March summary

I really need to tune down the frequency with which I'm buying new books! Three months in and I already got 22 books more than I actually read. Maybe I'm a hopeless case? I mean, I pre-ordered 4 books this month alone - and I'm glad they won't arrive until later this year...

new additions
36) Toni Morrison: A Mercy
37) Kate Atkinson: When Will There Be Good News?
38) Ally Carter: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
39) Lauren Oliver: Before I Fall
40) C.J. Omololu: Dirty Little Secrets
41) J.T. Ellison: The Cold Room
42) Lionel Shriver: Double Fault
43) Susan Beth Pfeffer: Life As We Knew It
44) Lionel Shriver: Double Fault
45) Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
46) Laura Kinsale: Flowers from the Storm
47) Becca Wilhite: My Ridiculous, Romantic Obsessions
48) J.T. Waldman: Megillat Esther
49) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: Hunted
50) David Ebershoff: The 19th Wife
51) Justina Chen Headley: North of Beautiful
52) Alan Fox: The Seeker in Forever

read
21) Jill Shalvis: Instant Gratification
22) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: Chosen
23) Tzipi Caton: Miracle Ride
24) Becca Wilhite: My Ridiculous, Romantic Obsessions
25) Michele Wahlder: Alphatudes
26) Melissa De La Cruz: Blue Bloods
27) Melissa De La Cruz: Masquerade
28) Ally Carter: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
29) John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
30) J.T. Waldman: Megillat Esther

February summary

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I believe now all the pre-ordered books from December should be in. I have already pre-ordered two or three books for later this year, though. Despite buying so many books these past two months, I also got quite some reading accomplished, so it was not a complete loss. For next month, though, I have to finish all the 9 (!!!) unread books I bought in January before I start anything else. According to my 2010 resolutions they should have been read already!

new additions
19) Joy Preble: Dreaming Anastasia
20) Lesley Livingston: Wondrous Strange
21) Patrick Ness: The Knife of Never Letting Go
22) Gayle Forman: If I Stay
23) Lindsey Leavitt: Princess for Hire
24) Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl: Beautiful Creatures
25) Emmett James: Admit One - My Life in Film
26) Suzanne Young: The Naughty List
27) Carrie Ryan: The Forest of Hands and Teeth
28) Michele Wahlder: Alphatudes - The Alphabet of Gratitude
29) Lisa McMann: Wake
30) Art Spiegelman: Maus 1 & 2
31) Jane Austen: Sense & Sensibility
32) Laura Mechling: Dream Girl
33) Tera Lynn Childs: Oh. My. Gods.
34) Becca Fitzpatrick: hush, hush
35) Chloe Neill: Firespell

read
10) Anna Jarzab: All Unquiet Things
11) Kristina Springer: The Espressologist
12) Elizabeth Scott: Living Dead Girl
13) Courtney Summers: Cracked Up To Be
14) P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast: Betrayed
15) Christa Holder-Ocker: auf Wiedersehen
16) Gayle Forman: If I Stay
17) Art Spiegelman: Maus 1
18) Art Spiegelman: Maus 2
19) Ally Carter: I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have To Kill You
20) Maggie Stiefvater: Shiver

January summary

So, the first month in a new decade is over. Can you believe it? It's the 4rd decade for me, at least the third I get to live for at least part of the time. And I'm only 25 (well, for another 2-3 months)...

Anyway, enough about my age, let's get to the truly relevant stuff, the books I read, bought, abandoned, and much more. I have the feeling, Januarys are always the worst for my Mt. TBR, along with April and September / October when the new semester starts and I use buying books for my classes as an excuse to buy some more for me. But still, I managed to read a good number of books, many of which I bought within the last two months (I keep those on a special shelf, when I remember to put them there and not on the regular shelves).

bought
1) Dia Reeves: Bleeding Violet
2) Nicholas Sparks: Dear John
3) Maggie Stiefvater: Shiver
4) Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (graphic novel)
5) Melissa Walker: Violet on the Runway
6) A.J. Jacobs: A Year of Living Biblically
7) Jennifer R. Hubbard: The Secret Year
8) Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak
9) Courtney Summers: Some Girls Are
10) Courtney Summers: Cracked Up To Be
11) Yoko Ogawa: The Housekeeper and the Professor
12) Anna Jarzab: All Unquiet Things
13) Ninni Holmqvist: The Unit
14) Rachel Ward: Numbers
15) Jen Nadol: The Mark
16) Jaclyn Dolamore: Magic Under Glass
17) Julie Kagawa: The Iron King
18) Kristina Springer: The Espressologist

read
1) J.K. Rowling: The Tales of Beedle the Bard
2) Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (graphic novel)
3) Jennifer R. Hubbard: The Secret Year
4) Ann Aguirre: Grimspace
5) Michael Anthony: Mass Casualties
6) John J. LeBeau: Collision of Evil
7) Dia Reeves: Bleeding Violet
8) Yoko Ogawa: The Housekeeper and the Professor
9) Laurie Halse Anderson: Speak

DNF
1) Chimananda Ngozie Adichie: Half of a Yellow Sun

Series Challenge 4 - reviews and summaries

So, it's about time I wrote up a post to gather all the reviews and summaries.

The reviews so far:
1) Samantha: Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin

The summaries: