how can i ever read all of these books?

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how can i ever read all of these books?

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1brandymcdonald
Redigerat: sep 11, 2013, 11:20 am

I am working on my 100 book challenge for this year. I am not sure if I will make it... but I am plodding along. And along the way, I am rediscovering the books on my shelves. I am still only about 1/4 of the way through my house and logging my books so every time I pull a stack off to log into Librarything, I find some more treasures to read.

1. Looking for Alaska by John Green

my daughter recommended this to me several years ago and every few months she would say "did you read it yet? do you love it? can I have it back?" so I finally read it ..... and loved it and gave it back to her to put in her room. Maybe I will enjoy other books that I find on my shelves

2. The Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn McCrumb

This brought up all kinds of emotions as I wondered what it must have been like to live in such isolation and hardship and what kinds of choices I would make if facing the same situations. Another book from my shelf that I enjoyed and it is making me comb my other shelves.

3. the Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

I cried the whole time I read this book. I didn't even remember I had this one, books are so much better than the movies they inspire.

4. Portrait of an Unknown woman by Vanora Bennett

I loved this book. Set in the court of King Henry VIII, it follow s the family of Sir Thomas More and tells the story of the painting that was created of his family by Hans Holbein.

5. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
6. World Without End by Ken Follett

These two were amazing and a total of over 2000 pages.....I am exhausted from just holding these books for long enough to read them. I was immersed in the time of knights and castles and cathedrals and bridges and monks and archbishops. How did I hide these books in plain sight for so long.

7. Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

This was fun and fanciful and entertaining and oh so much lighter than the Follett Epic novels....but it was refreshing and exciting to finish a book in two days...

Wow.....at least I am caught up on posting my off the shelf reads so far this year. Nothing has been disappointing yet.... I must be a pretty good purchaser...hope to keep up the record

2brandymcdonald
Redigerat: sep 11, 2013, 11:20 am

8. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
How did I have L'Engle's books on my shelf for years, even with great recommendations and never read them???

3Yells
sep 8, 2013, 1:48 pm

Welcome! You are in good company around here :)

4brandymcdonald
sep 13, 2013, 9:54 pm

9. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
This one has been on my shelf for quite some time, well on and off, because I have read it multiple times but it has remained on the shelf and begged to be read again

5littlegreycloud
sep 16, 2013, 8:33 am

It's been years since I read The Lovely Bones but I remember crying at the part where she gets reunited with the family dog.:)

6brandymcdonald
sep 20, 2013, 9:33 am

I am really enjoying this eclectic mess which is my library. I go on binges then stray far away. The Lovely Bones was during my binge of watching criminal minds on tv while reading books about serial killers. I cried at the simple innocence that remained almost until her last moment of living.