Friday hopping and following fun!

The Friday Book Blogger Hop is presented weekly by Crazy For Books!

Follow my Book Blog Friday is presented by Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read

So on Friday we all link up and hop around checking out everyone else's blogs!

I can't wait to see what everyone else is reading!

I have been trying to read like crazy and get all my reviews read and still get a few books off my TBR mountain - the mountain continues to grow not only because I am not getting enough of them read, but because I keep getting more and more books!

Enjoy the hop everyone and happy reading!

You can get to this weeks Follow My Book Blog Friday by clicking HERE.

You can get to Crazy for Books by clicking HERE.  (I will update the link as soon as the Book Blogger Hop post is up and the linky is ready).

It's Friday - Hopping and a giveaway!

Jennifer at Crazy for Books hosts the Book Blogger Hop on Fridays!

I didn't see a hop linky or a question yet - so.....

This week I thought I would add a giveaway!

I love Kate Kaynak's books!  

Apparently so much so that I preordered Accused from Amazon and from her publisher!

So, my lovely followers get to benefit from my inability to organize!

I also wanted to celebrate my passing 1000 followers! Holy WOW! But I will have another giveaway that is international for that celebration - so stay tuned.

This giveaway is for US followers only - sorry but postage...

You can get to my reviews by clicking the book titles:
Ganzfield Series:

Minder
Adversary

Legacy

It's Friday - Let's Hop!

The Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Crazy for Books!

The question this week is:

How many books are on your TBR?

My TBR pile is just short of a mountain.  I have at least 1000 books that I am hoping to read.

For the summer alone I have around 50+ books that I would like to finish.

Happy reading!

It's Friday!!!

It's Friday again - Let's hop!!!

This meme is hosted at Crazy For Books!

The question of the week?  What 2011 Summer release are you most looking forward to?

Me - - I am looking forward to Hounded: The Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne

Amazon Product Description:

Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old—when in actuality, he’s twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer.

Unfortunately, a very angry Celtic god wants that sword, and he’s hounded Atticus for centuries. Now the determined deity has tracked him down, and Atticus will need all his power—plus the help of a seductive goddess of death, his vampire and werewolf team of attorneys, a sexy bartender possessed by a Hindu witch, and some good old-fashioned luck of the Irish—to kick some Celtic arse and deliver himself from evil.

I have been seeing this one around and looks like something I would really enjoy!

Happy Reading!

It's Friday!!! Combo day for me! WWW - Mailbox - Hop!

It's Friday!  I have been CRAZY busy with reviews and blog tours and so I haven't been getting in on many weekly memes - - - so I thought I would throw a bunch of stuff together for this week's follow!

I just went to Spotlight on books - met a few authors and got to see a few I had met before!  Super fun time!

Who was there you say?  Anita Silvey, Sarah Weeks, Mike Wohnoutka, and Alison McGhee were the big namers - and of course we had a bunch of MN authors too - Cori Doerrfeld, Charmaine Donovan, Ron Gamer, Patrick Mader, Mari Preuss, and Candace Simar.

I have gotten a ton of books since I last posted a Mailbox post.  I have been fortunate enough to win some and have been shopping enough to have bought A LOT - THANKS to all who have hosted giveaways and contests - I love all the books I have won on my blog!  Someday I will find enough time to read each and every one of them - - - just for pleasure!

What have I just finished reading?(will finish today)

The Guardian's of the Hidden Scepter - - - Frank L. Cole

What am I reading now?(will start on Saturday)

In the Arms of Stone Angels - - - Jordan Dane

What am I reading next?

Forever Vampire by Michele Hauf

Thanks for stopping by The Wormhole!  Happy reading and happy blog hopping!

It's Friday!!!

It's Friday - let's hop!  The Book Blogger Hop is from Crazy For Books 

and it happens every week Friday until Monday!

This week's question:

"If I gave you £50 (or $80) and sent you into a bookshop right now, 

what would be in your basket when you finally staggered to the till?"

Wow!  I would love you!  My wishlist is staggering!  What would I leave with?

As many books as I could for certain!

The Cat Adams Trilogy - Blood Song, Siren Song, Demon Song

Something Secret This Way Comes by Sierra Dean

Nancy Holder's Possession series

and 

Archangel's Consort by Nalini Singh

* there are so many more - but I think I have run out of money - - again:(

Hope you have a weekend filled with comfort foods and great stories!  Happy reading!

