**Summer Reading Challenge Check In**

Re: **Summer Reading Challenge Check In**

• jessrenee11 member

  June 2011

  I just finished The Help, it was sooooo good. I think I am going to start the hunger games next.

  

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• heyitsme member

  June 2011

  I'm currently reading Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert. It's good so far! (I'm on chapter 3)
  

  Mom to J (10), L (4), and baby #3 arriving in July of 2015
  

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• mamaholmes2010

  June 2011

  I (finally) finished When Food is Love.  I have been trying really hard (emotional eater here) to learn that Love=Love and Food<Love.  For example no one will care that I came to a party without brownies because they invited ME becasue the love my company; not because I always bring delicious baked goods.  It was a great read for me because it speaks to so much of my struggle with weight/food.  I am on to Feeding the Hungry Heart.

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• MamaPajama2010 member

  June 2011

  Can you add me? Now that I've exposed my dirty little secret (see my MFFC), I will pledge 4 books I've just started so I'm still in book #1.

  

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• kj07 member

  June 2011

  MamaPajama2010:

  Can you add me? Now that I've exposed my dirty little secret (see my MFFC), I will pledge 4 books I've just started so I'm still in book #1.

  Haaaaaaaaaa!  I love it.

  my update: kj07 - 2 out of 3 (Brick Road by Monica Ali)

  Whoo, finished book 2 in less than half the time of book 1.  Of course, book 2 had far fewer pages, which certainly helped.  But with White Tiger (book 2) I was usually reluctant to put it down and be responsible by going to sleep at a reasonable time and with The Lacuna (book 1) it wasn't nearly as hard to stop reading.

  I would completely recommend White Tiger. It's a first-person narrative about the makings of a self-declared entrepreneur in India.

  Next up is possibly Brick Road by Monica Ali.  If I don't get into it fairly quickly then I think I'm going to see if I can find a used copy of The Golden Compass.  All this talk of young adult lit reminded me that I've wanted to read that for a while.
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• OhSewCrafty member

  June 2011

  MamaPajama2010:

  Can you add me? Now that I've exposed my dirty little secret (see my MFFC), I will pledge 4 books I've just started so I'm still in book #1.

  Haha I bet I can guess what your four books will be! 
  

  
  

  
  

  "I wanted you more than you'll ever know, so I sent love to follow wherever you go."
  

   
  

  

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• smithpaint member

  June 2011

  I finished A Daughter's Inheritance (the first book in the series of 3).  I'm now on the 2nd book which is called "An Unexpected Love" by by Tracie Peterson and Judith Pella.  Excited to read the 2nd book and get to the 3rd and final one hopefully in the next week or so. 

   

   

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• jpf29 member

  June 2011

  OhSewCrafty:

  jpf29 - 2 out of 10 (Pretty Little Things by Jillian Hoffman)
  

  Ok, so I've been bad at checking in (sorry!) I couldn't bring myself to start Pretty Little Things, so it's back in my "to be read sometime this decade pile". 

  However, since my last check in, I finished Baby-Led Weaning by Gill Rapley & Tracey Murkett and  The Nonrunner's Marathon Guide for Women by Dawn Dais.

   Now, I'm starting Magic Hour by Kristin Hannah, so I'm 4 out of 10
  

  

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• EVM1216 member

  June 2011

  I gave up on my first summer reading choice, it wasn't fast paced enough to keep my interest since I'm pretty much exclusicvely reading while pumping.  I did manage to finish my replacement book: "Relic" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and moved on to the Sequel: "Reliquary."

  I really enjoyed "Relic" the plot moved quickly and it was an easy read, and since I went to grad school for archives and museum studies, I really appreciated the museum aspect to it. 

   
  

  
  
  
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• yaeger16

  June 2011

  Almost done with Handle with Care, it was really hard to put down last night. I should definately be done by the weekend. yay!

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• Serendipity117 member

  June 2011

  I am now 2 out of 10, having finished Outlander by Diana Gabaldon and Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin.

  Right now I'm reading A Clash of Kings, which is the sequel to Game of Thrones. I'm not sure what to read after this, I could continue the series or pick something completely new. I guess we'll see when I'm done.

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• jillybean800 member

  June 2011

  Change me to 3 out of 10!  I finished 13 Reasons Why..., a young adult book before I even finished Cutting for Stone.  So I'm still reading that one too!
  

  

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• Cheekers2010 member

  June 2011

  I'm done with "Extras" and I also read "Twelve" by Jasper Kent. I'm starting "The Book of Lost Things" by John Connelly this week. Extras was kind of ehh as far as I'm concerned and Twelve was seriously too violent for me and I didn't much care for the protagonist which always turns me off. Oh, well! I'm looking forward to the next book. I've heard good things about it.

  
  

  
  

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• sroszc member

  June 2011

  I finished 'Stories I Only Tell My Friends'

  Now reading:  Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo 

  

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• SapphireKat18

  June 2011

  Oops, I went and changed my s/n on you...now I am SapphireKat18 instead of TBLilyRose.

  I finished Water for Elephants and loved it! I'm looking forward to getting the movie on Netflix just to see how they did with the story. I always like comparing books/movies even if 95% of the time the book is better.

  Currently re-reading Summer Sisters by Judy Blume for about the 5th time. One of my all-time favorite summer chick lit reads.  

  

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• melissa4252008

  June 2011

  mamaholmes2010:

  I (finally) finished When Food is Love.  I have been trying really hard (emotional eater here) to learn that Love=Love and Food<Love.  For example no one will care that I came to a party without brownies because they invited ME becasue the love my company; not because I always bring delicious baked goods.  It was a great read for me because it speaks to so much of my struggle with weight/food.  I am on to Feeding the Hungry Heart.

  eek. This sounds like a book I should read (also an emotional eater).

  I am still reading My Fair Lazy. Almost done though! I will probably finish it by mid week, then I'm on to The Book Thief.  

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• FromBtoZ

  June 2011

  I am 12 of 25 as I have finished Indulgence in Death (so good!) and on to The Things We Do For Love-Kristin Hannah. 

   I'll be reading much slower now that I've started my new job.  So exhausted after today.  My brain hurts from all the new information!

  

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• CFH79

  June 2011

  I've just finished Coming Home by David Lewis and have started The Secret by Beverly Lewis. 

  

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• stephy1221 member

  June 2011

  LO has been sick so I haven't made it far with this book but I think people who enjoy art would like it as it is about an art critic and a girl who works for Sothebys and when they mention an artist's work they sometimes show pictures of it in the book.

  stephy1221 - 4 out of 5 (An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin)

           

  
  

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• AmberLoryn2629 member

  June 2011

  4 / 5 -- I finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and The Girl Who Played with Fire. Now I am in the market for The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. I LOVE this series and I don't know why I haven't read them before!!!

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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