The Sunday Post #3

Not sure why my post didn't post on time so here it is anyway! :)

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted at Caffenated Reviewer. (I am going to do mine on the first Sunday of each month.)  It's a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week  month on your blog and showcase books and things we have received.  Share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week month ahead.  See rules here: Sunday Post Meme.

Last Month on Books In My Life

• The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate
• The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
• Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography by William Anderson
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

In My Mailbox

Amazingly I did not order any books this past month.  Being on vacation, getting Grandma settled in the retirement home, and reorganizing my life has left little time for purchasing any new books.

Up this month on The Books In My Life

Challenge Updates

Pages read in February: 1,701

2018: 3,299

Challenge to date pages: 96,532

Nothing, nada, zilch, zero!

The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate

Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography by William Anderson

Nothing, nada, zilch, zero!

The Sunday Post #2

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted at Caffenated Reviewer. (I am going to do mine on the first Sunday of each month.)  It's a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week  month on your blog and showcase books and things we have received.  Share news about what is coming up on your blog for the week month ahead.  See rules here: Sunday Post Meme

Last Month on The Books in My Life

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• The Great Convergence by Joseph R. Lallo
• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
• The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
• I Heard The Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Beckman

In My Mailbox

 

Up This Month on The Books in My Life

Taking part in the Laura Ingalls Wilder challenge over at Stray Thoughts.  Three  two books because my library is closed in the month of February and I can't get the other one checked out! 

• Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Biography by William Anderson
• West From Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder, San Francisco, 1915 
• The Prayer Box by Lisa Wingate
• The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
• The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Challenge updates

Pages read in January: 2,432

Challenge to date pages: 94,831

5 out of 50 books read. My deadline is October 31st, 2022.

The Sunday Post #1

I found this great meme at Caffeinated Reviewer and I thought I would do a Sunday Post the first Sunday of each month to recap my month of reading news.  It won't always be exciting but I will do my best to stay actively reading throughout the month! 

In the month of December I started making my reading list for 2018.  I searched our online library for books that I potentially wanted to read.  A lot of them were there but there are many that are not so I went to Betterworldbooks.com where I found almost everything I will need for 2018; plus a few more! LOL!

While on vacation the last week of November and the first of December I read an old V. C. Andrews novel Flowers in the Attic.  Well now, I can't stop with that one I had to find the rest of the books.  In addition to my 2018 Reading Challenge books I purchased those as well.  Those challenge books are as follows.  They won't all be read in January but I will need them within the first three months.

Anges Grey

Tuesdays With Morrie

The Wasteland and Other Poems

In December I read or listened to eight really good books.  Each one has been reviewed here (in December) on this blog.  I haven't figured out how to link the picture to the post yet.

January is off to a good start.  I have already read  listened to one of my 2018 books.  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  I have to take them when they come available or I lose out on them.  

I'm almost done with The Mayor of Casterbridge.   It's taken me a long time to read because when I would get time to sit I would be working on my nephew's afghan so I listened to a book.  Should be done with it this week.