Cover to Cover Challenge discussion

1. What is the total number of books you have read this year? (an approximate number or range is fine)
About 25

2. How many total TBR books do you personally own? (not counting the books you've already read)
around 6

3. What are 3 "New Year's Reading Resolutions" you'd like to set for yourself for the coming year?
Lose weight for my g/f's wedding
Read 144 books
buy more books. lol

4. Name 2 things you'd be willing to give up (or cut down on) in order to give yourself more reading time in 2010.
tv time,
wii time

5. Name 3 authors you've never read before, but definitely plan to try in 2010.

Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
J.R. Ward
Mary Burton

1. What is the total number of books you have read this year? (an approximate number or range is fine)
I believe, at last count, it was 107. Rather a sucky year...

2. How many total TBR books do you personally own? (not counting the books you've already read)
I think I have about 160 here at home that I haven't read yet. I've got piles all over the place, LOL!

3. What are 3 "New Year's Reading Resolutions" you'd like to set for yourself for the coming year?
1. Catch up on series that I'm behind in.
2. Beat my 2008 record of 155 books read.
3. Save some money and buy more bookcases to hold all my books, LOL!

4. Name 2 things you'd be willing to give up (or cut down on) in order to give yourself more reading time in 2010.
Actually, there's nothing to cut down. I can almost consider myself a hermit. I don't go anywhere, I don't have any "extra-curricular" activities. Hubby works nights, so when the kids are busy or sleeping, I've got loads of time to read.

5. Name 3 authors you've never read before, but definitely plan to try in 2010.
1. Linwood Barclay
2. Donna Andrews
3. Markus Zusak

1. What is the total number of books you have read this year? (an approximate number or range is fine): I just finished my 12th book for January 2010

2. How many total TBR books do you personally own? (not counting the books you've already read): 68 books - personal note: I put all my books on a wish list and when I actually buy them then I put them on my TBR list, also after I have read them I mark them as read and read in 2010 shelf.

3. What are 3 "New Year's Reading Resolutions" you'd like to set for yourself for the coming year?:
1. Read at least 144 books this year
2. Buy more book cases to add to my library
3. Buy at least a 100 books this year

4. Name 2 things you'd be willing to give up (or cut down on) in order to give yourself more reading time in 2010.:
1. Cleaning my house
2. Computer time

5. Name 3 authors you've never read before, but definitely plan to try in 2010.:
1. Sherrilyn Kenyon
2. Kresley Cole
3. Alyssa Day

1. What is the total number of books you have read this year?
Probably just under 100... I didn't sign up for goodreads (to keep track for me) until February of 2009 but I had about 75 since then.

2. How many total TBR books do you personally own?
5-8... I'm attempting to not buy books because I always read the library books first and thus never read the books I actually own.

3. What are 3 "New Year's Reading Resolutions" you'd like to set for yourself for the coming year?
a) read more non-fiction
b) read a biography or autobiography
c) read slower so that I can remember what happened two weeks later

4. Name 2 things you'd be willing to give up (or cut down on) in order to give yourself more reading time in 2010.
a)television!!!
b)cleaning..... though I don't do much of that already!

5. Name 3 authors you've never read before, but definitely plan to try in 2010.
a) Anne Brontë
b) Lee A Martinez
c) Ernest Hemingway

1. What is the total number of books you have read (last) year?

200 or so. I stopped keeping track after 162.

2. How many total TBR books do you personally own?

30-50

3. What are 3 "New Year's Reading Resolutions" you'd like to set for yourself for the coming year?

- finish 10-10-10 challenge
- review my books
- choose my books more carefully

4. Name 2 things you'd be willing to give up (or cut down on) in order to give yourself more reading time in 2010.

Probably TV

5. Name 3 authors you've never read before, but definitely plan to try in 2010.

- Robin Hobb
- Elizabeth Gaskell
- Anton Chekhov

1. What is the total number of books you have read this year? (an approximate number or range is fine)
For 2009 I didn't start keeping track till later in the year but I average 11 or 12 books a month so around 135-144
2. How many total TBR books do you personally own? (not counting the books you've already read)
Oh My 100's I don't even know just lots

3. What are 3 "New Year's Reading Resolutions" you'd like to set for yourself for the coming year?
1.Read more Classics
2.Read a few authors I've never read before
3.Just Read

4. Name 2 things you'd be willing to give up (or cut down on) in order to give yourself more reading time in 2010.
1.Cut down on computer time
2.Cut down on PS3 time

5. Name 3 authors you've never read before, but definitely plan to try in 2010.
1.Dorothy Sayers
2.Madeline L'Engle
3.Jim Butcher

Susie--I can hartily endorse all 3 authors you've put down to try this year. I have read--and enjoyed all 3.

1. What is the total number of books you have read this year?
In 2009: 92
In 2010 (so far): 8

2. How many total TBR books do you personally own?
50-60, I think.

3. What are 3 "New Year's Reading Resolutions" you'd like to set for yourself for the coming year?
1) Finish at least a large portion of my TO READ list
2) Finish Fall/Winter Challenge for CollegeReads! group
3) Try to finish 144 books before 2011

4. Name 2 things you'd be willing to give up (or cut down on) in order to give yourself more reading time in 2010.
1) Watch less TV
2) Spend less time on the computer

5. Name 3 authors you've never read before, but definitely plan to try in 2010.
1) Martin Amis
2) Michael Crichton
3) Sylvia Plath

Thanks Ana, I actually just started Whose Body? last night and am loving it so far.I thought I had read L'Engle when I was younger until I read When You Reach Me she talks about A Wrinkle in Time and I realized I'd never read it so it has been pushed up on my TBR Pile.

Susie--there is a BBC production of the Lord Peter series. I think it was made in the 70's (but it could have been earlier or later--you know what getting BBC productions over here to the U.S. are like) that was fairly good. They are available on Netflix if you have it.

1. What is the total number of books you have read this year? (an approximate number or range is fine)

5, I'm painfully behind, but I should finish another couple this week.

2. How many total TBR books do you personally own? (not counting the books you've already read)

20-30. I just re-loaded my eReader the other night with some of the heavier classics and the complete Sherlock Holmes.

3. What are 3 "New Year's Reading Resolutions" you'd like to set for yourself for the coming year?

Read more Canadian authors, branch out away from my old standbys (Sure, I've read almost every novel in the discworld series, but now what?), and read more of the classics

4. Name 2 things you'd be willing to give up (or cut down on) in order to give yourself more reading time in 2010.

World of Warcraft, shopping

5. Name 3 authors you've never read before, but definitely plan to try in 2010.

Janet Evanovich, Diana Gabaldon and Agatha Christie (ok, I've already read this one, but I didn't read anything by Christie UNTIL 2010.) Oh wait, P.D. James. There :)