The Big Game's On Read-a-Thon Mini Challenge #1

 

So, Jenn is kicking off The Big Game's On Read-a-Thon  with the 1st mini challenge of the day:

For this challenge, take a look at the books you plan on reading today.  Which do you predict will come out as the winner and why?  Do a post to answer this question.  It will be interesting to come back at the end of the day & see if your predictions are correct!

Well, since I've already started reading, 14 children's books so far, this is a little tough for me to answer.  My goal is to get through my children's picture books so that I can get some reviews written.  So, I will not be choosing one of those as my winner for today.  I do, however, have a couple of other books that I hope to finish and/or start today as well, after I finish the children's books.

Last night I started reading The Radleys, because I have heard so much about it around the blogosphere.  I hope to finish it today because it is divided up into short little chapters and has been a quick read so far.  The other book I want to get to is Cahoots, the 3rd book in the Aldo Zelnick comic novel series.  So, to put it in football terms, the big match up is between these two titles.  Who do I think will come out on top?  Well, I'm a huge fan of Aldo and I've heard great things about The Radleys, so my choice is:

THE RADLEYS!!!

Let's hope I'm right!  Check back with me tomorrow...I'll have the answer for you.

"Title Teasers" Mini Challenge

By now, most of you have been reading all day and into the night.  How are you holding up?  I thought I'd offer up a fun, fairly easy mini-challenge for you.  This challenge will last 3 hours, so you can do it all now, or break it up over time.  It's up to you.  I enjoy the mini-challenges and choose to do them when I need a reading break.  I know sometimes the "brain work" for these is hard, but hopefully this one won't tax you too much.

The goal of this challenge is to complete some book titles.  I am going to give you a list of 20 titles, leaving out some of the words.  Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to complete the title.  You can do this challenge as a post on your blog and leave a link in the comments, or simply copy and paste the titles into your comment and answer there.  The choice is yours.

There will be 2 winners.  1st place will go to the person who gets all the titles right.  If  that happens to be more than one person, then random.org will choose a winner out of those people.  The next winner will be again chosen by random.org, out of all the other participants.  So, even if you don't get them all right, you still have a chance to win.

Here are your titles:

1. The Dark _____
2. An _____  _____ Girl
3. The Lost _____ of _____ May _____
4. Necessary _____
5. She's So _____ to _____
6. _____ Over Toccoa
7. _____ Dead
8. Scones & _____
9. All _____ Things
10. Beautiful _____
11. _____ to Dream
12. The _____-_____ Waves
13. I Kissed a _____ and I _____ It
14. Prophecy of the _____
15. Very _____
16. The Girl Who _____ from the _____
17. Marriage and Other _____ of _____
18. Making _____
19. _____ Cat
20. Letters to My _____

These are all titles that I've read or have in my TBR pile.  So, if you follow my blog, you may be able to figure them out.  If not, I don't think they're that tricky; at least that's not my intention.  Have fun!!

Winners get their pick of some of my ARCs...1st place gets their choice of 2, and then the next person gets to choose 1.  Here are your choices:

You can put your book choices in your comment as well, in case you are a winner.  Don't forget to leave your email address so that I can contact you should you win.