read all the books on my "to be read" list

Really good. More here.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go

I just made a list on “Goodreads”http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/748380 …I tried to pick a lot of classics and influential books I hadn’t read before, a few things on topics I know nothing about (economics, anatomy), several books of contemporary poetry because I’ve read so little of it in the past decade and a half, several contemporary novels, and plenty of other things that would inspire my own writing. Lots of history. I like history.

I am crazy about these science coloring books! I have the one in geography right now and I want to do the anatomy and biology ones. The idea is that by coloring things in, you remember them. So far I would say it really works. Pre-med students often use the anatomy one.

I have a GoodReads account and thus far I have 490 books listed under “to read” and the list keeps growing. It seems that no matter how many of them I read, there’s always more being added.

My TBR pile is under 200 again! I was afraid that when classes started back up a month ago my reading would slow down because I would be too busy reading only school-related material, but I’ve actually been reading more!

Finished “the Murder of Tutankhamen” today, it was excellent! I recommend it to anyone who loves Egyptian history, or is just plain interested in the mystery sounding King Tutankhamen.

I finished “A Journal of the Plague Year” last night, and started “the Murder of Tutankhamen” today. I think I’ll finish it in a couple of days. I need to concentrate a little more on “the Gathering Storm”, I really want to finish it before I go back to college in August.

I read a handful of books last week, and now my TBR list is down to 198!

I finished my Cicero book today, loved it! I’m going to spend the next couple days catching up in my Daily Bible and Churchill’s “the Gathering Storm”, rather than start any new books.

1. ...And Now Miguel
2-4. Black Fleet Crisis Trilogy (Star Wars)
5. Call it Courage
6-7. Charlotte LaRue # 1 & 2
8. Cloak of Deception (Star Wars)
9. Dark Lord: the Rise of Darth Vader (Star Wars)
10. Darksaber (Star Wars)
11. the Devil Wears Prada
12. Dragonsdawn
13. Five Little Peppers
14. Gates of Fire
15. the Girl Who Heard Dragons
16-18. the Gormenghast Novels
19. Greek War of Independence
20. the Handmaid’s Tale
21. the Historian
22. Hypatia of Alexandria
23-25. Jedi Academy Trilogy (Star Wars)
26. Johnny Tremain
27-32. Junior Jedi Knights (Star Wars)
33. Labyrinth of Evil (Star Wars)
34-37. Legacy of the Force series, 1-4 (Star Wars)
38-39. Legacy of the Jedi/Secrets of the Jedi (Star Wars)
40-41. Medstar duology (Star Wars)
42. Miracles on Maple Hill
43. More Mystery Cats
44. My Side of the Mountain
45. Mysterious Cat Stories
46. the New Rebellion (Star Wars)
47. Planet of Twilight (Star Wars)
48. Remembering Hypatia
49. the Renegades of Pern
50. Anacaona: Golden Flower (Royal Diaries)
51. Lady of Palenque (Royal Diaries)
52. the Rule of Four
53. Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales
54. the Grand Alliance
55. Shadow Hunter (Star Wars)
56. Shadows of the Empire (Star Wars)
57-58. Sister Jane Foxhunting books 1 & 2
59. Sorcery and Cecelia
60. Specter of the Past (Star Wars)
61. Splinter of the Mind’s Eye (Star Wars)
62. Tailchaser’s Song
63-66. the Time Quartet
67. the Virgin’s Lover
68. the Vision of the Future (Star Wars)
69. the Water-Babies
70-72. the Wideacre Trilogy
73. the Witches of Worm
74. Yoda, Dark Rendezvous (Star Wars)

This isn’t a list of what I’m promising to read next year.

When I finish my 50 Book Challenge for this year, I’m going to start reading my unread Star Wars books. I have at least 37 I haven’t read yet, and that will put a definite dent in my TBR pile. I also have plenty of other fantasy type books that would be easy reads, if I just got around to reading them.