Reading Update – Second Quarter, 2011

Another quarter gone by in 2011. I cannot believe it! I’m not really sure where the first half of 2011 has gone. I’ve had a great year so far with some great books having been read and some great trip taken 🙂 Without further ado, here’s my quarterly update:

• Challenge Status:
  • Criminal Plots Reading Challenge (4/6 books read – 66% completed)
  • Mystery & Suspense Reading Challenge (12/12 books read – 100% completed)
  • Take a Chance Challenge 3 (2/10 books read – 20% completed)
  • The TBR Dare (17/20 books read – 85% completed) – Challenge expired; goal not met.
  • TwentyEleven Challenge (6/20 books read – 30% completed)
  • What’s in a Name 4 Challenge (4/6 books read – 66% completed)
• Finished: 16
• Abandoned: 3
• Fiction: 16
• Non-Fiction: 0
• New-to-Me-Author: 5
• Female Authors: 3
• Male Authors: 7
• Books in a Series: 12
• Review Books: 2
• Books I Own: 13
• Library Books: 1

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Series That I Started This Quarter:

• Nathaniel Cade by Christopher Farnsworth
• Blood Oath
• Carson Ryder by Jack Kerley
• The Hundredth Man
• SIGMA Force by James Rollins
• Sandstorm

Series That I Caught Up With This Quarter:

Series That I Worked On This Quarter:

• Alex Cross by James Patterson
• Cross Fire
• Women’s Murder Club by James Patterson
• 10th Anniversary
• Goldy Schulz by Diane Mott Davidson
• The Last Suppers
• Dismas Hardy by John Lescroart
• The Vig
• Cotton Malone by Steve Berry
• The Alexandria Link
• Griffin Powell by Beverly Barton
• Killing Her Softly
• Taylor Jackson by J.T. Ellison
• The Cold Room

Books That I Read That Are Part of a Series, but Picked Up in the Middle of the Series This Quarter:

• Kitt Lundgren by Erica Spindler
• Break Neck
• New Orleans by Lisa Jackson
• Lost Souls