So, I wasn't going to post a full list. I really wasn't. I mean, come on, it's 107 books!
But, interestingly enough, I found, as I was wandering around various book blogs, that I wanted to know what all other people had read in 2008. So I figure there's a chance that someone somewhere might want to know what I read too.
Here goes--
January-
The Last Mortal Man by Syne Mitchell
Magic and Other Misdemeanors by Michael Buckley
Frill Kill by Laura Childs
Fool's Puzzle by Earlene Fowler
Never Can Say Goodbye by Robert Farrell Smith
Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
February-
About Alice by Calvin Trillin
Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples
March-
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Babylon's Ark by Lawrence Anthony
April-
The Hindi Bindi Club by Monica Pradhan
A Poisoned Season by Tasha Alexander
Point of Entry by Peter Schechter
Austenland by Shannon Hale
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George
The Fortune Quilt by Lani Diane Rich
Tutu Deadly by Natalie Roberts
The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
Karma Girl by Jennifer Estep
The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
May-
Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder
Fire Study by Maria V. Snyder
And Only To Deceive by Tasha Alexander
The Society of S by Susan Hubbard
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
Silent in the Sanctuary by Deanna Raybourn
Tink North of Neverland by Kiki Thorpe
Consequences by Penelope Lively
Before I Wake by Robert J. Wiersema
Havoc by Jack DuBrul
Tales From the Hood by Michael Buckley
The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
Hot Mama by Jennifer Estep
Tapped Out by Natalie Roberts
Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
June-
Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz
The Golden Dream of Carlos Chuchio by Lloyd Alexander
Getting Away is Deadly by Sara Rosett
Vulcan's Fire by Jack DuBrul
Charon's Landing by Jack DuBrul
Ever by Gail Carson Levine
Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Bee's Kiss by Barbara Cleverly
July-
Wildlife Folklore by Laura C. Martin
Medusa Stone by Jack DuBrul
Pandora's Curse by Jack DuBrul
August-
The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson
River of Ruin by Jack DuBrul
Deep Fire Rising by Jack DuBrul
September-
The Last Kashmiri Rose by Barbara Cleverly
Ragtime in Simla by Barbara Cleverly
The Big Over-Easy by Jasper Fforde
Persuasion by Jane Austen
You Can Never Find A Rickshaw When it Monsoons by Mo Willems
The Damascened Blade by Barbara Cleverly
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E M Forster
October-
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shafer and Anne Barrows
Tug of War by Barbara Cleverly
Folly Du Jour by Barbara Cleverly
Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark
The Second Time Around by Mary Higgins Clark
Along Came a Stranger by Dorie M. Lawson
Magic Lost, Trouble Found by Lisa Shearin
Mermaids in the Basement by Michael Lee West
The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackerman
Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen
Interred with their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam by Chris Ewan
Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers
Whatever You Do, Don't Run by Peter Allison
Last Rituals by Yrsa Sigudadottir
Poisoned Pedigree by GG Vandagriff
Tangled Roots by GG Vandagriff
The War Against Miss Winter by Kathryn Miller Haines
The Maidenstone Lighthouse by Sally Smith O'Rourke
Armed and Magical by Lisa Shearin
November-
Armed and Magical by Lisa Shearin (again)
Pointe and Shoot by Natalie M. Roberts
Death Swatch by Laura Childs
A Fatal Waltz by Tasha Alexander
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
Sisters of the Sword by Maya Snow
Odd Mom Out by Jane Porter
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay
The Lumiere Affair by Sara Voorhees
Let There Be Suspects by Emilie Richards
Cankered Roots by GG Vandagriff
Of Deadly Descent by GG Vandagriff
The Tale of Briar Bank by Susan Wittig Albert
Blessed is the Busybody by Emilie Richards
December-
Beware False Profits by Emilie Richards
Dying for Chocolate by Diane Mott Davidson
Against Medical Advice by J. Patterson and H. Friedman
Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson
Chalice by Robin Mckinley
Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon and Dean Hale
Magic Lost, Trouble Found by Lisa Shearin (again)
Death at Bishop's Keep by Robin Paige
Elizabeth: The Golden Age by Tasha Alexander
So there it is, in all it's glory.
Enjoy.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Friday, January 2, 2009
A Look Back...
Goodbye 2008. Which is such a very weird thing to say... hmm.
So... I posted monthly totals a little while ago. Add to those my NINE books for December, and we have 107.
Of those: 8 were for my book group (Only 8? Seriously? Let's see, we skipped March, and I guess July's book ran into August.... and I didn't read it anyway. Shocking, I know, but Shakespeare and moving soooooo don't go together! And of course, we skipped December, on the grounds that it's a crazy enough month on its own.)
Anyway
36 were Reader's Choice. (Plus rereading a couple of Reader's Choice.)
And what was my favorite, you ask. I honestly don't know.
Some books are just apples and oranges and you really couldn't say one was better than the other... and frankly, I'm just indecisive.
But I can say that the authors I've read a lot of this year are (in no particular order):
Tasha Alexander
Natalie Roberts
Lisa Lutz
Maria V. Snyder
Lisa Shearin
Jack Du Brul
G. G. Vandagriff
Deanna Raybourn
Michael Buckley
Sara Rosett
Barbara Cleverly
Jasper Fforde
Laura Childs
Sara Addison Allen
Emilie Richards
Diane Mott Davidson
Quite the list, really.
And in the spirit of the new year--
I want to read at least 100 books again this year.
