A list of books that I plan to read in 2010. Most of them I own already. Finished ones will get a strikethrough. *g*

ETA: Two down. :-)

Eta II: Oookay. Not as much as I wanted, but I got derailed by books about Shakespeare and the Dresden Files. So this is the list of books I plan to read in 2011 now...

In no particular order:

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  Margaret Atwood, Oryx + ( Read more... )

I realized that I was horrible at doing my "read in..." book lists, so this might work better!

Book Challenge - 2015

Originally found on 9gag01. A book with more than 500 pages ( Read more... )

Happy World Book Day, everyone! Read any good books recently? I have re-read Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, because I saw it as a play onstage (very well done, captured the original mood!), I re-read Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits (still like a gut punch) and I read Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London Part One. That one was amusing and a ( Read more... )

I finally managed to finish my list! \o/

Here you go:

Books read in 2011

RIE = read in english, all others read in german *duh*, "borrowed" means just that :-) - mostly library books.

( Books, books, books )

Ahem. I'm working on my 2011 list and suddenly I realize that I never posted 2010... rectifying now. Better late than never...? 2011 to follow soon. And my "read more books, ele" resolution from 2009 did not exactly work in 2010... *hangs head*

Books read in 2010

RIE = read in english, all others read in german *duh*, "borrowed" means just that ( Read more... )

I’m in the process of listing my “books read in 2011” thingy, and while typing up all the different Star Wars titles, I realized that I have never posted the corresponding rant... oops! Rectifying that now, here we go.

I love reading Star Wars EU books. I fell out of the 'verse for a bit, but I'm back, I think. I watched all six movies again and ( Read more... )

...and kicking:-)

The last few hours of my week off are running through. But it was a faboulous week! I was rarely online - peeking into Twitter, tending crops on FarmVille and PioneerTrail, and bookmarking flist entries for later... Every time I thought "Oh, tonight I'm gonna catch up with my flist" there was either a thunderstorm so I had to shut ( Read more... )

Dracula sequel, how do I loathe thee? Let me count the ways...
Dacre Stoker/Ian Holt, Dracula the Un-Dead

Warning: this review/rant contains spoilers! And a whole lot of Your Mileage May Vary, of course.

( All hope abandon ye who enter here. )

If you still wanna play, it was here. Some answers in the comments, but you're not gonna peek, are you? *stern look*

Anyway, up to answers and Brownie Points:

( Who wrote that darn thing? )

Snagged from badfalcon  and koryou and woman_of_ :

Choose 10 books that you like. List the first sentence or so of each of those books. Let other people try to figure out what book that first line is from.

Here we go:
( First sentences )