Afghanistan
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
May 2008 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini September 2008 |
| Albania |
| Algeria |
| Andorra |
| Angola |
| Antigua and Barbuda |
| Argentina |
| Armenia |
| Australia |
| Austria |
| Azerbaijan |
| The Bahamas |
| Bahrain |
| Bangladesh |
| Barbados |
| Belarus |
| Belgium |
| Belize |
| Benin |
| Bhutan |
| Bolivia |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Botswana |
| Brazil |
| Brunei |
| Bulgaria |
| Burkina Faso |
| Burundi |
| Cambodia |
| Cameroon |
| Canada |
| Cape Verde |
| Central African Republic |
| Chad |
| Chile |
| China |
| Colombia |
| Comoros |
| Congo, Democratic Republic of |
| Congo, Republic of |
| Costa Rica |
| Côte d’Ivoire |
| Croatia |
| Cuba |
| Cyprus |
| Czech Republic |
| Denmark Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg |
| Djibouti |
| Dominica |
| Dominican Republic The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Woa by Junot Diaz September 7, 2014 |
| East Timor |
| Ecuador |
| Egypt |
| El Salvador |
| Equatorial Guinea |
| Eritrea |
| Estonia |
| Ethiopia |
| Fiji |
| Finland |
| France |
| Gabon |
| The Gambia |
| Georgia |
| Germany |
| Ghana |
| Greece |
| Grenada |
| Guatemala |
| Guinea |
| Guinea-Bissau |
| Guyana |
| Haiti |
| Honduras |
| Hungary |
| Iceland |
| India The Life of Pi by Yann Martel November 3, 2014 |
| Indonesia |
| Iran |
| Iraq |
| Ireland |
| Israel |
| Italy |
| Jamaica |
| Japan |
| Jordan |
| Kazakhstan |
| Kenya |
| Kiribati |
| Kurdistan* |
| Kuwait |
| Kyrgyzstan |
| Laos |
| Latvia |
| Lebanon |
| Lesotho |
| Liberia |
| Libya |
| Liechtenstein |
| Lithuania |
| Luxembourg |
| Macedonia |
| Madagascar |
| Malawi |
| Malaysia |
| Maldives |
| Mali |
| Malta |
| Marshall Islands |
| Mauritania |
| Mauritius |
| Mexico |
| Micronesia, Federated States of |
| Moldova |
| Monaco |
| Mongolia |
| Montenegro |
| Morocco |
| Mozambique |
| Myanmar |
| Namibia |
| Nauru |
| Nepal |
| Netherlands |
| New Zealand |
| Nicaragua |
| Niger |
| Nigeria Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe August 2008 |
| North Korea Somewhere Inside by Laura Ling & Lisa Ling April 2011 |
| Norway |
| Oman |
| Pakistan |
| Palau |
| Palestine |
| Panama |
| Papua New Guinea |
| Paraguay |
| Peru |
| Philippines |
| Poland |
| Portugal |
| Qatar |
| Romania |
| Russia |
| Rwanda |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| Saint Lucia |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
| Samoa |
| San Marino |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
| Saudi Arabia |
| Senegal |
| Serbia |
| Seychelles |
| Sierra Leone |
| Singapore |
| Slovakia |
| Slovenia |
| Solomon Islands |
| Somalia |
| South Africa |
| South Korea |
| South Sudan |
| Spain |
| Sri Lanka |
| Sudan |
| Suriname |
| Swaziland |
| Sweden |
| Switzerland |
| Syria |
| Taiwan |
| Tajikistan |
| Tanzania |
| Thailand |
| Togo |
| Tonga |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
| Tunisia |
| Turkey |
| Turkmenistan |
| Tuvalu |
| Uganda |
| Ukraine |
| United Arab Emirates |
| United Kingdom |
| United States of America |
| Uruguay |
| Uzbekistan |
| Vanuatu |
| Vatican City |
| Venezuela |
| Vietnam |
| Yemen |
| Zambia |
| Zimbabwe |
Saturday, September 10, 2016
Reading Around the World Personal Challenge
I found the blog A Year Of Reading Around The World and decided that I would like to try this challenge as well. However - I will need longer than a year.
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Edelweiss Reading Challenge
Edelweiss Reading Challenge
This challenge is to read and review the items on my Edelweiss shelf.
