Aly's Book Challenge!!!!

[Aly]

21. From Dead to Worse

[Colleen]

Aly, you are on fire!

[Aly]

22. A Time To Kill
Awesome book BTW!!

[Aly]

Colleen, I feel on fire!!! I'm just starting the group read for THL

[Irene]

Aly wrote: "22. A Time To Kill
Awesome book BTW!!"


I think it is John Grisham's best.

[Aly]

I actually haven't read any. This was my first Grisham book, which is pretty surprising because I like court novels. Perri O'Shaugnessy is one of my favorite authors. I really really liked it! So I may have to pick up another one. Do you have suggestions?

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Aly - I really liked The Runaway Jury and thought the book was much better than the movie. And my favorite is still, and always will be The Firm.

[Aly]

Thanks, Lyn! I was looking at Runaway Jury on Amazon. I haven't seen the movie just in case I ever wanted to read the book LOL. I hate when books are made into movies and get changed! Harry Potter is one of my favorite series, but the movies didn't do the books much justice IMO.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Aly - I agree about the Harry Potters. In fact, I quit seeing the movies since I liked the books so much better.

[Aly]

23. Dead and Gone

Lyn, I've stopped watching the movies too. I don't want my imagination to be replaced by the movies!!

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Aly - I really have to get started on the Sookie Stackhouse series

[Aly]

24. The Last Boleyn

I didn't necessarily liked this book. It could have been about two hundred pages shorter and the author was incredibly sloppy with some of the facts.

[Aly]

I'm officially halfway through my challenge!!! WOO!!! It was a great little YA book by Diane Hoh
25. Titanic: The Long Night

[Donna, The Pusher]

You are on a roll Aly!

[Aly]

I feel like I'm behind on my reading but I'm actually two months ahead. I just haven't had much time for reading and I'm feeling bad about it!

I just had the worst experience ever. I had packed up my books for an indefinite amount of time and was in the process of taking them down to Kansas over the weekend (my fiance's parents live there and agreed to house my books and shelves). As if it wasn't bad enough that my books were going to be in storage for any amount of time, it rained the whole way down and we discovered in Wyoming that the tarp covering the book boxes had a leak. Several of my favorite books and one that I consider a prize possession had enough water in them that I could squeeze them and water would drip out! I'm still in mourning for my books. My fiance doesn't get it. I knew ya'll would.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Aly - I would have been horrified. Did you cry, cuz I would have. My husband would never get it, either though. I empathize, sympathize, and just plain feel for you girl! To lose any book is hard, but the "prize possession" must have been especially painful.

[Aly]

I did cry. It still makes me tear up a bit. I blow dryed a couple of the ones that really meant a lot to me. But they are still a little damp. :(

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Hopefully they will recover somewhat?

[Aly]

yeah they will just have super wrinkly pages :)

[Aly]

26. The Legion of Space
I loved this book!! Sci-fi written in the '30's with a female hero!!!

I'm freaking out. I graduate college tomorrow and I keep having this reoccurring nightmare that my name won't get called....

[Donna, The Pusher]

Did they call u???

[Aly]

LOL yeah!!! HURRAY!! I'M A GRADUATE!!!!

[Donna, The Pusher]

Congrats!!!!!!

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Great job Aly! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

[Aly]

Thank you Lyn and Donna!! It feels good but weird. Now I just need a job LOL

I found a book in the clearance bin of Barnes and Noble by David Loades called Tudor Queens of England that I'm going to start reading now. I've been rereading the Vampire Academy series since the new one is coming out next week, but this book was such a good deal that I had to buy it!

[Aly]

27. Spirit Bound.

[Aly]

28. Shutter Island
Hurray!! I finally finished it. I found the run on sentences to be a bit distracting and I didn't really get into the book until about halfway through, but overall I enjoyed it.

[Colleen]

Oh Aly, your poor books; I would have been bawling!

I can't believe I missed the graduation, CONGRATS my darling!!!

I feel like I am behind too, gr wise I have four to go but I need to take a break and read something I want to. I am about done with TLB and am finding it to be a quick read but I agree with the fact being off base. Not one of my favorites but I am glad I read it.

[Aly]

Thanks for the congrats!!! I'm still really upset about my books!!! One of them had to be thrown away as it started to mold. How can it mold when I tried drying it as much as I could?? :( It was an Alison Weir too.

I'm glad I read TLB too just to get another author's perspective on Mary. But the dates and things.... they kept jarring me out of the narrative which was super distracting!!

[Colleen]

You are welcome, it's a big accomplshment!

I would cry. An AW being thrown out? *sob*

[Aly]

I know!!!! I'm going to have to replace it eventually. I did cry! I was literally weeping over my books.

It was free book day at the library on campus!!! They were getting rid of a LOT of British History books!!! HURRAY!! So I snagged a couple (they are mostly about literature written in the 1700's) and I got a Romance novel written in German. My bf is trying to learn German, so I figured this would be a good thing to give him LOL

[Aly]

29. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Not currently one of my five, but it's that time of year again where I try to reread the whole Harry Potter series. I listened to this one on a road trip this weekend.

[Aly]

30. The Tudor Queens of England

FINALLY FINALLY finished this book. For being only two hundred pages, it sure was a beast to get through!

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Congratulations Aly!! Some of those are the worst.

[Aly]

I just organized my books here on GR and have discovered that I have read waaayyyy to many British type books LOL! But it feels good to have my books organized at least in cyber space.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

I know, Aly, one of the great advantages of GR, along with all the wonderful people I have met.

[Aly]

31. Marie Antoinette: The Journey

[Aly]

32. Anne of Green Gables. I got the first three in the series for .99 so I decided to read the first one for now. I'm crying like a baby (i've read this book like six times and I still bawl at the end). I forgot how sad/happy the ending was. This book is and probably will be in my top five all time books.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

I agree, Aly. I love that book, and like you, I cry like a baby at the end every time.

[Aly]

33. Anne of Avonlea

[Aly]

I went to two bookstores today (BAD ALY!!), one of the walking in variety and the other the online type. I bought the whole Stieg Larson Trilogy for my Kindle and a book by Leslie Carroll called Notorious Royal Marriages in paperback. .....I need to read Wolf Hall since I bought it so long ago, but the bookstore.... it called to me!! I was going into the store to buy the Tudor History Lovers' group read, but after looking at it, I don't think I'm going to participate this go around.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

doesn't look like something you are interested in, huh, Aly?

I try very hard to stay away from Bookstores of any kind, but the on-line ones are especially dangerous to me since they are harder to avoid. It is hot here today, so I may go to Borders to escape the heat, which is a BIG mistake.

[Aly]

yeah, I knew better than to go into that store!!

I hate not participating in group reads for THL but I honestly am not a fan of Plaidy. Everyone seems to really like her as an author which is great, but I find her books tedious. I've looked through the book and have read reviews and I'm not sure I actually want to read it. I'm still on the fence. The good thing is I have a couple of months to make up my mind, so that's a good thing! I might pick it up once I read a couple of the discussions.

[Colleen]

I am enjoying it so far Aly, it's a nice break to learn something about the Tudors other than just Henry and his wives. The only thing bothering me about the book so far is that Henry VII is such a cold man and I thought that he really grew to love EoY. I know it started out as just a political marriage but they were together for so long and had seven children so one would assume they grew on each other after a while.

[Wen]

Aly wrote: "I just organized my books here on GR and have discovered that I have read waaayyyy to many British type books LOL! But it feels good to have my books organized at least in cyber space."


Is there REALLY such a thing as TOO many British books? I know every time I finsih one and put it on the 'For Mom' pile, my son walks by and asks if it is another Tudor book or about England. He forgets I read lots of other stuff.

[Colleen]

I know, I don't think there is such a thing as too many Brittish books! LOL

[Aly]

haha!! I organized my kindle and it represents my GR shelves pretty well LOL. I eventually just had to make a folder titled "Tudors." No matter how many times I've read about them... I can't get enough!

Colleen, I think I might try it out. Jennifer seemed like she really liked it so far and we have pretty similar tastes. It's encouraging that you are enjoying it too!

[Colleen]

That would be so great if you joined in Aly!

[Aly]

I've been planning out all the books I want to read for the rest of the year, and I'm about fifty over my challenge LOL

Colleen, I'm reading the first chapter and so far I like it. I may have to buy it!

[Colleen]

Yay! I got mine from swaptree and I will not be trading it in for any other book.