Dolphins Under My Bed
Sandra Clayton
ISBN 978-1-58736-816-5
Reviewed by Jen Cardwell for Reader Views (06/08)
Sailing the World from Home
4 Stars
Sandra Clayton’s husband told her one day that he would like for them to sell their house in England and live on a sail boat for their retirement. Although she was quite skeptical at the [...]
Publishers seem to be all about promoting contests this summer, because Trish at Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin? has been given the opportunity put on an amazing contest. The good people at Hatchette Book Group USA want to give away 14 books to up to five people! Trish has come up with five different [...]
For those of you Sunday Saloners who aren’t aware, I participated in Dewey’s read-athon yesterday. Or, rather, I attempted to participate. My cumulative actual time reading was only somewhere between 5 and 6 hours. I managed to complete only about 340 pages, inluding two (very, very short) books:
I also got a fair amount listened to [...]
Currently Reading: “Washington’s Lady” and “Take This Bread”
Pages read: 40
Running total of pages read since I started: 285 pages, 7 listened chapters, and 10 minutes of webcomic
Amount of time spent reading: 50 minutes
Running total of time spent reading since I started: 5 hours
Amount of time spent blogging/visiting other blogs: about 15 minutes
Running total of time spent blogging/visiting [...]
Ahh, a much better hour than I’ve been having so far…
Currently Reading: “Washington’s Lady” and “Take This Bread”
Pages read: 94
Running total of pages read since I started: 245 pages, 7 listened chapters, and 10 minutes of webcomic
Amount of time spent reading: 40 minutes
Running total of time spent reading since I started: 4 hours, 10 minutes
Amount of time spent blogging/visiting other [...]
I’m doing my hour six wrap-up just a little early, the reason for which I will note below…
Currently Reading: Washington’s Lady and starting “The Twits”
Pages read: 2 chapters of “The Three Musketeers” (audio book)
Running total of pages read since I started: 149 pages, 7 listened chapters, and 10 minutes of webcomic
Amount of time spent reading: 40 minutes
Running total [...]
I’m making this post for hours 4 and 5 combined, since they were not such good reading hours…
Pages read: 45
Running total of pages read since I started: 149 pages, 5 listened chapters, and 10 minutes of webcomic
Amount of time spent reading: 40 minutes
Running total of time spent reading since I started: 2 hours, 50 minutes
Amount of time spent [...]
This hour’s mini-challenge is being hosted by Vasillis. The task is to pick one of your favorite books and share one of your favorite quotes from it.
Even though Maw Books wasn’t thrilled with it, “The Little Prince” is one of my very favorite books. I try to read it both in English and in [...]
Currently reading: “Washington’s Lady” by Nancy Moser, which I will be reviewing for ReaderViews
Pages read: 35
Running total of pages read since I started: 104 pages, 5 listened chapters, and 10 minutes of webcomic
Amount of time spent reading: 30 minutes
Running total of time spent reading since I started: 2 hours, 10 minutes
Amount of time spent blogging/visiting other blogs: about 20 [...]
Okay, read-athon fans, another hour down, 22 more to go!
Here’s my wrap up for this hour!
Currently reading: I’m not sure, exactly. I finished “Are Women Human” by Dorothy L. Sayers and read Unshelved for 10 minutes and then wrote this post. I’m not sure what will be up next.
Pages read: 69
Running total of pages [...]
