November Book Tally

Spirit and Dust by Rosemary Clement-Moore (387)
Paying For It by Chester Brown (292)
Almost Like Being In Love by Steve Kluger (354)
The Prince by Kiera Cass (64)
The Transfer by Veronica Roth (34)
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin (448)
Keepsake by Kristina Riggle (368)
Forever In Blue by Ann Brashares (384)
Obsidian by Jennifer Armentrout (355)
Amethyst by Lauren Royal (416)
Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie (416)
Hawkeye vol 2 by Matt Fraction (136)
Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire (346)
Dollhouse by Anya Allyn (291)
A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Hope Larson (392)
The Mighty Thor vol 1 by Matt Fraction (144)
The Mighty Thor vol 2 by Matt Fraction (136)
The Mighty Thor vol 3 by Matt Fraction (160)

Eighteen books read this month. Ok a lot of them were graphic novels and two were novellas. But I still read a lot. My Thanksgiving weekend was nice and relaxing with plenty of time to read.

Stats:

Fill In The Gaps YTD: 0 (None this month)

Historical Reading Challenge YTD: 14 (The Orchardist and Amethyst)

Mammoth Book Challenge YTD: 11 (None this month)

Let Me Count The Ways Book Challenge: Pages read this month (5123), Pages read this year (37355)
Total books to date: 121

September Book Tally

The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (180)
Knights of Hill County by Tim Tharp (240)
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson (592)
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp (294)
Forever A Lord by Delilah Marvella (342)
Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan (208)
Wolverine by Greg Rucka (448)
Girls in Pants by Ann Brashares (338)
Saga vol 2 by Brian K Vaughan (144)
The Coldest Girl In Coldtown by Holly Black (432) review coming soon
Wolverine: Rot by Cullen Bunn (128)
Wolverine: Back in Japan by Jason Aaron (128)

Woo Hoo! 90 books read so far. Closer and closer to that 100 mark! Another great month filled with great reads.

Stats:

Fill In The Gaps YTD: 0 (None this month)

Historical Reading Challenge YTD: 12 (Forever A Lord)

Mammoth Book Challenge YTD: 11 (Warbreaker)

Let Me Count The Ways Book Challenge: Pages read this month (3474), Pages read this year (28422)
Total books to date: 90

August Book Tally

Wedding Ring by Emilie Richards(544)
The Last Camellia by Sarah Jio (306)
Hunted by Kevin Hearne (384)
A Great And Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (403)
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris (288)
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (328)
The Second Summer of The Sisterhood by Ann Brashares (373)
Relish: My Life In The Kitchen by Lucy Knisley (192)
The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (213)
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick (289)


A great month with a bunch of really good reads. Hard to pick a favorite since so many of them were good.

Stats:

Fill In The Gaps YTD: 0 (None this month)

Historical Reading Challenge YTD: 11 (A Great And Terrible Beauty)

Mammoth Book Challenge YTD: 10 (Wedding Ring)

Let Me Count The Ways Book Challenge: Pages read this month (3044), Pages read this year (24948)
Total books to date: 76

July Book Tally

Hood by Stephen R Lawhead (490)
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell (323)
The Girl With Iron Touch by Kady Cross (384)
White by Rosie Thomas (372)
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donelly (675)
My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick (394)
This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper (352)
Star Cursed by Jessica Spotswood (384)

Eight books total this month but some fantastic reads (Attachments, My Life Next Door especially).

Stats:

Fill In The Gaps YTD: 0 (None this month)

Historical Reading Challenge YTD: 10 (The Tea Rose)

Mammoth Book Challenge YTD: 9 (Hood and The Tea Rose)

Let Me Count The Ways Book Challenge: Pages read this month (3374), Pages read this year (21904)
Total books to date: 66

June Book Tally

Kiss Of Shadows by Laurell K Hamilton (480)
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron (160)
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (324)
The Elite by Kiera Cass (323)
The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (292)
Loki's Wolves by KL Armstrong and MA Marr (358)
Sun At Midnight by Rosie Thomas (471)
Breath by Jackie Morse Kessler (336)
Hawkeye: My Life As A Weapon by Matt Fraction (136)
Consider The Fork by Bee Wilson (336)

A wonderful month. Ten books read. Plus a lot of great books. Not a sour one in the bunch!

