Last year I divided the list into Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Graphic Novels thinking that would make me actually read more non-fiction. That... failed spectacularly. In general, I just didn't finish as many books as I would've liked last year, but it's not fair comparing to 2012, since that was when I got into Marvel and read a ton of trades. Still ( Read more... )

This year I'm trying something different, and instead of posting my full reading list at the end of the year, I'm going to try to add to it as I go along. (Normally the in progress list is a Word doc sitting on my desktop.) Hopefully this will prompt me to write at least brief reviews somewhat more often. Volume wise, I hope to at least mostly keep ( Read more... )

Earlier today I finished reading Simon Pegg's autobiography Nerd Do Well, the first Kindle book I borrowed from the public library. (Sidebar: I was really impressed by the simplicity of downloading a library Kindle book-just a few clicks and the book appeared%mdash;especially when contrasted to my experience trying to borrow audiobooks last summer ( Read more... )

In the summer of 2014, I virus wiped out thirty two percent of the worlds population was wiped out by a dangerous infection. Cures for cancer and the common cold joined forces, resulting in the mother of all side effects, reanimating the dead. Decades after the zombie apocalypse, life in the United States goes on, but things have changed. There's ( Read more... )

Super short review of The Tiger's Curse: it sucks.

No, seriously. It's an awful bunch of awfulness topped in awfulsauce. I liked it less than The Eternal Ones because at least it had unintentional hilarity and a sassy gay friend. The Tiger's Curse is bad and boring at the same time ( Read more... )

So I got this book from bookwench31 in a Christmas gift exchange. It's called The Eternal Ones and it looked like a terrible Twilight wannabe. My assignment was to read it and report back. Here is that report ( Read more... )

Yesterday I finished Jasper Fforde's newest book Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron. I really enjoyed his previous books, especially the Thursday Next series, so I'd been looking forward to this one. It turned out to be quite different than I expected, but still really, really good.

Like Fforde's other books, Shades of Grey takes place in ( Read more... )

There are more, but I'm lazy (and busy, argh), so just the highlights!

Harry, A History by Melissa AnelliPart memoir, part fandom history by the webmistress of The Leaky Cauldron. Some of Melissa's fandom experiences mirrored my own, so I particularly enjoyed those parts of the book. Other bits didn't interest me quite as much; for instance, there ( Read more... )

I'm reading books! And reviewing them!

Saturday by Ian McEwan
I really wanted to like this book because I enjoyed Atonement, but I came away underwhelmed. May impression of the book may have been unfairly influenced by having to put it down during a busy patch of class project and work commitments... but the fact that I read several other books in ( Read more... )

Today I've got a round up of thoughts on three great series, followed by two young adult dystopian novels.

( Anne of Green Gables )