Will back-to-school impact your reading for the month? I think that it will for me, but I’m not sure how. With my son starting first grade, this is the first year I’ll have both kids in school full time. I also am hoping to get more work from home done, so while I envision myself reading away the hours on my back deck or front porch in the warm-but-not-hot September days, I’m not sure that’s reality.

That remains to be seen, but a girl can dream. I’ve made my list (see the linky below). Have you made yours? We invite you to write up a quick list, take a picture, do a mini review of a book you’ve just completed — whatever you like. This is a freestyle carnival, but one that brings booklovers together!

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Now it’s your turn:

No, no, don’t worry. What’s on Your Nightstand is not one of them. We enjoy hosting and visiting around and participating in this monthly meme.

But after being a part of the 5 Minutes for Books team since we launched two years ago, both Lisa and Carrie will be stepping aside from their roles as “staff reviewers.” I’ve enjoyed working with them, and I’ve loved the variety that they’ve each contributed to our review base.

They will each still be blogging and hopefully participating in some of our weekly Tuesday carnivals, so they won’t be strangers. You can keep up with Lisa’s heartfelt thoughts at Lisa Writes. Carrie will still be reviewing books over at Reading to Know, where she focuses on reviewing books for adults and children from a Christian worldview.

Since we are saying goodbye, we are also happy to be saying “hello” to a new staff reviewer.

Nancy at Life with my Boys has been a regular participant in our Tuesday carnivals, has written a few guest posts, and is an avid reader. I knew she’d be a great fit, and I’m so glad that she accepted our invitation. She enjoys popular fiction, historical fiction, children’s books, and a few other genres. She is also an avid audiobook fan.

I still have a few reviews of Lisa’s and Carrie’s to post, and Nancy has already accepted her first review titles, so we are definitely in transition.

So, enough about us. Tell us about you! Link directly to your post telling us what’s on your Nightstand. Don’t forget to visit around, and see what else is on everyone else’s summer reading list.

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On the 4th Tuesday of each month, we invite you to tell us what’s coming up in your TBR stack or post a few mini reviews of books that you’ve just recently moved off your Nightstand.

I know that I’m hoping to get in some good summer down-time reading this month. How about you? Will you be reading more or less?

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Link directly to your post telling us what’s on your Nightstand here. And don’t forget to visit around!

Take a picture of your pile, or just give us a few quick titles.

Tell us how you pick your books.

Address any or all of these topics: what you are reading, why you are reading it, how you are going to read it.

We usually commit to have at least one team member visit each post (and we love how you all visit around and comment as well). I think it’s encouraging and really helps build community. This month, we might be a little scarce. Carrie and I will be attending BEA, so our team is down in size. But we’ll do our best, and always — we don’t take anyone’s participation here for granted. We covet your involvement!

Visit our Join In page to find out all the details about all of our Tuesday community events.

Coming up:

• June 1 — I Read It!
• June 8 — Children’s Classics Mystery Challenge
• June 15 — Kids’ Picks
• June 29 — Quarterly Classics Bookclub

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Link directly to your post telling us what’s on your Nightstand here. And don’t forget to visit around!

Take a picture of your pile, or just give us a few quick titles.

Tell us how you pick your books.

Address any or all of these topics: what you are reading, why you are reading it, how you are going to read it.

Find out about our upcoming community events at our Join In page. Coming soon:

• May 4: I Read It!
• May 11: Children’s Classic Mystery Challenge
• May 18: Kids’ Picks
• May 25: What’s on Your Nightstand
• June 29 (5th Tuesday): New Classics Bookclub — sign up anytime

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Link directly to your post telling us what’s on your Nightstand here. And don’t forget to visit around!

What about you? Does spring increase your reading time and desire or does it fall by the wayside as you get involved in other activities?

Please link your post telling us “What’s on Your Nightstand” below. You can tell us what you just finished or what you hope to read this month.

Take a picture of your pile, or just give us a few quick titles.

Tell us how you pick your books.

Address any or all of these topics: what you are reading, why you are reading it, how you are going to read it (If you really like talking about these types of issues, consider contacting me to pitch an idea for an On Reading column. We love guest contributors!).

Bloggers — Do you want a free book and a chance to win a $25 amazon gift certificate? Read my post to see if you want to read Fireworks over Toccoa and blog about it and discuss it with us here at 5 Minutes for Books. We are only taking a few more bloggers, and you have to be able to post about it by mid-April (it’s a really quick read). But if you are interested, send me your name and address and why you’d like to read it, along with a bit about your blog audience.

Anyone can read a big chunk of the beginning of the novel, and enter to win one of 300 copies at Fireworksovertoccoa.com.

