Who's your god...

Dar over at Peeking Between the Pages is having another book giveaway! One November 9th, she'll choose 5 winners of Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips. Head on over to her blog to check out the rules to enter.

Per the rules of this giveaway, I need to mention my latest favorite book. When I read the rules over the first time, I apparently misread what was written and thought we were asked to mention our LEAST favorite book. So this is the second time I'm posting this. Ha. Good thing I looked at other people's responses before I linked this post in Dar's comments. As for my latest favorite book...currently I'm reading the Women in White by Wilkie Collins and I LOVE IT. My sister, the Librarian, told me that it was boring, but I can't put it down.

Wrap it up...

Okay, so I've been done with the Chunckster Challenge since forever (well, since July) and I'm tired of looking at it on my blog so I'm writing the wrap up and getting rid of it.
For this challenge, we were to read four books in 2008 that were over 450 pages long. These are the first four. I'm sure I've read more than that since July, but those were the first and they're the ones I counted.

I read...

1. LA Confidential - James Ellroy 4/5
2. The Red and the Black - Stendhal 4/5
3. Standing in the Rainbow - Fannie Flagg 4/5
4. The Virgin's Lover - Phillipa Gregory 4/5

Okay. So they were all consistently pretty good all across the board. I think Standing in the Rainbow was my favorite. All good reads.

I have also just finished up the Book to Movie Challenge. Between September 1st and December 1st, read three books that have been turned into movies.

I read...

1. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott 5/5
2. The Pilgrim of Hate - Ellis Peters 4/5
3. The Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury 4/5

All good, but Little Women was the best.

Heading off to the lab...

So Dar at Peeking Between the Pages is having a book giveaway. On September 20th there will be a drawing for ten copies of Broken by Daniel Clay. Read about the giveaway here! One way of entering in the giveaway is to tell a story about some weird neighbors (as I guess their are some weird neighbors in Broken.) Right now I live in an apartment complex and I'm not so sure about the guy who lives below me. A cranky old dude who has screamed "SHUT UP!" at me for laughing a little too loudly with Girlfriend and her sister (in his defense it was 11pm, in my defense we were being quiet and it's not our fault his screen door was open. We all know you can hear EVERYTHING in this complex). He never leaves his apartment, but he always has his sliding door open so you can kind of see into his place. He sleeps in his living room and has this big tarp like thing hung up to close off his kitchen which makes the place look a little creepy. I like to think he's got a meth lab back there.....