Thoughtful Thursday: The Best Bookish Change

Hosted by Reading Is Fun Again

Pam over at Reading Is Fun Again started this meme to get a book blogger thoughts on a few bookish things. You know how much I love sharing my thoughts/opinions on stuff, so I thought it would be perfect to add my two cents in too! Stop by her blog and join in on the Thoughtful meme.

I created Thoughtful Thursday, because bookish thoughts kept popping up in my mind while reading, and I wanted to explore these questions and get your opinions too! -From Reading Is Fun Again

Thoughtful Thursday Question

What is one of the best changes in the literary/book world that you have noticed, since you have begun reading? What makes this change so great for you?

Remembering Gabriel Garcia Marquez

On my home today, I hear the news.  Author of Love in the Time of Cholera (among other books) Gabriel Garcia Marquez has passed away.  According to Wikipedia, he passed away yesterday from pneumonia in Mexico City, Mexico.  He was 87 years old and is (according to the President of Colombia) the "Greatest Colombian to ever live".  

The literary world has lost another great voice.  

Thank you for bringing Magical Realism to us and giving diversity a beautiful background.

(Read more about Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

3rd Friday Five

Welcome to the third Friday Five here at My Little Pocketbooks.

Friday Five is the result of a Bloggiesta progress report, where I said cleaning up my Feedly of 300 blogs inspired an idea for a new feature on my blog.  Well, here it is.  The Friday Five! (and the name is still a work in progress).

Every Friday, I will feature 5 blogs here who I currently follow.  I will tell you a bit about each of them and hopefully you will check them out and add them to your list of blogs you follow as well. 

  When I was going through cleaning house on my Feedly, most of these blogs are good and I never notice them from all the others.  Just because I follow to many, I think it was from all the giveaways I use to enter. 

So take the weekend and check out these five bloggers and their blogs.  Leave them comments.  Enter their giveaways.

This feature will be alphabetically from my Feedly, some are considered BIG blogs and some of them are start ups but they are all blogging on a regular (sometimes).

By the way, here is a link to the 1st Friday Five.

and here is the 2nd Friday Five

*DISCLAIMER*

All information about each blog is up to date at the time I am writing this post to my knowledge.  These are not interviews just basic info about each blog.

Poem: If

If by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

Waiting on Wednesday: Dreams of Gods and Monsters

"Waiting on Wednesday" is a weekly meme, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that I am eagerly anticipating.

Yes, I am back again with another WoW post. I am such a pack follower. LOL! Anyways, it's only because I found yet another book I am looking forward to reading.  Since I started the Spring Sequel reading challenge I have been plowing through a few series.  I have just finished book two and book three just came out this week.  Perfect timing!  I am just on a huge library wait list.  So my pick is a literal "WAITING".  I know everyone has done this one but I thought it would be cool to post about a book I am on a waiting list for.

This week's "can't wait to read" selection is...

Free Listens for April 2014

It's that time for the freebies!

After noticing most bloggers post a list of free or really close to free e-books, every week, month or just once in awhile I decided to post a few free audiobooks.  I love free books. I mean who doesn't.

Yes, there is a such thing as a free audiobooks, and they are not just boring old classics either.  I seem to run across a few new ones here and there.  Some of them are short and sweet while others are prequels to popular series. 

When I run across a couple of free audiobooks, I will post them for you to check out as well.

If you are new to audiobooks this is a great way to try one or two without spending any money.  All of these title are FREE at the time of posting.  Things could have changed.  

OH ... just one this month.

From Amazon.com and/or Audible.com

 

Review: The Unseen Guest

The Unseen Guest (Book #3) Author: Maryrose Wood Genre: Children Fiction Publisher:  HarperAudio Release Date: March 27, 2012 Audiobook: 6 hours and 50 minutes Narrator: Katherine Kellgren Source: Free from e-library

Sunday Delight: A Bit Late

Happy Sunday!  I hope you all have had a restful weekend.  Today I am heading out the LA Times Festival of Books.  So thrilled! I love this event and look forward to it each and every year.  So without further adieu here is my Sunday.

Now Sunday Delight Time

Here and Now

Time: 8:44pm
Drinking: Hot Green Tea with a whole Lemon and Honey (I have been drinking this for weeks now. I'm hooked)

Eating: Nothing
Listening To: Nothing
Watching: Nothing.

Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon April 2014: Goals

Hosted by Dewey's 24 Hour Read A Thon

It's finally time to read all day long.  I am so thrilled this event is getting bigger and better!  It's the Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon ya'll!  This year I am doing to lock myself in my place, turn off the phone and read...read...read. Like a mad woman.  This time around I will not be hosting a mini-challenge but I volunteered to be a prize angel so I can focus on reading only.  I know, you know all about this event so I will not bore you with all the details.

 (Click the button up top to go to the site for more info.)

2nd Friday Five

Welcome to the second Friday Five here at My Little Pocketbooks.

Friday Five is the result of a Bloggiesta progress report, where I said cleaning up my Feedly of 300 blogs inspired an idea for a new feature on my blog.  Well, here it is.  The Friday Five! (and the name is still a work in progress).

Every Friday, I will feature 5 blogs here who I currently follow.  I will tell you a bit about each of them and hopefully you will check them out and add them to your list of blogs you follow as well. 

  Like I said last week, I realized when I was going through cleaning house on my Feedly, most of these blogs are good and I never notice them from all the others.  Just because I follow to many. 

So take the weekend and check out these five bloggers and their blogs.  Leave them comments.  Enter their giveaways.

This feature will be alphabetically from my Feedly, some are considered BIG blogs and some of them are start ups but they are all blogging on a regular (sometimes).

By the way, here is a link to the 1st Friday Five

*DISCLAIMER*

All information about each blog is up to date at the time I am writing this post to my knowledge.  These are not interviews just basic info about each blog.