Not blogging much, but still reading obsessively

As my title says I don't know why, but I tend to ignore this blog. I don't mean to, I am very active at goodreads.com, and love keeping track of my books and what I am reading, and I LOVE to follow other books blogs (as you'll see my blogroll on my sidebar) but when it comes to writing about the books I am reading, I stink!!!

I must work on that.

Well, my yearly goal was to read 60 books, I am almost there! On # 56 now, so I think I should reach my goal there.

I have finished a few personal challenges as well. My Sci-Fi/fantasy challenge has been met. I read the His Dark Material's trilogy by P. Pullman. I really enjoyed them. I also met my "Read 40 books off my TBR list for this year" challenge as well.

I also did the Spring Reading thing challenge and finished it.

However a few of my personal challenges, thus far have gone un finished, but! I still have 2 and a little more than a half of a month to finish those.

Off to crack open the books, I would like to see a finish on "The Fountainhead" this week. We shall see how that goes!

September Reads

1. Don't Look Down J. Crusie
2. My Sisters Keeper J. Piccoult
3. Home Song L. Spencer
4. The Amber Spyglass P. Pullman
5. The Summer I Dared B. Delinsky
6. The House of the Seven Gables N. Hawthorne


Audio:1
Classics: 1
challenges met: 18,000 pages for the year 2009

The Summer I Dared by Barbara Delinsky

Title: The Summer I Dared
Author: Barbara Delinsky
Pages: 491
Personal Rating: A or 5/5
Number read this year: 56
Pages Read this Year: 18,232

From the Back of the Book:

"On Big Sawyer island, life is as steady as the routine of the lobstermen who leave with the tide each morning and return with their haul each night. But for forty-year-old New Yorker Julia Bechtel, life and what's important in it, are about to be forever altered when she survives a terrible boat accident en route to the island. Now in the company of her aunt and daughter, Julia finds herself feeling strangley connected to the tragedy's other survivors- Noah, a divorced lobsterman, and Kim, a young woman rendered mute since her rescue- and newly outraged at the state of her marriage to a domineering man. Seeing the world with new eyes, Julia vows to embrace life with all it's joys and uncertanties. And the journey begins on Big Sawyer..."

I am a big Barbara Delinsky fan. I have read some good ones, some great ones, and some bad ones from this author. This one was a good one, not up to par with her "Looking for Peyton's Place" but well written just the same.

I do, however commend her desire to go out of her comfort zone to speak and write about something completely foriegn to her. At the back of the book there is an interview with Barbara and they asked what inspired this book. She was thinking of several tragedies that had occured around the time of the writing of this book, one being the 9-11 attacks on the world trade center and she wanted to feel what survivors of a tragic accident felt, and try to portray that. I believe she did a great job of just this in "The Summer I Dared".

August Reads

1. Twilight S. Meyer
2. Mrs. Dalloway V. Woolfe
3. The Jane Austen Book Club K.J Fowler
4. B is for Burglar S. Grafton
5. The Guardian N. Sparks
6. The Other Boleyn Girl P. Greggory
7. Angels All Over Town L. Rice
8. Catching Heaven S. Hall
9. The Subtle Knife P. Pullman

Classics: 1
Audio: 2

July Reads

1. Daring to Dream N. Roberts
2. Holding the Dream N. Roberts
3. Land of A Hundred Wonders L. Kagen
4. Finding the Dream N. Roberts
5. Moby Dick H. Melville
6. Miranda Blue Calling
7. Full House J. Evanovich
8. Atonement I. McEwan

Classics: 1
Pulitzer: 1

Not working sure helped me get more reading in this month.

June Reads

1. The Reading group E. Noble
2. The Grief club M. Beattie
3. Middlesex J. Euginides
4. While They're at War K. Henderson
5. Miss Julia Meets Her Match A. Ross
6. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons L. Landvick
7. The Mirror L. Freed

I got a few more books read this month, as I didn't have the internet to distract me as we just arrived Japan and were trying to get settled.

Non-Fiction-2
Pulitzer-1

A completed challenge.

I actually completed all 12 books on my Spring Reading Thing challenge list. Plus 9 others as well. I have been reading like crazy. We were int he middle of a move overseas, and so had no internet for awhile, and so had lots of extra time to get some reading done!I want to see if there is a Summer reading challenge out there somewhere. If anyone knows of any, please let me know! I have really been ploughin through the stacks lately! i am glad I joined the challenge, and am proud of myself for finishing it.