May Round Up of Books and a Peek at June

I had a very good month this month, but still didn't get through the pile of books that I wanted to!

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!

1. Fire Me by Libby Malin
2. Dear Mom by Melody Carlson
3. Madewell Brown by Rick Collignon
4. Mama's Got a Fake I.D. by Caryn Dahlstrand Rivadeneira
5. Always Watching by Brandilyn and Amberly Collins
6. The Lake That Stole Children by Douglas Glenn Clark
7. The Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone
8. Pleasure Unbound by Larissa Ione
9. Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
10. Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer
11. A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy by Charlotte Grieg
12. The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
13. Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (review pending)
14. What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman (review pending)

As for a favorite this month that is going to be hard - It would be between Frenchman's Creek, The Convenient Marriage and What the Dead Know.

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!

1. Holly's Inbox by Holly Denham
2. Miranda's Big Mistake by Jill Mansell
3. Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
4. April and Oliver by Tess Callahan
5. Living a Charmed Life by Victoria Moran
6. Nothing but Trouble by Susan May Warren
7. The Unit by Ninni Holmquist
8. Beach Trip by Cathy Holton
9. 20 Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
10. Secrets to Happiness by Sarah Dunn
11. Scared by Tom Davis
12. You Make Me Feel Like Dancing by Allison Bottke
13. A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
14. Cousin Kate by Georgette Heyer
15. The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas
16. Surviving High Society by Elizabeth Marvin Mulholland
17. Ms. Taken Identity by Dan Begley
18. The King's Legacy by Jim Stovall
19. Talking to the Dead by Bonnie Grove
20. Wildcard by Robin Shope
21. The Texicans by Nina Vida
22. Live Deeply by Lenya Heitzig and Penny Rose
23. Live Relationally by Lenya Heitzig and Penny Rose
24. Swimsuit by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
25. The Devlin Diaries by Christi Phillips
26. How to Raise a Modern Day Joseph by Linda Massey Weddle
27. Any Minute by Joyce Meyer and Deb Bedford
28. One Scream Away by Kate Brady
29. Tamed by a Laird by Amanda Scott

Audio books to listen to:

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
2. Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
3. The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
4. Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith

My current giveaways:
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!!!!