2010 100+ Reading Challenge

I've decided to join this challenge with my current goal of getting through my TBR pile which is outrageous to me! I've even been on a book buying hiatus since the FALL! Gah! It's killing me to not have Double Blind or Bone Magic yet!!

So, I think I've had a good start so far for the month of January. I've read the 1st 7 books of the Sookie Stackhouse series, 1 from the Color series (really don't know what to call it), the 1st 3 of the Morganville Vampires series & I'm currently reading Noah by Jacquelyn Frank (which I'd misplaced for over a year!). I'm just going to verify when I started reading the Sookie books because I can only count them if I started them on 01.01.10.

update: I checked my Twitter stuff. I started Dead Until Dark (Sookie #1) on 12.30.09, so it doesn't count toward the challenge. I'm already on book 11 for the year! Which tells me a few things: 1. I'm in one of my reading binges which usually is followed by a few months of very light reading; 2. I really enjoyed the series I started & 3. & most importantly...I need a life!

If this sounds like something you want to do, just click on the banner above. It should take to J. Kaye's signup post.

Happy Reading!

btw, I'm #645 on J.Kaye's Mr. Linky list.

2010 BOOKS READ:

JANUARY
1. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris (Sookie #2)
2. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie #3)
3. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris (Sookie #4)
4. Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris (Sookie #5)
5. Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie #6)
6. All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris (Sookie #7)
7. Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz (Colors series #1)
8. Glass Houses by Rachel Caine (The Morganville Vampires #1)
9. The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine (The Morganville Vampires #2)
10. Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine (The Morganville Vampires #3)
11. Noah by Jacquelyn Frank (Nightwalker Series #5)
12. Ecstasy by Jacquelyn Frank (Shadowdwellers Series #1)
13. A Taste of Magic by Tracy Madison (Magic? series #1)

FEBRUARY
14. A Stroke of Magic by Tracy Madison (Magic? series #2)
15. Sisters by Danielle Steele
16. Stealing Home by Sherryl Woods (Sweet Magnolias series #1)
17. A Slice of Heaven by Sherryl Woods (Sweet Magnolias series #2)
18. Feels Like Home by Sherryl Woods (Sweet Magnolias series #3)
*I'll be looking for more of her books eventually.*
19. not sure yet. Was going to read Pleasure for Pleasure by Eloisa James but it looks like it's the last of a sisters series (Essex sisters?). Ssssooo...I have to look for the rest. Hopefully, they're in the TBR. *le sigh*

MARCH

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OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

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originally posted 01.22.10

"In Death" Reading Challenge

Joined the "In Death" Reading Challenge hosted by Christine at The Happily Ever After....

If you'd like to participate, I have a link on my sidebar or you can find it here:
"In Death" Challenge

I went to Nora Robert's site to find the reading list. There are 31 books & novellas.

Thirty. One. O.O

Ok...I copied the list to post here so I could always find it, but I think I'll post a link to NR's list in my sidebar as well, so I'll find the updated lists. Yeah. That sounds like a good idea.

Chronological list of J. D. Robb books

Naked In Death
Introducing New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas …
Breaking every rule, Lt. Eve Dallas gets involved with Roarke, a suspect in her latest murder case. But passion and seduction have rules all their own.

Glory In Death
In Lt. Eve Dallas’s latest case, two murder victims have one connection: Roarke.

Immortal In Death
A top model is dead – and the suspect is none other than Lt. Eve Dallas’s best friend.

Rapture In Death
An investigation of three apparent suicides draws Lt. Eve Dallas into the world of virtual reality – where the mind can become the weapon of its own destruction.

Ceremony In Death
In the most dangerous case of her career, every step Lt. Eve Dallas takes brings her closer to a confrontation with humanity’s most seductive form of evil.

Vengeance In Death
A madman brutally murders two men – both with ties to an ugly secret shared by Lt. Eve Dallas’s new husband, Roarke.

Holiday In Death
In the future when computer technology brings lovers together, dating can be a deadly game.

“Midnight in Death” Silent Night anthology
Lt. Eve Dallas must postpone her first Christmas with Roarke to hunt for an escaped serial killer.

Conspiracy In Death
The pursuit of a serial killer leaves Lt. Eve Dallas’s job on the line. Now her hands are tied, between a struggle for justice – and a fight for her career.

