March 2010 Group Book Count

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Completed in March (my rating, 1-10, follows title. Each title links to Amazon):

Durrow, Heidi--The Girl Who Fell From the Sky ( 8 ) 256 pp.
Ghosh, Amitav--Sea of Poppies (9) 560 pp.
Gist, Deeanne--Bride Most Begrudging (3) 347 pp. [Note: got it when it was free.  Not really worth paying for, but acceptable trash for a quiet evening. ]
Klassen, Julie--The Apothecary's Daughter (4) 416 pp. [Note: got it when it was free.  Slightly better written than the Gist book.]
Mantel, Hilary--A Change of Climate ( 8 ) 336 pp.
Lahiri, Jhumpa--The Namesake ( 8 ) 304 pp.
Pfeffer, Susan Beth--The Dead and the Gone  ( 8 ) 336 pp.
Sundaresan, Indu— The Twentieth Wife ( 8 ) 416 pp.
Viswanathan, Padma--The Toss of a Lemon (10) 640 pp.
Zusak, Markus--The Book Thief ( 8 ) 576 pp.

[loca]

Completed in March (my rating, 1-10, follows title. Each title links to Amazon):

Ghosh, Amitav--Sea of Poppies (9)
Klassen, Julie--The Apothecary's Daughter (4) [Note: got it when it was free. ]
Mantel, Hilary--A Change of Climate ( 8 )
Lahiri, Jhumpa--The Namesake ( 8 )
Viswanathan,Padma--The Toss of a Lemon (10)


Amitav is agood writer.

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Amitav is agood writer.

Amitav is his first name. Just FYI!

[loca]

Amitav is his first name. Just FYI!

Well, how many Amitavs are there    ?  First name should be enough.

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For all our new friends and kindleboard addicts, reserve a spot on the thread and start listing what you've read over the course of the month.  Everyone lists their own thing really - number of locations, number of pages, opinions and whatever else they want .... then in April, one of your friendly neighbourhood statistic geeks (and there are quite a few of us here) will crunch the numbers and come back with totals and overviews of how much we're reading ... its good good fun.

What does number of locations mean??

[Luvmy4brats]

What does number of locations mean??

Since the Kindle uses locations instead of pages, some people keep track of how many locations they've read instead of trying to track down or convert to page numbers.

[pawsplus]

Well, how many Amitavs are there    ?  First name should be enough.

Um . . . In India there are MANY.  And it is usual to refer to authors by their last names, unless you know them personally. That was my point.

[Anju No. 469]

Don't think I signed up for March, if I did I know I didn't post any.  So here is what I have done, so far.  No idea of dates finished, maybe I'll do better next month.  

1.  Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith      2978 locations  
2.  Sepulchre by Kate Mosse - only read about 5,000 locations          
3.  Monument Rock by Louis L'Amour                      4000 locations    
4.  The Villa Dog by Ruth Zavitsanos                         400 locations    
5.  Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik                          5900 locations      
6.  Rottweiler Rescue:  a mystery by Ellen O'Connell  3000 locations      
7. Grace for the Moment Bible Readings for Marc8.
8.  The Adamas Blueprint by Boyd Morrison               7521 locations 
9.  The Honor of Spies by W.E.B. Griffin                     10768 locations 
10.  Blood Sweat and Tea by Tom Reynolds                3228 locations   
11.  Crime Always Pays by Declan Burke                    500 locations   

that's it for March!

[Basilius]

Only three books for me this month:

Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold, 3800 locations
Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, 1800 locations
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard, 6800 locations.

Started two others:

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, 11200 locations (15% through)
Linchpin by Seth Godin, 4000 locations. (12% through)

I hope to have those and whatever I get from the April Reading Game finished this month.  (Linchpin takes bottom priority, though.)


Update: Read a little more Linchpin last night, so this is the final state going into April.

[Leslie]

Everyone,

Finish up your lists for the month of March. I started the new thread for the April book count for anyone who wants to join in. I'll unsticky this one in the next day or two.

Leslie