June summary

I might as well give up the fight!

bought
140) Sarah Rees Brennan: The Demon's Covenant
141) Erin Healy: Never Let You Go
142) Jessica Leader: Nice and Mean
143) Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
144) Simone Elkeles:Leaving Paradise
145) ELizabeth Scott: Something, Maybe
146) Teri Hall: The Line
147) Eileen Cook: What Would Emma Do?
148) Aprilynne Pike: Wings
149) Louise Rennison: Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging
150) Sapphire: Push
151) Alice Sebold (ed.): The Best American Short Stories 2009

read
45) Andrew Davidson: The Gargoyle
46) Emmett James: Admit One - My Life In Film
47) August Wilson: Fences
48) Jennifer Solow: The Aristobrats
49) Angela Morrison: Taken By Storm

May summary

Let's not talk about this, okay? ;-) It was BEA and it was The Strand Book Store! (Actually, I don't even remember the titles of two of the books I got at the Strand.)

bought
90) Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace
91) The Complete Idiot's Guide to The American Accent
92) The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eating Well on a Budget
93) The Complete Idiots Guide to American Government
94) Emmanuel Jal: War Child
95) Laurie Viera Riegler: Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict
96) ???
97) ???
98) Lauren Kunze with Rina Onur: The Ivy
99) Melissa Marr: Radiant Shadows
100) Bree Despain: The Dark Divine
101) Jesse Petersen: Married with Zombies
102) Richard Peck: Three Quarters Dead
103) Henry Chang: Red Jade
104) Cara Black: Murder in the Palais Royal
105) Mordecai Dzikansky & Robert Slater: Terrorist Cop
106) Michael Koryta: So Cold The River
107) Jonathan Maberry: Rot & Ruin
108) Charlie Higson: The Enemy
109) Keith Stern: Queers in History
110) Gena Showalter: Intertwined
111) Hoy Kersh: Suitcase Full of Dreams
112) Peter Moore: Red Moon Rising
113) Simone Elkeles: Return to Paradise
114) Heather Brewer: Eleventh Grade Burns
115) Maria V. Snyder: Inside Out
116) Adriana Trigiani: Brava, Valentine
117) Justin Cronin: The Passage
118) Darren Shan: The Saga of Larsten Crepsley - Birth of a Killer
119) Claire LaZebnik: If You Lived Here, You's Be Home By Now
120) Bekka Black: Dracula
121) Jennifer Solow: The Aristobrats
122) Ivy Devlin: Low Red Moon
123) Carly Phillips: Kiss Me If You Can
124) Cassandra Clare: Clockwork Angel
125) Laurie Halse Anderson: Forge
126) Beth Kephart: Dangerous Neighbors
127) Wendy Mass: The Candymakers
128) Tricia Rayburn: Siren
129) Staci Boyer: Motiv8n' U
130) Tess Gerritsen: Ice Cold
131) Lisa Gardner: Live to Tell
132) Robyn Carr: The House on Olive Street
133) Jennifer McMahon: Dismantled
134) Jeri Smith-Ready: Shade
135) Michelle Monkou: Trail of Kisses
136) Alexandra Diaz: Of All The Stupid Things
137) Amy Brecount-White: Forget-Her-Nots
138) Lee Childs: 61 Hours
139) Ryan A. Conklin: An Angel From Hell

read
41) C.J. Omololu: Dirty Little Secrets
42) Emmett James: Admit One
43) Joy Berry: Good Answers to Tough Questions - Disasters
44) Calvin Alexander Ramsey & Floyd Cooper: Ruth and the Green Book

April summary - the hopeless edition!

Hopeless! That's the simple statement that fits best with the situation on Mt. TBR... Especially because there was no need to get my own copies of both Taken by Storm and Swoon at Your Own Risk! The copies for the book tours are still on their way to me. So yes, I'm one gigantic hopeless case when it comes to my book collection.

new additions
53) Jill Shalvis: Instant Temptation
54) Lauren Bjorkman: My Invented Life (International Book Tour book)
55) Avi Primor: ... mit Ausnahme Deutschlands (German book)
56) J.A. Yang: Exclusively Chloe
57) Rachel Hawkins: Hex Hall
58) William Sleator: Fingers (doesn't really count in the TBR stacks)
59) Carlo Goldoni: Arlecchino
60) Beth Fantaskey: Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
61) Entschuldigung, sind Sie die Wurst (German book)
62) Batya Gur: The Saturday Morning Murder
63) David Remnick: The Bridge - The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
64) Gail Carriger: Soulless
65) Daniel Kehlmann: Ruhm (German book)
66) Eliette Abécassis: La Repudiée (The Repudiate)
67) Laurie Friedman & Ofra Amit: Angel Girl
68) August Wilson: Fences (for university)
69) Lynn Weingarten: Wherever Nina Lies
70) Meg Cabot: Safe House
71) Meg Cabot: Sanctuary
72) Meg Cabot: Missing You
73) Meg Cabot: Victoria and the Rogue
74) Meg Cabot: Nicola and the Viscount
75) Jennifer Echols: Major Crush
76) Heidi R. Kling: Sea
77) Angela Morrison: Taken By Storm (own copy)
78) Elizabeth Scott: Bloom
79) Abbott/de la Cruz/Friedman/Malkin: Mistletoe
80) Barbara Seranella: No Offense Intended
81) Sydney Salter: Swoon at Your Own Risk (own copy)
82) Martin Millar: Curse of the Wolf Girl
83) Jill Shalvis: Slow Heat
84) Lisa Kleypas: Secrets of a Summer Night
85) Lisa Kleypas: Devil in Winter
86) Lisa Kleypas: Scandal in Spring
87) Lori Foster: Back in Black
88) Sarah Ockler: Twenty Boy Summer (finally!!!)
89) L.M. Preston: The Pack


read
31) Batya Gur: Literary Murder
32) Lauren Bjorkman: My Invented Life
33) Lori Foster: Yule Be Mine
34) Daniel Kehlmann: Ruhm
35) Carlo Goldoni: Arlecchino
36) Laurie Friedman & Ofra Amit: Angel Girl
37) Lisa Kleypas: It Happened One Autumn
38) ELiette Abécassis: La Repudiée (The Repudiate)
39) Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband
40) Lisa Kleypas: Mine Till Midnight