Loyalty in Death
Lt. Eve Dallas faces her most ingenious foe – a “secret admirer” who taunts her with letters…and kills without mercy.

Witness In Death
Lt. Eve Dallas is thrust into the spotlight when she becomes the key witness in the brutal murder of a famous actor.

Judgment in Death
When a cop killer cuts loose in a club called Purgatory, Lt. Eve Dallas descends into an underground criminal hell.

Betrayal in Death
Lt. Eve Dallas is up against a hit man for the elite, whose next target may be her own husband, Roarke.

“Interlude in Death” Out of this World anthology
At a police conference off-planet, Lt. Eve Dallas is forced to forsake duty to take down a rogue ex-cop – and save the man she loves…

Seduction in Death
Lt. Eve Dallas is searching for a Casanova killer with a deadly appetite for seduction.

Reunion in Death
A birthday party sets the scene for a frightening reunion with a killer from Lt. Eve Dallas’s past.

Purity in Death
Lt. Eve Dallas must face the impossible: track down a new computer virus can spread from machine to man.

Portrait in Death
Lt. Eve Dallas faces a serial killer who offers his victims eternal youth by taking their life.

Imitation in Death
Lt. Eve Dallas becomes entangled in the deadly mind game of a vicious copycat killer.

Remember When
Writing together for the first time, number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts and her number-one New Times bestselling pseudonym J.D. Robb create a tale of con men and jewel thieves that blends present-day romance and futuristic suspense.

Divided in Death
Techno terrorists – a deadly new breed of hackers -- will kill to protect their secret and it's up to Lt. Eve Dallas to shut them down before the nightmare can spread to the whole country.

Visions in Death
Lt. Eve Dallas searches the darkest corners of Manhattan for an elusive killer with a passion for collecting souls.

Survivor in Death
Lt. Eve Dallas struggles to solve the murder of a seemingly ordinary family, and protect one small, terrified survivor.

Origin in Death
As scientists work to expand the limits of technology, Lt. Eve Dallas tracks the cunning, cold-blooded killer of a father and son.

Memory In Death
After a visit from her past, Lt. Eve Dallas walks a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons.

“Haunted in Death” Bump in the Night anthology
Lt. Eve Dallas’s current case has links to a rock star’s disappearance years before.

Born In Death
Lt. Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers are brutally killed on the same night.

Innocent in Death
Lt. Eve Dallas hunts for the killer of a seemingly ordinary history teacher and uncovers some extraordinary surprises.

“Eternity in Death” Dead of Night anthology
Lt. Eve Dallas clashes with a bloodthirsty, unnaturally powerful mystery man who promises his enthralled victims immortality.

Creation in Death
The serial killer nicknamed The Groom is back in town after an absence of nine years, resuming his horrific run of kidnapping, torturing and killing young women. Lt. Eve Dallas, who served as a detective in the frustrating first investigation, assumes lead role in this one.

Strangers In Death
Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a business tycoon whose strangled body is discovered tied to his bed, apparently the victim of a kinky sex encounter gone bad.

Salvation In Death
Ancient church rituals meet cutting-edge crime solving when Lt. Eve Dallas discovers that the consecrated wine a priest consumes just before his death was laced with potassium cyanide.

“Ritual in Death” novella in Suite 606 (Nov 2008)
In "Ritual in Death" Lt. Eve Dallas is plunged into the violent aftermath of ritualistic murder and into the mind of an alleged witness who can’t remember anything to save his life.

Promises in Death (February 2009)

Kindred in Death (November 2009)

“Missing in Death” novella in The Lost (December 2009)

from Nora Robert's site http://www.jdrobb.com/jdbooks.htm

ok...not must stop procrastinating and cleaning & start packing up my room. We're getting new tile in the house!

I'm so behind on my reading!

Series I'm behind on. Fave authors. Books to be purchased & books that are sitting in piles waiting to be read...

A list for me, really. This is a WIP (Work in Progress) which I just started typing off the top of my head, while looking at Ann Aguirre's site & the piles of books around my room. I need to fill in the blanks.

