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A - Z Title Challenge


A - The Auschwitz Violin
- Anja the Liar
B - The Battle of the Labyrinth
- A Breath of Snow and Ashes - currently reading
- Bad Boy
C - Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
- Catching Fire
- Cutting for Stone
D - A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
- Dragonfly in Amber
- Dawn
- Drums of Autumn
- Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
E - Ella Enchanted
- Ender's Game
- The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel
- The Enchanted Castle
F - Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
- The Fiery Cross
- Fables: Legends in Exile
G - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- The Girl Who Played with Fire
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
H - The Help
- The Hunger Games
- Horns
I - In the Miso Soup
J - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
K
L - The Last Olympian
- The Last Song
- The Lost Hero
M - Message in a Bottle
- Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga
- Mockingjay
- Midnight's Children - currently reading
N - Never Look Away: A Thriller
O - Obsidian Butterfly
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- Outlander
P - The Piano Teacher
- The Princess Bride
Q
R - Rebecca
- The Red Pyramid
S - Sarah's Key
- The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
- The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella - currently reading
T - The Titan's Curse
- The Three Musketeers
- The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread
- Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales
- The Thirteenth Tale
- Take the Monkeys and Run
U - Under the Lilacs
V - Voyager
W - The Woman in White
- When the Emperor Was Divine
- The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
X - The Xibalba Murders An Archeological Mystery
Y - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Z

Book Addicts 2010 Reading Challenge



1. Outlander - March
2. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - June
3. The Princess Bride - May
4. Midnight's Children - currently reading
5. A Dance to the Music of Time First Movement - February
6. The Three Musketeers - March
7. The Woman in White - January
8. Sarah's Key - January
9. Shogun - Probably will not read this year as I'm planning to read this next year with a friend. :)
10. The Thirteenth Tale
11. Ender's Game August
12. The Other Boleyn Girl - March

Alternates:

1. Anja the Liar
2. Ella Enchanted January

These are books that have been on Mt. TBR for at least one year. I figure that this is a fun way to read books that I want to read anyway, but are just collecting dust. :)

What I've read each month... Yeah, it's OCD, but I like looking at it!

January - 2,828
1. The Titan's Curse 327
2. Sarah's Key 293
3. The Xibalba Murders An Archeological Mystery 290
4. Obsidian Butterfly 596
5. Ella Enchanted 240
6. The Battle of the Labyrinth 362
7. The Woman in White 720
February - 2,140
8. Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter 224
9. The Last Olympian 381
10. Message in a Bottle 352
11. A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement 732
12. The Help 451
March - 3,477
13. Rebecca 441
14. The Other Boleyn Girl 664
15. The Piano Teacher 328
16. The Three Musketeers 640
17. Under the Lilacs 191
18. Outlander 853
19. Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders 360
April - 390
20. The Last Song 390
May - 3,468
21. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 465
22. Dragonfly in Amber 752
23. Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga 448
24. Voyager 880
25. The Princess Bride 420
26. The Girl Who Played with Fire 503
June - 2,506
27. The Red Pyramid 516
28. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest 566
29. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 272
30. Dawn 96
31. When the Emperor Was Divine 160
32. Drums of Autumn 896
July - 2,555
33. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms 416
34. The Hunger Games 374
35. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell 1,006
36. Catching Fire 391
37. Horns 368
August - 1,458
38. In the Miso Soup 224
39. Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language 208
40. The Auschwitz Violin 128
41. Troll's Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales 200
42. Ender's Game 324
43. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie 374
September - 2,899
44. Mockingjay 390
45. The Fiery Cross 1456
46. The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel 208
47. Cutting for Stone 541
48. The Enchanted Castle 304
October - 1,987
49. The Thirteenth Tale 406
50. Never Look Away: A Thriller 421
51. The Yiddish Policemen's Union 414
52. Bad Boy 352
53. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim 272
54. Fables: Legends in Exile 122
November 600
55.Take the Monkeys and Run 236
56. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag 364
December
57. The Lost Hero 557
58. Anja the Liar
59. A Prisoner of Birth
60. Tiger's Curse
61. The Killer Within: In the Company of Monsters

YTD pages read:

Currently:

- A Secret Kept - current audio
- A Breath of Snow and Ashes 980
- The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella 178

A-Z by Author



A - Louisa May Alcott (1)
- Maria Àngels Anglada (1)
B - Alan Bradley (2)
- Linwood Barclay (1)
C - Wilkie Collins (1)
- Susanna Clarke (1)
- Suzanne Collins(3)
- Orson Scott Card (1)
- Michael Chabon (1)
- Karen Cantwell (1)
D - Alexandre Dumas (1)
- Kate DiCamillo (1)
- Ellen Datlow (1)
E
F - Deborah Fallows (1)
G - Diana Gabaldon (7)
- Neil Gaiman (1)
- Philippa Gregory (1)
- William Goldman (1)
- Rolf Gates (1)
H - Laurell K. Hamilton (1)
- Lyn Hamilton (1)
- Joe Hill (1)
I
J
K
L - Stieg Larsson (3)
- Janice Y.K. Lee (1)
- Gail Carson Levine (1)
M - Adeline Yen Mah (1)
- Daphne du Maurier (1)
- Ryu Murakami (1)
- Stephenie Meyer (1)
N - E. Nesbit (1)
O - Julie Otsuka (1)
P - Anthony Powell (1)
Q
R - Rick Riordan (5)
- Tatiana de Rosnay (1)
- Peter Robinson (1)
- Salman Rushdie (1)
S - Kathryn Stockett (1)
- Nicholas Sparks (2)
- Diane Setterfield (1)
- David Sedaris (1)
T - Gail Tsukiyama (1)
U
V - Abraham Verghese (1)
W - Elie Wiesel (1)
- Bill Willingham (1)
X
Y
Z

