2009: Mailbox Monday – Monday #21

Three books this week! All three came from PaperbackSwap.  The Year of Magical Thinking is a book club read sometime in the next 6 months.  Peeps is because I’m still collecting Scott Westerfeld books.  And The Undomestic Goddess was on the shelf of the person that had Peeps, and it was a Kinsella that didn’t involve the Shopaholic, so I decided to give it a

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2009: Challenges – 2009 ARC Reading Challenge Updated

There’s been a couple of new levels that have been added to the 2009 ARC Reading Challenge, hosted by Teddy Rose. The original guidelines were: List all of the ARC’s that you have to read right now.  Then throughout the year, you must continue updating that list as you receive more ARC’s.  (This is important). You should also strike out the ones that you finish.

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2009: Challenges – The 2009 Pub Challenge Completed

I finished this challenge last month! I usually don’t read so many new books, but getting ARCs has really changed that number.  Here’s my final list, completed in June: Plum Spooky – Janet Evanovich The Lost Hours – Karen White First Family – David Baldacci Darling Jim – Christian Moerk The Mating Rituals of the North American WASP – Lauren Lipton Dark Places – Gillian

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