Some goals for 2010

I have once again decided to do the 75 book challenge with a group at goodreads.

2 of those books are gonna be Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

So I made a start on Anna Karenina On Friday! I figured out that if I only read 10 pages a day I can get them both read during the year, with no problem!

I want to continue to read more classics, and try to knock a few more off the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction off the list. I read three last year. I am also aiming to maybe make a dent in "Dr. Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" list as well.

So, pretty much trying to read 75 books this year is the big goal. I barely made it last year, as I finished #75 with 5 hours left to spare before the end of the year. I am hoping to actually finish early and see how many more than that I can get done.

We shall see how I do. I also have some pretty steep stitching goals to work on this year as well. So, we shall see how I do!!

Spending The Christmas Money

For Christmas, my parents sent me some cash. And today I went out and bought a nice little pile of books. Except for one was a gift from my hubby.

Here's my haul:



They include:
1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2. The Secret Garden By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by: Jane Austen and Ben Winters
4. The House of Mirth By: Edith Wharton
5. The White Queen by: Philippa Gregory

They have all been on my wish list for awhile, and I was lucky to find them at the BX here. Usually they don't have many that I actually want, so I was pleasantly surprised. Especially since I had taken a bag full of 11 books that I wanted to trade at the paperback swap they have at the base library and the library wasn't opened...=( So I gotta wait until next week to do that. And of course on top of switching out those eleven for "new" ones, I will also peruse the stacks to see if I can find anything to check out also...hey! I'm a sucker for free books! Even if you do have to turn them back in! I guess you could say that is sort of one of my yearly goals. Is to make use of my library more often. I mean I have over 100 books that I already own that is on my TBR shelf here but I can make those last longer if I use the library!

I feel as though I have gone book Crazy!!!

December Reads

1. Slammerkin By E. Donoghue
2. The Christmas Theif By M. Higgins clark
3. The Age of Innocence By: Edith Wharton
4. The Nanny Diaries by: E. Laughlin
5. Christmas Wishes By D. Macomber
6. Ghost Chronicles By: Maureen Wood
7. Eclipse By: S. Meyer
8. Breaking Dawn By: S. Meyer


Not a bad month in lieu of all the Holiday hooplah!

Challenges met: 75 books read for the Year

Non fiction: 1
Classics: 1
Pulitzer Prize winner: 1

Next year I would like to, again, finish 75 books, and try to post to this blog ALOT more often! It's sad that I only posted 37 times this year, and I read 75 books, which means not a whole lot of reviews happened....so next year I am definitely going to work on that!

Also, thank you to all my new followers! I am hoping maybe you will motivate me to keep on top of this blog!

Yearly for 2009:
Books read: 75
Pages read: 26,462

November Reads

1. The Quilters Kitchen J. Chiaverini
2. Joy Luck Club A. Tan
3. Babylon Sisters P. Cleage
4. Heart and Soul M. Binchy
5. Wuthering Heights E. Bronte
6. New Moon S. Meyer

Libray:4
Classics: 1

October Reads

1. Baby Proof E. Griffin
2. The Fountainhead A. Rand
3. The Bestseller O. Goldsmith
4. Thursdays at Eight D. Macomber
5. Househusband A. Hudler

Challenge met: 60 Book Challenge for 2009

Read-a-thon! G-o-o-o Readers!!!

Today is the day!! And while I did not sign up as an official cheerleader or reader, I am still trying to hit up blogs I see on my sidebar coming up with read-a-thon updates! So, if you are doing the read-a thon and you happen across one of my comments left on your blog and came to this one....I'm waving my pom poms for you all!!! You can do it!!!!

Frustration!!!

For some reason I am not able to access "Goodreads". This has been going on for almost a week now. It's annoying. I think it's a server thing, because I am on a armed forces network, things get blocked for security reasons. Grrrr...

So, I have started cataloguing my books at "Visual bookshelf" on facebook. I am really liking that app. I also joined up with librarything. I don't know why, but I just love cataloguing my books and seeing what others are reading as well. You'd think that the blogosphere would do it for me, but nooooo, I have to have a special Book site to work off of! lol.

Oh well. It's crazy I actually find myself online playing around with these dumb sites more than just sitting my behind down and reading. Putting all those books into the profiles can be very time consuming....:/

Well, I finished "The Fountainhead". It was really good I thought. I will write more about that later when I'm not so tired and can think straight, I have had a really bad headache all day so I'm ready for bed. =) Good night!