End of the Year in Books!
Now that I have finally finished Cicero's pro Cluentio (well, excerpts from it, in Grose-Hodge's red Macmillan, anyway), I can announce that I made my goal: I read 150 books this year! Yay!
I was very annoyed at how few I read last year (60), so I was determined I should do better this year, and I did. I'd had visions of 200 swirling, but that might ( Read more... )
I was very annoyed at how few I read last year (60), so I was determined I should do better this year, and I did. I'd had visions of 200 swirling, but that might ( Read more... )
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This is amaaazing! !! (I have had sugar.)
Things:
- I did not really care for I Capture the Castle, but I can't put my finger on why. Maybe I will pick your brain about it.
- Was As Meat Loves Salt really that bad? (It's on my "to read" list)
- I have to try the Hunger Games series. I do not expect to like it (it seems too depressing for me), but you never know.
- Gosh I love this list... ;)
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(I read fast. Plus, it is so. much. easier. to read with the Kindle!)
Mmm, sugar... :)
Hmm. I liked I Capture the Castle quite a bit, although I'd thought it might be too cloying and sentimental; I can easily see how one might not care for it, totally...
As Meat Loves Salt, well, I just did not like it. It was too heavy of going for what I wanted (fluffy happy historical romance, which it totally wasn't), and it was just... depressing. It was trying too hard for me ( ... )
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YAY for the Roman demigods! You could always just skip ahead and read SoN and not bother with the rest of TLH. The end was not surprising -- [god] is awaking and evil and out to get everyone; [character] is secretly [something the author telegraphed the whole book], blah blah boringcakes.
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