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  1. I will probably top out around 85 books for this year. My goal was 60 so I am satisfied. I will keep it at 60 for next year. I don't have much time to read when school is in session, but I will try to finish the challenge for 2014.
  2. School for me starts on 3 september. I should be able to squeeze at least one more in before then. And then maybe one big book, or 2 smaller books a month. We will see.
  3. Thanks Frankie. Once school starts up again, the reading will slow, so I am glad I got to my goal early.
  4. On August 2nd I met my goal of 60 books. Of course I will read on...
  5. You're right of course. I do enjoy reading my non-fiction. I suppose I just wanted to branch out and read more things that would allow me to use my imagination more. But, it doesn't seem so. ...I just put 2 more nf books in my library queue. I am hopeless!!
  6. I am failing miserably at my #2 goal. I promised myself I would read much more fiction this year. I think my ratio will be <=25% non-fiction and >=75% fiction. I've read 17 fiction books and 24 non fiction books. That is less than 50% fiction books read thus far. Urgh. I've still got the rest of the year to try to bring this around.
  7. I did like the book. I would give it 4 out of 5 stars. But maybe it is more interesting to me since I'm from the States. But still a good look at the era.
  8. Newly added goal Looking at my list thus far, I see a lot of non-fiction there. I promised myself I would read much more fiction this year. I think my ratio will be <=25% non-fiction and >=75% fiction.
  9. I have a Fire (1st gen) and I find that I read faster on it. But in my case it is because I can see the print better on an e reader. This doesn't stop me from reading paper books though. Also it is easier to read in places one would not necessarily read such as waiting in line etc. I don't need to pull out my glasses, or find proper light. Enjoy your Kindles.
  10. Currently reading "The Casual Vacancy". I just started so I won't be done by Tuesday (probably).
  11. Here are some books that are on my TBR list for 2013. I usually get to most of the TBR list in any given year. Finished Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story - Greg Smith Watership Down - Richard Adams The Darkest Child - Delores Phillips The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz The Butterfly Experience - Karen Whitelaw Smith Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker - Jennifer Chiaverini The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling Quiet: The Power of Introverts... - Susan Cain The Twelve Tribes of Hattie - Ayana Mathis Property - Valerie Martin The Black Count... - Tom Reiss The Gods of Gotham - Lyndsay Faye The Seamstress - Sara Tuvel Bernstein A Step of Faith - Richard Paul Evans Doctor Sleep - Stephen King Allegiant - Veronica Roth These are all authors I've never read Alice I Have Been - Melanie Benjamin The Autobioraphy of Mrs. Tom Thumb - Melanie Benjamin Brooklyn Story - Suzanne Corso The Cross Gardner - Jason Wright Dybbuk and Other Talkes of the Supernatural - S. Ansky The Eighties: A Bitchen Time To Be A Teenager! - Tom Harvey Elsewhere, California - Dana Johnson Faith - Jennifer Haigh The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove - Susan Gregg Gilmore Joseph Anton - Salman Rushdie The Known World - Edward P. Jones Lark Rise to Candleford: Trilogy - Flora Thompson The Leftovers - Tom Perrotta Legand - Marie Lu Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann Nine Stories - J.D. Salinger Our Nig - Harriet Wilson Perfect Peace - Daniel Black Redfield Farm: A Novel of the Undergound Railroad - Judith Redline Coopey She's Come Undone - Wally Lamb Someone Knows My Name - Lawrence Hill Star Trek: Children of the Storm - Kirsten Beyer The Stranger - Albert Camus Suits Me: The Double Life of Billy Tipton - Diane Wood Middlebrook These are authors I've read before And The Mountain's Echoed - Khaled Hosseini Every Last One - Anna Quindlen Howards End Is on the Landing - Susan Hill Once - Anna Carey Rise - Anna Carey Spring's Gental Promise - Janette Oke Story's End - Marissa Burt The Time Keeper - Mitch Albom Hollow City - Ransom Riggs The View from Dellphi - Jonathan Odell These are books that I've started or will be starting before year end (and will finish in 2013) 11/22/63 - Stephen King (actually 1/2 through this one, but need to pick it back up) Hellucination - Stephen Biro (Started but never finished) *New Author
  12. OK school started, this means my reading will suffer. July 52. We Are All Completley Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler * 53. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin 54. Earl Nightingale's The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightengale * 55. Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness by William Styron * 55. Critically Reading and Writing well by Rise Axelrod * 57. The New Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz * 58. The Physics of Star Trek by Lawerence Krauss * 59. The Adventures of Funny, The Amazing Fish-Bunny by Patrick Connolly * August 60. Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall * GOAL MET 61. The Shining by Stephen King 62. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith/JK Rowling 63. The Son by Philipp Meyer * September 64. City of Hope by Kate Kerrigan 65. Mile 81 by Stephen King 66. Horns by Joe Hill * 67. Bartleby, the Scrivner by Herman Melvile * 68. The Gift by Shad Helmstetter * October 69. Story Structure: The Key to Successful Fiction by William Bernhardt * 70. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King November 71. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 72. Allegiant by Veronica Roth 73. The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout * 74. Siddhartha by Herman Hessee* 75. The Four Doors by Richard Paul Evans December 76. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnugut (re-read) 77. The Christmas Wedding by James Patterson 78. The Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens 81. The Best Christmas Pagent Ever by Barbara Robinson 80. On Christmas Eve by Ann Martin 81. Seven For A Secret by Lyndsay Faye 82. The Letter (Christmas Triology #3) by Richard Paul Evans
  13. I've only read one book from your list, although there are a few that I had wanted to read for many years now! Good luck with your reading for 2013.
