Mini-Challenge COMPLETED!

I just completed Lazy Girl Reads' Mini-Challenge today!

1. Something Old - The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

2. Something New - Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff

3. Something Borrowed - Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

4. Something Blue - Maid Sama! 4 by Hiro Fujiwara

Cleopatra (Audio Book)

Title: Cleopatra: A Life

Author: Stacy Schiff; read by Robin Miles

Publisher: Hachette Audio

ISBN: 9780307877383

Why Read?: For fun

Challenges: Audio Book, Non-Fiction, Mini-Challenge, 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: This was an interesting biography. However, having read and reported on both Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Dryden's All for Love multiple times throughout my college career, I found the second half not nearly as engaging as the first as I already knew the "story". What fascinated me the most where the parts that related more to life at the time rather than specifically Cleopatra's. I am glad I listened to this rather than read as I did so faster, but the track and disc breaks were rather odd, some almost seeming to stop mid-paragraph.

Rating: 3 stars

Lucky Leprechaun Giveaway Hop - CLOSED

St. Patrick's Day and Ireland always make me think of fantasy, so for the Lucky Leprechaun Giveaway Hop, I will be giving away an unread copy one of my favorite fantasies - Jonathan

Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark.

(This is a very heavy book, so US only.)

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In My Mailbox 3/6-3/12

Bought a lot at Borders this week (so sad that the one closest to me is going out of business :( ).

For Possible Review Elsewhere Online:

Exposed by Kimberly Marcus

Jersey Tomatoes Are the Best by Maria Padian

Like Mandarin by Kirsten Hubbard

The Queen of Water by Maria Virginia Farinango & Laura Resau

The Dark-Hunters 4 by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Western Classics by Graphic Classics

Absolutely, Positively by Heather Webber

The Haunted by Jessica Verday

Secrets in the Attic by Damian Serbu

Fire by Robin McKinley & Peter Dickinson

Won:

Eve by Elissa Elliott

Swap on Swap-Bot:

When You Go Away by Jessica Barksdale Inclan

Bought at Borders:

Another Faust by Daniel & Dina Nayeri

Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer

Kisses and Lies by Lauren Henderson

The Hound of Rowan by Henry H. Neff

The Second Siege by Henry H. Neff

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

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Broken Angels Volume 1

Title: Broken Angels Volume 1

Author: Setsuri Tsuzuki

Publisher: Tokyopop

ISBN: 1598161598

Why Read?: For fun

Challenges: 1st in a Series, Manga, 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: The artwork in Broken Angels is perfect for a high school shojo fantasy. The story, however, left me thoroughly confused. Fujiwara Sunao is a girl who dresses as a boy and has some magical powers (I think she might be a fallen angel or something) that she uses to help others who have some twisted problems. Oh, and the school nurse is girly (although a guy) and creepy, and the class president also has some attraction to Fujiwara. There was a lot of potential here, but the story just did not make sense.

Rating: 2 stars

In My Mailbox 2/27-3/5

For possible review (on bookloons.com):

Orchards by Holly Thompson

Elizabeth I by Margaret George

I am J by Cris Beam

Won:

Cleopatra (Audio CD) by Stacy Schiff

The Last of the Really Great Wangdoodles by Julie Edwards

The Promises She Keeps by Erin Healy

Swaps on Swap-Bot:

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

Bought:

Formed of Clay (eBook) by Thea Atkinson

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All images come from Goodreads.

Reading Challenges Update - February

Here is where I stand with the challenges I have joined after the month of February (only challenges that I read books for this month are featured here):

Mystery & Suspense (2/12)

2. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

100 Books in a Year (14/100)

8. Maid Sama! 5 by Hiro Fujiwara

9. ShapeShifter: The Demo Tapes Year 1 by Susan Helene Gottfried

10. Happy Cafe 3 by Kou Matsuzuki

11. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

12. Blue by Lou Aronica

13. Happy Cafe 4 by Kou Matsuzuki

14. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Off the Shelf (1/5)

1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Manga (6/12)

4. Maid Sama! 5 by Hiro Fujiwara

5. Happy Cafe 3 by Kou Matsuzuki

6. Happy Cafe 4 by Kou Matsuzuki

Historical Fiction (1/2)

1. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

International (3/10)

2. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

3. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Fantasy (1/3)

1. Blue by Lou Aronica

Mini-Challenge (3/4)

3. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant