(Transferred from other Journal)
Ever since December I've been toying with the idea of joining the 100 Books Club--scroll down all the way and click on the button. The idea behind or the goal of this club is to read 100 books/25,000 pages within a year. I tried this last year, but I couldn't contact the webmistress; besides which, I got sidetracked and forgot to update the calculations I was doing on my own. But this year, I'm determined to follow through--call it, shockingly as I avoid making New Year's resolutions...but after all, it is still the Chinese New Year--a belated New Year's resolution.

I have to admit though, I'm curious, really, as to how many books I do read in a year.

So far, since Christmas/New Year's I've read 46 books, a total of 13,794 pages:

• If Looks Could Kill by Heather Graham (365 pgs.)
  
• The Unwilling Bride by Margaret Moore (369 pgs.)
  
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (652 pgs.)
  
• The Princess Diaries: Volume I by Meg Cabot (283 pgs.)
  
• The Princess Diaries, Volume II: Princess In the Spotlight by Meg Cabot (257 pgs.)
  
• The Princess Diaries, Volume III: Princess In Love by Meg Cabot (229 pgs.)
  
• The Princess Diaries, Volume IV: Princess In Waiting by Meg Cabot (225 pgs.)
  
• The Princess Diaries, Volume IV and a Half: Project Princess by Meg Cabot (50 pgs.)
  
• The Princess Diaries, Volume V: Princess In Pink by Meg Cabot (256 pgs.)
  
• The Princess Diaries, Volume VI: Princess In Training by Meg Cabot (269 pgs.)
  
• The Princess Diaries, Volume VI and a Half: The Princess Present by Meg Cabot (85 pgs.)
  
• Only a Whisper by Gayle Wilson (250 pgs.)
  
• Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot (345 pgs.)
  
• Stolen By the Sheikh by Trish Morey (181 pgs.)
  
• Winds of Fate by Mercedes Lackey (445 pgs.)
  
• Winds of Change by Mercedes Lackey (459 pgs.)
  
• Winds of Fury by Mercedes Lackey (410 pgs.)
  
• Predator by Val Griggs (185 pgs., but I only read/skimmed 116 of them. It was too...heartrending for me. =0/)
  
• The Princess Diaries, Volume VII: Party Princess by Meg Cabot (288 pgs.)
  
• Jewel of Atlantis by Gena Showalter (369 pgs.)
  
• Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley (325 pgs.)
  
• Ghost Hunter by Jayne Castle (327 pgs.)
  
• Much Ado in the Moonlight by Lynn Kurland (449 pgs.)
  
• The Black Swan by Mercedes Lackey (402 pgs.)
  
• The Princess Diaries, Volume VII and a Half: Sweet Sixteen Princess by Meg Cabot (82 pgs.)
  
• Avalon High by Meg Cabot (288 pgs.)
  
• Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot (307 pgs.)
  
• Once Upon a Tangled Tale by Bronwyn Wolfe (350 pgs.)
  
• After Dark by Jayne Castle (332 pgs.)
  
• After Glow by Jayne Castle (343 pgs.)
  
• Dragonswan by Sherrilyn Kenyon (86 pgs.)
  
• The Prince of Air and Darkness by Jeanne Rose (242 pgs.)
  
• Ghosts, Hauntings, and Mysterious Happenings by Phillis Raybin Emert (112 pgs.)
  
• Hers To Command by Margaret Moore (360 pgs.)
  
• Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart (294 pgs.)
  
• Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (280 pgs.)
  
• Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer (279 pgs.)
  
• The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot (374 pgs.)
  
• Hers To Desire by Margaret Moore (370 pgs.)
  
• The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (248 pgs.)
  
• All-American Girl by Meg Cabot (398 pgs.)
  
• To the Resue by Jean Barrett (236 pgs.)
  
• The Vampire Who Loved Me by Teresa Medeiros (373 pgs.)
  
• One Good Knight by Mercedes Lackey (387 pgs.)
  
• Size 14 Is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot (344 pgs.)
  
• Dangerous Temptation by Kathleen Korbel (293 pgs.)

(UPDATE, 12-30-2006:)
This is it, folks. The end of zee list for 2006. I'm starting a new book tonight, but even though it's a Meg Cabot book, I'm not that fast a finisher. So, unfortunately, I didn't make either the club's goal or my own personal goal of 55 books when it became painfully apparent I wasn't going to make the overall goal.

Time to email B.J.

moon phase