Find out about our upcoming community events at our Join In page. Coming soon:

• March 30 (5th Tuesday): New Classics Bookclub — sign up anytime, but be sure to link up your reviews from this quarter!
• April 6: I Read It!
• April 13: Children’s Classic Mystery Challenge
• April 20: Kids’ Picks
• April 27: What’s on Your Nightstand

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Link directly to your post telling us what’s on your Nightstand here. And don’t forget to visit around!

Take a picture of your pile, or just give us a few quick titles.

OR tell us how you pick your books.

Address any or all of these topics: what you are reading, why you are reading it, how you are going to read it.

Find out about our upcoming community events at our Join In page. Coming soon:

• March 2: I Read It! — Link up reviews of books you read at someone’s recommendation
• March 9: Children’s Classic Mystery Challenge
• March 16: Kids’ Picks
• March 23: What’s on Your Nightstand
• March 30 (5th Tuesday): New Classics Bookclub — sign up anytime

Check out our current giveaways. Subscribe to our feed. Follow us @5M4B on Twitter.

Link directly to your post telling us what’s on your Nightstand here. And don’t forget to visit around!

Take a picture of your pile, or just give us a few quick titles.

Tell us how you pick your books.

Address any or all of these topics: what you are reading, why you are reading it, how you are going to read it.

Find out about our upcoming community events at our Join In page. Coming soon:

• February 2: I Read It! (Tell us about books that you read at someone’s recommendation)
• February 9: Children’s Classic Mystery Challenge
• February 16: Kids’ Picks
• February 23: What’s on Your Nightstand
• March 30 (5th Tuesday): New Classics Bookclub — sign up anytime

Check out our current giveaways. Subscribe to our feed. Follow us @5M4B on Twitter.

Link directly to your post telling us what’s on your Nightstand here. And don’t forget to visit around!

Please link your post telling us “What’s on Your Nightstand” below. You can tell us what you just finished or what you hope to read this month. I don’t know about you, but I usually read a lot over Christmas. We spend time just hanging out with family, which allows me to read a few pages while others are reading the paper or watching TV. We also drive about six hours, and my husband drives, and I don’t get sick in the car — so that’s prime reading time.

Things are changing on Tuesdays here at 5 Minutes for Books:

1st Tuesday (starting 1/5)– We are switching “I Read It!” from the 5th Tuesday to the first Tuesday. This is an opportunity for you to link up a review of a book you read on someone’s recommendation. Initially we asked for a book that we recommended here at 5 Minutes for Books, but we’re expanding it to include a book that anyone recommended to you. Tell us why you decided to read it, who recommended it, and if you agreed with his or her opinion of the book.

2nd Tuesday — Our Children’s Classics carnival is changing over to a Children’s Classics Mystery Challenge from January – June. See all the details (and the cute button) HERE.

3rd Tuesday — Will still be Kids’ Picks. It’s sort of the kid’s version of Nightstand where we have the opportunity to share a book each month that our child would recommend to others.

4th Tuesday — Of course we will leave Nightstand as is! We love the faithful participation, so we aren’t changing a thing.

5th Tuesday (starting 12/29) — We are moving our Classics here to the 5th Tuesday. Each quarter, we will offer you the chance to share reviews of Classics that you’ve read. You can select your own books, but it’s our hope that this will still be a place that those who want to read the classics can find community. On December 29, if you’d like to set a goal for the year you can, or you can simply join in when you read a classic novel and want to share.

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Link directly to your post telling us what’s on your Nightstand here. And don’t forget to visit around!

Has the tryptophan from the turkey already kicked in? If you don’t know the drill, please read our What’s on Your Nightstand page.

Theoretically this should have gone up at midnight (on odd-numbered months), and it goes up at 7:00am on even-numbered months). I think that this is the first time it hasn’t been here, so I hope that you old faithfuls as well as newcomers will grant me some holiday grace!

Check out all of our regular Tuesday happenings at our Join In page. The first Tuesday is usually our bookclub, but we’re on holiday hiatus, but next week we are going to announce our plans for the Classics Bookclub, so please check in!

Also, the second Tuesday is Children’s Classics, and on December 8, our theme is “Books you love to give” so come on over and possibly find a perfect fit for that person on your gift list (I may even share an adult book that I LOVE to give to Mommies).

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Now link up:

What about you? Is your Nightstand full because you aren’t getting to the books you want to read? Or perhaps you keep adding new ones to your pile.

Let us know! Write up a post and tell us what you plan to read this month, or some mini-reviews of what you just cleared off your nightstand.

Are you new to Nightstand? Do you want to know what it’s all about? You can find all the information you want to know at the What’s on Your Nightstand page.

Also, if it’s your first time, be sure to let us know when you link up (on the Linky beside your name). I think that our readers are pretty good about visiting around, but if you are new, we’ll give you a little extra-welcoming TLC.

