Books: March 2014

I think I forgot to post last month's but oh well. I somehow received a pile of books in March again, most of them while I was still in England and let me tell you, carting around 40 or so books through an airport is quite a feat. But so worth it!

Read:

1. Battlefield of the Mind

2. Murder in Three Acts

3. There is a Tide

Bought/Received:

1. Gideon’s Bible 935

2. The Secret Garden 936

3. Vampire Plagues 937

4. The Fall of Five 938

5. Mother Teresa: In My Own Words 939

6. First Born 940

7. Husky in a Hut 941

8. Hinds’ Feet on High Places 942

9. A Walk to Remember 943

10. Inside Stories 2 944

11. Household Tales 945

12. The Litigators 946

13. Death Comes to Pemberley 947

14. The Hunger Games 948

15. Skyclan’s Destiny 949

16. The Fourth Apprentice 950

17. Night Whispers 951

18. Into the Wild 952

19. Rising Storm 953

20. Midnight 954

21. Dawn 955

22. Starlight 956

23. Sunset 957

Books: December 2013

Half an hour before midnight last night, I finished The Subtle Knife just so I could have one more book read in December. It was a good way to usher in the new year, reading. Over all, I've bought a good many books and read so many too. In total right now I have 919 books and I look forward to this next year to buy and read more! Happy New Year, everyone!

Read:

1. The House at Riverton

2. Diamonds are Forever

3. City of Fallen Angels

4. Go Ask Alice

5. Northern Lights

6. City of Lost Souls

7. The Subtle Knife
8. The Great Gatsby

Bought:

1. Octopussy 

2. From Russia, With Love 

3. A Song for Arbonne 

4. Go Ask Alice 

5. Dragonsong 

6. Dragonsinger 

7. The Vanished Guest 

8. Nicholas Nickleby 

Book List: November

Read:

1. Moonraker

2. The Wind in the Willows

3. The Princess and the Goblin

4. Thunderball

5. The Prayer of Jabez for Teens

6. Warm Bodies

7. Speaker for the Dead

8. Celtic Fairy Tales

9. For Your Eyes Only

Bought:

1. The Prayer of Jabez for Teens 

2. River of Destiny 

3. Warm Bodies 

4. Northern Lights 

5. Diamonds Are Forever 

6. Celtic Britain 

7. A Dance with Dragons 

8. Jane Eyre

Books: September

After this, I'll be living in England for six months, so I don't know how much reading and book shopping will get done. It really pains me, leaving all my books behind, but I'm excited to read them when I get back in March! I completed a few series this month, including Harry Potter and Mary Stewart's "Merlin" series. My grandparents took me out book shopping as our last hang out time before I leave. It was such fun!

Read:

1. Lies

2. Plague

3. Appointment With Death

4. Fear

5. Light

6. Passenger to Frankfurt
7. Peril at End House
8. Anne of Avonlea
9. The A.B.C. Murders
10. Your Captivating Heart
11. The Moving Finger
12. Choosing to SEE
13. The Mysterious Mr. Quin

Bought/Received:
1. The A.B.C. Murders
2. The Message Bible
3. Emily of New Moon
4. The Innocent Man

5.Hickory Dickory Dock

6.The Regatta Mystery

7.There is a Tide

8.The Secret Adversary

9.Murder in Three Acts

10. Parker Pyne Investigates

11.The Pale Horse

12.Cards on the Table

13. The Clocks

14.Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

15. Anne of Ingleside

16. Specials

17. The Iron Scepter

18. The Bobbsey Twins’ Adventure in Washington

19. The Bobbsey Twins On Blueberry Island

20. The Bobbsey Twins The Secret at the Seashore

21. The Lord of the Rings Complete Trilogy

22. The Hippopotamus Pool

23. Seeing A Large Cat

24. Ravens of Avalon

25. Rainbow Valley

26. A Game of Thrones

27. Emily Climbs

28. Emily’s Quest

29. Goldfinger

30. The Prince and the Pilgrim

Books: August

So, I sort of kind of went overboard with the amount of books I bought/received....but I'm not sorry one bit. Finally hit 800 books!

