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1. Read a book where the title begins with C.
2. Finish that book you started but never finished.
3. Read a classic - The Member of the Wedding ✔ – 18Aug17
4. Since it's the last full month of summer, read a book with a beach on it or in its title.
5. August is Read a Romance month so read a romance.
6. Read a book about traveling.
7. International Cat Day cat on the cover -
✔ - 06Aug178. Read a fantasy book.
9. Your choice - My Mrs. Brown ✔ – 04Aug17
Summer is here, yahoo! So many books, so little time!1. Read a book where the title begins with C.
2. Finish that book you started but never finished.
3. Read a classic.
4. Since it's the last full month of summer, read a book with a beach on it or in its title.
5. August is Read a Romance month so read a romance.
6. Read a book about traveling.
7. August 8 is International Cat Day and the 18th is Black Cat Appreciation Day and the 22nd is Take Your Cat to the Vet Day, read a book with a cat on the cover.
8. Read a fantasy book.
9. Your choice.
4. Now reading "American War" by Omar El Akkad. Takes place on the shrinking coastline of Louisiana in the late 21st century.
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7/9, 21 books
1. Read a book where the title begins with C--City of the Absent by Robert W. Walker--finished 8/30/17.
2. Finish that book you started but never finished--Listen, Liberal or Whatever Happened to the Party of the People by Thomas Frank--finished 8/12/17.
3. Read a classic.
4. Since it's the last full month of summer, read a book with a beach on it or in its title.
5. August is Read a Romance month so read a romance--A Winter's Scandal by Candace Camp--finished 8/9/17.
6. Read a book about traveling--40 Days and 1001 Nights--Tamalyn Dallal--finished 8/20/17 .
7. August 8 is International Cat Day and the 18th is Black Cat Appreciation Day and the 22nd is Take Your Cat to the Vet Day, read a book with a cat on the cover--And Then There Were Nuns by Kylie Logan--finished 8/6/17
8. Read a fantasy book--Dragon's First Christmas by Emily Martha Sorenson--finished 8/12/17.
9. Your choice--Trigger by Jessica L. Webb--finished 8/3/17
Bonus reads:
Bread and Honey--Frank Asch--finished 8/12/17
Star Jumper: Journal of a Cardboard Genius--Frank Asch--finished 8/12/17
Tough Love--Ava Sterling--finished 8/12/17
The Island--Alison Croggan--finished 8/12/17
Outlaw Hero--Lyra Daniels--finished 8/12/17
Farfel and Bob's Summer Bromance--Kendra Carmichael--finished 8/12/17
Runaway Amish Girl--Riley Moreno--finished 8/12/17
Gravity Buster: Journal #2 of a Cardboard Genius--Frank Asch--finished 8/13/17
The Underground Railroad--Colson Whitehead--finished 8/14/17
The Nine Lives of Frank Tipton--Teresa Powers--finished 8/17/17
Forsake All Others--Monica Marks--finished 8/17/17
White Cat, Black Cat, Two Cats--Sigal Adler--finished 8/17/17
Shadow Ritual--Eric Giacometti and Jacques Ravenne--finished 8/22/17
Time Twister: Journal #3 of a Cardboard Genius--Frank Asch--finished 8/23/17
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If you like cozy mystery stories, I recommend Kylie Logan's League of Literary Ladies. Each book is an homage to a classic story and author. They are fun!
Off on a 5-day camping trip and I'm ready to go!1. Read a book where the title begins with C.
2. Finish that book you started but never finished.
3. Read a classic.
4. Since it's the last full month of summer, read a book with a beach on it or in its title.
5. August is Read a Romance month so read a romance.
6. Read a book about traveling.
7. August 8 is International Cat Day and the 18th is Black Cat Appreciation Day and the 22nd is Take Your Cat to the Vet Day, read a book with a cat on the cover.
8. Read a fantasy book.
9. Your choice.
2. "Wooden" by Coach John Wooden with Steve Jamison
4. Now reading "American War" by Omar El Akkad. Takes place on the shrinking coastline of Louisiana in the late 21st century.
9. "Ghettoside" by Jill Leovy
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1. Read a book where the title begins with C.
2. Finish that book you started but never finished.
3. Read a classic.
4. Since it's the last full mo..."
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-J.K. Rowling 8-12-17For the most part, my view of the Harry Potter series is that each subsequent book in this series gets longer and more interesting because the kids are getting older, and so, the situations get more intense. It's so well written and has good values. Very good fantasy. In this book, the characters continued to mature and change, sometimes as expected and sometimes not, and there were a lot of interesting plot twists. I'd forgotten how much of Voldemort's backstory is revealed in this one.
