My Greatly Deprived TBR Shelf

I've been feeling so guilty about my very greatly deprived TBR shelf.  If you check out my blog fairly regularly you will have noticed I've been reading Gus the Great by Thomas W. Duncan for...Well, for what seems like forever now!  Therefor depriving all the books screaming to me wanting to be read!  

I don't want to give the wrong impression of Gus the Great.  It has been a good read so far.  Part of the problem I know, is I can't seem to stay awake long enough to read more than a few pages at a time!  I typically do my reading at night (in case you didn't figure that out).  Aside from that, the book has been kind of a slow read for me.  Most books I fly through.  This is not one of them.  I'm not sure why that is, as most books that I seem to drag through are ones I don't really care for.  Like I said before...This one I am enjoying.

Until the day in the far distant future (O.k. well, maybe not...O.k. hopefully not far too distant) here are the poor, deprived, neglected books just sitting there, waiting TO BE READ!

Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell

The Great American Novel by Philip Roth

Househusband by Ad Hudler

Kaleidoscope by Darryl Wimberley

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe

The Fire-Dwellers by Margaret Laurence

Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews

This is just naming a few & not mentioning the ones I'm awaiting to arrive in the mail!

Book Blogger Hop

Hosted by Crazy For Books this is a great, fun way to discover new book blogs!  Just hop on over, sign up & then visit some of the others on the list.  Easy as pie!  Don't forget when visiting another book blog from the hop to mention you found them by hopping! 

Here's a couple hopping blogs I discovered last week!  
In the Hammock 
Zoe Reads 

Yo Tweeps!

 This is all about following and meeting some new twitter friends.  It'll be fast, easy and in your face.  Hosted on Supah Mommy's blog!  Swing by her blog to get all the details!  Great fun way to gain Twitter followers & meet new friends!  Who knows!?  You may even stumble across a few new blogs to follow as well!

It's W...W....W....Wednesday!

W...W...W...Wednesday

Found on & hosted at Lori's Reading Corner Blog!  It's a nice blog so be sure to check it out!  Come play along by answering these three questions!  You know you want to!

• What are you currently reading?

• What did you currently finish reading?

• What do you think you'll read next?

I'm currently reading (yes still) Gus the Great by Thomas W. Duncan.

 I currently finished Guest House by Barbara K. Richardson.  Which was a great book by the way.  Check out my review here!

Depending on when Glorious by Bernice McFadden and or The California Roll by John Vorhaus arrives in the mail I will read one of those.

If one of those doesn't arrive soon enough I'll probably start on a quick, light, entertaining read like Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews.

It's Teaser Tuesday!

It's Teaser Tuesday!  Here's what you do...

1. Grab your current read.
2. Let the book fall open to a random page.
3. Share two teaser sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
4. Share the title of the book that the “teaser” comes from, so people can find the book if they like the teaser.
5. And again remember – avoid spoilers.

Here's Mine...

Mr. Burgoyne lights a cigar, climbs into his light buggy, lifts his hand.  The procession starts, leaving the park by the northeast wagon-gate.

Excerpt from Gus the Great by Thomas W. Duncan

Mailbox Monday

Mailbox Monday hosted on The Printed Page's Blog!  Sharing the books that I received or am impatiently awaiting the arrival of!  First off are the books I've won & am impatiently awaiting the arrival of in my mailbox...

~The California Roll by John Vorhaus

What do the Merlin Game, the Penny Skim, the Doolally Snadoodle, and the Afterparty Snuke have in common? They’re all the work of world-class con artist and master bafflegabber Radar Hoverlander. Radar’s been “on the snuke” since childhood, but he’s still looking for his California Roll, the one big scam that’ll set him up in sushi for life.

Trouble arrives in the stunning, sassy package of Allie Quinn—either the last true innocent or a con artist so slick she makes Radar look like a Quaker. Radar’s hapless sidekick, Vic Mirplo, a lovable loser who couldn’t con a kid out of a candy cane, thinks Radar’s being played. But if love is blind, it’s also deaf, dumb and stupid, and before Radar knows it, he’s sucked into a vortex of double-, triple-, quadruple-crosses that’ll either net him his precious California Roll or put him in a hole in the ground.

 ~ Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden
Glorious is set against the backdrops of the Jim Crow South, the Harlem Renaissance, and the civil rights era. Blending the truth of American history with the fruits of Bernice L. McFadden’s rich imagination, this is the story of Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer whose tumultuous path to success, ruin, and revival offers a candid portrait of the American experience in all its beauty and cruelty.

Books I purchased last week...

~The Keeper of the Ferris Wheel by Jack McBride White

~Run With the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams

~The Pearl by John Steinbeck

~Househusband by Ad Hudler

~Setting Free the Bears by John Irving

~A Son of the Circus by John Irving

Book Blogger Hop-Follow Friday!

 

Hosted by Crazy For Books this is a great way to discover new book blogs!  Just hop on over, sign up & then visit some of the others on the list.  Don't forget when visiting another book blog from the hop to mention you found them by hopping!