Personal Challenge. Will update as I read
A Quick Bite
Love Bites
Single White Vampire
Tall, Dark, & Hungry
A Bite to Remember
Bite Me if You Can
The Accidental Vampire
Vampires Are Forever
Vampire, Interrupted
The Rogue Hunter
The Immortal Hunter
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Lynsay Sands
A Quick Bite
Love Bites
Single White Vampire
Tall, Dark, & Hungry
A Bite to Remember
Bite Me if You Can
The Accidental Vampire
Vampires Are Forever
Vampire, Interrupted
The Rogue Hunter
The Immortal Hunter
Listen by Laurie Halse Anderson
I got the book "Speak" in the mail today and immediately dove in as I had been waitng to read it for a while after hearing the following poem "Listen" by the same author. Be back later with my review but if the book is as powerful as the poem.....
Here is previews of the movie as well.
Here is previews of the movie as well.
Scooby-Doo Phonics Box Set - Frances Ann Ladd
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-0439664783
Copyright: 2005
My rating: 4/5
Synopsis: "Based on the best research on how children develop reading skills, these twelve books introduce a carefully selected progression of letter sounds-starting with the easiest and most common. Each book helps build a young reader's confidence with repeated examples of the letter sounds being focused on, as well as "words to learn" and "words to sound out."
I was well satisfied with the teaching element of this 12 book set. Each booklet had a brief set of "new" words and sounds you should look for in the story before you began reading and this was really helpful with my 5 year old who has a slight speech problem. We would say the words together several times and then begin our story and that made her more familiar with them and when we came upon them in the story we would stop and place emphasis thus making her feel even more comfortable using words she may not have before.
The pages are full of beautiful color pictures and the words are in large sized print which allowed for only having one to two sentences on each page making it easier to hold her attention. I was overjoyed when she took a book from my hand and attempted to read the story aloud all on her own!
The biggest dissappointment to us overall had nothing to do with the learning ability of the phonics books as the omittance of the rest of the Scooby Doo Gang.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Redneck Cinderella - LuAnn McLane
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Pages: 286
Copyright: 2009
My Rating: 4/5
Synopsis: "Raised by her widowed father, Jolie Russell could keep up with any man until wealthy and sexy land developer Cody Dean struts into her life. Cody buys the Russell farm with an impossible-to-refuse multimillion-dollar offer, then relocates Jolie and her dad to the Copper Creek Estates. But the country club atmosphere isn’t ready for Jolie’s kind of country. As her two worlds collide, Jolie wonders how she can capture Cody’s heart without giving up her grits.
I loved this book from the first time Jolie opened her mouth! Being from "The South" myself it was a charming and refreshing read for me filled with our redneck antics and I giggled thru the entire story!
Jolie is like a breath of fresh air in this rags to riches fantasy tale trying to win her prince charming but still struggling to hang on tight to her bred in redneck roots. I found myself edging her on against all those tight lipped upper crusted snobs and wished her to smack a few of them to their senses.
A true delight for any Southern gal. You want be ready to put it down til you finish it!
James Patterson
Lots of these I have already read but will go back and plug in a review for as I can.
