Reading Wrap-up For January at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out January with 1,031 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 1.023 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Paperback Swap and Bookmooch
 
Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Rereads

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty
- The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer by Robert K. Tannenbaum and Peter S. Greenberg
- Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
- The Friends by Rosa Guy
- Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane
- The Missing World: A Novel by Margot Livesey
- The Sixth Commandment by Lawrence Sanders
- The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg
- Kramer Versus Kramer by Avery Corman

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories by Martin H. Greenberg, Robert H. Weinberg and Stefan Dziemianowicz
- Behind the Mask: A True Story of Obsession and a Savage Genius by Stella Sands
- Rose Madder by Stephen King
- Criminals: A Novel by Margot Livesey
- The World's Last Mysteries by Reader's Digest
- Ashes to Ashes by Tami Hoag
- The Most Wanted by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :))
- Random Hearts by Warren Adler 
- Like Water For Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel
- The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
- Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
- Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag
- No One Left to Tell by Jordan Dane
- The Senator's Wife by Karen Robards
- Grave's End: A True Ghost Story by Elaine Mercado, R. N.
- The Piano Teacher: The True Story of a Psychotic Killer by Robert K. Tanenbaum and Peter S. Greenberg
- The Saving Graces: A Novel by Patricia Gaffney
- Mercy Street: A Novel by Mariah Stewart
- Love Kills: The Stalking of Diane Newton King by Andy Hoffman
- Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner
- Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult
- The Missing World: A Novel by Margot Livesey

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 8
Pages Read: 2,610
Grade Range: A+! to B+!

So, there you go! The reading month that was January. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For December at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out December with 1,005 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 994 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Bookmooch, Paperback Swap and a Library Book Sale that Mareena and I went to on the 19th.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Rereads
- A Ship Made of Paper: A Novel by Scott Spencer

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- The After House by Michael Phillip Cash
- The House on Fortune Street: A Novel by Margot Livesey
- Preservation Hall by Scott Spencer
- Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag
- Like Water For Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, With Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies by Laura Esquivel
- Wildwood Road by Christopher Golden
- Homework: A Novel by Margot Livesey
- The Rest of Her Life: A Novel by Laura Moriarty
- The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
- Grave's End: A True Ghost Story by Elaine Mercado, R. N.

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- All That Glitters by Thomas Tryon
- The Missing World: A Novel by Margot Livesey
- 1225 Christmas Tree Lane by Debbie Macomber
- At Paradise Gate by Jane Smiley
- Atonement by Ian MacEwan
- Bleeding Heart Square by Andrew Taylor
- Blossom Street Brides by Debbie Macomber
- The Code of the Hills: An Ozarks Mystery by Nancy Allen
- December 6th by Martin Cruz Smith
- Deliver me From Evil by Mary Monroe
- Goodnight Nobody by Jennifer Weiner
- Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Barbara Olson
- Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932 by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- I Couldn't Love You More by Jillian Medoff
- It's Always Something by Gilda Radner
- Keep a Little Secret by Dorothy Garlock
- The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier
- Lakeside Cottage by Susan Wiggs
- The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares
- Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
- Lucky: A Memoir by Alice Sebold
- A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava
- Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult
- Queen of Broken Hearts by Cassandra King
- Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog by Garth Stein
- The Road Taken by Rona Jaffe
- The Royal Family Quiz and Fact Book by Timothy B. Benford
- Silent Murders by Mary Miley
- The Sins of the Mother by Danielle Steel
- Three Junes by Julia Glass
- Three Wishes by Barbara Delinsky
- The Triumph of Katie Byrne by Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Where You Belong by Barbara Taylor Bradford
- The Winter Queen by Boris Akunin
- The Mothman Prophecies: Based on True Events by John A. Keel
- Jumbo Crossword Pad Volume #13 by Kappa Press
- The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :)) 
- The Great Potato Cookbook 250 Sensational Recipes for the World's Favorite Vegetable by The Editors of Reader's Digest
- The Attorney by Steve Martini
- Miami, It's Murder by Edna Buchanan
- Versions of the Truth by Richard Parrish
- Gone by Kit Craig
- Edge of Glass by Catherine Gaskin
- Reader's Digest Condensed Books Volume 1 1958: The Green Helmet/Dunbar's Cave/The Twentieth Maine/Life at Happy Knoll/The Horsecatcher/Sharks and Little Fish by Jon Cleary, John J. Pullen, John P. Marquand, Mari Sandoz and Wolfgang Ott
- Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark by Tilly Bagshawe
- Ben by Gilbert A. Ralston
- Blood Beast by Don D'Ammassa
- The After House by Michael Phillip Cash
- A Ship Made of Paper: A Novel by Scott Spencer
- Retribution by Jilliane Hoffman
- The Taker by Alma Katsu
- Jack and Jill by James Patterson

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 11
Pages Read: 3,703
Grade Range: A+! to B+!

