I didn't break 100 this year, but given the tumultuous nature of the fall, I'm feeling okay about my 95.  Since I haven't posted in so long, I'm going to do a more or less plain list with asterisks by the books that I particularly liked.  Please feel free to ask for any additional commentary,

( Not quite 1 to 100 )

I had grand plans at the start of December about going on a reading blitz and powering through to 50, but alas life interfered. Also, a book that I was highly looking forward to and that was supposed to ship from Amazon on Dec. 1st, kept getting delayed, which just seemed to turn me off reading in general for awhile. Oh well...I've done better than ( Read more... )

#59 - The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

I couldn't quite bring myself to read this one, so I listened on C.D., since I do enjoy snorting at Brown (I actually DID enjoy Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, the latter actually having been read pre-hype by moi). It had the same problems as all of Brown's other books - boring characterizations and too ( Read more... )

#58 - A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff ( Read more... )

# 54 - Vengeance in Death by J.D. Robb

I can't really remember what this is about. While I enjoy Eve/Roarke, they certainly don't stick with you, do they?

#55 - Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella

While I do tend to find Kinsella's heroines all kinds of silly, I really enjoyed this one, mostly for the hero. It was a cute story.

#56 - Testimony by ( Read more... )

Well I've surpassed my total for last year, though I'm not sure I'll be able to read 9 more before the end of the year - we'll see!

Book 37: I've Heard That Song Before by Mary Higgins Clark
This is a fictional take-off on the Martha Moxley / Michael Skakel case, sort of combined with the movie Sabrina. It follows a woman who grows up to marry the ( Read more... )

Book 34: The Maltese Manuscript by Joanne Dobson
Another in Dobson's academic mystery series about Professor Karen Pelletier, this one surrounding a series of library thefts and murder at an academic conference. So great.

Book 35: Justice Hall by Laurie R. King
I found the Holmes/Russell series to be back in fine form here after my difficulties ( Read more... )

#46 - The Romantics by Galt Niederhoffer ( Read more... )

Making some progress, bit by bit!

#19 The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton ( Read more... )

Book 28: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
This is one I had wanted to read for a long time, and I really enjoyed it. It's du Maurier's classic mystery about a young woman who marries an aristocrat, Maxim de Winter, moves with him to his Cornish estate of Manderley, and is haunted by the spectre of his dead wife, Rebecca. Having seen the Hitchcock movie ( Read more... )