Kandice's Reading Progress

[Kandice]

My mom has a papasan chair on the patio and sits in it all the time. It's retty ugly (the material) but she adores that thing. She's a big reader too, and likes to curl up there with a cat or two, a book and a drink:) Her idea of heaven.

[Becky]

I hate my papasan chair.. I can never get comfy in it!

[Kandice]

Well my mom is pretty squishy and flexible (LOL) so maybe that's why she loves it. She sits cross legged in it.

[Becky]

Squishability and flexibility are generally recognized as the main requirements of people who wish to sit in papasan chairs. I am neither.

[Kandice]

Ha ha! Maybe you need a straight, wooden kitchen chair.

[Becky]

Nope... A nice overstuffed recliner would do nicely!

[Kandice]

Like I said...you are welcome and wanted, anytime;)

[Kandice]

48! YAY!!!!!!!!!

[Becky]

Pretties is only 49 pages??

[Kandice]

Ummm...no. I'll have to edit again. Gosh, it never ends...LoL! Thanks. My keyboard will not type a capital o. How weird is that?

[Becky]

That is weird. Is your shift key broken? Have you tried caps locking it?

[Kandice]

If I type an o on shift or caps lock nothing shows up. Good thing I only have 3 more days to use this keyboard! It's the one at my desk at work.

[Claire]

The Jane Austen Book Club A Novel - Karen Joy Fowler: On my TBR

The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling: My favourite fables from the book were The Fountain of Fair Fortune and The Warlock's Hairy Heart but even these were average. No excitement was shown throughout any of the stories and I would say they are more fables than fairy tales.

[Kandice]

So far this year:
1. Outlander Diana Gabaldon 896 pgs
2. Born in DeathJ.D. Robb 368 pgs
3. The Jane Austen Book Club A NovelKaren Joy Fowler 304 pgs
4. The Road Cormac Mccarthy 256 pgs
5. The ShiningStephen King 416 pgs
6. Blaze A Novel Stephen King 256 pgs
7. WatchmenAlan Moore Dave Gibbons 408 pgs
8. The Tales of Beedle the BardJ.K. Rowling 109 pgs
9. The Thirteenth Tale A NovelDiane Setterfield 406 pgs
10. ChokeChuch Palahniuk 293 pgs
11. Red RiverLalita Tademy 432 pgs
12. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan A NovelLisa See 288 pgs
13. Just After SunsetStephen King 367 pgs
14.I Capture the CastleDodie Smith 352 pgs
15.Peril at End House 287 pgs
16.The Abstinence Teacher Tom Perotta 368 pgs
17.A Great and Terrible BeautyLibba Bray 416 pgs
18. Night Shift Stephen King 320 pgs
19. Watchmen Alan Moore/Gibbons 408 pgs (again!)
20. Deception Point Dan Brown 556 pgs
21. The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins 374 pgs
22. Murder At HazelmoorAgatha Christie
23. A secret book I can't name 311 pgs
24. Maus I A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History Art Spiegelman 159 pgs
25. Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding 192 pgs
26. The Best American Short Stories 2007edited by Stephen King 398 pgs
27.UR Stephen King pgs ? (kindle)
28. Mr. Monk and The Two Assistants Lee Goldberg 288 pgs
29. Secret 373 pgs
30. I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb 912 pgs
31. Exit A A Novel Anthony Swoffard 304 pgs
32. Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse Lee Goldberg 304 pgs (weird)
33. Hideous Kinky A Novel Esther Freud 155 pages
34. Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood 374 pages
35. Maus II A Survivor's Tale And Here My Troubles BeganArt Spiegelman 144 pages
36. Small Steps Louis Sachar 272 pages
37. secret 352 pages
38. The Loop Nicholas Evans 511 pgs
39. Solaris Stanislaw Lem 204 pgs
40. Tuck EverlastingNatalie Babbitt 144 pgs
41. Peeps / Parasite Positive Scott Westerfield 336 pgs
42. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Confessions of Georgia Nicolson 256 pgs
43. Stargirl 188 pgs
44. The Castle in the Forest A Novel496 pgs
45. Secret Book 416 pgs
46. Duma Key611 pgs
47. Uglies 425 pgs
48. Pretties 384 pgs
49. Saturday 304 pgs
50. The Graveyard Book312 pgs
50.5 Brokeback Mountain 64 pgs
51. LT's Theory of Pets
52. Sabriel 496 pgs pgs
53. The Merlin Conspiracy 480 pgs
54. American Born Chinese 240 pgs
55. Annie on My Mind 234 pgs
56. A Northern Light 380 pgs
57. On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson 256 pgs
58. The Game 176 pages
59. 30 Days of Night 104 pgs
59.33 30 Days of Night Return to Barrow 144 pgs
59.66 30 Days of Night Dark Days144 pgs
60. Anne of Green Gables 320 pgs
61. Secret Book 339 pgs
62. The Hours 240 pgs
63. The Goose Girl 400 pgs
64.Sin City, Vol. 2 A Dame to Kill For 208 pgs
65. Sin City Hell and Back 320 pgs