  14. My goal is undecided. I think I'll bring it down to 60, I'm returning to school in June. I'll have to read my text books and stuff. As far as genres I will still read whatever catches my eye. However, my goal for 2013 will be to read more new authors. I think a ratio of 2/3 new authors is a good start. January 1. A Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling 2. Watership Down - Richard Adams * 3. Less Incomplete - Sandie Gustus * 4. Why I Left Goldman Sachs - Greg Smith * 5. Super Brain - Rudolph Tanzi/Deepak Chopra 6. The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz * 7. Clean - Alejandro Junger * 8. Leaving a Trace: On Keeping a Jornal - Alexandra Johnson * 9. Darkest Child - Delores Philliips * 10. Selected Poems - Oscar Wilde * 11. The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde 12. Classic Irish Short Stories - T.P. McKenna 13. Girl in Translation - Jean Kwok * 14. Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker - Jennifer Chiavirini * 15. Ellis Island - Kate Kerrigan * February 16. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote 17. The Butterfly Experience - Karen Whitelaw Smith * 18. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie - Ayana Mathis * 19. Quiet - Susan Cain* 20. Proof of Heaven - Eben Alexander* 21. The Black Count - Tim Reiss * 22. Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: The Medical Lives of Famous Writers - John Ross * 23. Property - Valerie Martin * 24. Red Glass - Laura Resau * 25. Iscariot - Tosca Lee * 26. Dissolving Barriers - Louise Hay March 27. My Beloved World - Sonia Sotomayor * 28. Son of Oscar Wilde - Vyvyan Holland * 29. Me Before You - Jojo Moyes * 30. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - James Turber * 31. Salt, Sugar, Fat - Michael Moss * 32. The Writers Notebook - Ralph Fletcher * 33. Meditations to Change Your Brain - Rick Hanson * 34. Infinite Quest: Develop Your Psychic... - John Edward 35. Kafka in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern * 36. Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern 37. Shards and Ashes - Melissa Marr* 38. Wheat Free: The Dangers of Eating Wheat - Karen McKay * April 39. Imperfect Harmony - Stacy Horn * 40. The Obesity Myth - Paul Campos * 41. Heft - Liz Moore * 42. All Woman and Springtime - Brandon Jones * 43. 12 Years a Slave - Solomon Northup * 44. The Seamstress - Sara Tuvel Bernstein * 45. The Demonologist - Andrew Pyper * 46. The Longevity Diet - Brian Delaney * May 47. The Gods of Gotham - Lyndsay Faye * 48. The Orphan Master's Son - Adam Johnson * 49. A Step of Faith - Richard Paul Evans 50. The Survivor - Gregg Hurwitz * June 51. Judy Garland - Anne Edwards * * New Author Non-Fiction
  15. Thanks Vodkafan. I don't post much outside of this thread. I should get better about that! Thanks Tassie, Not sure of my 2013 numbers yet. I need to see if I want to shoot for the 100 again.
  16. Thanks Frankie, We still have 10 days left. I'm hoping to get a nice round 110! But if not, I'm happy with being 100+.
  17. Julie, I didn't think I'd get this far. Last year my goal was 70 and I did 89. So I thought I'd do 89 again, but it seems no matter what number I chose, I surpass. I don't know how brave I'll be next year. I'm thinking I'll do between 85-90 books.
  18. I will get to 100, oh yes, I will get to 100! I should be there by mid December.
  19. OMG I might ACTUALLY make it to 100!!
  20. 84% done. I'm going to concentrate on Fiction for the rest of the year.
