Kids and YA stuff:
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman- Review
The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution by Sally Gardner- Review
The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent- Review- Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go by Dale Basye
- The Vast Fields of Ordinary by Nick Burd - I placed a hold on this at my library at the very beginning of this challenge. I'm still 3rd in line to get the book.
- Blood Captain (Vampirates 3) by Justin Somper
A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb- Review
The Dust of 100 Dogs by A.S. King- Review
Radiant Darkness by Emily Whitman- Review
- Tennyson by Lesley M.M. Blume
Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriyār Mandanīʹpūr
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
- Dreaming in French by Megan McAndrew - I just picked this up from the library a couple days ago, after putting it on hold at the beginning of the challenge.
- A Lion Among Men by Gregory Maguire - I've been told I'm getting this for Christmas, so I made a conscious decision not to read it now.
King Rat by China Mieville- Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos
- The Secret of the Fire King by Kim Edwards - I've been reading this in between other things. I think I have 1-2 stories left to read from this collection.
- Shelf Discovery: Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick (this should probably go up there, but I want 10 and 10) - still 3rd in line for this at the library...
- All the issues of New Yorker that are stacked up on my coffee table to remind me that I just had to have a subscription. - didn't even make a dent...
- War and Peace - I'm more than halfway through now instead of only having read a third. ;)
Most importantly, I had a lot of fun and gave myself permission to read books that I knew from the get-go I wouldn't review here. I'll definitely be back for Spring Into Reading in March!
9 comments:
I consider anything over 50% a definite win! :-) I'm glad you had fun!
I'd consider it a success, too. Great job! It was a fun challenge for me to stick to my list. (And I have tons of magazines unread as well.)
You did a good job. I read War and Peace at the beginning of the year, so stick with it, you'll make it.
That's the main thing is that you had fun! I never thought to put magazines on my list. I have a pile of Reader's Digest that I'm trying to slog through.
Thanks for the comments and encouragement! I'm glad it's not just my subjective math working in my favor. :)
Lisa and Susanne - The magazines are the killer! Clearly I don't need to pay for as many subscriptions in 2010 if I can't even commit to reading them for a challenge.
Robin - I'm loving War and Peace! I just don't love carrying it around, so I'm making very slow progress.
I'll give you credit for more than half. ;)
Your review of The Graveyard Book has me even more curious to read that one. It'll have to go on my library list.
You did great! I want to read The Red Necklace,
U did great..! To me it's not the number of books read (although it's an important target)..it's having fun while reading..
Merry Christmas..!
You did just fine :)
Wishing you the nicest holiday ever. Happy reading and blogging in 2010.
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