Just Closed... [The Nightmare Thief]

The Nightmare Thief by Meg Gardiner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book for me had some slow spots toward the middle of the beginning, but toward the real middle of the book it got really really good and the author threw in some really good twists and turns that I could not have expected. That being said, I tore through the second half of the book in just a couple days, where the first portion took me a bit longer. I don't want to give away too much, but if you like suspense and thriller novels, you will love this book.

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Follow My Book Blog Friday with "Alison Can Read" #10

Soooo I realized I have been MIA on my blog for the entire week! Want to know why? I've been back to the books studying for the Bar and I have been really busy because it's ALMOST Christmas!!!!

Anyway, I am back, at least to do my favorite blog hop and socialize with some of my other fellow book junkies...



And without further ado.... the question of the week is...

If you had to spend eternity inside the pages of a book which book would you choose and why? 

First I would say I would LOVE to be part of the Quillette tribe, so I could get close to Jacob Black... wouldn't mind spending eternity with him, if you get my drift... Wink wink!

And secondly, I would LOVE to live in Trenton, NJ and be friends with Stephanie Plum! She leads a CRAZY life and I think it would be nonstop fun, excitement, and laughs

Follow My Book Blog Friday with "Alison Can Read" #9

Question of the Week: When you've read a book, what do you do with it? (Keep it, give it away, donate it, sell it, swap it..?)

Lately I have been checking out books from the library, so I would say give it back to the library. However, with the books I own, I do a combination of keeping it/loaning it to others.

Day 18 of 21 day fitness plan (Round 2)

Exercise
- Spinning 50 minutes
- 10 minutes bike
- 5 minutes abs
- 5 minutes calisthenics

HBBC Points (for NEW week 4 - Dec 10 - Dec 16)
-  5 for spinning
- 1 for exercises
- 1 for veggies/fruits

TOTAL FOR DAY = 7
TOTAL FOR WEEK = 12.5 + 7 = 19.5

Calories
- Total expended from exercise = 785
- Total consumed = been bad at counting today... so I cannot really say... :(
- Total = ??

Water
- 8 glasses

Notes

Day 17 of 21 day fitness plan (Round 2)

Exercise
- Nothing


HBBC Points (for NEW week 4 - Dec 10 - Dec 16)
- ZERO

TOTAL FOR DAY = 0 
TOTAL FOR WEEK = 12.5

Calories
- Total expended from exercise = ??
- Total consumed = ??
- Total = ??

Water
- 8 glasses

Notes

Meeting my teenage Hollywood idol...

Still cannot believe it happened...

By some miracle I saw on a friend's Facebook that my idol, Chad Michael Murray, had written a graphic novel, Everlast, and was going to be up in Portland (about an hours drive for me) yesterday evening at a comic book store.

My sister and niece were already planning on coming up, and we were already planning on going to Portland, to go to the Oregon Zoo to see the Zoolights for the Christmas holiday.

Us girls loaded up in my sister's car around 4pm and headed to Cosmic Monkey Comic Book Store in NE Portland. Chad was supposed to start signing autographs and taking pictures around 5pm. With rush hour traffic we got there around 5:45-ish. We waited in line about an hour (or less) and we had the most wonderful meet and greet!

First off, Chad's best friend, Donald, saw my niece, Selena, who is 15 months, and they thought she was just the cutest thing. Donald gave Selena her very own free copy of Everlast, and my sister and I each paid for one of our own.

Then Donald asked if he could take a picture of Selena with the book. Of course we said that was ok. He took a couple pictures and he asked if it would be alright to share them on his Twitter and on their website. Needless to say, my niece is a star! :)


The Picture that made Selena FAMOUS :)


Another one Donald took and posted... :)


Selena and Chad :)


Us talking with him while he autographs our books


Another one...


Jesse (my sister), Selena (my niece), and Chad Michael Murray


Me and Chad! OMG! I touched him, he touched me... Ooolala

Day 16 of 21 day fitness plan (Round 2)

Exercise
- 20 minutes walking around zoo (at least) = 1 point

HBBC Points (for NEW week 4 - Dec 10 - Dec 16)
-  for walking

TOTAL FOR DAY = 1
TOTAL FOR WEEK = 11.5 + 1 = 12.5

Calories
- Total expended from exercise = ??
- Total consumed = ??
- Total = ??

Water
- 8 glasses

Notes