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Read: 18 books (14 eBooks) DNF’d: 4 Pages read: 7,476

Excellent

Very good/excellent

DNF @ pg. 50

Favorite author/series

Very good/excellent

Favorite author

Favorite author/series

Favorite author

Excellent

Favorite author/series

Favorite author/series

Favorite author

DNF @ pg. 27

Favorite author

DNF @ pg. 65

Favorite author

DNF @ pg. 42

Favorite author/series

DNF @ pg. 74

Favorite author/series

Favorite author/series

Favorite author/series (US: Keepsake)

Favorite author/series

Read: 15 books (8 eBooks) DNF’d: 5 Pages read: 5,802

Very good

Favorite author

Good/solid debut

DNF @ pg. 58

Favorite author, book #1

Favorite author, book #2

Favorite author, book #3

Very good

Good

Very good

DNF @ pg. 69

DNF @ pg. 92

Excellent

Good/solid debut

Good/very good

DNF @ pg. 105, book #4

Good/very good

DNF @ pg. 135

Very good/excellent

Very good/excellent

Read: 14 books (8 eBooks) DNF’d: 3 Pages read: 3,838

Excellent

Good

Good

Good

DNF @ pg. 82

Very good

Excellent

DNF @ pg. 62

Excellent

DNF @ pg. 27

Very good

Excellent

Very good

Good

Good/very good

Good

Good

Good

OK

OK

OK

OK

Good

DNF @ pg. 58

OK

Very good

Favorite author

DNF @ pg. 60

Good

DNF @ pg. 140

Favorite author

Excellent

Good

Good

OK

Very good

Excellent

Very good

Favorite author

DNF @ pg. 182

Excellent

DNF @ pg. 113

Very good

Very good

Very good

Very good/excellent

Good/very good

DNF @ pg. 216

Very good/excellent

Good

Very good/excellent

Very good

Very good/excellent

OK

OK

DNF @ pg. 129

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Very good

Very good

Good

Good

OK

DNF @ pg. 102

Very good

Very good

Good

DNF @ pg. 131

A favorite

DNF @ pg. 148

Good

VG/Excellent

Very good

A favorite

A favorite

Good

DNF @ pg. 260

Fav author

DNF @ pg. 180

Good

Very good

Loved it

Fav author

October was an average reading month. I read 11 books, DNFd 3 totaling 4,059 pages. Review books are listed first followed by personal selections. Clicking on a book cover will take you to Amazon US.

Review books for October ’09. My thoughts about these books can be found at Pondering the pages

I did manage to sneak in three personal reading selections this month.

We’re in the dog days of summer with fall right around the corner and my bookation is coming to a end during these last days of September. I dedicated this month to taking a bookation – a month of guilt-free, self-indulgent, pure pleasure reading. A couple of ARCs and review books did sneak their way in as they kept whispering to me from the stacks. I also used it as a time to catch up on those nagging blogging and virtual library tasks that had fallen by the wayside. My bookation was a huge success and I had a wonderful time.

Blogging/virtual library tasks checked off: Created a favorite authors page Created a favorite books over the years page (this is very much a continuing project) Updated my series reading page Updated my About me & Contact Marcia page Installed a new blog theme Updated my Librarything library

The magazine stacks are no more. Well at least not for me. They’ve move to my hubby’s end table. We’ll see how long they gather dust over there.

And reading…

The main reason I took a bookation. My reading was suffering a serious case of the blahs. For every book I was finishing I was DNFing an equal number. So I was in need of comfort reading for my book soul.  I’ve also decided to go back to reading books that fall into genres that really call to me. My September reading list should give you a good idea of what those genres might be.

And sadly there were once again some DNFs.

The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig The Summer Kitchen by Karen Weinreb The Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

I’ll be kicking off the new year in January with another bookation.