75 Books...More or Less! discussion

January:
1. The Finishing School
2. Forbidden Fruit
3.Green Smoothie Detox Diet Plan: 14 Days To Improve Health and Increase Metabolism for a Lifetime of Feeling Good
4. Endings: Parables from the Apocalypse
5. The Mill on the Floss
6. The Time Traveler's Wife

Not sure that I'm gonna make it to 75 this year, but I'm just gonna read what I can, and we'll see what happens! Happy reading everyone!

Joy wrote: "Not sure that I'm gonna make it to 75 this year, but I'm just gonna read what I can, and we'll see what happens! Happy reading everyone!"

Just stay positive! And any reading done sure beats not reading at all! :) I love The Time-Traveler's Wife.

I agree with Elyse! The more I try to force myself to read the less enjoying I find it. I'm going to set a goal of 10 pages a day and see if that helps :)

February reads:
O 'Pioneers by Willa Cather (audio)
Invisible Scars by Catharine Dowda
The Invitation by Jude Deveraux
Death of the Couch potatoes Wife by Christy Barritt
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

That's a good goal, Andrea. I seem to be in a big reading slump since the holidays. And now whenever I have free time and CAN read I usually opt to watch TV.... Which is odd for me, I've never been much of a TV watcher, always choosing books over TV, but not so much anymore. I am trying to read at least a chapter or two a day, but even that seems to be a chore for me anymore. :( right now I have the "want to want to read"...just seems like such an effort to stay focused on a book. Maybe I just need to take a break and not try to force it. Hmmm...

Joy wrote: "That's a good goal, Andrea. I seem to be in a big reading slump since the holidays. And now whenever I have free time and CAN read I usually opt to watch TV.... Which is odd for me, I've never been..."

Maybe try reading some light, easy books? Or just a a break. Books will come to you. I wouldn't force yourself or anything. If you don't feel like it, you don't! :)

It's funny, cause I just started a book by Sarah Waters "Night Watch" and I'm hooked!! Sometimes it just takes a certain book to grab yah. :) I think I'm out of my slump.... Now if life would just leave me alone so I can get some good reading In That'd be great! Lol

MARCH READS

12. Bright Arrows by Grace Livingston Hill
13. The Art of Potty Training by Chris Thompson
14. Carolina Isle by Jude Deveraux
15. Where are the Children? By Mary Higgins Clark
16. The Day the Angels Fell by Shawn Smucker
17. A Stranger is Watching by Mary Higgins Clark
18. The Cradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark

19, Stolen Grace By Arianne Richmonde
20. Loving my Angel by Violet Haze
21. Father Goriot by Balzac Honore

22. The Night Watch By Sarah Waters
23. The Moonstone By Wilkie Collins
24. Deep In the Valley By Robyn Carr

The Moonstone and The Night Watch are both in my TBR!

I thought they were both good. Though I listened to the Moonstone in audio and wished I'd actually physically read it, but it was still very good!

25. Four Roads to Boston (Read 5/6)
26. The Christmas Wedding (5/16)
27. The Christmas Angel (5/17)
28. The River Midnight (5/21)
29. Since You've been Gone (6/1)
30. David Copperfield (6/11)
31. The Girl Who Chased the Moon (6/14)
32. I will Always Write Back (6/15)

I've been reading and think I may actually reach this challenge this year, I just haven't been keeping up on posting here.

33. Summer Breeze (6/16)
34. The Castaways (6/17)
35. Love the One you're With (6/20)
36. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (6/20)
37. Froggy Builds a Treehouse (6/28)
38. Murder She wrote: Domestic Malice (7/12)
39. Ladies Night (7/14)
40. Betrayal (7/15)
41. Prairie (7/15)
42. The Wakening (7/16)
43. Ugly Love (7/20)
44. Linger (7/29)
45. The Witness (7/30)

You're doing well, Joy!

Thank you!! :)

46. Winners
47. Lessons in Laughing Out Loud
48. The Marvelous Land of Oz
49. Ozma of Oz
50. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
51. The Road to Oz
52. Hold the Dream
53. My Fake Fiancé
54. Kiss a Girl in the Rain

55. The It Girl
56. Haunted Texas: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Lone Star State
57. The 5-2 Diet Guide to Weight Loss: Easy 5-2 Diet Recipes and Secrets to Lose Fat
58. The Emerald City of Oz

Joy wrote: "I've been reading and think I may actually reach this challenge this year, I just haven't been keeping up on posting here."

Same for me! I forget to post my books.

59. To Be the Best

60. Night Shift
61. Act of Will
62. It Happened One Week / Maid for the Millionaire
63. Tea with Emma
64. The Patchwork Girl of Oz
65. Appalachian Serenade
66. Campaign Promises
67. Choices of the Heart: A Christian Romance Novella

68. Finding Cinderella
69. Ghost
70. To Live Again
71. The Count of Monte Cristo
72. Doctor Sleep
73. True West Virginia Ghost Stories
74. No Way Out: And Other Scary Short Stories

One more to go!!!!

Joy wrote: "68. Finding Cinderella
69. Ghost
70. To Live Again
71. The Count of Monte Cristo
72. Doctor Sleep
73. [book:True West Virgi..."

Woot! You can do it! ;)

Elyse, thank you!! It's so close... I'm in the middle of my current book, so I'm thinking I'll finish the challenge this week for sure.

75. Hunted by Karen Robards

I did not think I'd finish this challenge this year, but I have and I still have 2 1/2 months left of the year! This has ended up being a really good reading year!!

Way to go, Joy! Congrats!

Thank you!!

A late congratulations, Joy!

Thank you!!

Congratulations!

Thank you!

Awesome job Joy!!! I'm so jealous you finished!!

Thank you Andrea!! I owe a lot of it to kindle freebie novellas and audio books that I can listen to at 2x speed, so they go really fast! I really did not think I'd make it this year. Now I'm "unofficially " shooting for 85!

76. Spooky Halloween Stories (10 scary short stories for kids)
77. In the still of the night
78. Halloween Stories 5
79. Firestarter
80. Anyway you slice it
81. Her Christmas Bonus
82. Alice Adams
83. Northanger Abbey
84. Beyond Ourselves
85. Persuasion
86. Comfort and Joy
87. Christmas Keepsakes
88. Silent night
89. Dec the Holls
90. Candles Christmas Chair
91. A Redbird Christmas

Wow! You really blew past your goal- and you've still got a week and a half left :D

Yeah it's been a great reading year!! I'm (pleasantly) surprised at how much I've read! And to think my original goal for the year was 50! Ha! I think I'm gonna try and shoot for 95. What with Christmas and traveling and visiting with family these next few weeks, I'm not sure a whole lot of reading will happen. But we'll see!

You can do it!

Joy, it's so funny but I've been listening to some books at 2X the speed too...hahah It makes me nuts how things are pronounced though because it is an automated voice.

I love that I can "speed read" in audio!! I did have a hard time with one, as the narrator had a strong French accent. But I really love audios! Between audios and kindle novella freebies, I flew through quite a bit this year!