Last book of the year

I made it to 65

My Soul to Lose by Rachel Vincent

Granted it was a really short prequel that I downloaded to my Kindle for free, but I figure I made up for it with the 900+ pages of Echo in the Bone I read a couple of months ago!

Almost done for the year

Here are the last books of the year...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE being able to down load FREE books to my Kindle to read? It is awesome!

The Prayers of Agnes Sparrow by Joyce Magnin. This was another free download to my Kindle and I enjoyed it.

What the Dog Saw and other adventures by Malcolm Gladwell. This is a collection of some of his New Yorker articles. Definitely thought provoking, as usual!

I would like to get one more book read to get me to 65 books for the year. Not that it really matters, but that seems like a nice, round number!

This makes 61...

books read so far this year. I got through:

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

Despite a kind of slow start for me, I really enjoyed it. I was bummed to miss the bookclub meeting where it was discussed, but since I wasn't quite done with it and was feeling really cruddy from whatever virus is incubating inside me, I think it was for the best!

Freaky fun

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld

was definitely a good one. Lots of talk of parasites...I can always get excited about a good parasite!

Good One

I finished a very interesting book about the Amish school shooting in Pennsylvania. This book really gave me a better understanding of Amish religion and lifestyle.\

Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, David L. Weaver-Zercher

LOVE Gregor!

I finished the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. The only thing I don't like about her books is when they end!

Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods

Gregor and the Marks of Secret

Gregor and the Code of Claw

So here's what's new in my reading world

Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane by Suzanne Collins

I must have enjoyed it because I already have the next one on my nightstand!

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

I have had this one on my Kindle for a while and finally got around to reading it. It wasn't my favorite book ever, but it was enjoyable.

What a talented writer...

Anyone who has had a conversation with me in the last year that had anything to do with books knows how much I loved Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I enjoyed Catching Fire just as much and can't wait for book 3. But in the meantime I have to be content with reading other things so I decided to try Suzanne Collins's Gregor series. It didn't grab me as much as her others but I did REALLY like:

Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins

and am headed to the library tomorrow to get books 2 and 3. This woman is a talented writer and I am definitely ready to read another Underland adventure!

This was a long one...

I have been waiting and waiting for this book but remembered why there is so much time between publishings of the books in this series - they are long! But I did enjoy (almost!) all of the 800+ pages and will (im)patiently wait for the next one!

An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon

Slowing down

I am in the middle of a 900 page book, so there is not much action in the "completed" category! I did finish

The Idiot Girl's Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro.

This one was funny. Not as funny as "Flaming Tantrum of Death", but still funny.

And maybe I have read something else. Or maybe not. Maybe I will remember someday...I did read two People magazines - that is some quality literature, you know.

More books

Shadow Dance by Julie Garwood

Everything Sucks by Hannah Friedman

This makes 48...

books read so far this year. I was hoping to read a lot more than the 55 I read last year, but it looks like I am right on track to read just about the same number. So number 48 is...

Ransom by Julie Garwood

Reading...

2nd Chance by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
3rd Degree by James Patterson and Andrew Gross
It looks like reading the first one for book club has sucked me in...

Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
I was already sucked into this series...more of the same, but still entertaining! Any book that makes me laugh out loud is worth my time!

Great book!

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.
I can't believe the second was as good as the first, but it was! I read it in one day. I was up until 3:30 am finishing it. I just couldn't put it down.

Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner
Another fun book.

Books finished

Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery

American Fairy Tales by Lyman Frank Baum

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Two more down...

For book club:

1st to Die by James Patterson

for fun:

The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This is collection of short stories mostly about African women...very well written.

A good book

I finished:

The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue

A young woman dies and is unable to move on to the next world due to all of the unfinished business she feels she has left on earth. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

In the past month...

I have read:

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The Brass Bed by Jennifer Stevenson

More books

High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student by Jeremy Iversen

Irresistible Forces by Brenda Jackson

Chick Lit

I love it! jennifer Lancaster's books are totally laugh out loud books...tons of fun to read.

Dune Road by Jane Green

Such a Pretty Fat by Jennifer Lancaster

Pretty in Plaid by Jennifer Lancaster

Good books

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
A great read - of course I seem to enjoy just about anything by him as he always has a different way of looking at things.

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Not an uplifting book but it should lead us into some great discussions at bookclub.

Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest by Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day
Another bookclub book...

How can I not be reading more than this?!?!?!

It seems like I read for hours and hours at night (that insomnia is a bad deal!) but somehow I don't seem to be getting through many books...

Wideacre by Philipa Gregory

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
I must admit that this was my first Jane Austen - I enjoyed it more than I thought I would so I may have to add another of hers to my to be read pile.

Slow reading these days

I have only gotten all the way through one book lately...

Hothouse Kids by Alissa Quart

More books

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

Bright Lights, Big Ass by Jen Lancaster
Her books make me laugh out loud. Funny, funny memoir about life in Chicago with a husband and two dogs.

Helping Gifted Children Soar by Carol A. Strip with Gretchen Hirsch

Another book

I just finished:

The Kid (What Happened When my Boyfriend and I Decided to get Pregnant) by Dan Savage.

I probably wouldn't have read it if it hadn't been a book club book becasue I never would have found it, but I am glad I did. It was funny and interesting and really shed a whole new light on open adoption for me.

Finished

I finally finished

Watership Down by Richard Adams

I did enjoy it in the end - it just took me a while to get through!

I also read Genius Denied by Jan and Bob Davidson

Slow reading

I feel like I am really slow with my reading lately but I have managed to finish a couple.


The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit

Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

The Beach House by Jane Green

books read...

Stealing Lincoln's Body by Thomas J. Craughwell

Absoutely Maybe by Lisa Yee

More books read

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Picakrd

The Scent of Sake by Joyce Lebra

Latest Read

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler

Reading like crazy!

I have been LOVING the pile of books I got for Christmas. The problem is that I don't get enough sleep since I stay up WAY too late reading. So far this year I have gotten through:


The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins