1 Month Left

So there is only 1 month left in 2010. Even though I already accomplished my goal of 50 books in a year. I set a new one to try to do 70 this year. That comes out to be 10 more this month. I know, I know, it's crazy.  But here is the breakdown...

1. Forgotten God...it's an audiobook (that still counts!) and i'm already 33% done, I figure I will finish it on one of my walks with Schmuffin or my trip down to Myrtle Beach for New Year's.
2. Black Rednecks & White Liberals...I'm 75% done...it's a hard read, but if I read a little bit each day I'll finish in a couple weeks.
3. The Hour I First Believed...this is by Wally Lamb. I really liked his other 2 novels when I was in high school. But, they are hard to read. I don't want to say that they are dark or twisted. But they are in a way a little depressing. But usually they are uplifting and reflective. I think I'll read through it quickly though it is a big book. I'm 12% done.
4. Generation Kill...so interesting! I need to finish this for book club (we picked it like months ago). I'm 27% done.
5. NIV Bible...I'm SO determined to finish this. I don't want to rush through it though. If I don't finish it by the end of the year, I'm ok with that. I do have to read like 6 chapters a night to finish. I'm halfway done with it so far. 
6. Faith Tango...I should be able to finish this by the end of the week, I only have 92 pages left.
7. The Final Detail...I'm 100 pages in, I'll easily be able to finish this by the end of the month. So funny. I love the Myron Bolitar character. He had this funny monologue about the song from Sound Of Music, "These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things." He was like, "whiskers on kittens??? Really. That's one of your favorite things. Raindrops???" I found it comical mostly because Grandpa Fisher was watching it over Thanksgiving and it made me think of it again. 
8. Middlemarch....UGGHHH. This book is so long. I'm 54% done and I need to read a lil bit each day to finish. Like 2% a day. 
9. Financial Peace...This is the 2nd time I've read this book. It's a quick read. I haven't been keeping up with the book in accordance with the Financial Peace Class/Video Series that we're doing with our small group. But I'm confident I will finish this book by the end of the month as well. 
10. In 50 Years We'll All Be Chicks...I haven't started this yet, but it's by Adam Carrolla and I'm sure it's hysterical and I have a feeling it will line up with my conservative values. We'll see..

What I'm Reading 11/15/2010

My job is getting in the way of my leisure time. Don't you just hate when that happens??? I just haven't found the time to read as much as I've liked this fall. I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving & Christmas Break. I plan on doing a ton of reading to finish up the year. In the past week and a half, I was able to finish The Twelfth Card by Jeffrey Deaver, One False Move by Harlan Coben, & Ice Cold by Tess Gerritsen.

Ice Cold was THE BEST book in the Rizzoli & Isles series. So good. I read the first 50% of the book in one night. It was suspenseful and genuinely scary. I was so creeped out -- the thought of being trapped in a snowstorm of an abandoned cult community where there may or may not still be people or there may or may not be reminisces of a mass suicide -- that is some freaky stuff. Great book. Highly recommend it if you are a murder mystery junky like myself.

One False Move w/ Myron Bolitar - always funny, always a good read.

Twelfth Card was also entertaining and had some good twists. I never go wrong with a Lincoln Rhyme novel.

I just started Faith Tango & Generation Kill. Faith Tango is an anti-legalistic view on devotions for couples. Generation Kill is the book we picked for book club months ago that I only started getting around to reading. It's a true account about a reporter who follows a group of recon marines in the Iraqi War. It's a long book and might take me a while to get to, but it's interesting so far. It's also really interesting to think back to 2002 when the war started, when we had a different president, and what was going on in my life. It's weird because I can remember sitting on a friend's sofa watching the coverage on TV on Free Rita's day. We were discussing why we thought the war was sad, but necessary. I can remember texting my husband (back then we were just friends) and commenting on it. So it's weird to be reading this book and seeing the attacks on Baghdad from their perspective. It's surreal.