Roundup for Feb 09

Books read in February : 7 Books
Total Books Read in 2009: 15 Books

Pages read in February: 1802
Yearly page count: 4287
Paperbacked Books in Feb: 6

Paperbacked Books in 2009:
Hardbacked Books in Feb: 1

Hardbacked Books in 2009:

LDS Writers:
A Perfect Brightness of Hope - Anita R Canfield - 5* - 130 pages

Young Teen

Someone like me - Elaine Forrestal - 3* - 173 pages

Life on the Refrigerater Door - Alice Kuipers - 4* - 226 pages

Adult Fiction
The Spare Room by Helen Garner - 3* - 195 pages

The Next thing on my List - 3* - Jill Smolinski - 288 pages

The Six Sacred Stones - Matthew Reilly - 41/2 * - 493 pages

The Witch of Portobello - Paulo Coelho - 2* - 297 pages

Challenges Updates

999: 15/81

Victorian Challenge: 1/3
What's in a Name: 1/8
1%: 7/10

Ratings

1* -

2* - The Witch of Portobello

3* - The Spare Room, The Next thing on my List, Someone like me

31/2* -

4* - Life on the Refrigerater Door

41/2* - The Six Sacred Stones

5* - A Perfect Brightness of Hope

The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski

Meet June Parker. Until the day she offered Marissa, a young woman she had just met, a lift home she thought her life was okay. She had a horrible boss, was battling to lose a few pounds and, sure, finding that special someone was tough, so things weren't exactly fabulous, but she was happy enough. She didn't know that Marissa was going to die ... and it would be her fault. As she washes away the blood from Marissa's handbag so she can return her belongings to her family, June discovers a list - '20 things to do by my 25th birthday.'

The guilt weighs heavily until a chance meeting six months after Marissa's death finds June committing to finish the list. Some of the tasks aren't too difficult ('Run a 5K') but others are near-impossible ('Change someone's life'). As June races to achieve each goal before the deadline, she learns a great deal more about herself and her own life than she ever bargained for.

This book is a quick read and you would class it as a chick book ....

The concept is interesting that because of the guilt that June feels pushes her to complete a list of 20 things which Marissa ( the girl who died ) wanted to do.

It really is a journey more so for June than anybody else ... Some of the tasks are easy and others are more difficult, and some of them don't necessarily finish the way June expected. There are moments that you will laugh out loud ... but there are some swear words littered throughout if you are sensitive to that and one scene which I could have done without !! ... But all in all it is a OK book and I did enjoy it and made me think of starting up my own Bucket List !!

I rate this book 3***

Teaser Tuesday

TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
Grab your current read.
Let the book fall open to a random page.
Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!
Please avoid spoilers

"I was afraid you might be one of those vegetarians". Then he turned to me, apparently out of small talk .." Your mother's inside"

Page 147 of The Next Thing on My List by Jill Smolinski