Starting my list the same time my kids start school

I am always curious about how many books I actually read every year..Maybe I can figure it out...

Starting with books I have read since July 16, 2007...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
California demon : the secret life of a demon-hunting soccer mom by Julie Kenner
Carpe Demon : the secret life of a demon-hunting soccer mom by Julie Kenner
In the Wake of the Plague by Norman F Cantor (I started this one a while ago, finished it this week)
Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faiza Guene
Mrs. Kimble by Jennifer Haigh
Dark Tort by Diane Mott Davidson

Now reading Double Shot by Diane Mott Davidson

Started The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan yesterday. This could slow down my list, since it's a big dense epic.

Oh, I live The Wheel of Time Series books! They are a bit more sexist than I would like, although not against women necessarily. I just hate the idea that men and women have to be totally different, they couldn't work together. But, the series is still fascinating to me. I love the different societies, and seeing how they interact. I want to find all of mine (the earlier ones are in boxes somewhere) and read them through again, but I have so many new books to read. Still, they are so much fun. I read them at first in college, when you can spend days on end reading, it was great.

My son has been bugging me for years to read them...I don't know why it took me so long to start them. I am really enjoying the first book, and I am amazed at how fast a read it is, even though it is a truly dense book...

Read Cocktails for Three in the middle of the Wheel of Time book because I didn't feel so great and couldn't concentrate on Wheel...

12 books for the second half of July....

Finished The Wheel of Time Eye of the World. Great epic, ripping great yarn, mostly easy to read.

Now I am debating which book to read next. I bought four books at Costco yesterday, plus I dug through a box of Anne McCaffrey and Marion Zimmer Bradley, and found a bunch I want to re-read.

Too many books, too little time!

Started Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston yesterday, and finished it this morning. Good book, about marriage and infidelity and infertility.

Haven't started another yet.

Up to 14 books in three weeks.

Finished The Great Hunt the second Wheel of Time book, Dang, I am completely sucked in and want to start immediately on the next book....but I have too much other stuff to do...sigh

Almost through the third Wheel book... The Dragon Reborn. Too much other stuff going on to read.

Gonna have to pick out some fast easy reads to bump up my numbers...just kidding!

That's the problem with those Wheel of Time books! I want to re-read, but I haven't found most of them in my boxes of books yet. Even though I bought two big bookcases, I still can't get all of my books out of the boxes--and I keep buying more. But I do want to read those books again, so I know how you feel.

Yesterday I went to B&N looking for two youth lit books...they didn't have either one, but I bought a Pride and Prejudice "sequel" even though I still have 9 Wheel of Time books left, plus about 25 books I found in a box in the garage I want to re-read, plus another 25 or 30 I have purchased but haven't read yet...I keep telling myself I have too much to read already, but I never listen to myself...

And what happens? I start talking to somebody on one of these threads about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and now I am reading that one again...

I need a maid and a cook...

Oh, yeah, sussabmax, I feel your pain with not enough bookcases -- we moved into this house 3 years ago, have bought 3 big bookcases, and still have boxes of books in the garage...sigh.

How can you think about books you already have when you are in a bookstore with all those books? My two biggest problems are all the recommendations I find on here, and a friend who reads a lot more than I do. She always suggests going to the bookstore, and I am never strong enough to say no...

Costco is killer for me -- sometimes I really don't find any books I can't live without, other times I have to pick a couple from a dozen or more I want!

I have been trying to cut back on buying new books, and I usually don't have quite such a huge pile of books I want to read and re-read. I found a whole bunch of books I want to read again when I recently added a bunch of books to my library on LT...

I went rather crazy for a while -- we lived in The Netherlands for three years, so we didn't have a lot of choice in books in English (I can find lots more I want when I am in an actual bookstore rather than on Amazon.com). When we got back to the US, we were so excited about being in bookstores full of books in English that we bought lots and lots of books. Now we limit our buying sprees to every couple of months.

But I totally do not want to think about how many books I have unread when I am in a bookstore...and usually don't.

I give myself a monthly book allowance (but sometimes I beg myself for extra). Some of it I use at Amazon, some at the local bookstore and I use paperback swap.com That gets me between 5 and 10 new books a month.

I should really do the monthly allowance thing...But I would have to include all the art supplies in it, and then I would have to decide books or paint or paper or...

I just finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for the second time...what a great ending to the series...

Don't know what I am going to start, yet. I need to look at my pile of books and see what grabs me...

Well I have separate allowances for the art collecting and the dark room project. Not to mention clothes shopping. I might have to either get another job or another husband. Just kidding.

With two teens in braces and college looming, my allowance for anything that costs more than $1.87 is looking grim...

If only that rich stranger would die and leave me a million or so...sigh.

August 31 and only up to 17 books...Almost finished Honeymoon with My Brother and started Deep Survival.

Franz Wisner is a republican and thus bugs the hell outta me occasionally but it's an interesting book.

I was really tired when I was trying to read Deep Survival, so I dunno how it is yet...

I finished Honeymoon with my brother...

Up to 18 books now.

Finished Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot -- fun and fluffy...

Started Frankenstein, which is anything but fun and fluffy.

19 books

Read half of Frank so far, but finished Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...

20 books.

Read Over Sea, Under Stone and The Dark is Rising...

Still have not finished Frankenstein. Sigh.
22 books

Finished The Greenwitch by Susan Cooper...

23 books and still have not gone back to Frankenstein.

Have now finished the Dark is Rising series...Which means I read The Grey King and Silver on the Tree.

Halfway to 50 in 2.5 months, and at the same time my kids finished the first quarter of school.

Finished Letters from Pemberly. It was okay, a really fast read, and perhaps a little too much on the everything must be happy and daisies for me to really enjoy it...

Picked up The Powers That Be by Anne McCaffrey...I had read about half of it last month and then forgot about it.

So that's 26...

Finished Powers That Be and started on the sequel Power Lines...

Still haven't finished Frankenstein, and don't even know where it is right now. I have also started drawing Casey Spaceman, a one block cartoon...Which again cuts down on the reading.

Up to 27 books.

Geez. I read Ghostlight by MZB, but no other books. I have been blogging and drawing and helping my son with his Eagle Scout project instead of reading...

Ghostlight was good, not as creepy as Witch Hill, but good enough that I want to get the other Light books...