Spring Reading Thing 2011 Wrap Up

Another reading challenged has come to a close. As you can see from my list, I finished reading 18 out of the 20 books I had listed and I am in the middle of reading one right now. I was also able to read an additional 14 books  during this time that were not on my original list. That puts my total number of books read from March 20 to June 20 to 32 books!!! 

Here’s my original list:

1. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff – STILL READING
2. The Secret Lives of Dresses by Erin McKean
3. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
4. Blackberry Crumble by Josi S. Kilpack
5. The Bone Trail by Nell Walton
6. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
7. Elizabeth I by Margaret George
8. Friendship Bread by Darien Gee
9. Here, Home, Hope by Kaira Rouda
10. Brooklyn Story by Suzanne Corso
11. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
12. Bedeviled Eggs by Laura Childs
13. Mothers and Daughters by Rae Meadows
14. Alone by Lisa Gardner
15. Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs
16. Hannah’s List by Debbie Macomber
17. 10th Anniversary by James Patterson
18. Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr
19. Poison in the Blood by MG Scarsbrook – DID NOT READ
20. Slate by Brian Rowe

Additionally I read the following: 

1. Already Home by Susan Mallery
2. The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs
3. Family Album by Debbie Macomber
4. Driftwood Cottage by Sherryl Woods
5. A Turn in the Road by Debbie Macomber
6. Moonlight Cove by Sherryl Woods
7. The Summer We Came to Life by Deborah Cloyed
8. Releasing Gillian’s Wolves by Tara Woolpy
9. Summer in the South by Cathy Holton
10. The Confessions of Catherine de Medici by CW Gortner
11. Ten Beach Road by Wendy Wax
12. A Creed in Stone Creek by Linda Lael Miller
13. Creed’s Honor by Linda Lael Miller
14. The D Word by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke

Thank you to Katrina over atCallapidder Daysfor hosting this challenge!!! I got a lot of books read that have been sitting on my bookshelves, in addition to all the review books I had to read.

I read a lot of great books this time around and it’s hard to pick one favorite, but some of the top books were: The Secret Lives of Dresses, The Forgotten Garden and The Confessions of Catherine de Medici.

This is the third reading challenge I have participated in where I listed the books to be read beforehand and it’s the third time I did not finish the entire list, although I came very close. I did manage to read quite a few additional books not on my original list, so I ended up reading more than I initially planned. I guess you could call it a wash…and that’s just fine with me!