So, there you go! The reading month that was December. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For November at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out November with 1,009 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 1,000 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Penny Dell Puzzles and Paperback Swap.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Rereads
- Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- Small Town Girl by LaVyrle Spencer
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
- In Another Country by Susan Kenney
- The Senator's Wife by Karen Robards
- The Ladies of Missalonghi by Colleen McCullough
- Random Hearts by Warren Adler
- What Lies Beneath: The Road to Hidden Harbor/Remember Me/Primal Fear by Anne Stuart, Joanna Wayne and Caroline Burnes
- Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman  

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- Collector's Series Sum-Doku Puzzles 4-pack (Volumes 1, 5, 6, 7) by Dell Magazines
- Wildwood Road by Christopher Golden
- The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn
- The Babel Effect by Daniel Hecht
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :)) 
- Crow Hollow by Dorothy Eden
- The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King
- A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
- Gallows Lane by Brian MacGilloway
- Torture Killers II: More True Accounts of the Most Vicious Murderers Ever Caught! by Rose Mandelsberg
- Practical Meat Dishes by P3 Publishing
- Ghost Island by Jan O'Donnell Klaveness
- The Book of Books: An Eclectic Collection of Reading Recommendations, Quirky Lists, and Fun Facts about Books by Les Krantz and Tim Knight
- Practical Healthy Eating by P3 Publishing
- Classic Mysteries: A Collection of Mind-Bending Masterpieces by Molly Cooper
- This Gun For Hire by Graham Greene
- Defending the Truth by Richard Parrish
- Ellery Queen's Memorable Characters: Anthology #50 by Ellery Queen
- Daddy's Girl: The Campbell Murder Case by Clifford Irving
- Tell Me Your Dreams by Sidney Sheldon
- The Moonflower Vine: A Novel by Jetta Carleton
- Early From the Dance by David Payne
- A Crime of Honor by Giovanni Arpino

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 9
Pages Read: 2,677
Grade Range: A+! to B+!

So, there you go! The reading month that was November. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For October at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out October with 1,017 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 1,005 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Paperback Swap, Bookmooch and authors.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Rereads
- Now You Know by Kitty Dukakis and Jane Scovell

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber
- The House on Hope Street by Danielle Steel
- Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend: A Novel by Robert James Waller
- Sam's Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson
- The Moonflower Vine: A Novel by Jetta Carleton
- The Haunted by Bentley Little
- The Kennedy Women by Pearl S. Buck
- The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance by Joan Ryan
- At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
- Best Friends by Martha Moody
- Gallows Lane by Brian McGilloway

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- Poisonous Animals by Seymour Simon
- Caroline, Caroline, What Are You Thinking? by Ronald L. Leonard
- The World of Caroline by Ronald L. Leonard
- The After House by Michael Phillip Cash

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :)) 
- Brood X: A Firsthand Account of the Great Cicada Invasion by Michael Phillip Cash
- Blood in the Water: An Alice Rice Mystery by Gillian Galbraith
- Final Scream by Lisa Jackson
- Diana: Story of a Princess by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig
- Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
- Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell
- Left to Die by Lisa Jackson
- Requiem: Diana, Princess of Wales 1961-1997 - Memories and Tributes by Brian MacArthur
- Cold Dawn by Carla Neggers
- The Bodyguard's Story: Diana, the Crash, and the Sole Survivor by Trevor Rees-Jones and Moira Johnston
- Montana Sky by Nora Roberts
- River's End by Nora Roberts
- Most Likely to Die by Beverly Barton, Wendy Corsi Staub and Lisa Jackson
- The Wheat Field by Steve Thayer
- Aspen Gold by Janet Dailey
- The Glass Virgin by Catherine Cookson
- The LeBaron Secret by Stephen Birmingham
- Dreamthorp by Chet Williamson
- Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami, America's Hottest Beat by Edna Buchanan
- One Ball Knits Purses: 20 Stylish Handbags Made with a Single Ball, Skein, Hank or Spool by Fatema Habibur-Rahman, Khadija Habibur-Rahman and Hajera Habibur-Rahman
- Faithless by Karin Slaughter
- Envy by Sandra Brown
- Double Cross by James Patterson
- From the Corner of His Eye by Dean R. Koontz
- Till we Meet Again by Judith Krantz
- High Noon by Nora Roberts
- Mercy by Julie Garwood
- Post-Mortem by Patricia Cornwell
- Play Dirty by Sandra Brown
- No Witnesses by Ridley Pearson
- The Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter
- The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth
- Final Appeal by Joanne Fluke
- Blood Brothers: The Inside Story of the Menendez Murders by John Johnson and Ron Sobel
- Shaman by Noah Gordon
- Quicksand by Iris Johansen
- Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
- Duma Key by Stephen King
- Still Waters by Tami Hoag
- Middle of Nowhere by Ridley Pearson
- No. 9 Belmont Square by Margaret Erskine
- The Sleeping Lady: The Trailside Murders Above the Golden Gate by Robert Graysmith
- Winter Prey by John Sandford
- We'll Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark
- Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
- True Evil: A Novel by Greg Iles
- Who Killed my Daughter? by Lois Duncan
- Triptych by Karin Slaughter
- The Tenth Commandment by Lawrence Sanders 
- The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son, and Their Second Chance by Joan Ryan
- Grand Jury by Philip Friedman

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 12
Pages Read: 3,698
Grade Range: A+! to B+!

So, there you go! The reading month that was October. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For September at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out September with 971 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 960 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from a friend, Bookmooch, Paperback Swap and an author.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Rereads
- Still Talking by Joan Rivers and Richard Meryman

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- The Taker by Alma Katsu
- The Big Picture by Douglas Kennedy
- Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber
- Hush by Nancy Bush
- Between Husbands and Friends: A Novel by Nancy Thayer
- Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England by James Ruddick
- Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
- Blood in the Water: An Alice Rice Mystery by Gillian Galbraith
- Suddenly by Barbara Delinsky
- Dreamthorp by Chet Williamson