Ann Aguirre:
*Sirantha Jax series*
Double Blind (out now)
Killbox (10.2010)
Aftermath (9.2011)
Endgame (9.2012)

*Corrine Solomon series*
Hell Fire (4.2010)
Shady Lady (4.2011)

*Anthologies*
Vampire Romance 2

*new series*
post apocalyptic YA

Ann Aguirre as Ava Gray:
Skin Game (out now)
Skin Tight (6.2010)
Skin Privilege (1.2011)
Skin Dive (6.2011)

Ann Aguirre & Carrie Lofty as Ellen Connor:
*Dark Age Dawning series*
(book deal announced 11.2009, releases TBA)
Nightfall
Midnight
Daybreak

Sherrilyn Kenyon:
*Dark-Hunters series*

*BAD series*

*League of Assisins*

Kinley McGregor:
*Lords of Avalon*
Knight of Darkness (currently reading)

J.R. Ward:
*Black Dagger Brotherhood*
JM's book
Payne
Qhuinn
Blaylock

*angel series*

Yasmine Galenorn:
*Otherworld Series*

Nalini Singh:
*Psy-Changling series*

Dean Koontz:
*Odd Thomas series*
*Frankenstein series*

Fern Michaels:
*sisterhood? series*

Elizabeth Vaughn:
*Warprize series*
*Daggar star series*

Christine Feehan:
*Dark series*
Skylar's book

Lara Adrian:
*Midnight Breed series*

Jacquelyn Frank:
*Nightwalker series*
Noah

*Shadowdwellers*

Kat Richardson:
*Greywalker series*

Margorie Liu:
*Maxine Kiss series*

Ann Bishop:
*Black Jewels series*

Lisa Kleypas:
*Wallflower series*
A Wallflower Christmas

*Hathaway series*

Eloisa James:
*Dutchess series*
Villier's

Karen Marie Moning:
*Highlander series*
*Fae series*

Debbie Macomber:
*Cove series*
*Blossom Street series*

J.D. Robb:
*In Death series*

Chaz Mcgee:
*Dead Detective Series*

Charlaine Harris:
*Sookie series*

Jessica Anderson:
*2012 series*

Gena Showalter:
*Lords of the Underworld*

Cresley Cole:
new author for me

Oh, laaaawd! This list is getting so huge. It doesn't even include any new books or authors I've seen on blogs recently! And I'm sure I forgot a whole hella lot of them!

I know I have the Vampire Diaries series somewhere & several other YA series...Some. Where.

yeesh.

Does anyone else have this problem?

Sherrilyn Kenyon signing

I had a blast last week at the SK signing for Bad Moon Rising in Burbank. It was held at the Burbank Library so there was more room & Sherri had to give her talk one time.

Which sucked for me since I was late! boo to me!!

Anyway, this signing was the most fun because I ran into some K-Con peeps. So, I was not alone in my SK madness, which is always a good thing to know I'm not the only crazy out there! lol

I got to see Kaz, Whitney, Shame, & Wendy. I met for the first time Wendy (Isis_Nocturne) from twitter, who gave me some awesome ComicCon swag! I will try to add pix later of that. We also met Chris and Teresa there. Like I said, it was nice to have company this time around.

Most fun: Showing Sherri the text pic Christine sent of herself with a sign saying she missed her & wanted her to go back to NY/NJ. Sherri LOVED it! She asked that I send it to the email thingy...which I did, C!!! Also, SK took a pic of me in my Ash manga shirt, which I love! *sigh* Me with my big ole self...but hey, I'll live!

I stuck around to get my bookmarks signed. Snagged extra buttons to send to peeps. Dianna Love was there handing out swag for which I had some drama over. lol I was told late into the drawings that my # had been called for a BMR limited polo shirt that some gentleman won. I was sick. SICK I tell you! So I asked for a new #...and then my old # was called. bwaaahahaha! Dianna was awesome about it...totally teasing about it! good times!

I won a BAD passport & a wiggle bracelet. I love them. Again...I'll try to add pix of those later as well.

So that was my adventure...and it always is when I head out to LA. I always feel like Alice going down the rabbit hole! There are always detours, traffic...missed exits. Yeah.

I finished BMR...it's good. Fang was not what I expected...thank the AG!!! lol Had a couple of good Simi moments, and I really like Aimee. Thorn is badass awesome. Can't wait to see how that plays out. More set up for Nick & the Malachi, daylight Daimons, & I ♥ Savitar! (trying not to give away too many spoilers!) O.O

SANCTUARY FOREVER!!!