  21. I'm plodding along....over 1/2 way to my goal of 85.
  22. Well I've read my first fiction book of the year!!
  23. Thanks. Looking at my first few books, I really need to start reading some FICTION!
  24. I'm hoping you are right Ben.
  25. Let's see what this year brings. Going for the 100!! January 1. The Inflammation Free Diet Plan - Monica Reinage 2. Change Your Brain, Change Your Body - Daniel Amen 3. The Inflammation Syndrome - Jack Challem 4. Confessions of a Reformed Dieter - A.J. Rochester 5. Divergent - Veronica Roth February 6. Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose 7. Mr. g - Alan Lightman 8. Lady Susan - Jane Austen 9. The Sucessful Novelist - David Morrell 10. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen 11. How I Write - Janet Evanovich 12. Your Best Life Now - Joel Osteen 13. Chekov: Eleven Stories - Anton Chekov 14. A Countess Below Stairs - Eva Ibbotson 15. Below Stairs - Margaret Powell March 16. Lives of Musicians - Kathleen Krull 17. The Astonishing Power of Emotions - Esther & Jerry Hicks 18. Sister - Rosamund Lupton 19. Lives of Writers - Kathleen Krull 20. Lives of Artists - Kathleen Krull 21. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter - Seth Grahame-Smith 22. The Woman in Black - Susan Hill 23. Jesus: A Story of Enlightment - Deepak Chopra April 24. My Reading Life - Pat Conroy 25. The Godfather - Mario Puzzo 26. Being in Balance - Wayne Dyer 27. New York: A Novel - Edward Rutherfurd 28. Why We Get Fat - Gary Taubes 29. You on a Diet: Waist Management - Mehmet Oz 30. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson 31. Drop Dead Healthy - A.J. Jacobs May 32. Eat Right 4 Your Type - Peter J. D'Adamo 33. The Paleo Solution - Robb Wolff 34. Here is New York - E.B. White 35. The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson 36. The Road To Grace - Richard Paul Evans 37. Candide - Voltaire June 38. Insurgent - Veronica Roth 39. The Pleiadian Agenda - Barbara Hand Clow 40. Storybound - Marissa Burt 41. Dear Cary - Dyan Cannon 42. Elsewhere - Gabrielle Zevin 43. The Family Corleone - Ed Falco July 44. Sal Mineo: A Biography - Michael Gregg Michaud 45. The Kitchen House - Kathleen Grissom 46. Positive Principle Today - Norman Vincent Peale 47. Tell The Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt 48. The Pilgram's Progress - John Bunyan 49. The Dry Grass of August - Anna Jean Mayhew 50. Wishes Fulfilled: Mastering the Art of Manifesting - Wayne Dyer August 51. Dream Catchers - Sandy Lo 52. Mistletoe and Margaritas - Shanon Stacey 53. Antebellum - Kayeen Thomas 54. The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle 55. The Biology of Belief - Bruce Lipton 56. Stillness Speaks - Eckhart Tolle 57. The Moses Code - James Twyman 58. The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire - Deepak Chopra 59. Practicing the Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle 60. The Isaiah Effect - Gregg Braden 61. Learned Optimism - Martin Seligman 62, The Dark Side of Light Chasers - Debbie Ford 63. The Divine Matrix - Gregg Braden September 64. Out of My Mind - Sharon Draper 65. I Am Number Four - Pitticus Lore 66. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 67. The Healing - Jonathan Odell 68. May the Road Rise Up to Meet You - Peter Troy 69. War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality - Deepak Chopra 70. Rise of the Elgen: Michael Vey #2: Richrd Paul Evans 71. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self - Danielle Evans 72. Rose Madder - Stephen King 73. Zen in the Art of Writing - Ray Bradbury October 74. The Sucess Principles - Jack Canfield 75. The Passage - Justin Cronin 76. Dracula - Bram Stoker 77. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn 78. The Omen - David Seltzer 79. Psycho - Robert Bloch 80. Escape from Camp 14 - Blaine Harden 81. Total Law of Attraction - David Che 82. How to Write a Fiction Novel in 30 Days - Nicholas Black 83. Winter is Not Forever - Jeanette Oke 84. Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke November 85. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey 86. Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell 87. The Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes 88. How to Be a Writer - Barbara Baig 89. Thanksgiving - Janet Evanovich 90. The Everafter - Amy Huntley 91. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 92. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea - Barbara Demick 93. A Winter Dream - Richard Paul Evans 94. Beginner's Guide to the Kabbalah - David A. Cooper 95. Star Bright: A Christmas Story - Andrew M. Greeley December 96. Astray - Emma Donogue 97. Kabbalah Works - Rabbi David Aaron 98. Vlad - Carlos Fuentes 99. Anti Cancer: A New Way of Life - David Servan-Schrieber 100. Eve - Anna Carey 101. Self-Healting Strategies - Dr. Andrew Weil 102. Christmas After All - Kathryn Lasky 103. The Christmas Singing - Cindy Woodsmall 104. A Wreath of Snow - Liz Curtis Higgs 105. Christmas Stories - Max Lucado 106. Igniting Intuition - Christane Northrup 107. Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry 108. The Great Cholesterol Con - Malcome Kendrick 109. Breathing: The Master Key to Self Healing - Dr. Andrew Weil 110. Breaking the Moon - Sandy Lo
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