2011 Book Challenges: Final Post

Yay! 

I did it! 

I didn't complete all the challenges as I had planned, but I am happy with my over all accomplishments. In a year filled with job hunting, tutoring ELA & Reading, and dealing with a few crises, I consider that a major feat.

When life is full and responsibilities abound, having an 'excuse' to read is priceless. At times it can even be sanity saving.

You may also notice the inclusion of ebooks, beginning at #33. I received a NOOK COLOR from my dear husband for my birthday - AND I LOVE IT!

There is much debate on whether digital books spell the end of paper books. And I am here to tell you that the answer to that question is a resounding NO. What I have found is that my Nook has expanded my literary reach exponentially.

Being that I am on a tight budget, my ability to buy books is somewhat limited. I have exhausted the libraries in three counties, and if I hadn't discovered online used book venders I might have already expired for lack of nourishment. But there are many books I would like to read that just do not find their way to these venders, or they carry hefty price tags when they do. 

Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book is one example. I had searched unsuccessfully several years for an affordable copy, only to find it in the ebook format for $1.99. Is it the same as holding the original leather bound volume? No. But at least I can read it. And that, after all, is the ultimate goal of a book lover - reading.

HERE ARE MY FINAL LISTS:

From: Home Girl's Book Blog.

1. Recovering - May Sarton
2. The Cat Who Killed Lillian Jackson Braun - Robert Kaplow
3. The Red Tent - Anita Diamont
4. Finding Your Bipolar Muse - Lana R. Castle
5. The Pig Did It - Joseph Caldwell  
6. The Pig Comes To Dinner - Joseph Caldwell
7. The Short Stories of John B. Keane - John B. Keane
8. Living In The State Of Stuck: How Assistive Technology Impacts The Lives of People With Disabilities - Marcia J. Scherer 
9. A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft 
10. So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
11. A Long Rainy Season - ed. Leza Lowitz, Miyuki aoyama, & Akemi Tomioka
12. The Pest Maiden: A Story of Lobotomy - Penelpoe Scambly Schott
13. The Fur Person - May Sarton
14. From the Dark Side: The Collected Poetry of Jonathan Schwartz - Jonathan Schwartz
15. Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process - Ed. Richard M. Berlin
16. Port Mortuary - Patricia Cornwell 
17. Sunbathing in the Rain - Gwyneth Lewis
18. Selected Poems of May Sarton - Ed. S. Hilsinger & L. Brynes
19. The Subjection of Women - John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill
20. A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen
21. Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
22. A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
23. The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
24. The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
25. Ain’t I a Woman? - Bell Hooks

26. A Maze Me - Naomi Hihab Nye
27. Cat Cross Their Graves - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
28. Muhammad: The Banned Images - Gary Hall
29. Cat Breaking Free - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
30. Cat Pay the Devil - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
31. Cat Deck the Halls - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
32. My Lobotomy - Charles Fleming    
33. A Study In Scarlet (ebook) - Arthur Conan Doyle
34. The Sign of Four (ebook) - Arthur Conan Doyle

35. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (ebook) - Arthur Conan Doyle
36. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (ebook) - Arthur Conan Doyle

37. The Hound of the Baskervilles (ebook) - Arthur Conan Doyle

38. The Return of Sherlock Holmes (ebook) - Arthur Conan Doyle

40. Dexter is Delicious - Jeff Lindsay
41. His Last Bow (ebook) - Arthur Conan Doyle 

42. The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes (ebook) - Arthur Conan Doyle          

43. Serenity: Achieving Inner Peace Through Haiku (ebook) - Kiyoshi Hayakowa  
44. In the Spirit of Haiku (ebook) - Kamala Moore  
45. Haiku (ebook) - Toshiyuki Ihira     

46. Isotropes: A Collection of Speculative Haibun (ebook) - T.J. McIntyre  
47. 100 Selected Poems (ebook) - e.e. cummings    