I'm very excited for K-Con! New Orleans here I come! ...now if I could just buy that plane ticket! gah!!

Bad Moon Rising by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The latest installment in the Dark-Hunter Series is coming out the beginning of August! I plan to attend the signing in Burbank, CA, that week! woohoo!

Are you ready for Fang & Aimee's story??? Will you be attending a signing as well?


"A stunning and suspenseful new landscape emerges in the thrilling Dark-Hunter world—a world where nothing will ever be the same again. . .


Fang Kattalakis isn't just a wolf. He is the brother of two of the most powerful members of the Omegrion: the ruling council that enforces the laws of the Were-Hunters. And when war erupts among the lycanthropes, sides must be chosen. Enemies are forced into shaky alliances. And when the woman Fang loves is accused of betraying her people, her only hope is that Fang believes in her. Yet in order to save her, Fang must break the law of his people and the faith of his brothers. That breech could very well spell the end of both their races and change their world forever.

The war is on and time is running out..."

My Blessed Thurday

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've not been feeling well. I had to call off work the last two days...which is not good. Economy is not great, and I'm up for my annual review. No, not good at all.

I blame my doctor. My primary MD changed my prescripton that was given to me by my GI doctor. I shouldn't have listened, because I ended up with severe nausea and vomiting...again. So I'm starting to feel better as I've gone back to the original prescription & will be seeing the GI doc next. bah.

Well...that wasn't why I was going to post. But it will help to put the following in to perspective for me and, hopefully, you too! Now, I'm not sure I posted it here or not because I didn't check before I started writing this, but I was offered a signed book by Ann Aguirre last week! Which was just so wicked cool when it happened!

While tweeting, I let her know I'd finally read Grimspace & really enjoyed it, and proceeded to tell her how I couldn't find my copy of Wanderlust. I'm sure I bought it! Really, I did...but it's lost. Anyway, she offered to send me a copy, and it arrived today!! I've already started reading it...totally ignoring the rest of my TBR! It's awesome. I already have a quote I like! lol.

Included with the signed copy, was a signed bookmark, & thank you card...for reading her book! Is that just the coolest or what? *fangirl*

I was really just so blessed and it really gave my spirits a boost when I got that package in the mail today! Btw...I'm saving the postage. I'm making it into a bookmark somehow! lol wha? It's not like I get a package from Mexico everyday! But...yeah. ima dork. ;p

*sidebar* Must add that my squishies came for a visit yestereday! They are so....eeee! I just want to bite them! Such lil' hawties! And they're getting so big!! V is now wearing size 10 shoes! He's not even 3 yet! His cousin, A...my lil' grandniece I bake with...she's 5 and wears a size 10!! lol I tell ya, they're growing like weeds. I, V's twin, is the smaller of the two, but he's growing so much too! *misty* They are all such little terrors blessings. Don't know what I'd do without them in my life!
*end sidebar*

Back to today...this evening I found out that I won a copy of Men of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong through Bitten by Books! btw...I found Bitten by Books via twitter! I lovin' me some Twitter today! lol

I'm very excited to get this new book by new-for-me author!

Ok, that's been my blessed Thursday! Hope you've had a good week and an even better weekend!

Contest: Caitlin Kittridge @ Bitten by Books

Bitten by Books is giving away "SEVEN sets of Night Life and Pure Blood by author Caitlin Kittredge"! Wow!! You have until 2.23.09 to drop by the site & learn how to enter.

One of the ways to enter was to read & comment on Bitten By Books's Kittredge's reviews. The Nocturne City series so very good. The giveaway is for the 1st two books in the series. Woohoo!

Get Marked Giveaway!!!

S.J. Day is having a contest to promote her new Marked Series. The 1st book is Eve of Darkness to be released 04.28.09.

Here are the prizes:

1. Advance Reading Copy of EVE OF DARKNESS
(1 Grand Prize winner)
2. Marked series coffee mug
(2 second place winners)
3. Marked series poster with the entire first chapter on the back
(5 third place winners)
4. Tor Books key chain that lights up when squeezed
(2 runner up winners)

Enter here. Contest ends 02.28.09 so there's time to enter!