1976 - The Thomas Berryman Number
1977 - Season of the Machete
1988 - The Midnight Club
1992 - Along Came A Spider (Alex Cross Series)
1994 - Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross Series)
1996 - Jack and Jill (Alex Cross Series)
1996 - Hide and Seek
1996 - Miracle on the 17th Green (with Peter De Jonge)
1997 - See How They Run (published previously as The Jericho Commandment)
1997 - Cat and Mouse (Alex Cross Series)
1998 - When the Wind Blows
1999 - Pop Goes the Weasel (Alex Cross Series)
2000 - Black Friday (previously published in 1986 as Black Market)
2000 - Cradle and All (previously published in 1980 as Virgin)
2000 - Roses are Red (Alex Cross Series)
2001 - Violets are Blue (Alex Cross Series)
2001 - Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
2001 - 1st to Die (Women's Murder Club)
2002 - Four Blind Mice (Alex Cross Series)
2002 - Beach House(with Peter De Jonge)
2002 - 2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club, with Andrew Gross)
2003 - The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross Series)
2003 - The Jester(with Andrew Gross)
2003 - The Lake House (sequel to When The Wind Blows)
2004 - 3rd Degree (Women's Murder Club, with Andrew Gross)
2004 - London Bridges (Alex Cross Series)
2004 - Sam's Letters to Jennifer
2004 - Santa Kid
2005 - 4th of July (Women's Murder Club, with Maxine Paetro)
2005 - Mary, Mary (Alex Cross Series)
2005 - Honeymoon(with Howard Roughan)
2005 - Lifeguard(with Andrew Gross)
2005 - Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
2006 - Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever
2006 - Cross(Alex Cross Series)
2006 - Beach Road(with Peter De Jonge)
2006 - Judge and Jury(with Andrew Gross)
2006 - 5th Horseman (Women's Murder Club, with Maxine Paetro)
2007 - Step on a Crack
2007 - Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
2007 - 6th Target
2007 - The Quickie
2007 - You've Been Warned
2007 - Double Cross
2008 - 7th Heaven
2008 - Maximum Ride #4: The Final Warning
2008 - Sundays at Tiffany's
2008 - Sail
2008 - The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
2008 - Against Medical Advice
2008 - Cross Country
2009 - Run for Your Life
2009 - The 8th Confession
2009 - Daniel X: Watch the Skies
2009 - The Murder of King Tut
2009 - Swimsuit
1976 - The Thomas Berryman Number
1977 - Season of the Machete
1988 - The Midnight Club
1992 - Along Came A Spider (Alex Cross Series)
1994 - Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross Series)
1996 - Jack and Jill (Alex Cross Series)
1996 - Hide and Seek
1996 - Miracle on the 17th Green (with Peter De Jonge)
1997 - See How They Run (published previously as The Jericho Commandment)
1997 - Cat and Mouse (Alex Cross Series)
1998 - When the Wind Blows
1999 - Pop Goes the Weasel (Alex Cross Series)
2000 - Black Friday (previously published in 1986 as Black Market)
2000 - Cradle and All (previously published in 1980 as Virgin)
2000 - Roses are Red (Alex Cross Series)
2001 - Violets are Blue (Alex Cross Series)
2001 - Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
2001 - 1st to Die (Women's Murder Club)
2002 - Four Blind Mice (Alex Cross Series)
2002 - Beach House(with Peter De Jonge)
2002 - 2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club, with Andrew Gross)
2003 - The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross Series)
2003 - The Jester(with Andrew Gross)
2003 - The Lake House (sequel to When The Wind Blows)
2004 - 3rd Degree (Women's Murder Club, with Andrew Gross)
2004 - London Bridges (Alex Cross Series)
2004 - Sam's Letters to Jennifer
2004 - Santa Kid
2005 - 4th of July (Women's Murder Club, with Maxine Paetro)
2005 - Mary, Mary (Alex Cross Series)
2005 - Honeymoon(with Howard Roughan)
2005 - Lifeguard(with Andrew Gross)
2005 - Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
2006 - Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever
2006 - Cross(Alex Cross Series)
2006 - Beach Road(with Peter De Jonge)
2006 - Judge and Jury(with Andrew Gross)
2006 - 5th Horseman (Women's Murder Club, with Maxine Paetro)
2007 - Step on a Crack
2007 - Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
2007 - 6th Target
2007 - The Quickie
2007 - You've Been Warned
2007 - Double Cross
2008 - 7th Heaven
2008 - Maximum Ride #4: The Final Warning
2008 - Sundays at Tiffany's
2008 - Sail
2008 - The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
2008 - Against Medical Advice
2008 - Cross Country
2009 - Run for Your Life
2009 - The 8th Confession
2009 - Daniel X: Watch the Skies
2009 - The Murder of King Tut
2009 - Swimsuit
Fangtastic Friday - October 16, 2009
Well anybody that knows me knows that I am a sucker for vampires. Umm did I just say that? I mean literally? lmao OK I did but for lack of a better description right now; "I adore them" just dont cut it!
Fangtastic Fridays will be my personal pleasure for finding new "fangtastic" books to add to my Got To Read List. New doesn't neccasarily mean new to print just a new find for me. It also is not limited just to my ravenous vamps but a nice lil mixture of werewolf, witches, madness, and mayhem for extra measure!
The first token of pleasure I found was this first book to a new series that has alot of "Merit". Pun intended because this series is all about Merit and her New Awakening.
Synopsis: "Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn’t exactly glamorous, but it was Merit’s. She was doing fine until a rogue vampire attacked her. But he only got a sip before he was scared away by another bloodsucker—and this one decided the best way to save her life was to make her the walking undead.
