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mandymack
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2011 SAHM Book Club *~*Sign up*~*
mandymack
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Hi ladies,
CANNOT believe I just wrote 2011, the past year really flew and so many of you met and even exceeded your 2010 goals including: KMS1025, EnglishMajor03, jnksmom, seans_grl. Congratulations!!
Should you want to participate in the book club weekly check-ins for 2011, please reply to this post with the following:
* Your 2011 goal
* The last book you read (you can leave this blank as we are beginning a new year, it's simply a great way to remember where you left off)
* The book you are currently reading
The above information you provide will appear in the weekly check-in that I'll post on Mondays (no more separate Google Spreadsheet, your information will appear inside each weekly post!) and all you have to do is reply to that post with whether or not you finished reading the book you have listed as "Currently Reading" (or that you have put the book down for a bit or just gave up on it!) and any other books you may have finished since the previous week's check-in. I'll update your number of books read to date for the following week's check-in.
If you'd like to see the past two years of our book club check-ins, including our personal recommendations for great books, view our Google Spreadsheet.
The first check-in will be on Monday, January 10th!
eclaire 9.10.06 diggy 6.2.11
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Re: 2011 SAHM Book Club *~*Sign up*~*
Hi there and welcome!!! It's not a traditional book club per se, it's more of a weekly tracker and motivator for you to read as much as you can and would like. You pick which book you want to read and you can tell us about it once you finish it or tell us why you put it down/gave up on it, which is just as helpful!
I would say one book per month is doable but I also don't have a newborn baby, congratulations!!
eclaire 9.10.06 diggy 6.2.11
* Your 2011 goal: My goal is read at least 8 good books this year. Expand my horizons in literature and my vocabulary.
* The last book you read: Errr... Im bad at remembering titles.
* The book you are currently reading: Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda. Amazing so far, Im almost finished.
I'd like to sign up.
Goal: 15 books. I used to read that many in a week, and I haven't read anywhere near that since Miles was born.
Last Book I Read: The Misadventures of Maude March - it's a book written for middle schoolers about the adventures of an orphan-turned-outlaw girl and her sister, set in the Old West. Great book, and even though it was an easy read, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Current Book: Don't have one, yet. Actually trying to decide between a couple. I'll let you know when I decide.
I fell off the wagon last year and never really got back on after DS2 was born, but I'm back!
Goal: 20 books, and I've already read one, 19 to go.
Last book read: Sarah's Key... it was excellent and a very quick read
Reading now: I don't remember the title (terrible, I know) but it's by Kristin Hannah
Goal: 12 books
The last book you read: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The book you are currently reading: The Outlanders (thank you to a fellow bumpie who gave me this recommmenation. )
Goal: 25 books (already read 1, so 24 to go!!)
Last Book I Read: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - it was pretty interesting. I haven't seen the movie, so I didn't know what to expect.
Reading Now: Water for Elephants (and LOVE it!)
* The book you are currently reading: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Hi Ladies! This sounds like fun!
Goal: 8 books
Last book read: The Wedding Girl, light easy to read book, I liked it
Book I am reading now: Sarah Palin Going Rogue, I am really liking it and am almost done
Hi ladies! I'm not a stay-at-home mom yet, but I'm a part time SAH wife while I sub until baby comes. I'd love to join the book club!
Your 2011 goal: 50 books
The last book you read: The Girl Who Played with Fire
The book you are currently reading: Me Talk Pretty One Day
Goal: 25 books
LBR: Making Time - a biography of Lillian Gilbreth
CR: Poison
so 2011 goal: 25 books
last read: don't remember off hand. Cusslerls new artic drift was one of them.
CR: been avoiding a new novel but am reading "eating well when your expecting"
Please add me to the club!
2011 goal: 15 books (already finished one, so 14 to go)
Last read: Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner. Cute, typical Weiner-style book. Fast, easy read.
Currently reading: In a Heartbeat: the Power of Cheerful Giving by Leigh Anne and Sean Tuohy (the people from The Blind Side movie)
Thank you so much for doing this again this year! I love this book club; it really keeps me motivated.
My goal for this year: 40 books. That was last year's goal, and I didn't quite make it, so I am trying again this year.
Last book read (in 2010): "Lost and Found" by Carolyn Parkhurst. Fun read, and well written.
Currently reading (started in 2011): "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook" by Ben Mezrich. Love it so far! It's the book that the movie "The Social Network" was based on. I realize that it's a dramatized account of the founding of Facebook, but either way, it's a great story. I loved the movie too.
Hi!! Count me in!
My Goal: 25 books - one down so 24
Last read: Hell's Corner by David Baldacci. I thought parts of it were a bit to predictable, but i still enjoyed it.
Current Book: I don't have one yet :-/
Sounds fun, thanks for doing this!!!
*Your 2011 goal 50 books...1 read 49 to go
* The last book you read The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
* The book you are currently reading Mockingjay
* The last book you read = The Confession by John Grisham
* The book you are currently reading = Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen
I already read 1 other book as well - The Traitor's Wife by Susan Higganbotham. So 2 down already.
Your 2011 goal = 30
* The last book you read = Matters of the Heart by Danielle Steel
* The book you are currently reading = Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Thanks for doing this again! I exceeded my goal of 25 last year by 1 book so I thought 30 would be a good stretch to try and reach! Plus I got an Ereader for Christmas and seem to be reading at a quicker pace.
I'd love to join, it sounds like a great motivator, and a good way to get some book recommendations!
