Challenge Yourself! Spend 2009 reading!

[AFWife]

Last year I made it my goal to read 100 books in 2008. Sadly, with a huge move and finding out I was pregnant and other life changing events I missed out. (I stopped keeping count but I guess it's around 70)


So I want YOU to set a goal for 2009 (you can join at any time) and work towards it. Keep track of your progress in your original post (wear out that edit button) I'll try my best to keep updating this post to keep everyone in lists. Please keep your goals in quantities of 10.

Anyone game?


200
TEAK's Mom
Hellga

120
UptownZoo

110
becoming

100
Kells97
SAHDS
SquishyBuggles
Happiestever
salvia

80
kirstenb

50
farmlife
1xmom
AngelBee
AFWife

40
glorified_rice
angela1435

30
Funnie
bandyr

[annettemarie]

What a great idea! I joined a gym and am hoping to use bibliotherapy to distract me from the pain, LOL!

[TEAK's Mom]

I'm a seriously voracious reader, so please, no one be offended by my goal. In 2009, I want to read 200 new books. I need to break out of some ruts.

[KaraBoo]

My goal is to read all the books on my bookshelf before I check out any more library books for myself (I can't say "any" full stop cuz dd reads as much as I do and checks out books as often).

I have a stack of library books by my bedside that I will finish first. Then, onto the ones on the bookshelf!

(and even better, I plan to donate or sell the books I read that dh nor I want to keep)

[Kells97]

I would like to read 100 books this year that I don't have to read for work. I'm always reading to prepare my lessons (I'm a high school English teacher), but I have seriously neglected my personal reading, so I want to challenge myself to read things that I want to read apart from my class preparation and trying to keep up with my students' reading interests. First up is The Omnivore's Dilemma, which I received for Christmas.

[journeymom]

New Crunchy Daddy is doing something similar here:

http://www.mothering.com/discussions....php?t=1019498

There was quite the party going on for 2008.

[AFWife]

Originally Posted by journeymom

New Crunchy Daddy is doing something similar here:

http://www.mothering.com/discussions....php?t=1019498

There was quite the party going on for 2008.

I don't see why we can't have both at once! This challenge is purely numbers for the entire year! I'll probably get involved in that one too!


I'm setting my goal at 80. I'll be giving birth and moving to a whole new house (after living in an apt) so I'll probably taper off later in the year.

[UptownZoo]

My goal is 120 books in 2009. The months are on the list so I can tell if I'm staying on track with 10 books a month.

January

1. Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg
2. Shattered Dreams by Irene Spencer
3. Moonrise by Penny Wolfson
4. The Wisdom of the Enneagram by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
6. Bright Lights, Big Ass by Jen Lancaster

[SAHDS]

I'm in! I LOVE reading and have plenty o' spare time to fill!

My goal is... 100. That doesn't count the books I read each night with the LOs, though, unless I steal them while they're sleeping and finish them by myself (see book #1).

2009, I've read:

1 Rules by Cynthia Lord

2 The Tales of Beedle the Bard by JK Rowling

3 Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

4 The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

5 The Faerie Path by Frewin Jones

6 Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. by Judy Blume

7 Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

8 Penny From Heaven by Jennifer L. Holm

9 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

10 The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

11 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

12 Wicked by Gregory Maguire

13 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

14 Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

15 A Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban

16 Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire

17 The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards

18 Money Secrets by Dave Barry

19 Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium by ... ?

20 Animal Farm by George Orwell

21 The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

22 Life of Pi by Yann Martel

23 The Color Purple by Alice Walker

24 Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen

25 I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

26 Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

27 Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

28 A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

29 Chocolat by Joanne Harris

30 House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

31 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

32 Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

33 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon

34 Midddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

35 A Long Way Gone (Memoirs of a Boy Soldier) by
Ishmael Beah

36 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

37 A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

38 Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

39 The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

40 Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

41 Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis

42 The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

43 White Oleander by Janet Fitch

44 Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

45 Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

46 Under a Cruel Star by Heda Margolius Kovaly

47 Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

48 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

49 Hope For the Flowers by Trina Paulus

50 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

51 The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

52 I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

[AFWife]

I'll make this post my official count!

