On October 6, I completed my 40th book of the year thus achieving my reading goal for the year. However unlike last year, I really didn't feel like celebrating as my achievement book was The Book of Mormon which lets just say wasn't something I wanted to remember fondly. However I was surprised I even finished four books in October since I thought The Count of Monte Cristo was going to take me nearly the entire month, however I finished it on the 19th and then read three, admittedly short at between 300-400 pages, books over the course of the last eleven days.
My basic plan for the rest of the year is to get through as much of my original 2016 list as possible, finished Waiting to Die Longing to Love since I'm reading it for a neighbor (his brother is the author), and write some articles for my WordPress blog that I'll post here as well.
1) Revolutionary Heart by Diane Eickoff [LibraryThing Early Reviewers]
2) The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3) The Ice Dragon by George R.R. Martin
4) A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
5) Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett
6) A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin- REREAD
7) The Separation of Church and State edited by Forrest Church
8) The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
9) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
10) Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
11) Before the Storm by Rick Perlstein- REREAD
12) We the People by Juan Williams [LibraryThing Early Reviewers]
13) Nixonland by Rick Perlstein- REREAD
14) Blood Stain (Volume One) by Linda Sejic
15) The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein
16) Oddly Normal Book 3 by Otis Frampton
17) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
18) Jingo by Terry Pratchett
19) Jefferson's America by Julie M. Fenster [LibraryThing Early Reviewers]
20) The Sworn Sword: The Graphic Novel by George R.R. Martin, Mike S. Miller, & Ben Avery
21) Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King edited by Robert Silverberg- REREAD of The Sworn Sword
22) Marlborough: His Life and Times Book One by Winston Churchill
23) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
24) The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
25) How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill- REREAD
26) Marlborough: His Life and Times Book Two by Winston Churchill
27) The Poetry of Robert Frost
28) Seventh-day Adventists Believe by General Conference of SDA
29) Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
30) Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
31) A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin- REREAD
32) A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin- REREAD
33) The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
34) Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
35) Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre [LibraryThing Early Reviewers]
36) Patriarchs and Prophets by Ellen G. White
37) The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
38) The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill- REREAD
39) Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
40) The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith Jr.
41) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
42) The Truth by Terry Pratchett
43) Warriors I edited by George R.R. Martin- REREAD of The Mystery Knight
--> Who Travels with the Doctor? edited by Gillian I. Leitch & Sherry Ginn [LibraryThing Early Reviewers]
The Black Count by Tom Reiss
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
Desire of the Everlasting Hills by Thomas Cahill- REREAD
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1 by Edward Gibbon
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavendra
The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett
Dangerous Women edited by George R.R. Martin (The Princess and the Queen)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2 by Edward Gibbon
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Also reading:
Prophets and Kings (77%)
The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot (38%)
Waiting to Die Longing to Love (22%)
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