i kind of wish that before booklender folded up (i canceled before that date) i had copied the list of books i had gotten from them, just to see how many that was. i did the 2-per order thing since 2010 & got 30-40 books a year, so that's anywhere from 420 to 560. but the problem is that when they dropped a title because they couldn't get new (or ( Read more... )

a little more than four years ago i decided that i was going to read a book on or about most every u.s. president. it's been a hard slog, because 1. it's hard to find books for like 1/3 of them & 2. they're mostly boring ( Read more... )

i haven't updated any of the book lists that i have in the sticky post in a long time, so i decided to do that today.

fiction books that i like

non-fiction books that i recommend

star trek books that i like

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for a while now i've wanted to read a book on/about each of the US presidents. i had read a truman biography by david mccullough a few years ago & liked it. but had been not really "into" reading stuff about the rest of the presidents.

however, this year with my booklender (formally booksfree) want to read list getting shorter i decided to give it a ( Read more... )

i decided to keep track of the books that i read this year, just to see how many i read. here are the stats.

( books by the numbers )

i'm not doing any challenge (50 books or 100,000 pages) i just want to keep track of what i read, for once. also over on live journal there's community called bookish where someone mentioned reading books set in, or having some of their action take place in another country. so i'm going to try to keep track of those as well ( Read more... )

most of the books in the first north americans series have similar plot devices; there's a tyrant (or two) who wants to be king over all they see. he often abuses Power (sort of an universal life force similar to The Force) & throws it out of wack. there's one that stands against him, usually male & a Dreamer (someone in tune with Power), who then ( Read more... )

until the movie came out a few years ago i didn't know that anne boleyn had a sister named mary. or a sister at all really. i knew what most of us know; anne was the second wife of henry the 8th who he broke the church of england away from from rome to wed her. mother of the future queen elizabeth the 1st and was beheaded by henry for not giving ( Read more... )

warning! spoilers for all the fleming bond novels & most of the bond movies.

first off; i've only read the fleming bond novels (& a couple of the more recent movie novelizations), i don't know if this makes me a purist, or an elitist snob.

( pushing the post word limit )

one of those books that could benefit from being about 100 pages shorter. i won't spoil, but it ceased to be interesting about half-way through. it didn't help that the POV kept changing with every chapter. if it were just the 2 main characters, i wouldn't mind so much. but there were 6 or 8 (i lost track) & it really bugged me ( Read more... )