I managed thirteen books this month. A mixed bag with a couple of disappointments, some fun genre books and three outstanding novels. Links in each short summery lead to fuller reviews in my book journal. Book 3 was audio only, so not counted towards my final goal.

Book 1: Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay, 2008. 342 pages. The Cutter ( Read more... )

Boo. I didn't make it. Oh well, it was really fun working toward something like this! This was my first official reading challenge.

link to my list in my journal

I'm heading over to 15000pages this year. If that doesn't work out, I'll be back in '11. =P

Here is my 2009 list with links to full reviews. In total 150 books and 54,950 pages. In some cases I combined audiobooks with reading. I know these are not countable for this community but still i exceeded 100 books easily.

( Book List 2009 )

Over last year's challenge, the few people I've talked to who wasn't participating gave me some okay feedback.  The number one response was "2 books a week?? You're nuts!"  While I don't disagree with them on the "you're nuts" part, after some more talking I learned that some people seem to be daunted by the challenge, especially since they couldn' ( Read more... )

So, all of you who took the challenge! How did you do? Did you reach your goals?

How about this one: Are you taking the challenge again this year?

My reviews for August have taken a while to write up, so because there are 13 of them I'll keep the summaries brief though links led to longer reviews in my journal.

Book 87: Nemesis (Detective Harry Hole Book 04) by Jo Nesbø, 2002. Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett, 2008. As with the previous book in this series, Redbreast, I found ( Read more... )

Five books round out my July reading. Three were part of on-going series that I've been reading.

Book 82: The Chalk Circle Man (Commissaire Adamsberg Investigates) by Fred Vargas, 1996. Translated from the French by Siân Reynolds, 2009 ( Read more... )

I had a good run in the first part of July with these six books. I enjoyed all of them. The links in each summary lead to longer reviews in my journal.

Book 76: Crooked Little Vein: a Novel by Warren Ellis, 2007 ( Read more... )

Links in these short summaries lead to longer reviews in my journal.

Book 69: The White Queen (Book One of The Cousins' War) by Philippa Gregory, August 2009 ( Read more... )

This post on a wonderful blog called A Working Library made me think of this challenge, so I thought I'd share it with y'all ( Read more... )