Recent Book Activity

About me...I live out in the country in a small town that's actually considered a ghost town. I love reading (of course), working on scrapbooks, crocheting, collecting vintage photographs, & playing with my 2 nieces & 3 nephews.

I read just about anything. I like reading new authors & won't put down a book just because I don't like it. Curiosity gets the best of me & I have to see how every book ends. Right now, my favorite authors are Mary Higgins Clark, Megan Crane, John Saul, & J.K. Rowling (like I said, I'll read anything!).

I do have an updated profile on RABCK.com.

My birthday: September 16th
My birthday buddy: Marilina85 (Sept 7th)


What I've Read in 2012:

January:
1. Undeniable--Gayle Eden
2. Sliding into Home--Kendra Wilkinson
3. Unicorn Bait--S.A. Hunter
4. Sorcha's Heart--Debbie Mumford

February:
1. Catching Fire--Sizanne Collins
2. The Mating--Nicky Charles
3. Moving to Hawaii: 2011--Mike Fook
4. Mockingjay--Suzanne Collins
5. Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman--Dorothy Sterling
6. The City of Ember--Jeanne DuPrau

March:
1. The People of Sparks--Jeanne DuPrau
2. The Prophet of Yonwood--Jeanne DuPrau
3. The Diamond of Darkhold--Jeanne DuPrau
4. Dear George--George Burns

April:
1. Heart of a Cowboy--Reeyce Smythe Wilder
2. Daughter of Time--Sarah Woodbury
3. Glass Slippers Give You Blisters--Mary Jane Auch
4. Prisoner of My Desire--Johanna Lindsey
5. The Grimm Legacy--Polly Shulman

May:
1. Fifty Shade of Grey--E.L. James
2. Lost on Route 66: Tales From the Mother Road--edited by Katelyn Bohl & Eric Wilder
3. Nim's Island--Wendy Orr




What I've Read in 2011:

January:
1. Kingdom Keepers III: Disney in Shadow--Ridley Pearson
2. Pleasure Unbound--Larissa Ione
3. When Blood Calls--J.K. Beck

February:
1. The Night Tourist--Katherine Marsh
2. The Starter Wife--Gigi Levangie Grazer
3. Disney Twenty-Three--Spring 2011
4. Disney Twenty-Three--Summer 2009
5. Eat Pray Love---Elizabeth Gilbert
6. Halloween Night--R.L. Stine
7. The Waitress--Sinclair Smith
8. Prom Dress--Lael Littke
9. Callaghan's Bride--Diana Palmer
10. The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide--Elisabeth Hasselbeck

March:
1. The Vampire's Promise--Caroline B. Cooney
2. Kiss of Death--Peter Beere
3. Same Place, Same Time--C.J. Carmichael
4. Midnight Secrets Vol II: The Thrill--Wolff Ryp
5. Tyler--Diana Palmer
6. Calhoun--Diana Palmer

April:
1. Ethan--Diana Palmer
2. Disney Twenty-Three: Fall 2009
3. The Fallen 1: The Fallen & Leviathan--Thomas E. Sniegoski
4. Disney Twenty-Three: Winter 2009
5. Disney Twenty -Three: Spring 2010

May:
1. Palo Alto--James Franco
2. Jack Sparrow: The Coming Storm--Rob Kidd
3. Jack Sparrow: The Siren Song--Rob Kidd

June:
1. Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose--Paris Hilton
2. The Girl's Guide to Homelessness--Brianna Karp
3. The Heir--Grace Burrowes
4. Return of the Lawman--Lisa Childs
5. The Fallen 2: Aerie & Reckoning--Thomas E. Sniegoski

July:
1. 100 Cupboards: Book 1--N.D. Wilson
2. Connal--Diana Palmer
3. Informed Risk--Robyn Carr
4. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children--Ransom Riggs
5. Seize the Day--Sharon Windnam

