Read-a-thon: Feed Me Seymour! challenge

Linus's Blanket is requesting passages of food in books.

I didn't think I'd come across one in my current reading, but I kinda did.

The infamous Chicken Nuggets!

Ms. Geiss glanced at the tray of heated nuggets. Against her will, the smell made her own mouth water. Somewhere in one of those freezer boxes, she knew, were the deep-fried and nugget-processed remains of Mister Delmonico, the former principal, as well as at least half the former staff of the elementary school.

Well, nuggets with a twist. Hope I didn't just gross you out. I realize this would be an unappetizing treat for non-zombies ;-D

This passage is from page 9 of the short story, This Year's Class Picture by Dan Simmons (my review) which is part of:

The Living Dead (short stories)

edited by John Joseph Adams

*part of my Read-a-thon challenge

*source image of Pakistani Chicken Nuggets

*HEY! I won a prize for this challenge!

I'll be getting The Magicians by Lev Grossman.

This Year's Class Picture by Dan Simmons

This Year's Class Picture

by Dan Simmons

In a zombocalyptic world what becomes of the kids?

This short story presents the kids of the future and the tale of an extraordinary gun-toting teacher.

This story also goes to show that if a teacher's worth their salt, they can teach anyone and anything.

This short story is part of:

The Living Dead (short stories)

edited by John Joseph Adams

*part of my Read-a-thon challenge

*part of my Helluva Halloween challenge

*source image of teacher

*total pages read: 21

Read-a-thon: Hours 8-10

I whipped up a batch of adventures with cecelia bedelia's Sunshine Through the Clouds Cookies during these hours. I'll be munching on them with a pot of tea while reading later this afternoon.

Yummy in the tummy.

Yup, took a break to bake, visit some blogs and post up some mini-challenge entries.

Gotta get back to some serious reading.

*part of my Read-a-thon challenge

Read-a-thon: Collection Obsession challenge

Sorry to say.

My only collection is of books.

However while inspecting my house for this mini-challenge, I found this growing collection in my daughter's room. An assortment of her hand-made fairies that are part of the Kabuniverse world my daughter has concocted. The pictures here are only but a few in her collection. FYI: each fairy has a name and special powers unique to each.

*Caribousmom mini-challenge

-post about a non-book collection

*part of my Read-a-thon challenge

Read-a-thon: Mixup the Titles challenge

Cereal and Seven Up

by vvb32 reads

Sheila is not your typical teen. She likes her cereal with seven up. She also likes to fly by night. It's an alien thing like how the Roswell teens like prodigious amounts of tabasco on everything. But unlike the Roswell teens, Sheila doesn't know that she's an alien.

*Mixup the Titles challenge

-visit a read-a-thon participate book pile list

-mix up the titles to create a new title

-create a synopsis for the new title

*Titles taken from Reading With Tequila

*part of my Read-a-thon challenge