To Review:
The Female of the Species
Liars, Inc
The Cemetery Boys
A Tale Dark and Grim
Hyperbole and a Half
The Asylum
Carniepunk
Undercurrent
Has Anyone Seen My Pants
To Read: 0/298
| (Don't You) Forget About Me |
| 101 Essential Tips: Yoga |
| 60-Minute CEO |
| A Case of Redemption |
| A Conspiracy of Alchemists |
| A Curious Mind |
| A Dark and Stormy Knit |
| A Dash of Magic |
| A Ghostly Demise |
| A Ghostly Grave |
| A House in the Sky |
| A Modern Marriage |
| A Wicked Thing |
| A Year of Living Prayerfully |
| Across a Star-Swept Sea |
| After the End |
| Alice In Wonderland High |
| Alice's Wonderland |
| All That Glows |
| Animal Wise |
| Another Little Piece |
| Anything That Moves |
| As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust |
| At the Water's Edge |
| Autumn Rose |
| Back to Blackbrick |
| Bacon and Egg Man |
| Bad Indians |
| Bang |
| Banishing the Dark |
| Be Bad First |
| Be Good Be Real Be Crazy |
| Beheld |
| Black Knight |
| Blaze (or Love in the Time of Supervillains) |
| Blue Plate Special |
| Bob Dylan |
| Bones Are Forever |
| Bones of the Lost |
| Born of Illusion |
| Briar Queen |
| Bring Work to Life by Bringing Life to Work |
| Camp Wacko |
| Centered Leadership |
| Chantress |
| Chef Tell |
| Clam Wake |
| Cognac Conspiracies |
| Confessions of a Sociopath |
| Cooking as Fast as I Can |
| Damn Him to Hell |
| Dance of the Red Death |
| Dances with Spirits |
| Dandelion Dead |
| Dangerous Lies |
| Darkest Fear |
| Dashiell Hammett |
| Daybook |
| Deadly Sting |
| Death in Reel Time |
| Delancey |
| Devil and Her Love Song, Vol. 13 |
| Diplomatic Immunity |
| Dirty Little Secret |
| Do the KIND Thing |
| Do Your Om Thing |
| Don't Lick the Minivan |
| Don't Stop Believin' |
| Down and Out in Bugtussle |
| Drunk Mom |
| Dueling Banjos: The Deliverance of Drew |
| E Street Shuffle |
| Earning It |
| Eating My Feelings |
| Entrepreneurship for the Rest of Us |
| Executive Presence |
| Feminist Fight Club |
| Fierce with Age |
| FIRE |
| Fire Up Your Fiction |
| Five Days at Memorial |
| Flex |
| Four Summoner's Tales |
| Fried Walleye & Cherry Pie: Midwestern Writers on Food |
| Gamify |
| Gilded |
| Girl in a Band |
| Girl in the Moonlight |
| Girls, Texts, Cultures |
| Goddess Interrupted |
| Gods of Mischief |
| Good Call |
| Good Girl |
| Good Mourning |
| Grace Meets Grit |
| Gun Guys |
| Ham: Slices of a Life |
| Happy Mutant Baby Pills |
| Heart of Venom |
| Her Dark Curiosity |
| Hexed |
| Hollywood in Heels |
| Hot Seat |
| House of Ivy & Sorrow |
| I Don't Have a Happy Place |
| I Wear the Black Hat |
| Illusionarium |
| I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl |
| I'm Special |
| In a Glass Grimmly |
| In Touch |
| Into the Dark Book #1: The Shadow Prince |
| Jimmy Stewart |
| Jinx's Magic |
| John Wayne: The Life and Legend |
| Keeping Bedlam at Bay in the Prague Cafe |
| Kentucky Traveler |
| Kitty Genovese |
| Knocking on Heaven's Door |
| Lean Enterprise |
| Legacy of the Clockwork Key |
| Life After Theft |
| Life's a Witch |
| Listening to Killers |
| Lived Through This |
| Make Waves |
| Map Worlds |
| Marketplace of the Marvelous |
| Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking |
| Mayhem in Margaux |
| Mighty Midsized Companies |
| MILA 2.0: Renegade |
| Millennials & Management |
| Mind Games |
| Moments of Impact |
| MONEY Master the Game |
| MOXIE |
| Murder at the Book Group |
| Murder Times Nine |
| My Mother's Wars |
| Neurosculpting |
| Niagara Motel |
| Night School |
| No-Drama Leadership |
| Normal |
| Oblivion |
| Ohio's Haunted Crimes |
| On My Knees |
| Once Upon a Crime |
| One of Us |
| Outlaw |
| Pain, Parties, Work |
| Pawn |
| Perfect Lies |
| Pitch Perfect |
| Pivot Point |
| Playing House |
| Plenty of Time When We Get Home |
| Popular Economics |
| Powered by Girl |
| Pretty Girl-13 |
| Prince of Shadows |
| Project Cain |
| Pros and Cons |
| Public Enemy |
| Queen of the Air |
| Raising Cubby |
| Red Queen |
| Reform Your Inner Mean Girl |
| Relentless |
| Relevance |
| Rich Bitch |
| Roadmap |
| Rob Delaney |
| Run, Brother, Run |
| Sally Ride |
| Scent of Darkness |
| Sea of Shadows |
| Second Life |
| Secrets of the Southern Belle |
| September Girls |
| Servants of the Storm |
| Seven Wonders Book 1: The Colossus Rises |
| Sexplosion |
| Si-cology 1 |
| Simple Dreams |
| Skinny Bitch in Love |
| Sleep No More |
| Small Acts of Leadership |
| Soul Numbers |
| Spiraling Upward |
| Starglass |
| Stuck in the Middle with You |
| Suburban Legends |
| Successful Management in the Digital Age |
| Supersurvivors |
| Swerve |
| Taken |
| Tales of the Alaska State Troopers |
| Ten of Swords |
| The Ability |
| The Astrologer's Daughter |
| The Awesome Guide to Life |
| The Bargaining |
| The Big Thing |
| The Bookseller |
| The Cabinet of Curiosities |
| The Case of the Missing Cutlery |
| The Clockwork Crown |
| The Clockwork Dagger |
| The Clockwork Scarab |
| The Coincidence of Coconut Cake |
| The Confidence Code |
| The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches |
| The Demonologist |
| The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy |
| The First Phone Call from Heaven |
| The Geek's Guide to Dating |
| The Gen Z Effect |
| The Goddess Pose |
| The Golden Apple |
| The Grimm Conclusion |
| The House is Full of Yogis |
| The Immortals of Meluha |
| The Jesus Cow |
| The Job |
| The Last of August |
| The Longest Date |
| The Longings of Wayward Girls |
| The Madman's Daughter |
| The Many Lives of Miss K |
| The Memory Effect |
| The Mentor Myth |
| The Murmurings |
| The Mystical Backpacker |
| The Never List |
| The Offering |
| The Operator |
| The Orphanage of Miracles |
| The Painted Girls |
| The Possessions |
| The Quick Guide to Wild Edible Plants |
| The Reluctant Reaper |
| The Replaced |
| The Runaway Wife |
| The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow |
| The Silver Star |
| The Social Leader |
| The Song of the Quarkbeast |
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| The Spider |
| The Superwoman's Survival Guide |
| The Sweet Dead Life |
| The Taking |
| The Templeton Twins Make a Scene |
| The Thinking Woman's Guide to Real Magic |
| The Undertaker's Daughter |
| The Vanishing Season |
| The Violet Hour |
| The Whatnot |
| The Wicked Girls |
| The Wolves of Midwinter |
| The Woman in Cabin 10 |
| The Women of Duck Commander |
| The World's Strongest Librarian |
| The Year of Shadows |
| The Yummy Mummy Kitchen |
| Thorn Abbey |
| Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets |
| Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor |
| Towering |
| Transcendent |
| Travelers' Tales |
| Treachery in Bordeaux |
| UFOs Over America |
| Uninvited |
| Vile |
| VJ |
| Wacko Academy |
| Walk Like a Buddha |
| Walking in Light |
| We Are Water |
| Weekends with Daisy |
| Welcome to the Real World |
| West Virginia's Dark Tourism |
| What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding |
| What's So Funny? |
| When Nothing Else Works |
| When the Balls Drop |
| Where They Found Her |
| Whistling Past the Graveyard |
| Why Do Only White People Get Abducted by Aliens? |
| Why Do They Kill? |
| Wicked Games |
| Woman with a Secret |
| Worst. Person. Ever. |
| Yes, And |
| Zero to Maker |
NetGalley Reading Challenge
NetGalley Reading Challenge
This is a challenge to read as many of my NetGalley books as possible. Not just read, but write reviews.
