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What did you read in OCTOBER?
What did you read this month? How was it? How many books is that this year? How many more to your goal?
Re: What did you read in OCTOBER?
The Taming of the Shrew
Make It Right - Megan Erickson
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater
Come Dancing by Leslie Wells
The Case for the Only Child by Susan Newman
The Gospel of Winter by Brendan Kiely
Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
I'm at 69 out of 75 for the year.
my read shelf:
Defending Jacob
Big Little Lies
Hate List
Make It Right
The Dream Thieves
Ugly Love
Rival
Until You
Bully
My Life With The Walter Boys
Isla and the Happily Ever After
Lola and the Boy Next Door
I hit my goal of 100 books for the year this month!
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 Heroes of Olympus, book 5-2 stars
The Cuckoo's Calling, 3 stars
We Were Liars, 5 stars
The Raven Boys, 5 stars
Will Grayson/Will Grayson - 4 stars
Big Little Lies - 4 stars
Panic - 3 stars
The Martian - 5 stars
I am at 43/52 for the year. Goodreads says I right on track.
BFP 1/8/11 - U/S 2/24/11 (11wks) no heartbeat measuring 6w1d - D&C 2/28/11
The Good Earth
Akira Volume II
Theodore Rex
Wool (Silo #1)
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
Shift (Silo #2)
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
The Big Sleep
Standouts are Wool and Shift - the first two parts of a dystopian future trilogy, and The Blind Side. I'm not a football person at all but I really enjoyed it.
I'm at 92/100 books for the year so I should have no problem finishing in time.
End Me a Tenor by Joelle Charbonneau - 3 stars
The Initiate by Veronica Roth - 4 stars
The Son by Veronica Roth - 4 stars
The Traitor by Veronica Roth - 4 stars
Grand Central by Kristina McMorris et al - 3 stars
Save the Date by Mary Kay Andrews - 3 stars
The King of Lies by John Hart - 3 stars
A Most Peculiar Circumstance by Jen Turano - 2 stars
Ellis Island by Kate Kerrigan - 3 stars
Rooms by Lauren Oliver - 1 star
Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Wrong Finger by Beth Harbison - 2 stars
Mean Streak by Sandra Brown - 4 stars
Just Between Us by Mario Lopez - 3 stars
The Young Elites by Marie Lu - 3 stars
Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett - still processing this one. And even though I finished last night, I'm still counting it for October because I read 900/1100 pages in October.
121/125
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
The Dream Theives
House Rules by Chloe Neill
Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Rock Addiction by Nalini Singh
Every Day by David Levithan
Open Road Summer by Emery Lord
Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
9/100 for the year and 85/100 total for the year.
my read shelf:
Wes: 10/8/2012
Dead Witch Walking - Kim Harrison 3 stars
Maybe Someday - Colleen Hoover - 4 stars
I'll Give You the Sun - Jandy Nelson 3 stars
The Fever - Meg Abbot 2 stars
The Chaos of Stars - Kiersten White 3 stars
Six Feet Over It - Jennifer Longo 2 stars
86 out of 114, I'm behind this year. Been in a slump lately.
Books read in 2011: 111
Books read in 2012: 100
my read shelf:
I had the best reading month ever this year.
The King's Guard - Rae Carson
The Bitter Kingdom - Rae Carson
The Shattered Mountain - Rae Carson
Vanish - Tess Gerritsen
Keeper of The Bride - Tess Gerritsen
The Mephisto Club - Tess Gerritsen
The Keepsake - Tess Gerritsen
Presumed Guilty - Tess Gerritsen
The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritsen
Girl Missing - Tess Gerritsen
John Doe - Tess Gerritsen
The Submissive - Tara Sue Me
The Golden Lily - Richelle Mead
The Indigo Spell - Richelle Mead
Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins
The Saint -Tiffany Reisz
The Mistress - Tiffany Reisz
The Wide Window - Lemony Snicket
The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket
The Austere Academy - Lemony Snicket
I am on 55. My original goal was 50 so I may up it to 75 to see if I can do it.
Soppy
Philippa Rice
Portofino
Frank Schaeffer
Horrorstor
Grady Hendrix
Liar Temptress Soldier Spy
Karen Abbott
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Edible
Daniella Martin
Confessions
Kanae Minato
Landline
Rainbow Rowell
Man v. Nature
Diane Cook
This Is the Water
Yannick Murphy
I'll Give You the Sun
Jandy Nelson
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
GI Brides
Duncan Barret and Nuala Calvi
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow And Other Stories
Washington Irving
Big Driver
Stephen King
Zac and Mia
A.J. Betts
On Immunity: An Inoculation
Eula Biss
Ruin and Rising - 4 stars
The Lantern - 3 stars
I Can Barely Take Care of Myself - 3 stars
22 Brittania Road - 3 stars
When Women Were Birds - 2 stars (I need to re-read this. I was in a bad head space)
Looking for Peyton Place - 3 stars
I'm at 80/100. I'll have to do a lot of reading the next two months to hit my goal for the year.
2013 Reading Challenge
Dream Thieves
Blue Lily, Lily Blue
I've given up on this year - I think I'm at around 30ish? And now BLLB just totally stalled me out, I just keep reading parts over and over and never moving on.
52 Books in 2014??


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