My best month yet by far in reading, not only in general but books off my own shelves. That is my overall goal for the year, to read as many books as possible off the TBR list and less from the library and borrowed books. I started off the year weak and while I feel like I made progress for reading 10 books that I owned, I added a large amount to my collection due to library book sales.
Books Read:
- Twilight Director’s Notebook by Catherine Hardwicke (TBR)
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Sex and the City: the Movie by Amy Sohn
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center (TBR)
- Knit Two by Kate Jacobs (TBR)
- The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- 300 by Frank Miller
- Love Letters of Great Men Vol. 1 by John C. Kirkland (TBR)
- The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- 30 Days of Night by Steve Niles
- Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke (TBR)
- Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons (TBR)
- Violets are Blue by James Patterson (TBR)
- Four to Score by Janet Evanovich (TBR)
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (TBR)
- 8th Confession by James Patterson (TBR)
Books Added:
- Tempest in Eden by Sandra Brown
- Unspeakable by Sandra Brown
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
- O is for Outlaw by Sue Grafton
- Shakespeare’s Macbeth
- Hawk O’Toole’s Hostage by Sandra Brown
- The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
- The Twilight Director’s Notebook by Catherine Hardwicke
- Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris
- Thursday’s Child by Sandra Brown
- Three in Death by J.D. Robb
- Divided in Dead by J.D. Robb
- Betrayal in Death by J.D. Robb
- Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center
- Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares
- G is for Gumshoe by Sue Grafton
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Imitation in Death by J.D. Robb
- L is for Lawless by Sue Grafton
- Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
- Purity in Death by J.D. Robb
- The Guardian by Nicholas Sparks
- Survivor in Death by J.D. Robb
- Hot Stuff by Janet Evanovich
- The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
- The Rescue by Nicholas Sparks
- The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
- Everything is Eventual by Stephen King
- I is for Innocent by Sue Grafton
- Best Kept Secrets by Sandra Brown
- Loyalty in Death by J.D. Robb
- Origin in Death by J.D. Robb
- 8th Confession by James Patterson
- Hot Six by Janet Evanovich
Challenges Finished: Book Binge 2009, Banned Book Challenge, 50 Book Challenge, and participated in the 2009 Spring Read-a-Thon.
Not many goals for next month. June has a couple challenges finishing up so I’ll probably be reading books that pertain to those. Maybe I’ll get another 10 from my own shelves completed. Buy less books as well, which shouldn’t be a problem. I’ll be doing a lot of traveling in May so I’m sure my reading will be up, but not quite like this month that’s for sure.