Books Read in December

I did pretty good to wrap up my year in reading, with 13 books read this month. Here's what I read in December:

1. The Phantom Freighter (library)

2. World Without End (TBR challenge)

3. The secret in the Old attic (Library)

4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1001 books)

5. Ghost in the Mirror (Non- fiction/Kindle)

6. Hawk O'Toole's Hostage

7. The Daughters Break the Rules

8. The Daughters take the Stage

9. Just as Long as We're Together

10. The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest

11. The Chocolate Chip Cookie murder (kindle)

12. A Boyfriend Before Christmas (Kindle)

13. All the Lovely Bad Ones

This was an excellent way to end my year in reading. All except two of these books received 5 stars from me!

October Monthly reads

In October I read 5 books:

1) The Woman in Black by: Susan Hill
2) The Ghost Next Door by: Mark Alan Morris
3) The Shelters of Stone by: Jean M. Auel
4) Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by: Marian Keyes
5) One Summer by: David Baldacci

all but one were great reads. I really sturggled through The Shelters of Stone. I finished The woman in Black in one day and The Ghost Next Door in a few hours. I wanted to save The Ghosty one for Halloween, but it arrived early and I couldn't help myself and so I sat down and read the entire thing in a few hours.

August Monthly Run down

I did pretty good this month! I read 7 books, which is amazing, I must have read some really good ones! I am thinking that I am not going to reach my 75 book goal for the year. I just have waaay too many chunksters to get to this year. So, let see what did I read in August?

1.Black Hills, by Nora Roberts ***
2.This Lullabye By Sarah Dessen *****
3. The Bestseller By: Olivia Goldsmith *****
4. Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris *****
5. Definitely dead By: Charlaine Harris *****
6. The Girl Who Played with Fire by: Stieg Larsson *****
7. War and Peace By: Leo Tolstoy ****

I was soooo proud of myself for finishing War and Peace by my goal date of Sept. 1st!! I got it finished 2 days early!!!

This was a good reading month for me, as I only got 4 done in July, so 7 is really good! I am still behind quite a bit on my challenge for the year. I have 49 done and 26 left to go, so that is 6 and a half to be read every month from now until the end of the year, for the reason of having too many chunksters to finish for the year, I am not seeing this happening, but maybe I can eek a few tiny ones out here and there. We shall see. I am not too worried about it, since last year I read 8 more than my goal number, so did really well! If I don't make it this year I shall look at that title "War and Peace" and know I did fine! Not only that but I have read 17,136 pages this year which is approximately 349 pages per book read....so I am doing fine on the whole page goal. (which is 18,000) So, I'm doing ok.

April Reads

This month was pretty good for reading for me!! I actually finished 6 books, and almost a 7th, had it not been for buying the third season of Private Practice on DVD and sitting on the couch like a slump for a week! Plus we moved this past week, and while I didn't have the internet to distract me, along with watching hours of PP, I also spent many hours playing Sims 3. So, if I'd not spent so much time with those things I think I may have been able to finish my current book: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes But that was not to be. So here is WHAT I did read this month:

- Search for a New Dawn
- Little Town on the Prairie
- These Happy Golden Years
- The First four years
- The Purpose driven Life
- The Pillars of the Earth

The Pillars of the Earth was a pretty long one, almost a thousand pages so I was glad to have that one done! It is one of the 12 in my TBR challenge so another one marked off for that challenge, also Search for a New Dawn is on my TBR challenge list. So I did pretty well this month!! If I could stay off the computer for a few days a week I may actually get more reading in, but alas, I am addicted! Hmph...

January's Reads

1.A Thousand Splendid Suns
2.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
3.Restless Hearts
4.Thirteen Moons
5.Blue Skies

TBR Challenge books: 3