September 2013 Recap

September was not exactly a good reading month.  I have so many book to read and I’m just not turning them out.  Maybe it’s the pressure of having so many on my TBR list, but life has been busy also.  Lots of soccer games, and my oldest turned 15.  Overall it was a good month though.

Books:

• Total Books Read – 5
• Total Pages Read – 1,847 ( big difference than the 5,000+ last month)
• Total Books for 2013 – 103
• Total Pages for 2013 – 29,089

• ARC’s:  0 (I so need to catch up on these)
• Library:  5
• Books Read from TBR List:  5
• Male/Female Authors:  2/3
• Favorite Book This Month:  The Archived
• Least Favorite Book This Month:  If There Be Thorns
• Books Read for Challenges:  1

Posts for August:

• Reviews – 4
• Features – 16
• Events – 3
• Recaps – 4

Weekly Recap for 9/23/13 – 9/29/13

Books Read This Week:

I didn’t finish any books this week.  😦

Library:

Only got one book from the library this week and I’m so excited to read it.  I loved the Shining.

• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King

Galleys:

I requested and received these books:

•  The Last Clinic by Gary Gusick
• Picture Me by Lori Weber
• Crash Into You by Katie McGarry

 

Super Six Sunday – Six Books That Made Me Cry

Super Six Sunday is an original bookish meme hosted at Bewitched Bookworms and inspired by “Top Ten Tuesday” from The Broke and The Bookish. Check out the weekly schedule of themes here.

It depends on my mood when I’m reading but some books make me cry easier than others and these are the ones that are most memorable for that.

1. Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand
2. One Summer by David Baldacci
3. The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
4. Pieces of My Sister’s Life by Elizabeth Joy Arnold
5. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
6. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Book Beginnings and Friday 56 – 9/27/13

Book Beginnings on Friday is now hosted by Rose City Reader. The Friday 56 is hosted at Freda’s Voice.    I noticed these memes and thought it would be interesting to do both.  Check out the links above for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week.  This is the book I’m currently reading.

Book of Spells by Kate Brian

Book Beginnings:

Even at the tender age of sixteen, Elizabeth Williams was the rare girl who knew her mind.  She knew she preferred summer to all other seasons.  She knew she couldn’t stand the pink- and yellow- floral wallpaper the decorator had chosen for her room.  She knew that she would much rather spend time with her blustery, good-natured father than her ever-critical, humorless mother – though the company of either was difficult to come by.  And she knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that going away to Billings School for Girls was going to be the best thing that ever happened to her.

Friday 56:

“I told you that you should have turned back.” the same low voice from the tunnel whispered.  Eliza’s breath caught and she whirled around.  But no one was there.