Welcome to another edition of the Sunday Salon…

The month of January has been filled with reading challenges and, woohoo, giveaways. Just yesterday, I posted about a book giveaway for My Little Red Book and now today I’ll be announcing a giveaway for one lucky Today I Read commenter. Since I’m a little late with the announcement, it’s how I’ll start this Sunday Salon. Continue reading »

This one is for the ladies, and men so in touch with their femininity that they’ve grown ovaries and a uterus, or men who understand the ineffable quality of being a woman and would like to surprise a special lady in his life by winning this lovely gift for her.

So, why the long qualifying paragraph above, I’m certain you’re asking. It’s because My Little Red Book by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff is a collection of stories about first periods. Most men, in my experience, tend to find the subject matter rather disturbing.

According to the blurb, the stories range from light-hearted (the editor got hers while water skiing in a yellow bathing suit) to heart-stopping (a first period discovered just as one girl was about to be strip-searched by the Nazis).

(Despite health class teachings, I thought I was hemorrhaging and asked my mom whether to call 911.)

This giveaway is hosted by Belle Enchanted and is open to U.S. and Canadian (excluding Quebec) residents. Apologies to the international readers, but the books will be shipped directly from the publisher.

The giveaway will run through February 12, 2009 and to enter all you need to do is head over and leave a comment telling Belle something unique thing about yourself. For more entries, you can blog, tweet, or post a message on Facebook about the giveaway.

Yesterday when I checked my mail, I received a wonderful surprise from Jace.

Two awesome corner bookmarks and a beautiful book thong (in a cool pouch). Of course I squealed like a little girl when I received them because they are even better than the pictures. I’ve even put a couple of them to good use marking my place in the current books of the moment.

So this post serves two purposes: to give a huge thank you to Jace for the wonderful bookmarks, and to tell everyone that if you want to get your hands on some, then you should head over to her Etsy shop.

Welcome to another edition of Waiting on Wednesday where I tell you about the book I happen to be lusting after at the moment.

After last month’s WoW, it seems that 2009 is turning into the year of the zombie because the next book I find myself looking forward to getting my hot little hands on is You Are So Undead to Me by Stacey Jay.

I came across it by chance while browsing Amazon and the cover looked interesting. Then I read the description and decided that I definitely want to see what’s up.

As you may have guessed from the title, this is a book about zombies. But not just any book about zombies, but a Buffy the Vampire Slayer style book about zombies. And Buffy was just so campy and comical that it worked. I’m hoping the same is true of this one.

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The first week of 2009 is winding too a close and it’s as good a time as any to finish defining my reading goals for the year.

Since I was only warming up my reading muscles last year (since I got started late in the game) I didn’t do much by way of challenges. This year will be different. There are already been a few reading challenges that caught my eye, with at least one being quite synchronous.

Without further ado, here are the challenges I plan to participate in this year (possibly more as I become aware of them):

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