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The Best of 2012: Part One: Gentlemen and Sundries.
Everyone writes their superfluous TOP TEN lists.
As I do love to make lists ( 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011),
even four months late!
So, here's part one of mine!
The eighth annual GoldenMoonRose awards of brilliant excellence, completely objective favoritism, and disgustingly gratuitous excuse to make up top ten lists…
The Best of 2012 ( Read more... ) -
Books of 2012.
2012 Favorite Authors Check off
(italics=not finished, didn't read)
Jane Austen/Regency (Pride and Prejudice)
JKR (OOP)
Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend)
William Shakespeare (Sonnets)
Carson McCullers/Flannery O'Conner
Mark Twain
Hawthorne/MelvilleSarah Vowell (Unfamilliar Fishes ( Read more... ) -
Books 31-42 of 2012: Young Adult, Diana Wynne Jones, Sarah Vowell, John Greene, Shel Silverstein, Wo
31. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (278 pages)Lia and Cassie make a pact to be the skinniest girls in school. But their destructive eating disorders take their toll, and Cassie is found dead in a motel room. Lia, discharged for the second time from the clinic, must deal with her life: parents, school, step-sister, and the ghosts that Cassie ( Read more... ) -
Books 21-20 of 2012: Pratchett, Austen, Hornby, Oz, feminism, Jack Faber, Unknown Portraits.
"If you think that something might be funny, looked at in the right way, then look at it in the right way."
21. Not a Star by Nick Hornby (69 pages)
A mother discovers that her son, who's never really done anything much with his life, has a super special talent. He's a porn star. Hornby's short story is a microcosm of his brilliant writing: ordinary ( Read more... ) -
Books 16-20: Bill Bryson, Peculiar Children, Christopher Moore, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
"The way I see it, there are [two] reasons never to be unhappy. First, you were born. This in itself is a remarkable achievement…Second, you are alive. For the tiniest moment in the span of eternity you have the miraculous privilege to exist. For endless eons you did not. Soon you will cease to be once more."
"What a joy it is to arrive after dark ( Read more... ) -
Books 11-15: Titanic, The Help, Clash of Kings, young adult
"It is better to travel with hope in one's heart than to arrive in safety."
"It's funny that girls have to be pretty. It's the boys that have to be pretty in Nature."
11. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (340 pages)
It's 1899 and the South, and Calpurnia Tate is the only girl in her high society family, with seven brothers, and a ( Read more... )