I finished Obsidian Butterfly, and am now working on Ella Enchanted. I think I'll hit Chinese Cinderella after Ella... :)

You're really cranking through Mt. TBR! I wish I could make that much progress!

Stayed up way too late last night...

LOL! I know the feeling. Some of them are hard to put down. And then you get to a point where you start thinking "Why not just finish it?" and it ends up taking longer than you think.

Tell me about it!!!

I just finished Ella Enchanted, and I think I'll be starting The Woman in White later today. :) Oh, I only have 37 more minutes left of The Titan's Curse.

I'm just starting my 3rd book and you're already on the 6th? That's not fair. [Sonja pouts:] :)

I've been staying up LATE!!!! Bad Me!

Are you ignoring your mommy voice again? :) I do it too! I was up till 3 last night because I couldn't sleep. So, I read... that's how I finished Hotel and started another book this weekend...

Mommy voice? What's a mommy voice? :) Is that what that noise in my head was?

I thought we'd had this conversation... Only last time I think it was regarding chocolate consumption...

Yeah, I've improved on the chocolate... but reading? Really? Reading is good for me! Why would I need to listen to my mommy voice? :)

Because sleep is good for you too? ;)

Oh shoot! Is that why I'm so tired? :)

I don't know...just a guess...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: 3 down, 2 to go!

Are you listening to that one too?

Yeap! :)

Sometimes I wish I had a longer commute so I could listen to more books. 7 minutes just isn't long enough. I listen to them when I drive to MO though...

It takes three to four weeks for me to listen to one audio book... and the Percy Jackson ones are not long. I'm kind of wanting to listen to The Fountainhead, but it's something like 27 or 29 CD's long... that would mean at least 4 months! That's a long time!

That really is a long time. But if it saves you from reading another huge book... I don't know...

Yeah, I'll have to think about it... I just started the one book today, and there's the fifth book in the series to read after it... so that's a good two months of listening pleasure. I'll make the big decision when I have to. :)

They have German books on daliylit! I signed up for one!

I am corrupting many people now! Pamela is now reading a book through there too! :)

It's pretty bad... Though, I guess you could be getting us hooked on worse things.

lol!

I'm not sure this dailylit thing is a good idea... I just finished 2 installments (they were relatively short), but I have work to do! I should change my setup so that they come later in the day and I can read them at home.

Or you could just keep them at the same time of day, and just read it if you need to relax for a minute or ten. :) That's what I do! It arrives at 8am, but I don't always read it during the work day... just sometimes. :)

But I want to read it when I get it... I guess I need to work on some self-control issues.

Yeah, where's your mommy voice? ;)~

I don't have one yet. :(

The Battle of the Labyrinth

Quite an enjoyable book - I think that this is my favorite of the Percy Jackson series so far. Given that this book (and the whole series) is written for a 4th grader, the plot is actually impressively complex. Rick Riordan does a wonderful job of teaching Greek mythology, and makes me crave more!

I'm looking forward to starting book 5 tomorrow! :)

They sound like fun books. I might have to read them...

They ARE fun books! :)

I just finished The Last Olympian!

At home with a sick William... I read Message in a Bottle during his nap. I do like that Nicholas Sparks doesn't feel the need to give a fairytale ending, but part of me wishes that it could have been a happy ending!

Sonja wrote: "I was talking to my Dad. Probably once a week or so I call him on my way to work. It's the only time I get to talk to him because if I call in the evenings, he passes the phone to Mom right away...."
Niiice!

Did you see any of the accident on 965 last night? They had 965 blocked from Oakdale to Forevergreen...

I was at the office and heard/saw that 965 was blocked off. I heard the ambulance, but by the time I left the office at 6:30, it was all cleaned up. I didn't even see any cars at the side of the road.

Just finished Under the Lilacs, and am going to start Villette tomorrow! :) YAY!

Yay! I got really behind on Les Miz and have 6 parts stockpiled in my inbox. I read 2 today, so it's down from 8 this morning...

I had that happen with The Three Musketeers... at point I had at least 10 parts stockpiled! If you read just two a day, you'll get caught up quickly. I actually realized how close I was, and read four installments of Under the Lilacs today.

Getting behind is okay, just don't quit! :)

I'm not... I really like it!

I like Villette so far! :)

I thought you might! It kept surprising me!

It's a neat story so far - but I'm still 3 emails behind!

Wow... I was on a roll until now... stuck at 20 books. I had hoped to finish Dragonfly in Amber this week, but with everything else going on, I literally haven't read at all... and the only reason that The Last Song got finished is because it's an audio book! :)