Definitely my worst showing since I joined this group - one day I will make it to fifty!!!

Book 25: Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
Book 26: Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
The second and third books in the Maisie Dobbs mystery series, about the pyschologist/investigator solving crimes in 1920s/30s London. All of the mysteries have ( Read more... )

My total for 2010 was 28 books, which is my lowest of all time :( I'm annoyed about this and intend to do better this year!

Meanwhile, here's my last six of 2010:

23. Emma - Jane AustenI very much liked Emma. In fact, I wonder if I would have been a more productive reader in 2010 if I had read Emma and Persuasion earlier in the year. I think ( Read more... )

15. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Steig Larsson

I didn't love this. I did think it was interesting, and I do find the characters fascinating, so I will be reading the 2nd (it's in my stack right now), but I didn't love the story. Ever since I was reading this I've been thinking about muffinkath7's comment on this community a few months ago about where ( Read more... )

10. Northanger Abbey - Jane AustenI have to admit that I didn’t love Northanger Abbey. I know that she was going for overdramatic melodrama to kind of poke fun at a number of different things going on in this novel (Bath culture, the gothic romance, etc), but it didn’t work for me because the heroine just came off as ridiculous and naïve most of ( Read more... )

Sorry for being a bit absent here lately. I've been reading PAINFULLY slowly lately. Unfortunately, this is all I've read since March! So I suspect I will not even come close to making 50 books this year, but all the same, here we go:

6. Midnight's Children - Salman RushdieI've always wanted to give Rushdie a try, and now that I have, I'm not ( Read more... )

No. 9 Eldest by Paolini
No. 10 Crazy Love by Francis Chan - great book about the crazy beauty of God's love.  I really enjoyed the book, although I don't necessarily agree with everything that Chan writes of.
No. 11 Pride and Prejudice by Austen - do I need to say anything about this book?  Love it.
No. 12 Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters "by" ( Read more... )

Okay, so I swore that this year I wouldn't go weeks and weeks and weeks between updates. And clearly I failed, because it's almost been 2 months and I'm just posting my first list. Bad Anne. I've started off slow this year, so only a couple of books to report!

1. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel BarberyI've been wanting to read this for ( Read more... )

No. 6 Have a Little Faith by Mitch Album

Not as great as Tuesdays with Morrie, but still pretty good.  There were some great lessons in the book and I enjoyed it.  Album has a great way of telling a story, and this one weaves two different stories together in a very interesting way.

No. 7 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

I thought that his book ( Read more... )

Woo, here we go again!

Book 1: Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie

The latest in the Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James detective series. Pretty good installment - strong mystery set in and around Brick Lane, and some fairly major developments for the characters as well.

Book 2: Death Without Tenure by Joanne Dobson

The first new book in Dobson's Karen ( Read more... )

41. Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Yeah, this is the teaching manual for this year for Gospel Doctrine. Last church book this year. ;)

42. The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau ( Read more... )