Contentment Reading Challenge 2013 - November update

November has just flown by, and yes, I do have a bunch more books to add to my list!

• Australian Outback by Mary Hawkins
• Aloha by Colleen Coble, Carol Cox, Denise Hunter and Gail Sattler
• On Assignment by Marilyn Kok
• Embrace Grace by Liz Curtis Higgs
• My Life as a Doormat by Rene Gutteridge
• The Substitute Guest by Grace Livingston Hill
• The Christmas Bride by Grace Livingston Hill
• Yuletide in Ireland and Wales by Ginny Aiken and Tamela Hancock Murray
• English Carols and Scottish Bagpipes by Pamela Griffin and Jill Stengl
• That Christmas Feeling by Catherine Palmer and Gail Gaymer Martin
• Mountains, Memories and Mistletoe by Janet Lee Barton and Kathleen Y'Barbo

Well, it really is a bunch!! I hadn't actually counted them until I made this list. And most of them actually have more than one novella in them, so if you added them all up ...

Anyway, the official count for the month is 11!!

And for the year, that makes 72!!

One more post and this challenge will be over!

Contentment Reading Challenge 2011 - The Final Count

Hi Everyone!
Happy New Year!!

So, as promised I am giving the final count for the Contentment Reading Challenge 2011.
I signed up to Dive and and read at least 20 books. I have gone well beyond that, but I'll leave you in suspense for just a little longer.

During December I read 10 books. They were:

1. Two Tickets to the Christmas Ball by Donita K Paul
2. Texas Christmas Brides by Cathy Marie Hake and Kathleen Y'Barbo
3. Yuletide in Ireland and Wales by Ginny Aiken and Tamela Hancock Murray
4. English Carols and Scottish Bagpipes by Pamela Griffin and Jill  Stengl
5. Silent Star by Tracie Peterson
6. The Red Gloves Collection by Karen Kingsbury
7. An Angel's Story by Max Lucado
8. The Christmas Candle by Max Lucado
9. True Devotion by Dee Henderson
10. True Valor by Dee Henderson

So ... drum roll please ...

The grand total for the Contentment Reading Challenge 2011 is:

48 books!!! 

2010 Reading Challenge - week 42

It's been a crazy week for me, and I haven't been chauffering as much, so I only finished 2 books this week. I am in the middle of 5 books though. I never usually have that many on the go at once. 4 are non-fiction though.

Ok, so the 2 I read are:

• To Catch a Thief by DiAnn Mills, Kathleen Y'Barbo, Lisa Harris and Carol Cox
• The Omega Deception by John F Bayer

I'm currently reading:

• More Precious Than Silver by Joni Eareckson Tada
• Rise and Shine by Liz Curtis Higgs
• Becoming a Woman of Simplicity by Cynthia Heald
• Everything Christmas by David Bordon and Thomas J Winters
• Two Tickets to the Christmas Ball by Donita K Paul

2010 Reading Challenge - Week 41

Now, let's see. This week I finished reading a total of 3 books.

I've been a little busy this week with other things to read more than that.

They were:

• Alaskan Summer by Marilu H Flinkman
• Sworn to Protect by DiAnn Mills
• Kiss The Cook by Kristy Dykes, Aisha Ford, Vickie McDonough and Carrie Turansky

That means I have now read 146 out of 160 books.

I'm currently reading:

• More Precious Than Silver by Joni Eareckson Tada (year-long devotional)
• Rise and Shine by Liz Curtis Higgs
• Becoming a Woman of Simplicity by Cynthia Heald
• Everything Christmas by David Bordon and Thomas J Winters (review coming next month)
• To Catch a Thief by DiAnn Mills, Kathleen Y'Barbo, Lisa Harris and Carol Cox

2010 Reading Challenge - week 14

5 again this week.

They were:

• Crime Scene Jerusalem by Alton Gansky
• Swinging on a Star by Janice Thompson
• Louisiana Brides by Kathleen Y'Barbo (3 in 1)
• Rhode Island Weddings by Joyce Livingston (3 in 1)
• A Place To Call Home by Eileen M. Berger

In progress:

• More Precious Than Silver by Joni Eareckson Tada
• Only Nuns Change Habit Overnight by Karen Scalf Linamen
• Get Married by Candice Watters
• Veiled Joy by Colleen L. Reece

2010 Reading Challenge - Week 2

Another few books add my list for this challenge this week.

4 in fact.

• The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper by Kathleen Y'Barbo
• The Cowboy Next Door by Brenda Minton
• Around the World in 80 Dates: Confessions of a Serial Dater by Christa Ann Banister
• Blessed Are the Meddlers : Confessions of a Serial Matchmaker by Christa Ann Banister

My current reads include:

• Pieces of Silver by Maureen Lang
• Cure for the Common Life by Max Lucado
• More Precious Than Silver by Joni Eareckson Tada

2010 Reading Challenge - Week 1

Ok, so my first week on this reading challenge I have read 3 books and am partway through 2 others.

I read:

• Safer Than A Known Way by Mavis Areta Winder
• Island Breeze by Lynn Bulock
• Fatal Harvest by Catherine Palmer

I'm reading:

• The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper by Kathleen Y'Barbo
• More Precious Than Silver by Joni Eareckson Tada (this I will be reading all year as it is a year long devotional)

Not a great start, but I'm just warming up.

Until next week, happy reading!