[Kandice]

Of course, Becky is still ahead of me! I'll never really catch up...

[Allison]

you are doing great...and its so close!

[Jeane]

Kandice wrote: "I can NOT, for the life of me, see how Jeane got through this book. I am a whimpering bag of sadness. I can't imagine her state of mind at the end:("

You really don't want to know it! I loved the story but it did stop me functioning for the rest of the day and only got weaker the following days....but it is my favourite.

[Becky]

K -- I'm going to send you Howl's... I bet you that both you and Darby would like it. :D

[Kandice]

Here's the funny thing. I bought Howl's before we went on vacation, and the kids left it at the pool and someone took it. Last week I ordered it from the library, and when I was told it was in, it was not. It was a different Wynne-Jones, one of a series, not even the first. It's supposed to be coming, but I AM NOT holding my breath, so if you want to...

Of course I would be eternally gratefull:)

The children had started reading it, and liked it, before it was lost.

[Kandice]

I only counted the last two as half because they were audio and short.

[Kandice]

I finished Sabriel, and am very, very glad the next two in the series are already out. I don't plan on reading the second book next, but wouldn't be happy with waiting 2 years for it either!

Thanks for the rec, Allison.

[Claire]

Sabriel is on my TBR pile.

[Allison]

:D

[Kandice]

Claire wrote: "Sabriel is on my TBR pile."

You should read it! Do you have it, already, or need to get it? Either way, they are all available at my library, no waiting, so I bet you can borrow it from yours. It was very, very good.

[Claire]

I already have a copy, my DH has read them.

[Kandice]

54 books so far. I am pretty sure I will make 100 by December, but I guess it all depends on my fascination with bricks!!!

[Kandice]

I just started a Northern Light and it's already sucked me in. I can't believe hw much YA I have been reading. (and loving!)

[Allison]

Kandice wrote: "I just started a Northern Light and it's already sucked me in. I can't believe hw much YA I have been reading. (and loving!)"

ooo you'll love the whole thing I'm sure :)

[Claire]

I have Northern Lights on my TBR too, another of my DH favourites.

[Kandice]

A Northern Light Was such a beautiful read. I love it when an author really captures the voice of a character and makes me believe it was "written" by that character.

**************SPOILER******************

What a surprise to find the story had that kernel of truth!

[Kandice]

I LOVE Georgia Nicolson! She is someone I would like to meet.

[Kandice]

I like Diana Wynne Jones' style, but both books I have read of hers seem to be lacking. She creates these entirely new worlds for just a few hundred pages. Seems like her books should be bricks or series. These short ones don't do her writing, or imagination, justice.

[Kandice]

It just feels such a waste of an elaborate made-up world! Almost sad.

[Kandice]

I'm not complaining, Fiona!!!!! I think the worlds she creates are wonderful, I just wish there were more stories set in them. I guess I will HAVE to read that Chrestomanci series now, because it just feels like I am being cheated, somehow, to only get these little tastes!

At least I know the library has all of them. And, thank GOD I wont have to wait 24 years to finish!!!

[Kandice]

I got the 3 book series at the library today of 30 Days of Night. I just finished the first, and it was terrific. I wish they had ALL been available. At least I have two more to look forward to. The story is sparse, the illustrations gory, but excellent.

[Becky]

I see those all the time at B&N, and I have always wanted to check them out, but I didn't want to just BUY them.

