Holiday Reading Challenge

I am a sucker for Christmas and love the holiday. Its a time for family, eating and reading. And when I saw this over at
All About {n}, I had to jump on board. I hope that you can as well.

Here are the books that I plan on reading:










I would also like to remind you of the read-a-thon I am hosting in four weeks time and I hope to see you.

2 - Not My Daughter ; Barbara Delinsky

Three high school seniors make a pregnancy pact. Heightening the stakes, these aren’t just any seniors--these are three popular, college-bound girls from good families. Set in an insular, tightly knit community in Maine, Not My Daughter explores the consequences of pact behavior on a small town, as well as the strain placed on mothers and daughters who find themselves in unfamiliar terrain. One of the pregnant teens is the daughter of the high school principal--a former teen mother herself--and the local school board is quick to assign blame. When the national media gets wind of the story, the principal’s job is put in jeopardy, as is her standing in the community.

My opinion: It was a great break from reading another book, which was bogging me down at the time. It was interesting to see how a community deals with such an issue and what the implications can be among a group of friends that are closely tied to the pregnancy pact and what it does to those relationships. I had read an earlier book of Ms. Delinsky's and while I wasn't impressed as I was when I had read the earlier book, I still enjoyed the book and would probably read another book of hers.

Rating 3.5/5 stars.

All about the Brontes challenge: Wuthering Heights

I finished the PBS version of Wuthering Heights tonight and really enjoyed it. One reason that I enjoyed the presentation was because I could finally understand the storyline, whereas when I was reading the book by Emily Bronte, I couldn't really follow the storyline. Another reason that I enjoyed it was because I got an idea of what the area of the moors was like. While I don't know how accurate the miniseries was to the book, I can gather that it was pretty close.

Overall, it was a pretty good adaptation of the book.

1 - True Light ; Terri Blackstock

True Light ; Terri Blackstock

Blackstock's third novel in the Restoration series is slow-moving in the first half, but the pace picks up considerably in the second. The Branning family and their neighbors are now eight months into a worldwide blackout, trying to make ends meet and survive one crisis after another as violence rips their community apart. With the sheriff and his deputies desperately overworked and earning only a tiny fraction of their former pay, they can no longer keep their overcrowded, disease-ridden county jail under control. That means that it's up to Deni Branning to help clear the name of boy-next-door love interest Mark Green when he's wrongly accused of attempted murder.

My thoughts: As the second last book in this particular series, I found it a little slow moving at times, but still interesting. There were points in the book in which the book was a little too predictable, but at the same time there were some great messages, particularly the ones about forgiveness and humility. I only read it for the fact that I had already read the first two books in the series and that it seemed to be interesting. It was interesting to see the character's true colours shine through a difficult time and hopefully the final book will be more than worth it. Rating 3/5 stars.

Am thinking of something and need some feedback

For the past few days I have been thinking about hosting a sports book reading challenge. I don't know how many people would actually be interested in it, but I just want to know if its at least viable. I would probably start it sometime closer to the summer months.

18th and 19th Century Woman Writers Challenge

After finding a link through another reading blog, I stumbled across this site and have decided to add to my increasing list of reading challenges for the year.

The two books I plan to read for this challenge are:
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

2010 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge

Here is my list:

1) True Light by Terri Blackstock (church library)
2) Not my daughter by Barbara Delinsky (public library)
3) Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (public library)
4) The church of Facebook by Jesse Rice (church library)
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Christmas Reading Challenge

Don't have a book chosen yet; will post it as soon as I have a choice or two. I have to see what I can get through a library until about Christmas or whatever I can find at home.

Additions to 2010 Books I want to read before I die

There are six books that I want to add:

• Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
• The Russlander by Sandra Birdsell
• Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
• My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• Unless by Carol Shields

Hopefully I will be able to read them

Books I want to read before I die for 2010

Here are the books I wish to read for the challenge, Book I want read before I die for 2010:

• The Reason for God by Tim Keller
• Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
• The Devil wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
• The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
• Marie Antoinette: the journey by Antonia Fraser
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover
• Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
• Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Life of Pie by Yann Martel
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee