Books. I haz them.
At last, some progress on my 100 Books in 2011 project.
Links are to my full posts over at The Roth Project.
Book #8: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot Really interesting, if depressing at times.
Book #9: Letting Go, by Philip Roth PR has some mad skillz, man.
In actuality I've read 13 books. But I'm not going to add the Percy Jackson books to the total until I post my review of all five, which'll take me up to 14 total.
I'm endeavoring to read a mix of titles from various categories:
1. Contemporary/popular fiction. Call this the "book club" genre, or the Oprah genre.
2. SRS BZNS fiction. All my Roth books will fall under this category, as will the Vonnegut I have on deck.
3. Classics.
4. Pop nonfiction. Like this Adventures of a CSI type book I'm reading right now, and several skepticism titles I have on desk.
5. SRS BZNS nonfiction. I may tackle one of the Big Significant Biographies, or a McCullough history book.
6. YA fiction. Purely for title count but also fun!
7. Genre fiction. I hardly ever read genre (no idea why, one would think it'd totally be my thing) but I'm not averse.
Here's my current list of on-deck titles.
Two PJATO books. I've started the final Percy Jackson title, and then there's the first book of the sequel series.
When She Was Good by PR. Next up on the Roth list.
Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer. Bit of an experiment, this.
Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand by Dana Kollman. This is the Adventures of a CSI book I'm reading now. It's fast, it's kinda trashy.
How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovitch. Skepticism title.
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown, and Annabel by Kathleen Winter. These two are contemp-fiction titles I chose purely on Amazon star rating after they showed up in the "customers who bought X also bought these..." fields.
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
The Devil's Candy by Julie Salamon. This book is about the making of the disaster that was the film version of Bonfire of the Vanities. Thought it'd make a good twofer.
I'm also eyeing Clara and Mr. Tiffany, Susan Vreeland's new book, although I've never read anything of hers before. I may toss in a few gay romance titles from some of my fellow Dreamspinner authors. Those are usually fast reads, too.
Incidentally, speaking of that...Ms. Seville has a short story in an anthology that's coming out on Friday. I'll post a link when it's available.
Links are to my full posts over at The Roth Project.
Book #8: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot Really interesting, if depressing at times.
Book #9: Letting Go, by Philip Roth PR has some mad skillz, man.
In actuality I've read 13 books. But I'm not going to add the Percy Jackson books to the total until I post my review of all five, which'll take me up to 14 total.
I'm endeavoring to read a mix of titles from various categories:
1. Contemporary/popular fiction. Call this the "book club" genre, or the Oprah genre.
2. SRS BZNS fiction. All my Roth books will fall under this category, as will the Vonnegut I have on deck.
3. Classics.
4. Pop nonfiction. Like this Adventures of a CSI type book I'm reading right now, and several skepticism titles I have on desk.
5. SRS BZNS nonfiction. I may tackle one of the Big Significant Biographies, or a McCullough history book.
6. YA fiction. Purely for title count but also fun!
7. Genre fiction. I hardly ever read genre (no idea why, one would think it'd totally be my thing) but I'm not averse.
Here's my current list of on-deck titles.
Two PJATO books. I've started the final Percy Jackson title, and then there's the first book of the sequel series.
When She Was Good by PR. Next up on the Roth list.
Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer. Bit of an experiment, this.
Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand by Dana Kollman. This is the Adventures of a CSI book I'm reading now. It's fast, it's kinda trashy.
How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovitch. Skepticism title.
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown, and Annabel by Kathleen Winter. These two are contemp-fiction titles I chose purely on Amazon star rating after they showed up in the "customers who bought X also bought these..." fields.
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
The Devil's Candy by Julie Salamon. This book is about the making of the disaster that was the film version of Bonfire of the Vanities. Thought it'd make a good twofer.
I'm also eyeing Clara and Mr. Tiffany, Susan Vreeland's new book, although I've never read anything of hers before. I may toss in a few gay romance titles from some of my fellow Dreamspinner authors. Those are usually fast reads, too.
Incidentally, speaking of that...Ms. Seville has a short story in an anthology that's coming out on Friday. I'll post a link when it's available.