Young Adult - going for the mini-sized - 12 books ( Read more... )

The Pub Challenge is to read 10 books published in 2010. Usually don't get started on this one until February and am through in a couple of months ( Read more... )

with five good entries in five series I really enjoy.

Night and Day by Robert B. Parker - A junior high school teacher performs a panty check at an eighth grade dance - there may not have been a crime, but Jesse Stone sure has a lot of angry parents to deal with. Plus there's a peeping tom, who just graduated to entering houses and forcing women ( Read more... )

9 adult books published in 2009 ( Read more... )

The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn - similar to _The Far Side_ - some funny stuff. Early Reviewers from LibraryThing.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Pulitzer Prize and tons of other awards. Post-apocalyptic journey of a father and young son trying to reach the coast. I can see why everyone raved about it, but it didn't grab me or move me. Will ( Read more... )

that weren't so thrilling :)

The best of the bunch was:
Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child - Set in the Arctic Circle, scientists find a creature frozen in ice. And despite the warnings of the local natives, it's cut out and set to be thawed for a documentary. Only it's not what they think it is - and it may not be dead. Thoroughly unbelievable, but ( Read more... )

Contagious by Scott Sigler - sequel to _Infected_ - The blue triangles are still infecting people, but the entity creating them has changed them so that some of the people infected are now able to infect others. Perry Dawsey, the only known survivor, is still connected to the others somehow and leads a government team to infected people, while ( Read more... )

No Future For You by Brian K. Vaughan* - Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Eight, Volume 2, graphic novel. Buffy herself is a bit more in the background in this one. Giles has a problem with an upperclass British slayer gone rogue and, so, recruits the one person best able to deal with someone like that - Faith. Faith goes undercover as a high class ( Read more... )

with a run of mystery/thrillers :)

The Pub Challenge (see sidebar to the right) rules were to read 8 books published in 2008.  Duma Key and Sizzle and Burn were my first two and I read the last six this month :)  The first 4 of them were the new entries into great series,  the 5th is an author I've read a lot, and the 6th was an ARC I got from ( Read more... )

Duma Key by Stephen King - Oh, man, this was good. Starts off  with a slightly supernatural bent and heads out into horror land. King writes great characters and tells an excellent story. It's large, but not bloated - it pulls you along at warp speed (except when your hands get too tired)
I wouldn't call it his 'best', but it's definitely one of ( Read more... )