Turns out her savior was the master vampire of Cadogan House. Now she’s traded sweating over her thesis for learning to fit in at a Hyde Park mansion full of vamps loyal to Ethan “Lord o’ the Manor” Sullivan. Of course, as a tall, green-eyed, four-hundred- year-old vampire, he has centuries’ worth of charm, but unfortunately he expects her gratitude— and servitude. But an inconvenient sunlight allergy and Ethan’s attitude are the least of her concerns. Someone’s still out to get her. Her initiation into Chicago’s nightlife may be the first skirmish in a war—and there will be blood."
Next up I found this delicious tidbit.
Synopsis: "They’ll never see her coming. . . .
When Evangeline Stone wakes up naked and bruised on a cold slab at the morgue—in a stranger’s body, with no memory of who she is and how she got there—her troubles are only just beginning. Before that night she and the two other members of her Triad were the city’s star bounty hunters, mercilessly cleansing the city of the murderous creatures living in the shadows, from vampires to shape-shifters to trolls. Then something terrible happened that not only cost all three of them their lives but also convinced the city’s other Hunters that Evy was a traitor—and she can’t even remember what it was.
Now she’s a fugitive, piecing together her memory, trying to deal some serious justice—and discovering that she has only three days to solve her own murder before the reincarnation spell wears off. Because in three days Evy will die again—but this time there’s no second chance. . . ."
Fangtastic Fridays will be my personal pleasure for finding new "fangtastic" books to add to my Got To Read List. New doesn't neccasarily mean new to print just a new find for me. It also is not limited just to my ravenous vamps but a nice lil mixture of werewolf, witches, madness, and mayhem for extra measure!
Some Girls Bite - Chloe Neill
Synopsis: "Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn’t exactly glamorous, but it was Merit’s. She was doing fine until a rogue vampire attacked her. But he only got a sip before he was scared away by another bloodsucker—and this one decided the best way to save her life was to make her the walking undead.
Turns out her savior was the master vampire of Cadogan House. Now she’s traded sweating over her thesis for learning to fit in at a Hyde Park mansion full of vamps loyal to Ethan “Lord o’ the Manor” Sullivan. Of course, as a tall, green-eyed, four-hundred- year-old vampire, he has centuries’ worth of charm, but unfortunately he expects her gratitude— and servitude. But an inconvenient sunlight allergy and Ethan’s attitude are the least of her concerns. Someone’s still out to get her. Her initiation into Chicago’s nightlife may be the first skirmish in a war—and there will be blood."
3 Days to Dead - Kelly Meding
Synopsis: "They’ll never see her coming. . . .
When Evangeline Stone wakes up naked and bruised on a cold slab at the morgue—in a stranger’s body, with no memory of who she is and how she got there—her troubles are only just beginning. Before that night she and the two other members of her Triad were the city’s star bounty hunters, mercilessly cleansing the city of the murderous creatures living in the shadows, from vampires to shape-shifters to trolls. Then something terrible happened that not only cost all three of them their lives but also convinced the city’s other Hunters that Evy was a traitor—and she can’t even remember what it was.
Now she’s a fugitive, piecing together her memory, trying to deal some serious justice—and discovering that she has only three days to solve her own murder before the reincarnation spell wears off. Because in three days Evy will die again—but this time there’s no second chance. . . ."
Thursday, October 15, 2009
In My Mailbox (1)
10/15/09
The Rogue Hunter - Lynsay Sands - Ebay
Immortal Hunter - Lynsay Sands - Ebay
Forbidden Nights With A Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks - Ebay
All I Want For Christmas Is A Vampire - Kerrelyn Sparks - Ebay
10/17/09
Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
Stephanie Plum Series Challenge
The goal is to get caught up on the Stephanie Plum series, so create a list of the books you haven't read yet. You have between now and December 31, 2010. This challenge is being hosted by J Kaye
I read the first book in this series a long time ago but am gonna reread it for the challenge to refresh my memory. All I can remember is I loved it. lol
Stephanie Plum Series
1. One for the Money (1994)
2. Two for the Dough (1995)
3. Three to Get Deadly (1997)
4. Four to Score (1998)
5. High Five (1999)
6. Hot Six (2000)
7. Seven Up (2001)
8. Hard Eight (2002)
9. To the Nines (2003)
10. Ten Big Ones (2004)
11. Eleven on Top (2005)
12. Twelve Sharp (2006)
13. Lean Mean Thirteen (2007)
14. Fearless Fourteen (2008)
15. Finger Lickin' Fifteen (2009)
Stephanie Plum Between-the-Numbers Novels
Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich
Plum Lovin' (2007)
Plum Lucky (2008)
Plum Spooky (2009)