Bookworm Award

Actually, this is a book meme really....which is fine with me!! lol

Nalini Singh tagged me the Bookworm Award, as I was one of the last 5 commentors on her blog! Wooohhoo!


Here's how it works: Open the book closest to you, not your favorite or most intellectual book, but the book closest to you at the moment, to page 56. Write out the fifth sentence, as well as two to five sentences following there. Then, you get to pass the Bookworm Award on to 5 people of your choice!

Book: What a Scoundrel Wants by Carrie Lofty...which I recently received from Ann Aguirre through one of her many awesome contests!

"It matters not. Nottingham's soldiers have been searching the forest for you, bullying and making arrests. We'll not go back to the days when the sheriff can toss apart our homes, when Robin isn't here to stand for us."

His pride shriveled like an apple left in the sun. Shortcomings dogged his every step, especially when faced with men who yet compared him to Robin. He needed no such reminders.

Not too bad, eh? lol

kk...here are my picks for the Bookworm Award:
Christine
DarlingDiva
Katiebabs
Blodeuedd83
Arathisiewen

Let's see what you keep near you!

Holiday Hell Contest

From 12.1.08 to 12.12.08, Brianna's Mommy, aka Nice Mommy/Evil Editor, is holding a contest daily, and also giving away 2 Kindles...which, I just found out, are ebook readers!!

So stop by her site and check out the Holiday Hell Contests...don't forget to enter in the Kindle 1 & Kindle 2 contests! They require some site hopping...but I think it's so worth it!

Have finished Kindle 1 entry...debating if I should go to bed or continue on to the Kindle 2 entry. hhhhmmm...

Oh, btw...if you're wondering if these author/blog contests are for real...they are! I've won an arc and signed books! (Romance: Buy the book...Lover Awakened ARC, 1st 3 Otherworld books signed by Yasmine Galenorn, and Ann Aguirre is sending me a signed copy of What a Scoundrel Wants by Carrie Lofty)

So give it a shot...what have you got to lose? A little bit of time on the web, which you were planning to spend anyway, right?

*elbows you* Come on...go take a look. Ya just might win a book, coffee mug...an Amazon KINDLE (worth $359!!!)...who knows? ^.~

I WON! I WON!!

I won a BOOK!!!

OMG...WHAT BOOK DID I WIN!!! AAAAAAAHH!

It's the one that Ann Aguirre was touting!!! What a Scoundrel Wants by Carrie Lofty!!!

WOOOHHOOO! All I have to do is write a review...eeep!
I suck at review writing...hhhmm...maybe Christine will help me!
^___^

I'm so excited!!!

I know what a scoundrel wants!

BDB Insider Guide & Family stuff

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

I'm sssoooo excited!

I received my BDB newsletter and it said that it was out today...but I was at B&N and it was not out! gah!!
Good thing I hadn't seen the newsletter prior to going our I'd have freaked on them!

Was bummed because I couldn't find the Dark-Hunter Companion...which I need to buy so I can get it signed on my NOLA trip!! woooohhoo!

It is much needed. This past week has been tiring...and quite honestly...I was not directly related to M.

Wait...back up...I haven't posted about this...my sil's (2 of them/sisters) father died last Monday of a hemmorhagic stroke. It was so surprising. The funeral service was held on Friday. He will be cremated tomorrow. Last night my sil's mother passed out for a few seconds and she was ill. We think it was a low blood sugar, but they had already fed her some food. So her blood sugar was by the time I got there to check it, her BP was quite high. So they to her to the MD today. They will be watching her more closely, making sure she's eating and drinking, taking her meds...which she forgot to take. She needs to rest...which she wasn't as she's had so much company. They are a large family.
Poor thing...50 years they were together...9 children, 30+ grandchilren, plus greatgrandchildren!!

It's just been a long weekend...and I was even involved with very much. I can only begin to imagine what my sil's is going through. My brothers are taking it hard too.

I've got to get to bed...but was having a hard time doing so even though I've only had about 4 hrs of sleep since yesterday 0730. I'm not a spring chicken, my peeps. I do not do well on little sleep anymore.