I want to finish the Reader's Choice lists-- both of them.
I want to read more of what I own.... especially things that I'm not positive I need to own.
I want to read more to my kids. I don't actually like reading aloud as much as I should.
*A note about my kids. I do not want to put my children's information on this blog. However, it is sometimes difficult to blog without mentioning them.
So, for the purposes of this blog-- "Boo" is a preschooler. She loves books and is the one heavily into the Sneaky Pony series. "Mister" is a toddler. He too loves books, though sometimes his idea of devouring a book is a little to... well, literal.
I mean, I devour books too, but I try not to leave tooth marks.
So... I posted monthly totals a little while ago. Add to those my NINE books for December, and we have 107.
Of those: 8 were for my book group (Only 8? Seriously? Let's see, we skipped March, and I guess July's book ran into August.... and I didn't read it anyway. Shocking, I know, but Shakespeare and moving soooooo don't go together! And of course, we skipped December, on the grounds that it's a crazy enough month on its own.)
Anyway
36 were Reader's Choice. (Plus rereading a couple of Reader's Choice.)
And what was my favorite, you ask. I honestly don't know.
Some books are just apples and oranges and you really couldn't say one was better than the other... and frankly, I'm just indecisive.
But I can say that the authors I've read a lot of this year are (in no particular order):
Tasha Alexander
Natalie Roberts
Lisa Lutz
Maria V. Snyder
Lisa Shearin
Jack Du Brul
G. G. Vandagriff
Deanna Raybourn
Michael Buckley
Sara Rosett
Barbara Cleverly
Jasper Fforde
Laura Childs
Sara Addison Allen
Emilie Richards
Diane Mott Davidson
Quite the list, really.
And in the spirit of the new year--
I want to read at least 100 books again this year.
I want to finish the Reader's Choice lists-- both of them.
I want to read more of what I own.... especially things that I'm not positive I need to own.
I want to read more to my kids. I don't actually like reading aloud as much as I should.
*A note about my kids. I do not want to put my children's information on this blog. However, it is sometimes difficult to blog without mentioning them.
So, for the purposes of this blog-- "Boo" is a preschooler. She loves books and is the one heavily into the Sneaky Pony series. "Mister" is a toddler. He too loves books, though sometimes his idea of devouring a book is a little to... well, literal.
I mean, I devour books too, but I try not to leave tooth marks.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Confession
So I have a confession to make. Not only am I reading Magic Lost, Trouble Found AGAIN-- it's almost the only thing I've read this month.
Seriously.
I've only read 4 other books this month and THREE of those were cotton-candy mysteries. Total Fluff.
So.... what does one review when one hasn't read anything new? A list, of course!
Here's my 2008 Year in Review:
January- 7 books, including one called Ghostwalk that I completely do not remember. Weird.
February- 2 books. Hey, it's a short month. About Alice by Calvin Trillin and Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples. Both quite good, as I recall. Though I think Haveli was kind of sad.
March- 2 books. In my defense, one was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which took my forever. (Like the 2nd half of Feb. and the first half of March.)
April- 11 books. Including The Camel Bookmobile which I wanted to love, but really didn't, as well as my introduction to Tasha Alexander.
May- 17 books. Including Magic Study and Fire Study (I read Poison Study in April). I love those books.
June- 8 books. And one was Tarzan. That was kind of a trippy read.
July- 3 books. I moved in July. You try to read in the middle of a move.
August- 3 books. See July.
September- 8 books. That's when I read Persuasion and You Can Never Find A Rickshaw When It Monsoons.
October- 23 books. I read most of the Reader's Choice books in October. Mostly because the voting ends Oct. 31st.
November- 14 books. Not bad given that it's the start of the holiday madness.
Interesting to look back over the year. (Okay, interesting to me. It may not, in fact, be interesting to anyone else.)
I'll read more soon, I promise. I only got two books for Christmas, though. And I've already read one of them. It's all good, though. It was a great day.
Merry Christmas!!!
Seriously.
I've only read 4 other books this month and THREE of those were cotton-candy mysteries. Total Fluff.
So.... what does one review when one hasn't read anything new? A list, of course!
Here's my 2008 Year in Review:
January- 7 books, including one called Ghostwalk that I completely do not remember. Weird.
February- 2 books. Hey, it's a short month. About Alice by Calvin Trillin and Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples. Both quite good, as I recall. Though I think Haveli was kind of sad.
March- 2 books. In my defense, one was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, which took my forever. (Like the 2nd half of Feb. and the first half of March.)
April- 11 books. Including The Camel Bookmobile which I wanted to love, but really didn't, as well as my introduction to Tasha Alexander.
May- 17 books. Including Magic Study and Fire Study (I read Poison Study in April). I love those books.
June- 8 books. And one was Tarzan. That was kind of a trippy read.
July- 3 books. I moved in July. You try to read in the middle of a move.
August- 3 books. See July.
September- 8 books. That's when I read Persuasion and You Can Never Find A Rickshaw When It Monsoons.
October- 23 books. I read most of the Reader's Choice books in October. Mostly because the voting ends Oct. 31st.
November- 14 books. Not bad given that it's the start of the holiday madness.
Interesting to look back over the year. (Okay, interesting to me. It may not, in fact, be interesting to anyone else.)
I'll read more soon, I promise. I only got two books for Christmas, though. And I've already read one of them. It's all good, though. It was a great day.
Merry Christmas!!!
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