What I Learned
That reading a bunch of books at one time is actually a good thing. I don't get bored, so I keep reading... Near the end of the year I tend to get burned out by reading because I tend to read a lot during the start, so if I just keep this up I should be able to keep my numbers up. When I get tired of a book, I just put it down and pick up another one for the moment.
On a totally unrelated topic, I get to see my friend today who is going to be a new mother later on in the month. I haven't seen her in a few months, so I am looking forward to a chance to hang out before her life gets crazy.
New to Me Authors
Kathryn Stockett (The Help)
Katherine Webb (The Legacy)
Kate Chopin (The Awakening)
Vera Brosgol (Anya's Ghost)
Pam Jenoff (The Things we Cherished)
Sandra Brown (A Secret Splendour)
Caitlin Kittredge (The Iron Throne)
Ransom Riggs (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
Agnes Humbert (Resistance)
Ellen Feldman (Next to Love)
Lisa Searin (Magic Lost, Trouble Found)
Matthew Norman (Domestic Violets)
Helene Hanff (84, Charing Cross Road)
Simon van Booy (Everything Beautiful Began After)
Mary Robinette Kowal (Shades of Milk and Honey)
Amor Towles (Rules of Civility)
Justine Picarde (Daphne)
Juliet Grey (Becoming Marie Antoinette)
Series Talk
Iron Codex Series - 1/1 - Caught up!
Sweet Tooth Series - 3/3 - Caught up!
Thursday Next Series - 3/6
Raine Benares Series - 1/5
Cato Series - 1/11
Alexia Tarabotti Series - 2/4
Nightschool Series - 3/4
Avalon High Series - 3/3 - FINISHED!
King Amir Series - 2/3
Gathering of Faerie Series - 2/2 - FINISHED!
Little Blue Envelopes Series - 2/2 - FINISHED!
The Unwritten Series - 3/3 - Caught up!
Marie Antoinette Trilogy - 1/1 - Caught up!
The Source
Library: 14
Borrowed from Friend: 1
eReader: 5
Personal: 10
What I Read
159. The Legacy by Katherine Webb (Completed August 3, 2011)
160. The Awakening by Kate Chopin (Completed August 3, 2011)
161. Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol (Completed August 4, 2011)
162. The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoff (Completed August 4, 2011)
163. A Secret Splendor by Sandra Brown (Completed August 5, 2011)
164. The Iron Thorn (Iron Codex, Book 1) by Caitlin Kittredge (Completed August 6, 2011)
165. Sweet Tooth - Volume 2: In Captivity by Jeff Lemire (Completed August 6, 2011)
166. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Completed August 6, 2011)
167. Resistence: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France by Agnes Humbert (Completed August 9, 2011)
168. The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next Series, Book 3) by Jasper Fforde (Completed August 9, 2011)
169. Next to Love by Ellen Feldman (Completed August 11, 2011)
170. Magic Lost, Trouble Found by Lisa Searin (Raine Benares, Book 1) (Completed August 15, 2011)
171. Under the Eagle by Simon Scarrow (Cato Series, Book 1) (Completed August 16, 2011)
172. Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman (Completed August 16, 2011)
173. Changeless: An Alexia Tarabotti Novel (Book 2) by Gail Carriger (Completed August 17, 2011)
174. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (Completed August 18, 2011)
175. Nightschool: The Weirn Books - Volume 3 by Svetlana Chmakova (Completed August 19, 2011)
176. Avalon High: Coronation - Volume 3: Hunter's Moon by Meg Cabot (Completed August 19, 2011)
177. The King's Daughters (King Amir Series, Book 2) by Nathalie Mallet (Completed August 20, 2011)
178. Reasons to be Happy by Katrina Kittle (Completed August 21, 2011)
179. Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy (Completed August 22, 2011)
180. A Gathering of Faerie - Book Two: Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater (Completed August 22, 2011)
181. The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson (Little Blue Envelopes, Book 2) (Completed August 22, 2011)
182. She Loves You, She Loves You Not by Julie Anne Peters (Completed August 25, 2011)
183. Sweet Tooth - Volume 3: Animal Armies by Jeff Lemire (Completed August 26, 2011)
184. The Unwritten - Volume 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity by Mike Carey, Peter Gross, and Company (Completed August 26, 2011)
185. The Unwritten - Volume 2: Inside Man by Mike Carey, Peter Gross, and Company (Completed August 26, 2011)
186. The Unwritten - Volume 3: Dead Man's Knock by Mike Carey, Peter Gross, and Company (Completed August 26, 2011)
187. Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (Completed August 26, 2011)
188. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (Completed August 27, 2011)
189. Daphne by Justine Picardie (Completed August 29, 2011)
190. Becoming Marie Antoinette (Marie Antoinette Trilogy, Book 1) by Juliet Grey (Completed August 30, 2011)
Books Added to the TBR Pile
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Daphne by Justine Picardie
Reasons to be Happy by Katrina Kittle
The Little Shadows by Marina Endicott
Tell it to the Trees by Anita Rau Badami
The Virgin Cure by Ami McKay
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
Thoughts for September
I am going to have fun with the R.I.P. Challenge. I am going to blog as long as I am in the mood to blog. And, I am going to read whatever strikes my fancy and have fun with it.
What are your plans for September?
I think you're seriously out of control!!! LOL....you read a lot this month. Have fun visiting with your friend!!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your "Thoughts for September"! Sounds like the perfect attitude! I believe I shall adopt it as my plan, too. :D
ReplyDeleteI read Ellen Feldman's novel Lucy, about FDR and his mistress, and I liked it to much I'm very interested in picking up her latest Next to Love. You have an amazing stack of books here, friend, both of what you've read and those who are new to you! I'd like to read Fragile Things, too, hoping that I can get to it before Halloween if not in time to follow along with those of you who are reading it.
ReplyDelete**Staci: Reading is a good constant even when the rest of the world can be crazy... I had lots of fun visiting her. :)
ReplyDelete**Debi: It is a good plan for you, too!
**Bellezza: I have started Fragile Things and it is pretty good so far. It is the only collection of his I haven't read before, so I am looking forward to it.
gads, the only person who can keep up with your reading is Becky! lol.. you two are amazing!
ReplyDeleteI am reading Home for Peculiar Children right now.. what a great book it is (so far lol) :o)
Some interesting reading, Kelly! And lots of it!
ReplyDeleteI think I'll do another year of Carl's RIP since I haven't missed a year yet. That is my September plan.
**Pat: haha! Thanks, Pat! My favourite part of Home for Peculiar was the pictures. I still haven't reviewed that book...
ReplyDelete**JenClair: Glad to hear you are going to do R.I.P.! I wouldn't miss it!
You're clearly back in the swing of things with your reading. I must read The Help at some stage, I think I'm the last person in the world not to have read it.
ReplyDeleteI'm doing the same for Sept. Reading when I can for RIP and having fun.
Your plans for September sound absolutely perfect! I'm so excited for the R.I.P. Challenge as well and can't wait to see what everyone reads for it. Sounds like you had an awesome month of reading in August!
ReplyDelete**Cath: I am trying, anyway... There is so much that I want to read! I enjoyed The Help, though.
ReplyDelete**samantha: I am really excited for the R.I.P. challenge!