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell
- Born to Die by Lisa Jackson
- Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter
- Cold Dawn by Carla Neggers
- Broken by Karin Slaughter
- Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
- Chill of Fear by Kay Hooper
- The Closers by Michael Connelly
- Double Cross by James Patterson
- Echo Park by Michael Connelly
- Envy by Sandra Brown
- Deeper Than the Dead by Tami Hoag
- Faithless by Karin Slaughter
- Entombed by Linda Fairstein
- Final Scream by Lisa Jackson
- Fractured by Karin Slaughter
- From the Corner of His Eye by Dean R. Koontz
- The Last Juror by John Grisham
- Left to Die by Lisa Jackson
- Marker by Robin Cook
- Montana Sky by Nora Roberts
- No One Left to Tell by Jordan Dane
- More Than Courage by Harold Coyle
- Most Likely to Die by Beverly Barton, Wendy Corsi Staub and Lisa Jackson
- Queen of the Night by J. A. Jance
- Nighttime is my Time by Mary Higgins Clark
- The Short Prose Reader by Gilbert H. Muller and Harvey S. Wiener
- Play Dirty by Sandra Brown
- The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen
- Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
- Snow in April by Pete Hamill
- Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
- Third Degree by Greg Iles
- Quicksand by Iris Johansen
- Tough Customer by Sandra Brown
- Ricochet by Sandra Brown
- Undone by Karin Slaughter
- River's End by Nora Roberts
- Skeleton Canyon by J. A. Jance
- Still Waters by Tami Hoag
- Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner
- True Evil: A Novel by Greg Iles
- Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
- We'll Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark
- Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
- Hope: A Loss Survived by Richard Meryman
- Kramer Versus Kramer by Avery Corman
- Broken Promises, Mended Dreams by Richard Meryman
- Dark Digital Sky by Carac Allison
- The Knitting Diaries: The Twenty-First Wish/Coming Unraveled/Return to Summer Island by Debbie Macomber, Susan Mallery and Christina Skye
- The Empty Robe: The Story of the Disappearance of Judge Crater by Stella Wheeler Crater and Oscar Fraley
- The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
- Knitting: A Novel by Anne Bartlett
- Traditional Knitting by Amy Carroll
- The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
- The Legacy: A Novel by Katherine Webb

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :)) 
- The Forbidden Zone by Whitley Strieber
- The End of Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher
- The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine
- Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
- The Heresy of Dr. Dee by Phil Rickman
- When Satan Wore a Cross: The Shocking True Story of a Killer Priest by Fred Rosen
- The Search by Iris Johansen
- I'll be Seeing You by Mary Higgins Clark
- The Night Crew by John Sandford
- While my Pretty One Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark
- The Murder Book by Jonathan Kellerman
- Mitigating Circumstances by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
- Dark Lady by Richard North Patterson
- The Ambush Murders by Ben Bradlee
- Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
- Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice
- The House of Conflict by Iris Bromige
- Silent Victim by C. E. Lawrence
- Body of Evidence by Patricia Cornwell
- Cruel and Unusual by Patricia Cornwell
- Justice Denied by Robert K. Tannenbaum
- Material Witness by Robert K. Tannenbaum
- The Switch by Sandra Brown
- The Forgotten by Faye Kellerman 
- The Chamber by John Grisham  
- At Risk by Patricia Cornwell
- The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker
- Cold as Ice by Anne Stuart
- What Matters Most: A Novel by Luanne Rice
- The Beauty of Friendship by Kahlil Gibran
- Crows' Parliament by Jack Curtis
- Dark Summer by Iris Johansen 
- Hush by Nancy Bush 
- House of Smoke by J. F. Freedman
- Requiem For a Glass Heart by David L. Lindsey
- Pretend You Don't See Her by Mary Higgins Clark
- Move to Strike by Perri O'Shaughnessy
- Motion to Suppress by Perri O'Shaughnessy 
- The Geometry of Sisters by Luanne Rice 

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 11
Pages Read: 3,939
Grade Range: A+! to B+!

So, there you go! The reading month that was September. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For August at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out August with 929 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 916 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Bookmooch, Paperback Swap, a Library Book Sale that Mareena and I went to on the 16th and friends.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Rereads
- Guilt by Association by Susan R. Sloan

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- The Diary by Eileen Goudge
- Kiss and Kill by Karen Young
- Sandcastles by Luanne Rice
- Sleeping Tiger by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Prized Possessions by Avery Corman
- Behind Closed Doors by Susan R. Sloan
- A Nice Place to Live by Robert C. Sloane 
- The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine 
- A Perfect Divorce by Avery Corman  
- Blood Beast by Don D'Ammassa 
- The Heresy of Dr. Dee by Phil Rickman
- Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- Domestic Affairs by Eileen Goudge
- Woman in Red by Eileen Goudge
- Blessings by Anna Quindlen
- Blood in the Water: An Alice Rice Mystery by Gillian Galbraith
- Bloody Irish: Celtic Vampire Legends by Bob Curran
- Breaking the Rules by Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Cold Justice by Jonnie Jacobs
- The Collection by Bentley Little
- The Country Diary Book of Crafts by Annette Mitchell
- Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
- Do no Harm by Don Donaldson
- The Empty Chair by Jeffery Deaver
- The Evidence Against Her by Robb Forman Dew
- Fly Away Home by Judith Kelman
- Forces of Change: A New View of Nature by Daniel Botkin
- Forever by Pete Hamill
- Gallows Lane by Brian McGilloway
- Ghost Light: A Novel by Joseph O'Connor
- A Good Yarn by Debbie Macomber
- Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult
- Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
- House of the Hanged by Mark Mills
- The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg
- I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman
- The Jewels of Tessa Kent by Judith Krantz
- Kill Her Again by Robert Gregory Browne
- The Law of Similars by Chris Bohjalian
- Mister X by John Lutz
- The Murdered House by Pierre Magnan
- The Newgate Jig by Ann Featherstone
- No Naughty Cats by by Debra Pirotin and Sherry Cohen
- Off Season by Anne Rivers Siddons
- One Ball Knits Purses: 20 Stylish Handbags Made with a Single Ball, Skein, Hank or Spool by Fatema Habibur-Rahman, Khadija Habibur-Rahman and Hajera Habibur-Rahman
- Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller
- The Pact: A Love Story by Jodi Picoult
- The Perfect Wife by Shari MacDonald
- The PMS Outlaws by Sharyn McCrumb
- The Rest of Her Life: A Novel by Laura Moriarty
- Return to Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
- The Second Silence by Eileen Goudge
- Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend by Robert James Waller
- Small Town Girl by LaVyrle Spencer
- Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult
- Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi
- Suddenly by Barbara Delinsky
- Taboo by Casey Hill
- Then Came Heaven by LaVyrle Spencer
- There But For the Grace of God: Survivors of the 20th Century's Infamous Serial Killers by Fred Rosen
- Three Graves Full by Jamie Mason
- Twilight Whispers by Barbara Delinsky
- What Happened to Sophie Wilder by Christopher Beha
- Where the River Ends by Charles Martin
- Philomena: A Mother, Her Son and a Fifty-Year Search by Martin Sixsmith  
- 100 Years, 100 Crosswords: Celebrating the Crossword's Centennial by Peter Gordon
- The Queen's Fool: A Novel by Philippa Gregory

