"Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body"

I'm so excited to cross this goal off my list.

I must confess that the books I have read did not in fact all come from the list I posted, although some did. I had a tonne of books on my kindle library that I wanted to read, as well as recommendations from book club. Don't you worry, the 'books to read' list is still high on my priority list...it just keeps getting added to, almost on a daily basis!

Here are the 30 books I did read. Great ones (that I think you should read stat) are highlighted in green :)

1. My sister's keeper, Jodi Picoult
2. Nineteen minutes, Jodi Picoult
3. The Pact, Jodi Picoult
4. The Curious Incident of the dog in the night time, Mark Haddon
5. Silver Shadows, Richelle Mead
6. The Ruby Circle, Richelle Mead
7. The Jigsaw man, Paul Britton
8. The Passage, Justin Cronin
9. The girl on the train, Paula Hawkins
10. Four, Veronica Roth
11. Daughter of smoke and bone, Laini Taylor
12. The tea rose, Jenifer Donnelly
13. The selection, Kiera Cass
14. One plus one, Jojo Moyes
15. The Elite, Kiera Cass
16. The One, Kiera Cass
17. The prince, Kiera Cass
18. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
19. We were liars, E lockhart
20. Play dead, Anne Fraiser
21. Big little lies, Liane Moriary
22. Throne of glass, Sarah J Mass
23. Stolen Lives, Paul Litte
24. The Elephant tree, R.D Ronald
25. The silent wife, A.S.A Harrison
26. A series of unfortunate events, Lemony Snicket
27. Unreal & Uncanny Paul Jennings
28. The cabbage patch fib, The cabbage patch war,The gizmo, The gizmo again, Paul Jennings
29. The witches and Matilda, Roald Dahl
30.  Crown of midnight, Sarah J Mass

I'm halfway through the 3rd Sarah J Mass novel in the Calaena Sardothian series, but I don't think I'll finish before next Tuesday. I had to throw in some of the novels I had read my class this year to make 30, but that's still reading right? I bunched them up so really it's far over 30 :P

Yay! Another goal crossed off.

I love books!

I wrote about my favourite book series here, so I will not do so again.

At the beginning of 2013 I started a book club. You can see our blog here. We have a little group of die hard book nerds and I love it. I haven't loved every book we've read but it has opened up my eyes to different genres and has definitely made my love of books flourish. There's nothing like spending a good couple of hours each month being a book geek.

Last month I added to my favourite books list when I read 'The fault in our stars' by John Green. It was recommended to me by an online friend and I can't thank them enough. It was great.I loved the main character. I really liked all the characters actually. They were great. And even thought the storyline was somewhat predictable I enjoyed the story. I've heard there's a movie based on it coming out later this year so I'm sure I'll be disappointed by that at some stage lol.

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

Day 11: The last book you read.

I'm very proud to say that I'm a big book nerd.

At the beginning of the year I had a little idea inspired by someone I met on a school course that went to a book club. I very fleetingly put on facebook a status update that was something like, "Anyone keen on coming to a book club with me?" The response was HUGE. Lots of people wanted to. I then weeded out the best ones (just kidding, lots of people were all talk and dropped out) and the rest is very recent history. I have a book club! There's only 6 of us but we're a great bunch. You can check out our book club blog here. There's not much on it but you'll be able to see the books that we've read so far and the discussion questions we've used when we get together.

The most recent completed book I read was 'Change of Heart' by Jodi Picoult which was given to me by a collegue on the back of the fact that last months book club book was 'The Storyteller" by Jodi Picoult and I loved it. Yes I know, I'm the only person on the face of the earth who hasn't read Jodi Picoult before. I loved it, hence the reading of a 2nd of her novels. Loved the characters, love the way it challenged my thinking and loved the easy to read nature.

I usually read series of books I loved the 'Earth Children's' series although I do think it could have stopped at Book 4 and The Georgia Kincaid series by Richelle Mead made me feel like this...

In fact... a lot of Richelle's series do that to me. Must be because I read 5 or 6 books in the series and am then sad their gone. I feel like I know the characters and I often wonder what they're doing when the book is finished. Haha, silly huh?

And lastly, a message to all you non readers out there...