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What did you read in MARCH?
What did you read this month? How was it? How many books is that for the year? What's your goal?
Re: What did you read in MARCH?
BREAKFAST SERVED ANYTIME - Sarah Combs
TRUST ME, I'M LYING - Mary Elizabeth Summer
NO PLACE TO FALL - Jaye Robin Brown
Beautiful Addictions - Season Vining
Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein
Jellicoe Road - Melina Marchetta
The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater
Panic - Lauren Oliver
Reaver - Larissa Ione
Night Broken - Patricia Briggs
Up From the Grave - Jeaniene Frost
The Girl of Fire and Thorns - Rae Carson
The Crown of Embers - Rae Carson
And if I'm lucky, I will finish The Bitter Kingdom tonight for 11 for the month. Woohoo!
my read shelf:
Wes: 10/8/2012
John Adams - 5 stars
The Botany of Desire - 4 stars
The Wolf of Wall Street - 2 stars
I'm at 15 for the year. I don't really have a goal, but I would like to do better than the 30 I read last year.
Sugar & Spice
The Golem and the Jini
Helene Wecker
Altar of Bones
Philip Carter
Reset
Jeff Bogue
Bossypants
Tina Fey
Ronald Reagan
Dinesh D’Souza
If I Stay
Gayle Forman
And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini
The Dinner
Herman Koch
Cartwheel
Jennifer duBois
Waiting to be Heard
Amanda Knox
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier
Child of the Prophecy by Juliet Marillier
Heir to Sevenwaters by Juliet Marillier
That's 16 out of 52 for the year.
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
"I don't much care where –"
"Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
The Midwife's Confession by Diane Chamberlain-***
Alienated by Melissa Landers ****
Serpents in the Garden by Anna Belfrage ****
The Queen's Rivals by Brandy Purdy ***
The Secret Daughter of the Tsar by Jennifer Laam ***
The Morning Star by Robin Bridges ***
The Collector of Dying Breaths by M.J. Rose ****
Queen Elizabeth's Daughter by Anne Clinard Barnhill **1/2
That's 19 out of 50 for the year.
my read shelf:
River Road by Jayne Ann Krentz - 4 stars
The Prince by Kiera Cass - 4 stars
A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner - 4 stars
Panic by Lauren Oliver - 2 stars
When Love Calls by Lorna Seilstad - 4 stars
Gold Digger by Vicky Delaney - 2 stars
Heart's Awakening by Delia Parr - 3 stars
All Night Long by Jayne Ann Krentz - 3 stars
Butterfly Palace by Colleen Coble - 3 stars
The Week Before the Wedding by Beth Kendrick - 3 stars
Moonlight Masquerade by Ruth Axtell - 3 stars
The Road to Grace by Richard Paul Evans - 4 stars
A Step of Faith by Richard Paul Evans - 3 stars
Velocity by Dean Koontz - 2 stars
Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover - 5 stars
I'll hopefully finish The Widower's Tale tonight.
I'm at 39/125.
Books read in 2010: 153
Books read in 2011: 160
Books read in 2012: 134
Books read in 2013: 110
Books read in 2014: 151
Books read in 2015: 153
Books read in 2016: 31
I was a little obsessed with Lisa Kleypas this month!
Allegiant (Divergent #3) by Veronica Roth
Blue-Eyed Devil (Travis Family #2) by Lisa Kleypas
A Stolen Life : a Memoir by Jaycee Dugard
Secrets of a Summer Night (Wallflowers #1) by Lisa Kleypas
It Happened One Autumn (Wallflowers #2) by Lisa Kleypas
Devil in Winter (Wallflowers #3) by Lisa Kleypas
Spellbound by Sylvia Day (this book was terrible, even for erotic fiction.)
Please visit my blog The Party Hostess
My read shelf:
The Willoughbys, Lois Lowry
The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton
Finding It, Cora Carmack
Attachments, Rainbow Rowell
Dust and Shadow, Lindsay Faye
Out of the Easy, Ruta Sepetys
all 4 or 5 stars
I'm at 25/100 for the year, so exactly on track
The Ivy by Lauren Kunze (3 stars)
Secrets by Lauren Kunze (4 stars)
Rivals by Lauren Kunze (4 stars)
I'm pretty addicted to this series right now, haha. I've read 9 books this year toward my goal of 30.