48. Cat Had a Tail (ebook) - Steven D. Bennett
49. Faith and Feminism - Helen LaKelly Hunt    
50. The Death Clock (ebook) - J. Rock  
51. Short Stories for Short on Time People (ebook) - David Santos Solano    
52. No Light Might Escape (ebook) - Joe Hakim     

53. Bullied: Volume One (ebook) - Christopher Jones     
54. Bullied: Volume Two (ebook) - Christopher Jones
55. Bullied: Volume Three (ebook) - Christopher Jones
56. Bullied: Volume Four (ebook) - Christopher Jones
57.9 Lives Stories for Cat Lovers (ebook) - Ahmed Khalifa
58. Chronicles of Bursts of Light and Shadow (ebook) - Amanda Clark-Williams
59. God in the Machine (ebook) - Thea Atkinson
60. Husband Won't Buy Wife a Kindle (ebook) - Franklin Eddy
61. Old Ladies Who Love Porn (ebook) - Franklin Eddy
62. So and Sew (ebook) - Cassandra Pepper
63. The Alzheimers Book Club (ebook) - Jill Zeller
64. Cats in the Belfry (ebook) - Doreen Tovy & Dan Brown
65. Go the F***k to Sleep (ebook) - Adam Mansbach
66. The Thin Man (ebook) - Dashell Hammett
67. The Cat, the Professor, and the Poison (ebook) - Leann Sweeney
68. The Cat, the Quilt, and the Corpse (ebook) - Leann Sweeney
69. The Cat, the Lady, and the Liar (ebook) - Leann Sweeney
70. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat (ebook) - Sofie Kelly        
71. How to Wash a Cat (ebook) - Rebecca M. Hale
72. Nine Lives Last Forever (ebook) - Rebecca M. Hale
73. How to Moon a Cat (ebook) - Rebecca M. Hale 
74. Mystery - Johnathan Kellerman
75. Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin    
76. Cat on The Money - Shirley Rousseau Murphy    
77. Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
78. Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
79. Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
80. Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
81. The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven - Joseph Caldwell   

82. Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs - (ebook) - Blaize Clement      

83. Cat Sitter Among the Pigeons - (ebook) - Blaize Clement
84. The House of Darkness - (ebook) - Ellery Queen
85. Arson Plus - (ebook) - Dashell Hammett
86. Homeowner Haiku - Jerry Ratch & Sherry Karver
87. Sleight of Paw - (ebook) - Sofie Kelly     
88. Arsene Lupine Vs. Herlock Shomes - (ebook) Maurice LeBlanc
89. If Not For the Cat - Jack Prelutsky         
90. Haiku for Sociologists - Ed. Kristin Barker & Gary Tiedeman      

91. Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King       

92. Fur-de-Lance - Rex Stout            
93. Black Orchids - Rex Stout
94. Women Poets of Japan - Kenneth Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi, Ed.
95. Working Stiff - Annelise Ryan             
96. Scared Stiff - Annelise Ryan             
97. Hiss of Death - Rita Mae Brown    
98. New and Selected Poems - Mary Oliver      
99. Cat Playing Cupid - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
100. Red Mist - Patricia Cornwell  

Hosted by: Robin of My Two Blessings. (Yes, I surpassed my goal for this one. And I loved every minute of it!)

Hosted by: Carrie from Books And Movies. Although my goal was 6 books for this one, I didn't quite make it. 

MY LINK is here.

 From: Savvy Verse & Wit. This one was easy, as the challenge was to read just 1 book of poetry. I made it to 22.

MY LINK is here.

Hosted by: Opinions of a Wolf. My goal was 12 books, but once again, I only made it to 10.

MY LINK is here.

EQUAL PAY DAY

Today is Equal Pay Day – 

the day into 2011 that a woman has to work, on average, 

to make the same as a man did in just 2010.

In case you didn't notice, 

that is 102 extra days a woman has to work
to make the same amount of money.

 

 

BLOGGIESTA . . . ACROSS THE FINISH LINE

Boy, am I tired. 

