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Let's talk about books.
I'm going to try and actually keep track of everything I read this year. And who doesn't like talking about books?
I didn't start keeping track until my vacation (15 January), so I missed a few at the beginning of the year, but that's okay. So far, we've got -
1. Forever In Blue, Ann Brashares - eh. I've really got nothing else to say, except that Lena and Kostos make me fucking homicidal.
2. The Little Book of Plagiarism, Richard A. Posner - interesting, but has the same problem that everything about plagiarism has. Namely - you can't define it. It's like pornography; you know it when you see it. But it doesn't say anything I hadn't thought/talked about before. As we all know, there is much discussion of plagiarism in university/grad school.
3. Something Borrowed, Emily Giffin - cute. The first of my vacation reads and it was the perfect 'no thinking' book for my first day of lying around. And I did like the relationship between the two women.
4. Something Blue, Emily Giffin - companion/sequel to Something Borrowed, but quite different. Again - cute, funny, perfect vacation book.
5. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne - I loved this. I can understand some of the criticism and I can see what they're talking about, but. I don't care. I loved it and it made me cry and he achieved what he set out to do.
6. Manhunting, Jennifer Crusie - eh. I'm still waiting to like something as much as I liked Welcome to Temptation and it hasn't happened yet. This wasn't as bad as some of the others, though. Oi.
7. The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love, Rosie Rushton - the less said about this the better. Why must I read every thing I come across that's inspired by Jane Austen? I don't even have a great love for her to begin with. So why am I such a sucker?
8. Tough Choices, Carly Fiorina - some of the things she had to say were interesting. But it was so poorly written that I had a hard time getting through it.
9. She's Not There, Jennifer Finney Boylan - exact opposite of Tough Choices. The subject matter was interesting, obviously, but the reason I loved it was because of the way she writes it. I've got to check out the rest of her novels, now. Richard Russo's as well.
10. 1-800-Where-R-U #5 - Missing You, Meg Cabot - so great, so fun, such a great end to the series. I absolutely lurved it.
11. How the Universe Got Its Spots, Janna Levin - ♥ and that's all there is to say about that. I'm simply in love with the way she writes. I completely adored A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines and while this is completely different (MDoTM is a fiction novel; HtUGIS is a collection of letters written to her mother that deals with her work, which is physics), I loved it just the same.
12. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks - while I'm not usually one for zombies (despite my slavish devotion to all things Supernatural), this was great. Well-written, the format he chose for the subject was perfect, it was scary and sad - it was just great. I've got to pick up The Zombie Survival Guide now.
And that's all for now.
I'm in the middle of Thomas Hardy, which I love. I love the way she writes it (so well documented! Hi! I'm a dork!) and no matter what The Guardian says, I love Thomas Hardy.
Next up in the queue are - Misfortune (because who can resist something that's described as an 'inspired collaboration between Charles Dickens and Pedro Almodovar?), Five Quarters of the Orange, Empires of the Word, Stiff (finally!) and Moral Minds.
After that, we'll see.
What are y'all reading? I'm always looking for good books.
I'm going to try and actually keep track of everything I read this year. And who doesn't like talking about books?
I didn't start keeping track until my vacation (15 January), so I missed a few at the beginning of the year, but that's okay. So far, we've got -
1. Forever In Blue, Ann Brashares - eh. I've really got nothing else to say, except that Lena and Kostos make me fucking homicidal.
2. The Little Book of Plagiarism, Richard A. Posner - interesting, but has the same problem that everything about plagiarism has. Namely - you can't define it. It's like pornography; you know it when you see it. But it doesn't say anything I hadn't thought/talked about before. As we all know, there is much discussion of plagiarism in university/grad school.
3. Something Borrowed, Emily Giffin - cute. The first of my vacation reads and it was the perfect 'no thinking' book for my first day of lying around. And I did like the relationship between the two women.
4. Something Blue, Emily Giffin - companion/sequel to Something Borrowed, but quite different. Again - cute, funny, perfect vacation book.
5. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne - I loved this. I can understand some of the criticism and I can see what they're talking about, but. I don't care. I loved it and it made me cry and he achieved what he set out to do.
6. Manhunting, Jennifer Crusie - eh. I'm still waiting to like something as much as I liked Welcome to Temptation and it hasn't happened yet. This wasn't as bad as some of the others, though. Oi.
7. The Dashwood Sisters' Secrets of Love, Rosie Rushton - the less said about this the better. Why must I read every thing I come across that's inspired by Jane Austen? I don't even have a great love for her to begin with. So why am I such a sucker?
8. Tough Choices, Carly Fiorina - some of the things she had to say were interesting. But it was so poorly written that I had a hard time getting through it.
9. She's Not There, Jennifer Finney Boylan - exact opposite of Tough Choices. The subject matter was interesting, obviously, but the reason I loved it was because of the way she writes it. I've got to check out the rest of her novels, now. Richard Russo's as well.
10. 1-800-Where-R-U #5 - Missing You, Meg Cabot - so great, so fun, such a great end to the series. I absolutely lurved it.
11. How the Universe Got Its Spots, Janna Levin - ♥ and that's all there is to say about that. I'm simply in love with the way she writes. I completely adored A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines and while this is completely different (MDoTM is a fiction novel; HtUGIS is a collection of letters written to her mother that deals with her work, which is physics), I loved it just the same.
12. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks - while I'm not usually one for zombies (despite my slavish devotion to all things Supernatural), this was great. Well-written, the format he chose for the subject was perfect, it was scary and sad - it was just great. I've got to pick up The Zombie Survival Guide now.
And that's all for now.
I'm in the middle of Thomas Hardy, which I love. I love the way she writes it (so well documented! Hi! I'm a dork!) and no matter what The Guardian says, I love Thomas Hardy.
Next up in the queue are - Misfortune (because who can resist something that's described as an 'inspired collaboration between Charles Dickens and Pedro Almodovar?), Five Quarters of the Orange, Empires of the Word, Stiff (finally!) and Moral Minds.
After that, we'll see.
What are y'all reading? I'm always looking for good books.