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :))  
- A Happy Marriage by Rafael Yglesias
- The Hanging Tree: A Novella by Michael Phillip Cash
- Time Bomb by Jonathan Kellerman
- My Name is Mary Sutter: A Novel by Robin Oliveira
- Once in a Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge
- The Bad Place by Dean R. Koontz
- When the Wind Blows by John Saul
- Hunter's Blood by Jere Cunningham
- Sliver by Ira Levin
- Into Thin Air by Stan Washburn
- An Isolated Incident by Susan R. Sloan
- The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
- Kiss and Kill by Karen Young
- Watcher in the Dark by Beverly Hastings
- A Patchwork Planet: A Novel by Anne Tyler
- Victims by Jonathan Kellerman
- Nell by Nancy Thayer
- Class Reunion by Rona Jaffe
- Just Ask the Universe: A No-Nonsense Guide to Manifesting your Dreams by Michael Samuels
- Family Pictures by Sue Miller
 
Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 13
Pages Read: 4,514
Grade Range: A+! to B+!

So, there you go! The reading month that was August. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For July at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out July with 930 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 925 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Paperback Swap and authors.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
- The Merry-Hearted Boys: Liam Clancy, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem by Ronald L. Leonard
- My Name is Mary Sutter: A Novel by Robin Oliveira
- The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
- Once in a Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- The Other Queen by Philippa Gregory
- Brood X: A Firsthand Account of the Great Cicada Invasion by Michael Phillip Cash
- The Hanging Tree: A Novella by Michael Phillip Cash
- Keep Calm and Ask On: A No-Nonsense Guide to Fulfilling Your Dreams by Michael Samuels

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :))  
- Katie: The Real Story by Edward Klein
- The Day of the Storm by Rosamunde Pilcher
- Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island by Michael Phillip Cash
- The Stars Shine Down by Sidney Sheldon
- Capital Crimes by Lawrence Sanders
- Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
- Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons
- The Wild by Whitley Strieber
- Fairoaks by Frank Yerby
- A Case of Need by Michael Crichton
- The Chamber by John Grisham
- The Rainmaker by John Grisham
- The Summons by John Grisham
- Heat by Arthur Herzog
- The Clinic by Jonathan Kellerman
- Hide and Seek by James Patterson
- Degree of Guilt by Richard North Patterson
- The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon
- Copy Kat by Karen Kijewski

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 5
Pages Read: 1,753
Grade Range: A+! to A!

So, there you go! The reading month that was July. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For June at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out June with 934 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 927 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Paperback Swap and an author.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- Nell by Nancy Thayer
- The Flip by Michael Phillip Cash
- Who Killed my Daughter? by Lois Duncan
- The Man Who Died Twice by Lois Paxton
- Dream Country by Luanne Rice
- The Under Dog and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
- The White Queen by Philippa Gregory

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- The Murderer Next Door by Rafael Yglesias
- Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island by Michael Phillip Cash
- Just Ask the Universe: A No-Nonsense Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams by Michael Samuels

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :))  
- Dead by Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer? by Ann Rule
- Sweetgrass by Mary Alice Monroe
- The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe
- Custody: A Novel by Nancy Thayer
- The Chancellor Manuscript by Robert Ludlum
- Thinner by Stephen King
- The Visitor by Jere Cunningham
- The Select by F. Paul Wilson
- Spirit Lost: A Ghost Novel by Nancy Thayer
- Watson's Apology: A Novel by Beryl Bainbridge
- Black Lightning by John Saul
- Sleepwalk by John Saul
- More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease by Kevin Trudeau
- Christmas Cross-Stitch by Better Homes and Gardens
- Magic by William Goldman
- The Flip by Michael Phillip Cash
- The Man Who Died Twice by Lois Paxton
- Comes the Blind Fury by John Saul
- Hellfire by John Saul
- Cry For the Strangers by John Saul
- When the Wind Blows by John Saul

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 7
Pages Read: 2,341
Grade Range: A+! to A!

