I'm blogging books and manga separately this year, just because I read so much manga. I feel like I've read remarkably few books this year; last year my reading had gone down in total, but I didn't separate the books and manga out, so I'm not sure if I read more books this year or last year. I definitely read way more manga this year, which is why ( Read more... )

This is a sort of sequel to Peeps, which I adored. It doesn't have the same focus, though. While the focus of Peeps was on vampires and parasites and the entertwining thereof, The Last Days is a band book. Only, the kids are trying to form a band while the apocalypse rages around them.

I didn't like this quite as much as Peeps, largely because a) ( Read more... )

Yay library holds! I managed to get this yesterday, so, haha! I can finally wait for it to come out in paper so that it'll match the format of Uglies and PrettiesAnyhow, this is the third book of the Uglies trilogy, set in a world in which people get cosmetic surgery to become Pretties at sixteen. I really like how Westerfeld has been going deeper ( Read more... )

( Spoilers for Secret Hour and Touching Darkness )

(comprises of The Risen Empire and The Killing of Worlds)

Scott Westerfeld says on his website that the two books were originally planned as one book titled Succession. Due to statistics involving how well books over a certain price point sold, Tor decided to cut the book in half and publish them as a duology. For reading purposes, this doesn't ( Read more... )

Second in a trilogy (I think) that involves five teenagers all born precisely at midnight. I read the first book a while back and didn't hate it, but also wasn't too impressed either ( Read more... )

I read less than last year by a bit, probably by a lot volume-wise, because so much of this year was manga, which I read much faster. I am too lazy to separate out my manga read, and so I just count a volume as a book. I also still haven't figured out how to do LJ entries on manga -- sometimes I do entries on a chunk of volumes, sometimes I do ( Read more... )

Finally, I start writing about books again after multiple posts about cooking and food and Good Eats. Apologies for those of you here mainly for the bookishness ( Read more... )

Second in a trilogy that started with Uglies.

( Spoilers for Uglies )

And with this, my Scott Westerfeld binge is over. Well, that is, until I can borrow more from yuneicorn or convince myself to buy more ( Read more... )