Challenge: How Many Books Are You Going to Read in a Year?

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updated, finished factotum last night....
less than pleased with the ending. it was a good ending, just not the one i wanted.

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Oh goodness, Lyvee, I read Brave New World last year and I couldn't get past the first few chapters. Dystopia books are not my thing.

Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Alice Bliss - Laura Harrington
Nineteen Minutes - Jodie Picoult
Perfect Match - Jodie Picoult
Memoir of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Redeeming Love - Francine Rivers
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Pollyanna - Eleanor H. Porter
The Tenth Circle - Jodie Picoult
Everything Beautiful Began After - Simon van Booy

Everything Beautiful Began After is my favorite book, of all time. A lot of my writing that isn't for roleplays is inspired by him. You know those books that have really good writing, but with absolutely no plot? Take A History of Love, by Nicole Krauss, that's a good example. Beautiful, beautiful style, but a bland story. And then there's Hunger Games, which has a plot, but the writing doesn't take your breath away. This book puts those two together! The plot isn't as thrilling as anything like Hunger Games, but there is one, and it actually develops. I recommend it to everyone.

[HeySeuss]

Updated.

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Start Date: 10/6/2012

Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsey
Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King
Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsey
Dexter in the Dark - Jeff Lindsey
Dexter by Design - Jeff Lindsey
Dexter is Delicious - Jeff Lindsey
The Green Mile - Stephen King
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo - 8% Complete


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[HeySeuss]

Welcome aboard, Squee.

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Thanks, Chef. ^_^

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Updated, partly because I realized I messed up the formatting, and because I finished one of the books tonight!

[Rilla]

Count me in.

Start Date: 10/6/12

Books:

Organized Crime book(Name and Author to come later)
Zoo by James Patterson
The Chamber by John Grisham
Sum of all fears by What's his face

[Yevin]

Start 10/7/2012

Pleasure Readings

Dragonflight - Anne Mcaffrey
The Alchemist - Donna Boyd, Paulo Coelho
Here, There Be Dragons - James Owen
Equal Rites by Terry Prachet

Educational Readings

Evolve Your Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind - Joe Dispenza
Attracting Perfect Customers: The Power of Strategic Synchronicity - Stacey Hall & Jan Brogniez
Facebook For Business Owners - Tom Knowles
The Art of Personal Branding - Bernard Clive
Perfume Homemade Ecstasy - William Ziegler
Writing in Flow - Susan Perry

Required Readings

Native North American Art - Janet C. Berlo & Ruth B. Phillips

Essentials of Cultural Anthropology - Garrick Bailey & James Peoples

Psychology Applied to Modern Life, 10th Ed. - Wayne Weiten & Margaret A. Lloyd

Books total: 13

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Books
Start date: 10/7/2012

Enrique's Journey - Sonia Nazario
One L - Scott Turow
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
Phantom - Jo Nesbo

One L is a book my dad gave it to me for my (early) birthday. The reading is easy and I'm able to relate to the events transpiring in the book. I just started this one about a week ago.

I finished part one of Atlas Shrugged quite awhile ago. I haven't touched it since but I have the desire to finish it, now.

I'm really dependent upon what books are given to me rather then choosing my next book. Sadly, I don't have another book so I'm going in blind with this one. Phantom seems interesting and had some good reviews so here is to trying.