Books that need reviews:
The Fixer by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
X by Sue Grafton
In the Drink by Alyson Abbott
The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
If You've Got It Haunt It
Tagged for Death
A Grimm Legacy
Grimm Memories
The Dream Thieves
Abandon
Beach Bags and Burglaries
Books to read: 0/120
Infinityglass
A Taste Fur Murder
A Breath of Frost
The Crossword Murder
Unbreakable
Eternal
Sweet Unrest
The Secret Place
The Girl From the Well
Deadly Tasting
Unmade
Whisper of Death
The Fairyland Murders
If the Shoe Kills
Curtsies and Conspiracies
The Forgotten Girl
Dream a Little Dream
The Path of the Crooked
The Way of the Wicked
The Graves of the Guilty
The Skeleton in the Closet
Murder at the Bookgroup
Criminal Confections
The Bone Witch
Smash and Grab
And the Trees Crept In
The Lost and Found
Someone Must Die
The Suffering
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Dead Girl Society
The Girl in Pieces
The Suffering
The Children's Home
All The Light We Cannot See
The Sound of Murder
The Miser's Dream
Candy Corn Murder
The Girl At Midnight
Witch Island
The Sisters' Grimoire
Of Shadow & Stone
Hit and Nun
Bite the Biscuit
The Undertaker's Daughter
Witch Upon a Star
Bringing in the Thieves
With Vics You Get Eggroll
The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly
Toured to Death
Gilt by Association
A Meditation on Murder
A Star Called Lucky
Autobiography (Morrissey)
My Sister's Grave
The Daylight Marriage
Waistcoats and Weaponry
MacDeath
The Nightinggale Bones
Last Bigfoot in Dixie
Tear You Apart
If the Shoe Kills
The Glittering World
City of Liar's and Thieves
Dream A Little Dream
The Glass Magician
The Magician's Daughter
The Paper Magician
Unbreakable
Too Hot for Hula
Lost Under a Ladder
Catwalk
Black Thursday
Double Strke
Deadly Tasting
Whisper the Dead
Threats of Sky and Sea
Shards
Dancing Through It
Grimm
Captivate
Witch Finder
Werewolf Sings the Blues
Death Runs Adrift
Divas Do Tell
Forget Me Knot
Hammett Unwritten
Suitcase of Stars
When I'm With You
The Snow Queen
And We Stay
Endless
Counting Shadows
Dead Beautiful
Entice
Insanity
Positive
Dying to Know
Double Dip
Dinner Impossible
Killing Cupid
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
News Girls Don't Cry
Consume
These Broken Stars
A Basket of Trouble
Friday, June 5, 2015
With No Regrets Promo and Giveaway
very last place she thinks to look.
Author Julie N. Ford A graduate from San Diego State University with a BA in Political Science, Julie N. Ford also earned a Masters in Social Work from the University of Alabama, which has only made her better able to recognize the unhealthy, codependent relationship she has with writing. Professionally, she has worked in teaching and as a marriage and family counselor. She is the author of six women’s fiction novels, including Count Down to Love, a 2011 Whitney Award finalist. When she’s not writing, she entertains delusions of being a master gardener, that is, when she’s not killing the unsuspecting plants in her yard with her good intentions. She lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband, two daughters, and the cutest Scottish fold cat you’ve ever seen. She loves to chat with readers.
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Excerpt 1:
“All right, I think we’ve given Finley enough food for thought on her first day.” Careen waved her arms in a settle-down motion. “As I explained earlier, each week we focus on one step, and then at the following meeting report on the progress we’ve made toward completing that step,” she explained. “So for the benefit of our newest member, how ’bout we recite the ‘Five Steps to a New Beginning’ before moving on.” She pointed to a rolling chalkboard. “All together now.”
“Number one: Subjugate fear,” she started, and the rest of the group joined in. “Take chances. Learn from and consent to the unexpected.”
“Number two: Defy the rules, embrace the guidelines. Rules emphasize the result. Guidelines focus on the journey.
“Number three: Smash the box. Look outside your comfort zone for the best answers and the greatest opportunity for growth.
“Number four: Brimful heart. If one’s heart is hollow, one’s actions are hollow.
“Number five: Letitgo. Leave the past, live the future.”
Following along with the words scrawled onto the powder-smeared chalkboard, Finley felt a cool sweat breaking out on her forehead. Only five goals, but each one felt like one gaping pit of quicksand after another.
Take chances and defy rules? Smash the box? Letitgo? What did any of that even mean? Brimful heart. Finley pressed the heel of her palm to the center of her chest and felt nothing, nothing but an empty hole where her heart should be. Just because she hadn’t been particularly sad to see Roy pack his things and go, didn’t mean his absence hadn’t left a gap in her life. His leaving had been like pulling a random peg from a Jenga tower, only to find that it was the last piece still holding the structure together.
Careen said, “I know these goals can seem overwhelming at first, but taking the first step is the hardest part.”
“Amen to that,” Burlie-Jean agreed.
“Though some of us are further along than others, we’re all on the same path,” Careen went on. “Everyone progresses at his or her own pace. One step at a time, one week at a time until we find our new normal,” she said, then zeroed in on Finley. “So start with number one, only number one . . .”
Finley watched Careen’s lips spill words of hope and encouragement. If only she could bathe in the completeness each syllable offered until the possibility adhered to her skin, remolding her, body and soul, into the kind of woman who knew what it meant to be happy, one who refused to settle for anything less—
“Finley?” Careen said, causing Finley to start. “This coming week, your first task is to identify a fear and then make an attempt to overcome that fear. Do you think you can do that?”
Having already put too much of herself on display for these strangers’ entertainment, what Finley really wanted to do was leave and never set foot inside this circle again. “I’ll surely give it a try,” she promised, though, obviously, she had no intention of doing any such thing.
“Good.” Careen appeared cautiously optimistic. “Okay, who wants to share next?”
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