Resting My Sore Back Equals Lots of Reading

Out of no where my back and nearly my whole left side was in quire a bit of pain.  Instead of trying to work through it I very intentionally decided to rest because I REALLY didn't want to make it worse.  This made for a great reading week.  I also worked on a couple pre-read-a-thon BINGO cards just for the fun of it. 

Bingo 1
2nd Row L to R
ANIMAL ON THE COVER













MAGICAL CREATURES













ORANGE COVER













MAGIC













BOOK REC'D TO YOU













Bingo 2
Middle Colum Down

READ A BANNED BOOK













A BOOK FROM THE LIBRARY













FREE SPACE














PUBLISHED IN THE LAST 5 YEARS














READ ADULT














WORK IN PROGRESS Bingo 3
4th Column Down

A BOOK WRITTEN IN THIRD PERSON













CHILDREN'S OR MIDDLE GRADE BOOK














MULTIPLE AUTHORS













MAKE SOMETHING CREATIVE INSPIRED BY A BOOK
(going to make some German Chocolate Cookies from this book)












REREAD A BOOK














I also made sure these are all books that work for my Popsugar Challenge and officially finished 5 books.  I have read 31/40 and 2/10 so far.  This is week 42 of the year so if you can figure it out I do need to speed up just a tad.  If things go well I will get to participate in this year's Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon. 

My girls are off from school for a couple days and it is my husband's birthday next week so I don't know how much reading we will get done, but I have nearly all my titles ready. 

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