Sunday Salon : Books, Birthday and Read-a-thon

Hola, book people!

Another week has gone by, and I feel like I can finally breath a little. Papers have been given to professors and tests have been completed. Now begins the anxious time waiting for the results : some professors have zealous correctors though, and so I already got some results. I’m quite happy with them, all over the class average (sorry for the bragging, but I was quite proud! :D)

This doesn’t mean I have no more work to do of course, but at least I have a little more free time. I finished three books this week, and reviewed some :

Books Read this Week :

• Dead Girls don’t Die, by Katie Alender
• Zombie Blondes, by Brian James
• Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher

Books Reviewed This Week :

• Blood Bound, by Patricia Briggs
• Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater
• Bad Girls don’t Die, by Katie Alender

There’s also been a lot of Great Discussions going on this week :

• Ti at Book Chatter discusses on being a Cover Snob
• Rebecca at Book Lady’s Blog discusses on Commenting Practices
• The Literary Feline asks : Do you really need to know why I haven’t been around?
• And finally, MjBecky from One Literature Nut discusses What is it about reading!

Also, you might have missed my post yesterday, where I bragged (I know, there’s a lot of bragging going on this week. I’ll probably have to ask Santa a box of humility this year) about the blog’s redecoration for Christmas! I love this time of the year!

And while we’re on the topic of “decoration” and thus, “drawing”, it was the Man’s birthday this week! And not only did I draw a comic for the occasion, he also requested his own, original birthday card, which looked like this :

And there was a silly poem on the inside. He also got expensive Tequila and Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s The Gathering Storm. I am giving him books on every occasion I can : Christmas, Birthday, or just because. I am purposefully trying to drown him with books of his own so that he won’t notice how huge my TBR piles are getting. I don’t think that’s working though!

This week, November 12th, will be the day where I’ll have my own, lonely read-a-thon! A day spent reading sounds like heaven right now! I’m turning two papers Tuesday and Wednesday morning, so Turhsday will be perfect for relaxing! I’m planning on starting around 1 or 2 am, my usual time for falling asleep. I’ll read a few pages, then sleep a little and then read all day.

I already picked a selection of titles for the day, which mostly includes short YA novels. I don’t have any number of books I want to go through, but I chose shorter ones so that I wouldn’t get bored or tired by a too long novel. Also, I have a feeling 2010 will be less about YA and a little more about adult fiction, so that should clear my piles a little. Anyway, here are some titles I would love to read this Thrusday:

Farenheit 451 is one that for sure I’ll be finishing. I’m already halfway through, and I put it on hold during midterms because I wanted to give it all of my attention. I can’t wait to read Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, and I have heard lots of great things about The Thief.

Glass Houses I’ve been waiting to read for a while, but many bloggers say the series is really good. Also, I’m missing discovering Uglies, so I picked up Bogus to Bubbly at the store as well as the first of The Midnighters series.

It’s not all of the books that I’ll possibly read, but right now those are the ones I’m interested in. I’ll be blogging a little on that day (I’m thinking 3 posts, Start, Mid-Way and Finish Line), but I think I’ll mostly Tweet. So, I know you read-a-thon’s cheerleaders are officially off-duty, but if you have a minute during the day don’t hesitate to come by to cheer me ! 😀