So, there you go! The reading month that was June. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For May at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out May with 936 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 929 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Bookmooch, an author and Paperback Swap.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Rereads
- The Basement by Bari Wood
- Circle of Three: A Novel by Patricia Gaffney

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- Fire on Ice: The Exclusive Inside Story of Tonya Harding by Abby Haight and J. E. Vader and the Staff of The Oregonian 
- Custody: A Novel by Nancy Thayer
- When Satan Wore a Cross: The Shocking True Story of a Killer Priest by Fred Rosen
- Spirit Lost: A Ghost Novel by Nancy Thayer
- Watson's Apology: A Novel by Beryl Bainbridge

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- Fast and Easy Home Decorating: An A to Z Guide to Creating a Beautiful Home With an Minimum of Time and Money by Elizabeth J. Musheno
- Thirteen Moons: A Novel by Charles Frazier
- The Bridge at Chappaquiddick by Jack Olsen
- The Merry-Hearted Boys: Liam Clancy, The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem by Ronald L. Leonard
- Who Killed my Daughter? by Lois Duncan

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :)) 
- Deviltry Afoot by Carol Pritt
- Home Decorating With Needlecrafts by Linda Lee Lindgren
- Three-Dimensional Needlepoint by Gale Litvak
- Needlepoint For Everyone by Mary Picken and Doris White
- Our Game by John Le Carre
- Morning Glory by Lavyrle Spencer
- Random Winds by Belva Plain
- Whispers by Belva Plain
- The Vines of Yarrabee by Dorothy Eden
- Mistress of Falconhurst by Lance Horner
- Family Affairs by Andy Hoffman
- The Guardian by Jeffrey Konvitz

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 7
Pages Read: 1,857
Grade Range: A+! to A!

So, there you go! The reading month that was May. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For April at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out April with 929 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 907 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from authors, Bookmooch, Paperback Swap and a Library Book Sale that Mareena and I went to on April 9th.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- The Tin Can Tree by Anne Tyler
- I Want to do Yoga Too by Carole P. Roman
- The Captain No Beard Series by Carole P. Roman
- The If You Were Me and Lived In...Series by Carole P. Roman
- Katie: The Real Story by Edward Klein
- Man, Woman and Child by Erich Segal
- The Guardian by Jeffrey Konvitz
- While my Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky
- The Murder of King Tut: The Plot to Kill the Child King by James Patterson and Martin Dugard
- Cold Mountain: A Novel by Charles Frazier 
- All Through the Night: A Suspense Story by Mary Higgins Clark
- Last Wish by Betty Rollin

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- Just Ask the Universe: A No-Nonsense Guide to Manifesting Your Dreams by Michael Samuels
- The Universe-ity: A Spiritual Education Using the Law of Attraction by Michael Samuels
- Decorating With Silk and Dried Flowers: 80 Arrangements Using Floral Materials of All Kinds by The Home Decorating Institute
- Make it Yours!: Customize and Personalize - the Trading Spaces Way! by Brian Kramer
- 48-Hour Makeovers: Get a New Look in a Weekend! by Brian Kramer
- Christopher Lowell's Seven Layers of Design: Fearless, Fabulous Decorating by Christopher Lowell
- Decorating Hints & Tips: More Than 2000 Practical Solutions to Help You Improve Your Home by Julian Cassell
- Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman by Nuala O'Faolain
- At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
- Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman
- Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
- The Dead Hour by Denise Mina
- Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
- In This Mountain by Jan Karon
- The Kennedys: The Third Generation by Barbara Gibson and Ted Schwartz
- Loss of Flight by Sara Vogan
- Secret For a Nightingale by Victoria Holt
- The Shack by William P. Young
- The Stormy Petrel by Mary Stewart
- Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
- Triangle: A Novel by Katharine Weber
- Twice Kissed by Lisa Jackson
- The Woods by Harlan Coben
- Zodiac by Robert Graysmith
- Tracy Porter's Home Style: Creative and Livable Decorating Ideas For Everyone by Tracy Porter
- $100 to $1,000 Makeovers: Maximizing Your Decorating Dollars by Brian Kramer

- Maggie Colvin's Home Style: Quick Make-Overs to Transform Your Home by Maggie Colvin

- Better Homes and Gardens New Decorating Book by Denise L. Caringer
- Bonnie Prince Charlie by Moray McLaren

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :)) 
- If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler
- A Slipping-Down Life by Anne Tyler
- Afterage by Yvonne Navarro
- Put Yer Rosary Beads Away Ma: A Salty Tale of a Young Man's Musical Dreams and Struggles in 1970's Ireland by Cahal Dunne (2 copies)
- The Miracle at St. Bruno's by Philippa Carr
- Shooting at Loons by Margaret Maron
- I Want to do Yoga Too by Carole P. Roman
- The Captain No Beard Series by Carole P. Roman
- The If You Were me and Lived In... Series by Carole P. Roman
- Complete Guide to Creative Needlepoint by Jo Bucher
- A Tangled Web: A Novel by Judith Michael
- The Love Killers by Jackie Collins
- The Hanging Tree: A Novella by Michael Phillip Cash
- Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island by Michael Phillip Cash
- So, Now You Know: A Compendium of Completely Useless Information by Harry Bright
- On the Beach by Nevil Shute

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 22
Pages Read: 2,912
Grade Range: A+! to B+!