I remember loving the way that the vampires looked in the movie... They were creepy, but I loved looking at them!

[Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)]

My Books Read 2009

1. 44 Cranberry Point
2. 50 Harbor Street
3. 6 Rainier Drive
4. The Appeal
5. Blood Brothers
6. Chopping Spree
7. Confessions of a Shopaholic
8. Dark Tort
9. Dead Until Dark
10. Double Shot
11. Fatally Flaky
12. Fearless 14
13. Gunpowder Green
14. High Noon
15. Memory in Death
16. Murder She Wrote, A Deadly Judgement
17. Murder She Wrtoe, A Palette for Murder
18. Murder She Wrote, A Highland Fling
19. Murder She Wrote, Martinis & Mayhem
20. Murder She Wrote, Rum & Razors
21. The Power of 3
22. Scarpetta
23. Shopaholic Takes Manhattan
24. Shopaholic Ties the Knot
25. Splintered Bones
26. Sweet Revenge
27. The Hollow
28. Lean Mean 13

Still have a long way to go for my 100 this year

[Becky]

Sallie, I think you are supposed to create your own thread for your reading goals. :)

[Kandice]

Ha ha!!! Congrats, Sallie on your 28.:)

Becky, I strongly suggest you get them at the library. I wouldn't buy them either ($60 bucks worth so far!) but they are so worth the read! The illustrations/art work are so unique. I know some people would be grossed out, but not me. I could study the panels for hours.

*swears she's not a freak!!!*

[Kandice]

I only counted each as a third, because it didn't seem quite fair to count them as whole. I need ot finish Anne so I can get 60!!!!

[Becky]

If you're a freak then I am too, because I swear I watched the movie 3 times in a row, just fascinated by the amount of teeth the vamps had! :D

[Kandice]

I have NOT seen the movie, but now I HAVE to! I can't believe it took me so long to read these. I could not stop reading yesterday. I know there's very little actual reading, but I studied those drawings as if my life depended on it.

I read in the kitchen as I cooked dinner. I read between washing a few dishes, doing laundry and sweeping and mopping. I even "let" Brady sit in the front seat with his dad on the way to Lowe's so I could sneak a few glances at the books in the back seat.

[Kandice]

I LOVED it Allison! Thank you so much, not for pushing, but making me aware, that it was a really lovely book and I needed to read it.

[Kandice]

Just finished an excellent, make you think book. I've been reading mostly YA lately, so I need to choose something that's not. Hard to do when I have so many of those staring at me!

[Kandice]

65 puts me ahead of schedule. I am no longer going to be embarassed about reading graphic novels or feel bad about counting them. Neil Gaiman was reading one when we interviewed him, and he wasn't embarassed about it, so there!!!

[Becky]

Fiona wrote: "You shouldn't have been embarrassed anyway, silly ladybird."

*Concurs*

[Becky]

And K, you're officially ahead of me. I'm only at 61.

*Grumbles and shoots death-glares at bunny book*

[Kandice]

Becky wrote: "And K, you're officially ahead of me. I'm only at 61.

*Grumbles and shoots death-glares at bunny book*"

Not for long, I am very sure:)

I started The Gunslinger again...it's pretty much exquisite! I'm saying that, knowing it is the least fave of the series, so I'm feeling sad I waited this long.

[Becky]

I'm glad that you are liking it now!! Yay! The Gunslinger isn't my favorite of the series either, but it does show where Roland has come from to get where he is, and picks up his journey with a bang... The Drawing of the Three is really where the series starts getting fantastic, but I love Eddie Dean, so... *shrug* I'm biased. ;)

I really hope that you love this series! I do. :D

[Kandice]

