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Happy Twenty-Eleventy

Jan 01, 2011 11:47

New Years Day open book meme: do any (or all) of the following ( Read more... )

2011

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nikki_cee January 1 2011, 16:09:49 UTC

I will be doing the favourites list sometime, but for now here's my 2010 LIST (under the giant movie list, sorry, it's all under the same cut)

trishtrash January 1 2011, 21:24:35 UTC

Looks like it's friends-locked... just a heads up in case you don't mind it being generally accessible.

nikki_cee January 2 2011, 00:30:13 UTC

Completely forgot to unlock, haha.

nynaeve_sedai January 1 2011, 17:00:07 UTC

I love this comm :D I used to be able to read a lot more (I work full time and have a toddler and a husband), so sometimes I don't have answers to all of these and I don't quite get through all the books I want to read.

Here's what I read that I'd recommend:

The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan (and later Brandon Sanderson) (re-read - 13 books with the final being published in 2012)
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (re-read)
Blackout by Connie Willis
Black Ships by Jo Graham

Blackout shogunsquirrel January 1 2011, 22:26:04 UTC

Don't forget that Blackout is basically a two parter. the action continues in All Clear, and you REALLY want to have it on hand the second you finish Blackout.

Re: Blackout nynaeve_sedai January 1 2011, 22:27:28 UTC

Yes - Blackout was quite a cliffhanger and I read it back in June and I've been on the edge of my seat! Yesterday, I finally got my copy of All Clear and I can't wait to get started :)

oddmonster January 2 2011, 22:01:58 UTC

Any link to a review of Blackout? I've heard quite a bit about that book, all good.

Thread 5

spaceandclouds January 1 2011, 17:52:47 UTC

Top 10 Favorite Books of 2010:
1. Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
2. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
4. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
5. Linden Hills - Gloria Naylor
6. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
7. The Taste of Sorrow - Jude Morgan
8. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
9. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
10. Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi

I'd definitely recommed anything by Murakami, especially Kafka on the Shore (Dance Dance Dance too but it makes more sense in conjunction with A Wild Sheep Chase), The Taste of Sorrow and Linden Hills.

trishtrash January 1 2011, 21:21:50 UTC

Couldn't resist coming back with this ( ... )

nynaeve_sedai January 1 2011, 22:29:15 UTC

I <3 Villette. It's on my list to re-read.

trishtrash January 2 2011, 22:29:20 UTC

Yay! Someone else! I was starting to think Jane Eyre had all the love.

oddmonster January 2 2011, 22:00:04 UTC

Top ten (AHAHAHAHAHA) best books of 2010:

Good GRAVY I'm glad I met you. :D

And I shall now do a wee interpretive dance to express how much I love that you loved Villette and Bleak House:

*Swish*
*swish swish*
*SWOON*
*Look up dramatically*
*re-swoon*
*spontaneously combusts*

Any link to your review of The Dead Secret?

Thread 8

oddmonster January 2 2011, 21:57:33 UTC

--Top 10 of 2010:
Pickets and Dead Men by Bree Loewen
Toast Mortem by Claudia Bishop
Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated by Alison Arngrim
Hurricane Punch by Tim Dorsey
Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
The Transcendental Murder by Jane Langton
Sprinkle with Murder by Jenn McKinlay
Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch
e Squared by Matt Beaumont

--Least Favorites: I only did book and short story, but they're listed with my master list, below.

--My book list is over here

trishtrash January 2 2011, 22:34:03 UTC

One day I'll grow as a reader and seek out all the best books in the world, and on that day I will come and sit at your feet. Or, just, y'know, scroll through your LJ.