Cover to Cover Challenge discussion

I managed 106 books last year on my own so I hope to reach that high this year with this group.

Total Books Read: 30 /100
Fiction: 6
Non Fiction: 18
Poetry/Speech/Essays: 6

Best Reads:

January: Books read: 16
Fiction: 4
Non Fiction: 7
Poetry/Speech/Essays: 5

1. Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung: date read: Jan. 2nd: 4/5 ****
2. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire by David R. George III: date read: Jan. 2nd: 3/5 ***
3. The Book of Awesome: Snow Days, Bakery Air, Finding Money in Your Pocket, and Other Simple, Brilliant Things by Neil Pasricha: date read: Jan. 5th: 2/5 **
4. Poems by Emily Dickinson: date read: Jan. 6th: 2/5**
5. Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin by Ashley Montagu: date read: Jan. 10th: 2/5**
6. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace: date read: Jan. 10th: 5/5*****
7. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff: date read: Jan. 13th: 3/5***
8. Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel J. Siegel: date read: Jan. 15th: 4/5****
9. Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge by Eleanor Herman: date read: Jan. 15th: 3/5***
10. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt by Patton Oswalt: date read: Jan. 17th: 3/5***
11. "Ladies of Letters"(audio book): by Carole Hayman: date read: Jan. 18th: 4/5****
12. Your Inner Child of the Past by W. Hugh Missildine: date read: Jan. 20th: 3/5***
13. Mortified 2: Love is a Battlefield by David Nadelberg: date read: Jan. 20th: 4/5****
14. Ladies of Letters.com: Series 4(audio book) by Carole Hayman&Lou Wakefield: date read: Jan. 22nd: 3/4***
15. Ladies of Letters Log on(audio book) by Carole Hayman: date read: Jan. 24: 2/5**
16. Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics by Eleanor Herman: date read: Jan. 24: 4/5****

February: Books read: 10
Fiction: 2
Non Fiction: 7
Poetry/Speech/Essay: 1

1. Dreams: God's Forgotten Language by John A. Sanford: date read: Feb. 4th: 3/5***
2. The Tudors: The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty by G.J. Meyer: date read: Feb. 6th: 4/5****
3. Being There by Jerzy Kosiński: date read: Feb. 6th: 4/5****
4. Relic(audio book) by Douglas Preston: date read: Feb. 7th: 1/5*
5. After Elizabeth: The Rise of James of Scotland and the Struggle for the Throne of England by Leanda de Lisle: date read: Feb. 11th: 3/5***
6. Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Gustav Jung: date read: Feb. 11th: 2/5**
7. Good Poems for Hard Times by Garrison Keillor: date read: Feb. 12th: 2/5**
8. Your Child's Self Esteem by Dorothy Briggs: date read: Feb. 12th: 3/5***
9. Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés: date read: Feb. 12th: 1/5*
10. The Best Creative Nonfiction by Lee Gutkind: date read: Feb. 26th: 3/5***

March: Books read: 4
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Non Fiction: 4


1.The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships by Harriet Lerner: date read: March 4th: 5/5*****
2.The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey: date read: March 6th: 2/5**
3. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Underground: by Kevin Poulsen: date read: March 10th: 3/5***
4. Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England by Alison Weir: date read: March 17th: 3/5***

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Robin wrote: "They have no real redeeming value but they help cheer up the empty corners of my mind...."

That sounds an awful lot like 'redeeming value' to me! :)

Robin wrote: "4. : 2/5: The rhyming scheme just doesn't sit well with me. I enjoyed a few poems but kept sing-songing them in my head. Further cementing my theory that I only like free ve..."

Here's something my friends and I discovered in High School... almost all of her poems can be sung to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme song! We laughed about that for ages ;)