I just finished reading “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” for the first time. I know, I’m behind the curve, haha. I’ve wanted to read it for a while, because several of my friends have quotes from it on their facebook profiles, but it took the movie coming out to get me to actually read it (so I could decide whether or not to see the movie). Anyway ( Read more... )

Hello, lj world! Yes, I am still alive. Sorry it's been so long. Life has been kind of crazy. New year, new house, new job...it kind of feels like I've started a whole new life. Last month seems so long ago I can barely remember what it was like. But at least I'm starting to settle into this new routine (finally ( Read more... )

5. The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two) by Patrick Rothfuss ( Read more... )

4. The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry: Book One) by Guy Gavriel Kay

This was another read inspired by araken's Book List entries. He's mentioned Kay several times, and since I've realized over the years that our taste in fantasy novels is fairly similar, his Book List is a go-to spot for me to find new authors! That being said, I was hesitant to ( Read more... )

3. The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One) by Patrick Rothfuss ( Read more... )

2. Of Mikes and Men: A Lifetime of Braves Baseball by Pete Van Wieren with Jack Wilkinson ( Read more... )

I've decided to do the book list again this year (keeping track of all the books I read). Since I got a bunch of new books for Hanukkah this year, unlike last year, I am hoping that I will read more books this year than last year's unusually low total. So, here goes.

1. Stonefather by Orson Scott Card

Stonefather is a short book (just over 100 ( Read more... )

8. Shadowheart by Tad Williams

I literally just finished reading this book a few minutes ago, and felt compelled to write this right away, before the magic wears off. Shadowheart is the 4th of 4 books in the Shadowmarch series, and to call it "epic fantasy" is almost an understatement. The series as a whole is SO vast and all-encompassing that ( Read more... )

7. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

I know I'm a little behind the curve on this one, Marcus actually got this book for Hanukkah last year, so I waited for him to get around to reading it first before I borrowed it! I had previously read two of Dan Brown's other books: The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, and this one again follows Professor ( Read more... )