Book Blogging 2k16

[marlfox24]

So here we go! This is the introduction to my 2016 experiment: book blogging! I hope to keep this going all thruout this year as I make my way thru my book list. My goal for this year is 100 books. Which is the average what I read per year. I may increase it as the year goes on.

First up: My Rating System
I go by 5 stars (as with 10 it gets too complicated). I will do half stars, but not 4.25 or 3.75. It's half or I round up. The meaning behind each rating is:

• 1 Star: It Defies Physics--It Both Sucks and Blows
• 2 Stars: Didn't Like It, But It Didn't Completely Suck. There was something in there I didn't like.
• 3 Stars: Meh, But I Was Entertained. It was fine and enjoyable. Probably won't read again.
• 4 Stars: Loved It! Was excellent and probably will read again.
• 5 Stars: FULL COLORS! It was one of the greatest things I have ever read and will definitely read again. I demand you read it immediately.

​I don't count DNF to my list, but I'll make a mention when/if I don't finish a book.

And now the list of the books I'm reading this year (in no partictular order):

1. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson (currently reading)
2. Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu (read)
3. Wife Number Seven by Melissa Brown (currently reading)
4. In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson
5. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of WWII by Keith Lowe
6. The Wild Princess by Mary Hart Parry
7. Tories: Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War by Thomas B. Allen
8. Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault
9. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
10. The World of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin
11. Star Trek: New Frontier #9: Requiem by Peter David
12. Star Trek: New Frontier #10: Renissance by Peter David
13. Star Trek: New Frontier #11: Resoration by Peter David
14. Star Trek: New Frontier #12: Being Human by Peter David
15. Star Trek: New Frontier #13: Gods Above by Peter David
16. Star Trek: New Frontier #14: Stone and Anvil by Peter David
17. Star Trek: New Frontier #15: After the Fall by Peter David
18. Star Trek: New Frontier #16: Missing in Action by Peter David
19. Star Trek: New Frontier #17: Treason by Peter David
20. Star Trek: New Frontier #18: Blind Man's Bluff by Peter David
21. Star Trek: New Frontier: No Limits Anthology by Peter David
22. Star Trek: New Frontier: The Returned pt 1 by Peter David
23. Star Trek: New Frontier: The Returned pt 2 by Peter David
24. Star Trek: New Frontier: The Returned pt 3 by Peter David
25. The King in Love: Edward VII's Mistresses by Theo Aronson
26. The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick
27. The King's Curse by Philippa Gregory
28. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark
29. Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran
30. The Duchess by Amanda Foreman
31. The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
32. Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
33. Heir to the Jedi by Kevin Hearne
34. The Sowing by K. Makansi
35. The Last Jews in Berlin by Leonard Gross
36. Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic's First Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster
37. The Jewel by Amy Ewing
38. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George RR Martin
39. Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor
40. Legacy of Kings by Eleanor Herman
41. Queen of Someday by Sherry D. Flicklin
42. Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl
43. Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Megele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel
44. State of Emergency by Summer Lane
45. Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein
46. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
47. Capital Dames by Cokie Roberts
48. The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower
49. No Ordinary Sound: A Melody Classic by Denise Lewis Patrick
50. His Only Wife by Melissa Brown
51. Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Finoa Carnavaron
52. Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter
53. Between Love and Honor by Alexandra Lapierre
54. Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman
55. China: A History by John Keay

There are comic books I'm reading, but I don't know if I'll give those an entry or not. I've finished Devoted and will be reviewing...sometime soon. :)