July Monthly Report

It is time for an overview of what I got and what I read in July 2010.

July was a great month. I spent a lot of it relaxing and reading.. I didn't link them but all of the books listed are reviewed either on this blog or on Ms. Martin Teaches Media. I read a total of 35 books.

Adult Books (25)

Time Weaver by Shana Abe

Blood Song by Cat Adams

Kitty Goes to War by Carrie Vaughn

Red Hot Fury by Kasey MacKenzie

Romancing the Dead by Tate Hallaway

The Accidental Werewolf by Dakota Cassidy

Bonds of Justice by Nalini Singh

The Search by Nora Roberts

Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill

Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn

In Other Worlds by Sherrilyn Kenyon

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

Barely a Lady by Eileen Dreyer

Honeymoon of the Dead by Tate Hallaway

The Mane Event by Shelley Laurenston

The Beast in Him by Shelley Laurenston

The Mane Attraction by Shelley Laurenston

The Mane Squeeze by Shelley Laurenston

Beast Behaving Badly by Shelley Laurenston

Cast in Chaos by Michelle Sagara

Infamous by Suzanne Brockmann

Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost

Dark and Stormy Knights edited by P. N. Elrod

Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong

A Safe Harbor: Building Sanctuary by Moira Rogers

Young Adult Books (7)

Other by Karen Kincy

Majix: Notes from a Serious Teen Witch by Douglas Rees

Legacies by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill

Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus

The Tension of Opposites by Kristina McBride

Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James

Middle Grade Books (3)

The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

Magic Below Stairs by Caroline Stevermer

The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman

Added to the TBR Stack

I added 58 books to my LibraryThing account this month. 23 of the books for ebooks for my Kindle. That leaves 35 print books which equals the number I read this month. This is the second month in a row when the number of books I read equals the number of print books I received. Since I read some ebooks this month the stack of physical books did grow though.

I currently have 811 books tagged TBR in my LibraryThing account.

Progress on Challenges

I raised the goals on a number of the challenges because I have already met my former goal. I hope these are more realistic for what I read this year. My next task is to go into my blog and adjust the progress bars to reflect the new reality.

2010 YA Debut Author (Goal = 24 36 books)

Jan. - March = 10
April - June = 11
July I read: 5

Total to Date: 26

2010 YA Reading Challenge (Goal = 25 75)

Jan. - March = 19
April - June = 40
July I read: 10

Total to Date: 69

Flashback Reading Challenge (Goal = 6)

Jan. - March = 3
April - June = 2

July I read: 0

Total to Date: 5

2010 E Book Reading Challenge (Goal = 20 50)

Jan. - March = 18
April - June = 10
July I read = 6

Total to Date: 34

RYOB Reading Challenge (Goal = 100 250)

Jan. - March = 47
April - June = 71
July I read = 35

Total to Date: 153

2010 TBR Reading Challenge (Goal = 12)

Jan. - March = 4
April - June = 2
July I read = 0

Total to Date: 6

Bottoms Up Reading Challenge (Goal = 36)

Jan. - March = 6
April - June = 3

July I read = 5

Total to Date: 14

In the Middle Reading Challenge (Goal = 10)

Jan. - March = 8
April - June = 12
July I read = 3

Total to Date: 23

I am currently reading Fire Lord's Lover by Kathryne Kennedy on my Kindle. This happens to be the first book I added to LibraryThing in July. I just began it and don't really expect to finish it today. There are too many other things on the agenda to devote much time to reading.
I have one more month of vacation. I start work again one month from today. I am hoping to have another good reading month and limiting the number of books I buy. (She says with a head shake knowing that 5 more books are in the mail coming to her from Amazon as she does this post!)