**These are not required but I wanted to keep all my Janet Evanovich reviews together.
Back to the Bedroom
I read the first book in this series a long time ago but am gonna reread it for the challenge to refresh my memory. All I can remember is I loved it. lol
Stephanie Plum Series
1. One for the Money (1994)
2. Two for the Dough (1995)
3. Three to Get Deadly (1997)
4. Four to Score (1998)
5. High Five (1999)
6. Hot Six (2000)
7. Seven Up (2001)
8. Hard Eight (2002)
9. To the Nines (2003)
10. Ten Big Ones (2004)
11. Eleven on Top (2005)
12. Twelve Sharp (2006)
13. Lean Mean Thirteen (2007)
14. Fearless Fourteen (2008)
15. Finger Lickin' Fifteen (2009)
Stephanie Plum Between-the-Numbers Novels
Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich
Plum Lovin' (2007)
Plum Lucky (2008)
Plum Spooky (2009)
**These are not required but I wanted to keep all my Janet Evanovich reviews together.
Back to the Bedroom
Sunday's At Tiffany's - James Patterson
Genre: Fiction
Series/Standalone: Standalone
Pages: 281
Copyright: 2008
My Rating: 3/5
Synopsis: As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, the powerful head of a Broadway theater company, has no time for her. She does have one friend-a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael-but only she can see him.
Years later, Jane is in her thirties and just as alone as ever. Then she meets Michael again-as handsome, smart and perfect as she remembers him to be. But not even Michael knows the reason they've really been reunited.
I read this book in just a few hours. It was a quick and fun read that held my attention all the way thru. I had never given much thought to an imaginary friend coming to life but the story gives it alot of merit and seriously makes you sit back and ponder would it not be splendid if they could?
Although I enjoyed the story and the fantasy I felt the book was far to predictable and left very little to the imagination other than the fantasy idea of your imaginary friends coming to life.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Banned Books Challenge
An ongoing personal challenge to read as many of these Banned and Challenged Books as I can. I will edit and update as I read and post my reviews.
13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen---James Howe
A Day No Pigs Would Die
A Farewell to Arms
A Light in the Attic
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Separate Peace
A Series of Unfortunate Events (series)
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Time to Kill
A Wrinkle in Time
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice (Series)
Always Running : La Vida Loca
America
American Tragedy
Anastasia Krupnik
Andersonville
Animal Dreams
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Annie on My Mind
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
As I Lay Dying
Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Beach Music
Beijing Doll
Beloved
Black Like Me
Bless Me, Ultima------------Anaya, Rudolfo A.
Blubber
Bluest Eye
Brave New World
Bridge to Terabithia
Brokeback Mountain
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Call of the Wild
Canterbury Tales
Carrie
Catch-22
Catcher in the Rye
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chronicles of Narnia (series)
Clockwork Orange
Cradle and All
Crazy Lady!
Cujo
Dangerous Girls
Dead Zone
Deenie
Different Seasons
Doctor Zhivago
Doll Baby
Don Quixote
Dr. Zhivago
Earth’s Children (Series)---------Auel, Jean M.
Earth, My Butt, & Other Big Round Things
East of Eden
Ecstasy of Being Thirteen
Fahrenheit 451
Fair and Tender Ladies
Fallen Angels
Figure In The Shadows
Flowers In The Attic--------Andrews, V.C.
Flowers for Algernon
Fools Crow
Forever
Forever...
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Frankenstein
Freedom Writers Diary
Funhouse
Girl 15, Charming but Insane
Give a Boy a Gun
Go Ask Alice
Go Tell It on the Mountain--------Baldwin, James
Gossip Girl (series)
Grendel
Harry Potter (series)
Heart Of Darkness
Hold Fast
How Do You Spell Abducted?
