I read 14 books for a total of 3881 pages. This brings me to 63 books for the year. If someone would have told me in January that I would have read this many books so far, I would have never believed them!
- Fire Me by Libby Malin
- Dear Mom by Melody Carlson
- Madewell Brown by Rick Collignon
- Mama's Got a Fake I.D. by Caryn Dahlstrand Rivadeneira
- Always Watching by Brandilyn and Amberly Collins
- The Lake That Stole Children by Douglas Glenn Clark
- The Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone
- Pleasure Unbound by Larissa Ione
- Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
- Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer
- A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy by Charlotte Grieg
- The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
- Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (review pending)
- What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (review pending)
Least favorite was probably The Lake That Stole Children - this was sort of a fable type book and not really my cup of tea.
There were two challenges that ended this month:
The Book Awards II - I finished 2 books short of the 10 I needed.
The Unshelved Reading Challenge - I did get 1 book of 3 started, but did not get it finished - so we are going to chuck this one!
My other challenges are shaping up like this:
Daring Book for Girls | 4/9 |
Themed Reading Challenge | 0/4(-6) |
Numbers Challenge | 2/5 |
The Countdown Challenge | 29/45 |
Outlander Challenge | 0/7 |
Genre Challenge | 10/12 |
Whitcoull's Challenge | 2/7 |
Chunkster | 4/6 |
Series Challenge Season 3 | 3 |
9 Books from '09 | 7/9 |
100+ Reading Challenge | 63/100 |
18th and 19th Century Women Writers | 0/4 |
2009 ARC Reading Challenge | 49 |
2009 Chick Lit Challenge | 23/10 |
2009 Pub Challenge | 20/9 |
2009 Suspense and Thriller Reading Challenge | 8/12 |
999 Challenge | 49/81 |
A to Z Challenge (authors) | 18/26 |
A to Z Challenge (titles) | 19/26 |
Art History Reading Challenge | 0/6 |
Audiobook Challenge | 3/12 |
Celebrate the Author challenge | 3/12 |
Centuries Reading Challenge | 2/4 |
Colorful Reading Challenge | 2/9 |
Daniel Defoe | 0/2 |
Decades '09 | 2/9 |
Dewey's Books Reading Challenge | 1/6 |
Harlequin/Silhoutte Challenge | 0/5 |
John Steinbeck | 0/2 |
New Author Challenge | 50/50 |
Read Your Name Challenge | 14/19 |
Romance Reading Challenge | 15/5 |
Sarah Dessen | 0/2 |
Science Book Challenge | 1/3 |
Scott Westerfeld | 0/2 |
Seconds Challenge | 7/12 |
Serial Readers Challenge | 10 |
Support Your Local Library | 14/50 |
What's in a Name | 5/6 |
World War II Challenge | 0/5 |
YA Challenge | 13/12 |
Young Readers | 61/12 |
5 Under 35 | 0 |
A few of these I have finished, but I haven't had time to write the wrap ups!
Ok - time to put May behind me and start on June - I will be driving to and from my mom's house this month (about 7 hours one way) so I hope to get some audio books listened to! I will have my 4 year old with me so not sure if I will really get to listen to them or not! I hope to be able to get some extra reading done at my mom's though!
- Holly's Inbox by Holly Denham
- Miranda's Big Mistake by Jill Mansell
- Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
- April and Oliver by Tess Callahan
- Living a Charmed Life by Victoria Moran
- Nothing but Trouble by Susan May Warren
- The Unit by Ninni Holmquist
- Beach Trip by Cathy Holton
- 20 Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
- Secrets to Happiness by Sarah Dunn
- Scared by Tom Davis
- You Make Me Feel Like Dancing by Allison Bottke
- A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
- Cousin Kate by Georgette Heyer
- The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas
- Surviving High Society by Elizabeth Marvin Mulholland
- Ms. Taken Identity by Dan Begley
- The King's Legacy by Jim Stovall
- Talking to the Dead by Bonnie Grove
- Wildcard by Robin Shope
- The Texicans by Nina Vida
- Live Deeply by Lenya Heitzig and Penny Rose
- Live Relationally by Lenya Heitzig and Penny Rose
- Swimsuit by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
- The Devlin Diaries by Christi Phillips
- How to Raise a Modern Day Joseph by Linda Massey Weddle
- Any Minute by Joyce Meyer and Deb Bedford
- One Scream Away by Kate Brady
- Tamed by a Laird by Amanda Scott
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
- The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
- Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
To Beguile a Beast - 5 copies (ends June 5)
One Deadly Sin - 5 copies (ends June 5)
Bound to Please - 5 copies (ends June 5)
The Scarecrow audiobook - 3 copies (ends June 15)
Cemetery Dance audiobook - 3 copies (ends June 15)
The Secret Speech audiobook - 3 copies (ends June 15)
The Way Home audiobook - 3 copies (ends June 15)
The Night Watchman - 1 copy (ends June 16)
Upcoming giveaways:
Stealing Home (June 1 - June 22)
I will probably also give away some of my gently read ARC's if no other giveaways enter my horizon.
Have a great reading month and enjoy the weather!!!!
4 comments:
You're doing well. You're 5 books ahead of me for the year. I need to do an update of my challenges too, thanks for the reminder. The Four Corners of the Sky sounds interesting. Funny that we have entirely different lists of books. You have a lot of giveaways, that's nice. Happy reading in June. My May round up went up today here:
http://freshinkbooks.blogspot.com/2009/05/tss-may-in-review.html
I really liked Holly's Inbox and April & Oliver. I think you'll enjoy 20 Boy Summer, as well. But, I really thought Fire Me was funny!
Wow! It looks like you had a fantastic month! Also looking at your list of challenges, I suddenly don't feel as bad about all mine. (Although there are 3 challenges I'm debating signing up for.) Good job for may!
You certainly had a great month! I read 10 in May. Looking forward to your thoughts on The Unit. I just received that one.
--Anna
Diary of an Eccentric
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