It's Friday! Hoppin' Great Day of the Week!

The Book Blogger Hop is is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and share our love of the written word!  This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books!  It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs to read!  So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING!

The meme runs Friday through Monday and is hosted by Jennifer at Crazy For Books.

Question for this week:  

 "Who's your all-time favorite book villain?"

This was a tough one - thought about for a long time - the very idea of having a favorite villain is strange to me.  Really, isn't the premise behind a great villain that you don't like them? So I struggled to think of ONE "favorite" and came up with 

Pennywise the clown from Stephen King's IT.  

He is truly awful and I love that story.  Although I waver between The Dark Half and It as my all time favorite King reads.

Here is the link to the list of blogs who are hopping this week!  Have a great weekend!

It's Friday!!!

Follow Friday is hosted at Parajunkee's View!

This week’s question is from:

Dreaming About Other Worlds

If  you are a fan of Science Fiction what is your favorite book? If you haven't read Science Fiction before...any inkling to? Anything catch your eye?

I LOVE D.J. MacHale's series Pendragon!  I love all the books in that series.  It is one of the few YA Sci-Fi series that I have come across!  You should go check them out if you can!

Follow Friday - 40 and Over

This wonderful meme is hosted at Never Growing Old and this is my first time to get to participate!

The RULES to join in are very simple!
1. Grab the button
2. Add your link to the list
3. Visit as many other blogs as you can
4. Follow the ones you like (and comment on their blog to say that you are following)

It's Friday - I am not hopping:(

This is how I am feeling about the snow that is falling here in MN! I guess I should be grateful that it has held off until now - but ..... I so dislike the first snowfall of the winter!  Everyone forgets they have ever seen it before - the students are sooooooo excited and the adults are such bad drivers!  At any rate - I hope it doesn't decide to stick around for the weekend - but we shall see.

As I said - I am not hopping:(

I am so far behind in my google reader that I can't even begin to imagine the kind of time I would have to spend on my computer to both catch up in my reader - post anything other than this quick lunch time post - attempt to read the end of the book (The Ways of Khrem) that I am almost done with (it is fantastic - just in case you are wondering) and hop too. 

On that note - I will be attempting to catch up on my reader and finish my current read.  If I have a chance later in the weekend - I will go out and hop!  Hope to see many of you before that while I am catching up on what has been going on in the blog world!!!

Happy Reading - Beverly

It's Friday!!!

It's Friday - I haven't done a Friday Hop or Follow in awhile - sorry I have been slacking!

I thought I would take a little time today on my lunch and try to hop around!

Friday Hop Question: When you write reviews, do you write them as you are reading or wait until you have read the entire book?

My answer: I wait until I have finished the book to write my reviews - which is probably why I am always at least 5 books back with them.  I do highlight and/or write down my favorite quote or something that I think was my "favorite" part - that kind of thing.  Looking at it to write this post has me thinking that I should be writing them as I read the book and then I would be ready to put the finishing touches on and then publish in a more timely fashion.

I am currently reading Minder by Kate Kaynak - loving it, but not getting a lot of time to read - I am reading it and two other books for the Catch-Up Read-a-thon, but so far I am not really catching up - just trying to stay afloat - I am sure I am not the only one!

My next read will be Adversary also by Kate Kaynak and then next will be The Ways of Khrem by D. Nathan Hilliard.

The last books I read were Winters Passage and Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa - amazing stories - can't wait for Iron Queen to come out!

My DROP EVERYTHING AND READ IT book will be Alpha: Shifters Book 6 by Rachel Vincent.

I just got a copy of Blameless by Gail Carriger from a friend and am also planning to try to get that to the top of my TBR in the not so distant future!

What are you reading?

Friday - Let's HOP!

Friday is the day when you can follow and hop amongst a great many blogs - I am planning to visit as many of the blogs I already follow as I can!  I will try to get to other blogs from the hop as well!

Be sure that you go check out as many blogs as you can during this great event day!

These are Friday events:

Friday Book Blogger Hop from Crazy-for-books

Friday Follow from Parajunkee's View

Friday's Finest from A Bookful of Thoughts

Friday's Fab Five from Froggarita's Bookcase

Friday Finds from Should Be Reading

Friday 56 from Storytime with Tonya

This weeks question is: Do you use a rating system? Why or why not?

I don't use a rating system.  I read for pleasure and my reviews are simply what I thought of the book.  I don't want to make more work out of the review by giving it a rating system - either I liked it or I didn't.  

It's Friday and I am hoppin'! August 13 - 16, 2010

It's Friday - last Friday I got my post together and didn't get a chance to hop or follow - so this Friday I am starting earlier - it is only barely Friday - just 20 past midnight and so I am hoppin' now and hope to hop again late Friday night, early Saturday morning!  Hope you are all getting the chance to hop too!

Crazy For Books hosts the Book Blogger Hop and Parajunkee hosts the Friday Follow!

I am hoping to start posting all my reviews on Saturday - so check back and see what I have been reading!

This week the question is: How many books do you have on your TBR?  

The answer to that question is so far out my my ability to answer that it shouldn't even be funny, but it is.  I remember a time when I had a TBR stack or pile.  Now I have shelves, piles, stacks, lists, boxes, and I am so far behind in reading all the books I want to read that I fear I will never catch up.  I am sure that if I quit buying and borrowing books, blogging, working, cooking, cleaning, eating, sleeping, and having any kind of social interaction with humans - I could finish reading all the books that I have in my TBR mountain in the next say three/four years.  Of course I could be wrong.  I hope your stack isn't like that too.

It's Friday! Let's Hop!!!

It's Friday! 

Crazy-For-Books hosts The Book Blogger Hop and Follow my Book Blog Friday is hosted at parajunkee.com

Make sure you stop by both those blogs and check out these two sites!

It's Friday!!!

Greetings once again!  It is Friday - thank goodness!  I am always pleased to find Friday has arrived!

As you can see I had a hard time choosing my pictures this week - so we benefit from a selection!

This week we are telling some of our favorite authors and why we love them - so...

My list of favorite authors grows almost with each new book, but I have to choose one for this (at least I picked to choose only one) so I am going to choose Larissa Ione.  I have just finished the first book in her Demonica series (the rest of the series is ordered already and I am counting the days!)  I have chosen her because I am a huge sucker for the perfect man.

Thanks for hopping by, stopping by, jumping over, or leaping my way!  I hope you enjoy The Wormhole!

The Book Blogger Hop is hosted at Crazy For Books! You can catch the link here!

Follow my Book Blog Friday is hosted at Parajunkee's View.  You can catch that link here!

Come on and join in the fun!!

It's Friday! Let's Hop!!!

Friday - Book Blogger Hop!  It's hosted by Crazy-For-Books!  It's a great chance to go to other blogs and checking them out to see what we are all reading! 

Blog Twist: Question: Name and why you started blogging. -- My name is Beverly and I started blogging 2 years ago when I signed up for 23 Things on a Stick!

Thanks for stopping by on the hop! Please leave me a comment so I know you were here! Enjoy the hop!

It's Friday! Let's Hop!

Friday - Book Blogger Hop is hosted at Crazy-For-Books! 

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new book-related blogs that we may be missing out on! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list below!!

The Hop lasts Friday-Monday every week, so if you don't have time to Hop today, come back later and join the fun! This is a weekly event! And stop back throughout the weekend to see all the new blogs that are added! We get over 200 links every week!!

Thanks to all my followers that have been so patient with me - I have been trying to blog, but have not been getting around to many other blogs.  Last weeek and this week I have been trying to visit all the blogs I follow - so, with that in mind....if I am following your blog I will be stopping to comment asap.  I will be going back and checking out the blog hop after that!  

Friday! Fun Hopping Friday!

The Book blogger Hop is hosted by Crazy-for-books! 

ABOUT THE HOP:

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new book-related blogs that we may be missing out on! This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed! The Hop lasts Friday-Monday every week, so if you don't have time to Hop today, go back later and join the fun!  Nearly 200 blogs each week!

It's Friday! Let's Hop!!!

The Friday Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Jen at Crazy-For-Books.com.  Hop on over and get signed up!

It's Friday! Let's Hop!!!

It's Friday - time to hop!  This meme is hosted by Crazy-for-books.com!

Thanks for stopping by!  Can't wait to see you while you're hoppin' around!