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Name/Username: Breathlessx
Goal: 30
Date Started: January 1, 2013

Currently Reading:
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice
Push by Sapphire
The Accident by Elie Wiesel

Finished Reading:
Heartless by Sara Shepard 1.4.13
Wanted by Sara Shepard 1.9.13
Identity by Ted Dekker 1.11.13
Stupid Perfect World by Scott Westerfeld 1.12.13
Starters by Lissa Price 1.18.13
Twisted by Sara Shepard 1.21.13
Notorious Nineteen by Janey Evanovich 1.22.13
Ruthless by Sara Shepard 1.23.13
The Darkest Evening in the Year by Dean Koontz [Started in '12] 1.25.13
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare REREAD 2.16.13
Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion 2.19.13 SO SO SO GOOD!!
Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead Ohh, Adrian, Adrian, Adiran!! ;'[
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare REREAD 2.27.13
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare REREAD 3.2.13
Ominous by Kate Brian REREAD 3.6.13
Hate List by Jennifer Brown 3.7.13
Stunning by Sara Shepard
Burned by Sara Shepard
The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle
The Straight Road to Kylie by Nico Medina
Undone by Brooke Taylor
Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz
Light by Michael Grant
Promises to Keep by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes 5.22.13
Lean Mean Thirteen by Janet Evanovich 5.25.13

21/30

After June, my list better explode
Currently reading:

star wars: bloodlines by karen traviss

Book Count: 93/120
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)
50.)mother courage and her children by bertolt brecht (for world lit class)
51.)the winter of our discontent by john steinbeck
52.)the marlowe papers by ros barber
53.)the hunchback of notre dame by victor hugo
54.)pinocchio by carlo collodi
55.)star wars: star by star by troy denning
56.)the short novels of john steinbeck by john steinbeck
57.)star wars: the last jedi by michael reaves and maya kaathryn bohnhoff
58.)star wars: shadow games by michael reaves and maya kaathryn bohnhoff
59.)star wars: dark journey by elaine cummingham
60.)sweet thursday by john steinbeck
61.)freedom by jonathan franzen
62.)a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki
63.)star wars: enemy lines by aaron allston
64.)the jungle books by rudyard kipling
65.)the children of odin: nordic gods and heores by padraic colum
66.)star wars: traitor by matthew stover
67.)the call of cthulhu & other dark tales by h.p. lovecraft
68.) macbeth by william shakespeare (for shakespeare class)
69.) much ado about nothing by william shakespeare (for shakespeare class)
70.) taming of the shrew by william shakespeare (for shakespeare class)
71.)things fall apart by chinua achebe (for world lit class)
72.)the inner reaches of outer space: metaphor as myth and as religion by joseph campbell
73.)in dubious battle by john steinbeck
74.)star wars: destiny's way by walter jon williams
75.)this book is overdue!: how librarians and cybrarians can save us all by marilyn johnson
76.)the wretched of muirwood by jeff wheeler
77.)the house at the end of hope street by menna van praag
78.)star wars: force heretic by sean williams and shane dix
79.)wicked by gregory maguire
80.)how animals grieve by barbara j. king
81.)built of books: how reading defined the life of oscar wilde by thomas wright
82.)star wars: the final prophecy by greg keyes
83.)star wars: the unifying force by james luceno
84.)anna karenina by leo tolstoy
85.)the godfather by mario puzo
86.)the movement of stars by amy brill
87.)star wars: dark nest by troy denning
88.)the autistic brain: thinking across the spectrum by temple grandin
89.)how my summer went up in flames by jennifer salvato doktorski
90.)star wars: betrayal by aaron allston
91.)the fountainhead by ayn rand
92.)star wars: annihilation by drew karpyshyn
93.)star wars: into the void by tim lebbon

Feral Lunatic

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Name/Username: Da Flea
Goal: 40
Date Started: 1 Jan 2013

Current and Potential Reads:
Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists

Finished Reading:
William Gibson - Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl #3) (started in 2012)
Brad Warner - Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality (started in 2012)
Patricia McKillip - Ombria in Shadow
Michio Kaku - Physics of the Impossible
Karen Lord - Redemption in Indigo
James Swallow - Nemesis (Horus Heresy #13 )

Brian Aldiss - Hothouse
Louise Erdrich - The Antelope Wife

Total: 8/40

Punching Bag

Finished a book!