* Your 2011 goal - 12 books
* The last book you read (you can leave this blank as we are beginning a new year, it's simply a great way to remember where you left off) Who Loves You Best by Tess Stimson. It's about the relationship between a working mom and her nanny. Eh, it wasn't anything special.
* The book you are currently reading- Twin Set - it's a multiple strategy guide.
BFP #2 10/13/2009 on our 2nd Wedding Anniversary
Discovered TWINS during the 6w u/s - what a shocker!
Delivered on 5/19/2010 at 34 weeks due to pre-e and HELLP syndrome
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I would like to read 50 books this year.
The last book I read was Hunger Games.
I'm currently re-reading the 7th Harry Potter book while waiting for the rest of the Hunger Games series to get here by mail.
I would like to read 50 books.
The last book I read was Cooking for Mr. Latte by Amanda Hesser
I am currently reading The Joy Luck Club and Reading Lolita in Tehran.
2011 Goal: 12 books
Last Book I Read: Momzillas
Currently Reading: Two books: 3 Cups of Tea (started it a loooong time ago and am picking it back up for my real life book club), and Durable Goods by Elizabeth Berg
2011 goal = 30 books
Last read: The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead by David Shields. Not exactly a cheerful book, but full of fascinating facts.
Reading now: Staying Put. For such a short book, it's taking me forever to finish this.
* Your 2011 goal- 20 books(already read 1 so 19 to go)
* The last book you read- The Choice, It was a good easy read and I liked it.
* The book you are currently reading- Confessions of a Shopaholic, I am only about 4 chapters in and am still not sure if I am going to like it or not.
* Your 2011 goal: 60 books
* The last book you read (you can leave this blank as we are beginning a new year, it's simply a great way to remember where you left off): Catching Fire (the 2nd book in The Hunger Game series) by Suzanne Collins. It was awesome!
* The book you are currently reading: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. I am doing the Winter Book Club Challenge on the nest's book club board and this is my book to read IHO Chinese New Year.
I'd love to do this!
Your 2011 goal: 30 books
The last book you read (you can leave this blank as we are beginning a new year, it's simply a great way to remember where you left off): Torn by Amanda Hocking. It was the second book in a trilogy and they were really good. Waiting on the third to come out!
The book you are currently reading: The Hunger Games and I am LOVING it so far!
Yay! I am so excited!!
My goal: 30 (same as last year)
Last book read : The Hardy Boys Shore Road Mystery (started 1/1, finished 1/3)
Currently Reading: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
So, I am at 1 for this year so far.
12 books for 2011 (such a sad aspiration)
I am reading The Alchemist I can't believe i haven't read this book yet. I am loving it.
* Your 2011 goal
I have a lot of books and smaller works that I want to read this year. My list is as follows:
1. Finish Iliad
2. Odyssey
3. Finish Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand
4. Finish Holy Blood Holy Grail
5. The Suppliant Maidens by Aeschylus
6. The Persians by Aeschulus
7. Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus
8. Promestheus Bound by Aeschylus
9. The Oresteia by Aeschylus
10. The Oedipus Cycyle by Sophocles
11. Ajax by Sophocles
12. Electra by Sophocles
13. The Trachiniae by Sophocles
14. Philoctetes by Sophocles
15. Rhesus by Euripides
16. Medea by Euripides
17. Hippolytus by Euripides
18. Alcestis by Euripides
19. Heracleidae by Euripides
20. The Suppliants by Euripides
21. Trojan Women by Euripides
22. Ion by Euripides
23. Helen by Euripedes
24. Andromache by Euripedes
25. Electra by Euripedes
26. Bacchantes by Euripedes
27. Hecuba by Euripedes
28. Heracles Mad by Euripedes
29. Phoenician Women by Euripedes
30. Orestes by Euripedes
31. Iphigeneia in Tauris by Euripedes
32. Cyclops by Euripedes
33. The Achamians by Aristophanes
34. The Kinights by Aristophanes
35. The Clouds by Aristophanes
36. The Wasps by Aristophanes
37. Peace by Aristophanes
38. The Birds by Aristophanes
39. The Frogs by Aristophanes
40. Lysistrata by Aristophanes
41. Thesmophariazusae by Aristophanes
42. Ecclesiazousae by Aristophanes
43. Plutus by Aristophanes
44. 25 other books
* The last book you read (you can leave this blank as we are beginning a new year, it's simply a great way to remember where you left off)
* The book you are currently reading
Road to Wealth by Suz Orman
I'd like to join! I really just lurk here, but would like to get in on this.
* The book you are currently reading- Gerald's Game -Stephen King (trying to change up what I stated above!)
I started reading a lot more last year but then pretty much stopped a few months ago when the girls stopped napping. I really need to get back into it, like in the evenings after they go to bed but there's always other things I want to be doing (computer, TV). So my goal is going to be a little lower this year.
2011 goal: 12 books
Last Book Read: Potty Train in 3 Days
Currently Reading: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hi! I'd like to join too. I used to be an avid reader, and since marriage and kids and life, I just never found the time. Now I am going to make the time!
2011 goal: 10 books
Last book I read: Sadly, I can't remember
Current book: none yet, going to check the spreadsheet for recommendations!
Erica :-)
Goal: 12 books
Last book read: I can't remember
Current book: A Summer Affair. Loving it!!
* Your 2011 goal 25 books
* The last book you read (you can leave this blank as we are beginning a new year, it's simply a great way to remember where you left off) Love the one you're with
* The book you are currently reading The Bridges of Madison County and Sarah's Key