For some reason, I feel like October was a bad reading month, but looking at my stats, it was a lot better than most months! I think the 24 Hour Read-a-Thon had a lot to do with that.
Number of book reviews posted: 30
Number of books read: 49
Number of pages read: 16,213
5 Star Review:
Posts:
Complete Booker Prize Challenge
Read-A-Thon Posts
Review: Lap Blanket from Reading Comfort
Wordless Wednesdays – 10/7/2009
Wordless Wednesdays – 10/14/2009
Wordless Wednesdays – 10/21/2009
Thursday Tunes:
List of book reviews: (in alphabetical order by author’s last name)
Haunting Bombay – Shilpa Agarwal
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much – Allison Hoover Bartlett
Tell Me Something True – Leila Cobo
Catching Fire – Suzanne Collins
Casting Off – Nicole Dickson
Swan for the Money – Donna Edwards
Rumors – Anna Godbersen
The Queen’s Mistake – Diane Haeger
Mistress of the Vatican – Eleanor Herman
Pendragon’s Banner – Helen Hollick
The Glass Painter’s Daughter – Rachel Hore
Juliet, Naked – Nick Hornby
Lies My Mother Never Told Me – Kaylie Jones
The Cupid Effect – Dorothy Koomson
Hold Still – Nina LaCour
Every Last Cuckoo – Kate Maloy
Cleopatra’s Daughter – Michelle Moran
Ruined – Paula Morris
The Cloister Walk – Kathleen Norris
Jane Austen Ruined My Life – Beth Pattillo
Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter – Lisa Patton
The Last Dickens – Matthew Pearl
Goldengrove – Francine Prose
A Map of the Known World – Lisa Ann Sandell
The Department of Lost and Found – Allison Winn Scotch
The Girl from Foreign – Sadia Shepard
A Change in Altitude – Anita Shreve
Snap – Carol Snow
The Wordy Shipmates – Sarah Vowell
Learning to Breathe – Karen White
Books I’ve read this month: (in alphabetical order by author’s last name)
Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Lace Reader – Brunonia Barry
Manhood for Amateurs – Michael Chabon
The Maze Runner – James Dashner
After – Amy Efaw
I Feel Bad About My Neck – Nora Ephron
America’s Prophet – Bruce Feiler
Valeria’s Last Stand – Marc Fitten
Hummingbirds – Joshua Gaylord
The Telling – Jo Graham
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies – Seth Grahame-Smith & Jane Austen
Queen Takes King – Gigi Levangie Grazer
The Magicians – Lev Grossman
Firefly Lane – Kristin Hannah
The Demon King and I – Candace Havens
The Laws of Harmony – Judith Ryan Hendricks
Mistress of the Vatican – Eleanor Herman
Pendragon’s Banner – Helen Hollick
By the Time You Read This – Lola Jaye
Dial H for Hitchcock – Susan Kandel
Fallen – Lauren Kate
Apologize, Apologize! – Elizabeth Kelly
The Blue Manuscript – Sabiha Al Khemir
French Milk – Lucy Knisley
The Cupid Effect – Dorothy Koomson
Ash – Malinda Lo
The Season – Sarah Maclean
I’ll Scream Later – Marlee Matlin
The Widow Clicquot – Tilar J. Mazzeo
Cleopatra’s Daughter – Michelle Moran
The Girl Next Door – Elizabeth Noble
The Lost Recipe for Happiness – Barbara O’Neal
Bed of Roses – Nora Roberts
Angel Lane – Sheila Roberts
Tales of Beedle the Bard – J.K. Rowling
A Map of the Known World – Lisa Ann Sandell
The Teashop Girls – Laura Schaefer
Late Night Talking – Leslie Schnur
At a Loss for Words – Diana Schoemperlen
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See
The Secret of Joy – Melissa Senate
The Weight of Water – Anita Shreve
The Tricking of Freya – Christine Sunley
The Wordy Shipmates – Sarah Vowell
Lovestruck Summer – Melissa Walker
The Last Will of Moira Leahy – Therese Walsh
The Girl on Legare Street – Karen White
Learning to Breathe – Karen White
12 comments:
That's a bad reading month? I felt like October was a bad one, too, but I guess it wasn't so terrible. I am not going to make 400 books anymore, though. My reading has slowed down apparently. :(
I hope November is a better (?) reading month :)
I'm always impressed by how much you can read in such a short time! Even though you felt like it was a bad reading month, you still managed to read more in a month than most people in a year! Wow!
Hopefully the next month will feel better for you :D
I know you read a lot of YA which are easy reads but 50 books in a month is a lot. you must do nothing else. do you ever go out to the movies?
Heehee, 49 books, yah, that's terrrrrrible ;)
Readathon does skew stats, though.
You must be reading all the time Swapna :) Good to see that u finish so much . Way to go..
49?????????????
oh Krishna! I can never ever think of getting past 5 a month :( :(
Well I loved Cleopatra's Daughter!
I need to get something by Karen White :(
I'm sure you realize this already, but just as a clarification, 'readathon does skew the stats' was not to denigrate your 49 this month, but to explain why you might have felt it was a slow month before realizing you read 49...
I thought I'd read less this month too, but it turned out to be pretty good! I suppose it's easy to forget the read-a-thon, as it was only one weekend, and focus on all the other days. Anyway, your reading is impressive as always. =) I'm really looking forward to seeing what you thought on a lot of those books!
Meghan @ Medieval Bookworm
holy wowsers! 49 books? I'm lucky if I get in 5. You are my hero ;-)
I am always amazed at how much you manage to read. I am envious!
one can read A LOT, go to school, go to work, have a household, and have a life. it's true.
You're the fastest reader I know! I'm glad you're able to accomplish so much. Congrats!
--Anna
Diary of an Eccentric
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