So far this year:
1. Outlander Diana Gabaldon 896 pgs
2. Born in DeathJ.D. Robb 368 pgs
3. The Jane Austen Book Club A NovelKaren Joy Fowler 304 pgs
4. The Road Cormac Mccarthy 256 pgs
5. The ShiningStephen King 416 pgs
6. Blaze A Novel Stephen King 256 pgs
7. WatchmenAlan Moore Dave Gibbons 408 pgs
8. The Tales of Beedle the BardJ.K. Rowling 109 pgs
9. The Thirteenth Tale A NovelDiane Setterfield 406 pgs
10. ChokeChuch Palahniuk 293 pgs
11. Red RiverLalita Tademy 432 pgs
12. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan A NovelLisa See 288 pgs
13. Just After SunsetStephen King 367 pgs
14.I Capture the CastleDodie Smith 352 pgs
15.Peril at End House 287 pgs
16.The Abstinence Teacher Tom Perotta 368 pgs
17.A Great and Terrible BeautyLibba Bray 416 pgs
18. Night Shift Stephen King 320 pgs
19. Watchmen Alan Moore/Gibbons 408 pgs (again!)
20. Deception Point Dan Brown 556 pgs
21. The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins 374 pgs
22. Murder At HazelmoorAgatha Christie
23. A secret book I can't name 311 pgs
24. Maus I A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History Art Spiegelman 159 pgs
25. Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding 192 pgs
26. The Best American Short Stories 2007edited by Stephen King 398 pgs
27.UR Stephen King pgs ? (kindle)
28. Mr. Monk and The Two Assistants Lee Goldberg 288 pgs
29. Secret 373 pgs
30. I Know This Much Is True Wally Lamb 912 pgs
31. Exit A A Novel Anthony Swoffard 304 pgs
32. Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse Lee Goldberg 304 pgs (weird)
33. Hideous Kinky A Novel Esther Freud 155 pages
34. Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood 374 pages
35. Maus II A Survivor's Tale And Here My Troubles BeganArt Spiegelman 144 pages
36. Small Steps Louis Sachar 272 pages
37. secret 352 pages
38. The Loop Nicholas Evans 511 pgs
39. Solaris Stanislaw Lem 204 pgs
40. Tuck EverlastingNatalie Babbitt 144 pgs
41. Peeps / Parasite Positive Scott Westerfield 336 pgs
42. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging Confessions of Georgia Nicolson 256 pgs
43. Stargirl 188 pgs
44. The Castle in the Forest A Novel496 pgs
45. Secret Book 416 pgs
46. Duma Key611 pgs
47. Uglies 425 pgs
48. Pretties 384 pgs
49. Saturday 304 pgs
50. The Graveyard Book312 pgs
50.5 Brokeback Mountain 64 pgs
51. LT's Theory of Pets
52. Sabriel 496 pgs pgs
53. The Merlin Conspiracy 480 pgs
54. American Born Chinese 240 pgs
55. Annie on My Mind 234 pgs
56. A Northern Light 380 pgs
57. On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God Further Confessions of Georgia Nicolson 256 pgs
58. The Game 176 pages
59. 30 Days of Night 104 pgs
59.33 30 Days of Night Return to Barrow 144 pgs
59.66 30 Days of Night Dark Days144 pgs
60. Anne of Green Gables 320 pgs
61. Secret Book 339 pgs
62. The Hours 240 pgs
63. The Goose Girl 400 pgs
64.Sin City, Vol. 2 A Dame to Kill For 208 pgs
65. Sin City Hell and Back 320 pgs
66. Sold 263 pgs
67. The Gunslinger Born 264 pgs
68. Those Left Behind 104 pgs
68.5 City of Others 112 pgs
69. The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet A Novel 320 pgs
70.Interlude in Death
71. Howl's Moving Castle 329 pgs
72. The Smoke Jumper 576 pgs
73. I, Coriander 288 pgs
74. The Drawing of the Three 480 pgs
75. In Odd We Trust 224 pages
76. The Last Days 320 pgs
77. Midnight in Death 96 pgs
78. That Old Ace in the Hole 384 pgs
79. The Waste Lands 448 pgs
80. The Books of Magic 196 pgs
81. The Lightning Thief 375 pgs
82. Chosen 260 pgs
83. Rapunzel's Revenge 144 pgs
84. Something Secret 444 pgs
85. Animal Farm 128 pgs
86. Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran 902 pgs (I audioed it and skipped the parts I already read!)
87. Wizard and Glass 896 pgs
88. Dark Tower The Gunslinger Born 176 pgs
89. Les Liaisons Dangereuses 372 pgs
90. Mr. Monk in Outer Space 288 pgs
91. The Final Warning 256 pgs
92. Anansi Boys 416 pgs