Prepare to Be Shocked in 2010

I have been terrible in keeping track of just how many books I actually BUY in any given year. This year I thought about tracking my book purchases in 2010 in my journal, along with the amount of money I spent on each book (ebooks included). Stuck in a Book has designed what she calls Project 24, she is limiting herself to 24 book purchases for the year.

With that in mind, I decided that I would openly and honestly track my book purchases this year in a "personal challenge" called : Prepared To Be Shocked in 2010.  Feel free to grab the badge and track your book purchases - shock yourself in the process. (I'm only counting books that I bought after January 1, 2010 --as I made several December purchases that do not count :)

Date Purchased   Title  and Author                                Cost

1. Jan - 2010     Beneath a Marble Sky; J. Shors          $7.23
2. Jan - 2010     Made in the USA; B. Letts                 $4.00
3. Jan - 2010     Reluctant Fundamentalist; Hamid        $5.47
4. Jan - 2010     The Pearl; Steinbeck                          $ .25
5. Feb - 2010    All Whom I Have Loved; Appelfeld     $4.99
6. Feb - 2010    In the Convent of Little Flowers          $4.00 
7. Feb - 2010    Fatal Cure; Robin Cook                      $ .10 
8. Feb - 2010    (11) books Library Sale                      $6.50
9. Feb - 2010    Random Acts of Heroic Love              $5.48
10. Feb - 2010    The Wilderness; S. Harvey                 $9.17
11. Feb - 2010    Arsonist's Guide to Homes in N.Eng    $4.14
12. Feb - 2010    Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks       $14.00
13. Feb - 2010    Father Melancholy's Daughter            $ 4.89 
14. Mar - 2010   Brixton Beach; Roma Tearne              $ 8.30
15. Mar - 2010   The Children's Book; A.S. Byatt        $13.36 
16. Apr  - 2010   The Girls; Lori Lansens                     $ 4.00
17. Apr  - 2010   Isabel's Daughter; Hendricks                4.24
18.  Apr - 2010   Rooftops of Tehran;  Seraji                 $6.00
19.  Apr - 2010   Rush Home Road; Lori Lansens          $5.60
20. May - 2010  (22) books/library sale                         14.50
21. June - 2010  (7) books/library sale                          $ 6.50
22. July  - 2010   Hope Rising; Kim Meeder                 $10.07
23. July  - 2010   Wrong Mother; Hannah                     $4.83
24. July  - 2010   A Dead Hand; Paul Theroux              $5.40
25. July  - 2010  (2) Kindle Books                                 $5.98
26. July -  2010  Galway Bay; Kelly                             $10.70
27. July  - 2010  The Tricking of Freya; Sunley             $ 7.03
28. July  - 2010  Blind Hope; Meeder                          $10.07
29. July  - 2010  Misfortune; Wesley Stace                   $ 5.77
30. July  - 2010  Of Bees and Mist; Setiawan               $ 6.87
31. July  - 2010  New England Knits (3 copies)           $49.41
32. Aug - 2010   The Makioka Sisters; Tanizaki          $10.88
33. Aug - 2010  Stieg Larsson Trilogy                         $25.50
34. Aug - 2010  Dictionary of Literary Terms/Theory  $13.60
35. Sept  2010   Freedom; Jonathan Franzen               $14.00
36. Oct   2010   The Finkler Question (Kindle)             $ 5.88
37. Oct   2010   The Little Stranger (Kindle)                 $ 9.99
38. Nov  2010    Easter Island; Vanderbes                    $4.08
39. Nov 2010   The Human Bobby; Gabe Rotter           $5.95
40. Nov 2010   Outside the Ordinary World; Ostermiller  $6.99
41. Dec 2010  The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay              $6.99

YTD - (83  books purchased)  -  (Total Cost - $351.16)