Join in our other Tuesday community events:

• November 3 — Bookclub: Any work by Louisa May Alcott — please join us!
• November 10 — Children’s Classics: Holiday books — any holiday, any book!
• November 17 — Kids’ Picks

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Are you new to Nightstand? Do you want to know what it’s all about? You can find all the information you want to know at the What’s on Your Nightstand page.

If you’re new here — welcome! Also, to our regular participants, let me give you a heads-up that we have a bunch of current giveaways going on! We always have at least two current giveaways, but right now there are a whole handful!

But basically, just come here to 5 Minutes for Books on the fourth Tuesday of each month. You can either link up a post that you’ve written on your own blog about what is on your nightstand (what you plan to read in the upcoming month, what you’ve just finished reading — your choice!). Then visit around and watch your TBR list grow.

Non-bloggers are invited to participate by visiting the links and commenting on others’ posts and can leave their goals in the comment field.

By the way, I know that the uber-popular Fall into Reading Challenge hosted by Callapidder Days starts today. Feel free to link up the post that you wrote for that challenge here, or you can make a separate post and refer to your more comprehensive quarterly list. We would, as always, appreciate a link to this post, or at least to our homepage, so that your readers know where to find other participants.

Check out our new policy:

To make things fair, we’ll post it at midnight Eastern on odd numbered months and at 7:00am Eastern on even numbered months.

Now everyone gets a chance to be at the top of the Linky. You East-coasters can remember that your chance to sneak in earlier will come in October.

Join in our other Tuesday community events:

• September 29 — I Read It! (what did you read at our recommendation?)
• October 6 — Bookclub: Rooftops of Tehran.
• October 13 — Children’s Classics: Re-read a childhood favorite (I can’t wait for this–both to read and read others’ thoughts)
• October 20 — Kids’ Picks

Check out our current giveaways. Subscribe to our feed. Follow us @5M4B on Twitter.

Are you new to Nightstand? Do you want to know what it’s all about? You can find all the information you want to know at the What’s on Your Nightstand page.

But basically, just come here to 5 Minutes for Books on the fourth Tuesday of each month. You can either link up a post that you’ve written on your own blog about what is on your nightstand (what you plan to read in the upcoming month, what you’ve just finished reading — your choice!). Then visit around and watch your TBR list grow.

Non bloggers can participate by visiting the links and can leave their information in the comment field.

Check out our new policy:

To make things fair, we’ll post it at midnight Eastern on odd numbered months and at 7:00am Eastern on even numbered months.

Now everyone gets a chance to be at the top of the Linky. We’ll start next month (at midnight), but you East-coasters can remember that your chance to sneak in earlier will come on the even-numbered months (first one is October!).

Join in our other Tuesday community events:

• September 1 — Bookclub: Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society. Check out the Discussion Questions.
• September 8 — Children’s Classics: Back to School
• Kids’ Picks
• September 29 — I Read It! (what did you read at our recommendation?)
• October 6 — Bookclub: Rooftops of Tehran.

Check out our current giveaways. Subscribe to our feed. Follow us @5M4B on Twitter.

Write a post on your own blog, linking back to this page, telling us all about it. Then add your link (directly to that post, not to your main blog address). Visit others and see what they are reading as well.

If you don’t have a blog, you can still leave a comment letting us know a book you loved this month or a few that are coming up in your list.

As always thanks for joining in, and come back for our upcoming Tuesday events:

• Our next bookclub is Rebecca on August 4. It’s not too late to join in. Check out our discussion questions HERE.
• August 11 Children’s Classics topic is Adventure! (books that recount or inspire adventures)
• August 18 is Kids’ Picks — basically a kids’ version of Nightstand where they give recommendations on what they like.
• September 1 bookclub is another contemporary pick — Rooftops of Tehran. You can check out my review to see why I loved this book.

Check out our current giveaways. Subscribe to our feed. Follow us @5M4B on Twitter.

I THINK that Mr. Linky’s troubles are fixed. I think that we are going to still go with leaving links in the comments for our other Tuesday community events to encourage non-bloggers to join in as well, but we need to use the Linky for ease in surfing the links for What’s on Your Nightstand.

Link directly to your post below (not to your front page). If the Linky happens not to be there, then please link in the comments.

As always thanks for joining in, and come back for our upcoming Tuesday events:

• Next Tuesday, June 30, is our I Read It carnival. Come back and share your reviews of books that you’ve read that were featured here or on 5 Minutes for Mom.
• Check in with us on July 7 to see what our very first “comment carnival” is all about.
• July 14 our Children’s Classics topic is Field Trips (books that inspire a field trip)
• Our next bookclub is Rebecca on August 4
• We’re thinking about using our off-month of September to add in another contemporary pick — this time we’re thinking about Rooftops of Tehran. You can check out my review to see why I loved this book. If you think that you might want to join in, leave us a comment. We’ll make a decision based on interest.

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