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Saturday, November 01, 2008

October Firsts

"I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one. Or at least as close as we're going to get."

History is full of guys who did stupid things for women.

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

Some people think the cicadas bring trouble when they come to town. I don't think that's true. I think trouble finds its way without any help at all.

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say.

The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath.



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2022 Reading Challenges I Am Hosting

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  • Georgian Reading Challenge
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  • History Nonfiction 2020 Reading Challenge
  • Middle Grade Reading challenge
  • Victorian Reading Challenge
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Books Read in 2019

  • Bibles read in 2019
  • Board Books and Picture Books
  • Christian Fiction and Nonfiction Read in 2019
  • Classics
  • Contemporary/Realistic
  • Early Readers and Chapter Books
  • Historical Fiction
  • Mysteries
  • Nonfiction
  • Poetry, Plays, Short Stories
  • Romance
  • Speculative Fiction

2018 Challenge Participants

  • Vicki's bookshelf: 2018-family-tree-challenge
    Postcards in the Shoebox: A Prairie Family Story
  • Whatever I Think Of!
    National Pumpkin Day
  • Thomas's bookshelf: victorian-reading-challenge
    Saving Stryker (West Coast Darlings, #8)
  • MY READER'S BLOCK
    The Opening Door
  • Lara's bookshelf: 2018charityreadingchallenge
    A Strange and Terrible Wonder
  • Read-at-Home Mom
    Read-at-Home Mom Report: September 2026
  • Quattro passi sulle nuvole
    Premio Nobel per la Letteratura 2026 ad Anne Carson.
  • She's Got Books on Her Mind
    September Reading Plans / Hispanic Heritage Month Books
  • Much Madness is Divinest Sense
    Granna’s Quilt
  • One Catholic Life
    A Friendship Like No Other: Homily for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A
  • Rabbit Ears Book Blog
    [ARC REVIEW] Jungle Kali by Amie White (@LiteraryTitan)
  • As Told By Tina
    Elevating On-Water Safety and Performance: The Forward WIP Impact Vests
  • A Little Reading
    Book Beginnings: Antique Hunters and Long time, no see
  • Gloria's bookshelf: 2018-pix-books-70
    The Story of Seventy Momentous Years: The Life and Times of King George V, 1865-1936
  • journey-and-destination
    Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (1935)
  • The Year Ahead (2018) – Roads go ever ever on…
    Top Ten Tuesday – Fall TBR (Sept. 23, ’25)
  • Celebrity Readers
    Finishing the Series Challenge NEW HOSTS!!
  • Relevant Obscurity
    Roma legacy game terbaru dari joker123
  • Books and Needlepoint
    Book Review: A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
  • Island Bookshelf
    A Literary Christmas 2020
  • The Paperback Stash
    Scarlet Widow by Graham Masterton
  • Book Babble
    BOOK TOUR: The Ishmael Covenant (Empires of Armegeddon #1) by Terry Brennan
  • Bookish Owlette
    King of Scars | Leigh Bardugo
  • Edith's Miscellany
    Poetry Revisited: Bесна – Spring by Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev
  • LibriAmoriMiei
    2020 European Reading Challenge
  • Real Life Protagonist
    Tag: Good Reading Habits
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    Justice Gone
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    Book Review - 1920s Jazz Age Fashion & Photographs
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    Novel as Cloud: ¿A review?
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Good Rules Cheat List

Board books and picture books = new is anything published after 2013
Early readers and chapter books = new is anything published after 2013
Contemporary (general/realistic) = new is anything published after 2007
Speculative fiction (sci-fi/fantasy = new is anything published after 2007
Classics = anything published before 1968
Historical fiction = new is anything published after 2007
Mysteries = new is anything published after 1988
Nonfiction = new is anything published after 2007
Christian books = new is anything published after 2000
Bibles = new is anything published after 1989

Privacy Policy

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My Specialities

  • World War I
  • World War II
  • Jane Austen
  • Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Anthony Trollope
  • Charles Dickens
  • Wilkie Collins
  • L.M. Montgomery
  • Georgette Heyer

