Final Update

I'm finished!  

Woot! Woot!

Here is everything I read:

Poodle Springs- Raymond Chandler & Robert B. Parker
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
75% of The Last Night of the Earth Poems- Charles Bukowski

Crawlspace - Evans Light

Dark Curtains- Evans Light

Vengeance by the Foot- Adam Light

Gone- Adam Light

2 chapters in No Place Like Home- Mary Higgins Clark

Not too shabby.  :)

Third Update

I'm still reading!
I just finished four creepy short stories by the Light Brothers.  

* Gone- Adam Light
* Vengeance by the Foot- Adam Light
* Dark Curtains- Evans Light
* Crawlspace- Evans Light

I will be reviewing everything I've read after the read-a-thon.

Now, back to the grindstone.  Hee hee!

Second Update

Well, I ended up taking a longer break than I intended to.  I did finish my second book, though!
Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler & Robert B. Parker

Unfortunately, I have to take another break.  I have a few errands to run, but then I am back in for the long haul until 5 a.m.

First book finished- nap time now!

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First Update

I keep strange hours, so it was necessary to start early on the read-a-thon.
I've been reading since 1:30 a.m.
I read six chapters in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.  I am loving it.  It's a really engrossing story.  I only have 2 more chapters left, but I had to take a break.

Happy Reading!

RainyMood.com and reading go together like pb&j.  Just sayin'.

It's almost time for Dewey's 24 Hour Read-A-Thon!  I have been slacking when it comes to reading.  I am hoping this will kick-start things for me to get back in the habit.

This is the third year I am participating in the read-a-thon.  It's always great fun.   It's not too late to sign up, just follow the link.

My goal is to read as much as possible in the next 24 hours.
I want to finish reading four books I've already started.  If I do that, then I might start a new book.  I also have a few novellas I might try to fit in somehow.

The books I will begin with are:
Poodle Springs- Raymond Chandler & Robert B. Parker
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The Last Night of the Earth Poems- Charles Bukowski
Aunt Dimity's Death

I can't wait to start reading!!

This blog has been abandoned for the past few years.  I am resurrecting it.  I have been keeping track of my reading on Good Reads, but I miss book blogging, so I'm back.  :)

Read in 2013 (quick update)

January
The Carnival of Death- L. Ron Hubbard  (fun look at pulp fiction)
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards-  Lilian Jackson Braun  (ridiculous book! I could overlook the cat's part, but the mustache stuff is just too much)
Who Could it Be at this Hour?- Lemony Snicket (nice start to a new series)
Cutwork- Monica Ferris (I didn't like it as much as the others in this series.  I hate how Betsy got upset over Jill's wedding.  It was none of her business).

February
Betsy-Tacy- Maude Hart Lovelace (nice re-read of a childhood favorite)
What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw! - Agatha Christie (I liked it.  3.5 stars)
Revenge of the Witch (The Last Apprentice series)- Joseph Delaney (really liked it- and there are a lot more books in this series.  I will probably read them all).

March 
Crewel Yule- Monica Ferris (the ending was a let-down, but I enjoyed reading about the shopping spree weekend.  I'm jealous!)

Read in 2012 (68)

Agatha Christie

Murder on the Links

Death on the Nile

Endless Night

The Boomerang Clue (Why Didn't they Ask Evans?)

The Tuesday Club Murders (The 13 Problems)

Dead Man's Folly

Hugh Howey

Wool

Proper Guage

Casting Off

The Unraveling

The Stranded 

Alan Bradley

The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag

A Red Herring without Mustard

I am Half Sick of Shadows

M.C. Beaton

Death of an Addict

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

As the Pig Turns

Hiss and Hers

Louise Penny 

Still Life

A Fatal Grace

The  Cruelest Month

A Rule Against Murder

Monica Ferris

Framed in Lace

A Stitch in Time

Unraveled Sleeve

A Murderous Yarn

Hanging by a Thread

H.P. Lovecraft

The Shadow over Innsmouth

Damon

The Tomb

Veronica Roth

Divergent

Insurgent

Nancy Duplechein

Dark Bayou

Dark Carnival

Brandon Mull

Fablehaven

Rise of the Evening Star

Rivers to the Sea- Sara Teasdale

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

The Log Cabin Lady - anonymous

The Nervous Housewife- Abraham Myerson

Quaint Epitaphs

Grimm's Fairy Stories

The Complete Emily Dickinson

It's like this, Cat- Emily Neville

Love Among the Chickens- P.D. Wodehouse

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter- Seth Grahame-Smith

Belezaire the Cajun

The Limpopo School of Private Detection- Alexander McCall Smith

Dead Until Dark- Charlaine Harris

The Uncommon Reader

Soup- Richard Peck

Daughters of Zion- Kim Taylor

99 Reasons to Hate Cats

The Woman in the Alcove- Anna Katherine Green

The Glass is Always Greener- Tamar Myers

Odd Thomas- Dean Koontz

The Twelfth Child- Bette Crosby 

The Girl who Swam to Atlantis- Elle Thornton

The Wicked- James Newman

Antiques Maul- Barbara Allan

Mississippi Cotton- Paul Yarbrough 

Mountain Interval- Robert Frost

Being Mrs. Dracula

A Lancaster County Christmas

Whatever Possessed You?

O Canada! Her Story- Karla Akins

The Continuance Agency - Adam Light

Read in 2011 (37 books)

The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rugen- Elizabeth von Arnim
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Name of this Book is Secret- Pseudonymous Bach
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie- Alan Bradley
The Lost Symbol- Dan Brown
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
City of Bones- Cassandra Clare
Crewel World- Monica Ferris
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The Graveyard Book- Neil Gaiman
The Anxiety Answer Book- Laurie Helgoe
Is it Me or my Meds?- David Karp
Lightening- Dean Koontz
The Call of Cthulhu- H.P. Lovecraft
Renascence and other Poems- Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Winter Room- Gary Paulson
The Circular Staircase- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Miss Julia Delivers the Goods- Ann B. Ross
The Big Trip Up Yonder- Kurt Vonnegut

Alexander McCall Smith
The Double Comfort Safari Club
The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party


James Howe
The Celery Stalks at Midnight
Howliday Inn

Terri Blackstock
Night Light
True Light

M.C. Beaton
Death of a Gossip
Death of a Cad
Death of a Perfect Wife
Death of a Hussy
Death of a Snob
Death of a Macho Man
A Highland Christmas
Death of a Maid
Death of a Gentle Lady
Death of a Witch
Death of a Valentine
Death of a Chimney Sweep