Aaaaahhhh, a new year of reading. This will be a big, busy reading year for me, since I'm now on the Morris Award Committee (starting this February!) and will be reading tons of YA debut novels, and of course I'm still reviewing YA (and sometimes adult SF/F) for Booklist. I'll do my best to keep up with posting my reading reactions here, but I make ( Read more... )

Here are the summaries, sans book covers because I am at work and can barely get LJ to work for me right now. This is why the recaps are in an entirely new post instead of just tacked-on to the old February 2010 post. Anyway.

**08. Radiant Shadows (Wicked Lovely, Book Four), by Melissa Marr. YA Paranormal Romance / Urban Fantasy. Read ARC.
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I'm trying a new thing/going back to the old thing, where I write short book reviews (like a paragraph) when I post the books I read each month. It's time to be honest with myself and admit that I will never write a long book review for every book I read -- my reading schedule is just too demanding and I also want to spend more time working on my ( Read more... )

Even though I said I am going to write a separate post for each book I read, I think I will treat my Booklist review books differently and write a monthly post about those. Mostly because I have already reflected and thought and, sometimes, agonized about these books for my 175-word reviews, and I don't always want to do it again, but I still want ( Read more... )

Whoops, I totally forgot to post my December books on Monday. Such is life. I feel like I got a little punchy on some of these reviews, but maybe that will make them more fun to read. (c: After this, I hope to write reviews book by book, so that I can keep up a little better. Of course, I am already behind about three books, but I'll get there.

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I am on such a roll that maybe I will post December today, too. Then again, UHD is playing season 4 of Battlestar Galactica today starting at 5 p.m. Mountain time (first five episodes today; the rest next Sunday), and I need to catch up badly before 4.5 starts in a couple weeks. I don't think I can watch BSG and write book reviews.

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Okay, I am now going to catch up on my book review posts, in the hopes of starting January making individual book posts instead of crazy long two-month wrap-up posts. I will do October today, November tomorrow, and December on Monday, and then maybe do a 2008 top ten or something.

October was one of those months where I only read the books sent to ( Read more... )

I've got a lot of catching up to do. I've been doing a lot of reviews, and I've also managed to read some things for fun! Get out! For real! This is just a simple list, but my comments on the books will follow later. I'll probably edit this post to add them tomorrow. Right now, I need to watch Supernatural. (c: Edited to add comments. (c:

August
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First, here's what I've been doing these past few months instead of reading books. I watched anime --  all of Hatenkou Yuugi (Dazzle), all of Get Backers, and all (finally!) of Shonen Onmyouji. I watched television shows on DVD -- season one of Eureka and now I'm halfway through season 2. (Man, that's a great show -- I can't believe I never watched ( Read more... )

Books I read for Booklist reviews

Little Red Bird, by Nick Bruel. C+
Really, Truly Bingo, by Laura Kvanosky. C+
Jake Starts School, by Michael Wright. A

These first three are picture books. I used to review picture books a long time ago for the Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books, but it had been a while when Booklist started sending them to me ( Read more... )