Becky's Interviews

  • Alan Gratz (10/28/08)
  • Alisa M. Libby (4/13/09)
  • Annette Laing
  • April Lurie
  • Barbara Kerley (1/14/07)
  • Barry Lyga (1/7/08)
  • Bob & Geno Salvatore (12/8/08)
  • Brandon Mull (3/10/08)
  • C.G. Watson (11/19/07)
  • Carlyn Beccia (12/2/08)
  • Carol Lynch Williams (5/7/09)
  • Carrie Jones (12/10/07)
  • Carrie Ryan (5/14/2009)
  • Clare Dunkle (5/26/08)
  • Consie Powell (10/24/07)
  • Deb Caletti (1/21/08)
  • Deborah Bodin Cohen (1/23/09)
  • Dianne Salerni (1/28/08)
  • Elizabeth Scott (11/12/07)
  • Elizabeth Scott (11/17/08)
  • Fiona Bayrock (3/27/09)
  • Fran Cannon Slayton (6/11/09)
  • Frances O'Roark Dowell (11/24/2008)
  • Francisco X. Stork (4/20/09)
  • Ingrid Law (4/28/2009)
  • Jeanne DuPrau
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  • Jessica Day George 4/14/08
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  • Jo Knowles (3/3/08)
  • John Marco (5/28/09)
  • Joni Sensel (3/30/09)
  • Kathi Appelt day 1, day 2
  • Kathryn Fitzmaurice (2/23/09)
  • Kim Norman (5/12/09)
  • Laura Resau (10/6/09)
  • Laura Wiess (2/25/08)
  • Linda Urban (12/24/2007)
  • Lisa Ann Sandell (12/03/07)
  • Lisa Mantchev (4/6/09)
  • Lisa Mantchev #2 (7/7/09)
  • M.E. Breen (6/23/2009)
  • Mark Hardy (3/20/2009)
  • Mary Ann Rodman (8/19/08)
  • Mary Jane Beaufrand (5/5/08)
  • Maxwell Eaton III (12/10/08)
  • Michelle Knudsen (6/2/09)
  • Miriam Gershow (7/8/09)
  • Nancy Crocker (2/11/07)
  • Natasha Wing and Sylvie Kantorovitz (12/31/07)
  • Nicole Baart (10/08/07)
  • Peggy Gifford (11/10/08)
  • Robin Brande (2/4/08)
  • Sara Lewis Holmes (11/26/07)
  • Sara Zarr (2/7/08)
  • Sarah Deming (10/29/07)
  • Sarah Miller (11/05/07)
  • Susan Beth Pfeffer (2/18/08)
  • Susanna Reich (11/3/08)

Labels

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Review Policy

I am interested in reviewing books and audio books. This blog focuses on books written for middle grade on up (essentially 10 to a 110). I review middle grade fiction and young adult fiction (aka tween and teen).

I also review adult books.

I read in a variety of genres including realistic fiction, historical fiction, mystery, romance, science fiction, fantasy, literary fiction, and chick lit. (I've read one western to date.)

I read a few poetry books, a few short story collections, a few graphic novels, a few nonfiction books.

I am especially fond of:

  • Regency romances (including Austen prequels/sequels)
  • Historical fiction set in the Tudor dynasty
  • Historical fiction and nonfiction set during World War II
  • Jewish fiction/nonfiction
  • dystopias
  • apocalyptic fiction
  • science fiction (especially if it involves time travel and alternate realities)
  • fantasy
  • multicultural books and international books

I am not a fan of:

  • sports books
  • horse books
  • dog books if the dog dies (same goes with most pets actually except maybe fish)
  • westerns (if it's a pioneer story with women and children, then maybe)
  • extremely violent books with blood, blood, and more blood

I am more interested in strong characters, well-written, fleshed-out, human characters. Plot is secondary to me in a way. I have to care about the characters in order to care about the plot. That being said, compelling storytelling is something that I love. I love to become absorbed in what I'm reading.

If you're interested in sending me a review copy of your book, I'm happy to hear from you. Email me at laney_po AT yahoo DOT com.