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-J.K. Rowling 8-12-17For the most part, my view of the Harry Potter series is that each subsequent book in this series gets longer and more inte..."
I've reread them and I was surprised by how much I forgot and how much is left out of the movies. My niece and nephew just finished them and enjoyed them.
Right. even though I love the movies also, I think Half-blood Prince could have been a 2-part movie just as easily as Deathly Hallows was.
Summer is almost over and beginning several of my volunteer activities. But there's plenty of time to read!1. Read a book where the title begins with C.
2. Finish that book you started but never finished.
3. Read a classic.
4. Since it's the last full month of summer, read a book with a beach on it or in its title.
5. August is Read a Romance month so read a romance.
6. Read a book about traveling.
7. August 8 is International Cat Day and the 18th is Black Cat Appreciation Day and the 22nd is Take Your Cat to the Vet Day, read a book with a cat on the cover.
8. Read a fantasy book.
9. Your choice.
2. "Wooden" by Coach John Wooden with Steve Jamison
3. "Hag-Seed" by Margaret Atwood. This is her take on Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
4. Now reading "American War" by Omar El Akkad. Takes place on the shrinking coastline of Louisiana in the late 21st century.
6. "Tales from the Dodger Dugout" by Tommy Davis
9. "Ghettoside" by Jill Leovy
6. Read a book about traveling."Tales from the Dodger Dugout" by Tommy Davis
A bit of a stretch on this one, but Tommy Davis (former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers) tells of his life "Traveling" through the low minor leagues of baseball to the Big Show.
-Alexandra Potter 8-19-17An amusing contemporary Pride and Prejudice love story that also deals with how real people just can't measure up to the idealistic standards set by a fictional character who is designed to be a fantasy, meaning that a real relationship just won't look like a love story does within the pages of one's favorite book.
-Helen Fielding 8-23-17I liked this book; it wasn't as funny as the movie, but it was still quite good. However, if you don't like vulgarity, this is not the series for you.
-Helen Fielding 8-27-17Again, I liked this book; it wasn't as funny as the movie, but it was still quite good. However, if you don't like vulgarity, this is not the series for you.
-Helen Fielding 8-29-17This book in the series doesn't have a movie to go along with it, and based on the negative reviews I saw, that is because it wasn't as popular as the rest of the series. Now then, was I thrilled that so much time in Bridget's adulthood and that (view spoiler) in this novel, no, but I still found Bridget to be hilariously chaotic and lovable as always as she deals with parenthood, middle age, and the craziness of Twitter.
-Melody Carlson 8-30-17This was an entertaining rendition on the old look-alikes trade places/lives for a time plot. A rich modern New York City girl trades lives with a simple Amish girl for a week with funny but character building results. The novel was fairly well written and the character development was great for such a short novel. The main thing that I found lacking was that I wanted to know what happened after they switched back. Did Madison repair her relationship with her former best friend? Did Anna have more compassion towards her aunt? And there was so much else I would have loved to know about where their lives go after they each went home. Anyhow, I really liked it.
-Helen Fielding 8-30-17In the story of Bridget Jones, this is chronologically number 3, taking place very soon after the events in the second novel, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. The title makes the plot extremely obvious although knowing that it's Bridget Jones we're talking about, she is unsure exactly which one of the two men she "shagged" in less than a 48 hour period is the father of her baby until the baby is born and they do a paternity test (as she was too scared to do amniocentesis during the pregnancy). The novel is fairly well written, and it is funny and sweet. In this case, I think the book and the movie were equally good.
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-Alexandra Potter 8-19-17An amusing contemporary Pride and Prejudice love story that also deals with how real people just can't measure up to the idealistic stan..."
I have to admit I was not a fan of Bridget Jones' Diary. She was too angsty. Maybe I'm just too old for these types of books. The movie was better but then again it did have Colin Firth.
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1. Read a book where the title begins with C.
2. Finish that book you started but never finished.
3. Read a classic.
4. Since it's the last full month of summer, read a book with a beach on it or in its title.
5. August is Read a Romance month so read a romance.
6. Read a book about traveling.
7. August 8 is International Cat Day and the 18th is Black Cat Appreciation Day and the 22nd is Take Your Cat to the Vet Day, read a book with a cat on the cover.
8. Read a fantasy book.
9. Your choice.