How to Eat Fried Worms
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings--------Angelou, Maya
In Cold Blood
In The Heat Of The Night--------Ball, John
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
Inkheart
Invisible Man
It
It's Not the End of the World
Jack
Jacob Have I Loved
James and the Giant Peach
Julie of the Wolves
Jump Ship to Freedom
Just Listen
Kaffir Boy
Kane & Abel
Killing Mr. Griffin
King Lear
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Leaves of Grass
Les Miserables
Lives of Girls and Women
Lolita
Lord Of The Flies
Love in the Time of Cholera
Lovely Bones, The
Luna
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Moll Flanders
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Naked Lunch
Native Son
Of Mice And Men
Olive's Ocean
Oliver Twist
On My Honor----------Bauer, Marion Dane
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Ordinary People
Pet Sematary
Pillars Of The Earth
Prince of Tides
Princess Diaries (series)
Ptolemy's Gate
Red Sky at Morning
Richard II
Ricochet River
Romeo and Juliet
Running Loose
Sanctuary
Sanctuary (Faulkner)
Scary Stories
Scary Stories to Read When It's Dark
Sexy
Silas Marner
Slaughterhouse-Five
Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
Song of Solomon
Sons and Lovers
Spycatcher
Stones from the River
Stotan!
Such is My Beloved
Suffer the Little Children
Suite Française
Summer of My German Soldier
Terrorist
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Adventures of the Blue Avenger
The Agony of Alice
The Amulet of Samarkand.
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
The Beet Fields
The Book of the Secrets of Merlin
The Boy Who Lost His Face
The Chocolate War
The Chronicles Of Prydain (series)
The Cider House Rules
The Color Purple
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diviners
The Face on the Milk Carton
The Giver
The Goats
The Golden Compass (series)
The Golem's Eye
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Group
The Hammer of Eden
The Handmaid's Tale--------Atwood, Margaret
The Headless Cupid
The House of the Spirits---------Allende, Isabel
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Kite Runner
The Land
The Last Battle
The Last Book In The Universe
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lorax
The Lord of the Rings
The Lords of Discipline
The Lovely Bones
The Martian Chronicles
The Moves Make the Man
The Naked and The Dead
The Outsiders
The Pigman
The Prince of Tides
The Red and the Black
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
The Shining
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Starplace
The Stone Angel
The Sun Also Rises
The Supernaturalist
The Talisman
The Tenth Circle
The Terrorist
The View from the Cherry Tree
The Voice on the Radio
The Wars
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Then Again, Maybe I Won't
Through the Looking-Glass
Tiger Eyes
Tintin in the Congo
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tommyknockers
Tropic of Cancer
Twilight (Series)
Ulysses
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Underground To Canada
Watchmen
We All Fall Down
What Janie Found
What My Mother Doesn't Know
What You Never Knew About Tubs, Toilets, & Showers
Whatever Happened to Janie?
When Jeff Comes Home
Who Has Seen The Wind
Who Is Frances Rain?
Wild Fire
Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
Witches
Women in Love
Bellairs, John The Figure in the Shadows
Blume, Judy Tiger Eyes
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles
Brashares, Ann Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Brooks, Bruce The Moves Make the Man
Brown, Dee Alexander Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange
Burroughs, William S. Naked Lunch
Carroll, Lewis Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Cody, Robin Ricochet River
Cole, Brock The Goats
Collier, J. L. and C. Jump Ship to Freedom
Collier, J. L. and C. My Brother Sam is Dead
Conly, Jame Crazy Lady
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
Conroy, Pat The Lords of Discipline
Cooney, Caroline Face on the Milk Carton (series)
Cooney, Caroline The Terrorist
Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War
Cormier, Robert Fade
Crutcher, Chris Athletic Shorts
Crutcher, Chris Stotan
Defoe, Daniel Moll Flanders
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Duncan, Lois Killing Mr. Griffin
Eliot, George Silas Marner
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Findley, Timothy The Wars
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
Follett, Ken Pillars of the Earth
Frank, Anne Diary of Anne Frank
Frank, E. R. America
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Garden, Nancy Annie on My Mind
Gardner, John Grendel
George, Jean Craighead Julie of the Wolves
Golding, William Lord of the Flies
Greene, Bette Summer of my German Soldier
Guest, Judith Ordinary People
Hegi, Ursula Stones from the River
Heller, Joseph Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders
Humphrey, Derek Final Exit
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon
King, Stephen It
King, Steven Different Seasons
Knowles, John A Separate Peace
Koontz, Dean Funhouse
Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, Margaret Diviners
Lawrence, Margaret Stone Angel
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time (series)
Lewis, C. S. Narnia (series)
Lipsyte, Robert One Fat Summer
London, Jack The Call of the Wild
Lowry, Lois The Giver
Lowry, Lois Anastasia Krupnik (series)
Mailer, Norman The Naked and the Dead
Major, Kevin Hold Fast
Malamud, Bernard The Natural
Mathabane, Mark Kaffir Boy
Miller, Henry Tropic of Cancer
Morrison, Toni Beloved
Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye
Myers, Walter Dean Fallen Angels
Naylor, Phyllis R. Alice (series)
Oates, Joyce Carol Foxfire
Orwell, George 1984
Park, Barbara Mick Harte Was Here
Paterson, Katherine The Great Gilly Hopkins
Paterson, Katherine Bridge to Terabithia
Peck, Robert Newton A Day No Pigs Would Die
Preston, Richard The Hot Zone
Roberts, Willo Davis View From the Cherry Tree
Rodriguez, Luis Always Running
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter (series)
Rushdie, Salman Satanic Verses
Sachar, Louis The Boy Who Lost His Face
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye
Sarton, May The Education of Harriet Hatfield
Schwartz, Alvin Scary Stories (series)
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Sijie, Dai Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley The Egypt Game
Stacey, Cherylyn How Do You Spell Abducted?
Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men
Stine, R.L. Goosebumps (series)
Sue, Chun Beijing Doll
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Updike, John Rabbit Run
Vonnegut, Kurt Cat's Cradle
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Watts, Alan Diamond Dogs
Wright, Richard Native Son
Zindel, Paul The Pigman
13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen---James Howe
A Day No Pigs Would Die
A Farewell to Arms
A Light in the Attic
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Separate Peace
A Series of Unfortunate Events (series)
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Time to Kill
A Wrinkle in Time
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice (Series)
Always Running : La Vida Loca
America
American Tragedy
Anastasia Krupnik
Andersonville
Animal Dreams
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Annie on My Mind
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
As I Lay Dying
Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Beach Music
Beijing Doll
Beloved
Black Like Me
Bless Me, Ultima------------Anaya, Rudolfo A.
Blubber
Bluest Eye
Brave New World
Bridge to Terabithia
Brokeback Mountain
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Call of the Wild
Canterbury Tales
Carrie
Catch-22
Catcher in the Rye
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chronicles of Narnia (series)
Clockwork Orange
Cradle and All
Crazy Lady!
Cujo
Dangerous Girls
Dead Zone
Deenie
Different Seasons
Doctor Zhivago
Doll Baby
Don Quixote
Dr. Zhivago
Earth’s Children (Series)---------Auel, Jean M.
Earth, My Butt, & Other Big Round Things
East of Eden
Ecstasy of Being Thirteen
Fahrenheit 451
Fair and Tender Ladies
Fallen Angels
Figure In The Shadows
Flowers In The Attic--------Andrews, V.C.
Flowers for Algernon
Fools Crow
Forever
Forever...
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
Frankenstein
Freedom Writers Diary
Funhouse
Girl 15, Charming but Insane
Give a Boy a Gun
Go Ask Alice
Go Tell It on the Mountain--------Baldwin, James
Gossip Girl (series)
Grendel
Harry Potter (series)
Heart Of Darkness
Hold Fast
How Do You Spell Abducted?
How to Eat Fried Worms
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings--------Angelou, Maya
In Cold Blood
In The Heat Of The Night--------Ball, John
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories
Inkheart
Invisible Man
It
It's Not the End of the World
Jack
Jacob Have I Loved
James and the Giant Peach
Julie of the Wolves
Jump Ship to Freedom
Just Listen
Kaffir Boy
Kane & Abel
Killing Mr. Griffin
King Lear
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Leaves of Grass
Les Miserables
Lives of Girls and Women
Lolita
Lord Of The Flies
Love in the Time of Cholera
Lovely Bones, The
Luna
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Moll Flanders
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Naked Lunch
Native Son
Of Mice And Men
Olive's Ocean
Oliver Twist
On My Honor----------Bauer, Marion Dane
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
On the Banks of Plum Creek
Ordinary People
Pet Sematary
Pillars Of The Earth
Prince of Tides
Princess Diaries (series)
Ptolemy's Gate
Red Sky at Morning
Richard II
Ricochet River
Romeo and Juliet
Running Loose
Sanctuary
Sanctuary (Faulkner)
Scary Stories
Scary Stories to Read When It's Dark
Sexy
Silas Marner
Slaughterhouse-Five
Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars
Song of Solomon
Sons and Lovers
Spycatcher
Stones from the River
Stotan!
Such is My Beloved
Suffer the Little Children
Suite Française
Summer of My German Soldier
Terrorist
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Adventures of the Blue Avenger
The Agony of Alice
The Amulet of Samarkand.
