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SAHM Book Club Weekly Check-In

Welcome to the THIRD year of The SAHM Book Club!!!Anyone can participate simply by replying to this post with the following information: * Your 2011 goal (the number of books you want to read this year)
* How many books you have read to-date
* The last book you read and the book you are currently reading
You pick the book you want to read and tell us about it once you've finished it! 
For those currently participating, please check your information below and let me know of any changes (books you've completed or stopped reading) and/or inaccuracies!  Feel free to leave a review (good or bad!) and your thoughts on the book(s) you are currently reading and should you need a recommendation for a great book, check our Recommendations Spreadsheet.
Happy Reading!
P.S. "CR" = Book you are currently reading "LBR" = The last book you read****Welcome McAllie5 and shortymc015!!************ Current Participants:40+twinmom 6/12 CR: The Girl Who Played with Fire
LBR: Heaven is For Real abbie612 0/12 CR:? adriasf 3/12 CR: Water for Elephants
LBR: Seeing Me Naked aktemple 1/12 CR: Decision PointsLBR: Sizzling Sixteen 
 AlishaMay 0/12 CR: Twin SetLBR: Who Loves You Best Andrewsgal 0/100 CR: Fault Lines; Deep Down TrueLBR: Always the Baker Never the Bride AshleyEric609 1/12 CR: The Recipe Club
LBR: Sing You Home 
 Aspade 12/25 CR: Raising Your Spirited Child
LBR: Bad Girls Go Everywhere aundraya 17/24 CR: ?; 
LBR: MockingjayBabypuplove 9/12 CR: March and The Wrong Mother  LBR: The Glass Castle LBR: Last Night at Chateau Mrmont
 brightning 5/11 CR: Half-broke Horses
LBR: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels broomy 1/25 CR: The Mysterious Benedict SocietyLBR: Handling the Undead cadengani 18/150 CR: Family TreeLBR: Friendship Bread Canzadalyall 4/12 CR: Sleeping Arrangements
LBR: Barefoot celestej619 25/35 CR: Unbroken
 chedder143 7/15 CR: Sweet Valley Confidential
LBR: The Host
 Cherhop1 0/12 CR: How Did You Get This Number? Chicsub 2/20  CR: Catching Fire LBR: The Wrong Mother  
CnAmom 14/40 CR: Cell
LBR: The God Project

 Cutiebean79 14/50 CR: Decision Points by George W. Bush LBR: Ender's Gamed&a914: 4/25 CR-Fractured LBR- Web of Lies by Brandilyn Collins  Daisy77 8/20 CR: Unlimited: How to Build an Exceptional Life
LBR: Signs of Life David_n_cole 0/12 CR: War and PeaceLBR: Breaking Dawn Eaduvall 19/200 CR: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
LBR: Sierra's Homecoming  
 
Englishmajor03 19/25 CR: Snow Falling on Cedars; Little Bee
LBR: This Much I Know is True
 FirefightersBride 3/25 CR: SwitchedLBR: The Confession fishstyx 18/50 CR:  A Discovery of Witches  LBR: The Sky is Everywhere Foo572 10/25 CR: Terminal ManLBR: The Road from Chapel Hill foreverMorgan 13/25 CR: FDR
LBR: American Eve Gatogrrl 14/30 CR:  State of Wonder
LBR: Bossypants gaughan258 5/20 CR: RescueLBR: Son of a Witch hheyderh 2/20 CR: Christmas in Cedar Cove and Catching Fire
LBR: The Hunger Games hopecounts 7/25 CR: 13 Little Blue EnvelopesLBR: Anna and the French Kiss 
hs & js baby #1 18/25 CR:   DivergentLBR: The Wrong Mother jabs86 15/30CR: MatchedLBR:  Love Finds a Homejackieobride 0/8 CR: Secret Daughterjblonde81  0/10 CR: Bram Stocker's DraculaLBR: Sense & Sensibility 
 jcsumm0 16/50 CR: The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya SisterhoodLBR: Superfreakanomics Jenifairies 13/75 CR: Jane Eyre
LBR: Sweet Valley High
 
 jnksmom: 27/40 CR: Between SistersLBR: Unlocked Julie004 0/30 CR: Hunger GamesLBR: Torn KateB1984 22/40 CR: The Ten Year NapLBR: The Girl Who Stopped Swimming katie_cj@hotmail.com 1/50 CR: The Bastard of InstanbulLBR: Hunger Games Kitten80 3/25 CR: Young, Fabulous, and Broke
LBR: Eating Well When You Are Expecting Kiwi433 1/50 CR: The Joy Luck ClubLBR: Reading Lolita in Tehran KMS1025 13/30 CR:  The Recipe Club
LBR: Blind Luck Bride; Handle with Care Laney75 7/15CR: The Highly Sensitive Person
LBR: Babyproofing Your Marriage lysszimmerman 3/30 CR: MockingjayLBR: Catching Fire 
 MalloryRae 6/12 CR: The 9 Rooms of Happiness; 
LBR: Mothers & Other Liars Marathonkate 3/25 CR: Little BeeLBR: Lady Vernon and Her Daughter   matt&steph 10/8 CR: Shopaholic and Baby
LBR: Mockingjay McAllie5  12/30  CR:  The Hobbit  LBR:  Mockingjay  michaels_lovely 19/50 CR: The Forever QueenLBR: The Shelter of Stones Missliz01 1/20 CR: A Common PornographyLBR: Dizzy and Jimmy 
 MKNola 3/12 CR: Mennonite in a Little Black Dress
LBR: Dragonfly in Amber momaholic 0/10 CR: Mother Warriors MommyMich 8/20 CR: The Particular Sadness of Lemon CakeLBR: The Help  MrsAJL 18/50 CR: Winter Sea LBR:  Farm City MrsDWeb 12/25 CR: Dead Until DarkLBR: The Paris Wife
 Mrs.Hizzo 16 CR: Fall of GiantsLBR: The War Play Dilemma mrsnemitz 7/20 CR: Heaven is for Real
LBR: A Short Guide to a Happy Life
 Mrs Rohde 15/25 CR: Robinson Crusoe; HP and the Deathly HallowsLBR:  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland musicmamma09 1/25 CR:?LBR: Hell's Corner NathsPrncssD 3/12 CR: Happiest Toddler on the Block
LBR: Safe Haven Nictel 8/40 CR:  The Most Human Human
LBR: The Friday Night Knitting Club PearlieGirl'sMom 6/30 CR: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
LBR: Seabiscuit
 
Read2Me  106/111  CR:  Broken  LBR:  Exit Strategy
robinsokj 5/20 CR: The Girl Who Played With Fire
LBR: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
 Seans_grl 41/60 CR: Almost Moon
LBR: Hex Hall shortymc015  4/25  CR:  Abundance  LBR:  The Hunger Games  Spiritenergy 11/65 CR: ????
LBR: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
  
spunkyprincessmande 13/20 CR: Rescue
LBR: Crazy Love
 Stacyc625 1/12 CR: Morrie: In His Own Words
LBR: The Alchemist 
 tabi_ja 8/15 CR: The Time Traveler's Wife
LBR: City of Thieves
thatgirl85  8/48 CR: Pride and Prejudice
LBR: Jane Eyre
 Tigergirl14 3/15 CR: Decision Points
LBR: Rude Awakenings tjbabe 10/25 CR: UndercurrentLBR: Hunger Games
 TobeMrs.Shavers 5/12 CR: The Hunger Games Series book 1: The Hunger Games; The Queen's Gambit
LBR: Twisted Sisterhood
 Toutoute: 3/25; CR: A wolf at the table; LBR: Battle hymn of the tiger mother (loved this book, it was a great read)tusshie2004:  10/30  CR: Away Riding on a Fast Camel  LBR: Dancing in My Nuddy Pants  
Vonita 33/50 CR: The Mill River Recluse  LBR: Free-Range Kids Wesleysgirl1106 CR: Left Behind
LBR: A Very Special Delivery WhitePicketFence 35/75 CR: The Eldest and Action Plan  LBR: Decision Points

LBR: Eragon and The Complete Organic Pregnancy 
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Re: SAHM Book Club Weekly Check-In

  • I finished Broken and then read Fallen, both by Karin Slaughter and now I have read all three of her series and can't wait for another book to come out!  I also read Columbine by Dave Cullen- so well written and such an in depth look into the tragedy.  Now I'm reading Delirium by Lauren Oliver (another YA dystopian novel and really good!).  I should finish that tonight and then I think I'll start Made to be Broken by Kelley Armstrong (the second of her Nadia Stafford books about the cop turned hit woman).

