Where are my tickers going?

I noticed that the tickers for my book challenge posted on 12/27/09 are disappearing. Where are they going??

I will finish The Book of Mormon today!! I am so excited. I didn't quite read it in 100 days, more like 103 days, considering there were 6-7 days I didn't read. I think that is pretty awesome. Luana, my aunt, said she read it in the first 30 days of her mission. Our bishop challenged us to read it by Memorial Day & that is tomorrow. I will finish it tonight.

I filed it under Re-Reads & since I can't find the pin on the original ticker, here is the pin for the new one, rereads.

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

I am coming along swimmingly on my reading this year. Will I make 144 books?? I don't think so. I don't think I want to. That is TOOO many books to read. There is more to life than reading.

I finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for the Whitney 2nd Ward book club tomorrow night. I started it Sunday. It was an excellent, excellent read. It is historical fiction written in letter form about the occupation of the Channel Island of Guernsey during WWII. By the time I was finished, I felt like I needed to visit. I wanted to look up the characters who peopled this book. Had I the time or the money, I'd be off to visit them. Kit would be almost 70. She was 4 at the time of the book in 1946.

As far as my reading of The Book of Mormon, I'm doing well there, also. I haven't missed a day. Last night I was tempted to just read a few verses, because I had to read it out of a book instead of online. I'm spoiled. I read it from LDS.org & the text is large enough to see & I can highlight where I am so I don't lose my place.

February reads

I read 4 books in February & have 7 books that I am reading.

1. American Sandwich, a cook book, 3 stars, 2/28/10. It has a sandwich recipe from all 50 states in the US. I especially loved that the Arizona sandwich recipe for Navajo Taco is from Monument Valley, Utah. Utah's sandwich was an Italian sandwich & Idaho's was a trout sandwich. Did you know that Idaho has a LOT of trout farms?? I didn't.
2. Climbing the Mango Trees, a memoir.
3. The Language of Baklava, a memoir.
4. Choice Cuts, an anthology.
5. The Book of Mormon
6.  Mormon Women: Portraits & Conversations, another anthology.
7. The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
8. And there's a text book at work, Creative Typography

Not one of them is for pleasure.

I finished THREE Dewey Decimal books this month, only have 7 more to go for that particular challenge.

January 2010 reads

I just finished my first biography from my 2010 biography &/or memoir challenge. I have a book a month scheduled for this genre.

I Am A Soldier Too, The Jessica Lynch Story, by Rick Bragg

• Read from January 14 to 31, 2010
• Recommended by:  It jumped out at me.
• Review: I give it 4.5 stars. This was a real eye-opener & Bragg did a great job of reporting it. It's amazing how the media can twist the truth. Bragg did a great job of correcting those errors & in his reporting made it a good read. In a M*A*S*H episode Major Frank Burns said, "We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear." The 507th Maintenance Company were definitely in the rear. The Army, in it's infinite wisdom, sent out supply clerks to their death, with a CD & sketchy instructions. Somehow that doesn't surprise me. 

This makes 4 books read for the month of January, with 3 in progress.

Read: 4 down, 140 to go.
Weight? Who knows, I don't. I forget to weigh, pfft.

A new book challenge

I was reading through some of the posts in the Goodreads group, 144 Books in 2010 & found this awesome idea for a challenge by a Goodreads member named Lynn

WHAT'S IN A TITLE? 2010

Challenge: Choose one book from each of the categories. This challenge will run from January 1st until December 31st.

1. Profession - An Irish Country Doctor by Patrick Taylor
2. Time of Day - Troubled Midnight by John Champlin Gardner Jr.
3. Relative - The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
4. Body Part - Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
5. Building - Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
6. Medical Condition - Blind Your Ponies by Stanley Gordon West
7. Town - Dubliners, by James Joyce
8. Plant Name - The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
9. Color - The Black Cat by Martha Grimes

It is too late to do this, or maybe it's not. Perhaps I could cut the number of books by favorite authors to incorporate this challenge. I saw someone else with a challenge to read a book with numbers in the titles, numerically, instead of alphabetically. I'm already reading Janet Evanovichs by the numbers books. She is one of my favorite authors.

I could use Numbers, Weather, Gender ... A challenge for another year would be to read a book with the name of each of the 50 states in the title.

Today I went to the library & picked up a book from my "May Never Read" list, The Runaway Quilt, #4 by Jennifer Chiaverini. I finished it & gave it 3 stars.

I also picked up a biography & another Jennifer Chiaverini book that is actually the sequel to Runaway Quilt.

144 books in 2010

Over on Goodreads.com I joined a challenge to read 144 books in 2010. That is 12 books in 12 months or a gross of books. Now is that gross or what? I have got to be a better guardian of my time. Last night I started a new book in the Ali Reynolds series by J. A. Jance. I've been reading these books backwards. Never thought that was a good way to read a series, but this way I'm filling in some things that I wondered about in book #4. With Jance's books I DO NOT read the end of the book. I don't have time. The books never slow down. At any rate, I read until 5:20 this morning. To say that I am tired is an understatement.

So, this is the way I have set up a way to achieve this goal:

° Alphabetically by author last name = 26



° Alphabetically by book title: = 26



° Dewey decimal system = 10


° Favorite authors = 24


° May Never Read = 10


° Memoir &/or biography = 12


° New author = 12


° Re-reads = 12




° TBR = 12


According to my calculations, this does it. Listopia will be a good source of books. Especially for my May Never Read mini challenge. That is books that I have tried to read & just can't seem to get through them. I have several of them, but I have forgotten. Then I go through the lists on Listopia & I remember.

I'll be posting more of my New Year's "goals" later in the week. Right now, I'm going to see if all these little tickers work, & go to bed. It's a work day tomorrow.