May Reads

I did really well this month with my reading!! I was surprised, of course pleasantly so! What did I read? 8 books!! That is a new record for me this year! It's the most I've read in a month so far this year. I am hoping to be able to keep it up!!

1.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
2. Safe Haven
3. The Christmas Train
4. Amazing Wordsearch collection
5. Haunted Schools
6. The Boleyn Inheritance
7. Haunted Highways
8. Standing in the Rainbow

So, technically I guess I finished 7 because one of those wasn't a "real book" It was a huge book of word search. But I counted it toward my challenge...it had a ISBN!! I am really grasping at straws this year in the book area. I really wanna reach my goal, but with the baby it is hard to get a lot of reading in, so I'm doing what I can!

TBR challenge: 1
Paranormal: 2
Library:4

I am hoping to do as well (or better?) in June! We shall see! I have two more library books to get to, then I want to concentrate on 1)War and Peace...I Really want to finish it this year, it's been on my "currently reading shelf" for a year now, so it is time to get that monster DONE! 2) TBR challenge I think I only have 7 or 8 left to complete that one! Those are my goals for this month

1) Finish Last two library books
2) Read at least 300 pages in War and Peace
3) Read at least 2 books from my TBR challenge list

I love having goals!!

Monthly Progress.

Well, so far reading this month is going alright. I have finished 2 of my library books that I got a week ago. Then I started two more, which for some reason I can't seem to get much reading in at all lately, they are going so slow!! I don't think it is the books that are slow I think it is me!! Everytime I sit down to try to settle into a book I think of something I need to do, or the baby starts crying, and I hop up after just a few pages! This is annoying! I would like to settle on the couch for just a few hours to get really into one of these books (Right now i'm reading the boleyn Inheritance and Standing in the Rainbow) I finished "Safe Haven" and "The Christmas Train" within a few days time, and now I feel as though I just can't get into my reading...what is with that?!

I am also noticing my computer habit is in the way too! I am forever on Facebook and Goodreads and Twitter just doinking around. And then I kick myself for not doing other worthwhile things (Like reading!)

Anyway. I hope I find some time to read soon, I feel like I am falling further and further behind in my challenge for the year. And that frustrates me, but then it is my fault most the time, since I can't seem to stop myself from turning on the computer....::sigh:: I remember the days before the internet got so big and I would rip through books like water, but now other things consume my time.

I know this is a rambly post, but I don' think anyone even reads this thing anyway so it doesn't matter. I need to do more reviews and less rambeling. Maybe I should shut this blog down altogether....or combine it with my other blog, that I have for my cross stitching obsession...I don't know...I see today I lost a follower, of course they are still friends with me on goodreads, but loosing a follower when I have precious few, hurts....oh well. My moaning and groaning session will now come to an end!

I hope all my readers have a lovely weekend!

Library Haul

I have not been to the library at all this year!! Which is amazing, but my TBR shelf has been so full that I just didn't feel I needed to go. Well we just moved and so all my books are in boxes, and I needed something new to read!!!

So today I went to the library. I only intended to get a few (2 or 3) since my reading has pretty much dimminished since the birth of my child. However I couldn't help myself and ended up with 7 in my arms instead!!

So many books I want to read!!

So this is what I got:


Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Greggory
The Memory Keepers Daughter by: Kim Edwards
The Red Queen By P. Greggory
The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
The Interruption of Everything By Terry McMillan
And
Safe Haven by: Nicholas Sparks

At least they were free but the downside is I only have 3 weeks to read them all and since lately I've only been reading one book every two weeks (if that!) I doubt I will even get 2 read. I can renew online, if I can remember my sign in and password....

Well off to read!! Bye!

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...

March Reads

Did about the same this month as last month, only got 3 done, at this rate I don't see me reaching my 75 book challenge....maybe a 60 book challenge would be more realistic this year!!

1. Love and Respect
2. By the Shores of Silver Lake
3. The Long winter

February Reads

Not a good month for Reading, as my daughter was born this month, was too uncomfortable to read the first part of the month and busy with a newborn the last part of the month. Only got 3 books read:

1. The Virgin Suicides
2. Club Dead
3. Dead to the World

Dr. Boxalls List: 1
TBR challenge: 0

2011 TBR challenge update

I have finished 3 of the 12 books I have on my list, and am currently reading "The Pillars of the Earth", which is actually going alot faster than I thought it would. It is a really good book!

I am pretty sure I will finish this challenge. I am probably going to have to take the two "Sword of Truth" series books off my list and replace them with my alternates, as I am "reading" the second in the series and have not picked it up in months, and whenever I do try to read it, it bores me to tears, so I throw it down and don't look at it again for months, so I will definitely not be interested in picking up the next two in this series, I'm done with it!! It's just not my cup of tea. I tried it, and didn't like it, moving on.