You should know several things before you contact me:

1) I do not guarantee a review of your book. I am just agreeing to consider it for review.
2) I give all books at least fifty pages.
3) I am not promising anyone (author or publisher) a positive review in exchange for a review copy. That's not how I work.
4) In all of my reviews I strive for honesty. My reviews are my opinions--so yes, they are subjective--you should know my blog will feature both negative and positive reviews.
5) I do not guarantee that I will get to your book immediately. I've got so many books I'm trying to read and review, I can't promise to get to any one book in a given time frame.
6) Emailing me every other week to see if I've read your book won't help me get to it any faster. Though if you want to email me to check and see if it arrived safely, then that's fine!

Authors, publishers. I am interested in interviewing authors and participating in blog tours. (All I ask is that I receive a review copy of the author's latest book beforehand so the interview will be productive. If the book is part of a series, I'd like to review the whole series.) Contact me if you're interested.

Cheat List for 2019 Good Rule Challenge

Board books and picture books = new is anything published after 2015; goal is 250 (150 new; 100 old)
Early readers and chapter books = new is anything published after 2011; goal is 36 (18 new; 18 old)
Contemporary (general/realistic) = new is anything published after 2007; goal is 24 (12 new; 12 old)
Romance = new is anything published after 1989; goal is 24 (12 new, 12 old)
Speculative fiction (sci-fi/fantasy = new is anything published after 2000; goal is 24 (12 new; 12 old)
Historical fiction = new is anything published after 2000; goal: 104 (52 new; 52 old)
Mysteries = new is anything published after 1989; goal is 24 (12 new; 12 old)
Classics = published before 1970
Poetry, Plays, Short Stories = new is anything published after 1989; goal = 12 (6 new, 6 old)
Nonfiction = new is anything published after 2000; goal = 40 (20 new; 20 old)
Total -- 538-ish New -- 294 Old -- 244

2017 Reading Challenges

  • 2017 Paris in July
  • Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge
  • Back to the Classics
  • Birth Year Reading Challenge
  • Blogger Shame Reading Challenge
  • Charity Reading Challenge
  • European Reading Challenge
  • HIstorical Fiction
  • Old School Kidlit Reading Challenge
  • Picture Book Checklist
  • RIP XII (Sept-Oct)
  • Russian Literature
  • Share-A-Tea Reading Challenge
  • Victorian Reading Challenge
  • War Bingo

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(Old) Challenge Participants

