Reading Review for May
I read 10 books during the month of May. 2 Adult Fiction, 3 Young Adult Fiction/Non-Fiction, 2 Juvenile/MG Fiction, and 3 non-fiction.
This brings my yearly total to 19 Adult Fiction, 16 Young Adult Fiction/Non-Fiction, 23 Juvenile Fiction, 2 parenting and 7 non-fiction for a total of 67 books.
Here’s my reading review for May:
Fiction
Sky Burial by Xinran
The Host by Stephenie Meyer (review coming this week)
Young Adult Fiction
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Young Adult Non-Fiction
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Juvenile/MG Fiction
Horns & Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson
The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
Non-Fiction
Slave: My True Story by Mende Nazer & Damiel Lewis
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
I Am a Mother by Jane Clayson Johnson (review coming this week)
Of these books, I break down my recommendations like this:
Highly Recommended (this recommendation usually for social issues)
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Slave: My True Story by Mende Nazer & Damiel Lewis
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
The Giver by Lois Lowry
I Enjoyed and Would Recommend
Sky Burial by Xinran
The Host by Stephenie Meyer (review coming this week)
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Horns & Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson
The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
I Am a Mother by Jane Clayson Johnson (review coming this week)
Good but Maybe You’ll Like It More Than Me
None this month.
Not Worth It
None this month.
Other Posts From the Month of May
Cover for Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn Revealed
Read the First Chapter of Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn
Blogging Tips for the Book Blogger
New York Times Bestsellers – May 25th
A Look at Genocide, Part 2: Darfur Book Recommendations
A New Series: Book Recommendations about Genocide
Author’s Here, Author’s There, Author’s Everywhere
New York Times Bestsellers – May 18th
My Evening Spent with Stephenie Meyer
New York Times Bestsellers – May 11th
I Want Your Book Reviews (again)
Twilight Movie Trailer (you know you want to watch it)
New York Times Bestsellers – May 4th
Happy 1st Birthday Little One!
The Winners!
Here’s Aprils monthly recap
Here’s March’s monthly recap
Here’s February’s monthly recap
Here’s January’s monthly recap
May Challenge Updates
Visit my Challenge Blog for progress on all of my challenges.
This month I finished Joy’s Young Adult Fiction Challenge (I actually think I finished last month) by reading twelve YA books. My personal goal is to read 52 YA books this year, but I passed the twelve mark for this challenge. The books I’ve read thus far are:
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Zel by Donna Jo Dapoli
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
My Brother’s Keeper by Patricia McCormick
Cut by Patricia McCormick
Sold by Patricia McCormick
Other challenges that I’m currently participating in are (click on link to be taken to my book list, challenge details, how and where to sign up, etc.):
Trish’s Classics Challenge
3M’s1% Well-Read Challenge
Joy’s A-Z Challenge
Africa Reading Challenge
Lynne’s I Heard it Through the Grapevine Challenge
Joy’s Non-Fiction Five Challenge
Katrina’s Spring Reading Thing
Thanks to everybody who made this a great month!
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Nice pile of reading there, Natasha! And congrats on finishing up the YA Challenge!
on June 3rd, 2008 at 3:47 pmThanks Debi!
I just noticed all of my links for my posts this month are way messed up! Forgive me. I will be fixing them tomorrow.
on June 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 pmCorrie Ten Boom was really big when I was growing up in Grand Rapids, but I’ve never read any of her work. I’ll have to check her out at some point.
on June 5th, 2008 at 7:41 pmIt sounds like you’ve got some great progress on your challenges there! I realized that I have finished the YA reading challenge, but hopefully I’m not completely finished, because I really could keep reading more YA.
on June 5th, 2008 at 8:05 pm