A Love For Lit: ReadAThon

#TakeControl Event & ReadAthon

So here's the Deal: Read books only from you TBR pile in March, review them, then add the link to the Rafflecopter!! Also, there will be a readathon from March 15th to 18th...for added support! :D Oh yeah, you hashtag #TakeControl.

Read all about it on Kimba's Blog.

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With love,
Margaret

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Wicked Valentine's Day Readthon Update!

Orginal Goals:
1 Book == 17%...still reading
1 Twitter Chat == While I caught 5 minutes of the end of Tuesday's
3 Challenges == Yes, but one was submitted late...
35 Total Follows/Comments == Yes

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With love,
Margaret

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Valentine's Day Ball (#WWReadAThon)

Unfortunately, I missed the day this post was supposed to be published, but i still wanted to put it up!

My Dress for the Ball: Charlotte's Dress from Perilous Light

My Date to the Ball: Ethan from Destiny

Our Mode of Transportation: White Horse from Underworld

Check out the challenge and ReadAThon!

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With love,
Margaret

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Hey guys!I've decided to take a bit of time off of Indie Author Month to check out what's going on over at the readathon! Well, it looks as if today is the first day, but the whole schedule is posted, which is nice! Here's whats going on: 7 challenges (1 per day), 2 twitter chat parties, and one giveaway! Sounds fun! :D
check out the full schedule here.

My goals:
Since i am doing Indie Author Month all week, i think i will set my goals uber low.
- 1 book
- 1 twitter party chat
- 3 Challenges
- 5 friends follows or comments left per day.

Are y'all participating? What goals did you set for yourself?
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With love,
Margaret

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Bout of Books Challenge #6

This challenge, "What is Your Book Crack?", comes from Book Goonie!

The only book crack i really have is free ebooks! My city has a crappy book store selection. We used to have a BooksAMillion and Borders in my town, but they both closes. We still have several Barnes & Nobles but i don't really get a chance to go in there. Either way though, when i go onto the amazon kindle store i pretty much forget about those real bookstores. I immediately filter to the genre i love (YA sci-fiction/fantasy) then sort from low price to high price. On a good day there are about 150 to 170 free books on there! Some aren't that great...but some are amazing. I'd love to tell you how many books i've gotten this way...but i'm embarrassed Ok, i'll tell you...587. *blushes* Yep, i do this routine about twice a week and immediately buy any new titles i see. This equates to any from 5 to 10 books every week. Sometimes there are no new books...but i always look at every page until the .99 cent books start popping up. Sigh, it's totally like crack. I've been doing this for over a year... In my whole kindle library, i've bought about 20 books and emailed myself about 10 books. So that's a lot of free books.... Some books are only free for 3 or 4 days so i try to look on there a lot... or at least that's what i tell myself. Thankfully, i wont go into financial debt with this crack!

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With love,
Margaret

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Bout of Books Challenge #5

The Bookish Dressup Challenge is hosted over at Nyx Book Reviews.

Whenever i think of a fictional characters fashion sense, all i can think of is Bella Swan from Twilight. Maybe it's because Alice makes such a big deal of it....but the books constantly describe her in flannel and jeans or something else totally drab! While i've def seen some psychedelic colored flannels, something tells me Bella probably chooses boring colors. And she def doesn't wear and dress or skirts! The below selections are a very feminine and pretty set that any girl could love..i hope!

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With love,
Margaret

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Bout of Books Challenge #4

Spine Poetry Hosted over at Escape Through the Pages.

My Spine Poem

(The Girl Who Could Talk to Zombies) (Found) (Secret Roses) in the (Dust of the Sea) that (Released Souls) into (Enduring Light) causing an (Unstoppable) (Destiny).

My poem uses 8 YA indie ebooks and 6 extra words! I've linked the titles to goodreads! :D

With love,
Margaret

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Bout of Books Challenge #3

Today's challenge is hosted over at Booking In Heels. She asks us to turn to page 48, or 48% and write down the first sentence! Then we are to write 4 additional, made up sentences to bring the story in a new direction! This sounds like great fun!

The current book Im read is Dark Passage by ML Woolley!

48% = "She wanted them to also check to be sure no one was in the house."

She wanted them to also check to be sure no one was in the house. Having someone see her, or more over hear her, was more than she could bare! She walked out her brother and his family and waved warmly from the doorway. As a precaution, she did a once over around the house as a half-stitched effort at easing her mind. After finally convincing herself no one will ever know her dirty little secret, she throws her Richard Simmons VCR tape in and prepares to "party off the pounds".

Thanks Bout of Books!

With love,
Margaret

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Bout Of Books Challenge #2

Today's Bout of Books Challenge is all about cover love! Your Favorite cover and a funny cover! It's hosted over at Ms. Buff's blog.

I definitely judge books by the cover. I know it's a bad habit to have...but i cant help it! Some covers just make me salivate! I usually like covers with people that are obscured... then with elements like smoke or stars then with pretty colors! If the cover person has a beautiful dress or something that's even better!

I've honestly come across that many funny covers, but the ones i have are usually older books, comedies or non-fiction. :D

Favorite Covers

Funny Covers

Thanks to Bout Of Books for hosting a great event, i'm having so much fun!!

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With love,
Margaret

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Bout of Books Challenge #1

Challenge #1 is hosted over at The Book Barbies and entails us participates to choose 2 fictional characters to come to life for 30 days: one best friend and one as a love interest!

