3rd try - Cee2's reading 50!

I'm starting a 3rd challenge to read 50 books in a year. It's taken me longer than a year for the past 2 challenges, so I'm still working toward that one year goal. I finished my 50th book for last year's challenge a couple of days ago and started right in reading another.

This morning I finished The Merry Wives of Maggody by Joan Hess. This is one of the Arly Hanks mysteries. Though I enjoy the Claire Malloy series more, this series is very funny.

Total = 1

I fiinished my August Early Reviewers book: Iron Wagon by Al and Joanna Lacy. It's set in the late 1800's in the US west and southwest.

I've been enjoying the Christian fiction I've received in the ER program. Actually, I've enjoyed every ER book I've received, except this one. Very preachy, flat prose, didn't care about the characters.

Total = 2

Prime Cut by Diane Mott Davidson is in my newest favorite mystery series. Finished this one last night.

Total = 3

Finished Medicus by Ruth Downie and In a Heartbeat by Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy

Total = 5

I read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins last night. It's a real page turner. I've already started the next in her trilogy.

Total = 6

Oh, no. You HAVE to give yourself credit for ALL the books you've read in calendar year 2010. Let 2009 go! Let's see what you've read since January!

It took my 3rd (calendar year) to hit 50. I did it this year.

Best of luck and good reading, whichever way you log your completed books!

Thanks, Sandydog1!

Finished up Catching Fire and Mockingjay both by Suzanne Collins. Good thing it was a 3 day weekend because I don't think I could have waited to read these. Had to find out the ending of the trilogy.

Total = 8

Read 2 Member Giveaway books by Jessica Barksdale Inclan, Believe In Me and The Beautiful Being. Enjoyed them both very much and it was nice of Ms. Inclan to autogragh them.

Total = 10

PS: the wrong books keep showing up for the Touchstones and I don't know how to fix them. Sorry, Ms Inclan :(

Finished In the Company of Others by Jan Karon, the most recent book in the Mitford series. This set of books is one I reread every few years.

total = 11

On a slight reading binge here. Finished 2 mysteries by C. S. Harris: When Gods Die A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery and Why Mermaids Sing A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery.

Also read Dragon Girl by Todd McCaffrey.

Total = 14

Should have read Dragonheart by Todd McCaffrey before reading Dragon Girl, but I still enjoyed it.

Total = 15

I have several to add:

Temeraire, Throne of Jade and Black Powder War, all by Naomi Novik

The Lost Boy: a foster child's search for the love of a family by David Pelzer

Split Ticket: Independent Faith in a Time of Partisan Politics by Amy Gopp et al

What Good is God? In Search of a Faith that Matters by Philip Yancey

Gently Does It and Gently by the Shore by Alan Hunter

Total = 23

Finished 2 more mysteries:

The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear and
Where Serpents Sleep: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery, Book 4 by C.S. Harris

Total = 25

Moving on to cookbooks - finished The Modern Baker by Nick Malgieri

Total = 26

A few more to add:

Crunch Time, a mystery by Diane Mott Davidson
The Gift Chiveis Trilogy Book 2 by Bryan M. Litfin
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake by Jenny Wingfield
and another cookbook, James Beard's American Cookery by James Beard.

Total = 30

Finished Troubletwisters by Garth Nix and Sean Williams.

Total = 21

Read Packing for Mars by Mary Roach this weekend. Was disappointed when I didn't get it through Early Reviewers but bought it through QPBC.

Total = 22

Completed The Reluctant Detective by Martha Ockley. The main character is a female Anglican priest and I enjoyed this aspect of the story very much.

Total = 23

I'm in the middle of several books but finished 2:

The Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Adventure Everest by David Borgenicht and Bill Doyle and On the Grid by Scott Huler.

Total = 25

Finished a few more:
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, My Life in France by Julia Child, A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd, and It Happened on the Way to War by Rye Barcott.

I don't think I'll finish 50 books by Sept 24 which will be a year since I started this challenge. So I'll probably just finish out 2011 to see how many books I read by then and start over in 2012.

Total = 29

Finished Fannie's Last Supper by Christopher Kimball. I've been reading this one off and on since mid-spring. Very interesting look back at the era of Fannnie Farmer and I wanted to take it in "courses" like the recreated meal.

Total = 30

A few more to add:
Heat Wave by Richard Castle, Able One by Ben Bova, Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan, The Hardest Thing to Do by Penelope Wilcock, and War by Sebastian Junger.

Total = 35.

Read the 4th and 5th in the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik: Empire of Ivory and Victory of Eagles.

Total = 37

Some of the books I've read since my last entry:
The End of Country by Seamus McGraw
One-L by Scott Turow
Chrysalis by David Niall Wilson - a Star Trek Voyager book
We Are Our Mother's Daughters by Cokie Roberts
Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan
A Plague Year by Edward Bloor
and
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - the small Gramercy Classics edition
Heroes for My Son by Brad Meltzer - online from Daily Lit.

Total = 45

This will be the last entry for my third try. Will start a new effort in 2012.