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Big Book List 2012

Jan 02, 2013 17:37

Well it’s that time of year again when we get to review things. First up for me is always what books I’ve read. I didn’t get through as many in 2012 as I have in pervious years, but then I knew that wasn’t going to happen. Goodreads - which is a fun place - tells me that I managed 45. Here they are, grouped how much I enjoyed them rather than ( Read more... )

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lar_laughs January 3 2013, 03:24:28 UTC

If you like Scott Westerfeld (and I do!), I highly recommend his Steampunk series! Leviathan, Behemoth, and Goliath!

Man, we just don't talk books enough for me to know your past reads so I'll have to look through the old lists to see what you've read that I can either nab for myself or books I can offer.

I've got tons of new Steampunk novels to read this year, both in print and ebook. I'm going to tackle the second book in Steven King's Dark Tower series. I really need to finish The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. I'm going to attempt the first del Toro/Hogan book again as it just didn't grab my interest enough last year to finish (but 2013 might be different). I'm going to finally read the Catherinne M. Valente books that I've got piled up and ready to read.

I've also got a few non-fiction books on my Amazon wish list and on my Kindle that I need to absorb. I love history and I just haven't been reading enough of it lately!

I love the wide open new year with all the reading possibilities! It's the best feeling EVER!

inkvoices January 4 2013, 03:21:12 UTC

I'd heard good things, but Uglies was the first I've read. As soon as I had Christmas money I bought the last two of that series in a discount bookstore where I'd spotted them and I ordered the second on Amazon, so as soon as the second gets here I'm going to plough through all three :) I'll make a note of his others!

I know :( I love books so much, I talk a mile a minute when anyone goes into a bookshop with me, but I don't talk much online about books. I was thinking of doing the 100 Things Challenge and making it 100 blogs about books, but I didn't think I had the time when I first saw it. I know there's no time limit or anything to sign up though, and I could always do something similar without the challenge. I think there needs to be more book talk in my corner of the internets! But yes, there's a lot on my previous lists and I have a Goodreads account.

I think The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest finishes that trilogy off well - it does show that even though he planned 12 novels, he planned them to be four trilogies. ( ... )

lar_laughs January 4 2013, 05:59:50 UTC

I have a hard time talking about books because a lot of the books I read have the potential to be seen as silly by people who think that all books must 1) make you think and 2) bring about some sort of social change. There are times I just like to be entertained! So I don't talk about books much. I do, however, need to keep up my Goodreads account better. Last year, I did the 12 in 12 challenge and I'm going to do something similar this year, I think.

Can you imagine how many pages 12 novels from Larsson would have been? I can barely carry this third one around with me, which is part of my problem in finishing.

My reading goal this year to is to read MORE of the books on my shelf and in my Kindle and buy FEWER books. I don't need to buy more books but I get the chills when I think of all the books that I won't buy if I don't open up Amazon and then they'll think I don't love them! The books... not Amazon. I don't think Amazon cares one whit about me loving it or not.

inkvoices January 4 2013, 23:06:34 UTC

You see, I don't get that. People who distinugish between 'literature' and label things and really? It's all words. And who's to say that silly thingsw won't make you think? And...yeah, grrr.

Am I friends with you on Goodreads? I'm here.

Heehee, I call books like that 'doorstoppers' *grins*. Sometimes you can't beat a good doorstopper, but sometimes they're too intimidating.

I always say that I'm going to read what I've got before I invest in more, but then something catches my interest and I chase off after it. Or I go into a bookshop and they call to me.

lar_laughs January 5 2013, 03:15:43 UTC

I hung out with the WRONG PEOPLE when I was in high school. Instead of letting myself be a geek and doing more than just going out for the chess team (I was on the chess team, yes, but I'm so horrible at the game as I don't naturally see beyond two moves and never played enough to get really good but I can still say I was on the chess team and get all that nerd cred!), I let them convince me I was an "intellectual" when I really wasn't. I just wanted their approval. And I need to stop doing that! I'm me! Get over it ( ... )

inkvoices January 7 2013, 00:54:33 UTC

I don't think we had intellectual type people like that at our high school. Not even in the chess club, which I followed a friend into for a bit, but it bored me and I think I died out pretty fast. I was involved in the music scene a lot - violin and singing - but I never hung out in the music rooms or anything. I remember that I used to take all the books we read in class home with me so that I could read them before the class killed it with bored voices and the teachers made us rip them apart, and I ended up helping out in the school library, because our librarian, a fantastic lady, used to collect oddballs like me and take us under her wing. So I talked to people about books, and made people read books, and never got told what I could and couldn't read.

People kept recommending Dickens to me and I kept turning my nose up, because there's something about the heavy, plodding way he writes that I just can't get through. I've read some so-called classics and I will again, but I used to not read books that were recommended to me ( ... )

lar_laughs January 7 2013, 03:42:54 UTC

I had several friends who were older than me and I helped them write their English papers (in the good "I've got a way with words and can help explain the idea to you" way and not the way that would have gotten me kicked out of school) so I'd also read most of the books early. This one friend of mine did a paper on the significance of colors in The Great Gatsby and I became this HUGE FAN of the book. So much so that I was pressuring my other friends to read it. I think I even got my little sister to read it... and I can't force her to do anything ( ... )

inkvoices January 7 2013, 18:07:32 UTC

I haven't read The Great Gatsby or The Jungle, Dickens, as I said, is not my friend, but I've liked Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott well enough, and CS Lewis was a childhood staple. Over the last few years I've tried to read more...awardy? type books, so The Shipping News, The Color Purple, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, and I've found that they're more my kind of 'classics ( ... )

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