  • Whatever I Think Of!
    National Pumpkin Day
  • The Book Connection...
    It's Monday! What Are You Reading? and Mailbox Monday - Oct 26
  • MY READER'S BLOCK
    The Opening Door
  • Becky's Book Reviews
    Week in Review #44
  • Fanda Classiclit
    Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey #1949Club
  • Read-at-Home Mom
    Read-at-Home Mom Report: September 2026
  • Alison's bookshelf: 2017-victorian-reading-challenge
    Blooms of Darkness (The Broken Prophecy, #1)
  • silencing the bell
    Socks
  • She's Got Books on Her Mind
    September Reading Plans / Hispanic Heritage Month Books
  • Readeropolis
    Discussion Questions for "Out of Time" by Caroline B. Cooney | #romance #ya #fantasy
  • Girlxoxo.com
    Bookmarked 2026 Week 30
  • Rabbit Ears Book Blog
    [ARC REVIEW] Jungle Kali by Amie White (@LiteraryTitan)
  • A Little Reading
    Book Beginnings: Antique Hunters and Long time, no see
  • Gloria's bookshelf: all
    The Story of Seventy Momentous Years: The Life and Times of King George V, 1865-1936
  • Gloria's bookshelf: 2017-pix-books-70
    The Story of Seventy Momentous Years: The Life and Times of King George V, 1865-1936
  • journey-and-destination
    Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand (1935)
  • Emma
    Placeholder Yuletide
  • Fiction State Of Mind
    Coyer 2025
  • Tabula Rasa
    The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Books and Chocolate
    Back To the Classics Challenge 2022: The Winner!
  • Randomly Reading
    January 2023
  • Vonnie's Reading Corner
    End of the Year: 2022
  • Kid Lit Reviews
    How Many Lines of Symmetry Does a Trapezoid Have?
  • Randomly Reading
    Keeping the City Going written and illustrated by Brian Floca
  • Slouching Towards Senescence
    Mezzos slay me!
  • Angels are Kids and Furkids
    Review: Bells, Spells, and Murders
  • Brona's Books
    A Year in First Lines
  • The Paperback Stash
    Scarlet Widow by Graham Masterton
  • LibriAmoriMiei
    2020 European Reading Challenge
  • Books, Books, the Magical Fruit
    Cover Reveal : Whisky Moments by Emily Bowie
  • Bunny's Girl
    ART on Friday + AEDM
  • Ravenhill Cottage
    My New Blog...
  • Cat on the Bookshelf
    Four London Book Tag
  • A Book and a Cup of Tea
    Justice Gone
  • Marginalia
    Instructions to Myself
  • Reflections of a Bookaholic
    Unpopular Opinion
  • Welcome to my blog!
    Get to know me BOOK TAG
  • Darlene's Book Nook
    2019 Word of the Year
  • Buckling Bookshelves
    Updates + Some News!
  • BookishRealm
    Cold Spell by Mia London & Susan Sheehey
  • September Violets
    Vancouver Island - Butchart Gardens
  • Leaves of Lavender
    A Cup of Milk
  • Hibernator's Library
    Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann
  • Reading Wild
    Top Ten Tuesday: what was it about again?
  • Up the Hill Gang
    The Big Crafty, Bookstore and Oatmeal Porter
  • A Year in Books
    Weeks 39, 40 & 41
  • Mama Wants Her Books
    Picture Book Review: Patty's Pumpkin Patch by Teri Sloat
  • The Swing Shift Librarian
    Day by Day Armageddon by JL Bourne
  • This Girl Writes
    The Healing Process of Writing Memory
  • Mel's Book Reviews
    Drink Smoke Pass Out – Judith Lucy
  • Cassie's Babblings
    May TBR
  • Wading Through the Ocean of Life
    Music Tuesday — Josh Groban “Evermore”
  • The Next Chapter
    My first post of the year!
  • Prunella McShush, Librarian
    The Allure of Reading Challenges
  • Joanne Sher, Christian Children's Writer
    Yes - I still exist :) Looking Back and Looking Forward
  • she who scrivens got a swamper
    Four lucky men, some unlucky ones and a witch
  • Cozy Up
    Agatha's At It Again!--"Dishing The Dirt" By M.C Beaton
  • Jami's Life in Books
    Anna and the French Kiss
  • Dolce Bellezza
  • A Great Book Study
  • You, Me, and a Cup of Tea
  • Behold the Stars
  • The Children's War
  • Making Sense of the Stars - Home
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2019 Reading Challenges

  • 2019 52 Books in 52 Weeks
  • 2019 Alphabet Soup (Authors)
  • 2019 Alphabet Soup (Titles)
  • 2019 Back to Classics Challenge
  • 2019 Blogger Shame Challenge
  • 2019 Bookish Resolutions
  • 2019 Calendar of Crime
  • 2019 Charity Reading Challenge
  • 2019 Chunkster Challenge
  • 2019 Connect Five
  • 2019 European Reading Challenge
  • 2019 Family Tree Reading Challenge
  • 2019 Georgian Reading Challenge
  • 2019 Good Rule Reading Challenge
  • 2019 Historical Fiction
  • 2019 Jane Austen Reading Club
  • 2019 Middle Grade Reading Challenge
  • 2019 Mount TBR Challenge
  • 2019 Paris in July
  • 2019 Picture Book Challenge
  • 2019 Read It Again, Sam
  • 2019 Share-a-Tea
  • 2019 Spring Semester Reading Challenge
  • 2019 Sweet Southern Reading Challenge
  • 2019 TBR PILE Challenge
  • 2019 Victorian
  • 2019 Vintage Mystery
  • 2019 When Are You Reading
  • 2019 World at War
  • Modern Mrs. Darcy 2019 Checklist