The first think i thought of here was to choose Bella Swan as my bbf and Edward Cullen as my bf. It's be more of a flaunt in the face of Bella though, you know stealing her man and all. Honestly though, i started dislike twilight after the middle of the third book. It just seemed too unrealistic... idk. I also dislike Kstew so that kind of ruin the movies for me. Well, anyway i decided to not go with that scenario because it just seemed to spiteful!

To make the best choice possible i decided to evaluate my needs! For best friend, I'd want someone funny, caring and with good morals. A strong person that can stand up for herself and isn't afraid to speak her mind. It's also inportant that she be a book lover so we can chat about our reading!!

For a love interest, i like men who are very unselfish, maybe sarcstic (but not rude) and bright enough to get all my jokes! I like smart dudes that look like a bad boy... haha. I need a dude that loves animals and nature and that will put up with all my green/organic treehugger ways. Def don't want any guy that drinks, smokes or does drugs. Wow, if i find that 30 days might not be enough!! lol.

So i've decided on... *drum roll*

Best Friend = Kali from the Flash Gold Chronicles By Lindsay Buroker

Love interest = Pax from The Last Year Series from Trisha Leigh

Thanks to Bout of Books for hosting such a great ReadAThon!

With love,
Margaret

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Bout of Books Read-A-Thon Goals

Blurb from Bout of Books:The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 7th and runs through Sunday, January 13th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 6.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. -From the Bout of Books 6.0 team

Sounds totally awesome-sauce right? Mhm! I've been thinking hard on my goals.

Read 3 books.
Find 25 friends to follow on twitter.
Make 25 comments on others blogpost!

Monday

Books: 0
Pages: 5% in first ebook
Friends: 2
Comments: 3
Chat: No..missed it!
Challenge: Yes!

Tuesday

Books: 0
Pages: 12% in first ebook
Friends: 1
Comments: 3
Challenge: Yes, 1 of 2.

Wednesday

Books: 0
Pages: Still 12% in first ebook.
Friends: 8
Comments: 2
Chat: Yes.
Challenge: Yes.

Thursday

Books: Indomitable by J. Meyers
Pages: 100% of First book
Friends: 13
Comments: 5
Challenge: Yes, 2 of 2.

Friday

Books: 0
Pages: 33% of Second Book
Friends: 2
Comments: 3
Challenge: Nope.

Saturday

Books:
Pages:
Friends:
Comments:
Chat: Nope.
Challenge: Yes, 2 of 2.

Sunday

Books:
Pages:
Friends:
Comments:
Challenge:

With love,
Margaret

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Wonderfully Wicked ReadAThon Challenge

#WWReadathon

Hey How is everyone's reading coming? Ok. As promised here is my lovely challenge!

The Challenge

I was having some issues finding my own challenge, so this one is from Michelle at Book Briefs. Its quite simple and super fun!!! Thanks to April at Shelf Confessions for helping me construct it.

For this challenge you will be making one sentence using only book titles. You cant add or leave out any words. You can use as many books as you'd like. Your sentence will probably be silly but that makes it even more fun! Just make sure its a real sentence. Subject & Verb! Here is my example:

A beautiful, dark witch song crossed the haunted, wicked woods.

Wow! that sentence sounds scary...sort of like youre lost in the woods...then you start hearing things.. :/ Here are my books:

Woo not too hard huh? If you have a blog, you can make a post with your sentence and book covers then link it in the comments. If you dont have a blog, just add your sentence to the comments then list the book titles and authors you used! Also, since our event here has a twitter tag, as a extra entry, tweet your sentence with the tag (#WWReadathon) and url to this post then add a direct link to your tweet in a seperate comment!

This challenge is TIMED!! Yes thats right...you will only have a few hours to complete this and get your entries in! The challenge starts at 4pm est and will end at 10 pm est. That gives you 6 hours. I will choose the winner promptly at 10:15 pm!! If you are having trouble please feel free to tweet me at @Alove4Lit !

Prizes

We will have 1 winner that will be chosen randomly from everyone who completes the challenge. The winner will get to choose one paranormal/supernatural/horror book of their choice from Book Depository.

**For more info on the Wonderfully Wicked ReadAThon and a schedule of events, Check out Aprils post over at Shelf Confessions.**

Here is the Signups for the Prize Packs:

Oh and before i forget, if you want to follow along on twitter, try going using TweetChat at http://t.co/8rnINl1L I found it to be soo easy!

#FrightFall Update

Frightful Fall Read-A-Thon Oct. 3-9

My (tenative) reading list:

Brightest Kind of Darkness by PT Michelle

Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey

Anna dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

Need by Carrie Jones

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

*Strikeout=finished; Underline=Currently Reading; Italic=Postponed*

2707/2707 ebook page flips. 3/3 ebooks. Goal is 100% complete!

Frigtful Fall ReadAThon: A halloween reading event where you try to read alot of creepy/scary/horror/paranormal books!! Brought to you by Castle Macabre.

Wonderfully Wicked Read-a-Thon

Reading Wicked amounts of YA

Between Oct. 21 and Oct. 23 i'll be reading like crazy!!!! I sure hope i get through more than one book..HAHA! :D If you want to follow along, be watching twitter for the hash #WWReadathon. I'll be posting updates here on the blog too!!

Wonderfully Wicked Read-A-Thon: Oct. 21 to 23! A read-until-you-drop halloween event for those of us itching for excitement! Brought to you by Kindle Fever, Letters Inside Out, and My Shelf Confessions