Total 42 books.

( This year's list )

Dragonquest is book two of The Dragonriders of Pern, and when I read it years ago I never understood the title. It makes more sense to me now: the quest is the struggle of the people of Pern to carve out a final victory against the alien destruction of Thread. Although the characters fail to vanquish it directly, they find innovative ways to ( Read more... )

When I was in junior high (wow, twenty years ago now...) I discovered Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series and devoured everything she had written concerning dragons. After reading and re-reading and daydreaming about dragons nonstop for a few years, I moved on to other books, and eventually sold most of my copies of her work ( Read more... )

Because I'm wallowing in all my new books, I'm going to list them.

( Book Fair Finds )

I picked up this book on a whim with the Borders gift card I got for Christmas. It's an urban fantasy with some steampunk elements, set in alternate Victorian England inhabited by werewolves and vampires. Sounds right up my alley! ( Read more... )

I took a vacation day so I wouldn't have to shovel out my car today. It's having issues starting when it's so cold.

Time for my next book review:( Dan Brown's Angels and Demons )

For this year's book challenge, I have decided to do something different. Instead of reading X number of books or X books in Y genres, I will challenge myself to write more reviews of what I read. My goal for 2010 is to review at least 80% of the books I read all year ( Read more... )

Time for my yearly book roundup! First, the raw list of books read in 2009, by month. Includes re-reads and kids' books, but no graphic novels.

( Books in 2009 )

It's close enough to the end of the year that I'm looking at the 9-9-9 challenge that I took at the beginning of the year, and realizing that there's no way I will finish. (The idea: Nine books from each of nine categories in 2009. I picked the categories.)

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"If you have the guts to be yourself," he says, "other people'll pay your price."That sentence is the heart of this book; Updike's taut novel is about a man struggling to reconcile his desires and his duties. The protagonist, Rabbit, is one of those inexplicably charming people that everyone likes at first, but in reality he's too self-centered to ( Read more... )