Update: A Book Addict Is Never Done Accumulating Books

So, remember how I posted my hefty goal for the year of reading 130 books this year off a list composed of random picks from my To Read list? (If not, check out this post).

As you can see from my ticker on the left hand side of my blog, I won't be hitting my goal. I will probably get to about 80-85% of it, but with all of the many things that came up this year (moving, new job, then a different and "more better" new job, lots of traveling and an increase in my travel agency sales, the illness and then death of my father in law, etc) I just haven't had quite as much time to devote to reading or to keeping up with my reviews.

That being said, I also didn't stick to my original plan very well. It started off great - I sent out a ton of messages to authors and many of them responded and were willing to send me a free copy of their books - but then I started getting inundated with requests from the several publishing companies that I review for... and then I got distracted at several bookstores and bought a bunch of books... and let's face it, I'm frankly such a book addict that I just can't refuse a free book even if it's not on my list for the year! ;)

But the good news is that I did stick to one goal - I've easily already donated almost 75 books to the public library! I went through all the books in my collection when I moved and weeded out many that, while wonderful, I would probably not read again or at least would not miss from my collection, then added that to many of the books I have read this year. It felt good to donate to my library that was sooooo pathetically in need of good literature! :)

Anyway, so here is the updated book list - yes, I realize that most of the books are STILL in the list from the beginning of the year, but I've gotten to most that have been sent to me - except the ones on my Nook, which have taken a lower priority than the hard copies that are stacked up on my office desk and are in need of other joining my collection or being donated so that they are out of the way! ;) If you have access to any of these to send to me, I would greatly appreciate it!

	Failing Test (The Shadow Series, #1)	Pierce, J.M. *
	Before I Go to Sleep	Watson, S.J. *
	The Shapeshifter's Secret	Ostler, Heather*
	Aldo's Fantastical Movie Palace	Friesen, Jonathan
	Whiskey Rebellion (An Addison Holmes Mystery #1)	Hart, Liliana*
	Nanowhere	Howard, Chris *
	Tropical Delusion: Misadventures in Paradise	Ashmead, Jeff*
	The Missing	Leslie, M.A.
	The Counterfeit Princess	Knight, Aubrey *
	This Brilliant Darkness	Tash, Red *
	The Vanishers	Julavits, Heidi
	The Chronicles of Brendan Earle, Apprentice Mage. Totally Interactive. Autosaved.	Studholme, Bob*
	The Moon Moth	Vance, Ja
	No One is Here Except All of Us	Ausubel, Ramona *
	The Thread	Hislop, Victoria
	Silverweed: A Supernatural Fairy Tale (Volume 1)	Vann, Dorlana*
	An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace	Adler, Tama
	In Your Face: The New Science of Human Attraction	Perrett, David*
	The Cordello Quest (Lazuli Portals #1)	Gawn, Joanna *
	The Labbitt Halsey Protocol	Ryan, Andrew M. *
	Amaranth (The Resistance Trilogy, #1)	Wade, Rachael *
	Harvest of the Heart	Selmer, Michael *
	Fair Coin (Coin, #1)	Myers, E.C. *
	Homegrown and Handmade: A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living	Niemann, Deborah *
	Glow (Sky Chasers, #1)	Ryan, Amy Kathleen *
	Katana (Katana, #1)	Gibsen, Cole *
	Wake Me When the Sun Goes Down (Forged Bloodlines #1)	Olsen, Lisa			3.54
	Naked Brain	Hunt, Michael A. *
	The Marcella Fragment	LaForge, Anna*
	How To Lose a Demon in 10 Days (10 Days, #1)	DeWylde, Sarann
	The Fire King	Marks, C.S. *
	Date with a Vampire (Harold the Kung Fu Kid, #1)	Gow, Kailin
	Just Add Magic	Callaghan, Cindy *
	The Legend of Mickey Tussler: A Novel	Nappi, Frank
	Destiny's Call (The Lightbridge Legacy, #1)	James, Elayne G. *
	Summer of the Wolves	Kline, Lisa Williams *
	Lady of The Shadows	Weikel, Belinda M. *
	Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty	Wittels, Harris
	Walden 3.0: A Dystopian Romance	Fragasso, Phil
	The Never Prayer	Ritchey, Aaron Michael*
	The Puppet Maker's Bones(Death's Order, #1)	Tangredi, Alisa*

