2013 New Books Challenge *2014 Under Construction!*

[those city lights]

stacy_medina

I have another suggestion for you. Mind Games by Kiersten White.
Also, I read the first few chapters of Mila 2.0 by Debra Dirza and holy crap it is amazing so far. I can't wait to get to actually read it when it is released in two weeks.

Mind games definitely sounds interesting (and I see you've blogged about it! ^^)) Distopia's are always so hit n miss with me, but this sounds like something way different. Ill definitely have to give it a try.
Mila 2.0 sounds pretty cool too. You'll have to let me know what you think when you're finished. And I'll definitely put them both on my list! Thanks! heart

[Blue Eyed Wallflower]

Name/Username: Blue Eyed Wallflower
Goal: 22 (I turned 22 on January 16th!)
Date Started: January 1st, 2013

Currently Reading:
Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things by Charles Panati
Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
It Girl #9: Devious by Cecily von Ziegesar

Finished Reading:
January
Shelf Discovery The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading by Lizzie Skurnick
Size 12 Is Not Fat A Heather Wells Mystery by Meg Cabot
That Summer by Sarah Dessen (started reading December, 2012)
The Pregnancy Test by Erin McCarthy
February
The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell (Got this as a birthday present when it came out in 2010. Finally finished it!)
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
March

Total: (6/22):

[Ping of Death]

Currently Reading: A History of Art For Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Clara Erskine Clement

Finished Reading:
1. Maha-bharata: The Epic of Ancient India condensed into English verse by Romesh C. Dutt, CIE
2. The Rise and Development of Western Civilization to 1660 (Volume 1) by J. Stipp, C.W. Hollister, and A.W. Dirrim
3. The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
4. God of War by Robert E. Vardeman and Matthew Woodring Stover
5. Alexander the Great by Jacob Abbott
6. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
7. Al Azif - The Cipher Manuscript known as "Necronomicon" by John Dee

Total: 7/55

[Freiflug]

Currently Reading:
"Land of the Minotaurs" by Richard A. Knaak
"Hunting Ground" by Patricia Briggs
"Paranoia" by Joseph Finder
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Added three more books! I found a wonderful website called "Daily Lit" that will send you an e-mail with a daily excerpt from their selection of books at any time you request. c: I have mine set for about 12:30, 12:40, and 12:50pm EST for the three I selected. It's really neat. Sure, it's slow reading, but there's something nice about just receiving a nice piece of literature daily that you can read in a few minutes then anticipate the following bit the next day! And if you want, you can request the next excerpt sooner. c:

[Psychotic Maniacal Sanity]

Name/Username: Psychotic Maniacal Sanity
Goal: 60 books
Date Started: 7/01/2013

Currently Reading:
Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner.
Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis.
Beloved - Toni Morrison.

Finished Reading:
January:
Unnatural Exposure - Patricia Cornwell.
Of Arias and High Sticking - Crackinois. (A novel-length Rizzoli and Isles fanfic. I figure it counts towards my total >.> )
Fatal Voyage - Kathy Reichs.
February:
The Savage Altar - Åsa Larsson. (I forgot that I finished this a while ago, but it can go in February because I foresee this month being very busy xD )
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski.
Child of God - Cormac McCarthy.


Total: (6/60)

[Psychotic Maniacal Sanity]

Death To Clowns 05

wearegliding5683

Sorry to butt in, but I just wanted to say that I used to love reading JP's books (the only reason I don't so much any more is a time aspect since I'm so busy with university reading, haha). I've read:

Songs of the Humpback Whale
The Pact
Keeping Faith
Plain Truth
Salem Falls
Perfect Match
Second Glance
My Sister's Keeper
Vanishing Acts
The Tenth Circle
Nineteen Minutes

If you guys haven't read Plain Truth or Salem Falls, I would totally recommend them. They were my favourites (especially Salem Falls, for some reason). :3 Vanishing Acts was the first one I read and I loved that one too. <3

Again, sorry for butting in.

[Phantasmagoria Moth Gate]

19/100

Read:

When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
Hyrule Historia by Shigeru Miyamoto
Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me by Ed Brubaker
Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughn
Legion by Brandon Sanderson
The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi
Salvador Dali by Robert Descharnes
Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
Art of Warhammer Online
Father Gaetano's Puppet Catechism by Mike Mignola
The Box and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
The Talisman by Stephen King & Peter Straub
The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland -- For A While by Cathrynne M. Valente
Schismatrix Plus by Bruce Sterling
Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill



Reading:

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

[the little madeleine girl]

Name/Username: I e u n e
Goal: 25 new books!!
Date Started: January 10, 2013

Currently Reading: Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel: The Necromancer by Michael Scott

Finished Reading:
1000 Manga Ideas by 100 Manga Artists by Christian Campos
For One More Day by Mitch Albom


Total: 2/25

[Death To Clowns 05]

Psychotic Maniacal Sanity

Death To Clowns 05

wearegliding5683

Sorry to butt in, but I just wanted to say that I used to love reading JP's books (the only reason I don't so much any more is a time aspect since I'm so busy with university reading, haha). I've read:

Songs of the Humpback Whale
The Pact
Keeping Faith
Plain Truth
Salem Falls
Perfect Match
Second Glance
My Sister's Keeper
Vanishing Acts
The Tenth Circle
Nineteen Minutes

If you guys haven't read Plain Truth or Salem Falls, I would totally recommend them. They were my favourites (especially Salem Falls, for some reason). :3 Vanishing Acts was the first one I read and I loved that one too. <3

Again, sorry for butting in.

No worries.
I don't have any friends who read anyway so I never get to talk about books.. emo
Well, 'cept my grandpa, but he's not exactly in to JP's books ahaha..

My first JP book was My Sister's Keeper. There was just something about how she took such a sensitive subject and made it such an interesting story just blew my mind.
I've read;
My Sister's Keeper
Vanishing Acts
The Pact
Nineteen Minutes
House Rules
Lone Wolf
Sing You home
Change of Heart
Handle with Care

*thinks* that looks about right..

I own;
All listed above &;
Mercy
Salem Falls
Second Glance (Currently reading. But stopped since I got distracted by another book and I have a new book on the way so Second Glance is on hiatus lol)
Plain Truth
The Tenth Circle
Keeping Faith
Perfect Match

I reallllly wanna read Songs of the Humpback Whale. It just soundss so amazing. Then her new book The Storyteller sounds good too.

[Death To Clowns 05]

7 more days max until I get Frost Burned!!
4 days for release;1-3 days for shipping
SO.EXCITED.
emotion_bigheart


So current status:

Currently Reading:
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult (on hiatus)
Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline

To Read (eventually):

-Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs (3/5/13.... 4 days until release then 3 max for shipping. I.WANT.MY.BOOK.ALREADY)
-Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult (JP)
-The Tenth Circle by JP
-Keeping Faith by JP
-Mercy by JP
-Salem Falls by JP
-The Survivors Club by Lisa Gardner
-The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner
-The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner

Finished reading:

Jan;
I probably read at least 2 or 3 books but my brain is lacking that memory..

Feb;
-Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
-Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
-Killer Takes All by Erica Spindler
-Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

March:
-Breakneck by Erica Spindler

Current Total: 5 books finished of 25

[smolspacesiren]

Currently Reading:
tab -The Way We Were by Mary Campisi
tab -Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
tab -Circle Of Honor By Carol Umbridge

Finished Reading:
tab -As Dead As It Gets by Katie Alender

Total: (1/15):

[those city lights]

Currently Reading: Yovah's Angel - Sharon Shinn

Finished Reading:
o1. Alanna - Tamora Pierce
o2. In the Hand of the Goddess - Tamora Pierce
o3. Magic Study - Maria V. Snyder
o4. Matched - Ally Condie
o5. Rebel Heart - Moira Young
o6. The Goose Girl - Shannon Hale
o7. Archangel - Sharon Shinn
o8. Daugher of the Forest - Juliet Marillier
o9. City of Bones - Cassandra Clare
o1o. Princess of Glass - Jessica Day George
o11. The Woman Who Rides Like A Man - Tamora Pierce
o12. Lirael - Garth Nix
o13. Through The Ever Night - Veronica Rossi
o14. Enna Burning - Shannon Hale
o15. Quintana of Charyn - Melina Marchetta heart heart
o16. Hunting Ground - Patricia Briggs
o17. Plain Kate - Erin Bow
o18. Fire Study - Maria V. Snyder
o19. Beast - Donna Jo Napoli
o2o. Rose Daughter - Robin McKinley
o21. Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow - Jessica Day George
o22. The Raven Prince - Elizabeth Hoyt
o23. Beauty - Robin McKinley
o24. East - Edith Pattou
o25. The Raging Quiet - Sherryl Jordan
o26. River Secrets - Shannon Hale
o27. Fair Game - Patricia Briggs