My Crockpot Blog
DS born 2.28.13 at 31w1d
The Things That Keep Us Here - 3.5 stars
Come To Me Quietly - 2.5 stars
Partials - 4 stars
Fragments - 3.5 stars
The Knife of Never Letting Go - 2 stars
The Testing - 4 stars
Along For The Ride - 2.5 stars
That puts me up to 33 books for the year, 9 ahead of my goal of 100.
IVF w/ICSI - transferred 2; froze 3
Beta #1 150 Beta #2 320 - 7/16 124 bpm (6w5d) EDD 3/6/13
Our team green baby was a girl! Emma Lynn born 2/23/13
my read shelf:
The Shadowy Horses - Susanna Kearsley
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
Second Chances - Alison Stanley
The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker
Beautiful Mess - Lucy Morgan
I'm at 27 for the year, my goal is 50.
My goal was only 25, but I may bump it up.
The Great Degeneration by Niall Ferguson. 3 stars
Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor. 4 stars
Unsinkable: A Memoir by Silken Laumann. 3 stars
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. 4 stars
The Gifts of Imperfection by Brenee Brown. 4 stars
Blood Song (Raven Shadow #1) by Anthony Ryan. 4 stars
Dark Witch by Nora Roberts. 3 stars
Pride and Pleasure by Sylvia Day. 2 stars
David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell. 4 stars
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan. 4 stars
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. 4 stars
I Am Malala: The Girl who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafai 4 stars.
Into Thin Air: A Persona Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by John Krakaur. 4 stars
Bloodfever (Fever #2) by Karen Marie Moning. 3 stars.
Edited because I forgot one.
my read shelf:
Books read in 2011: 111
Books read in 2012: 100
my read shelf:
This is what I read in March:
Magic Bites by Iiona Andrews
Night Broken by Patricia Briggs
Unbroken by Paula Morris
Up From the Grave by Jeannine Frost
A Gate of Night by Bella Forrest
Seeing Trouble (Novella) by Ann Charles
The Chase by Janet Evanovich
Biting Bad by Chloe Neill
Daylighters by Rachel Caine
Mrs. Maddox (Novella) by Jaime McGuire
Into the Still Blue by Veronica Rossi
I'm at 35 out of 114 for the year.
Gone Girl- Gillian Flynn (on audio format)- I was a little disappointed after so much hype.
In Paradise- Peter Matthessen- beautiful, the author's last book before retirement.
Watchmen- Alan Moore- my first graphic novel
The Lost Sisterhood- Anne Fortier- fictional story about the origin of the Amazons
A Visit From the Goon Squad- Jennifer Egan- good, but scattered
All Souls- Javier Marias- very cerebral, not much plot
Vertigo- W.G. Sebald- semi-autobiographical, some went over my head
I read 7 books this month. bringing me to 24/70 for the year.
This is my first time posting in the Book Club and I'm happy to find so many readers! Everyone around me IRL thinks I'm crazy for reading so much. I don't read from it exclusively, but one of my lifelong goals is to complete the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. Anyone else?
Lola and the Boy Next Door Stephanie Perkins
Dash of Peril Lori Foster
The Golden Lily Richelle Mead
Bare It All Lori Foster
Run the Risk Lori Foster
Baehrly Alive Elizabeth A. Reeves
Getting Rowdy Lori Foster
How (Not) to Kiss a Beast Elizabeth A. Reeves
How (Not) to Kiss a Prince Elizabeth A. Reeves
How (Not) to Kiss a Toad Elizabeth A. Reeves
How (Not) to Play with Magic Elizabeth A. Reeves
Baehrly Bitten Elizabeth A. Reeves
Up from the Grave Jeaniene Frost
Baehrly Beginning Elizabeth A. Reeves
Salvation in Death J.D. Robb
Baehrly Breathing Elizabeth A. Reeves
Code Name: Nanny Christina Skye
Code Name: Princess Christina Skye
I think I am up to 51 for the year.
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