read one new book a month

Last night, I finished Left Behind. Excellent book! Now, I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the series. It looks like I might be surpassing my goal of one new book a month this year. Teehee.

So I don’t know what it is with me and reading books so fast…I just can’t help it. But I finished A Little Princess already. I loved it, loved it, loved it! now, I’m gonna wait to continue with my list of books until February-ish so that I can focus on the ones I’ve been neglecting…the ones I’m talking about in this goal.

So I’ve already begun reading A Little Princess. I already saw the movie a while back so I know the story…but as usual the book seems so much better.

I have to say, little Sara is such an inspiring little girl.

I just ordered the following titles from my list, and it only cost me about $15! ;) I’ll cross them off as they come in the mail.

Hideaway by Dean Koontz

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days by Tim F. LaHaye

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

So with the help of some friends and family members, I came up with a list of 12 books to read next year. I’m not too sure about some of these titles, but I’m gonna read them all anyway. ;)

Nearly finished ‘Except your a bird’ by Peter Tinnisdale. Been a strange book, and a new author for me. Will give his other books a try in the future.

but not so much a whole book…

may revisit…

I’ve realised I pretty much do this anyway, as I’ve always been a big reader, so I’m closing this one.

I’m trying to read Little Women but I’m only about 10 pages in and it’s so darned difficult because they are so SICKENINGLY goody-goody. I’m determined to press on with it, though, because it’s a classic, and one of those books that people mention, like “To Kill A Mockingbird” (at last I know what a Boo Radley is!)

I just finished “Jarhead”, which is on at the cinema at the moment. Interesting book, though it does make you somewhat uncomfortable to be made aware that the men fighting out there – in this case not even fighting, since the author returned from the war never having made a kill – are, in some cases, teetering at the edge of their sanity. People safe at home in their beds prefer not to know this. They don’t like to know too much about what’s going on, in the same way that we probably all know abuse of prisoners happens on both sides – Iraqi and coalition – but we prefer not to have it brought to our attention, as we did when the “American abuse” photos hit the papers.

It’s not the kind of book I would usually read, but nevertheless I am glad I did.