( The Unquiet by John Connolly )

( The India Fan by Victoria Holt )

A lot of you guys probably haven't seen me do this before since it's been such a ridiculously long time since I finished a book (with pages!) that I was reading for pleasure, but I keep a record of every book I read, with stuff like how many pages are in it, what year it was written in, etc., along with a grade (A-F) and my reaction to it. My ( Read more... )

Milan Kundera is a Franco-Czech author and everything he writes is in translation for me anyway, so I read The Unbearable Lightness of Being in German; I figured that since I'm studying in Germany I should at least try to do things in German sometimes. It's just a tiny drop in the sea of Sam/Dean and J² I've been reading lately, but hey, I tried ( Read more... )

Oh man, are these really only the second and third books I've read this year? I guess I was kind of watching a lot of Buffy in January, then writing a lot of papers and traveling in February and March, and also there was that German book, Schule der Lügen, that I read 250 pages of and abandoned because it was hardcover and too heavy to carry ( Read more... )

Behind the cut are all the books I've read in 2006, and my reactions to them immediately after having read them. I went to fairly great lengths to avoid including spoilers in my reactions. I've rated the books on the American grading scale, and you can safely assume that I recommend anything rated A- or above. I should note that these are my ( Read more... )

The first book of 2007!

1.
Title: The Virtu
Author: Sarah Monette
Pages: 448
Year of publication: 2006
Category: Fiction -- fantasy
Grade: A-
Finished on: 4 January 2007

I just couldn't resist. I was so in love with Mildmay after Mélusine that I ran out the day after I finished it to buy the sequel. And as far as the Mildmay love went, The ( Read more... )

Title: Mélusine
Author: Sarah Monette
Pages: 496 (paperback edition)
Year of publication: 2005
Category: Fiction -- fantasy
Grade: A-
Finished on: 29 December 2006

Mélusine is told by two first-narrators, the wizard Felix Harrowgate and the cat-burgular Mildmay. I love unreliable narration a whole lot, and I can also be a big fan of getting to ( Read more... )

Title: The Bonfire of the Vanities
Author: Tom Wolfe
Pages: 690
Year of publication: 1987
Category: Fiction - literature
Grade: B+
Finished on: 1 November 2006

I've been reading The Bonfire of the Vanities since I left to study in Europe - slightly more than two months ago. The back of the book argues that it's impossible to put down, but as far ( Read more... )

My dad has kept a record of every book he's ever read since the 1970s. He has a binder full of books he's read, not just their titles and authors, but also how long they were, when they were published, if it was the first book by that author he'd ever read, and a grade, on the A to F scale. Ever since I was nine or ten, I've been going to him and ( Read more... )