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What did you read in AUGUST?
August is over! What did you read last month? How was it? How many are you toward your goal?
Re: What did you read in AUGUST?
I'll Give You The Sun - Jandy Nelson
Isla and the Happily Ever After - Stephanie Perkins
Sinner - Maggie Stiefvater
Oryx and Crake- Margaret Atwood 3 stars
Isla and the Happily Ever After- Stephanie Perkins 4.5 stars
Quiet by Susan Cain ***
Good Night Sleep Tight by Kim West ***
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein ****
Just One Night by Gayle Forman ****
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss ***
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell *****
I'm at 35/52. Goodreads says I'm 1 ahead of my goal.
BFP 1/8/11 - U/S 2/24/11 (11wks) no heartbeat measuring 6w1d - D&C 2/28/11
"Beautiful Addictions" by our own skeezon- 4 stars
"Red Rising" by Pierce Brown - 2 stars
"Lover Eternal" (BDB 2) by JR Ward- 4 stars
"Anna and the French Kiss" by Stephanie Perkins- 5 stars
I am at 42/52. I am headed into a busy time at work so we will see how reading fares.
my read shelf:
Eragon by Christopher Paolini - 5 stars
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner - 4 stars
HP and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling- 5 stars
So a lot of good books read...just wish the total was higher. I'm at 43/60 which is 3 books ahead according to GR.
The King's Guard 3*
The Martian 4*
Landline 4*
Silver Shadows 4*
Isla and the Happily Ever After 4*
Losing It 4*
Faking It 4*
Finding It 4*
All Lined Up 4*
10/100 for the month
66/100 for the year
my read shelf:
Wes: 10/8/2012
I read 11 books in August and met my goal of 50 for the year. I raised my goal to 75 books and am at 55/75 for the year.
Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon ****
Revenge and Retribution by Anna Belfrage ****
Brotherhood of Fear by Paul Grossman ***
A Little House Sampler by Laura Ingalls Wilder ****
The End of Innocence by Allegra Jordan ****
Red Winter by Dan Smith ****
The Kingmaker's Daughter by Phillipa Gregory ***
The English Assassin by Daniel Silva ****
The Ashes of Heaven's Pillar by Kim Rendfeld ****
The Farm by Tom Rob Smith ***
Inglorious Royal Marriages by Leslie Carroll ***
my read shelf:
I am really behind lately. Been so busy and not reading as much. I'm at 68/114, 7 books behind schedule. This month killed me. I've never only read two books in a month.
For August I read:
The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness - 3 stars
Sinner - Maggie Stiefvater - 2 stars
1. A Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling 5 stars
2. Somewhere I’ll Find You – Lisa Kleypas 3 stars
3. Redeeming Love – Francine Rivas 4 stars
4. Isla and the Happily Ever After – Stephanie Perkins 4 stars
5. Hollow City (Miss Peregrine #2) - Ranson Riggs 4 stars
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My read shelf:

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
One Plus One - JoJo Moyes
I'm working on number 46 right now. I don't have a firm number for the year but I'd like to make an even 60. Tons of books I've chosen are pretty long and/or detailed. Fairly happy with choices so far but few crazy standouts.
Izzy and Baby A ~ Adorable Punks
Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews - ***
Silver Shadows by Richelle Mead- ***
Horns by Joe Hill - ****
I've read 25 out of 52... I'm 9 books behind and I don't really see myself picking up the pace, so I guess I'm just gonna fail miserably this year ;-) ah well
52 Books in 2014??


My sweet babies:




Silver Shadows ***
Attachments ****
Book of Life *****
Terrible month of reading for me!
A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin - 5 stars
Love Beyond Time - Bethany Claire - 3 stars
Transcender: First-Timer - Vicky Savage - 3 stars
The Fallen Star - Jessica Sorensen - 2 stars
If I Stay - Gayle Forman - 4 stars
Beginnings - J.M. Sevilla - 3 stars
The Blackout - Stephanie Erickson - 2 stars
Awakening - Jeremy Laszlo - 2 stars
Obsidian - Jennifer L. Armentrout - 3 stars
Open Minds - Susan Kaye Quinn - 3 stars
The Island - Jen Minkman - 1 star
Mindspeak - Heather Sunseri - 3 stars
Deep Blue Secret - Christie Anderson - 3 stars
13 books for the month
48 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
BFP 1/8/11 - U/S 2/24/11 (11wks) no heartbeat measuring 6w1d - D&C 2/28/11
Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness - 4 stars
Dark Places - Gillian Flynn - 4 stars
Ruin and Rising - Leigh Bardugo - 4 stars
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle - 3 stars
Before I Fall - Lauren Oliver - 3 stars
I'm at 30 books for the year
My new bff Gayle Forman!
“You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control"
- Gayle Forman
"People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality."
- Neil Gaiman
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My books were:
City of Lost Dreams by Magnus Flyte (5 stars)
The Golem and Jinni by Helene Wecker (3 stars)
Shattered Promises by Jessica Sorensen (4 stars)
my read shelf:
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