July 22, 2008
What's on Your Nightstand?
If you are looking for this month's Nightstand, you can find it HERE.
If you're here, it means that you like books. You may read at the expense of housework and childcare (guilty!), you might not read as much as you want to, or you might have found that perfect balance between real life and the escape between the pages.
Each month, we invite you to share What's on Your Nightstand? with all of us.
If you blog, you might post about your reading picks, or you may not. I know that once I started writing the 5 Minutes for Books column for 5 Minutes for Mom, I stopped writing as much about books on my own blog, and I've missed that.
You can participate in What's on Your Nightstand? in several ways. Choose what's appealing to you:
- Take a picture or simply give a list of the stack of books that you are in the process of reading or planning to read (it might be on your nightstand, on a bookshelf, or like me, under your bed).
- Give short reviews of the book or books that you read that month.
- Tell about what you are reading and why. I love to read the backstory on books. Did someone give it to you? Are you trying out a new genre at the recommendation of a friend (or website)? Did you stumble across a new author in a used bookstore?
- Fill us in on your reading habits. When are you reading these books? Is one reserved for bedtime reading? Does one stay in your car to be read while you are waiting? Do you read just one book at a time?
I hope that you'll join us the fourth Tuesday of each month (the first one is a week from today, July 29). You will post on your on blog (or if you aren't a blogger, please participate in the comment section), link to our site, and then link to your post here at the Linky provided for that purpose, so that we can click through and find out what everyone else is reading.
Would you like to display our fabulous button, or use it in your post each month? Grab the code here. (Thanks to contributor Jo-Lynne's DCR Design for the great look.).
Managing Editor Jennifer Donovan is a contributing editor at 5 Minutes for Mom. She has been blogging at Snapshot for over two years. You'll almost always find her holding either a book, a fork, a child's hand, her laptop, or some combination therein.
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35 Comments on What's on Your Nightstand? »
#1 - stephanie @ 4:21 pm
Ooh, I like this idea!
#2 - Nancy @ 4:34 pm
Great idea! I don't blog about my reading habits nearly enough. Can't wait until next Tuesday.
#3 - L at Motherhood and Potatoes @ 5:47 pm
I recently discovered your 5 minutes sites. I love to read and the "What's on Your Nightstand" is a great idea!
#4 - Trish @ Another Piece of the Puzzle @ 6:51 pm
This sounds like fun; I haven't done a book review in a while and it would be good to at least list the books I have been reading! I am passing the word on.
#5 - Bonnie Sayers @ 8:33 pm
This is a nice idea. Read about it from Trish. I write a lot of book reviews already, and do like the emphasis on the backstory of the books. Will try to remember to come back and check out the lists.
#6 - Katrina (Callapidder Days) @ 9:49 pm
Sounds great. I'll be participating!
#7 - Lisa (Morning Rose) @ 10:36 pm
Sounds like a fun idea! I'm currently reading two Randy Alcorn books, one of which I won from his blog. I'll have to write more about that next Tuesday.
#8 - Annie - Savor This Moment @ 9:06 am
Sounds like fun! I just have to remember to post it. ;0)
#9 - photobug mom @ 10:00 am
This is such a great idea! I can't wait for next Tuesday to come.
#10 - Gina Conroy @ 12:23 pm
I'm already drafting my post!
#11 - Kari @ 8:07 pm
OH WOW, this is a GREAT idea for a carnival!!!!! Thanks so much!!!
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#13 - Faye @ 7:05 pm
A great idea, since I love to read!!
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#18 - Holly @ 7:57 pm
This is a terrific idea. Count me in.
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#22 - Jenny @ 12:26 am
Here is a picture of my headboard of my bed where I keep my books. Instead of my nightstand it is covered too though. LOL.
#23 - Jenny @ 12:27 am
Hmm don't think the link came through.
http://jennysimpsonjenny.blogspot.com/2008/09/whats-on-your-nightstand.html
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#33 - Cheryl E Weaver @ 11:15 am
Do you still do Nightstand? The latest posting I saw was on Sept 08.
Cheryl
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