Category: The Book Fort

What I’m Reading Monday #9

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Currently Reading: The Nightingale Bones by Ariel Swan, a review book; Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, for the read-along; and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, because it’s October and I love vampires.

Nightingale Something Wicked Historian

Finished: Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood.

Bliss

Total pages read for the week: 256.  This past week was extremely busy, so I wasn’t surprised when I tallied up my pages.

Total number of books for the year: 50.  I’ve met my goal.  Depending on how many more books I finish, I’ll be adjusting it for next year.  I’m hoping to be able to raise it to 75.  This week will be about wrapping up my current reads so that I can get started on my November TBR pile.

What I’m Reading Monday #8

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Currently Reading: The Nightingale Bones by Ariel Swan, a review book; Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, for the read-along; The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, because it’s October and I love vampires, and Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood, what I read when I’m out and about.

Nightingale     Something Wicked

Historian      Bliss

Finished: Chimera: Book Two and Chimera: Book Three by Phil Gomm, and The Red Magician by Lisa Goldstein, all of which I’ll be reviewing before the end of the month.

Chimera2     Chimera3     Magician

Total pages read for the week: 606

Total number of books for the year: 49.  I’m just 1 book away from my goal, and I’m sure I’ll reach it by the end of the week.  Depending on how many more books I finish by the end of the year, I’ll be adjusting my goal for next year.  I’m hoping to be able to raise it to 75.

What I’m Reading Monday #7

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Currently Reading: Chimera: Book Two by Phil Gomm, a review book, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, for the read-along, and Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood, what I read when I’m out and about.

          Chimera2 Something Wicked Bliss

DNF:  The Time Roads by Beth Bernobich.  This book is so horrible, I reviewed it to warn everyone.

Time Roads - Dominick Saponaro

Finished: The Door in the Mountain by Caitlin Sweet, which I reviewed Oct. 12th, and Chimera: Book One by Phil Gomm, which I’ll be reviewing sometime before the end of the month.  If you love Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, you’ll love the Chimera books!

Door     Chimera1

Total pages read for the week: 502

Total number of books for the year: 46.  I’m only 4 books away from my goal, and I’ll probably reach it by the end of next week.  Depending on how many more books I finish by the end of the year, I’ll be adjusting my goal for next year.  I’m hoping to be able to raise it to 75.

What I’m Reading Monday #6

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Currently Reading: The Time Roads by Beth Bernobich, one of my review books, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, for the read-along, and Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood, chosen for reading on my phone when I’m out and about.

      Time Roads - Dominick Saponaro     Something Wicked     Bliss

Put Aside:  Villette by Charlotte Bronte and The Hobbit and Philosophy.  I will be finishing these books, but not until I finish the remaining review books I have to get done this week.

                            Villette1.52.qxd     Hobbit Philosophy

Finished: Of Bone and Thunder by Chris Evans.  This was also for review, and I will be posting the review a few days before it’s published (Oct. 14th).  Until then, all I’ll say is that I’m giving it 5 stars!  I also finished, and reviewed, Black Swan, White Raven.

                            Bone     Black White

Total pages read for the week: 849

Total number of books for the year: 44.  My reading is continuing to pick back up from my September slump.  I hope I can keep it going for the rest of the year, but if I continue to get books to review, I don’t think that will be an issue.

What I’m Reading Monday #5

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Currently Reading: Of Bone and Thunder by Chris Evans, one of my books for review;  Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood, chosen for reading on my phone when I’m out and about and have to wait on something; Villette by Charlotte Bronte, my pick for The Classics Club’s month of the Romantics, and The Hobbit and Philosophy.

Bone

Bliss

Villette1.52.qxd

Hobbit Philosophy

Finished: Justice in a Dead Land by Emma J.R. Hawk.  This was also for review, and I will be posting the review a few days before it’s published (Oct. 13th).  Until then, all I’ll say is that I’m really excited about it!

Justice

Total pages read for the week: 208

Total number of books for the year: 43.  My reading is picking back up again, mostly because I found myself with 4 books to read and review by mid-October.  I’ve decided to put aside Villette until I finish the review books.  Some time this week, I’ll be adding a section of books that I’ll be reviewing in the future to my Reviews page, along with the date I’m planning on posting the review.  Once it’s reviewed, I’ll move it to the section of reviewed books and link it to the review, as I’ve done in the past.

What I’m Reading Monday #4

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Currently Reading: Bliss by Kathryn Littlewood, chosen for reading on my phone when I’m out and about and have to wait on something, Villette by Charlotte Bronte, my pick for The Classics Club’s month of the Romantics, and The Hobbit and Philosophy.

Bliss

Villette1.52.qxd

Hobbit Philosophy

Total pages read for the week: 138

Total number of books for the year: 42.  As predicted, my reading has slowed down.  With just a little more than a week left of September, I doubt I’m going to finish Villette by the end of the month.  I might surprise myself though, so I’m not giving up.

What I’m Reading Monday #3

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Currently Reading: Villette by Charlotte Bronte, which is my pick for The Classics Club’s month of the Romantics, and The Hobbit and Philosophy.

Villette1.52.qxd

Hobbit Philosophy

Finished: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, which I hope to have a review done for it by Friday at the latest, and Adventures in Reading by May Lamberton Becker; one of the three books about books and reading I found at the library.  I have several quotes from it for Thursday’s Quotables that I’m excited to share with all of you.

Witches

Total pages read for the week: 577

Total number of books for the year: 42.  I will hopefully finish both of my current reads by the end of the month so that I’ll only have 6 books left to reach my goal for the year, but I’m going to concentrate on Villette so that I will be able to cross off another book from my Classics Club goal list.  I have 5 years in order to finish the list, but that means 10 books per year, and several of the books on my list are longer.  I was able to get a lot more reading down this week than I thought, despite this usually being when my reading slows down.  My classes are in full swing, but somehow it still feels like the very beginning of the semester with not a whole lot to do.  I’m sure that will change, but I’m happy that I had much more time to read this week.

What I’m Reading Monday #2

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Currently Reading: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, my book club’s pick for September, and The Hobbit and Philosophy to give my brain something more intelligent and satisfying.  I would’ve added A Discovery of Witches to my DNF list, but by time it started going from really good to horrible, I was already far past the first 50 pages.  So, I’ll finish it, and then gleefully tear it to shreds in my review.

Witches

Hobbit Philosophy

Total pages read for the week: 398

Total number of books for the year: 40.  I will hopefully finish both of my current reads by the end of the month so that I’ll only have 8 books left to reach my goal for the year.  I really wish I could say “by the end of the week”, but this is the time of year when my reading usually slows down a bit.

What I’m Reading Monday #1

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Books read this week: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island

DNF books: The No.1 Lady’s Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith.  It was so ridiculously horrible I couldn’t even get to 50 pages before I stopped.

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Books started: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness, my book club’s pick for September.

Witches

Total pages read for the week: 210

Total number of books for the year: 40, so I only have 10 books left to reach my goal.  If things work out for me to go over my goal, I’ll be increasing it for next year.