PURPLE!!

Tomorrow is PURPLE DAY!! 

Where purple for Epilepsy awareness and visit my friends over at BOOKSCOOPS to see their awesome Purple Day giveaway and other fun stuff!!

(And I promise to actually, like, review books next week.... really.... maybe.... lol.  I've been powering through the entire Mrs. Pollifax series!)

Purple Day!

Given everything going on right now, there's not a lot I can do with this, but I couldn't NOT support Cari!
Head over to Bookscoops to see what YOU can do to support Purple Day!

And We Come to the End

Of the Ides of March Madness!

And the big winner is-- Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner.

I really thought The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had it, but what do I know. :D

Body Image Week

There's a great challenge going on at My Favorite Author starting tomorrow- it's Body Image Week.

Here is the Challenge Info and here is the Body Image Week Info.

Check it out, and spend a week feeling better about yourself!

We're all our own worst critics, but maybe a week can start some new habits.

General Updates

1- Nobody has given me anything for the April Possibilities, so I suppose I'll give you a couple more days to ruminate before I put up a poll. I PROMISE I'll read whatever wins. I'm reading Lost Boys this week.

2- The Ides of March Madness is still going on! If you haven't checked it out, go do it!

3- Um... I forget. Oh yeah! New layout, new colors, etc etc. Whatcha' think?

I Finished The Book

Words cannot express my amazement at what one man has accomplished.

Find more information--

Central Asia Institute

Pennies for Peace

Three Cups of Tea

A penny can buy a pencil, a dollar a day can pay a teacher's salary...

Three Cups of Tea

Okay, so technically I still have like 50 pages, but it's not like it's a novel and I need to know how it ends.

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
5 stars
Nonfiction

This book is amazing. Seriously amazing.

From the back of the book-- "The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his remarkable humanitarian campaign in the Taliban's backyard."

In 1993 Greg Mortenson, lost and exhausted, stumbled into a little village and was taken in by the wonderful people living there. He promised to return and build them a school. And he did. And he has continued to build schools in these little villages all over Pakistan (and Afghanistan).

The reason for the title? Haji Ali, the village chief that takes in the lost Mortenson, explained that the first cup of tea you are a stranger, then with the second you are a friend. With the third cup you are family.

This book is an amazing, inspiring story. Absolutely fabulous.

And I LOVE that it's available in different incarnations for younger readers!!

Picture book-- (I need to get this one... even if my kids might be a bit young for it now.)

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And young readers' edition--

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What do YOU think of Dr. Greg?

A Bookish Tournament

The Ides of March Madness
(Which could seriously be the absolute COOLEST name EVER!)

What it's all about: 16 books have been chosen to go head to head (or page to page, as it were) in this great contest. You're invited to wager on whatever book you think can go all the way!

Reading along is encouraged, but not required.

All donations will benefit a great cause-- Book Wagon

I highly recommend checking out the WHOLE STORY. It looks like loads of fun, and all who donate at least $20 "will be eligible for the awards, which include all manner of literary swag."

And who doesn't want all manner of literary swag, I ask you?

In looking over The List, I am shocked and appalled to see that I've not read a single one. Shame on me.

Granted, I've checked The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo out like three times, but I've still not read it.

So I now have 16 more books to add to me list. (Actually more than that-- some of these are sequels...)

How about you? Have you read any of them?