Here is an abstract of my literary doings in December.
Books Read
Matrimony, by Joshua Henkin – 12/4/2008
The Mighty Queens of Freeville, by Amy Dickinson – 12/9/2008
The Help, by Kathryn Stockett – 12/13/2008
Anne of Avonlea, by L.M. Montgomery – 12/19/2008
Anne of the Island, by L.M. Montgomery – 12/19/2008
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, by J.K. Rowling – 12/21/2008
Forever . . ., by Judy Blume – 12/24/2008
Cathy’s Ring, by Sean Stewart and Jordan Weisman – 12/31/2008
December Total = 8
Year-to-Date Total =85
One five-star book this month, The Help, which will be released in February. It’s definitely one of my favorites for the year.
Book Club
Bleak House, by Charles Dickens – Meeting: December 4, 2008
We actually didn’t discuss Bleak House at our meeting. Most people didn’t end up finishing it. Instead, we focused on picking books for the first half of 2009. We’ve never picked our books more than a month or two in advance, but we decided to try something new. Click here to see our selections.
Our selection for January is Master, by Toni Sorenson.
Challenges
I haven’t finalized my 2009 challenge selections yet, so my list is pretty much unchanged from last month.
Lit Flicks Challenge – 6/5 books; 2/5 movies [ends 2/28/2009]
Book Awards II Challenge – 6/10 [ends 6/1/2009]
Really Old Classics Challenge – 0/2 [ends 7/31/2009]
The Pulitzer Project – 7/91 [perpetual]
The Printz Project – 1/8 (+2 Honor books) [perpetual]
The Newberry Project – 13/87 (+7 Honor books) [perpetual]
Miscellany
- The Lit Flicks Challenge has but two months left. However, you can still sign-up and win prizes every month! So far, Natasha @ Maw Books Blog won a copy of Atonement (September), Movie Viewing Girl won a copy of Jane Eyre (October), Meryl @ My Bit of Earth won a copy of The Constant Gardener (November) and December’s winner will be announced tomorrow.
- I gave away thirty books in December!! (Twenty-eight in my Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza and one copy each of Matrimony and The Mighty Queens of Freeville.)
- I participated in this year’s Book Bloggers Christmas Swap. See what I got and what I gave.
- I won three books this month! I won Anthem from Rebecca @ Rebecca Reads, Independence Day from Chartroose @ Bloody Hell, It’s a Book Barrage!, and Snow from Matt @ A Guy’s Moleskine Notebook.
- And, as always, I participated in Booking Through Thursday.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by my blog this month!
Check out my other year-end summations: 2008 Challenge Summation, 2008 Summation, 2008 Top 10 List.
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It looks like you had a great month.
If I won one of your Holiday Extravaganza books, should I have received it by now? Or have you not mailed them quite yet? Just wondering if I should be looking for it to come or sit back and have patience!
I’ve not belonged to a book club but it seems the norm to pick out the books as the month comes up. I hope the experiment works out well. :)
Someone should spend a little less time reading and start paying a little more attention to her sibling.
I just checked your book club list and you guys have some good ones lined up for 2009. I am particularly interested in your take on The Thirteenth Tale because that has been on my TBR shelf for a while.
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