10 The Darkest Part of the Forrest by Holly Black - a very well done and quite dark YA urban fantasy/fairytale

11 The Falling Woman by Pat Murphy - archaeology, mystery, reunited mother/daughter - how have I missed this book before?!

12 John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Richard Rhodes - interesting biography of the birdman

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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Kevin

Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan

Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafron

And two honorable mentions, neither of them about books:

The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster by Scott Wilbanks

Solstice Wood by Patricia McKillip

What about you??  What did you enjoying reading this year?

82. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

83. Any Witch Way You Can by Amanda M. Lee

84. Frederica by Georgette Heyer

85.  The Book of Atrix Wolfe by Patricia McKillip

86.  Black Dog by Rachel Nuermeir

87.  The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris (nonfiction)

If you have not already read The Storied Life, you should do so immediately.  I haven't loved a book this much in years.  Really delightful.  The Lemoncholy Life was quiet enjoyable too.  Obviously I'm still on my McKillip kick and am rereading my stash, in anticipation in lending the lot out to R, who I have gotten hooked.  Cue evil laughter.

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These are all outlouds with E, though I think I'm missing a few.

86.  In the Blink of an Eye: how Vision sparked the big bang of evolution by Andrew Parker.  This was a while ago, so I don't remember much, only that we thought it was disappointing.

87.  Botany for Gardeners by Brian Capon.  Again, don't really remember much of it.

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Hmmmm, this seems like a lot of books for a gal who is concentrating on comps.  But 3 of them are outlouds with E (which is our evening TV substitute), and two of them are anthologies that I’ve been reading for probably six months, and finally finished.  Another I’d started last year and forgot about, so just finished up the final 20 pages.  Still ( Read more... )

WIth the start of the new semester about to begin, I doubt I'll much time for fiction for the next several months - but I've sure enjoyed my recent fiction spate:

55 The Railway Children by E. Nesbit was not the book I remembered. This was about a set of Victorian kids whose dad is wrongly imprisoned, and their adventures living near a railway ( Read more... )

Read most of these while in the field on my Kindle.

42. Kraken: The curious, exciting, and slightly distrubing science of squid by Wendy Williams (outloud with E).  I don't remember this all that well, so I it must not have blown me away, which is too bad, because I do remember that I was very much looking forward to reading it.

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The best thing about Spring Break is time to read some trash!

14  The 10 Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson (outloud with E).  This was disappointing - for one, they were all physics experiments (except the first which was a geometry problem), and two, the author didn't really describe the experiments so much as tell about the ( Read more... )

The first books of 2011

1  Truthseeker by C.E. Murphy.  Actually this was one of the last books of 2010, but I never did make a final 2010 post, it's going here.  This is the start of a new series and I alternated between loving this and being a bit bored.  Murphy is a terrific writer, but I wonder if maybe she herself got abit bored (or perhaps ( Read more... )