November '09 Recap

I hope you all had a lovely November! Mine was packed, hence the reason I'm finally getting around to my recap this far into December. I began my new blogging year when I celebrated my birthday early in the month and let me tell you - it feels GREAT. I've rethought my reading goals for the coming year and plan to focus more on things I WANT to read rather than things I SHOULD read ... just wait until you see how much fun I'm having with my reading in December!

But back to November, here's what I read ... and I'm pretty proud of it:


Books - 9 (2,603 pages)

• The Gathering Storm - 783 pages - I am still super excited about this book
  
• The Sea of Monsters - 279 pages - the continuing adventures of Percy Jackson
  
• The Woodstock Storybook - 154 pages- a quick glimpse at an amazing event
  
• The Wet Nurse's Tale - 272 pages - great heroine in this unusual story
• Alex & Me - 226 pages - enjoyable and educational
• Ivy & Bean: Doomed to Dance - 136 pages - hilarious kids book
• The Saint and the Fasting Girl - 330 pages - unexpectedly captivating and quite good
• TIME Greatest Discoveries - 121 pages - high-level overview of some amazing discoveries
• My Life in France- 302 pages - surprisingly sweet story of life, love, and food
  

Audio Books - 2 (13 hours)

• The Hot Zone - 11 hours - really good and horrifying true story
• The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - 2 hours - laugh-out-loud funny with a great moral
  
  

Other Stats

• Two books for Mom & Son Book Club this month! YAY! We finished reading Sea of Monsters and listened to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Plus I also read the Ivy & Bean book to Kiddo, even though we didn't do an official book club post about it.
  
• My TBR list gained 6 titles this month and Kiddo's gained 3.

Phew! Now that's done, I can focus on December - woohoo!