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2010 Reading Goal - 60 Books

I think I'm going to pull back a tad from my monster reading sprees of 10+ books a month. This year I'm going to do about 5 per month. 2 of the 5 will be marked for my bi-weekly book club picks. My other goal is to read at least 5 classics this year.

Classic Novels for 2010
1) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
2) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
3) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
4) Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
5) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

I'll mark these classics off whenever I finish reading them.

January 2010
1) The Hunger Games -- 6 Jan (5 Stars)
2) The Night Dance: A Retelling of "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" -- 16 Jan (3 Stars)

February 2010
3) The Thin Man -- 25 Feb (3 Stars)
4) Winter's Child: A Retelling of "The Snow Queen" -- 26 Feb (3 Stars)
5) The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School -- 28 Feb (4 Stars)

March 2010
6) The Grilled Cheese Madonna and 99 Other of the Weirdest, Wackiest, Most Famous eBay Auctions Ever -- 4 Mar (3 Stars)
7) The Good Soldier -- 7 Mar (3 Stars)
8) The Book Thief -- 12 Mar (5 Stars)
9) The Postmistress -- 16 Mar (3 Stars)
10) Memories of the Future - Volume 1 -- 18 Mar (4 Stars)
11) The Thirteenth Tale -- 23 Mar (5 Stars)
12) Beauty Sleep: A Retelling of "Sleeping Beauty" -- 24 Mar (3 Stars)
13) The Crimson Thread: A Retelling of "Rumpelstiltskin" -- 25 Mar (4 Stars)
14) Wuthering Heights -- 31 Mar (4 Stars)
15) Petals from the Sky -- 31 Mar (2 Stars)

April 2010
16) Catch Of The Day -- 8 Apr (4 Stars)
17) Cleopatra's Daughter -- 28 Apr (4 Stars)

May 2010

June 2010
18) Love in the Time of Dragons -- 7 Jun (3 Stars)
19) Steamed -- 10 Jun (3 Stars)
20) Fire Me Up -- 14 Jun (3 Stars)
21) Light My Fire -- 15 Jun (3 Stars)
22) Holy Smokes -- 16 Jun (3 Stars)
23) Playing With Fire -- 16 Jun (3 Stars)
24) Dairy Queen -- 19 Jun (3 Stars)
25) The Off Season -- 20 Jun (3 Stars)
26) Front and Center -- 20 Jun (3 Stars)
27) Up In Smoke -- 27 Jun (3 Stars)

July 2010
28) Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson -- 5 Jul (3 Stars)
29) On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God: Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson -- 6 Jul (3 Stars)
30) Lily of the Nile -- 15 Jul (5 Stars)
31) The School of Essential Ingredients -- 25 Jul (5 Stars)
32) The Girl Who Played with Fire -- 31 Jul (5 Stars)

August 2010
33) The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest -- 5 Aug (5 Stars)
34) The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie -- 9 Aug (4 Stars)
35) The Lost Recipe for Happiness -- 11 Aug (3 Stars)
36) The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education -- 22 Aug (4 Stars)
37) My Life in France -- 24 Aug (4 Stars)
38) Catching Fire -- 25 Aug (4 Stars)
39) The ABC Murders -- 29 Aug (3 Stars)
40) The World Above: A Retelling of "Jack and the Beanstalk" -- 29 Aug (3 Stars)
41) Violet Eyes: A Retelling of the "Princess and the Pea" -- 30 Aug (4 Stars)

September
42) Mockingjay - 2 Sep (3 Stars)
43) A Dirty Job - 8 Sep (4 Stars)
44) Utopia - 11 Sep 4 Stars)

October

November

Tanja wrote: "Classic Novels for 2010
1) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
2) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
3) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
4) [book:Middlem..."
Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are awesome. The last three are on my to read shelf, though I tried Anna Karenina in my teens and gave up. Now that I am a couple of decades older, I would like to restart it.

In school we were going to read Wuthering Heights but the curriculum changed and I forget what other classic we read instead. I've been wanting to read a Bronte sister for a long while. And Anna Karenina is going to be my biggest hurdle but it'll be worth the effort!

What about the Bronte books appealed most to you?

I hated and loved the hero (?antihero) of wuthering heights - I deeply felt all the insults hurled upon him and later when his character became more dark, I was praying against hope that he would change and become like what he was earlier.
Somehow that story has stayed with me despite having read it long back.
Jane Eyre - I just remember that I devoured the book in a couple of days.

I read Jane Eyre for a CoL group read a while ago. It started off very slowly for me. I felt that every tragedy or injustice possible was heaped on to poor little Jane's shoulders. It got better once she got to Rochester's house.

I may have to wait until the weather turns brighter before I tackle the Bronte Sisters. My book club picked Russian Lit during winter. Talk about depressing! :P

Think I'll do Wuthering Heights around V-Day :)

Lately haven't been too much into reading. I was going to read Notes from the Underground for book club but I think I'm going to cancel. I simply cannot take discussing a depressing book on my birthday. :/

Happy birthday

Happy Belated Birthday Tanja!

I was a bit worried that I had missed saying Happy Birthday to you...but your birthday is on the 27th right? Have you got weekend plans to celebrate? Hope you have a great week for your big day!

Yup! My bday is the 27th. I haven't any plans. No one is going to be around which is why I'm flunking on reading my book club selection :P

Not sure what to do!

♥♥♥ *~* HAPPY BIRTHDAY, TANJA!!! *~* ♥♥♥

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Tanja, Happy Birthday to you....chachacha!!!!

Hope you figured out what to do and made it something super fun!!!

Awwwww!! Thanks everyone!!

Didn't do anything but planned to use the weekend to try out some new recipes I found! One are Jumbo Burger Cups! Sounds very delicious and fun to make! And the other is a caramel chai smoothie!

Oh and I bought myself ice cream cupcakes. HIGHLY recommend Cold Stone's. MMm Mmm Mmm. Eat it with King Cake!

Your caramel chai smoothie sounds good! Did you make it....was it good? Did you make the Burger Cups? Hope you had a great weekend!

Lots of snow this weekend put a halt to grocery shopping. Luckily, I have the recipes on me so I can hit the store on the way home. Burger Cups tonight! The chai smoothie will be on hold SOLELY b/c I have a large amount of King Cake and cupcakes to finish first :P

Reading is slow. On chapter one for Middlemarch and The Woman Behind the New Deal. Talk about BEING BEHIND! ARG!

I have been a poor reader! I'm 7 books behind my goal of 5 per month! EEP! Must dig in!

Popped out one in two days. This next one may take a bit - The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

I am now 5 books behind!! This means for March, my goal is 10 books! EEP!

9 books to go for this month!

FINALLY! OMGOSH FINALLY FINISHED! No more Good Soldier :P

Yay Tanja!!!

Hugging The Book Thief right now. Just finished and the last lines couldn't have been more poignant. I'm left with a sensation of happiness for reading this book (not that the entire book is about joy!).

Six books away from keeping to my goal of 5 per a month!! I had to make up for lost months. The Postmistress didn't live up to my expectations. I may end up donating this book to the library.

Memories of the Future - Volume 1 by Wil Wheaton GOODREADS AUTHOR (4 Stars)

Wil Wheaton can do no wrong in this hilarious and insightful look at the first half of ST:TNG Season 1. We're treated to behind-the-scenes memories accompanied by the geekry humor which we know and love. Who else but Wheaton himself could berate the character he portrayed but in a way to draw out giggles and not a villianous riot comparable to the villagers in Shelley's Frankenstein (although alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die was along those lines for they waited hopefully for the day when it would happen!). This "yearbook" novel makes me eager for Volume 2 and to re-watch Season 1 yet again (for the X amount of times!).

*dance parties* Loved The Thirteenth Tale but cannot comment further until after Book Club tomorrow. HEE!

Finally caught up with my 5 books a month rule. Now in April, I can read a little slower if I wish.

Catch Of The Day by Kristan Higgins (4 Stars)

After reading this novel, I can understand why it won a RITA award in 2008. It's heartwarmingly amusing accompanied by well-written dialogue. Normally I wouldn't recommend romance but this novel is the exception to the rule.

Boy am I behind on my reading goals. Only 2 books for this month? MEEP!

Finished Cleopatra's Daughter and found I rather enjoyed it.

For August, I should be at 40 books already. Only at 31 since I was behind a couple of months prior. So 9 more books to go in order to be back on track!

In the midst of 3 books --
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
My Life in France
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Sweetness - DONE!
Nearly a quarter into My Life.
Lies is on hold.

Will be powering through The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education after My Life. It's a book club read. And following that may be Home: A Memoir of My Early Years!!

Four more books in order to reach my goal of 5 books a month.

Putting Lies on hold until next month. Finished off The Unforgiving Minute and now picking My Life back up. Afterwards, it's onto Catching Fire to prepare for MOCKINGBIRD!

Page 216 of My Life in France! Been falling asleep whenever I start to read. I suspect I don't want to finish the book so I have a bit to read every day! HEEE! Pushing myself harder to finish because I do want to finish the Hunger Games series by the end of this week!

I admire your willpower! I would say the heck with a book that was putting me to sleep and move on to Catching Fire!

DONE with My Life in France and I POWERED through Catching Fire! Now I'm biting my tongue to hold off on Mockingjay until September so I can use it for the Fall Reading Challenge. Hee!

Two more books to meet my goal!

I made my goal! WOOHOOO! Admittedly reading those two YA fairy tales (for a seasonal reading challenge) didn't take me so long. Now to try to finish Treasure Island by tomorrow!

I am so far behind. 16 books to finish between now and the end of December. Does anything believe I can pull off this feat?

Reading Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan atm. Then need to read a play or short stories for my RL book club.

Haven't seen you here lately, Tanja. Hope all is well.

I don't usually read short stories, but How to Breathe Underwater I liked.

Thanks Jennifer W! Lots of crazy med appointments and stuff kept me away. Plus new job :)

Glad to be back!!