February’s Book List & What I am Currently Reading

The Pioneer Woman by Ree Drummond

• I recommend you swing by her massively filled website at http://thepioneerwoman.com/

Bloodroot Mountain by Amy Greene

Currently reading:

Besides my textbooks, of course, I am reading Love, Lucy an autobiography by Lucille Ball, which is an absolute wonderful read, especially for writers, actors, or anyone who was told they couldn’t make it doing what they love, dreamt about, or failed because of too many rejections. Of course the book is not a literary gem, it is for the soul, especially right now with the economy and the doubt we all hold, as it was not much different during parts of Lucille Ball’s life.

The Very Late….January Book List

Many of you know I have moved. And because of this, I have changed libraries. Sadly, I was unable to locate my monthly free copy of BookPage for January!!!

I loved picking up a copy once a month, and going through it with a pen, folding corners down, sipping on something warm. But now, much to my dislike, I am forced to read through it via the internet. In the end, I struggled to read most of it. Alas…books added to my Life Book List in January…

• Bitter Legacy by H. Terrell Griffin
• Finding Angela Shelton by Angela Shelton
  
  

P.S. For those of you who noticed I did not post my monthly interview for January…I promise you a wonderful lucky (hint) interview for my lapse for all the book lovers out there. Be sure to check out my blog on Feb. 1st for February’s blog interview

September Book List/Music

For September’s list of books to add to my Life Book List:

Room by Emma Donoghue

Ape House by Sara Gruen (yes, she wrote the wonderful, Water for Elephants)

Current Music Going ‘Round In My Head:

August Book List and Current Music Going ‘Round In My Head

Books in August added to my book list:

• Mind in the Making by Ellen Galinsky
• Different Learners by Jane M. Healy, PhD.

                     Both are books on child development.

• The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry
• Sugarbabe by Holly Hill

 

As embarrassed as one could be, yeah…this song!

Good to see him back to his original style of music. I think he has finally overcome his wife’s suicide as much as one can.

If the song isn’t cool enough for you, at least the shots from Step Up 3D should do.

Current Music Going ‘Round In My Head…And July Book List

Here are my July Book List picks (although rather late in July, I know)…and I’ve decided to share my current “loves” in music for July as well.

July Book List add to Life Book List:  The Rapture by Liz Jensen, Sliding into Home “by” Kendra Wilkinson, A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

Here are my current fav. singles, just don’t get in trouble listening to them at work

Michael Franti & Spearhead – Say Hey (I Love You)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehu3wy4WkHs

Travie McCoy – Billionaire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aRor905cCw

Keith Urban – Til Summer Comes Around  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh0ESB30eJA

B.o.B – Airplanes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn6-c223DUU  (minus Eminem)

Adam Lambert – Whataya Want From Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Fqn9du7xo

Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg - California Gurls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwE-SLnLkqY

June Book List

Here is my list of books coming out in June, that I am adding to my life book list.

• Welcome to Utopia by Karen Valby
• How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley, and also, from years ago, I Was Told There’d Be Cake
• The Fixer Upper by Mary Kay Andrews
• (What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains) The Shallows by Nicholas Carr
• The Last Best Days of Summer by Valerie Hobbs – MG book

Book List for May…And What Else I Have to Read Before the End of the World

Here is the list of books coming out in May that I’m adding to my Life Book List:

• The One-Week Job Project by Sean Aiken
• The Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
• Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides
• Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer by John Grisham (YA)

*Note* I receive new release information once a week from my local library via Wowbrary, it’s a great tool.

And as  request by my blog friend Jeena, I’ve included my entire Life Book List:

***I’m a busy person with people to meet and things to eat. So if anyone has read these books and they suck or are amazing, I’d love to hear from you.

FICTION/NON-FICTION:

• Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
• Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball
• The State of Jones by Sally Jenkins & John Stauffer
• The Trunk Murderess by Jana Bommersbach
• Uptown/downtown in Old Charleston: Sketches and Stories by Louis D Rubin Jr.
• Rising Road by Sharon Davies
• A Separate Country by Robert Hicks
• The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah
• A Flickering Light by Jane Kirkpatrick
• Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter
• Chasing Fireflies by Charles Martin
• Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch
• Men and Dogs by Katie Crouch
• Kid Carolina by Heidi Schnakenberg
• The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception by H Keith Melton and Robert Wallace
• Yours Ever: People and Their Letters by Tomas Mallon
• Perfect Stranger by Lucy Kaylin
• The Known World by Edward P Jones
• In the Neighborhood: The Search for Community on an American Street One Sleepover at a Time by Peter Lovenheim
• The Reclining Master Awaken by Tamir Qadree
• Population 485 – Meeting Your Neighbor by Michael Perry
• Song Yet Sung by James McBride
• Lottery by Patricia Wood
• Winkie by Clifford Chase
• Triangle by Katherine Weber
• Eye Contact by Cammie Mcgoern
• A Million Nightingales by Susan Straight
• The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
• The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips
• The Buenos Aires Broken Hearts Club by Jessica Morrison
• Flies on the Butter by Denise Hildreth
• Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith
• What I Have Left by Will Allison
• The Circle by Laura Day
• Heartbreak Town by Marsha Moyer
• The Slippery Year by Melanie Gideon
• Saving Ceecee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
• Life Would be Perfect if I Lived in That House by Meghan Daum
• The One-Week Job Project by Sean Aiken
• The Heart of the Matter by Emily Giffin
• Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides

MG/CHILDREN’S

• To be a Slave by Julius Lester
• How I Survived Middle School by Donna Gephart
• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
• Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer by John Grisham (YA)

 HOLIDAY

•  A Cedar Cove Christmas by Debbie Macomber
• The Christmas list by Richard Paul Evans
• The Gift by Cecelia Ahern