Books for Breakfast

I'm catching up!  If you create a goal in Goodreads, they keep you updated on your progress. They'll tell you how many books you've read towards that goal, and how many books you are behind or ahead of schedule. I've been behind schedule for a few months now, but I'm catching back up :) All in all I read 6 books in June; not bad. My genres varied as expected: mostly mystery, with non-fiction, contemporary, and romance thrown in.  Cotillion by Georgette Heyer was my last read of the month. This was my second novel by her, and while it didn't end up being what I expected, I enjoyed it nonetheless. I was expecting a regency romance characteristic of Heyer. What I got instead was a humorous narrative of 1800's London, with a dash of romance. I'm looking forward to my next read by this author! The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie is written in the style of my favorite mysteries: a whodunnit. A review I read of this title claimed that you would never...

And I thought February was hard... This month has been difficult and I pretty much lost all interest in reading about halfway through. So I'd say it's a feat that I managed to read 5 books. I've got my reading mojo back now; I'm still deep in Gone With The Wind and need to get back to regularly reading it. I also started reading Pride and Prejudice again as a comfort read and I'm enjoying it so much. Here's to hoping May is a good month for reading goals! There's not much to say except to list the stats for this month. Since I didn't read that much, I don't have many strong feelings about any of the titles I did read. (Except for In The Woods ; check out my review for it if you want to read some intense feelings...). April Stats 5 total books 4 total authors 2,184 pages read Longest Book: HP and The Goblet of Fire (734 pages) Shortest Book: The Penderwicks (262 pages) Favorite Read: The Penderwicks Least Favorite Read: Mr...

March has been crazy, scary, and confusing; let's be honest! The whole month has been fraught with uncertainty and I'm kinda glad it's over, but reading-wise, it ended up being a banner month for me. I felt like I was transported back when I was a homeschool kid with nothing better to do after finishing her lessons than to curl up on the couch and read for a few hours. On a tangent, my mom used to do this reading program with my sister and I during our summers. It kind of cracks me up now to think about it because in no way did my sister and I need any encouragement to read more than we already did, but I imagine it was a way to keep us focused on more academic things, and away from the T.V. all of the time, even when we were on break. The goal was to read at least a certain number of books between the months of June and August... I want to say it was 60 books but I honestly can't remember. We kept track much like I do right now... a running list of the title, autho...

February kind of stunk... even with the extra day this year it felt so short and just flew by. There was also some other stuff going on in my life and all that combined meant I only read 6 books this month. I'm still struggling with the distraction; I want to read, but I often get side-tracked by other things and it gets left for last. So my priority this month is to really spend those free minutes reading instead of vegging on something else. Here are my wrap up stats for the month of February. Here's to hoping March is more full! 6 total books 6 total authors 1,244 pages read Longest Book: Caraval @ 407 pages Shortest Book: Bear Has a Story to Tell @ 30 pages Favorite Book: If Least Favorite Book: The Awakening of Miss Prim

Here we are, at the end of another month. See you again next year, January! I decided I would do a wrap-up every month with some fun facts about my reading habits from the month. You can see the full list of titles I read every month on the page titled "Running List." I'm just going to share some quick info for the folks who tune in regularly :) Total Titles Read: 8 Total Authors Read: 7 Number of Pages Read: 2,415 Longest Book: Little Women at 449 pages Shortest Book: Let Me Be a Woman at 192 pages  Favorite Book: Little Women  Least Favorite Book: A Clever Alliance