I'm pretty dependent on Goodreads for keeping track of the books I'm reading, but I still really like the privacy of this place to write out my honest feelings of books... most negative reviews on Goodreads I've taken down, since I want that to be my professional profile eventually, and I'd rather not tear down books professionally, yes? Especially ( Read more... )

#12 - Petite Anglaise by Catherine Sanderson ( Read more... )

Okay, so I didn't report books last year... mainly because I read an embarrassingly small number of them (thirteen? I think...). But hey, I was getting married. I'm trying to get back into the flow this year, but I've started editing and between that and freelance writing and looking for a day job... I haven't had as much time as I'd like. But I've ( Read more... )

#9 - The Nobodies Album by Carolyn Parkhurst

I've read another book by this author, Lost and Found, and also really enjoyed it. Couldn't get into her first one though. This one is about a famous writer whose rock-star son is arrested for murdering his girlfriend. Literary, but very enjoyable, and believable.

#10 - Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins ( Read more... )

It's been a couple of months since I updated, but I have been reading. : ) I've actually started far more books than I've finished. I'm pretty picky these days. Any sign of sucky writing or boring plot or badly told story and I'm outta there.

#3 - The Guardians by Andrew Pyper

A Canadian thriller/horror writer whose The Killing Circle I read a ( Read more... )

I intended to be much better about posting in 2010, but real life intervened with a vengeance.  Here are the 144 books that I read over the last year.  I've put an asterisk after the ones that I enjoyed (or two if I really loved it).  Please feel free to ask questions about anything you'd like to know more about.

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Well, I only made it to 42 this year, but since I was three weeks short at the lake this summer (I was in England where I usually only watch British TV and read trashy magazines about Jordan and Cheryl Cole), those nine are logically lost. Also, I definitely read less when I have a boyfriend (although this one is a reader too, so that will likely ( 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... )