http://www.todayiread.com A Continuous Book Review and Vocabulary Assignment Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:28:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It’s Thursday and you know what that means…another edition of Booking Through Thursday is here. This week’s question is: How do you feel about illustrations in your books? Graphs? Photos? Sketches? Looking around here (especially considering I just published ... http://www.todayiread.com/20100311-btt-illustrations/ Title: The Devouring Author: Simon Holt ISBN: 978-0-316-03573-6 Story Length: 231 pages Genre: Young Adult Back Cover of The Devouring When dark creeps in and eats ... http://www.todayiread.com/review-devouring-simon-holt/ It’s Thursday and you know what that means…another edition of Booking Through Thursday is here. This week’s question is: …do you have any grammar books? Punctuation? Writing guidelines? Style books? More importantly, have you read them? How do you feel about ... http://www.todayiread.com/20100304-btt-grammar/ Thanks to Jill at Breaking the Spine, I present another edition of Waiting on Wednesday… Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if I had a twin. Or, if not a twin, someone with the exact same name as me. What’s in ... http://www.todayiread.com/wow-other-wes-moore/ Happy Tuesday! It’s time again for another edition of Teaser Tuesdays… Here are the rules: Grab your current read Let the book fall open to a random page Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from ... http://www.todayiread.com/20100302-teaser-tuesdays/ Title: Tuck Everlasting Author: Natalie Babbitt ISBN: 978-0-312-36981-1 Story Length: 136 pages Genre: Children 10+ Is eternal life a blessing or a curse? That is what young Winnie Foster must ... http://www.todayiread.com/review-tuck-everlasting-natalie-babbitt/ The weekend is over. And it flew by. I barely had a chance to savor it. But, let’s not dwell on that, otherwise I might start twirling around really fast in an effort to time travel and that definitely wouldn’t be pretty. Sunday was supposed to be dedicated to a mini ... http://www.todayiread.com/mini-read-a-thon-book-notes/ After a late start to the day, I’ve been forced to reconsider my mini read-a-thon. Rather than cancel or postpone it altogether, I’ve decided to shorten it. Instead of twelve hours of straight reading, it will be six, which should leave me enough time to accomplish all the other tasks ... http://www.todayiread.com/mini-read-a-thon-book-pool/ Last year’s Read-a-Thon was my first ever and I’m not completely ashamed to admit that I didn’t do so well, only a little. So, I’ve decided to get some practice in before the next one. And this Sunday seems like the perfect day to do it. For the past ... http://www.todayiread.com/mini-read-a-thon/ It started one day as I lay staring at my burgeoning bookcases. Something needed to be done…and fast. In a fit of excitement, I pulled all the books from their resting places and piled them on the floor. Mission: catalog ... http://www.todayiread.com/organizing-bookcases/