Currently Reading:
"The 5th Wave" by Rick Yancey
"Call of the Jersey Devil" by Aurelio Voltaire
"The Thief of Always" by Clive Barker
"Land of the Minotaurs" by Richard A. Knaak [on hold]

Finished Reading:
"Punkzilla" by Adam Rapp
"By the Time You Read This I'll Be Dead" by Julie Anne Peters
"Coraline" by Neil Gaiman
"Birth of the Firebringer" by Meredith Ann Pierce
"Odd and the Frost Giants" by Neil Gaiman
"Frost Burned" by Patricia Briggs
"Half-World" by Hiromi Goto
"The Ghoul Next Door" by Lisi Harrison
"The Drowned Cities" by Paolo Bacigalupi
"Howling Mad" by Peter David
"Fiend" by Peter Stenson
"Butch Cassidy: The Lost Years" by William W. Johnstone
"Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat" by Gwen Cooper


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My review for "Homer's Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale, or How I Learned about Love and Life with a Blind Wonder Cat" by Gwen Cooper:

Beautiful, inspirational, and an overall joy to read. I couldn't help but hug my precious little black cat, Loki, closer as I read each chapter. So many emotions coursed through me with each page that I turned, and by the last three chapters, I had tears (of overwhelming worry, then joy, then deep appreciation) in my eyes even after I closed the book for the final time. It was a pleasure to go on Gwen's journey with her three amazing cats, but most of all, Homer's journey! As a bookseller at Barnes and Noble, I ended up placing this as my recommendation on our "Our Staff Recommends" display proudly. True, the book has a few years on it, but it is very much still worth the read and I highly recommend it for cat lovers, and even those who don't love cats. There are a lot of life lessons in here, and I think just about anyone will fall in love with these felines as I have. An easy 5 stars and a place on my favorites list.

Currently reading:
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
On Hold:
The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa

Finished Reading
1. The Wheel of Time Book 2: The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
2. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
4. For One More Day by Mitch Albom
5. Howl's Moving Castle by: Diana Wynne Jones
6. All Just Glass by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
7. Arch Enemy by Frank Beddor
8. Winter's Passage by Julie Kagawa
8/40
re-read
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa
4/0
Currently Reading: Silver Borne - Patricia Briggs

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
o28. Yovah's Angel - Sharon Shinn
o29. The Indigo Spell - Richelle Mead
o3o. Angelfall - Susan Ee
o31. Son of the Shadows - Juliet Marillier
o32. Requiem - Lauren Oliver
o33. Moon Called - Patricia Briggs
o34. The Alleluia Files - Sharon Shinn
o35. Princess of the Silver Woods - Jessica Day George
o36. Blood Bound - Patricia Briggs
o37. Iron Kissed - Patricia Briggs
o38. Bloody Jack - LA Meyer
o39. Bone Crossed - Patricia Briggs


Total: (*/*): 39/1oo

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Name/Username: zielins
Goal: 50
Date Started: January 1st 2013

Currently Reading:
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
A Murder is Announced bu Agatha Christie

Finished Reading:
January
Loki by Mike Vasich (started in 2012)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (started in 2012)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Seven-percent Solution by Nicholas Meyer

February
The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie
Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

March
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman
The Devil's Novice by Ellis Peters
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

April
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

May
This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
The Metamorphoses by Ovid (started in 2012)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (started in 2012)

Total: (20/50):
“I now walk into the wild.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild


Currently reading:
Mulan Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend, with Related Text Edited and translated by Shiamin Kwa and Wilt L. Idema
On Hold:
The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa

Finished Reading
1. The Wheel of Time Book 2: The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
2. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
3. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
4. For One More Day by Mitch Albom
5. Howl's Moving Castle by: Diana Wynne Jones
6. All Just Glass by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
7. Arch Enemy by Frank Beddor
8. Winter's Passage by Julie Kagawa
9.Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
9/40
re-read
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Seeing Redd by Frank Beddor
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa
4/0

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Chatty Pumpkin

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

Currently Reading:
A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin.
The Blood Spilt - Åsa Larsson.

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.
March:
Beloved - Toni Morrison.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley.
April:
Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis.
The Perfect Puppy - Gwen Bailey.
May:
The Name of the Star - Maureen Johnson.
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag - Alan Bradley.

