Let's do this again, shall we? I have a Kindle now, so reading books everywhere has certainly become easier to carry, but I find I'm using it mostly to read fanfic on the sofa. Palms, meet face ( Read more... )

I've seen it all over my friends- and reading-list, and it looked like fun? Plus, I can never resist rambling about books ( Read more... )

I won a book! jimhines was having weekly giveaways of one of his books, and I won the last one! Giveaway, that is, for the book I chose is The Stepsister Scheme (no spoilers, please), and I'll be looking forward to reading it because, well, fractured fairy tales. What's not to love ( Read more... )

Well. Mr. Butcher certainly took the title seriously, didn't he?

( Spoilers, natch. )

I decided I wasn't going to talk about every book I read anymore, because most of the books I've read so far this year (yes, plural!) have been decidedly less than impressive. Apex's Decended From Darkness stood out in that it contained the most whimsical short story I've ever read ("I Know an Old Lady" by Nathan Rosen) and some wonderfully twisted ( Read more... )

More Dresden Files, the Codex Alera, and generally more than I thought I'd read.

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( Dead Beat by Jim Butcher )

Blessed be the beauty that is audiobooks! Hands-free reading! Entertainment while renovating! Can there be anything more awesome? :D

And yes, I finally discovered the Dresden Files novels, years after everyone else did. So far, me like.

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( Storm Front by Jim Butcher )

Several of these were re-reads because I've become disillusioned with my to-read stack after I picked up on The Lies of Locke Lamora for the third time and had to put it down again fifty pages in to save myself from complete and utter frustration. Not that re-read equals good.

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( How to Write a Damn Good Novel I & II by James N. Frey )

I liked one out of five. Yay me.

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( The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman )

I've been remiss. Not that there was much to be remiss about.

( Ravens in the Library by Various )