I'd like to say it is because of my 72 hour blog housekeeping marathon. But that would be a lie.

We took a break last night to check out a friend of ours in his band, Superlicious, and the night took on a life of its own. 

The band is an eighties cover band (you know you like it, admit it) and they were great. We had a wonderful time with friends. And Then . . . . 

On the way home the truck broke down in the middle of nowhere. Our cell phone was dead. And it was a foggy fifty-some degrees.

We had to walk to the call box. Thank heaven it was there! We woke our daughter up to come get us and walked back to the truck. This was after dancing all night. Our daughter got lost and we shivered there nearly three hours with no heat while waiting.

Well, we got home this morning and after some sleep, went back to pickup the truck. So I lost time, sleep, and productivity. (THIS was my starting line post).

What did I accomplish?

I Did some soul searching about my blog and how I would like it to be,

Visited blogs I wouldn't have otherwise and gotten a lot of new ideas, 

Cleaned up my links, 

Made the sidebar more user friendly, 

Drafted and scheduled future posts, 

Bookmarked information regarding improvements I still want to make but haven't,
and
I enjoyed spending time in the company of other bloggers. I love blog hopping.

I also participated in a mini challenge at Word Lilly, called '10 Things Bloggers shouldn't do.' It gave me some direction as well as good ideas.

I went to Website Grader for a report I don't quite understand yet. (But I will)

No, I didn't accomplish all that I wanted. But that's OK. I gained a great deal from the experience, and I thank Natasha at Maw Books Blog for hosting the challenge. And I thank all those who participated for being my teachers and my inspiration.

But now I'm off to bed. Night all.

I SEEM TO HAVE INADVERTENTLY DELETED MY POST ABOUT THE 4TH ANNUAL BLOGGIESTA THIS WEEKEND.

 

Bloggiesta is scheduled for January 21st, 22nd, and 23rd. 

(Did I mention it's this weekend?)

It's hosted by Natasha at Maw Books Blog. 

 

"The beginning of the year is a great time to evaluate your blog, see how you’re doing, and get re-energized for the rest of the year! 

Some of you may be asking what is Bloggiesta? In short, it’s a blogging marathon.  An opportunity to cross those nagging items off of your to-do list and improve your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing. Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two!  It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta!"

And you will find many great bloggy consumables if you wander over to the fiesta. 
There are links and hints, 
but most of all there are others to party with; 

so come join the fun.

I plan to tackle some overdue housekeeping.
I also want to stretch my knowledge and skills a bit so I will try some of the hints offered by my betters and scour the many links offered. 
It is also a great opportunity to trade ideas
among the many inveterate bloggers participating.

So, 
see you there!

A YEAR OF FEMINIST CLASSICS

From: A Year of Feminist Classics.

The project will work a little like an informal reading group: for the whole of 2011, we’ll be reading a book a month from this list of classic feminist fiction and non-fiction, and each of us will be in charge of the subsequent discussion for three months.

READING LIST

January: A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

AND So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba - Amy

February: The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill - Ana
March: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen - Emily
April: Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Iris
May: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf - Ana
June: God Dies by the Nile by Nawal Saadawi - Amy
July: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir - Iris
August: The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston - Emily
September: The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf - Amy
October: Ain’t I a Woman? by Bell Hooks

AND Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism Anthology - Iris

November: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler - Ana
December: Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde - Emily

MENTAL ILLNESS ADVOCACY (MIA) READING CHALLENGE

Hosted by: Opinions of a Wolf.

Reading to raise awareness, knowledge, and acceptance of mental illness, both fiction (books featuring characters with a mental illness depicted in a sympathetic light) and nonfiction (from self-help books to academic books on the topic). No book read for the challenge may demonize the mentally ill. 

MY LIST

I'm aiming for ADVOCATE status 

with 12 books.