So, there you go! The reading month that was April. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For March at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out March with 928 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 920 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Bookmooch, Paperback Swap and authors.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Rereads

- My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- Put Yer Rosary Beads Away Ma: A Salty Tale of a Young Man's Musical Dreams and Struggles in 1970's Ireland by Cahal Dunne
- Class Reunion by Rona Jaffe
- The Rose and the Yew Tree by Mary Westmacott
- Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
- The Scapegoat/The Last Angry Man/The Muses Are Heard/The Fruit Tramp/The Enemy Below by Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Volume 2 1957
- A Slipping-Down Life by Anne Tyler
- Ashenden: A Novel by Elizabeth Wilhide

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- Put Yer Rosary Beads Away Ma: A Salty Tale of a Young Man's Musical Dreams and Struggles in 1970's Ireland by Cahal Dunne (4 copies)
- Katie: The Real Story by Edward Klein
- Jamaica Inn Daphne du Maurier
- The Scapegoat/The Last Angry Man/The Muses Are Heard/The Fruit Tramp/The Enemy Below by Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Volume 2 1957
- Mommy's a Mole: Unraveling the Joan Webster Murder and Other Secrets in a CIA Family by Eve Carson
- Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - The Official Companion Book by Madison Press

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :)) 
- The Affair: A Novel by Alicia Clifford
- Lost Souls by Michael Collins
- The Firm by John Grisham
- The Hope: A Novel by Herman Wouk
- The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh
- To Turn the Tide by John F. Kennedy
- Paige by Paige: A Year of Trading Spaces by Paige Davis
- Time is a River: A Novel by Mary Alice Monroe
- Put Yer Rosary Beads Away Ma: A Salty Tale of a Young Man's Musical Dreams and Struggles in 1970's Ireland by Cahal Dunne (2 copies)
- Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
- The Red Scream: A Novel of Suspense by Mary Willis Walker
- Cruel Doubt by Joe McGinniss
- James Connolly: 'A Full Life' by Donal Nevin

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 8 
Pages Read: 2,163
Grade Range: A+! to A!

So, there you go! The reading month that was March. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For February at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out February with 860 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 853 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Bookmooch and Paperback Swap

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Rereads
- The Miracle at St. Bruno's by Philippa Carr

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe
- Time is a River: A Novel by Mary Alice Monroe
- Lost Souls by Michael Collins
- The Affair: A Novel by Alicia Clifford 
- Love Kills: The Stalking of Diane Newton King by Andy Hoffman
- Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller by Margaret Forster

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- The Beauty of Friendship by Kahlil Gibran 
- The Tin Can Tree by Anne Tyler
- A Slipping Down Life by Anne Tyler
- Earthly Possessions by Anne Tyler
- The Romanov Legacy by Jenni Wiltz
- Evacuated!: Living on Indonesia's Most Active Volcano by Kate Benzin and Rudy Tanjung
- Thin Wire: A Mother's Journey Through Her Daughter's Heroin Addiction by Christine Lewry
- Organize!: The Secrets to a Spotless Life by Ben Night
- Snow Day: A Novella by Dan Maurer
- Night Whispers: A Story of Evil by Emmett Clifford
- Death Benefit: A Lawyer Uncovers a 20-Year Pattern of Seduction, Arson and Murder by David Heilbroner
- Put Yer Rosary Beads Away Ma: A Salty Tale of a Young Man's Musical Dreams and Struggles in 1970's Ireland by Cahal Dunne

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :)) 
- Belonging by Nancy Thayer
- Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
- The Perfect Summer by Luanne Rice
- Cruel Sacrifice by Aphrodite Jones
- A Matter of Honour by Jeffrey Archer
- Breach of Duty by J. A. Jance
- Heritage of the River by Muriel Elwood
- Claudine's Daughter by Rosalind Laker
- The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It by David Niven, Ph.D.
- The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul
- Wifey by Judy Blume
- City of Bones by Michael Connelly
- Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You to Know About by Kevin Trudeau
- In the Presence of Enemies by William Jeremiah Coughlin

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 7 
Pages Read: 2,510
Grade Range: A+! to A! 

So, there you go! The reading month that was February. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For January at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out January with 905 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 892 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Bookmooch and Paperback Swap.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Rereads
- Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- White Widow by Jim Lehrer
- 204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macomber
- Family Pictures by Sue Miller
- Burnt Mountain: A Novel by Anne Rivers Siddons
- Shooting at Loons by Margaret Maron
- Sweetgrass by Mary Alice Monroe
- So Far... by Kelsey Grammer
- Siege by Domini Taylor
- Sidney Sheldon's Angel of the Dark by Tilly Bagshawe
- Family Affairs by Andy Hoffman
- Nurses Who Led the Way: Real Life Stories of Courageous Women in an Exciting Profession by Adele and Cateau de Leeuw
- The Rome Affair by Laura Caldwell

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- The Royals by Kitty Kelley
- Ancient Egypt: Kingdom of the Pharaohs by Parragon Publishing
- History's Worst Decisions and the People Who Made Them: Illustrated Edition by Stephen Weir
- Ashenden: A Novel by Elizabeth Wilhide
- Saving Ben by Ashley H. Farley
- The Card Counter by James Kipling
- I am Flying: A Novelette by James F. Ross
- Hide and Seek by P. S. Brown
- People in the Walls: Clueless by T. A. Crossbarn
- She Pulls Off the Interstate by Eugene Ahn
- Hallowed by Bryant Delafosse
- Long Holler Road: A Dark Southern Thriller by David Lee Malone
- BlackDown by D. M. Mitchell
- Sparrow Migrations by Cari Noga
- The Cut-Out by Jon King
- Bad Call: A Psychological Thriller by James Harper
- The Man Who Built Boxes and Other Stories by Frank Tavares
- Outrunning Josephine Finch by Kristine McCord
- Burnt Offerings by Michael Lister
- The Sixth Sense by Lawrence Gold
- Breaking Twig by Deborah Epperson
- The Gypsy's Dream by Sara Alexi
- Painted Red by Douglas Parks
- Sleep in Heavenly Peace by M. William Phelps
- Sex, Lies and Hot Tubs by Elissa Ambrose
- Summer of Firefly Memories by Joan Gable
- Hook and Peter by Doram Jacoby
- Chasing the Storm: A Thriller Novel by Michael Molsted
- State of the Heart: Short Stories on Relationships, Love and Life by Nelton D'Souza
- The Beach House by Mary Alice Monroe
- Reinventing Claire by Darian Wilk
- Driftwood by Shauna Bickley
- Love Kills: The Stalking of Diane Newton King by Andy Hoffman
- Where we Fell by Amber L. Johnson
- Advent of Perpetual Sorrows by A. A. Pencil
- Stealing Jenny by Ellen Gable

