Week 5

Well, I have no finishes to report for this week, I am trying to get through Drowning Ruth. It has gotten better from the report I gave last week, I am almost to page 200 now, but although it is good, I keep setting it down...I don't know why. I have been sorta busy lately maybe that is the cause of it taking me so long, but anyway, I will just say "The book is good, it's just going slow!" And that is it for me this week! Hope you all have a great week!

Week 4

I did finish Water for Elephants in 5 days time! It was phenominal, you can see my review at my blog Shannon's Book Addiction. Then I started Entering Normal By Anne D. LeClaire. It was alright. It kept me intrigued, but I got frustrated with some of the characters. Some of their attitudes towards different events just seemed so fake. That was the only thing I really didn't like about it. Other than that, it was a good storyline, and it read quickly, I finished it in 4 days. And now I am reading Drowning Ruth. It is an Oprah's Book Club selection. So far....it is alright. As of now I would rate it at a B-...but then again I'm only about 30 pages into it. It seems like one of those books that you read it once you sorta get it, but it takes two tries to really "get" it. There are shifts between the here and now and the past and some of them aren't too clear. Also it shifts between different character's accounts of the overall story, and if you aren't careful and miss a character shift then you get lost. But then again, like I said I am only 30 pages in and I started it sorta late at night, right after I'd finished Entering Normal. So right now I'm probably not grading it fairly, I need to give it more of a chance. So, I have two more books finished for this past week and am into the next. I hope to get some good chunks of reading time in this weekend.

Week 3

Well, I was happily reading through my old books when it dawns on me that "Wait a minute!! I have BRAND new books I could be reading!!! Why am I re-reading books that I have read before?" So, I chucked Mitford Years out the window...no just kidding, I would never treat a good friend like that, and went to round up all the books I have on my shelves that still need to be loved...I mean read...I found 30!!! and then I went to the mall and Water for Elephants was on sale-40% off, you KNOW I had to get it! Within a day of buying it, I was half way through!!! It is a true page turner!!! I love it! So, I guess this means that my list for the summer challenge has changed yet once again...I am going for 8 of my new books to be finished. I feel like I wasted so much time reading those other books...and now I'm starting the challenge over, except for the fact that I can't rewind time and go back to week 1...so, I will just keep plodding on...what can I say? Too many books!!! How in the world did I justify re-reading old ones?! Oh well, I am on the right track now!

Week 2

Well, things are going quicker than I thought for me. I have already completed two books for the challenge...Anne of Green Gables, and What a Girl Wants, and now I am about a hundred and twenty pages into Mitford Years series book #1 At Home in Mitford. You know what is sorta sad? Everything I have read or am reading for this challenge I have read already! I think there is only like 3 of the 12 books I have chosen for this challenge that will be new reads for me...hmmm...? I don't know how that happened. But I am enjoying it nonetheless! I am hoping to finish At Home in Mitford, and start reading my next selection for week three.

Week 1

Well, I decided to continue reading Anne of Green Gables, which I am almost finished with, I would have already finished it, except I reached for "What a Girl Wants" so, I am working on two books at once...but they are both fast reads. Both books I have read before. The Anne of Green Gables series is one I haven't read in ages and thought it'd be fun to revert into my childhood for a lil' jaunt, and What a Girl Wants is the first of a series by Kristin Billerbeck, and I had read the first two when they first came out, but then I had to wait awhile to get the third, and so I decided to re-read the first two of the series, to have the story fresh in my mind before I start the third. So, I am less than 100 pages away from finishing Anne, and half way finished with What a Girl Wants. I am sure I will have a review of them for next week, and probably be onto my next selection... who knows what that will be, probably the following two books in both these series. Or maybe Mitford Years series #1...???

~Shannon~
"Shannon's Book Addiction"

PS...I have also added the other two in the Ashley Stockingdale series to my list of books to read for this challenge, I thought about replacing two others with them, but thought "Heck, it's a challenge, right? So lets just pile 'em on!"

Shannon's introduction

This is my first challenge, as my book blog is fairly new, but I wanted to get involved, in hopes of maybe being spurred on to complete more reading for the summer. My goal is to read 10 books from my TBR list for the year. I am falling desperately behind on my 50 book challenge for the year, hopefully this will help me catch up.
These are the books I hope to read for this challenge:

~Anne of Green Gables by:LM Montgomery
~Anne of Avonlea by: LM Montgomery
~At Home in Mitford (Mitford series #1) by: Jan Karon
~A Light in the Window (Mitford Series #2)by: Jan Karon
~ These High Green Hills (Mitford Series #3) by: Jan Karon
~ What a Girl Wants (Ashley Stockingdale series #1) by: Kristin Billerbeck
~ She's Out of Control(Ashley Stockingdale series #2) by: Kristin Billerbeck
~With This Ring I'm Confused (Ashley Stockingdale series #3) by: Kristin Billerbeck
~Tara Road by: Maeve Binchy
~The Woman Next Door by: Barbara Delinksy
~Hilltowns by: Anne Rivers Siddons
~Emma by: Jane Austen

It is pretty ambitious, but what is better on a hot summer day but a big glass of iced tea and a pile of books?! Good luck everyone on your challenge! My blog can be found at: http://shandord.blogspot.com/