Work the next two days and the weekend...I'm having a hard time finding time to plan my trip to New Orleans...and it's now less 2 weeks away!! oi...I keep thinking...I'm wiping out my savings!!
But I'm so excited to be going! I don't know if I'll ever do something like this again...so I'm going to enjoy it!!

ok...i'm babbling now...so I shall retire.
Blessing to all!

New Addition to my Fave Authors List

Nalini Singh!!!

All I've done this past week since last Friday is read her first four books in the Psy-Changling series!!! Well, expect for the 3 shifts I put in at work, and minor chores at home! lol

I devoured these books, and would highly recommend them to you, especially if you have a thing for "weres" or "paranormal" stuff in your romance novels! Awesome, Awesome series!






p.s. I apparently designated this post as private back on 8.29.08 when I didn't mean to! lol


Well, I wolfed down the last book a day or two after it came out...

I so ♥ Dorian!!


Hope you get a chance to read this series!

Wanderlust Contest/Drawing

Hey, everyone....
Ann Aguirre is holding a contest/drawing in anticipation of her new release Wanderlust!!!

What you do is purchase the book online or in the store next week and post the receipt on her blog. This enters you in a drawing for $200 gift certificate to your choice of bookstore!!!

Is that friggin awesome or what???

Here's the link: Wanderlust Drawing

now...must be brave and order the books on line... O.O

The Library Thing's "Popular Books" meme

Hey everyone...found this at Christine's blog....which is where I find most things lately! lol Of course, she found this at ....so on, and so forth...

I filled this out just to compare, but do not agree with the list completely. One of my lj friends has a different list. At some point, I will work on that one as well, and compare that list to this one...if I'm ever up to it! lol

Books in RED are those that I've read at some time in my life.
Books in BLUE-GREEN are those that actually sit on my bookshelf, yet are unread by me.
Books in PURPLE are those that appeal to me and I hope to read in the not too distant future.
Books in YELLOW are those I can not remember if I've read them or watched the movie of them. Wha? O.O ...seriously, I have no recollection of that incident, ma'am! lmao

1. Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J.K. Rowling (32,484)
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6) by J.K. Rowling (29,939)
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling (28,728)
4. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) by J.K. Rowling (27,926)
5. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) by J.K. Rowling (27,643)
6. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling (27,641)
7. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (23,266)
8. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (21,325)
9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) by J.K. Rowling (20,485)
10. 1984 by George Orwell (19,735)
11. Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen (19,583)
12. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (19,082)
13. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (17,586)
14. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (16,210)
15. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (15,483)
16. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (14,566)
17. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) by Charlotte Bronte (14,449)
18. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (13,946)
19. Life of Pi by Yann Martel (13,272)
20. Animal Farm by George Orwell (13,091)
21. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown (13,089)
22. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (13,005)
23. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (12,777)
24. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (12,634)
25. The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien (12,276)
26. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden (12,147)
27. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (11,976)
28. The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Part 2) by J.R.R. Tolkien (11,512)
29. The Odyssey by Homer (11,483)
30. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (11,392)
31. Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut (11,360)
32. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (11,257)
33. The Return of the King : Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (11,082)
34. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (10,979)
35. American Gods: A Novel by Neil Gaiman (10,823)
36. The chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (10,603)
37. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (10,537)
38. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (10,435)
39. The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold (10,125)
40. Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card (10,092)
41. The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman (9,827)
42. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman (9,745)
43. Dune by Frank Herbert (9,671)
44. Emma by Jane Austen (9,610)
45. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (9,598)
46. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics) by Mark Twain (9,593)
47. Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club) by Leo Tolstoy (9,433)
48. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (9,413)
49. Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides (9,343)
50. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (9,336)
51. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (9,274)
52. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (9,246)
53. The Iliad by Homer (9,153)
54. The Stranger by Albert Camus (9,084)
55. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (9,080)
56. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (9,027)
57. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel by Margaret Atwood (8,960)
58. On the Road by Jack Kerouac (8,904)
59. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt (8,813)
60. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupery (8,764)
61. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (8,421)
62. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (8,417)
63. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (8,368)
64. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck (8,255)
65. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (8,214)
66. The Name of the Rose: including Postscript to the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (8,191)
67. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (8,169)
68. Moby Dick by Herman Melville (8,129)
69. The Complete Works by William Shakespeare (8,096) [The complete works? No. But I have read A Mid-Summer's Night Dream...which I loved, Romeo & Juliette, Julius Ceasar, MacBeth, & Hamlet.]
70. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (7,843)
71. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (7,834)
72. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (7,829)
73. Hamlet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare (7,808)
74. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck (7,807)
75. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens (7,793)
76. The Alchemist (Plus) by Paulo Coelho (7,710)
77. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (7,648)
78. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)(Barnes & Noble Classics) by Oscar Wilde (7,598)
79. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk (7,569)
80. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (7,557)
81. The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, Book 2) by Philip Pullman (7,534)
82. Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan (7,530)
83. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (7,512)
84. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (7,436)
85. Dracula by Bram Stoker (7,238)
86. Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad (7,153)
87. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (7,055)
88. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (7,052)
89. The amber spyglass by Philip Pullman (7,043)
90. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce (6,933)
91. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Milan Kundera (6,901)
92. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (6,899)
93. Neuromancer by William Gibson (6,890)
94. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (6,868)
95. Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen (6,862)
96. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman (6,841)
97. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (6,794)
98. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt (6,715)
99. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (6,708)
100. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (6,697)

