So Many Books, So Little Time

It's read-a-thon day!!  I am going to try to get some reading done today but I know I won't get anywhere near the 24 hour mark.  I will post a few updates here throughout the day but I will mostly be on twitter.  You can follow me throughout the day at @so_many_books. I wanted to put a picture of my stack in this post but I'm working on my husband's computer (because mine blew up about a month ago) and his computer hates blogger (I think because he uses an ancient browser).  You can see the picture of my stack on twitter, if you are so inclined.  The books I plan to work on today are: Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Mean Streak by Sandra Brown The Agincourt Bride by Joanna Hickson While I'd love to make it pretty far on the first two books, I will probably focus on The Agincourt Bride because it's an ebook that I can read on my phone.  I find it's a lot easier to get reading into my day when I can read on my phone.

I know I've been pretty MIA lately and I'm so sorry about that.  I am still reading but my life has gone from crazy to completely ridiculous this year.  2015 has been ROUGH.  My daughter, in all of her toddler wisdom, has decided that sleep is completely unnecessary so we've been battling that.  No one ever tells that you toddlers have serious sleep issues too (I actually miss the newborn sleep issues, they're 10,000 times easier to deal with).  It got so bad we had to hire a sleep consultant!  It's slowly getting better but still far from where I want to be.  In addition, my job and workplace has been like working in the looney bin; I've been swamped and there has been an excessive amount of workplace drama going on.  Some days it seems like we should have our own show, like 'The Office' because it's so bizarre here. Sorry for all the whining, to my main point:  between work and home right now, blogging has kind of fallen to the w

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Hello friends!  I just wanted to let you know that All Fall Down  by Jennifer Weiner is being released in paperback on April 7!  I absolutely loved this book and I highly recommend it to anyone.  You can read my review here . You can pre-order it here ! Praise for All Fall Down    "Compulsively readable. Weiner's skill is in the specifics. There's no doubt she knows how to deliver a certain kind of story, and well." –  New York Times Book Review “All Fall  Down is Weiner’s best book yet.” –  Philadelphia Inquirer “A witty, realistic criticism on the modern age… One of Weiner’s best works.” – Boston Herald “Jennifer Weiner's books should be labeled a controlled substance… You will read one more chapter, and oh, come on, what would one more hurt? I deserve this pill, er, page. And you are gone.” –  USAToday "Weiner is an acute and witty observer of social norms… Reading one of her contemporary novels of manners is like biti

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