Another new year, another list. My reading in 2017 starts very slowly as I've been battling a head cold for the past month which made me unable to concentrate on books.
I am still not finished with entering all my past reads into my goodreads account.
My goal for this year is to read (or listen to) 75 books.

Update, October 2018:Note: I spent ( Read more... )

New (well, almost ...) year, new list. I still am not finished with entering all of my books into my goodreads account.
I have decided to no longer list here the ebooks I add to my virtual shelf.

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Time for my new list. I have joined goodreads and am entering my books there (a challenging WIP!) but still prefer the textual list ( Read more... )

Here we go again.

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My bookswapping site's monthly motto for choosing books from one's stack of unreads is "one-word titles".

I do have quite a number of books that fall into that category, among them several titles belonging to book series, namely the Eragon and Septimus Heap series. I'll probably give both a pass, though. Instead I already got started on (finally ( Read more... )

Dear Ms Kinsella,

I have no idea what made you try to write about
thought processes of people supposedly having an
IQ way above your own.
It's bad enough when the main character of a story
is behaving stupid in a believable way, but this?
This is beyond ridiculous.

No love,
Lucie


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I'm a good two thirds into Priestess of the White now and things are definitely looking up. I'm eager to pick up the book each time I have to put it down and don't necessarily put it aside after finishing a chapter. I'm even interested in seeing how things continue. Wohooo ( Read more... )

I'm about one third into Priestess of the White aka Book 1 of the Age of the Five trilogy by Trudi Canavan.
I had been forewarned that it's nowhere near as gripping a read as the Black Magician books are but of course I had to find out for myself. Well, what can I say? A constant change of scene and POV does not make this easy to focus on - and on ( Read more... )