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Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

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MrsFrizzle
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Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

So far and in the wrong order because I keep forgetting to update this and I'm pretty sure I'm missing a bunch:

1. Beautiful Creatures
2. I Am Number 4
3. Life Expectancy
4. Water For Elephants
5. Switched
6. Torn
7. Ascend
8. Heaven is for Real
9. The Happiness Project
10. Confessions of a Shopaholic
11. The Body Finder
12. Desires of the Dead
13. My Blood Approves
14. The Help
15. The Red Pyramid
16. The Lost Hero
17. Tuesdays with Morrie (again)

Message edited 11/6/2011 11:12:32 PM.

Posted 1/11/11 4:26 PM
 
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Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

So far I have three:

1. Indulgence in Death by J.D. Robb
2. Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts
3. Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedas

Actually have to step away from this site to buy some more books for my Kindle.

Posted 1/12/11 4:37 PM
 

Mrs-K-2010
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Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

Read So Far

1. Bloody Valentine by Melissa De La Cruz- Finished 1/8 (#5 in Blue Blood series)
2. Bullet by Laurel K Hamilton- Finished (#19 in Anita Blake series)
3. Awakened by P.C. Cast & Kristen Cast- Finished 1/14 (#8 in House of Night series)
4. Blue Bloods: Keys to the Repository by Melissa De La Cruz- Finished 1/16 (Blue Blood series companion book)
5. Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris- Finished 2/10 (#10 in True Blood series)
6. Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
7. Hit LIst by Laurell K. Hamilton
8. My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
9. Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
10. Lost in Time by Melissa de la Cruz
11. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (all 3)
12. Destined by P.C. Cast & Kristen Cast

Message edited 11/3/2011 5:12:28 PM.

Posted 1/13/11 10:01 AM
 

Mkr09
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M

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

I don't have a specific goal but I'd like to read as much as possible

1. Handle with Care -- Jodi Picoult
2. Mini-Shopaholic -- Sophie Kinsella
3. Last Time I was Me -- Cathy Lamb
4. Perfect Match -- Jodi Picoult
5. Boy In the Striped Pajamas
6. Firefly Lane -- Kristin Hannah
7. Falling -- Christopher Pike
8. Keeping Faith -- Jodi Picoult
9. 19th Wife
10. Dead Until Dark
11. Invisible Bridge
12. Switched
13. Torn
14. Ascend (currently reading)

Message edited 3/17/2011 9:49:28 AM.

Posted 1/14/11 2:00 PM
 

kimbalina
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Kim

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

Edt: My goal is 36 or more.

January:
1. My Horizontal Life - C. Handler
2. Secret Life of Cee Cee Wilkes D. Chamberlain
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - JK. Rowling
4. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner - S. Meyer
5. Dead to the World - C. Harris

February
6. Queen of Babble - M. Cabot
7. Don't Sing at the Table - A. Trigiani

March
8. Are You There Vodka, It's me Chelsea - C. Handler
9. The Art of Racing in The Rain - G. Stein
10. Believe it, Be it - A. Vincent

April
11. Stori Telling - T. Spelling
12. Black Heels to Tractor Wheels - R. Drummond
13. Something Borrowed - E. Giffin

May
14. Tenth Circle - J. Picout
15. Belly Laughs - J. McCarthy
16. Something Blue - E. Giffin
17. Room- E. Donoghue

June
18. Julia and Julie - J. Powell
19. L.A. Candy - L. Conrad
20. Queen of The Big Time - A. Trigiani
21. Little Earthquakes - J. Weinner
22. Bossy Pants T. Fey

July
23. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - L. Landvik
24. Mommywood - T. Spelling
25. A Summer Affair - E. Hilderbrand

August
26. Queen of Babble in the Big City - M. Cabot
27. Witches of East End - M. De La Cruz
28. The Baby Planner - J. Brown
29. The Island - E. Hilderbrand

September
30. One Summer - D. Balducci

Message edited 9/5/2011 2:58:16 PM.

Posted 1/19/11 1:02 PM
 

jilliibabii
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Jillian

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

I wanted to reach 100, but now I don't know if I'll be able to. I'm trying to get as close to that as possible though.

