My friend Lisa over at Just Another Rabid Reader came up with this cool idea for a blog hop and there’s several titles already in my wish list or to read list on Rory’s list so it’s not going to be a huge deal to do one book a month for this hop. Come join us especially if you are a GG fangirl or ever wanted to find and follow in Rory’s literary adventures.

THE RULES
1. Sign up in the linky on the Rory Bucket List Hop post.

2. Post a startup post similar to this one with the list.

3. Post at least once a month about a book on The List. You can post about more than one book in any given month but would like it to be at least once a month. It does not have to be a full review, but at least some thoughts you had about the book after reading the book.

4. When you post about a book, go back to your original list and link to your post.

5. Get the code for the linky and post the rules and the linky on your intro post.

6. Visit as many other blogs as you can in the hop.

7. Have a good time.

RORY’S READING LIST

[*I have seen a movie version of this title. BOLD I read at some point in my life.
Now this may sound odd but in high school I did a Jane Austen read-a-thon by choice on my own just because I liked Pride and Prejudice so not all the classics and most BOLD titles are classics were school assignments. It probably boils out to about half and half.]

• A Month Of Sundays by Julie Mars
• The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
• Small Island by Andrea Levy
•* My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
• A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
• My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
• Truth & Beauty by Ann Patchett
• The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
• How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer
• The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
• Nervous System by Jan Lars Jensen
• The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland
• Oracle Night by Paul Auster
• Quattrocento by James McKean
• The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
• Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
• Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
• The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
• Old School by Tobias Wolff
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
• The Bielski Brothers by Peter Duff
• Brick Lane by Monica Ali
• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
•* The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
• Property by Valerie Martin
• Rescuing Patty Hearst by Virginia Holman
• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
• Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
• The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
• Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito
• Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
• Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
• Unless by Carol Shields
• Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
• When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
• Songbook by Nick Hornby
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Extravagance by Gary Krist
• Empire Falls by Richard Russo
• The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
• Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
• A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
• The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
•* The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
• A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
•*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
• Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia De Burgos by Julia De Burgos
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles
• Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
•* Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Time and Again by Jack Finney
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
•* Sybil by Flora Schreiber
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Cousin Bette by Honore De Balzac
• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
• Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
• 1984 by George Orwell
• The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
• Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
•* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
•* The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
• Emma by Jane Austen
• On The Road by Jack Kerouac
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

[note I moved the progress bars to my sidebar - for some reason they locked out my comments]

Time Devoted to Reading: Sun 4.75hrs
Bout of Books Total 13.25hrs

Pages Read: Sun 262
Bout of Books Total 687

Books to Read:
Bout of Books Total 2 1/8
Always and Forever by S. P. Cervantes – COMPLETED – Wed
Untimed by Andy Gavin – COMPLETED – Sun
The Memory Jar by Tricia Goyer
The Promise Box by Tricia Goyer
The Sweetest Dark by Shana Abe
To Dance in Liradon by Adrienne Clark [note I'd already started this before Bout of Books so was on page 95] – on pg 123/220

It’s looking like I was perhaps a bit ambitious or just didn’t apply myself to reading some days as much as I should have to meet the goals I set since I hit about 50%. However I am happy with making progress on the TBR pile and that is what counts. So all in all a successful week and I found a way to hopefully motivate myself to keep cracking on the pile even without Read-a-thons by using Progress Bars on my blog and setting personal goals.

[note I moved the progress bars to my sidebar - for some reason they locked out my comments]

Time Devoted to Reading: Fri 1hr
Sat .5hr

Pages Read: Fri 61
Sat 20

Books to Read:
Always and Forever by S. P. Cervantes – COMPLETED – Wed
Untimed by Andy Gavin – on pg 107/344
The Memory Jar by Tricia Goyer
The Promise Box by Tricia Goyer
The Sweetest Dark by Shana Abe

[note I moved the progress bars to my sidebar - for some reason they locked out my comments]

Time Devoted to Reading: .5 hour

Pages Read: 21

Books to Read:
Always and Forever by S. P. Cervantes – COMPLETED – Wed
Untimed by Andy Gavin – on pg 24/344
The Memory Jar by Tricia Goyer
The Promise Box by Tricia Goyer
The Sweetest Dark by Shana Abe

[note I moved the progress bars to my sidebar - for some reason they locked out my comments]

Time Devoted to Reading: I came in a bit late in the game. Tues afternoon to be exact.

I spent about half an hour reading on Mon night in the first book on my list that is counted on this progress report
And probably an hour yesterday so am a bit behind my goal.

I have at least 3 hours I want to get through today for a review due by Fri.

Pages Read:
Mon 35
Tues 44

Books to Read:
Always and Forever by S. P. Cervantes on pg 81/318
Untimed by Andy Gavin
The Memory Jar by Tricia Goyer
The Promise Box by Tricia Goyer
The Sweetest Dark by Shana Abe

Time Devoted to Reading: I hope to devote 3-4 hours a day to reading.

Pages to Read: I hope to log around 1400 total pages (approx 3-5 books depending on length)

Books to Read:
Always and Forever by S. P. Cervantes
Untimed by Andy Gavin
The Memory Jar by Tricia Goyer
The Promise Box by Tricia Goyer
The Sweetest Dark by Shana Abe

I’m a latecomer as this started yesterday – but I’ll shoot for a couple or three books by Sun. Have to see how the rest of the week goes.

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 13th and runs through Sunday, May 19th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 7.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team

Good Luck and Happy Reading to all!