Sunday Salon: January/February Reads

I was very slack last month and never actually got around to doing my reading round up for January! There is still another day in February but I don't think I will be finishing either of the two books that I am currently reading at the moment.

Here are the books that I have read over the last two months

January

The Distant Hours by Kate Morton 4/5
Promise Canyon by Robyn Carr 3.5/5
Wild Man Creek by Robyn Carr 4/5
Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland 4.5/5
Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts 4.5/5
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson 4.5/5
Tangled Up in Love by Heidi Betts 4/5
Anna by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 4/5
Walk About by Aaron Fletcher 4/5
The Reunion by L J Smith 4/5
The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig 4.5/5
Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik 2.5/5
Inside Out by Maria V Snyder 4/5
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness 4.5/5
A Little Friendy Advcie by Siobhan Vivian 4/5
The Search by Nora Roberts 4/5
A Hellion in her Bed by Sabrina Jeffries 4/5
Troublemaker - Book 1 by Janet Evanovich and Alex Evanovich 2.5/5
A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner 4/5

February

Queen of Last Hopes by Susan Higginbotham 3.5/5
The Marsh King's Daughter by Elizabeth Chadwick 4/5
Outside In by Maria V Snyder 4.5/5
His Favorite Mistress by Tracy Anne Warren 4/5
The Measure of the Man by Sidney Poitier 3.5/5
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett 4/5
The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong 4/5
The Jewel of St Petersburg by Kate Furnivall 4/5
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett 4/5
Provocative in Pearls by Madeline Hunter 4/5
Staying at Daisy's by Jill Mansell 4/5
Brown Skin Blue by Belinda Jeffrey 4.5/5
The Princess and the Penis by R J Silver 4/5
A Creed in Stone Creek by Linda Lael Miller 3.5/5
Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away  by Christie Watson 4/5

It's been a pretty good start to the reading challenge year as well. Here's my progress in the challenges that I am participating in:

What's in a Name Challenge - 3 out of 6 books read.

So far I have read three categories - Provocative in Pearls has Jewelery or Gem in the title, A Little Friendly Advice has Size in the Title and Walk About features Travel or Movement in the title. The categories that I still need to read are Number in the Title, Evil in the Title and Life Stage.

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge - 5 out of 20 books read.

A quarter of the way through the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge already! The books that I have read so far that qualify for this challenge are Walk About, Anna, Queen of Last Hopes, The Marsh King's Daughter and The Jewel of St Petersburg.

Aussie Author Challenge - 3 out of 10 books read.

Kate Morton who wrote Distant Hours, Adrian Hyland (Gunshot Road) and Belinda Jeffrey (Brown Skin Blue) are all Australian authors.