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (I re-read it before I saw the movie.)
2. American Vampire- (A graphic novel by Stephen King.)
3. The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
4. The Girl Who Played With Fire
5. The Town by Chuck Hogan
6. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
8. Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
9. Specials by Scott Westerfeld
10. Extras by Scott Westerfeld
11. Vampire Academy #1 by Richelle Mead
12. Frostbite (VA #2) by Richelle Mead
13. Let Me In by John Adjvide Lundquist
14. Shadow Kiss (VA #3) by Richelle Mead

Currently reading Blood Promise (VA #4) by Richelle Mead.

Message edited 3/21/2011 10:47:22 AM.

Posted 1/19/11 3:49 PM
 

monkeybride
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Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

I just added
The Forgotten Garden to my completed books. It took a while to read but I definitely enjoyed it.

Now to decide what to read next.

Posted 1/20/11 3:37 PM
 

Jenn627
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Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

CeeCee Wilkes - Diane Chamberlain

Shadow Wife - Diane Chamberlain

Reflection - Diane Chamberlain

The first 4 Mitch Rapp series books by Vince Flynn - AWFUL, AWFUL books.

Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King

eta: The Forgotten Garden

Message edited 1/20/2011 3:43:03 PM.

Posted 1/20/11 3:42 PM
 

sugar-magnolia
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n

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

1. Room
2. Girl in Translation
3. House Rules
4. The Help
5. The Girl Who Played With Fire -
6. The Swan Thieves
7. Gone With The Wind
8 Water For Elephants
9. Goodnight Nobody -
10. The Passage -
11. One Day
12. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
13. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
14. Olive Kitteridge
15. H. Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
16. Spellbound by Cara Lynn Shultz
17. H. Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
18. H. Potter and the Goblet of Fire
19. H. Potter & the Order of the Phoenix
20. H. Potter and the Half Blood Prince
21. The Reading Promise
22. Naptime is the new Happy Hour
23. H. Potter & the Deathly Hallows
24. Witches of the East End
25. Cutting For Stone

Message edited 11/8/2012 10:55:47 AM.

Posted 1/20/11 9:40 PM
 

Gertyrae
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Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

Cute idea - I have no goal but let's see how I do:

1:Room - Emma Donoghue
2:Night Watch - Sarah Waters
3:Those Who Save Us - Jenna Blum
4:Can You Keep A Secret - Sophie Kinsella
5:True Blue - David Baldacci
6:We Were The Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates(I have to throw out there that this book was amazing...I didn't want it to endChat Icon )
7: Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
8: The Red Queen - Phillipa Gregory
9: The Memory Collector - Meg Gardiner
10: All the Pretty Girls - J.T. Ellison
11: In for the Kill - John Lutz
12:To Every Love there is a Season - Marissa St. James
13: A Cup of Tea - Amy Ephron
14: Huck - Janet Elder
15: The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
16:Waiting for Snow in Havana - Carlos Eire (loved this one also - picked it up on a whim at the library and couldn't put it down!)
17:Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet (now this is a series people should be obsessed with)
18:The Paris Wife - Paula McLain
19:Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
20:Hell's Gate - Richard Crabbe
21:Impossible - Nancy Werlin
22:Mockinjay - Suzanne Collins

Message edited 4/18/2011 11:56:50 PM.

Posted 1/21/11 11:27 PM
 

emilylives
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Emily

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

I don't have a goal, but I have read:
1) Hunger Games
2) Catching Fire
3) Mockingjay
4) Room
5) The Corrections
6) Breakfast at Tiffany's
7) The Life You Can Save
8) Cleopatra: A Life
9) Superfreakonomics
10) The God of Small Things
11) Pretty Little Liars (I read all 8, but I can't count them as more than 1 book. Not even sure they count as 1.)
12) A Visit From the Goon Squad
13) The Invisible Circus
14) The Social Animal
15) Super Sad True Love Story
16) Little Bee
17) Tomato Girl
18) Game of Thrones
19) A Wrinkle in Time
20) Becoming Kate
21) Zeitoun
22) Bossypants
23) Sing You Home

Message edited 12/18/2011 9:53:23 PM.

