March Monthly Summary

Monday, April 5, 2010


March was a great reading month for me. I completed a total of 20 books, similar to last month. I finished my Audio Book Challenge and made a good dent in my 101010 Challenge. I read quite a few great books, including Les Miserable, RENT, Blue Highways, Still Alice and The Help. I hope you all found a few great reads too!

101010 Challenge (10 books in 10 categories in 2010)

Favorite authors (6/10)

Nonfiction / Travel Memoirs (4/10)
MARCH
-"Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America" by: Barbara Ehrenreich - ★★★☆

Recommended (6/10)
MARCH
-"The Jungle Book" by: Rudyard Kipling - ★★★★
-"Over Sea, Under Stone" by: Susan Cooper - ★★★★
-"What Was Lost" by: Catherine O'Flynn - ★★★★

Plays (esp. Pulitzer Prize Winners) (8/10)
MARCH
-"RENT" by Jonathan Larson- ★★★★★
-"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett- ★★★

Short Stories / Poetry Collections (3/10)

1,000 Books / Gilmore Girls List (8/10)
MARCH
-"Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck - ★★★★
-"Les Miserable" by: Victor Hugo - ★★★★☆

Sequels (7/10)
MARCH
-"Eloise in Paris" by: Kay Thompson- ★★★★☆
-"Anne of Ingleside" by: L.M. Montgomery - ★★★☆
-"Fourth Comings" by: Megan McCafferty - ★★★

Book Awards (Pulitzer, Booker, Orange) (3/10)

One Book One Town / Book Club (5/10)
MARCH
-"Blame" by: Michelle Huneven - ★★★☆
-"How Starbucks Saved My Life" by: Michael Gates Gill - ★★★☆
-"The Postmistress" by: Sarah Blake - ★★★☆
-"The Help" by: Kathryn Stockett - ★★★★☆
-"Still Alice" by: Lisa Genova - ★★★★☆

Random Book Challenge (5/10)
MARCH
-"Their Eyes Were Watching God" by: Zora Neale Hurston - ★★★☆
-"Blue Highways: A Journey into America" by: William Least Heat-Moon - ★★★★☆
-"Little Children" by: Tom Perrotta - ★★★★
-"Proof" by: David Auburn - ★★★★

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