Notes on what I'm reading

Just finished this and need to write my review, hopefully in the next day or so.  

Genre - Mystery, Fiction

 Almost done.  Interesting...

Genre - Travel

 I just got this from the library last week and am done!  I'll be writing my review this week!  :)

Genre - Fiction, Vampires, Mystery

hmmm...that's all for now.  Review to come.

Genre - Fiction, Vampires, Young Adult

I finished this last week and will be posting a review on it tomorrow as part of her virtual book tour.

Genre - Fiction

NookColor and reading

While I haven't posted as much as I probably should have, I have been reading a lot the last couple of months. My husband got me a NookColor for our anniversary and part of Christmas. I have been loving it!

I've been downloading a lot of free books as well a trying to figure out how to borrow and load books from Overdrive.com.  Hopefully, I will be able to start catching up on what I have been reading.  One thing that I am finding from all of the free books that I've been downloading and some of the B&N Steals 'N' Deals that I've picked up is that my TBR pile is growing significantly as I discover new authors that I like. 

2010 TBR Challenge

I've decided to sign up for a 2nd challenge for 2010. It's the 2010 Original TBR (To Be Read) challenge that is being hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.  Participants cannot change their lists, although they can have an alternate list, after December 31.

Here are the guidelines that she has set for this challenge (pulled from the Challenge website).

• Pick 12 books – one for each month of the year - that you’ve been wanting to read (that have been on your “To Be Read” list) for 6 months or longer, but haven’t gotten around to.
• OPTIONAL: Create a list of 12 “Alternates” (books you could substitute for your challenge books, given that a particular one doesn’t grab you at the time)
• Then, starting January 1, read one of these books from your list each month, ending December 31.
• the challenge is to read 12 TBR books in 12 months -- you can read those all in one month if you want, or one a month, or however you wanna do it. 
• you need to have a list posted somewhere for others to see (even if it's in a comment here)
• you CANNOT change your list after January 1st, 2010!!! 
• you can create an Alternates list of MAXIMUM 12 books, if you want, in order to have options to choose from (you can read these in place of books on your original list).
• audiobooks and e-books ARE allowed
• re-reads are NOT allowed, as they aren't TRUE "TBRs"
• you CAN overlap with other challenges
• OPTIONAL: you can join the Yahoo! Group created for participants of the TBR Challenge, if you want to have a place to keep your list, or just to share with others about how you're doing! :)

The books I plan to read:

1. Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes - Completed and reviewed - Jan. 23, 2010
   
2. A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat by Zell Miller - currently reading
3. The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs - Completed and reviewed - Feb. 10, 2010
4. The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen by Syrie James - Completed and reviewed - April 10, 2010
5. Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
6. Treason by Don Brown - currently reading
   
7. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
8. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
9. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
10. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
11. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
12. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky - Completed and reviewed - Feb. 10, 2010

My alternate list of books to read:

1. When Character was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan by P. Noonan
2. Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper
3. The Fate of Katherine Carr by Thomas H. Cook
4. Dark Places by Gilliam Flynn
5. The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
6. The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
7. Sashenka by Simon Montefiore
8. Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella
9. The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
10. The Billionaire's Vinegar by Benjamin Wallace
11. Common Sense by Glenn Beck
12. Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell

I can't wait to get started on this challenge.

My Reading Table

My 1st reading challenge

I just signed up for my first reading challenge, the Flashback Challenge.  It's being co-hosted by Book Lust.

Here is the link to the Flashback Challenge.  I'm going to participate at the Book Worm level - 3 books and will try to do their mini-challenge of:

1. Re-read a favorite book from your childhood - Anne of Green Gables

2. Re-read a book assigned to you in high school -

3. Re-read a book you loved as an adult - The Da Vinci Code

I'm going to have to think about what books I want to read for this challenge and will update this post soon.

Updated January 1, 2010:  Well, I've decided on two of the three books which I'm going to reread for this challenge.  I've added them above in bold.  I still have to think of a book that I was assigned to read in high school.