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A Bookaholic, Pro-life, Pro-Family, Catholic, with Asperger's, who reads as her obsession. These are the ramblings of the books I read or read aloud to my energetic Autistic 12yo.

I love reading almost any book from classics to mysteries to fantasy to manga. I read everything from Christian fiction/non-fiction to dark, paranormal horror novels, go figure. So I'm liable to offend just about everyone with my book choices LOL :-)

I sometimes go through stages of "genre love", I'm addicted to mystery thrillers, Catholic theology, memoirs, 20th century Chinese historical fiction & Victorian fiction and non-fiction, but you'll find I read an even wider variety of books than that, both fiction and non-fiction. I have a teensy fascination with macabre non-fiction books about death and anything about insane asylums.

I also tend to post a lot of reviews of juvenile/teen books, books I read aloud to my son and books he reads aloud to me but I still do a lot of adult reviews as well. I am so addicted to graphic novels and manga that I have a separate BLOG just for those reviews. I read well over 200 books a year, and for the first time ever made it to over 300 last year (2012)! Come join me you never know what new treasure you'll find to read here!

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Sunday, March 27, 2011

The Random Reading Book Shelf Challenge

Goal #4 on my Goals for 2011 list is to read books from one of my bookshelves. On Feb. 18th I randomly picked a bookshelf. I decided to pick from my Juv/YA shelves to make the goal more realistic and I picked the bottom shelf on the left because I couldn't see what was on it. The shelf is in a dark spot. More surprise that way :-)The shelf is double stacked with books squeezed in for maximum use of space with no order, rhyme or reason to what is shelved together, though I do try to keep series books together.

The goal here is to read the entire shelf (or as close as possible) and move out of the house as many books as possible. I blindly grabbed a stackful of books and am working on those at the moment.

1. The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White (keeper)

2. The Cay by Theodore Taylor (put on Bookmooch)

3. The Seventh Princess by Nick Sullivan (put on Bookmooch & gave away!)

4.The Lady Grace Mysteries, Book the First Assassin by Grace Cavendish, Maid of Honor to Elizabeth I by Patricia Feeney (gave to my neice)

5. The Boxcar Children #1 by Gertrude Chandler Warner (I'm collecting the 1st 19 books. keeper)

6. Surprise Island BC#2 by Gertrude Chandler Warner (I'm collecting the 1st 19 books. keeper)

2011 - read 6, gaveaway 2

2012 Project Continues With New Enthusiasm

7. The Yellow House Mystery BC#3 by Gertrude Chandler Warner (I'm collecting the 1st 19 books. keeper)

8. Mystery Ranch BC#4 by Gertrude Chandler Warner (I'm collecting the 1st 19 books. keeper)

9. Into the Dream by William Sleator (gave to thrift shop)

10. Blue Bay Mystery BC#6 by Gertrude Chandler Warner (I'm collecting the 1st 19 books. keeper)

2012 - read 4, gaveaway 1

2013 Project Continues With Determination

11. Cezanne Pinto: A Memoir by Mary Stolz (gave to thrift shop)




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