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
The Beet Fields
The Book of the Secrets of Merlin
The Boy Who Lost His Face
The Chocolate War
The Chronicles Of Prydain (series)
The Cider House Rules
The Color Purple
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diviners
The Face on the Milk Carton
The Giver
The Goats
The Golden Compass (series)
The Golem's Eye
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Group
The Hammer of Eden
The Handmaid's Tale--------Atwood, Margaret
The Headless Cupid
The House of the Spirits---------Allende, Isabel
The Indian in the Cupboard
The Kite Runner
The Land
The Last Battle
The Last Book In The Universe
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lorax
The Lord of the Rings
The Lords of Discipline
The Lovely Bones
The Martian Chronicles
The Moves Make the Man
The Naked and The Dead
The Outsiders
The Pigman
The Prince of Tides
The Red and the Black
The Satanic Verses
The Scarlet Letter
The Shining
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
The Starplace
The Stone Angel
The Sun Also Rises
The Supernaturalist
The Talisman
The Tenth Circle
The Terrorist
The View from the Cherry Tree
The Voice on the Radio
The Wars
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Then Again, Maybe I Won't
Through the Looking-Glass
Tiger Eyes
Tintin in the Congo
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tommyknockers
Tropic of Cancer
Twilight (Series)
Ulysses
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Underground To Canada
Watchmen
We All Fall Down
What Janie Found
What My Mother Doesn't Know
What You Never Knew About Tubs, Toilets, & Showers
Whatever Happened to Janie?
When Jeff Comes Home
Who Has Seen The Wind
Who Is Frances Rain?
Wild Fire
Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
Witches
Women in Love
Bellairs, John The Figure in the Shadows
Blume, Judy Tiger Eyes
Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles
Brashares, Ann Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Brooks, Bruce The Moves Make the Man
Brown, Dee Alexander Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange
Burroughs, William S. Naked Lunch
Carroll, Lewis Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Cody, Robin Ricochet River
Cole, Brock The Goats
Collier, J. L. and C. Jump Ship to Freedom
Collier, J. L. and C. My Brother Sam is Dead
Conly, Jame Crazy Lady
Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness
Conroy, Pat The Lords of Discipline
Cooney, Caroline Face on the Milk Carton (series)
Cooney, Caroline The Terrorist
Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War
Cormier, Robert Fade
Crutcher, Chris Athletic Shorts
Crutcher, Chris Stotan
Defoe, Daniel Moll Flanders
Dreiser, Theodore An American Tragedy
Duncan, Lois Killing Mr. Griffin
Eliot, George Silas Marner
Ellison, Ralph Invisible Man
Faulkner, William As I Lay Dying
Findley, Timothy The Wars
Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby
Follett, Ken Pillars of the Earth
Frank, Anne Diary of Anne Frank
Frank, E. R. America
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Garden, Nancy Annie on My Mind
Gardner, John Grendel
George, Jean Craighead Julie of the Wolves
Golding, William Lord of the Flies
Greene, Bette Summer of my German Soldier
Guest, Judith Ordinary People
Hegi, Ursula Stones from the River
Heller, Joseph Catch-22
Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises
Hemingway, Ernest A Farewell to Arms
Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders
Humphrey, Derek Final Exit
Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes were Watching God
Huxley, Aldous Brave New World
Kesey, Ken One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon
King, Stephen It
King, Steven Different Seasons
Knowles, John A Separate Peace
Koontz, Dean Funhouse
Lawrence, D. H. Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, Margaret Diviners
Lawrence, Margaret Stone Angel
Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time (series)
Lewis, C. S. Narnia (series)
Lipsyte, Robert One Fat Summer
London, Jack The Call of the Wild
Lowry, Lois The Giver
Lowry, Lois Anastasia Krupnik (series)
Mailer, Norman The Naked and the Dead
Major, Kevin Hold Fast
Malamud, Bernard The Natural
Mathabane, Mark Kaffir Boy
Miller, Henry Tropic of Cancer
Morrison, Toni Beloved
Morrison, Toni The Bluest Eye
Myers, Walter Dean Fallen Angels
Naylor, Phyllis R. Alice (series)
Oates, Joyce Carol Foxfire
Orwell, George 1984
Park, Barbara Mick Harte Was Here
Paterson, Katherine The Great Gilly Hopkins
Paterson, Katherine Bridge to Terabithia
Peck, Robert Newton A Day No Pigs Would Die
Preston, Richard The Hot Zone
Roberts, Willo Davis View From the Cherry Tree
Rodriguez, Luis Always Running
Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter (series)
Rushdie, Salman Satanic Verses
Sachar, Louis The Boy Who Lost His Face
Salinger, J.D. Catcher in the Rye
Sarton, May The Education of Harriet Hatfield
Schwartz, Alvin Scary Stories (series)
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Sijie, Dai Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress
Sinclair, Upton The Jungle
Snyder, Zilpha Keatley The Egypt Game
Stacey, Cherylyn How Do You Spell Abducted?
Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men
Stine, R.L. Goosebumps (series)
Sue, Chun Beijing Doll
Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Updike, John Rabbit Run
Vonnegut, Kurt Cat's Cradle
Walker, Alice The Color Purple
Watts, Alan Diamond Dogs
Wright, Richard Native Son
Zindel, Paul The Pigman
Book Around The World
The world has many countries, some big and some small, and I want to read a book featuring each country. The book should help us learn something ABOUT that country and not just be one written by somebody who lives there. Let's "book around the world" and find at least one excellent book for each country in the world.
Challenge is hosted by Bonnie Jacobs
Afghanistan
Africa
Antarctica
Argentina
Australia
Bangladesh
Belgium
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
Canada
Bite Me If You Can by Lynsay Sands
Congo
Cuba
Egypt
England
Finland
France
Germany - Do-Over - Niki Burnham
Guernsey
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Morocco
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Portugal
Russia
Rwanda
Scotland
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Turkey
United States
Uruguay
Wales
world
Yugoslavia
Book Around The States
The United States is a union of 50 states, and I want to find the best books about each state. The book should help us learn something ABOUT that state and not just be one written by somebody who lives there. Let's "book around the states" and find at least one excellent book for each state of the union.
This ongoing challenge is hosted by Bonnie Jacobs
I will edit and update list as I read and post my reviews.
AL = ALABAMA
AK = ALASKA
AZ = ARIZONA
AR = ARKANSAS
CA = CALIFORNIA
CO = COLORADO
CT = CONNECTICUT
DE = DELAWARE
FL = FLORIDA
GA = GEORGIA
HI = HAWAII
ID = IDAHO
IL = ILLINOIS
IN = INDIANA
IA = IOWA
KS = KANSAS
KY = KENTUCKY
10/15/09 Redneck Cinderella - LuAnn McLane
LA = LOUISIANA
10/28/09 Killer Takes All - Erica Spindler
ME = MAINE
MD = MARYLAND
MA = MASSACHUSETTS
MI = MICHIGAN
11/25/09 For the Love of St Nick by Garasamo Maccagnone
MN = MINNESOTA
MS = MISSISSIPPI
MO = MISSOURI
MT = MONTANA
11/08/09 Bitter Night - Diana Pharaoh Francis
11/29/09 Love Finds You in Lonesome Prairie Montana by Goyer & Fleiss
NE = NEBRASKA
NV = NEVADA
NH = NEW HAMPSHIRE
NJ = NEW JERSEY
11/24/09 - Visions of Sugar Plums by Janet Evanovich
NM = NEW MEXICO
NY = NEW YORK
10/13/09 - Sunday at Tiffany's - James Patterson
10/27/09 - Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
11/30/09 - Cemetery Gates - MaryAnn Paige
NC = NORTH CAROLINA
ND = NORTH DAKOTA
OH = OHIO
OK = OKLAHOMA
OR = OREGON
PA = PENNSYLVANIA
RI = RHODE ISLAND
SC = SOUTH CAROLINA
SD = SOUTH DAKOTA
TN = TENNESSEE
TX = TEXAS
UT = UTAH
VT = VERMONT
VA = VIRGINIA
WA = WASHINGTON
11/27/09 - Back to the Bedroom by Janet Evanovich
WV = WEST VIRGINIA
WI = WISCONSIN
WY = WYOMING
DC = DISTRICT of COLUMBIA
Sookie Stackhouse Reading Challenge
I've decided to participate in the Sookie Stackhouse Reading Challenge, sponsored by Beth Fish Reads.
Between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010 I will read all nine books in the Sookie Stackhouse series!
Starting on Oct 13th, I will use this post to update my status on my reading.
If your interested in taking the plunge, visit Beth Fish Reads Sookie Stackhouse Reading Challenge!
The Books:
Dead Until Dark
Living Dead in Dallas
Club Dead
Dead to the World
Dead as a Doornail
Definitely Dead
All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse
Dead and Gone
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