Total: (11/60)
Currently reading:

star wars: tempest by troy denning

Book Count: 94/120
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)
50.)mother courage and her children by bertolt brecht (for world lit class)
51.)the winter of our discontent by john steinbeck
52.)the marlowe papers by ros barber
53.)the hunchback of notre dame by victor hugo
54.)pinocchio by carlo collodi
55.)star wars: star by star by troy denning
56.)the short novels of john steinbeck by john steinbeck
57.)star wars: the last jedi by michael reaves and maya kaathryn bohnhoff
58.)star wars: shadow games by michael reaves and maya kaathryn bohnhoff
59.)star wars: dark journey by elaine cummingham
60.)sweet thursday by john steinbeck
61.)freedom by jonathan franzen
62.)a tale for the time being by ruth ozeki
63.)star wars: enemy lines by aaron allston
64.)the jungle books by rudyard kipling
65.)the children of odin: nordic gods and heores by padraic colum
66.)star wars: traitor by matthew stover
67.)the call of cthulhu & other dark tales by h.p. lovecraft
68.) macbeth by william shakespeare (for shakespeare class)
69.) much ado about nothing by william shakespeare (for shakespeare class)
70.) taming of the shrew by william shakespeare (for shakespeare class)
71.)things fall apart by chinua achebe (for world lit class)
72.)the inner reaches of outer space: metaphor as myth and as religion by joseph campbell
73.)in dubious battle by john steinbeck
74.)star wars: destiny's way by walter jon williams
75.)this book is overdue!: how librarians and cybrarians can save us all by marilyn johnson
76.)the wretched of muirwood by jeff wheeler
77.)the house at the end of hope street by menna van praag
78.)star wars: force heretic by sean williams and shane dix
79.)wicked by gregory maguire
80.)how animals grieve by barbara j. king
81.)built of books: how reading defined the life of oscar wilde by thomas wright
82.)star wars: the final prophecy by greg keyes
83.)star wars: the unifying force by james luceno
84.)anna karenina by leo tolstoy
85.)the godfather by mario puzo
86.)the movement of stars by amy brill
87.)star wars: dark nest by troy denning
88.)the autistic brain: thinking across the spectrum by temple grandin
89.)how my summer went up in flames by jennifer salvato doktorski
90.)star wars: betrayal by aaron allston
91.)the fountainhead by ayn rand
92.)star wars: annihilation by drew karpyshyn
93.)star wars: into the void by tim lebbon
94.)star wars: bloodlines by karen traviss
Currently Reading: Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
Paper Towns by John Green
Werewolves: A Field Guide to Shapeshifters, Lycanthropes, and Man-Beasts by Dr. Bob Curran
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Finished Reading: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith
Total (12/50)

Thieving Scrounger

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Currently Reading:
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan


Loved it. Loved, love, loved it. That is one of the best books I've read in a while. Definitely let me know what you think after you've read it!! biggrin

Magnetic Lover

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Currently Reading:
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke

Finished Reading:
xxJanuary 2013
The Book of Heroes by Miyuki Miyabe
Waiter Rant by Steve Dublanica
The Weight of Silence by Heather Gudenkauf
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
xxFebruary 2013
Princess Nevermore by Dian Curtis Regan
Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Dash and Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
xxMarch 2013
33 Snowfish by Adam Rapp
Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones
Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
Neil Flambe and the Marco Polo Murders by Kevin Sylvester
xxApril 2013
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood
The 10 PM Question by Kate De Goldi
Slated by Teri Terry
Struck By Lightning by Chris Colfer
xxMay 2013
Turning Japanese by Cathy Yardley
Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan (I adore David Levithan, plus I needed a good cute love story to read.)

Finished Re-Reading:
xxMay 2013
Good Enough by Paula Yoo

Total: 19/36

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Blue Eyed Wallflower


I actually finished it the other day and forgot to update it on here.
I really liked it.
I was concerned at the beginning that it was going to be too cheesy.
Which is saying something because I like your stereotypical cheesy love story.
But I really really really really liked it.
Although, sometimes his characters remind me a lot of each other.
Not that that's a bad thing, but I feel like you could place them in the same situations and the same thing would happen.
Mainly Paul reminded me of Ely a lot from Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List.
But that doesn't really matter. I really like his books.

Thieving Scrounger

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

Currently Reading:
Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Girls' Life Guide to Growing Up by Karen Bokram and Alexis Sinex
Period Pieces by various authors
Friend Me by Cathy Hopkins
Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things by Charles Panati

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
The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci
Janes In Love by Cecil Castellucci
April
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May

Total: (8/22):

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