2016 Reading Challenges

  • 2016 Mad Reviewer
  • Charity Challenge
  • Edwardian Bingo
  • Hard Core Rereading Challenge
  • Period Drama (Not a Reading Challenge)
  • Victorian Bingo
  • Women's Classic Literature
  • World at War Reading Challenge

2018 Reading Challenges

  • A Century of Books
  • Alphabet Soup
  • Author Love Challenge
  • Back to the Classics
  • Charity Reading Challenge
  • Cloud of Witnesses (Operation Actually)
  • Dread and Read Reading Challenge
  • Family Tree REading Challenge
  • Good Rule (Becky's Book Reviews)
  • Good Rule (Operation Actually)
  • Kitty Lit Reading Challenge
  • Lucy the REader's Christmas Classicsthon
  • Middle Grade Reading Challenge
  • Mount TBR (Operation Actually)
  • Newbery Reading Challenge
  • Old School Kidlit
  • Operation Actually Victorian Challenge Post
  • Operation Deepen Faith
  • Picture Book Challenge (Becky's Book Reviews)
  • Read It Again, Sam
  • Reformation Reading Challenge
  • Share-a-Tea Reading Challenge
  • TBR Pile (Becky's Book Reviews)
  • TBR Pile (Operation Actually)
  • Victober (UNOFFICIAL)
  • Victorian Reading Challenge (Becky's Book Reviews)
  • Vintage Mystery Challenge (Becky's Book Reviews)

2017 Challenges I'm Hosting

  • 2017 War Bingo Reading Challenge
  • Charity Reading Challenge
  • Cloud of Witnesses Reading Challenge
  • Operation Deepen Faith
  • Picture Book Reading Challenge
  • Reformation Reading Challenge
  • Share-a-Tea Reading Challenge
  • Victorian Reading Challenge

Join the 2018 Middle Grade Reading Challenge

Join the 2018 Middle Grade Reading Challenge
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2018 Good Rule Reading Challenge

2018 Good Rule Reading Challenge
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2015 -- Keep In Mind Semi-Goals

  • Reading To Know 2015 Book Club
  • Newbery Through the Decades (Hope Is the Word)
  • Perpetual -- Kings & Queens of England

My Favorite and My Best

  • A Tangled Web by L.M. Montgomery
  • Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  • Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
  • Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery
  • Book Thief
  • Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
  • Don Quixote by Cervantes
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Five Children and It
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
  • North and South
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen
  • Speak
  • The Long Winter
  • The Warden by Anthony Trollope
  • The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Just Fooling Around 2015 Challenge List

  • 2015 TBR Pile
  • 42 Sci-Fi Reading Challenge
  • Alphabet Soup
  • Back to Classics
  • Birthday Month Reading Challenge
  • Books in Translation
  • British History
  • Chunkster Reading Challenge
  • Cloak and Dagger Mystery Challenge
  • Deal Me In Short Stories
  • Fantasy Fiction
  • Flights of Fantasy
  • Genre Decades Reading Challenge
  • Hard Core Rereading Challenge
  • Historical Fiction
  • Newbery Reading Challenge
  • Nonfiction Reading Challenge
  • Once Upon A Time IX
  • PERPETUAL VICTORIAN Bingo
  • Reading Through Time
  • Victorian Bingo (2015)
  • Vintage Mystery Bingo
  • War Through the Generations

2016 I'm Hosting These Challenges

  • Victorian Bingo Challenge
  • Edwardian Bingo Challenge
  • World at War Reading Challenge
  • Charity Reading Challenge
  • Cloud of Witnesses Reading Challenge
  • Operation Deepen Faith

Family Tree Reading Challenge

Family Tree Reading Challenge
Link to sign-up page

2018 Share-a-Tea Challenge

2018 Share-a-Tea Challenge
Linked To Sign Up Page

2018 Kitty Lit Challenge

2018 Kitty Lit Challenge
Link to sign-up page

2018 Charity Challenge (Sign Up)

2018 Charity Challenge (Sign Up)

2018 Picture Book Challenge

2018 Picture Book Challenge
Link to sign-up page

2015 Challenges

  • Victorian Bingo
  • Hard Core Re-reading

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