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Read2Me · June 2011

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 readCurrent Participants:40+twinmom 4/12 CR: The Help
LBR: The Carrie Diaries 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 11/25 CR: Bad Girls Go Everywhere
LBR: Charming Billy aundraya 12/24 CR: Sacarlett; The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
LBR: Gone With the WindBabypuplove 8/12 CR: 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? CnAmom 11/40 CR:Duma Key
LBR: Under The lake, and Run For Your Life 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 15/25 CR: The World is FlatLBR: A Thousand Splendid Suns FirefightersBride 3/25 CR: SwitchedLBR: The Confession fishstyx 14/50 CR: Bel Canto
LBR: Still Alice Foo572 9/25 CR: LBR: Nights in Rodanthe foreverMorgan 13/25 CR: FDR
LBR: American Eve Gatogrrl 13/30 CR: A History of Love
LBR: The Social Animal 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 12/25 CR: She's Come Undone
LBR: The Pact
jackieobride 0/8 CR: Secret Daughter jana_86 10/30 CR: Mocking JayLBR: Catching Firejblonde81 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 13/20 CR: Fireside
LBR: Snowfall at Willow Lake Julie004 0/30 CR: Hunger GamesLBR: Torn KateB1984 19/40 CR: Three Cups of Tea
LBR: Midwives 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 11/30 CR: Blind Luck BrideLBR: The Ultimate Texas Bachelor 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 9/8 CR: Mockingjay
LBR: Catching Fire michaels_lovely 18/50 CR: The Shelter of StonesLBR: The Mammoth Hunters and Plains of Passage 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  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 13/25 CR: Jane Eyre and Wind in the WillowsLBR: The Hunger Games series musicmamma09 1/25 CR:?LBR: Hell's Corner NathsPrncssD 3/12 CR: Happiest Toddler on the Block
LBR: Safe Haven Nictel 7/40 CR: The Psychopath TestLBR: The Most Human Human PearlieGirl'sMom 6/30 CR: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
LBR: Seabiscuit
Read2Me: 84/111 CR: Dracula LBR: Matched
robinsokj 5/20 CR: The Girl Who Played With Fire
LBR: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Seans_grl 33/60 CR: The Pilot's Wife
LBR: Love and Peaches Spiritenergy 11/65 CR: ????
LBR: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

spunkyprincessmande 12/20 CR:
LBR: Momzillas
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 2/25 CR: The Invisible ManLBR: The Art of Racing in the Rain Vonita: 27/50 CR: Tuesdays with MorrieLBR: Room  Wesleysgirl1106 CR: Left Behind
LBR: A Very Special Delivery WhitePicketFence 31/75 CR: Eragon, The Complete Organic Pregnancy

LBR: Vision in White

Read2Me · June 2011

One of these weeks I'm going to remember to post this on Monday! Thanks for being so patient with me!

This week I read Beyond Reach (the last in the Grant County series by Karin Slaughter- so good!), 10th Anniversary by James Patterson (eh- I loved this series when it started out but it's been fading), Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah (very good!) and Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (cute, fun YA read). I'm currently reading Memoirs of a Geisha and still working on Dracula.

Read2Me 88/111 CR: Memoirs of a Geisha LBR: Anna and the French Kiss

Fishstyx · June 2011

fishstyx 14/50 CR: Bel Canto, Loving Frank
I'm one of those people who has a hard time reading more than one book at a time so having two going is messing with me! I'm almost done with Bel Canto and need to get working on Loving Frank for a book club. I'm enjoying both!

Mrs. Rohde · June 2011

Jane Eyre was fabulous. It was a bit slow but stayed interesting throughout. Wind in the Willows was super cute. I was thinking I'd be able to read it to DD since it's kind of a children's book but I was wrong-the word a$$ was used in it a lot. Surprising but not really since a$$ is not supposed to be a "bad word" like other 4-letter ones. It was used in place of the word "stupid/idiot".

CR: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

LBR: Wind in the Willows, Jane Eyre

babypuplove · June 2011

CR: Still working on The Glass Castle. I really, really love it, but have a hard time finding more than 30 minutes to read a day. I'm just about done and HIGHLY recommend it. The author is such a fabulous story teller, and shares such heartbreaking and humorous stories of her life growing up extremely poor. It's eye opening. There have been several occasions throughout the book that I've wanted to reach through the pages and seriously injure her parents. They are horridly selfish people.

matt&steph · June 2011

I finished Mockingjay. It was over all good but I felt it got a little dragged out at times. Now I have to decide what to read next!

