July 2010 - In Review

This month I read 24 books.  It was a great month for reading; I had a lot of books this month that I really liked and none that I really disliked! You can see details on what I read, what series I caught up on, my favorites, and reading challenges status below.

I caught up on the following series:
- Kitty Norville: Book 8, Kitty Goes to War by Carrie Vaughn
- Fever Series: Book 4, Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning

I started the following series:
- WWW: Wake by Robert Sawyer
- Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning
- The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan
- The Samurai Mysteries by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
- Dorina Basarab by Karen Chance (4/5 stars)

I finished the following series:
- Incarceron: Book 2, Sapphique by Catherine Fisher

- Darkest Powers: Book 3, The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong

My Favorite Books of the Month Were:
WWW: Wake by Robert Sawyer (5/5 stars)
Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand (5/5 stars)
Illyria by Elizabeth Hand (5/5 stars)
Dreamfever (Fever Series, Book 4) by Karen Marie Moning (4.5/5 stars)
Wistril Compleat by Frank Tuttle (5/5 stars)
The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell (5/5 stars)
Here There Be Monsters: The Legendary Kraken and the Giant Squid by H. P. Newquist (5/5 stars)

Here are the stats on the reading challenges I am participating in:
- Summer Romance Challenge: Complete!
- Thriller and Suspense Reading Challenge: Complete!
- Debut Author Reading Challenge: Complete!
- Young Adult Reading Challenge: 69/75 read
- Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge: Complete!
- GLBT Reading Challenge: 4/8 read
- 100+ Book Reading Challenge: 142 read
- 1st in a Series Challenge: Complete!

The full list of books that I read this month are shown below. 
1.   WWW: Wake by Robert Sawyer (5/5 stars)
2.   Sapphique (Incarceron, Book 2) by Catherine Fisher (4/5 stars)
3.   Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler (4.5/5 stars)
4.   Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs (4/5 stars)
5.   The Hunted of 2060 by Ami Rebecca Blackwelder (3/5 stars)
6.   Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand (5/5 stars)
7.   Reckoning (Darkest Powers, Book 3) by Kelley Armstrong (4.5/5 stars)
8.   Discord's Apple by Carrie Vaughn (4/5 stars)
9.   Kitty Goes to War (Kitty Norville, Book 8) by Carrie Vaughn (4/5 stars)
10. Darkfever (Fever, Book 1) by Karen Marie Moning (4/5 stars)
11. Bloodfever (Fever Series, Book 2) by Karen Marie Moning (4/5 stars)
12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (4/5 stars)
13. Faefever (Fever Series, Book 3) by Karen Marie Moning (4.5/5 stars)
14. Dreamfever (Fever Series, Book 4) by Karen Marie Moning (4.5/5 stars)
15. Illyria by Elizabeth Hand (5/5 stars)
16. Atlas of Anatomy by Anne M. Gilroy, Brian R. MacPherson, and Lawrence M. Ross (5/5 stars)
17. The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1) by Rick Riordan (4/5 stars)
18. The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (Samurai Mysteries, Book 1) by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (3.5/5 stars)
19. The Demon in the Teahouse (Samurai Mysteries, Book 2) by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (3.5/5 stars)
20. Wistril Compleat by Frank Tuttle (5/5 stars)
21. A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (4/5 stars)
22. The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell (5/5 stars)
23. Here There Be Monsters: The Legendary Kraken and the Giant Squid by H. P. Newquist (5/5 stars)
24. Midnight's Daughter (Dorina Basarab, Book 1) by Karen Chance (4/5 stars)