Read:

1. Partners in Crime

2. The Tehran Initiative

3. The Carnivorous Carnival

4. The Mystery of Misty Canyon

5. The Case of the Artful Crime

6. The Case of the Floating Crime

7. The Fortune Teller’s Secret

8. The Fault in Our Stars

9. The Partner

10. The Time Traveller’s Wife

11. Miss Marple’s Final Cases

12. Questions You’re Probably Already Asking

13. The Curse of the Pharaohs   

14. Gone
15. The Mummy Case
16. Hunger

Bought/Received:

1. Les Miserables (vol 2)

2. Flood Tide

3. Shock Wave

4. The Partner

5. The Runaway Jury

6. Valhalla Rising

7. Atlantis Found

8. Sahara

9. Raise the Titanic

10. Trojan Odyssey

11. Iceberg

12. Treasure

13. Dragon

14. Shakespeare’s Sonnets

15. Emperor Mage

16. The Mystery of the Misty Canyon

17. The Case of the Artful Crime

18. The Case of the Floating Crime

19. The Fortune Teller’s Secret

20. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

21. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

22. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

23. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

24. The Carnivorous Carnival

25. The Grim Grotto

26. Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography

27. The Slippery Slope

28. The Penultimate Peril

29. The End

30. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

31. Outlander

32. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

33. Three

34. Miss Marple’s Final Cases

35. The Time Traveller’s Wife

36. Extras

37. The Last Days

38. Beowulf

39. The Fault in Our Stars

40. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

41. Tomb of the Golden Bird

42. Angel

43. The Curse of the Pharaohs

44. A River in the Sky

45. Gone

46. Lies

47. Hunger

48. Plague

49. Light

50. Fear

51. The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog

52. Boneman’s Daughters

53. Appointment with Death

54. Enter Three Witches

55. Anne’s House of Dreams

56. Anne of Windy Poplars

57. Anne of Avonlea

58. Anne of the Island

59. Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

A-Z Survey

Author you've read the most books from:
Probably Carolyn Keene, though that is just a pen name for many people.

Best Sequel Ever:
The Last Days By Scott Westerfeld (Sequel to Peeps)

Currently Reading:
The Mummy Case By Elizabeth Peters, Leviathan By James Byron Huggins,

Drink of choice while reading:
Tea with sugar and milk.

E-reader or Physical Book?
Always, always a physical book.

Fictional Character you would probably have dated in High School:
Sam Temple from the Gone Series By Michael Grant

Glad you gave this book a chance:
The Princess Bride By William Goldman

Hidden Gem Book:
The Fionavar Tapestry By Guy Gavriel Kay. It had been sitting in the thrift store for two months and I'd almost bought it three times before finally taking it. I didn't read it till almost a year later, but it was amazing.

Important Moment in Your Reading Life:
Reading my first Nancy Drew book all on my own. My dad would read them out loud all the time and I was so proud of myself for finally getting through one by myself.

Just Finished:
The Curse of the Pharaohs by Elizabeth Peters

Kind of Books You Won't Read:
Anything Twilight-ish, with fluffy werewolves and really stupid female characters.

Longest Book You've Read:
The Fionavar Tapestry (four books in one) By Guy Gavriel Kay

Major Book hangover because of:
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Number of Bookshelves Owned:
Six

One Book You've Read Multiple Times:
The Thirteenth Tale By Diane Setterfield (though there are many others)

Preferred Place to Read:
Everywhere and anywhere

Quote that inspires you/gives you all the feels from a book you've read:
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.”-The Thirteenth Tale By Diane Setterfield 

Reading Regret:
Twilight (I never made it to the next one and I refuse to buy them)

Series You Started and Need to Finish (with all the books in the series out):
The Gone Series by Michael Grant

Three of of your all time Favorite Books:
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, The Mists of Avalon By Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Golden Book of Faerie By O.R. Melling

Unapologetic Fan Girl for:
I legitimately don't fan girl over books.

Very excited for this release more than the others:
Actually, I don't pay attention to new releases because I buy just about all of my books from thrift stores.

Worst Bookish Habits:
Leaving my books lying around all over the house and then remembering them in the middle of the night.

