117 Books
102 Authors - 53% female
57 Series

Genre - top 5 read
1. Sci-Fi
2. Fantasy
3. Historical Fiction
4. Children
5. Mystery.

Authors from 15 countries outside of the USA.

Shortest Book - Young Zaphad Plays it Safe

Longest Book - Dombey and Son

Most Shelved on Goodreads - The Scorch Trials

The Warden by Anthony Trollope
In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3 by Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

I read quite a few short free books from BookFunnel:

Once Upon a Cafe
For Those About to Rock
Honeymoon Aboard the Mary Celeste
Buffalo Dogs (the Amazing Conroy Book 0.5)
Sinclair (A Trace Riker Adventure Spin-Off)
Crossing the Line
The Wedding

How many books read so far: 27

Favorite so far: Rilla of Ingleside

Least Favorite so far: Blaze Union and the Puddin' Head Schools

Most Read Genre: Children's

Surprise Read: Ella Enchanted.

Goal succeeding on: On tract to read 100 books for the year.

Goals to work on: Complete series, read author's around the world.

I add to the countries I have read authors from, with the following new countries:

Belarus
Columbia
Egypt
Haiti
Kenya
Saudi Arabia
Somalia

The shortest book: Power Trip by Jackie Collins.

Most shelved on Goodreads: The Lightening Thief by Rick Riodan - not surprising.

Least shelved on Goodreads: Roland Leong "The Hawaiian": Drag Racing’s Iconic Top Fuel Owner & Tuner

Highest Rated on Goodreads: Angel Girl Awakes by L.B. Anne, not widely read, but it is the start of a new spin off of a previous series, so of course it has been read by people who were already fans of the earlier series.

Most read genre - top 5

1. Biography, Memoir
2. Science Fiction
3. Children's
4. Mystery
5. Romance.

I hadn't realized I was reading so many biographies and memoirs.

Victorian works - Queen Victoria's reign 1837 - 1901

The Way We Live NowAnthony Trollope my second time reading a book by Trollope. It is nice that this is a stand alone book, not part of a large series. Easier to follow since it doesn't go into a lot of church politics.

Adam Bede George Eliot - her first novel. Much simpler, easier to follow than Middlemarch.

Hard Times Charles Dickens I had never heard anything about this book before now.

Candida George Bernard Shaw first time reading Shaw's work.

---The Challenges---

1. Read one of Jane Austen’s six novels Northanger Abbey
2. Read something by Jane Austen that is not one of her main six novels Jack and Alice
3. Read a non-fiction work about Jane Austen or her time Jane Austen at Home
4. Read a retelling of a Jane Austen book OR a work of historical fiction set in Jane Austen’s time Arsenic and Austen
5. Read a book by a contemporary of Jane Austen - working on reading Mary Shelley's Last Man
6. Watch a direct screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book Emma 1996 Why have Knightly start his declaration of love by talking about holding Emma as a baby?
7. Watch a modern screen adaptation of a Jane Austen book Emma Approved. This made me realize that after Emma rejected him he married some one with all her worst faults. Emma is a bit of a snob - the new Mrs. Elliot is a huge snob. Emma tends to thinks she knows better than anyone else - Mrs. Elliot lets everyone know that she knows best. Emma is trying to run Harriet's life - Mrs. Elliot tries to run Jane's life. Harriet wants to listen to Emma and likes Emma. Mrs. Elliot does not realize Jane doesn't like her, and want her to leave her alone.

1. How many books so far - 34
2. Favorite so far - The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster - just pulpy fun.
3. Least Favorite - Wishes by Brittany Eden - pointless time jumps forward than back, overwritten.
4. Most read genre - Children's books, 2nd Sci-fi
5. Surprise - I enjoyed Wives & Daughter by Gaskell, I was surprised since North and South was so disappointing.
6. Goals success - doing good on reaching goal of 100 books for the year.
7. Goal I want to work on more - Authors around the world.

Sing 2016

My first thought was - who is this movie for?

A Frank Sinatra character? Do kids know who he is? Would the parents? Wouldn't he be more from the Great-grandparents time?

The scene with the Gorilla and his father was good. But we didn't get enough of the back story. Did he want to get out of his father's life of crime? He seemed happy to be involved.

Since there were so many characters none of them got much time.

Daughter of Eden; Eve's Story by Jill Eileen Smith

Things that bothered me:

Adam tells Eve: "The Kingdom of God is like this mustard seed" Why? At this point there is no other organization, everything belongs to God, no rival has shown itself.

Satan is thrown to the earth before he deceives Eve. Again why?

When the serpent appears to Eve she knows it is not just a serpent, but one of the "shining ones" (angels)

God tells Adam how to plant, harvest, etc rather than Adam having to figure out things himself.

Eve gets pregnant right after Cain, yes getting pregnant while nursing is possible, but it is unlikely.

There is a thirty year gap between the death of Able and the birth of Seth.

The angels who take human wives do it because Satan orders them to, not because they wanted to.