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :)) 
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
- Blood Test by Jonathan Kellerman
- The Richest Season by Maryann McFadden
- Chicken Soup For the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
- Charisma by Orania Papazoglou
- December by Phil Rickman
- Burnt Mountain: A Novel by Anne Rivers Siddons
- The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor by Donald Spoto
- 204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macomber
- Iceberg by Clive Cussler
- Family Album by Danielle Steel
- Personal Injuries by Scott Turow
- The Summer I Dared: A Novel by Barbara Delinsky
- They Always Call us Ladies: Stories From Prison by Jean Harris
- English, Welsh, and Scottish Country Inns and Castle Hotels: A Travel Guide to Britain, Including 10 Itineraries and Descriptions of Over 100 Atmospheric Hotels by Karen Brown
- Returning: A Spiritual Journey by Dan Wakefield

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 13
Pages Read: 4,095
Grade Range: A+! to B!

So, there you go! The reading month that was January. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For December at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out December with 886 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 809 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Amazon, Paperback Swap and Bookmooch.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel by Joe Hill
- So Happy Together by Maryann McFadden
- The Richest Season by Maryann McFadden
- Evidence of Blood by Thomas H. Cook
- City of Bones by Michael Connelly 
- The Summer I Dared: A Novel by Barbara Delinsky
- Heartwood: A Novel by Belva Plain
- The Island: A Novel of Terror by Will Overby

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- Welcome to Our Home - Knit and Crochet Ideas from Red Heart by Editors of FaveCrafts
- Taking Flight by Adrian R. Magnuson
- For Love of Words by Dacia Wilkinson
- Surface Children: A Book of Short Stories by Dean Blake
- God Said Woof by Rick Gatzby
- Wink by Eric Trant
- The Basement by Chad P. Brown
- Viral House by Joe Sharp
- Daphne Du Maurier: The Secret Life of the Renowned Storyteller by Margaret Forster
- The Keeper by R. L. Mosz
- The Accidental Exorcist by Joshua Graham
- The Clinic by David Jester
- Long Time Coming by Edie Claire
- The Dartmouth Murders by Eric Francis
- Killing Faith by Eric Meyer
- American Crow by Jack Lacey
- Persona: A Psychological Thriller by Marc Horn
- Stark Warning by James Raven
- Dark Eros: A Novel of Suspense by H. Raven Rose
- Sense Memory by Brion J. Humphey
- A Christmas House by Mary Miller
- The Good Lawyer: A Novel by Thomas Benigno
- Blood and Gasoline by Elias Anderson
- The Monster Man of Horror House by Danny King
- Floor Four by A. Lopez, Jr.
- Mouse: A Psychological Thriller and Murder Mystery by D. M. Mitchell
- All the Talk is Dead by Michael Ebner
- Pawnbroker by Jerry Hatchett
- Escape, a New Life by David Antocci
- Untogether Lives: Short Stories by Andy P. Jones
- Abacus by Josh Burton

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :)) 
- Friends in High Places by Donna Leon
- The Walker in Shadows by Barbara Michaels
- Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel by Joe Hill
- Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell
- So Happy Together by Maryann McFadden
- The Human Factor by Graham Greene
- For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison
- The Pardon by James Grippando
- Only You by Cynthia Victor
- Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft
- Ceremony of the Innocent by Taylor Caldwell
- Upstairs, Downstairs III: The Years of Change by Mollie Hardwick
- The Coffin Dancer by Jeffery Deaver
- Death in Venice and Seven Other Stories by Thomas Mann
- All Souls: A Family Story From Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald
- Evidence of Blood by Thomas H. Cook
- Eternal Fire by Calder Willingham
- The Island: A Novel of Terror by Will Overby

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 8
Pages Read: 3,021
Grade Range: A+! to A!

So, there you go! The reading month that was December. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight

Reading Wrap-up For November at Moonshine and Rosefire

Hello everyone out there and I hope that you all had a terrific reading month for yourselves. I am known as Rosefire around the Internet and this is my new personal reading blog. I originally posted my reviews over at my daughter's blog, Emeraldfire's Bookmark but am now in the process of transferring them all over to my own blog. My daughter makes blogging look like so much fun that I thought that I would try it out for myself! :)

Anyway, I started out November with 800 unread books lying around the house and ended the month with 790 books unread. All the books that I acquired this month came from Amazon, lent to me by Mareena, from Netgalley, lent to me by friends, and a Library Book Sale that we went to on the 21st.

