01 November 2009

Sunday Salon: October Wrap Up

October was a wonderful month for reading in large part because of the Readathon! 13 books, 2,950 pages read and the majority of that done in one 24 hour period.

Read...
Weaving a Way Home by Leslie van Gelder
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
Dreaming Anastasia by Joy Preble
Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

Challenge Update...
Dream King: 8/12 books and 3/5 movies
Sookie Stackhouse Challenge: 6/9 or 10?
Back to School Challenge: 2/4
SciFi Challenge: 0/8
100+ Challenge: 88/100
A-Z Challenge: 23/26
101 Fantasy Reading: 0/12
Women Unbound: 0/8

Movies Reviewed...

Gran Torino
G.I. Joe
The Hangover
Star Trek

13 Days of Halloween
Well...9 days actually. The readathon and then Halloween itself got in the way of my completing the full 13 posts.
Lycanthropes
Exorcisms
Death Omens
Things that Shouldn't Kill You, But Do
Costumes Women Shouldn't Wear
Be Buggered Blackguard (Curses)
Halloween-y Books
Real Animals that Freak Me Out
The Nine Satanic Sins

Giveaways
Gavin from Page247 won the first round for the Unlock Worlds Challenge
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams is still up for grabs. Head over the post to submit your name!

6 comments:

  1. Looks like you had a successful month!

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  2. What a great month, Trisha! Thanks for the bookmarks and have a great week.

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  3. Lola - It feels successful even though the majority of reading happened at readathon. I'm hoping to spread it out a bit more this month.

    Gavin - You are very welcome. I hope you have a good week too.

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  4. looks like a great month! You read a great balance of classics and new stuff.

    I'm off to read your review of Old Man and the Sea! I loved that one!

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  5. Rebecca - I'm trying really hard this year to have a much better balance between heavy and light reading, literature and guilty pleasures. So far...not too shabby.

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  6. Anna - Thanks. This month is definitely shaping up to be much much worse. :)

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