I know I said I wouldn’t join any more challenges this year, but this one was just too fun to pass up.  The Hogwarts Reading Challenge runs March 8 2010 to December 13 2010.  I am a student at Hogwarts and was sorted into Gryffindor House.  Now I need to attend class (read books) to [...]

Got a new CD of pictures from Mark in Kyle, Texas.
Click on a picture to see them in a gallery.

We dropped Brian off at the Missionary Training Center in Provo today and now all of our children are on missions!
Mark is in the Texas San Antonio Mission, Spanish speaking and will be returning in May.
Brian will be in the MTC for two months and then heading to the California Carlsbad Mission, also Spanish [...]

I keep a book journal and here are my statistics for 2009:
Books read: 73
Pages read: 23,576
Of the books read:

Non-fiction: 3
New-to-me novelists: 31
Continuing series: 36
Re-reads: 5
Challenges completed: 8
Ongoing tally of Newbery winners: 48 of 88

2008:
79 books; 32,031 pages; 8 non-fiction; 15 new-to-me novelists; 31 continuing series; 19 re-reads; 42 of 87  Newbery
2007:
44 books; 17,069 pages; 3 [...]

In 2009 I began an adventure I learned from Ali Edwards, one of my favorite scrapbook designers.  She challenged her readers to join her in choosing a word for the year that would help define who she wants to be at the end of the year.  I chose SERENE.  I wrote the word on my [...]

This is the last challenge I am planning to join for 2010, but you never know what might happen later in the year.    The others are Countdown 2010 and What’s in a Name? 3.
Challenge Guidelines:
There are four levels:
– Curious – Read 3 novels that are 2nd in a series or [...]

This is the last of my 2009 reading challenges and I have completed them all.  I even read extra books for this challenge.
War Through the Generations runs 1 Jan-31 Dec 2009: at least 5 books about WWII, fiction or non-fiction
Books from my original list:
Home Again at Last, by Jerry Borrowman-This is the fourth book in the [...]

I am joining the What’s in a Name? 3 Challenge because I had fun with the #2 reading challenge last year.
Between January 1 and December 31, 2010, read one book in each of the following categories:

A book with a food in the title: Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith
A book with a body of [...]