read 25 books this year

no 16-pretend you dont see her by mary higgins clark

i just finished love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia mrquez-its a very boring book i had to drag myself through it!

Here’s the list (for better or for worse)...

1. Are you there Vodka? It’s me, Chelsea
Chelsea Handler
2. Two for the Dough
Janet Evanovich
3. Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
4. Marley and Me
John Grogan
5. Screenplays: How 25 scripts made it to a theater new you for better or worse
David S. Cohen
6. Something Borrowed
Emily Giffen
7. Gingerbread
Rachel Cohn
8. I’m with Stupid
Elaine Szewczyk
9. The Accidental Virgin
Valerie Frankel
10. Shrimp
Rachel Cohn
11. Something Blue
Emily Giffen
12. Hex and the Single Girl
Valerie Frankel
13. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
14. Sickened
Julie Gregory
15. Cupcake
Rachel Cohn
16. Bitter is the New Black
Jen Lancaster
17. Love the One You’re With
Emily Giffen
18. Holes
Louis Sachar
19. Loser
Jerry Spinelli
20. Coffee at Luke’s
Jennifer Cruisie, et al
21. I’ll Have What She’s Having
Daniel M. Kimmel
22. Such a Pretty Fat
Jen Lancaster
23. Sex, Drug, and Cocoa Puffs
Chuck Klosterman
24. My Point, and I do have one…
Ellen Degeneres
25. The Shack
Wm. Paul Young

m still reading for whom the bell tolls but i finished the kite runner by khaled hosseini!!my 13th is over!

I decided that I need to cease ordering new books through the library or buy any new books until I’ve finished what I’ve started. It feels less overwhelming now that I don’t have the temptation of new books in the mix and also it will help me keep my place clean as an added bonus.

Once I’ve gotten through my stack of partially read books, I’m going to try to go through books I’ve borrowed so I can give them back and then start the shelf full of books I’ve bought and then never started. I used to have a bit of a book addiction that I was able to kick once I started working at the library and realized you don’t HAVE to own every book you read or want to read. Now I try to only buy books that either the library doesn’t have or something I’ve read and know I’ll want to read again.

eleventh was loving trap-mills n boons(lame)
twelvth was fourth estate by jeffrey archer
now readin for whom the bell tolls by ernest hemingway-on da list o 1001 books to reasd b4 u die!

As I said in my last entry, I’m totally on track to finish this goal. My year runs from last year’s birthday to this year’s. I’ve read 18 so far, so that leaves 7 more before October 6th. My problem is, I’ve started no less than 5 books without finishing any of them. I think I need a new strategy—maybe start with the one that I’m closest to finishing and work through one at a time? I have a no book gets left behind policy, and this sometime’s works against me. I need to get through these first before starting anything else because my night table is waaaaay too cluttered!

I’m finally officially part of a book club again. We had to postpone our first meeting due to a member getting sick, but we should be meeting soon. I already finished the book and am so looking forward to the next. I think I’ll easily finish this goal. I have 3 more months and about 6 more books to go. The funny thing is, I’m about half-way through at least 3 books that I just can’t seem to finish, but if I do, I’ll be almost there!

i finally finished it!tenth wat second wind by dick francis-do not waste your time like i did readin it.well into da eleventh now:)jeffrey archers fourth estate!

i hav been dragging the tenth for over three months!its so utterly uninteresting!but according to my principles i stick to a book till i finish it.and i hav a habit of reading during class hours…cz classes are more boring than current book and even otherwise really boring.