Stats:

Fill In The Gaps YTD: 0 (None this month)

Historical Reading Challenge YTD: 8 (None This Month)

Mammoth Book Challenge YTD: 6 (Sun At Midnight and Kiss of Shadows)

Let Me Count The Ways Book Challenge: Pages read this month (3216), Pages read this year (18530)
Total books to date: 58

May Book Tally

Sever by Lauren DeStefano (371)
Trapped by Kevin Hearne (320)
Forever A Lady by Delilah Marvelle (384)
The Bungalow by Sarah Jio (290)
Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter by Steven Rinella (256)
Aida Mollenkamp's Keys to The Kitchen by Aida Mollenkamp (448)
Black Wings by Christina Henry (295)
The Mighty Avengers vol 1 by Brian Michael Bendis (168)
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (642)
The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson (175)
Iron; Or the War After by Shane-Michael Vidaurri (160)

Another good month reading wise but I wasn't good about posting my thoughts on a lot of the books. So here's my one sentence remarks on a few of them.
Sever: glad the trilogy is over, liked the last book a lot more than the second.
Meat Eater: Interesting story, a lot of stories about killing animals.
Black Wings: Really good urban fantasy, very enjoyable.
The Emperor's Soul: Sanderson is a master, fantastic novella.
Iron; Or the War After: Strange story but interesting, enjoyed the grittiness of it.

Stats:

Fill In The Gaps YTD: 0 (None this month)

Historical Reading Challenge YTD: 8 (Forever A Lady, The Bungalow, and The Historian)

Mammoth Book Challenge YTD: 4 (The Historian)

Let Me Count The Ways Book Challenge: Pages read this month (3509), Pages read this year (15314)
Total books to date: 48

April Book Tally

Ashes and Shards edited by Melissa Marr and Kelley Armstrong (384)
The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater (416)
Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness by Bryan Lee O'Malley (192)
Replay by Ken Grimwood (320)
Tricked by Kevin Hearne (341)
Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger (307)
Forever and A Day by Delilah Marvelle (376)
White Jacket Required by Jenna Weber (208)
Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together by Bryan Lee O'Malley (205)
Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld (440)
The Proposal by Mary Balogh (320)
Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe by Bryan Lee O'Malley (179)
Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour by Bryan Lee O'Malley (245)
Outlander by Diana Gibaldon (review coming soon) (627)

Fourteen books read this month. Woo Hoo! I wanted to get some books out of the way before the readathon so I was a reading machine the week before the readathon. I read 4 books the week before the readathon. I wanted to start Outlander on or the day before the readathon. It worked out perfectly. The readathon also helped make this month awesome.

Stats:

Fill In The Gaps YTD: 0 (None this month)

Historical Reading Challenge YTD: 5 (The Proposal and Forever and A Day)

Mammoth Book Challenge YTD: 3 (Outlander)

Let Me Count The Ways Book Challenge: Pages read this month (4560), Pages read this year (11805)
Total books to date: 37

March Book Tally

Hexed by Kevin Hearne (320)
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World by Bryan O'Malley (200)
Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (144)
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn (285)
The Winter Witch by Paula Brackston (340)
Asunder by Jodi Meadows (406)
Piece de Resistance by Sandra Byrd (304)
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer (452)
Hammered by Kevin Hearne (310)

Nine books this month. Not bad. Plus I read some great books. I'm loving Hearne's Iron Druid series. As you can see I read 2 books in that series this month. I was so excited to read Scarlet and Asunder. Both were excellent.

Stats:

Fill In The Gaps YTD: 0 (None this month)

Historical Reading Challenge YTD: 2 (Buddha in The Attic, The Winter Witch)

Mammoth Book Challenge YTD: 2 (Scarlet)

Let Me Count The Ways Book Challenge: Pages read this month (2761), Pages read this year (7245)
Total books to date: 23

February Book Tally

Books:
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O'Malley (168)
Iris and Ruby by Rosie Thomas (432)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (279)
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (452)
Shades of Earth by Beth Revis (369)

February was a slow reading month. But I did read 3 books I wanted to read: Pride and Prejudice, Code Name Verity, and Shades of Earth. I read Pride and Prejudice on the day my Dad went in for surgery. I "read" 200 pages but didn't really read them. I stared at the pages mostly. I did realize that I had read P&P back in high school. Still I'll reread it again sometime in the future. Code Name Verity was amazing. I highly enjoyed it. Shades of Earth. I love Beth Revis. Such an amazing series. I will read the Across The Universe series again.

Stats:

Fill In The Gaps YTD: 0 (None this month)

Historical Reading Challenge YTD: 2 (Code Name Verity)

Mammoth Book Challenge YTD: 2 (Code Name Verity)

Let Me Count The Ways Book Challenge: Pages read this month (1700), Pages read this year (4484)
Total books to date: 14

January Book Tally

Books:
Scarlet by AC Gaughen (292 pages)
The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa  (312)
Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child by Bob Spitz (557)
The Violets of March by Sarah Jio (296)
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride (343)
The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin (468)
Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rikfa Brunt (355)
Bon Appetit by Sandra Byrd (304)
Hounded by Kevin Hearne (289)

Despite the fact this was a busy month, I still managed a respectable nine books read this month. I still have not read Pride and Prejudice despite the fact that I now own it. Too many books, too little time.

Stats:

Fill In The Gaps YTD: 0 (None this month)

Historical Reading Challenge YTD: 1 (The American Heiress)

Mammoth Book Challenge YTD: 1 (The American Heiress)

Let Me Count The Ways Book Challenge: Pages read this month (2784)
Total books to date: 9