EnglishMajor03 · June 2011

I finally finished The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman. It was good and I recommend it but it was a bit dry in places. I think he did a good job at representing how outsourcing American jobs can be better for America in the long run. It also made me even more aware of how important it is to expose our children to science and math, which I think we do a poor job of.

I just picked up Love in the time of Cholera by Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez. It's definitely a different writing style but so far so good.

Updates are below:

Englishmajor03 16/25 CR: Love in the Time of Cholera

LBR: The World is Flat

gatogrrl · June 2011

Gatogrrl 14/30 CR: State of Wonder
LBR: Bossypants

Bossypants was hilarious and a very quick read. I'm beginning State of Wonder by Ann Patchett in about 5 minutes.

Temp174496125006552 · June 2011

I finished The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve and liked it. This puts me at 34/60.

I am currently reading Divergent by Veronica Roth and am enjoying it a lot. It definitely has a Hunger Games feel to it.

WhitePicketFence · June 2011

I finished both Eragon and The Complete Organic Pregnancy. They were numbers 32 and 33 out of 75 for the year.

I'm now reading Decision Points by George Bush. Certain parts have been very informative so far and I've found it interesting to read about his thoughts as 9/11 unfolded. However, other parts have struck me as really insincere and overly scripted.

MrsAJL · June 2011

Hi! I'm new to the SAHM Book Club. I think I tried to get involved awhile back but I let it slip. Here are my current book reading goals.

2011 Book goal: 50
Books read to date: 12
Last book read: The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Currently reading: The Saturday Wife by Naomi Ragen

About The Devil's Highway:
I thought this was a really fascinating book. Urrea is a jounalist who is writing about the Yuma 14/Wellton 26, a group of undocumented entrants who come from southeastern Mexico to the United States to find work. They find themselves in serious mortal peril on the Devil's Highway, a stretch of extremely dangerous desert in Arizona. The men are lead by a coyote. Urrea describes how their circumstances led to them seeking work in the U.S. The author briefly touches on the problem of U.S./Mexico relations with re: the undocumented entry into the U.S. According to the book, President Fox and President Bush had been making headway with this problem, which included programs that made it safer and easier for Mexicans to come in to the U.S. Unfortunately, all of that work went by the wayside or was undone after 9/11 and the government's attempt to reassure American citizens that it had a handle on unlawful entry to the U.S. and terrorism. It's a fast read and compelling. It doesn't discuss in as much detail as our foreign policy with Mexico, the economic situation that is forcing immigration from Mexico/Central America, and what's being done in a positive way to see that people in depressed economic areas are able to make a living for themselves without resorting to illegal immigration.

CutieBean79 · June 2011

I'm new if you'll have me.

Cutiebean79 14/50 CR: Decision Points by George W. Bush LBR: Ender's Game Ender's Game was way too sci-fi for my tastes. It was a random read bc it got good ratings in the fiction category on Kindle and didn't cost too much. It made me think and has a good story, but just not my thing. Decision Points in interesting bc it is like being right there during crucial times in his administration. I'm trying to stay unbiased but I do truly think he did what he thought was best for the country. I'm about halfway through. Sorry no italics. I'm on an iPad.

Vonita · June 2011

I finished Tuesdays with Morrie - it was a wonderful book and made me feel a lot better about doing what I can for my grandfather who has been back and forth between the hospital and a nursing home since March - he and my grandmother just want to be home! Thank you Stacyc625 for your post about it!

I just started The Glass Castle last night and was excited about reading during nap today but then I became sidetracked this morning reading all the drama on 9-12. Returning my focus to a book now.

Vonita - 28/50 CR: The Glass Castle LBR: Tuesdays with Morrie

toutoute · June 2011

I have been MIA for awhile. I am back now after having a baby so hopefully I can make my goal of 25 books for the year.

Toutoute: 3/25; CR: A wolf at the table; LBR: Battle hymn of the tiger mother (loved this book, it was a great read)

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