Stats:
Read: 29
Shelf: 6
Want: 19
Movie: 2...lol

So...how about you? How many have you read???

I claim illness...

Ok...was talking to my auntie and all of a sudden noticed a pile o books I purchased TWO WEEKENDS AGO!!!

*facepalm* I'd Gibbs slap myself but i already have a headache in the works!

So, I've been fighting these non-existant allergies/non-cold symptoms for almost 2 weeks now. Well, I was tired of being cooped up in the house, so I went to Wally world with my auntie because she needed to buy something or other. I proceded to the book aisle and did not pass go.

Here are my purchases:

This is sooo funny in a ditzy way because my friend DarlingDiva asked me just last night whether I had read Gena Showalters' books yet!

I was all, "No, but I saw a big poster @ Central Plaza for the series and want to read them..." ...or something to that affect.
*eyeroll*

Hello!!! I alread bought a couple of them! I think someone else asked me about the books! And Christine has been raving about Sugar Daddy for weeks...and I was like "I still need to buy it!"

Yeesh! And how the hell do I FORGET THAT I BOUGHT ODDIE???!!!

In HARDBACK! o.o

LMAO...I was discussing books with a patient just last Friday because he's a Dean Koontz fan. Again..."I need to buy Odd Hours." blahblahblah

What a yutz.

originally posted at my lj

Book Nearest You meme...

Hey there, everyone!
The whole...two...peeps I know...here on blogger.
O.O

lolz

I've been tagged by Christine at The Happily Ever After... with the following meme:


Open the book nearest to you and open to page 123. Then post the 5th sentence. Very simple.

"Is it odd that it bugs me that we don't have to do anything with the number 4?" ...per Christine...'cuz she a lil crazy like that... O.O

So...C seemed to have a prob with leaving out the #4 and posted 2 lines, which I assume are the 4th & 5th sentence on page 123. Therefore, I shall do the same as she is the one who tagged me...
^__^


Here goes:
The closest book to me right now is...a friggin' stack of 'em!
But I will take the top one off... DARKLING! by Yasmine Galenorn.

Page 123...4th & 5th sentences...full sentences, per me:

"If I have to stake myself before letting that happen, I'll willingly do it."

"What say we stake Dredge instead?"

*claps* WOOT!! Good scene between Menolly and Roz!!! Love it!
Darkling is the 3rd novel in The Otherworld Series. I happen to love this series. The 4th book, Dragon Wytch, is due out on the shelves July 1st!!!


Wooohhhoo! Can't wait...so wanna Smokey!!!

So...I know like...two people here...Nancy & Christine. hmmm...and I'm guessing we can't pick the same people. So...I shall steal borrow some of C's commenters. lol...and I'll also pick a few from LiveJournal.
ooo...I lied...I know a couple more people!! ^.^

Consider yourself tagged:
Bebe @ blogger: My Life in a Nutshell

Katie(babs) @ blogger: Ramblings on Romance, etc.

:Candice: @ blogger/myspace: Shh! I'm Trying to Read

blodeuedd83 @ lj/myspace: At the court of Mur-y-Castell

dark_x_huntress @ lj: Things People Say

Phury Phiend Phollies...