Total: (*/*): 27/1oo

[furtive cherry]

Currently Reading:
Home; Toni Morrison
The Alchemist; Paulo Coelho

Finished Reading:
Forge; Laurie Halse Anderson
Twisted; Laurie Halse Anderson
Me Earl and the Dying Girl; Jesse Andrews
Fever 1793; Laurie Halse Anderson
A Stolen Life; Jaycee Dugard
Wintergirls; Laurie Halse Anderson
Total: (6/50):

[Demon Days]

Demon Days

Currently reading:
The Norton Anthology of American Literature: Volume B
mother courage and her children by bertolt brecht (for world lit class)
the winter of our discontent by john steinbeck

Book Count: 49/120
Finished reading:
1.) the man in the iron mask by alexandre dumas
2.) their eyes were watching god by zora neale hurston
3.)star wars: scoundrels by timothy zahn
4.)the beautiful and damned by f scott fitzgerald
5.)cloud atlas by david mitchell
6.)fallen by lauren kate
7.)between shades of gray by ruta sepetys
8.)halo by alexandra adornetto
9.)heart of darkness by joseph conrad (for world lit class)
10.)angelfall by susan ee
11.)Storm Front by jim butcher
12.)henry V by william shakespeare (for shakespeare class)
13.)saga: volume 1 by brian k. vaughan
14.)fool moon by jim butcher
15.)monster by walter dean myers
16.)hades by alexandra adornetto
17.)blonde by joyce carol oates
18.)grave peril by jim butcher
19.)i know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou
20.) star wars: agents of chaos by james luceno
21.) the nightmare garden by caitlin kittredge
22.)this side of paradise by f scott fitzgerald
23.) richard iii by william shakespeare (for shakespeare class)
24.)life of pi by yann martel
25.)heaven by alexandra adornetto
26.)summer knight by jim butcher
27.)a farewell to arms by ernest hemingway
28.)madame bovary by gustave flaubert
29.)the metamorphosis by franz kafa (for world lit class)
30.)thirteen reasons why by jay asher
31.)the hero with a thousand faces by joseph campbell
31.)meant to be by lauren morrill
32.) doctor faustus by christopher marlowe (for shakespeare class)
33.)the death of ivan ilyich by leo tolstoy (for world lit class)
34.)the legend of sigurd and gudrun by j.r.r. tolkien
35.)shades of earth by beth revis
36.)a teaspoon of earth and sea by dina nayeri
37.)the epic of gilgamesh (translated by andrew george)
38.)the abstinence teacher by tom perrotta
39.)the portable sixties reader (edited by ann charters)
40.)star wars: balance point by kathy tyers
41.)the iliad by homer
42.)edge of victory by greg keyes
43.)the mirrored shard by caitlin kittredge
44.)fuse by julianna baggott
45.)i swear by lane davis
46.) hamlet by william shakespeare (for shakespeare class)
47.) the merchant of venice by william shakespeare (for shakespeare class)
48.)the sagas of icelanders (edited by ornolfur thorsson)
49.)american supernatural tales (edited by s.t. joshi)

[Death To Clowns 05]

Ugh. Longest day ever today... I finished Think Twice sooner that I had originally thought so now I have no book for tomorrow at work.... Well.. That's a lie. I have like 3, but I don't wanna start them, then get Frost Burned then stop reading the one book halfway through so I can read Frost Burned... 'Sides, I guess I don't need to read anyway; We have an event going on anyway.. *shrug*
Idk. I'll probably take something anyway. Thinking about wither a Jodi Picoult or a new Lisa Garner book I got last weekend...

6 Days and counting: Frost Burned, March 5 release, 3 days max shipping


So current status:

Currently Reading:
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult (on hiatus)
The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner

To Read (eventually):

-Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs (3/5/13.... 3 days until release then 3 max for shipping. I.WANT.MY.BOOK.ALREADY)
-Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult (JP)
-The Tenth Circle by JP
-Keeping Faith by JP
-Mercy by JP
-Salem Falls by JP
-The Survivors Club by Lisa Gardner
-The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner
-The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner

Finished reading:

Jan;
I probably read at least 2 or 3 books but my brain is lacking that memory..

Feb;
-Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
-Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
-Killer Takes All by Erica Spindler
-Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult

March:
-Breakneck by Erica Spindler
Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline

Current Total: 6 books finished of 25