I'm already about halfway through the final book in the Keys to the Kingdom series! :boogie:

Now I just need to find something else to read.......

I ended up just starting The Turn of the Screw. We had it. and I thought I'd like to get it done now, rather than worry about it over spring break! It's difficult, but I do like it so far.

Cora- Rock on, great job! :D

Taiyo- Oh, great books! I adore Garth Nix. ^^ Have you read his other stuff? Sabriel is one of my favorite books of all time. The rest of that series is good too.

@Iltu- Thankies ^.^

of course....after I posted that I haven't read anything in the past 3 days...o.0

Its been rather crazy. But tommarrow I finish my book!

@ Iltu: No. Keys to the Kingdom is the only series by him that I've read.

Cora- Sometimes life just gets in the way like that, huh? But Hopefully you'll have some time for reading soon!

Taiyo- Well if you are ever in want of a good read, you should definitely pick up Sabriel! :yes:
Also, haha, I just realized I have not read Keys to the Kingdom. >< I was thinking of The Seventh Tower series by the same author. My bad!

I've heard that The Seventh Tower is a good series.

*sigh* Too bad I had to leave a lot of my books home with mom until the end of the semester.

Sad news: Howl's Moving Castle's Diana Wynne Jones Passes Away - Anime News Network

Oh no, I hadn't heard! That's so sad. She's one of my favorite authors of all time, I can't believe she passed on...

That is really sad. I didn't really know her as an author, but I know Miyazaki's work and that was a very good story.

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So I can't find my old booklist... i'm gonna write another one until I can find it.

New Book List~!
Goal ~ 1/50; Start date: May 16, 2011 ~ End date: May 15, 2012

Future Plans:

1. Scottish Witchcraft and Magick - Raymond Buckland / Pages: 202 (excluding appendix)

Currently Reading:

1. The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce / Page: 4 out of 139
2. The Book of Massage - Lucinda Lidell / Page 16 out of 189

Already Completed:

1. Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk / Total pages : 260

I just heard the sad news about Diana Wynne Jones from Neil Gaiman's journal.

Hoping to get a lot of reading done while I'm at home. Hopefully I'll be feeling better rested by next week.

I went and nearly started crying.. I had tears in my eyes, I love her books! T.T

Originally Posted by TaiyoTsuki

I'm already about halfway through the final book

For some reason I stopped reading at this point initially and was all, oh snap it is only March and TaiyoTsuki is pretty much finished their 2011 challenge. o.o;

Cora is torn.....she really wants to read manga.....but because she is such an avid reader she finds reading manga for her booklist to be cheating......She's considering making it like 10 manga = 1 book......just so she doesn't fall behind in her reading schedule...o.0

Originally Posted by Cora Lorington

Cora is torn.....she really wants to read manga.....but because she is such an avid reader she finds reading manga for her booklist to be cheating......She's considering making it like 10 manga = 1 book......just so she doesn't fall behind in her reading schedule...o.0

You could always raise your target to compensate for reading manga?

Originally Posted by Crimson Fang

You could always raise your target to compensate for reading manga?

that is an idea as well...hmm...

Wow, I was just thinking of the book Dogsbody yesterday, and how I really should have finished it. I hate when authors pass away.

I literally have 10 books on my table next to me that I should be reading. All non-fiction though. Probably should change that ...

@ Chrimson: Actually, I started this challenge last August. Sorry to burst your bubble there.

Well, I've finished with Keys to the Kingdom. Now starting on Stones of Abraxas.

I bought four new books today. Basically they are inspirational quote books :p. More books to my collection. XD

KITA finished The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (finally) and cried at the end because what I thought would happen did happen, just not like I thought it would happen, but the fact that it happened was depressing.
Kita would have finished it sooner, but my grandpa was told he has cancer, and my dad almost died again, and I was all kinds of depressed, and couldn't read, or eat, or all that good stuff.
But yeah...I finished it; I will owe fines of unknown amounts to the library, but I have this awesome plan to pay them with canned food donations. :ninja:

Anyway, now I'm reading The Return of the King because for some reason, I never finished it. O_o;
I got really pissed at my brother last night and accidentally ripped the cover off. Its a very old and tattered copy, but that really made me upset. :gonk:

awww that's not good Kita, but good thing you finished your book :).

I finished reading one of my inspirational quotation books. :D was really good.

It really is good that I finished it, because its been getting rather overdue. XD;

I used to have a book of inspirational quotes. I have no clue what happened to it though... o_o;

WOOHOOO!!! My Dark-Hunter manga came! :boogie:

What is it about?

Oh awesome Taiyo :) Whats it like?

Kita: Oh, okay what kind of quotes were they?

I've read 21 books so far in 2011! That's more than I read in like the previous 5 years combined. xD
Thanks uni >.>

The Human Stain Philip Roth
Emma Jane Austen
An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser (800+ pages)
What I Loved Siri Hustvedt
Old Goriot Balzac
My Antonia Willa Cather
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
Love Toni Morrison
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
American Salvage Bonnie Jo Campbell
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway
No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy
Middlemarch George Eliot (800+ pages)
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Twilight of the Superheroes Deborah Eisenberg
Light in August William Faulkner
Point Omega Don DeLillo
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro

I also plan to read Grapes of Wrath, Day of the Locust, The Portrait of a Lady, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Mrs Dalloway, Brideshead Revisited, The Remains of the Day, Atonement, Catch-22, White Noise (DeLillo), I Married a Communist (Philip Roth), and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

Were I to read all those, my total would be 33.
If I kept up the same rate of reading, I'd read 72 books this year.