60 Book Challenge Update

  2011 Reading Challenge    You have read 15 books toward your goal of 60 books.     15 of 60 (25%)     At your current pace, you’re 11 books (18%) behind. Thanks goodreads for letting me know I’M BEHIND…SO BEHIND!! But I’m hoping to catch up soon! Hey, I’m 25% done with my challenge! Some [...]

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Book List – 3 Books that need to be unearthed from the TBR pile

This Week’s Topic is: 3 Books that Have Been on Your TBR List the Longest So many books in the pile, so little time!! Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry – This is my all-time favorite movie and I know I’ve started McMurtry’s tome at least 2 or 3 times and I know the book will [...]

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Book List: Favorite Eras

This Week’s Topic is: 3 Favorite Eras to Read About SOOO many books to list!! I’m *starting* to realize (OK, starting to “admit”) I have a series addiction…I can’t count how many series I have started and have yet to finish and there seems to always be another great one I’m only just finding out [...]

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A Child’s Book List

This Week’s Topic is: 3 Books That You Loved As a Child Most of us bibliophiles will find it hard to only pick 3 books. The Dr. Seuss/I Can Read All By Myself Beginner Books and Sesame Street book sets were always a staple growing up.  My mom has kept most of the kid books [...]

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The Book List…Back to HS!

This Week’s Topic is: 3 Books That Take You Back to High School Shakespeare – especially Hamlet along with Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Henry IV, Part One (Seems like we read a lot of Shakespeare, but these were my favorites. I remember making a cartoon of Hamlet. I wonder if I [...]

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The Book List…Best/Worst Sidekicks

This Week’s Topic is: 3 Best/Worst Sidekicks to a Hero (you can choose 3 best, 3 worst, or a combination of both) BEST: Ron and Hermione in Harry Potter (oh, and Hedwig!) Saphira in Eragon Pea Eye in Lonesome Dove WORST: Roscoe Brown in Lonesome Dove ************************************************************************************************************ The Book List is just a short and [...]

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The Book List…Books into Movies

This Week’s Topic is: 3 Books That Should Be Made Into Movies This is a very interesting topic because it seems more likely than not that the books I pick to read either have already been turned into movies or are in the process of becoming movies. 1.  Outlander by Diana Gabaldon – This would [...]

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