September 2009 Summation

Here is an abstract of my literary doings in September.

Books Read

Rape: A Love Story, by Joyce Carol Oates – 9/3/2009
And Only To Deceive, by Tasha Alexander – 9/7/2009
Goldengrove, by Francine Prose – 9/16/2009
Al Capone Shines My Shoes, by Gennifer Choldenko – 9/23/2009
After the Moment, by Garret Freymann-Weyr – 9/29/2009

September Total = 5
Year-to-Date Total = 46

All pretty solid reads this month.

Book Club

And Only To Deceive, by Tasha Alexander; Meeting – 9/17/2009

I found a new face-to-face book club courtesy of Suey from It’s All About Books. Our selection this month was And Only To Deceive, the first book in the Lady Emily series. Coming up next month, The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.

Challenges

Here’s my exceedingly long challenge list. Check out my Challenges page for updates all month long.

R.I.P. IV Challenge – 0/2 [ends 10/31/2009]
Chunkster Challenge – 7/6 [ends 11/15/2009] COMPLETED
Book Awards III Challenge – 2/5 [ends 12/1/2009]
100+ Reading Challenge – 46/100 [ends 12/31/2009]
A Novel Challenge – 9/12 [ends 12/31/2009]
2009 Pub Challenge – 14/9 [ends 12/31/2009] COMPLETED
A to Z Challenge – 17/26 [ends 12/31/2009]
ARC Reading Challenge – 18/27 [ends 12/31/2009]
Blog Improvement Project – 12/24 [ends 12/31/2009]
Casual Classics Challenge – 3/4 [ends 12/31/2009]
My Year of Reading Dangerously – 7/12 [ends 12/31/2009]
New Authors Challenge – 28/20 [ends 12/31/2009] COMPLETED
Read Your Own Books Challenge – 38/50 [ends 12/31/2009]
Support Your Local Library Challenge – 5/12 [ends 12/31/2009]
TBR Lite Challenge – 0/6 [ends 12/31/2009]
What’s in a Name? Challenge – 5/6 [ends 12/31/2009]
YA Challenge – 9/12 [ends 12/31/2009]
Elizabeth Gaskell Mini-Challenge – 0/2 [ends 6/1/2010]
Harry Potter Reading Challenge – 0/7 [ends 7/31/2010]

The Pulitzer Project – 8/83
The Printz Project – 5/10 (+4 Honor books)
The Newberry Project – 17/88 (+7 Honor books)

Monthly Highlights

• I’m back on the wagon here at The Bluestocking Society!
• I started out the month by joining Carl’s R.I.P. IV Challenge.  I’m very excited to spend October reading my selections.
• I wrote a guest post about book blogging for Loren at I Saw Lightning Fall.
• And, of course, there was BBAW.  While the whole week was fun, make sure to check out my interview with Nat from In Spring It Is the Dawn.
• I participated in the Francine Prose’s blog tour for Goldengrove and have a giveaway for the book that ends tomorrow.
• Gear up for the second edition of the Lit Flicks Challenge which starts October 15th!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by my blog this month!

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