August:
1. Beau Crusoe--Carla Kelly
2. Willow--Wayland Drew

September:
1. Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same: the Life & Times of Some Chickens--Sloane Tanen
2. The Fifth Day of Christmas--Betty Neels
3. The Tell-Tale Heart & Other Writings--Edgar Allan Poe
4. Harden--Diana Palmer
5. Evan--Diana Palmer

October:
1. I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You--Ally Carter
2. Some Girls: My Life in a Harem--Jillian Lauren
3. A Husband for Margaret--Ruth Ann Nordin

November:
1. The Barefoot Princess--Christina Dodd
2. Alinora--Kara Lockley
3. Graham: Training the Earth-Born Lord--Brenna Lyons

December:
1. The Hunger Games--Suzanne Collins




BBC's The Big Read "Top 200" books I've read (so far)

READ: 32
HAVE NOT READ: 168

1. The Lord of the Rings--JRR Tolkien
2. Pride & Prejudice--Jane Austen
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galazy--Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire--JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird---Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh--AA Milne
10. Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte
15. The Catcher in the Rye--JD Salinger
17. Great Expectations--Charles Dickens
18. Little Women--Louisa May Alcott
21. Gone with the Wind--Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone--JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets--JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban--JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit--JRR Tolkien
32. One Hunderd Years of Solitude--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
38. Persuasion--Jane Austen
40. Emma--Jane Austen
43. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgeral
47. A Christmas Carol--Charles Dickens
51. The Secret Garden--Frances Hodgson Burnett
63. A Tale of Two Cities--Charles Dickens
70. Lord of the Flies--William Golding
99. The Princess Diaries--Meg Cabot
118. The Picture of Dorian Gray--Oscar Wilde
136. The Color Purple--Alice Walker
170. Charlotte's Web--E.B. White
171. Frankenstein--Mary Shelley
173. The Old Man & the Sea--Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name of the Rose--Umberto Eco
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being--Milan Kundera
194. The War of the Worlds--H.G. Wells
199. The Very Hungry Caterpiller--Eric Carle




"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" books I've read (so far):

READ: 37
HAVE NOT READ: 964
HAVE BUT HAVEN'T READ YET: 6

116. The Reader--Bernhard Schlink
256. The Unbearable Lightness of Being--Milan Kundera
272. The Color Purple--Alice Walker
293. The Name of the Rose--Umberto Eco
301. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--Douglas Adams
399. One Hundred Years of Solitude--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
437. A Clockwork Orange--Anthony Burgess
456. To Kill a Mockingbird--Harper Lee
474. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris--Paul Gallico
494. The Lord of the Rings--J.R.R. Tolkien
508. Lord of the Flies--William Golding
521. The Old Man and the Sea--Ernest Hemingway
529. The Catcher in the Rye--J.D. Salinger
532. The End of the Affair--Graham Greene
589. The Power and the Glory--Graham Greene
610. The Hobbit--J.R.R. Tolkien
619. Gone With the Wind--Margaret Mitchell
699. The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald
790. The War of the Worlds--H.G. Wells
801. The Yellow Wallpaper--Charlotte Perkins Gilman
809. The Picture of Dorian Gray--Oscar Wilde
863. Little Women--Louisa May Alcott
876. Great Expectations--Charles Dickens
883. A Tale of Two Cities--Charles Dickens
904. Jane Eyre--Charlotte Bronte
909. The Purloined Letter--Edgar Allan Poe
911. The Pit & the Pendulum--Edgar Allan Poe
913. A Christmas Carol--Charles Dickens
916. The Fall of the House of Usher--Edgar Allan Poe
925. Last of the Mohicans--James Fenimore Cooper
931. Frankenstein--Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
933. Persuasion--Jane Austen
936. Emma--Jane Austen
938. Pride and Prejudice--Jane Austen
940. Sense and Sensibility--Jane Austen
970. Candide--Voltaire
982. A Modest Proposal--Jonathan Swift