			Burning Blue			Griffin, Paul
			The Dream Sanctum			Koeker, Daniel*
			Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words			Cousineau, Phil*
			Before Ever After: A Novel			Sotto, Samantha *
			The Hour of Tiamat			Taylor, Lisa *
			Sonora and the Eye of the Titans (Sonora, #1)			Hall, Travis
			Buying Time (An Aspen Moore Novel, #1)			Cochran, Kelly*
			The Mermaid Collector			Marks, Erika *
			Cycles			Brown, Lois D. *
			Aventurine Heart			Wood, Carole
			Program 13 (The Emile Reed Chronicles, #1)			Sobon, Nicol
			Failstate			Otte, John W
			Freakling (Freakling, #1)			Krumwiede, Lana *
			The Seven Keys of Alaesha			Warren, Samantha *
			The Mulligans of Mt. Jefferson: A Novel			Reid, Don
		Spirit Binder (The Cascadian Chronicles #1)			Doidge, Meghan Ciana*
			Thorn			Khanani, Intisar*
			Blue Straggler			Harris, Kathy Lynn *
			Vigilare			James, Brooklyn *
			Rockapocalypse: A Disharmony of Justice			Suggs, Byron
			Edge of the Triangle			Cook, D.H.
			The Hunt (The Hunt, #1)			Fukuda, Andrew
			Matadors			Bauman, Steve*
			Soul Catcher (Dueling with the Devil, #1)			Dumas, Vivi *
			Until Darkness Comes			Price, Melynda*
		How to Be a Woman			Moran, Caitlin
	The Babysitter Murders			Young, Janet Ruth *
	The Torah Codes			Barany, Ezra
	Comic Squad			Voight, Ginger *

					Cinderella Geek						Jennkrist, K. Sean
					The Raven's Gift						Rearden, Don*
					Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream						Jones, Gregg
					Lisa's Way						Collins, Robert
					The Pawnbroker						Stuart, Glen
					Hidden from Destiny						Fischer, Micaela *
					Eat Naked: Unprocessed, Unpolluted, and Undressed Eating for a Healthier, Sexier You						Floyd, Margaret *
				The Faerie Guardian (Creepy Hollow, #1)						Morgan, Rachel*
			Multiplayer							Brewer, John C. *
			The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise							Stuart, Julia
			Try Not to Breathe							Hubbard, Jennifer R
			The Burn							Oldham, Annie*
			Songs of the Earth							Cooper, Elspeth *
			Wake Forest							Jackanicz, Charlotte *
			Written In The Sky: Rise of The Wadjet Witch							Obodo, Juliet C. *
			Romeo Spikes							Reay, Joanne
			Dolphin Girl							Delisle, Shel *
			Soul Seeker (Lasniniar, #1)							Smith, Jacquelyn *
			How Lucky You Are							Lewis, Kristyn Kusek *
			Beyond the Misty Shore(Seascape Trilogy, #1)							Barrett, Victoria
		The Only Living Man With A Hole In His Head					Pliss, Todd Colby
	Fathers & Sons (Forts, #1)					Novak, Steven
	Thief (Fringe, #1)					McLeod, Anitra Lynn
	Bound in Vengeance					Nelson, Erik Robert *
	As If a Bird Flew By Me: A Novel					Greenslit, Sara*
	Jokers Club					Bastianelli, Gregory *
	The Black God's War (Splendor and Ruin, #1)					III, Moses Siregar *
	Lacrimosa (Requiem, #1)					Fonseca, Christine *
	Marty Boggs and the Curse of the Mummy's Tomb					Acquaire, M.T. *
	My Dead Boyfriend (Daughter of the Sidhe, #1)					Rose, Barbara
	Big Miracle					Rose, Tom
	Black Crystal (Black Scarlet Saga, #1)					Oakes, R.A. *
	Redheart					Gamber, Jackie *
	Deadwood					Andrews, Kell*
	Lowcountry Boil (A Liz Talbot Mystery, #1)					Boyer, Susan M.*
	Amy Mah Vampire					Mah, Amy
	Freud's Sister: A Novel					Smilevski, Goce
	The Pond					Dubois, Michelle*
	Beautiful Lies					Warman, Jessica
	The Lost Book of Mala R.					MacDowell, Rose *
	The Pawnbroker					Stuart, Glenn
	The Crystal Bridge					Pulsipher, Charles M. *
	The Veil					Oakes, Cory Putman *
	Mouch and Company: The Dream Psychic					Dixon, Bob *
	Vampyre Kisses (The Last Witch, #1)					Kolodziej, Elizabeth J. *
	A Royal Likeness					Trent, Christine *
	Undertow					Kingston, Callie*
	Atlantean (Eternal Trilogy, #1)					Watkins, E.N. *
	The Genesis Key					Barney, James*

Yellow = emailed book request via Goodreads info

Green = received response and book is on the way

Light Blue = eBook format received

Pink = received response, unable to send copy

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