X marks the spot: Start at the top left of your shelf and pick the 27th book:
Well seeing as I have six shelves: The Cat Who Moved a Mountain By Lillian Jackson Braun, SkyClan's Destiny By Erin Hunter, Dragonquest By Donita K. Paul, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban By J.K. Rowling, A Holiday for Murder By Agatha Christie, The Singer of All Songs By Kate Constable 

Your Latest Book Purchase:
Light by Michael Grant, and The Snake, The Crocodile and The Dog By Elizabeth Peters

ZZZ Snatcher Book (last one to keep you up way too late):
The Time Traveler's Wife By Audrey Niffenegger

Some Favorite Book Quotes

Books have made me laugh, cry, yell, giggle uncontrollably and they also make me spend lots of money. Books have taught me a great many things and continue to comfort me. Here are some quote from books I've read recently.

"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."-The Fault in Our Stars, By John Green

I kept seeing this book everywhere, and the movie is coming out next year. Finally, I knew I had to read it and wonder of wonders, on my very next shopping trip, there it was in the thrift store. I read it in three hours that night and was utterly delighted by the writing style.

"What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?"-The Thirteenth Tale, By Diane Setterfield

I adore this book. I can never pick an absolute favorite book, because that's like picking your favorite child, but this is hands down one of my favorites. It's been on my buying list for half an eternity but apparently stores don't stock the hardcover edition, which is the version I want. 

"Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview."-The Carnivorous Carnival, By Lemony Snicket

The Series of Unfortunate Events is one of the most hilariously written series I've ever read. Lemony Snicket jumps so often from dire to utterly ridiculous that it catches one off guard all the time.

"Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"-The Time Traveler's Wife, By Audrey Niffenegger 

This was another book I've been meaning to read for awhile and I finally got around to it. The plot was amazing. I honestly can't imagine writing something so complex.

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."-Sherlock Holmes, By Arthur Conan Doyle

I recently finished watching two TV shows based on Sherlock Holmes, "Sherlock" and "Elementary", both of them very good. In turn, I reread a few of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries. It's honestly insane, the way he solves them.

Books: July 2013

Read:

1. You Only Live Twice

2. City of Stars

3. The Twelfth Imam

4. The Fionavar Tapestry

5. Briar’s Book

6. They came to Baghdad

7. Peter Pan

Bought/Received:

1. Leviathan

2. Peter Pan

3. Partners in Crime

4. Swordbird

Books: June 2013

Graduation and all that kept me pretty busy, and then we just up and went to Europe for vacation, so finding time to read has been difficult (though not at all impossible). I was very happy to find a James Bond book in England, because I can never find them in Canada.

Read:

1. Third Girl

2. The Boomerang Clue

3. By the Pricking of My Thumbs

4. Sandry’s Book

5. Tris’s Book

6. Daja’s Book

Bought:

1. Daja’s Book

2. Sandry’s Book

3. Tris’s Book

4. Briar’s Book

5. You Only Live Twice

6. City of Stars

Books: May 2013

Books Read:
-Divergent
-Dead Man's Folly
-The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
-Silas Marner
-House
-The Sting of the Scorpion
-Destination Unknown
-They do it with Mirrors
-Spark of Suspicion
-Crime in the Kennel
-Canadian Ghost Stories
-Of Mice and Men
-A Wolf Story

Total: 13

Books Bought:
-The Sting of the Scorpion
-The Serpent on the Crown
-The Murder on the Links
-Canadian Ghost Stories
-Showdown
-Ancestors of Avalon
-Crime in the Kennel
-Spark of Suspicion
-Peril at End House
-Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

 Total: 10

Books: April 2013

This month was the month of the play (we did The Hobbit), but unlike last year, my reading didn't go down :p I somehow managed to keep up.