Let me try to break down the influx for you:

Changes to the TBR pile

Read from my TBR pile (Yes! I am a reading machine :))
- Cemetery Girl by David Bell
- Falling Angels by Barbara Gowdy
- The Strange Ones by Warren Smith
- Miami, It's Murder by Edna Buchanan
- The Right Hand of Evil by John Saul
- Upstairs, Downstairs III: The Years of Change by Mollie Hardwick
- Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
- Every Last One: A Novel by Anna Quindlen
- Heat by Arthur Herzog
- Green Calder Grass by Janet Dailey

Added to my TBR pile (oh well, you win some and you lose some! Not too bad though, I suppose:))
- The Mummifier's Daughter: A Novel in Ancient Egypt by Nathaniel Burns
- Morehouse Farm Critter Knits: 20 Easy Patterns & Designs for Animal Scarves, Hats & Mittens by Margrit Lohrer
- The Angry Woman Suite by Lee Fulbright
- Hidden Lives by Douglas Adamson
- A Light in Dark Places by Jennifer Graves and Emily Clawson
- The Descent: Book 3 of the Taker Trilogy by Alma Katsu 
- True Hollywood Noir: Filmland Mysteries and Murders by Dina Di Mambro
- Who Knew? The Best of Volumes 1 and 2 by Bruce Lubin and Jeanne Bossolina Lubin
- Who Knew? Volume 3 by Bruce Lubin and Jeanne Bossolina Lubin
- The Meaning of Children by Beverly Akerman
- Cedar Hollow by Tracey Smith
- The Woman in the Photograph by Mani Feniger
- Once More From the Top by Nan Reinhardt
- 204 Rosewood Lane by Debbie Macomber
- The Affair: A Novel by Alicia Clifford
- All the Colors of Darkness by Peter Robinson
- Alma Rose by Edith Forbes
- The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
- Another City, Not my Own: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir by Dominick Dunne
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? by Sidney Sheldon
- At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
- Barefoot in the Sun by Roxanne St. Claire
- Best Friends by Martha Moody
- A Bigamist's Daughter by Alice McDermott
- The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
- Burnt Mountain: A Novel by Anne Rivers Siddons
- Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling by Michael Boccacino
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
- Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives by Katie Hickman
- The Decline and Fall of the House of Windsor by Donald Spoto
- The Doomsday Conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon
- Evenfall by Liz Michalski
- Family Pictures by Sue Miller
- Fergie Confidential: The Real Story by Chris Hutchins and Peter Thompson
- Fire on Ice: The Exclusive Inside Story of Tonya Harding by J. E. Vader and Abby Haight
- For a Few Demons More by Kim Harrison
- Friends in High Places by Donna Leon
- Genie: A Scientific Tragedy by Russ Rymer
- Headhunters by Jo Nesbo
- Heartwood: A Novel by Belva Plain
- The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
- Little Bee by Chris Cleave
- A Matter of Justice by Charles Todd
- The Memory Collector by Meg Gardiner
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
- My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira
- My Sergei: A Love Story by Ekaterina Gordeeva and E. M. Swift
- Neighborhood Watch by Cammie McGovern
- Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
- Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
- Nobody Believes Me by Molly Katz
- The Office of Desire by Martha Moody
- Once in a Blue Moon by Eileen Goudge
- The Other Side of the Rainbow: Behind the Scenes on the Judy Garland Television Series by Mel Torme
- Pearl by Mary Gordon
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- A Ride Into Morning: The Story of Tempe Wick by Ann Rinaldi
- The Rope Walk by Carrie Brown
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Shooting at Loons by Margaret Maron
- Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
- Sister by Rosamund Lupton
- Still Alice by Lisa Genova
- The Summer we Fell Apart by Robin Antalek
- Sweetgrass by Mary Alice Monroe
- The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
- To Trust a Stranger by Karen Robards
- The Touch by Colleen McCullough
- True Evil: A Novel by Greg Iles
- Truth and Consequence by Angela Britnell
- Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber
- What Matters Most: A Novel by Luanne Rice
- White Doves at Morning by James Lee Burke
- White Widow by Jim Lehrer
- The World Below by Sue Miller
- The Year of Jubilo: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr
- Pride and Honour: The Battle For Saxony by Nathaniel Burns
- Four Letters of Love: The Profundity of Love by Vivek Sharma
- The Ultimate Mystery Thriller Horror Box Set by Taylor Lee, J. Thorn, Cathy Perkins, Nolan Radke, Richter Watkins, Thomas Morrisey and David Weisman
- So What! Stories or Whatever! by G. J. Griffiths
- Siren on the Square by Augustine Tagaste
- Memory Scents: A Psychological Thriller by Gayle Eileen Curtis
- The Turtle Boy by Kealan Patrick Burke
- A First-Name Basis by Patricia Traxler
- Even More Ketchup than Salsa: The Final Dollop by Joe Cawley
- Roaring Mountain: A True Story by Shirley Gray
- The Bracelet: A Novel of Life, Sorrow, and Love by C. A. Deslauries
- Broken Wing by Anna Klay
- Quail Crossings by Jennifer McMurrain
- That Kind of Girl by Christy Ogilvie
- Therapy For Ghosts by Eric Praschan
- Chasing the Demons by Eamon Moroney
- Edgewise by Jan Stites

Taken off my TBR pile and sent to a new home (Yay! Happy Dance! :)) 
- The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore
- Falling Angels by Barbara Gowdy
- The Strange Ones by Warren Smith
- Moths: A Novel by Rosalind Ashe
- The Hanging Tree: A Novella by Michael Phillip Cash
- The People From the Sea by Velda Johnston
- Summer House: A Novel by Nancy Thayer
- Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters by Erica Jong
- Expensive People by Joyce Carol Oates
- Echoes by Maeve Binchy
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
- Cemetery Girl by David Bell

Well, there it is...the breakdown! All in all, a very good reading month for me. Here's a further breakdown:

Books Read: 10
Pages Read: 3,205
Grade Range: A+! to B+!

So, there you go! The reading month that was November. I hope that you all had an equally good reading month; if not a little better. :) See you all next month! :)

Till we Meet Again, Glow Brightly as Moonlight