And I so scored!!!

My purchases:
Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward *bounces*
Damien by Jacquelyn Frank *drools*

and Nalini Singh's Psy-Changeling series:
Slave to Sensation
Visions of Heat
Caressed by Ice
Mine to Possess



I could not find Doc Jess' book...well because I could not remember her friggin' name!!! gggaaahh! Then I couldn't remember the dayum title...Night something or other...Nightkeepers maybe? Or is that the name of the series...argh!

I went through every book of the romance section hoping to find a Jessica something with a cover I recognized... O.O

By the time I realized I needed serious help...it was time for check out. *sigh*

Besides...I think the B&N dude wasn't feeling my...OMG I CAN'T FIND PHURY...moment...
*snickers*

Weeelll....damn...it wasn't with the other BDB...wasn't in the 2 new books racks, which the B&N guy could not find EITHER...what the heck is a girl to do, I ask you???

...FREAK!!! THAT'S WHAT!

He finally found them at the FRONT OF THE STORE! on the backside of a display....*facepalm*

All is well, I have Phury. He will accompany to my CT tomorrow. I will take him into the room tomorrow...even if I can't read him, I will at least get to hang on to him while in the blasted chamber!!

*sigh* I don't like these tests much...Never had a CT but I imagine the chamber can't be that different from an MRI, which I've had a couple of...1 of my right knee and 1 of my head...yeah that was special!! O.O

Thank God I'm not particularly claustrophobic or I'd have some serious probs tomorrow.

*deep yoga breath*
*lets out the air slowly* sss'all goood...I got Phury...
I'm gonna be just fine!

Also...I keep finding books in series I want to read...but they're like the 3rd or 4th dang book...*hrumph*

I suppose that is good as the TBR pile in now beginning to topple!
^__^

Ok...need to get ready for bed as I must be up early to get to my test by 0800.

Oh! btw...I bought a new book mark!!! See it there at the bottom of the books? It says "believe"....I bought it to remember Criss Angel's Believe with Cirque du Soleil is coming soon!!

It is to remind me that I want to go....which means that I need to save $$$!!

...so maybe I shouldn't have bought all those boo....nah!!! lol

p.s. Shooot! I forgot to look for The Host by Stephanie Meyer!
*headdesk*
orginally posted at my livejournal

Odd Hours to arrive on shelves soon!

I had to post this....because I ♥ Odd Thomas!!!

ABOUT THIS BOOK
Only a handful of fictional characters are recognized by first name alone. Dean Koontz’s Odd Thomas is one of those rare literary heroes who have come alive in readers’ imaginations as he explores the greatest mysteries of this world and the next with his inimitable wit, heart, and quiet gallantry. Now Koontz follows Odd as he is irresistibly drawn onward to a destiny he cannot imagine and to undreamed of places where the perils he will face and the stakes for which he fights will eclipse all that he has known.

The legend began in the obscure little town of Pico Mundo. A fry cook named Odd was rumored to have the extraordinary ability to communicate with the dead. Through tragedy and triumph, exhilaration and heartbreak, word of Odd Thomas’s gifts filtered far beyond Pico Mundo, attracting unforgettable new friends—and enemies of implacable evil. With great gifts comes the responsibility to meet great challenges. But no mere human being was ever meant to face the darkness that now stalks the world—not even one as oddly special as Odd Thomas.

After grappling with the very essence of reality itself, after finding the veil that separates him from his soul mate, Stormy Llewellyn, tantalizingly thin yet impenetrable, Odd longed only to return to a life of quiet anonymity with his two otherworldly sidekicks—his dog Boo and a new companion, one of the few who might rival his old pal Elvis. But a true hero, however humble, must persevere. Haunted by dreams of an all-encompassing red tide, Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems. Now the forces arrayed against him have both official sanction and an infinitely more sinister authority…and in this dark night of the soul dawn will come only after the most shattering revelations of all.

Burnishing Dean Koontz’s stature as a master of suspense and one of our most innovative and gifted storytellers, Odd Hours illuminates a legacy of mystery and hope that will shine on long after the final page.
found at Random House, Inc.

So, anyone out read any of the Odd Thomas books?? Would love to hear your thoughts!

btw...Odd Hours will be released in hardback on 5.20.08