Birthday,

Clash of the Titles!

Can you believe Clash of the Titles is FOUR years old?

It hardly seems possible.

Four years ago this month, COTT's arena opened for its first Clash, and it's been going strong ever since! Hundreds of Christian authors have competed, and 58 have left victorious. Each author has earned a special place in our hearts, and we at COTT find it an immense privilege to promote Christ through their work.

Join us this week as both COTT champs and COTT staff celebrate these four, amazing years together!

Over the next four days, our generous champions will be giving away 61 of their books.

Sixty-one!

We've divided those books into four giveaways--one for each year God has blessed us!

(See below for today's list.)

Each participant has myriad opportunities to enter the four drawings,

but there will only be FOUR WINNERS.

Will you be one of them??

Find out at Clash of the Titles on Tuesday, September 23rd!

Drawings will be open until Monday night,

September 22 (midnight PST).

Until then, it's free rein on entries.

Don't miss out on the fun!

Below, you'll find the four links, one for each giveaway. 
See the Rafflecopter at the end of each article for your entry options.

GIVEAWAY ONE
GIVEAWAY TWO
GIVEAWAY THREE
GIVEAWAY FOUR

Best wishes!

Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon Color Challenge

Today's challenge is all about COLOR! 

Instructions:

1. Pick a color. 

2. Find five books with covers almost completely in that color (they need to be at least 2/3 that color).

3. List the books or paste the pictures of the books online in a post on your blog or on another site.

4. Then come back here and leave a link to where you posted in comments (so we can all see) and in the rafflecopter for the giveaway.

Here are my five BLUE book covers  (all books that I've read).

Tackle Your TBR Readathon, Day Ten Update

Wednesday, September 17, 2014
What I read today: 300 pages

Total pages read for challenge so far: 3699

Today's finished books: 
If I Stay, by Gayle Foreman


Books I made progress in: 
The Affair, by Alicia Clifford--43%
A Taste For Murder, by Claudia Bishop--35%


Total number of finished books: 14

Titles of finished books: 
The Book Stops Here, by Kate Carlisle
Dissonance, by Erica O'Rourke
Watercolor Dreams, by Sherry Kyle
Confessions of a Teenage Rape Survivor, by Holly Dae
An Inconvenient Year, by Yvonne Joye
Chocolate Covered Murder, by Leslie Meier
The Moment Of Everything, by Shelly King
Baby Talk (Book 1), by Mike Wells (novella)
Blood Psychics, by Lindsay Edmunds (two short short stories)

Keep Your Friends Close, by Paula Daly
The Kennedy Connection, by R.G. Belsky
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, by Karen Joy Fowler
Landline, by Rainbow Rowell
If I Stay, by Gayle Foreman