Big Book List 2012

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Well it’s that time of year again when we get to review things. First up for me is always what books I’ve read. I didn’t get through as many in 2012 as I have in pervious years, but then I knew that wasn’t going to happen. Goodreads - which is a fun place - tells me that I managed 45. Here they are, grouped how much I enjoyed them rather than

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[book_junkie007]

My to-read pile is a bit of a mess because I keep taking books out of the library/buying books but never getting around to them. I still have books from when I was ten that I haven't read yet (Great Expectations, anyone?).

My main goals for this year are to finish the book I'm currently reading: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, which I received as a Christmas gift last year and just got around to; take another crack at Game of Thrones because I got 60 pages in, read all of Ned Stark's POV for the rest of the book, then didn't finish it (my grandpa encouraged me to give it another try); and read the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales because I was never interested in it when I was younger.

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Heh, I have my to-read pile, which is a small-ish pile of fairly recently aquired books that I want to read, and a large pile accumlated over years that I haven't gotten around to and should now that I'm broke and shouldn't be buying anymore, and my dad's books, because I re-introduced him to reading and then he stormed ahead of me in crime fiction lol. Sometimes I read books that I left aside years ago and I love them; sometimes I think I should have left them there a while longer. And I admit, I'm not a fan of Charles Dickens. At all.

I've not heard of that first one, but intriguing title; tell me more when you've read it! Game of Thrones I enjoyed. I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings as I kid. The first one really is a kid's book. Treat it like Narnia - fun, a bit quaint, a good yarn. (Unlike the film, which merges the book with the histories and myths and other things that were going on in Tolkien's world at the time, but the same sense of humour.) The second I struggled with at points, but I reread it nearly

[allie_meril]

Do you intend to go further in the Queen's Thief series (Megan Whalen Turner)? I was also sort of "meh" about the first book, but the second and third books are FANTASTIC and I have so much love for them. :)

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I wasn't planning to, because, yeah, meh. I think it didn't help that I'd heard a few good things online and it didn't live up to expectations. I wasn't intending to read more and I have other things that I want to rad first, but if you think the others are worth it I'll add them to the to-read list :)

[lar_laughs]

If you like Scott Westerfeld (and I do!), I highly recommend his Steampunk series! Leviathan, Behemoth, and Goliath!

Man, we just don't talk books enough for me to know your past reads so I'll have to look through the old lists to see what you've read that I can either nab for myself or books I can offer.

I've got tons of new Steampunk novels to read this year, both in print and ebook. I'm going to tackle the second book in Steven King's Dark Tower series. I really need to finish The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. I'm going to attempt the first del Toro/Hogan book again as it just didn't grab my interest enough last year to finish (but 2013 might be different). I'm going to finally read the Catherinne M. Valente books that I've got piled up and ready to read.

I've also got a few non-fiction books on my Amazon wish list and on my Kindle that I need to absorb. I love history and I just haven't been reading enough of it lately!

I love the wide open new year with all the reading possibilities! It's the best feeling EVER!

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I'd heard good things, but Uglies was the first I've read. As soon as I had Christmas money I bought the last two of that series in a discount bookstore where I'd spotted them and I ordered the second on Amazon, so as soon as the second gets here I'm going to plough through all three :) I'll make a note of his others!

I know :( I love books so much, I talk a mile a minute when anyone goes into a bookshop with me, but I don't talk much online about books. I was thinking of doing the 100 Things Challenge and making it 100 blogs about books, but I didn't think I had the time when I first saw it. I know there's no time limit or anything to sign up though, and I could always do something similar without the challenge. I think there needs to be more book talk in my corner of the internets! But yes, there's a lot on my previous lists and I have a Goodreads account.

I think The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest finishes that trilogy off well - it does show that even though he planned 12 novels, he planned them to be four trilogies.

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I have a hard time talking about books because a lot of the books I read have the potential to be seen as silly by people who think that all books must 1) make you think and 2) bring about some sort of social change. There are times I just like to be entertained! So I don't talk about books much. I do, however, need to keep up my Goodreads account better. Last year, I did the 12 in 12 challenge and I'm going to do something similar this year, I think.

Can you imagine how many pages 12 novels from Larsson would have been? I can barely carry this third one around with me, which is part of my problem in finishing.

My reading goal this year to is to read MORE of the books on my shelf and in my Kindle and buy FEWER books. I don't need to buy more books but I get the chills when I think of all the books that I won't buy if I don't open up Amazon and then they'll think I don't love them! The books... not Amazon. I don't think Amazon cares one whit about me loving it or not.

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You see, I don't get that. People who distinugish between 'literature' and label things and really? It's all words. And who's to say that silly thingsw won't make you think? And...yeah, grrr.

Am I friends with you on Goodreads? I'm here.

Heehee, I call books like that 'doorstoppers' *grins*. Sometimes you can't beat a good doorstopper, but sometimes they're too intimidating.

I always say that I'm going to read what I've got before I invest in more, but then something catches my interest and I chase off after it. Or I go into a bookshop and they call to me.