Books Read:
-Sparkling Cyanide
-Murder at Hazelmoor
-The Hunter's Moon
-Towards Zero
-Evil Under the Sun
-Hamlet (The Novel)
-The Grimm Collection
-The Man in the Brown Suit
-The Book of Story Beginnings
-The Secret Hour
-Touching Darkness
-Blue Noon
-Daughters of Fire
-The Secret Panel
-The Empty City

Total: 15

Books Bought:
-They Came to Baghdad
-The Boomerang Clue
-The Moving Finger
-The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
-Dead Man's Folly
-Easy to Kill
-The Mysterious Mr. Quin
-Passenger to Frankfurt
-Third Girl
-By the Pricking of My Thumbs
-Destination Unknown
-They do it with Mirrors
-The Secret Panel

Total: 13

Books: March 2013

Books Read:
-The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle
-Frankenstein
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-Heart of Darkness
-Elephants Can Remember
-City of Bones
-The Flickering Torch Mystery
-Romantic Ghost Stories
-Fahrenheit 451
-City of Glass
-The Rogue Crew
-City of Ashes
-The Melted Coins
-50 Great Ghost Stories

Total: 14

Books Bought:
-Elephants can Remember
-The Flickering Torch Mystery
-The Singer of All Songs
-City of Bones
-City of Glass
-The Rogue Crew
-Sparkling Cyanide
-Murder at the Vicarage
-Murder at Hazelmoor
-The Tenth Power
-The Man in the Brown Suit
-Evil Under the Sun
-Towards Zero
-The Melted Coins

Total: 14

Books: February

Books Read:
-The Once and Future King
-Death in the Air
-Skinned
-Crashed
-Wired
-The Bride Collector
-Shiver
-Shadowmagic
-The Mark of Athena
-The Thirteenth Tale

Total: 10

Books Bought:
-Emily Dickon's Poems
-The Warlords of Nin
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-Frankenstein
-The Fantasy World's of Peter Beagle
-The Elfstones of Shannara
-Romantic Ghost Stories
-50 Great Ghost Stories

Total: 8

Book List: January

Books Read:

-Scarlet
-Tuck
-The Divine Romance
-The Princess Bride
-Poirot's Last Case
-The Wicked Day
-The Outlaw's Silver
-The Body in the Library
-City of Swords
-The Mysterious Affair at Styles
-The Silver Hand
-Patrick
-Goose on the Loose
-Deer in the Darkness
-Stallion in Spooky Hollow
-Tabby under the Tree
-Racoons on the Roof
-The Dark Hills Divide

Total: 18

Books Read:
-The Sword Bearer
-Gaal the Conqueror
-The Body in the Library
-The Mysterious Affair at Styles
-Pretties
-The Outlaw's Silver
-Wolf-speaker
-The Reptile Room
-Death in the Air
-City of Ashes
-The Once and Future King
-The Mark of Athena
-Stallion in Spooky Hollow
-Tabby Under the Tree
-Racoons on the Roof
-Deer in the Darkness

Total: 15

2012 Books Bought and Read

Here's my last post of the year. It's fun to see the high and low of my reading/buying. April is so low because that's when I had the play, and August is so high because it's at that point in the summer when there's really nothing to do.
I wish you all a very Happy New Year!  

January: 9 Read, 0 Bought

February: 11 Read, 15 Bought

March: 16 Read, 25 Bought

April: 4 Read, 0 Bought

May: 16 Read, 9 Bought

June: 8 Read, 9 Bought

July: 17 Read, 9 Bought

August: 33 Read, 13 Bought

September: 9 Read, 27 Bought

October: 13 Read, 9 Bought

November: 8 Read, 7 Bought

December: 24 Read, 21 Bought

Total Read: 168
Total Bought: 144

Books: December

Books Read:

-Sad Cypress

-Three

-BoneMan's Daughters

-Nevermore

-The Son of Neptune

-And then there were none

-Hood

-Nemesis

-The Legend of the Emerald Lady

-The Secret of the Stars

-The Unexpected Guest

-4.50 from Paddington

-Dreamdark: Blackbringer

-Fell

-The Bad Beginning

-The Wide Window

-The Miserable Mill

-The Austere Academy

-The Ersatz Elevator

-The Vile Village

-The Hostile Hospital

-The Mystery of Cabin Island

-The Secret of the Caves

-Hot under the Collar

Total: 24

Books Bought/Received:

-Dreamdark: Blackbringer

-The Legend of the Emerald Lady

-The Secret of the Stars

-And then there were none

-The Giver

-The Princess Bride

-The Final Warning

-The Secret of the Caves

-The Mystery of Cabin Island

--The Bad Beginning

-The Wide Window

-The Miserable Mill

-The Austere Academy

-The Ersatz Elevator

-The Vile Village

-The Hostile Hospital

-Villette

-The Moonstone

-Out of Canaan

-The Judas Tree

-Edgar Allen Poe Complete Works and Poems

Total: 21

Books: November

Read:
-The Little White Horse
-The Last Enchantment
-The Life of Pi
-The Lost Hero
-The Shore Read Mystery
-The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge
-Cat Among the Pigeons

Total: 8

Bought:
-The Wicked Day
-The Shore Road Mystery
-The Mystery of the Spiral Bridge
-The Golden One
-Nemesis
-City of Masks
-Children of the Storms

Total: 7

Books-October

Read:
-N or M?
-Hawksong
-Snakecharm
-Falcondance
-Wolfcry
-Wyvernhail
-The Reckoning
-Crocodile on the Sandbank
-At Bertram`s Hotel
-The Elephant Man
-Night
-The Secret of Chimneys
-Poirot Investigates

Total:  13
Bought:
-The Shapeshifters: Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows
-Ghost Stories and other Creatures of British Columbia
-Halloween Party
-4.50 from Paddington
-The Darkest Powers Trilogy
-The Endless Knot
-Cat Among the Pigeons
-Guardian of the Horizon
-Sad Cypress

Total: 9

Books-September

Read:
-The Mysterious Caravan
-The Witchmaster's Key
-The Firebird Rocket
-The Jungle Pyramid
-Ordeal by Innocence
-Lassie Come-Home
-Great Cases of Sherlock Holmes
-The Hollow Hills
-The Forgotten Garden

Total: 9

Bought:
-The Blind Assasin
-The Secret Garden
-Moonraker's Bride
-Kirkby's Changling
-A Treasure of Great Mysteries Volume 1 and 2
-Gift from the African Heart
-The Sword of Shannara
-Blood Sport
-The Power that Preserves
-The Safe House
-Allen Quatermain
-Indian Captive
-The Phantom of the Opera
-Mandarin-Gold
-The Seven Percent Solution
-The Snare of the Hunter
-Nicholas and Alexandra
-The Forgotten Garden
-Amazon Beaming
-Seahorse
-Treasure Island
-Tristram Chandy
-Fell
-The Fionavar Tapestry
-Crocodile on the Sandbank
-The Last Camel Died at Noon

Total: 27

Books-August

Books Read:
-What Happened at Midnight
-The Yellow Feather Mystery
-Five Little Pigs
-The Hooded Hawk Mystery
-Summer Promise
-Riding Lessons
-The Secret of Pirate's Hill
-The Clue in the Embers
-A Whisper and a Wish
-Yours Forever
-A Time to Cherish
-Sweet Dreams
-A Promise is Forever
-Death on the Nile
-Mystery at Devil's Paw
-The Ghost at Skeleton Rock
-The Mystery of the Chinese Junk
-The Clue of the Screeching Owl
-The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side
-The Secret Agent on Flight 101
-A Slip of the Pen
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
-Mystery of the Whale Tattoo
-The Great Airport Mystery
-Mystery of the Desert Giant
-The Clue of the Broken Saber
-The Haunted Old Fort
-The Viking Symbol Mystery
-The Arctic Patrol Mystery
-The Bombay Boomerang
-Danger on Vampire Trail
-The Masked Monkey
-The Shattered Helmet
-The Clue of the Hissing Serpent

Total: 33

Books Bought:
-The Mummy Case
-What Happened at Midnight
-The Cat Who Went Bananas
-The Larousse Guide to Astronomy
-The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook
-The Great Airport Mystery
-The Clue of the Broken Blade
-Mystery of the Desert Giant
-The Viking Symbol Mystery
-The Haunted Fort
-N or M?
-At Bertram's Hotel
-The Secret in the Old Attic

Total: 13