1. The Pest Maiden: A Story of Lobotomy - Penelpoe Scambly Schott

2. From the Dark Side: The Collected Poetry of Jonathan Schwartz - Jonathan Schwartz

3. Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process - Ed. Richard M. Berlin

4. Sunbathing in the Rain - Gwyneth Lewis  

5. My Lobotomy - Charles Fleming 

6. Bullied: Volume One (ebook) - Christopher Jones
7. Bullied: Volume Two (ebook) - Christopher Jones
8. Bullied: Volume Three (ebook) - Christopher Jones
9. Bullied: Volume Four (ebook) - Christopher Jones
10. Chronicles of Bursts of Light and Shadow (ebook) - Amanda Clark-Williams

11.

12.

2011 FEARLESS POETRY READING CHALLENGE

From: Savvy Verse & Wit. 

The challenge is to read just 1 book of poetry. I think I can do that.


Or Serena will be selecting a poetry book for a read-a-long midway through the challenge.

MY LIST

1. Good Woman - Lucille Clifton
2. A Long Rainy Season - ed. Leza Lowitz, Miyuki aoyama, & Akemi Tomioka
3. The Pest Maiden: A Story of Lobotomy - Penelpoe Scambly Schott
4. From the Dark Side: The Collected Poetry of Jonathan Schwartz - Jonathan Schwartz
5. Selected Poems of May Sarton - Ed. S. Hilsinger & L. Brynes
6. A Maze Me - Naomi Hihab Nye 
7. Serenity: Achieving Inner Peace Through Haiku (ebook) - Kiyoshi Hayakowa  
8. In the Spirit of Haiku (ebook) - Kamala Moore  
9. Haiku (ebook) - Toshiyuki Ihira     
10. Isotropes: A Collection of Speculative Haibun (ebook) - T.J. McIntyre  
11. 100 Selected Poems (ebook) - e.e. cummings   
12. No Light Might Escape (ebook) - Joe Hakim     
13. Bullied: Volume One (ebook) - Christopher Jones
14. Bullied: Volume Two (ebook) - Christopher Jones
15. Bullied: Volume Three (ebook) - Christopher Jones
16. Bullied: Volume Four (ebook) - Christopher Jones
17. Chronicles of Bursts of Light and Shadow (ebook) - Amanda Clark-Williams
18. Homeowner Haiku - Jerry Ratch & Sherry Karver    
19. If Not For the Cat - Jack Prelutsky         
20. Haiku for Sociologists - Ed. Kristin Barker & Gary Tiedeman      

21. Women Poets of Japan - Kenneth Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi, Ed.    

22. New and Selected Poems - Mary Oliver      

READ 52 BOOKS IN 52 WEEKS CHALLENGE

  Hosted by: Robin of My Two Blessings. 

 

The goal is to read one book

(or more) a week for 52 weeks. 

MY LIST

1. Recovering - May Sarton
2. The Cat Who Killed Lillian Jackson Braun - Robert Kaplow
3. The Red Tent - Anita Diamont
4. Finding Your Bipolar Muse - Lana R. Castle
5. The Pig Did It - Joseph Caldwell  
6. The Pig Comes To Dinner - Joseph Caldwell
7. The Short Stories of John B. Keane - John B. Keane
8. Living In The State Of Stuck: How Assistive Technology Impacts The Lives of People With Disabilities - Marcia J. Scherer 
9. A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft 
10. So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
11. A Long Rainy Season - ed. Leza Lowitz, Miyuki aoyama, & Akemi Tomioka
12. The Pest Maiden: A Story of Lobotomy - Penelpoe Scambly Schott
13. The Fur Person - May Sarton
14. From the Dark Side: The Collected Poetry of Jonathan Schwartz - Jonathan Schwartz
15. Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process - Ed. Richard M. Berlin
16. Port Mortuary - Patricia Cornwell 
17. Sunbathing in the Rain - Gwyneth Lewis
18. Selected Poems of May Sarton - Ed. S. Hilsinger & L. Brynes
19. The Subjection of Women - John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill
20. A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen
21. Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
22. A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
23. The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
24. The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
25. Ain’t I a Woman? - Bell Hooks 

Today's date is March 15.