Current Read: The New Dare To Discipline by Dr. James Dobson

1) Children at Risk by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer
2) Bringing up Boys by Dr. James Dobson

[SquishyBuggles]

I'm in...my goal is 100!

1. Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyers
2. Marley and Me by John Grogan

[kirstenb]

I'll join!

1. Bess of Hardwick by Mary Lovell
2. I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Miles
3. T is for Trepass by Sue Grafton
4. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
5. Virgin Earth by Philippa Gregory
6. Innocent Traitor by Allison Weir
7. The Conqueror by Georgette Heyer
8. The Queen's Lady by Barbara Kyle
9. Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett
10. The Duchess by Amanda Foreman
11. The Four Seasons by Laurel Corona
12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
13. Wicked by Gregory Maguire
14. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
15. Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
16. Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
17. The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin
18. The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
19. Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark
20. Zipporah, Wife of Moses by Marek Halter
21. Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
22. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
23. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
24. H is for Homicide by Sue Grafton
25. Your Best Birth by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein
26. Harry Potter 1 by JK Rowling

[becoming]

My goal is really 109, but since you want increments of 10, I guess put me down for 110!

[babycarrier]

I'm in and my goal is 50. I will be listing kid chapter books as well but not using them in my total.
1. The Friday Night Knitting Club
2. Einstein Didn't Use Flashcards
32-36 Magic Tree House Mary Pope Osborne
MN PQ A-Z Mysteries Ron Roy
3. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time Mark Haddon
4. Animal, Vegetable Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
5. Your Child at 6
37 Magic Tree House
RST A-Z Mysteries
6. Fool -Christopher Moore
7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
8. Under the Tuscan Sun 3/20
9. The Happiest Toddler on the Block Dr. Harvey Karp
10. Healing the New Childhood Epidemics Autism, ADHD, Asthma and allergies Dr. Kenneth Bock ****this book has so much fantastic information
11. Bella Tuscany
12. Barefoot - Elin Hilderbrand --(if you liked Friday Night Knitting Club, try it)
UVWXY A-Z Mysteries Ron Roy
Capital Mysteries Ron Roy 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
13.The Rose Labyrinth -Titania Hardie currently reading 4/19

14 Still Alice
15 Serendipity
16-20 5 more Hilderbrand books
21-24 4 Sookie Stackhouse books
25 Last Child In the Woods
26 Revolutionary Road
Z A-Z mysteries
8,9,10 Capital Mysteries
Magic Tree House 38,39,40
27 The Food Intolerance Bible
28 Feeding Your Allergic Child
29 The Nursing Mother's Companion
30 Twilight
31Fledgling By Octavia Butler
32 Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris
33 Middlesex
34 Castaways Elin Hildebrand
35 currently Anna Karenin by Tolstoy
36. Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris
37. All Together Dead - "
38. From Dead to Worse "
39. The Symbol - Dan Brown
40. Moon Called - Patricia Briggs
My Side of the Mountain
Magic Tree House Research Revolutionary War
41. The Godmother - Carrie Adams
42. Hungry Woman in Paris -Josefina Lopez

[AFWife]

Marking my spot...to ensure everyone gets listed

[Happiestever]

I'm in too. My kids have been picking up books moreso when I am reading while they are playing. I love it.

So I have the Twilight saga and then a few more by Robin Mckinley in the works for the next few weeks.

So put my goal at about 100 I guess. I usually read while I am doing cardio at the gym or while the kids are asleep. So we shall see....

[Funnie]

I am horrible about picking up a book and reading and the kids are noticing it. My oldest is really enjoying his school library. So it is time for me to read more often so I will set my goal for 24. I know it is not much but it is a start

[AFWife]

Originally Posted by Funnie

I am horrible about picking up a book and reading and the kids are noticing it. My oldest is really enjoying his school library. So it is time for me to read more often so I will set my goal for 24. I know it is not much but it is a start

Is it okay if I mark you down at 30? Just for round numbers sake

[Funnie]

Originally Posted by AFWife

Is it okay if I mark you down at 30? Just for round numbers sake

I am sorry I forgot about the quantities of 10. 30 will work

[glorified_rice]

Ok, I'm in. My goal this year will be 40.

currently reading book #10