March summary

I really need to tune down the frequency with which I'm buying new books! Three months in and I already got 22 books more than I actually read. Maybe I'm a hopeless case? I mean, I pre-ordered 4 books this month alone - and I'm glad they won't arrive until later this year...

new additions
36) Toni Morrison: A Mercy
37) Kate Atkinson: When Will There Be Good News?
38) Ally Carter: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
39) Lauren Oliver: Before I Fall
40) C.J. Omololu: Dirty Little Secrets
41) J.T. Ellison: The Cold Room
42) Lionel Shriver: Double Fault
43) Susan Beth Pfeffer: Life As We Knew It
44) Lionel Shriver: Double Fault
45) Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
46) Laura Kinsale: Flowers from the Storm
47) Becca Wilhite: My Ridiculous, Romantic Obsessions
48) J.T. Waldman: Megillat Esther
49) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: Hunted
50) David Ebershoff: The 19th Wife
51) Justina Chen Headley: North of Beautiful
52) Alan Fox: The Seeker in Forever

read
21) Jill Shalvis: Instant Gratification
22) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: Chosen
23) Tzipi Caton: Miracle Ride
24) Becca Wilhite: My Ridiculous, Romantic Obsessions
25) Michele Wahlder: Alphatudes
26) Melissa De La Cruz: Blue Bloods
27) Melissa De La Cruz: Masquerade
28) Ally Carter: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
29) John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
30) J.T. Waldman: Megillat Esther

February summary

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I believe now all the pre-ordered books from December should be in. I have already pre-ordered two or three books for later this year, though. Despite buying so many books these past two months, I also got quite some reading accomplished, so it was not a complete loss. For next month, though, I have to finish all the 9 (!!!) unread books I bought in January before I start anything else. According to my 2010 resolutions they should have been read already!

new additions
19) Joy Preble: Dreaming Anastasia
20) Lesley Livingston: Wondrous Strange
21) Patrick Ness: The Knife of Never Letting Go
22) Gayle Forman: If I Stay
23) Lindsey Leavitt: Princess for Hire
24) Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl: Beautiful Creatures
25) Emmett James: Admit One - My Life in Film
26) Suzanne Young: The Naughty List
27) Carrie Ryan: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
28) Michele Wahlder: Alphatudes - The Alphabet of Gratitude
29) Lisa McMann: Wake
30) Art Spiegelman: Maus 1 & 2
31) Jane Austen: Sense & Sensibility
32) Laura Mechling: Dream Girl
33) Tera Lynn Childs: Oh. My. Gods.
34) Becca Fitzpatrick: hush, hush
35) Chloe Neill: Firespell

read
10) Anna Jarzab: All Unquiet Things
11) Kristina Springer: The Espressologist
12) Elizabeth Scott: Living Dead Girl
13) Courtney Summers: Cracked Up To Be
14) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: Betrayed
15) Christa Holder-Ocker: auf Wiedersehen
16) Gayle Forman: If I Stay
17) Art Spiegelman: Maus 1
18) Art Spiegelman: Maus 2
19) Ally Carter: I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You
20) Maggie Stiefvater: Shiver

January summary

So, the first month in a new decade is over. Can you believe it? It's the 4rd decade for me, at least the third I get to live for at least part of the time. And I'm only 25 (well, for another 2-3 months)...

Anyway, enough about my age, let's get to the truly relevant stuff, the books I read, bought, abandoned, and much more. I have the feeling, Januarys are always the worst for my Mt. TBR, along with April and September / October when the new semester starts and I use buying books for my classes as an excuse to buy some more for me. But still, I managed to read a good number of books, many of which I bought within the last two months (I keep those on a special shelf, when I remember to put them there and not on the regular shelves).

bought
1) Dia Reeves: Bleeding Violet
2) Nicholas Sparks: Dear John
3) Maggie Stiefvater: Shiver
4) Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (graphic novel)
5) Melissa Walker: Violet on the Runway
6) A.J. Jacobs: A Year of Living Biblically
7) Jennifer R. Hubbard: The Secret Year
8) Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak
9) Courtney Summers: Some Girls Are
10) Courtney Summers: Cracked Up To Be
11) Yoko Ogawa: The Housekeeper and the Professor
12) Anna Jarzab: All Unquiet Things
13) Ninni Holmqvist: The Unit
14) Rachel Ward: Numbers
15) Jen Nadol: The Mark
16) Jaclyn Dolamore: Magic Under Glass
17) Julie Kagawa: The Iron King
18) Kristina Springer: The Espressologist

read
1) J.K. Rowling: The Tales of Beedle the Bard
2) Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (graphic novel)
3) Jennifer R. Hubbard: The Secret Year
4) Ann Aguirre: Grimspace
5) Michael Anthony: Mass Casualties
6) John J. LeBeau: Collision of Evil
7) Dia Reeves: Bleeding Violet
8) Yoko Ogawa: The Housekeeper and the Professor
9) Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak

DNF
1) Chimananda Ngozie Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun

Series Challenge 4 - reviews and summaries

So, it's about time I wrote up a post to gather all the reviews and summaries.

The reviews so far:
1) Samantha: Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin

The summaries: