Books Read 2012

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All and all, mostly good books this year! Under the cut:

• Final Girl - Daphne Gottlieb (poetry) 4/5
• B - Sarah Kay (poetry) 4/5
• Peanuts Guide to Life (humor/nonfiction) 3/5
• Everyday Life from Prohibition through WW2 (nonfiction/history)(personal research) 4/5
• And Tango Makes Three - Justin Richardson (picture book) 4/5
• The God Box - Alex Sanchez (young adult) 4/5
• The Fault in Our Stars - John Green (young adult) 4/5
• Jewelry Upcycled - Sherri Haab (nonfiction/jewelry making) 3.5/5
• Fig Pudding - Ralph Fletcher (juvenile) 3.5/5
• Take Me There - ed. Tristan Taormino (adult/erotic/short stories) 3.5/5
• Hawaii - Tayna Lloyd Kyi (nonfiction) 3/5
• P.S. I Made This - Erica Domeske (young adult nonfiction/jewelry making) 3/5
• Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born - Jamie Lee Curtis (picture book(=) 4/5
• The Girl in the Flammable Skirt - Aimee Bender (adult/short stories) 4/5
• Schizophrenia for Dummies (nonfiction/mental health/research) 3/5
• Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (adult/magical realism) 3/5
• Ttitanic: Fortune and Fate (nonfiction/historical) 3/5
• Lifeboat No. 8 - Elizabeth Kaye (adult/historical fiction/Titanic) 3/5
• Stars - Robert H Baker (nonfiction/astronomy) 3/5
• Hood - Emma Donoghue (adult/lesbian/romance/grief) 3/5
• The Missing Piece Finds the Big O - Shel Silverstein (picture book) 4/5
• Winter’s Tail - Juliana Hatkof (juvenile nonfiction/dolphins/Winter) 3.5/5
• Chi’s Sweet Home vol. 1 - Kanata Konami (juvenile graphic novel/cats) 4/5
• Arcadia - Lauren Groff (adult/hippies/slight dystopia) 4/5
• The Cleveland Clinical Guide to Heart Failure (nonfiction/heart failure) 3.5/5
• I’m Starved for You - Margaret Atwood (adult/novella/dystopia) 3.5/5
• Alternacrafts (young adult/nonfiction/crafts) 3/5
• Paper Towns - John Green (young adult/road trip/mystery girl) 3.5/5
• Mister Seahorse - Eric Carle (picture book) 4/5
• Pocket Guide to the Bible - Jason Boyett (nonfiction/historical/Bible) 4/5
• Fray - Joss Whedon (graphic novel/BTVS universe/dystopia) 3/5
• Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss (picture book) 4/5
• The Stinky CHeese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales - Jon Scieszka - 4/5
• Ben and Me - Robert Lawson (juvenile/historical/Ben Franklin) 3.5/5
• The Story of Ferdinan - Munro Leaf (picture book) 3.5/5
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling (juvenile/Harry Potter universe/fairy tales) 4/5
• Preparedness 101: A Zombie Pandemic - Maggie Silver (graphic novel/zombies/CDC) 2/5
• Click-Clack the Rattlebag - Neil Gaiman (short story/horror/audio book) 5/5
• I, Cthulhu - Neil Gaiman (short story) 3/5
• Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet (apocolypse/humor) 4/5
• You are Free - Danzy Senna (short stories/mixed race women) 4/5
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (young adult/coming of age/depression) 3.5/5
• When She Woke - Hiliary Jordan (dystopia/women’s rights/abortion) 3/5
• X-Men - Phoenix: Endsong/Warsong - Greg Pak (graphic novel/X-men) 4/5
• Astonishing X-Men: Gifted - Joss Whedon (graphic novel/X-Men) 4/5
• Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous - Joss Whedon (graphic novel/X-men) 3/5
• Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion (adult/zombies) 4/5
• Lies Beneath - Anne Greenwood Brown (adult/mermaids) 2.5/5
• The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller (historical/ancient Greece/romance/gay) 5/5
• Astonishing X-Men: Torn - Joss Whedon (graphic novel/X-men) 4/5
• Hawkeye #1 - Matt Fraction (graphic novel/Hawkeye) 4/5
• Hawkeye #2 - Matt Fraction (graphic novel/Hawkeye) 4/5
• Hawkeye #3 - Matt Fraction (graphic novel/Hawkeye) 4/5
• Hawkeye #4 - Matt Fraction (graphic novel/Hawkeye) 4/5
• Hawkeye #5 - Matt Fraction (graphic novel/Hawkeye) 4/5
• The Greek and Roman Myths - Philip Matyszak (nonfiction/Greek and Roman Myths) 4/5
• Chopsticks - Amy Krouse Rosenthal (picture book) 4/5
• Ultimate Comics Hawkeye - Jonathan Hickman (graphic novel/Hawkeye) 3/5
• Astonishing X-Men: Unstoppable - Joss Whedon (graphic novel/X-men) 3.5/5

Best books I read in 2012:

• The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller (So beautifully written and well researched-go back and read the Illiad and you’ll see how close Miller sticks to the original narrative-the love story between Patroclus and Achilles is so raw and beautiful, I felt as if I was watching a movie, not reading a book. I could hardly put it down and I was filled with such feels.)
• The Fault in Our Stars - John Green (Green is a very gifted writer, i was quite convinced that the novel was written by a sixteen-year-old girl and not a man in his thirties trying to be a sixteen-year-old girl. All of the characters are real, full of flaws and life. You root for Hazel and Augustus, you root for everyone and it’s just beautiful)
• Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion (Very interesting and unique take on zombies. Fun, but honest. I love the world Marion created, the rules, and how some of that comes undone by the end.)
• You Are Free - Danzy Senna (A collection of short stories about women of mixed races, dealing with motherhood, relationships, and work. Very real and very true, that I think anyone could relate to, no matter what your ethnic background)

Worst books I read in 2012

• Lies Beneath - Anne Greenwood Brown (started off pretty good, but unraveled quickly and became predictable and boring)
• When She Woke - Hillary Jordan (again, good premise, but not well written and the dialogue at most points was too sappy. A lot of the time I felt I was reading a poorer version of The Handmaid’s Tale)
• Preparedness 101: A Zombie Pandemic Maggie Silver (a graphic novel produced by the CDC. While the tips are ‘useful’ it’s mostly common knowledge about what to do in a disaster scenario, always be prepared with water and canned foods in the house. Nothing that was really zombie specific)