    Read2Me 109/111  CR: Delirium  LBR: Fallen 

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  • I finished Morrie & Water for Elephants!

    I am reading THE HELP right now.

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  • I finished Snow falling on Cedars last week.  I really liked the book and was glad it ended the way it did.  Last night I finished Little Bee by Chris Cleave.  It was really good but the characters (minus Little Bee) were sort of annoying; even the little 4 year old at times.  Regardless it was heartbreaking but a great book.  I have to hit up the library this afternoon and figure out what book I'll read next. Englishmajor03 21/25 CR: ??
    LBR: Snow Falling on Cedars, Little Bee
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  • fishstyx 18/50 CR:  A Discovery of Witches  

    I'm still working on A Discovery of Witches... it's very good, just long!  

  • Well aren't I slow?! I have finished 6/11 books. I just recently read "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer. It was a look at the history of Mormon fundamentalism.

    Now I'm on "Bright's Passage" by Josh Ritter. It's the story of a WWI vet who is running from his in-laws with his newborn son and an angel who has followed him from the war. Short, succinct and interesting.

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  • Nictel - 10 / 40

    LBR - I read "Into The Wild" by Jon Krakauer and "Cocktails for Three" by Madeline Wickham.  Loved "Into the Wild".  I've always liked Jon Krakauer, and have meant to read this forever.  Glad I finally did it. 

    CR - I put aside "The Most Human Human"  It's non-fiction, and I should be able to pick it up later.  I am now reading "Faithful - Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season" by Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan.  I am a HUGE Red Sox fan, so I love this book!

     

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  • I can finally update!  Yay:)

    I was reading Unlimited: How to Build an Exceptional Life by Jillian Michaels

    but I just couldn't get into it with all we had going on at the time.  So quite a bit of time had passed before I even touched my Kindle:(

     

    I started reading The Help, it always got my attention but now I want to see the movie and I'm a book first, movie second girl.  I really liked it.  I have a dislike/like relationship with books that switch points of view, I'm not crazy about it at first but I warm up to it.

     

    I haven't chosen a new book yet but I'm looking....

     

    LBR: The Help Total: 9/20
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  • Total: 3/20

    CR: Tosca Reno Clean Eating for Families (don't remember exact title)

    LBR: Catching Fire

    Mockingjay is ready for me to pick up from the library though!  :)

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  • I finished The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold.  I loved her other 2 books (The Lovely Bones and Lucky), so I had high hopes for this one.  I was a little disappointed. 

    I also read Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo.  It's the (alleged) true story of a pastor's son who had an encounter with Jesus while having surgery.  It's was 'meh' at best and I had to give the side eye a few times, but it was a quick read...so there was that.

    This puts me at 43/60 for the year.

    I am currently reading The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.  So far, I like it.

  • Sorry, I'm way behind on checking in :(

    I finished Sleeping Arrangements, it was ok.

    Then I read Nantucket Nights by Elin Hiderbrand. It was really good! I definitely reccomend it.

    Now I'm reading The Fixer Upper. It's great so far!


  • 18/50 CR: Before Ever After by Samantha Sotto
    LBR:  Thread of Truth by Marie Bostwick
  • Sorry to hear the new Alice Sebold is disappointing.

    I'd been sick and reading, but not checking in.  ::slaps hand::

    CR (now 15/25): I'm still reading Raising Your Spirited Child (it's excellent)--almost done! Eager to read a novel or a memoir next.

    LBR (13 and 14 of 25): now 84, Charing Cross Road and The Possibility of Everything.  The first is a collection of letters written from 46 through the 60s between a New Yorker and the staff of a bookstore in London--short and really fun.  The second is a memoir about parenting and travel by Hope Edelman--very good. 

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  • I finished the Mill River Recluse.  It was good, predictable but okay.  

    Based on your rec here, I started Delirium; I love a good dystopia and wanted something fun to read between Emotional Life of the Toddler by Alicia Lieberman.

    Vonita: 34/50 CR: Delirium and Emotional Life of the Toddler LBR: Mill River Recluse. 

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  • Got some catching up to do on my check-in.

    I finished The Recipe Club.

    I finished Dreams of Joy.

    I finished Snow Flower & the secret fan.

    I am currently reading 19 minutes by Jodi Picoult.

     

    So 3 completed....

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