Posted 1/22/11 11:18 PM
 

MikesBride
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Ilana

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

1 Lover Mine, J.R. Ward
2-6 Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordan
7 The Help, Kathryn Stockett

I'm in the middle of The Kane Chronicles and Little Women...so maybe by the end of January I'll have done 9 books Chat Icon

Posted 1/24/11 10:33 PM
 

WaterGirl
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Amanda

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

My goal is 30.

January
1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (J.K. Rowlings)
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowlings)
3. The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes (Diane Chamberlain)
4. The Drowning People (Richard Mason)

February
5. The Secret History (Donna Tartt)
6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Deluxe British Edition (J.K. Rowlings) I decided I wanted to re-read the series
7. Carrie Pilby (Caren Lissner)

March
8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowlings)
9. Harry Potter and the Prisioner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowlings)
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowlings)
11. Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)
12. The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)
13. Diary of a Mad Fat Girl (Stephanie McAfee)
14. Stuck in the Middle (Virginia Smith)
15. Switched (Amanda Hockings)
16. Age Before Beauty (Virginia Smith)

April
17. Torn (Amanda Hockings)
18. Third Time's a Charm (Virginia Smith)
19. Ascend (Amanda Hockings)
20. The Courage Tree (Diane Chamberlain)
21. Her Last Letter (Nancy C. Johnson)
22. Before the Storm (Diane Chamberlain)
23. Jailbird (Heather Huffman)
24. Secrets She Left Behind (Diane Chamberlain)
25. The Bay at Midnight (Diane Chamberlain)

Message edited 4/16/2011 2:00:38 PM.

Posted 1/25/11 9:14 PM
 

monkeybride
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Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

OK adding to my list

1. Mockingjay
2 Secret Life of Cee Cee Wilkes
3 Matched
4 The 19th Wife
5 Loving Frank

Posted 1/25/11 9:32 PM
 

kahlua716
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Keri

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

I think I'll set my Goal to 100.

ETA: I'm never going to get to 100! Hopefully I'll come somewhat close! Chat Icon

So far:

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2. The Invisible Wall
3. Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals
4. The Bean Trees
5. The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
6. The Girl Who Played with Fire
7. Room
8. House Rules
9. 3,096 Days
10. The Help (Audiobook)
11. The Book of Lost Things
12. Water for Elephants
13. Married with Zombies
14. Flip this Zombie
15. The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
16. Switched
17. Torn
18. Ascend
19. Promise Not To Tell
20. Mini-Shopaholic
21. The Art of Racing in the Rain
22. Twenties Girl
23. The Midwife’s Confession
24. The Actor and the Housewife
25. The Shadow Wife
26. The Story of a Girl
27. The Hour I First Believed
28. Fearless Fourteen
29. Something Borrowed
30. Big Girl
31. The Alchemist
32. The Courage Tree
33. Fearless Fourteen
34. Finger-Lickin' Fifteen
35. Manic
36. Orange is the New Black
37. Above All Things
38. Sizzling Sixteen
39. Smokin' Seventeen
40. The Bay at Midnight
40.5. Timbuktu- A Novel (never finished)
41. Then Came You
42. Run
43. Hollowland
44. Diary of a Mad Fat Girl
45. Can you Keep a Secret

Message edited 10/24/2011 1:46:16 PM.

Posted 1/26/11 2:11 PM
 

kimbalina
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Kim

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

I got in 5 for the month of January! Chat Icon I think that is the most I have ever read in a month!
I updated my original list on page 2

Posted 2/2/11 10:40 AM
 

monkeybride
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Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

Posted by monkeybride

OK adding to my list

1. Mockingjay
2 Secret Life of Cee Cee Wilkes
3 Matched
4 The 19th Wife
5 Loving Frank



Adding on. I loved, loved, loved the Trylle trilogy and the My Blood Approves series.

6 The Forgotten Garden
7 Switched
8 Torn
9 Ascend
10 My Blood Approves
11 Fate
12 Flutter
13 Wisdom

Posted 2/2/11 12:55 PM
 

MyImmortal
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Team Pink? Whoa

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

I'm going for the 111, but with a LO due in July we'll see how that goes.

So far I've got:

Stephanie Plum Books 5-16 (Janet Evanovich)
Between the Plums Novels- all 4 (Janet Evanovich)
The Book of Jane- Anne Dayton

So 17 in January...I'm a fast reader lol.

Posted 2/2/11 6:42 PM
 

MikesBride
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Ilana

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

Posted by MikesBride

1 Lover Mine, J.R. Ward
2-6 Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordan
7 The Help, Kathryn Stockett

I'm in the middle of The Kane Chronicles and Little Women...so maybe by the end of January I'll have done 9 books Chat Icon




Adding more:

8) The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
9) Uglies, Scott Westerfield
10) Pretties, Scott Westerfield
11) Specials, Scott Westerfield

Posted 2/3/11 11:57 AM
 

MikesBride
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Ilana

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

Posted by MikesBride

Posted by MikesBride

1 Lover Mine, J.R. Ward
2-6 Percy Jackson series, Rick Riordan
7 The Help, Kathryn Stockett

I'm in the middle of The Kane Chronicles and Little Women...so maybe by the end of January I'll have done 9 books Chat Icon




Adding more:

8) The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
9) Uglies, Scott Westerfield
10) Pretties, Scott Westerfield
11) Specials, Scott Westerfield



One more...

12) Harry Potter & The HBP, J.K. Rowling

Posted 2/8/11 9:09 PM
 

monkeybride
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Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

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Posted by monkeybride

OK adding to my list

1. Mockingjay
2 Secret Life of Cee Cee Wilkes
3 Matched
4 The 19th Wife
5 Loving Frank



Adding on. I loved, loved, loved the Trylle trilogy and the My Blood Approves series.

6 The Forgotten Garden
7 Switched
8 Torn
9 Ascend
10 My Blood Approves
11 Fate
12 Flutter
13 Wisdom



Adding the Vampire Academy Series

14 Vampire Academy
15 Frostbite
16 Shadow Kiss
17 Blood Promise
18 Spirit Bound
19 Last Sacrifice

Posted 2/8/11 9:35 PM
 

APT910
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Ashley

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

I don't really have a goal, I guess 50 would be good lol

So far I've read:

1. Confessions Of A Shopaholic
2. Dead Until Dark
3. Living Dead In Dallas
4. Club Dead
5. Dead To The World
6. Dead As A Doornail
7. Definitely Dead
8. Altogether Dead
9. Dead And Gone
10. Dead In The Family
11. Something Borrowed
12. Something Blue

Message edited 4/21/2011 1:32:36 PM.

Posted 2/8/11 10:46 PM
 

nicrae
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Mommy

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

bump

Posted 2/17/11 5:53 PM
 

monkeybride
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Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

Posted by monkeybride

Posted by monkeybride

Posted by monkeybride

OK adding to my list

1. Mockingjay
2 Secret Life of Cee Cee Wilkes
3 Matched
4 The 19th Wife
5 Loving Frank



Adding on. I loved, loved, loved the Trylle trilogy and the My Blood Approves series.

6 The Forgotten Garden
7 Switched
8 Torn
9 Ascend
10 My Blood Approves
11 Fate
12 Flutter
13 Wisdom



Adding the Vampire Academy Series

14 Vampire Academy
15 Frostbite
16 Shadow Kiss
17 Blood Promise
18 Spirit Bound
19 Last Sacrifice



20 Marked (House of Night #1)
21 Betrayed (HON #2)

Posted 2/17/11 9:39 PM
 

megsm3
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M

Re: Those with a goal for the year.. Post what you have read so far!

Goal - 11

1- a thousand splendid suns - khaled houssaini (good but really tough subject to get through at times)
2- thanks for the memories - cecelia ahern ( just ok)
3- Something Borrowed - emily griffin (quick read - loved it)
4 - the help - kathryn stockett (loved it!!)
5- Something Blue - emily griffin (quick read - good)
6- Room - Emma Donoghue (awesome)
Some of you have really impressive lists and goals!

Message edited 5/23/2011 7:55:28 PM.

Posted 2/26/11 11:21 AM
 
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