Ten weeks have elapsed in the challenge.

That's . . . 70 days . . . divided by 25 books . . . or 2.8 days per book!

No wonder I don't accomplish anything! 

I'm always reading!

Actually, I always have a book with me

to fill in all the little holes of my day and it adds up.

26. A Maze Me - Naomi Hihab Nye
27. Cat Cross Their Graves - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
28. Muhammad: The Banned Images - Gary Hall
29. Cat Breaking Free - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
30. Cat Pay the Devil - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
31. Cat Deck the Halls - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
32. My Lobotomy - Charles Fleming    
33. A Study In Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
34. The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle

35. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
36. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

I found all the Sherlock Holmes stories free for my Nook, which was a birthday present from my husband, and am aiming to complete the entire series.

37. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle

38. The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

 Today's date is June 7.

 The 157th day of the year . . . divided by 38 books . . . or 4.13 days per book.

I'm slowing down. Or maybe I'm just busy. Or both.

40. Dexter is Delicious - Jeff Lindsay
41. His Last Bow (ebook) - Arthur Conan Doyle 

42. The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes (ebook) - Arthur Conan Doyle          

43. Serenity: Achieving Inner Peace Through Haiku (ebook) - Kiyoshi Hayakowa  
44. In the Spirit of Haiku (ebook) - Kamala Moore  
45. Haiku (ebook) - Toshiyuki Ihira     

46. Isotropes: A Collection of Speculative Haibun (ebook) - T.J. McIntyre  
47. 100 Selected Poems (ebook) - e.e. cummings    

48. Cat Had a Tail (ebook) - Steven D. Bennett
49. Faith and Feminism - Helen LaKelly Hunt    
50. The Death Clock (ebook) - J. Rock  
51. Short Stories for Short on Time People (ebook) - David Santos Solano    
52. No Light Might Escape (ebook) - Joe Hakim     

Today is July 22nd, and even though I've reached the goal for this challenge, I'm still plugging on.

53. Bullied: Volume One (ebook) - Christopher Jones     
54. Bullied: Volume Two (ebook) - Christopher Jones
55. Bullied: Volume Three (ebook) - Christopher Jones
56. Bullied: Volume Four (ebook) - Christopher Jones
57.9 Lives Stories for Cat Lovers (ebook) - Ahmed Khalifa
58. Chronicles of Bursts of Light and Shadow (ebook) - Amanda Clark-Williams
59. God in the Machine (ebook) - Thea Atkinson
60. Husband Won't Buy Wife a Kindle (ebook) - Franklin Eddy
61. Old Ladies Who Love Porn (ebook) - Franklin Eddy
62. So and Sew (ebook) - Cassandra Pepper
63. The Alzheimers Book Club (ebook) - Jill Zeller
64. Cats in the Belfry (ebook) - Doreen Tovy & Dan Brown
65. Go the F***k to Sleep (ebook) - Adam Mansbach
66. The Thin Man (ebook) - Dashell Hammett
67. The Cat, the Professor, and the Poison (ebook) - Leann Sweeney
68. The Cat, the Quilt, and the Corpse (ebook) - Leann Sweeney
69. The Cat, the Lady, and the Liar (ebook) - Leann Sweeney
70. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat (ebook) - Sofie Kelly        
71. How to Wash a Cat (ebook) - Rebecca M. Hale
72. Nine Lives Last Forever (ebook) - Rebecca M. Hale
73. How to Moon a Cat (ebook) - Rebecca M. Hale 
74. Mystery - Johnathan Kellerman
75. Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin    
76. Cat on The Money - Shirley Rousseau Murphy    
77. Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
78. Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
79. Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
80. Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
81. The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven - Joseph Caldwell   

82. Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs - (ebook) - Blaize Clement      

83. Cat Sitter Among the Pigeons - (ebook) - Blaize Clement
84. The House of Darkness - (ebook) - Ellery Queen
85. Arson Plus - (ebook) - Dashell Hammett
86. Homeowner Haiku - Jerry Ratch & Sherry Karver
87. Sleight of Paw - (ebook) - Sofie Kelly     
88. Arsene Lupine Vs. Herlock Shomes - (ebook) Maurice LeBlanc
89. If Not For the Cat - Jack Prelutsky         
90. Haiku for Sociologists - Ed. Kristin Barker & Gary Tiedeman      

91. Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King       

92. Fur-de-Lance - Rex Stout            

93. Black Orchids - Rex Stout    
94. Women Poets of Japan - Kenneth Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi, Ed.
95. Working Stiff - Annelise Ryan             
96. Scared Stiff - Annelise Ryan             

97. Hiss of Death - Rita Mae Brown         
98. New and Selected Poems - Mary Oliver      
99. Cat Playing Cupid - Shirley Rousseau Murphy     
100. Red Mist - Patricia Cornwell           

IRELAND READING CHALLENGE 2011

Hosted by: Carrie from Books And Movies.

Any book written by an Irish author, set in Ireland, or involving Irish history or Irish characters, counts for the challenge.

MY GOAL

Kiss the Blarney Stone level: 6 books

MY LIST

1. The Pig Did It - Joseph Caldwell

2. The Pig Comes To Dinner - Joseph Caldwell

3. The Short Stories of John B. Keane - John B. Keane

4. The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven - Joseph Caldwell   

5. 

6.

100 + Books CHALLENGE

From: Home Girl's Book Blog.
  

The goal

is to read 100 or more books.

MY LIST

1. Recovering - May Sarton
2. The Cat Who Killed Lillian Jackson Braun - Robert Kaplow
3. The Red Tent - Anita Diamont
4. Finding Your Bipolar Muse - Lana R. Castle
5. The Pig Did It - Joseph Caldwell  

6. The Pig Comes To Dinner - Joseph Caldwell   
7. The Short Stories of John B. Keane - John B. Keane
8. Living In The State Of Stuck: How Assistive Technology Impacts The Lives of People With Disabilities - Marcia J. Scherer 
9. A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft 
10. So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
11. A Long Rainy Season - ed. Leza Lowitz, Miyuki aoyama, & Akemi Tomioka
12. The Pest Maiden: A Story of Lobotomy - Penelpoe Scambly Schott
13. The Fur Person - May Sarton
14. From the Dark Side: The Collected Poetry of Jonathan Schwartz - Jonathan Schwartz
15. Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process - Ed. Richard M. Berlin
16. Port Mortuary - Patricia Cornwell 
17. Sunbathing in the Rain - Gwyneth Lewis
18. Selected Poems of May Sarton - Ed. S. Hilsinger & L. Brynes
19. The Subjection of Women - John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill
20. A Doll’s House - Henrik Ibsen
21. Herland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
22. A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
23. The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston
24. The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
25. Ain’t I a Woman? - Bell Hooks 

Today's date is March 15.

Ten weeks have elapsed in the challenge.

That's . . . 70 days . . . divided by 25 books . . . or 2.8 days per book!

No wonder I don't accomplish anything! 

I'm always reading!

Actually, I always have a book with me

to fill in all the little holes of my day and it adds up.

26. A Maze Me - Naomi Hihab Nye
27. Cat Cross Their Graves - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
28. Muhammad: The Banned Images - Gary Hall
29. Cat Breaking Free - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
30. Cat Pay the Devil - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
31. Cat Deck the Halls - Shirley Rousseau Murphy
32. My Lobotomy - Charles Fleming    
33. A Study In Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
34. The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle

35. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
36. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

I found all the Sherlock Holmes stories free for my Nook, which was a birthday present from my husband, and am aiming to complete the entire series.

37. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle

38. The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

Today's date is June 7.

 The 157th day of the year . . . divided by 38 books . . . or 4.13 days per book.

I'm slowing down. Or maybe I'm just busy. Or both.

