Showing posts with label Reading List. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading List. Show all posts

04 October 2013

{Day 5} fall {2013} reading list


I'm keeping it simple! This year my theme is "Fall into Austen." I've never completed a Jane Austen title, so I chose 5 of her books to challenge me this autumn.

1. Pride and Prejudice 
2. Emma
3. Persuasion
4. Sense and Sensability
5. Mansfield Park

This should be much easier to tackle then my crazy summer reading list! I will have to split that one up!! 
If you didn't know, I'm a huge advocate for autumn and reading. 
What are you reading these days?

20 May 2013

Summer Reading List 2013

Summer is right around the corner. It's started for some already! My first road trip starts next week with my family.

I have so many books I want to read right now... Old, new, library, ones to purchase, ones that have been collecting dust, some stored away on the Kindle.

Here are the books I'll be tackling this summer! Of course it's an advantageous list, but I'm sure I'll make a dent. I'd love to finish it, but I'm going to be realistic!

Fiction:
1-3) The Mark of the Lion Trilogy
4-6) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
7-11) The Narnia Series - The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, The Last Battle
12-13) Crossed and Reached by Ally Condie
14) Though Mountains Fall by Dale Cramer
15) Pride and Prejudice

Non-Fiction:
16) Made To Crave
17) Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
18) Crazy Love
19) Radical
20) The Omnivore's Dilemma
21) The Pursuit of God
22) Boundaries in Dating 
23) The Circle Maker
24) Jesus Is...
25) Captivating
26) Love Does
27) The Me I Want to Be
28) Not a Fan
29) Praying for Your Future Husband
30) Real Marriage

I won't be spending a cent on any of these! I either have it on the Kindle, own it (or my mom or sister does), or getting it from the library! Buckle your seat belts, it's going to be a literary summer!

first one of the summer! always have a moleskine for notes (this is my mothers). I usually have a highlighter as well!
What are you reading this summer??


12 April 2013

Reading Update


Fiction: 
  • Tribulation Force 
  • Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien (on nightstand)
  • The Horse and His Boy by CS Lewis (reading)
Non-Fiction:
  • Crazy Love by Francis Chan (reading)
  • The Book That Transforms Nations by Loren Cunningham (reading)
  • Beautiful Battlefields by Bo Stern (Check out review here)
  • The Book of Judges from The Bible
Magazines:
  • Relevant Jan/Feb (on nightstand)
  • Women's Health Current Issue (reading)
As you can see, I haven't gotten very far, but I'm hoping to get a massive amount done this week! The Horse and His Boy I'm restarting because it's been awhile since I started it. But, it should only take one sitting. The Fellowship of the Ring may take a few months. I also picked up Redeeming Love from the Library. I have a reading addiction! 

What have you been reading?

13 June 2011

Summer Goals 2011 - Part 1

I have many summer goals... But I would like share them one by one...

First Summer Goal - Read 25 Books

Alright, I know that's a lofty goal and I only just finished book numero 1, but I thought, why not... So, from June 1 - Sept 1, I am going to try and read 25 Books!!
 Instead of creating this massive reading list that I always mega fail on... I'm just going to read as much as possible. If I don't like the book, that's ok, I'll just put it down and read another. Then I won't get stuck in a reading rut!

So, good luck on your summer goals! Do you have any reading goals? Any good suggestions? 
I just finished LA CANDY by Lauren Conrad... It's my silly teen read for the month. It was actually very captivating. I want to read the second book!! 

24 May 2011

the 100 books list

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I found this post on SUNDAY MORNING SUGAR called "100 books to read before you die" and I thought I would share how many I have read or am planning on reading! 
Bold means I've read it. Star (*) means I want to read it.


1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen* (I have started this book so many times, it will be on my summer reading list)

2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte* (I need to add it to a list)
Harry Potter series – JK Rowling 
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee*
6 The Bible* (I've read the entire New Testament - this year)
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell (Favorite book of all time)
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott (tried reading it when I was in middle school... I couldn't)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read a majority)
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger*
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot*
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (Just read it this year)
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy*
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams*
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky*
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck*
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll*
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy*
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens* (Again started it many times... I will conquer it)
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis*
34 Emma – Jane Austen*
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis* (wait... wasn't the chronicles of narnia number 33??)
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini*
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell (GREAT BOOK!!)
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I've read about 75% of that book for a class... I hated it with a passion)
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery* (one of those I've started many times...)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood*
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan*
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel*
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen*
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley*
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night – Mark Haddon (started it... not sure if I'll ever finish it)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck*
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov*
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas*
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac*
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker*
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce*
76 The Inferno – Dante*
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray*
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens (every Christmas I say, I'm going to read the whole thing...)
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker*
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert*
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom* (I received this book on a blog gift exchange... Can't wait to read)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle*
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas*
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo*


Summary: Alright, I've read only 7 out of 100 books on this list (technically 11 if you count all the harry potter books separately, but then the list would be longer than 100). And I want to read 36 out of the 100 (93). That's not that daunting of a task!

I had originally decided to make a list of books I wanted to read for the summer. But, I think I'm going to go with a more organic approach. Give myself a goal of 25 books and pick and choose. Because, sometimes I really am not in the mood for a book on the list, or it is just awful... But, I will have a wish list of books I would like to conquer in the year of 2011! Stay tuned!

02 February 2011

February Reading List


1. Scarlet Letter (finish)
2. Eat Pray Love

What are you reading this month?

05 January 2011

January Reading List


1) The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne

2) Insomnia - Stephen King


What are you reading this January?

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