38. Arika Okrent, In the Land of Invented Languages -- OMG, this was delightful! lunasariel recommended the book to me last year, when I was searching for a nonfiction book for the 2014 Reading Bingo, and one of the local libraries had a copy, but I was on my Kindle kick, so I read something else instead. Then I was dealing with lost books on various library ( Read more... )

21. John Green and David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson -- I read this book in under 24 hours (this was the book I checked out on a whim when I needed something to read while waiting for L's school concert to start), and it was exactly what I needed at the time, apparently -- some contemporary YA, ( catchy and poignant )

Wow, it's been a while since my last one of these...

4. Sergei Lukyanenko, Last Watch -- yeah, Twilight Watch is definitely my favorite of the four. Last Watch was fairly disappointing actually, coming as it did after TW, even though on its own merits I think it was probably better than Day Watch. The three stories didn't feel as connected, and ( Read more... )

(Keeping these numbered from now on, to help with the end-of-year roll-up, which I'm planning on doing again. For the same reason, I'll be keeping track even of the "guilty pleasure" books, which I normally wouldn't write about.)

First the guilty pleasure ones:

1.) Cameron Dokey, How Not to Spend Your Senior Year -- silly YA romantic... thing. ( mini-review with spoilers )