40. Dexter is Delicious - Jeff Lindsay
41. His Last Bow (ebook) - Arthur Conan Doyle

42. The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes (ebook) - Arthur Conan Doyle
43. Serenity: Achieving Inner Peace Through Haiku (ebook) - Kiyoshi Hayakowa  
44. In the Spirit of Haiku (ebook) - Kamala Moore  
45. Haiku (ebook) - Toshiyuki Ihira     
46. Isotropes: A Collection of Speculative Haibun (ebook) - T.J. McIntyre  
47. 100 Selected Poems (ebook) - e.e. cummings     
48. Cat Had a Tail (ebook) - Steven D. Bennett    
49. Faith and Feminism - Helen LaKelly Hunt    
50. The Death Clock (ebook) - J. Rock  
51. Short Stories for Short on Time People (ebook) - David Santos Solano    
52. No Light Might Escape (ebook) - Joe Hakim     
53. Bullied: Volume One (ebook) - Christopher Jones     
54. Bullied: Volume Two (ebook) - Christopher Jones
55. Bullied: Volume Three (ebook) - Christopher Jones
56. Bullied: Volume Four (ebook) - Christopher Jones
57.9 Lives Stories for Cat Lovers (ebook) - Ahmed Khalifa
58. Chronicles of Bursts of Light and Shadow (ebook) - Amanda Clark-Williams
59. God in the Machine (ebook) - Thea Atkinson
60. Husband Won't Buy Wife a Kindle (ebook) - Franklin Eddy
61. Old Ladies Who Love Porn (ebook) - Franklin Eddy
62. So and Sew (ebook) - Cassandra Pepper
63. The Alzheimers Book Club (ebook) - Jill Zeller
64. Cats in the Belfry (ebook) - Doreen Tovy & Dan Brown
65. Go the F***k to Sleep (ebook) - Adam Mansbach
66. The Thin Man (ebook) - Dashell Hammett
67. The Cat, the Professor, and the Poison (ebook) - Leann Sweeney
68. The Cat, the Quilt, and the Corpse (ebook) - Leann Sweeney
69. The Cat, the Lady, and the Liar (ebook) - Leann Sweeney
70. Curiosity Thrilled the Cat (ebook) - Sofie Kelly        
71. How to Wash a Cat (ebook) - Rebecca M. Hale
72. Nine Lives Last Forever (ebook) - Rebecca M. Hale
73. How to Moon a Cat (ebook) - Rebecca M. Hale 
74. Mystery - Johnathan Kellerman
75. Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin    
76. Cat on The Money - Shirley Rousseau Murphy    
77. Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
78. Duplicity Dogged the Dachshund (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
79. Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
80. Cat Sitter on a Hot Tin Roof (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
81. The Pig Goes to Hog Heaven - Joseph Caldwell   
82. Raining Cat Sitters and Dogs - (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
83. Cat Sitter Among the Pigeons - (ebook) - Blaize Clement     
84. The House of Darkness - (ebook) - Ellery Queen   
85. Arson Plus - (ebook) - Dashell Hammett      
86. Homeowner Haiku - Jerry Ratch & Sherry Karver
87. Sleight of Paw - (ebook) - Sofie Kelly        
88. Arsene Lupine Vs. Herlock Shomes - (ebook) Maurice LeBlanc     
89. If Not For the Cat - Jack Prelutsky         
90. Haiku for Sociologists - Ed. Kristin Barker & Gary Tiedeman
91. Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King       
92. Fur-de-Lance - Rex Stout            
93. Black Orchids - Rex Stout           
94. Women Poets of Japan - Kenneth Rexroth & Ikuko Atsumi, Ed.    
95. Working Stiff - Annelise Ryan             
96. Scared Stiff - Annelise Ryan         
97. Hiss of Death - Rita Mae Brown        
98. New and Selected Poems - Mary Oliver      
99. Cat Playing Cupid - Shirley Rousseau Murphy     
100. Red Mist - Patricia Cornwell