This month I did really great! I'm pleased with how much reading I've been doing. Of course, it doesn't put a dent in my pile, because I get new books all the time. But it's great to at least be reading a lot. I'm not working on any of my other goals however, (writing, exercise, art, being more positive about life) so something needs to change this next month. Let's see what I can do...
1. Chainfire by Terry Goodkind
Read in: 12 days
Pages: 748
2. Indigara by Tanith Lee
Read in: 2 days
Pages: 195
3. The Reigate Puzzle by Arthur Doyle
Read in: 1 day
Pages: 17
4. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
Read in: 3 days
Pages: 381
5. Phantom by Terry Goodkind
Quote: “People who for whatever reason don’t want to see the truth can by acutely hostile to it and shrill in their denunciation of it. They frequently turn their venomous antagonism on whoever dates point out the truth.”
Read in: 4 days
Pages: 673
6. The Second Duchess by Elizabeth Loupas (won from LibraryThing’s monthly give-away) (Really loved this book! It’s based on the poem My Last Duchess, which I really love.)
Quote: “She probably doesn’t use the privy, either, but just wafts her merda up to heaven in clouds of perfume.´(This made me laugh a lot)
Read in: 2 days
Pages: 369
7. Mythology by Edith Hamilton (a little anthology of stories about the Greeks and Romans. I was trying to get my facts right after finishing the Percy Jackson series. It was a bit dry though, slow to get through.)
Quotes: “Love and the Soul…had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union would never be broken.”
“Love, however, cannot be forbidden.”
“Remember too that you are young; life is all before you.”
“The mind knows only
What lies near the heart” (part of a poem)
Read in: 6 days
Pages: 336
8. The Crooked Man by Arthur Doyle
Read in: 1 day
Pages: 15
9. Confessor by Terry Goodkind (finally finished the Sword of Truth series! So epic and really great, though the ending wasn’t quite as good as I’d hoped)
Quote: “Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it.”
Read in: 2 days
Pages: 603
10. Ecstasia by Francesca Lia Block
Quotes: “The happier you are, the less you need.”
“If I were a wish
I’d grant myself to you” (part of a song)
Read in: 2 days
Pages: 196
11. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen (I like Pride & Prejudice a lot more)
Read in: 5 days
Pages: 562
12. Deeply, Gravely, Quite Anxiously Concerned by Peter Medeiros (I know the author!!!)
Read in: 2 days
Pages: 54
13. Mother West Wind’s Neighbors by Thornton W. Burgess
Quote: “Sammy Jay is mighty fine to look at, but fine clothes never yet made a gentleman.”
Read in: 1 day
Pages: 223
14. The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis (this book was AWESOME. Can’t wait to read more of her stuff.)
Read in: 5 days
Pages: 509
15. Sabriel by Garth Nix
Quote: “Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?”
Read in: 3 days
Pages: 491
16. Lirael by Garth Nix
Quote: “it is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.”
Read in: 3 days
Pages: 705
Total Books Completed: 16!!!
Total Pages Read: 6,077
Average Pages Per Day: 196
Average Days To Read A Book: 3.4
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