I've slowed down a lot the past few weeks and also jumped around in various books, leaving only fourteen books completed since my last post. "Only." Hah. That's still one every couple of days. We also finished setting up our bookcases in the baby stuff room/library and filled them with the fiction, revealing that I have an alarming backlog of books ( Read more... )

( Books #49-54 )

( Books #38-48 )

( Books #27-37 )

( Books #19-26 )

In no particular order, since keeping track of that is a bit much when I'm posting six to twelve books at a time. Averaging a book a day should theoretically only be possible when I'm actually taking the bus to work--I can't read and drive at the same time. But I seem to have managed it somehow the past couple of weeks. Oops.

( Books #7-18 )

I've decided, somewhat on the spur of the moment, to yet again attempt to track the books I read this year. In the past this has always failed for one reason or another, but it never hurts to start again. Let's see how long I last this year.

( Books #1-6 )

Finished another two books in the past couple of days. Up to 20-25 read over term that I didn't have time to do.

( Here's some. I thought I'd put them behind a cut to save your eyes. )

Book Title: The Penelopiad
Author: Margaret Atwood
Genre: Myth retelling
Number of pages: 192, but I listened to the three hour audio version
Rating, F- [worst] to A [best].: A+
Count: #21, 7 new
Short description/summary of the book:Drawing on a range of sources, in addition to The Odyssey, Atwood scripts the narrative of Penelope, the faithful ( Read more... )

Book Title: Trickster's Choice and Trickster's Queen
Author: Tamora Pierce
Genre: Fantasy
Number of pages: 432 and 480
Rating, F- [worst] to A [best].: A+
Count: #19 and #20, 14 reread
Short description/summary of the book:To the great joy of her many fans, Tamora Pierce with this book begins a new saga of Tortall to add to The Song of the ( Read more... )