March!
In March I read 10 books for a total of 3,590 pages and an average of 116 pages per day! A pretty satisfying lineup too! Continue reading
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February Wrap Up
February!
In February I read 10 books for a total of 2,285 pages and an average of 82 pages per day. Pretty good for such a short month!
January Wrap Up
January!
In January I read 13 books for a total of 3,323 pages and an average of 107 pages per day. I’m incredibly pleased with how I started the year!
December Wrap Up
December!
What a way to wrap up the year – I read 20 books (my record for the year!) for a total of 2,876 pages and an average of 92 pages per day.
October Wrap Up
October!
In October I read 12 books for a total of 2,645 pages and an average of 85 pages per day. Of the 12, 5 were audiobooks – see, I’m giving them a fair chance – though I’m running out of ones I want to listen to that don’t have a million-week wait list. Sigh. I’ve also DNF’d a whopping 3 books this month! Hi-yah!
September Wrap Up
September!
This month I read 18 books for a total of 3,711 pages and an average of 124 pages per day. Whew! I’m still experimenting with audiobooks and while I’m more interested in listening to them, I’m still really picky (for instance, I hated the voices in The Hobbit). My favorites this month were The Punch Escrow and Sea of Rust and I couldn’t be happier to finally be done with the damn Dark Tower series. UGH.
July Wrap Up
This month I read 19 books for a total of 5,108 pages and an average of 165 pages. Holy crap! I had an unexpectedly great reading month. Granted 8 books were graphic novels, but if you didn’t count those (which, I of course, totally do), 11 is still impressive. I read some great books this month but tops were definitely A Closed and Common Orbit and The Sparrow. Least favorite by far was Tender Morsels.
June Wrap Up
This month I read 9 books for a total of 3,080 pages and an average of 103 pages per day. Long Way was by far my favorite book, but The Serpent King was a close second. The Burning Light was also a fantastic novella.
November Wrap Up
November!
This month I read 10 books for a total of 2,705 pages and an average of 90 pages per day. I read some great books this month, but unfortunately a couple were really boring and terrible (reviews coming later this month on those stinkers.)
Reviewed:
Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver
First Sentence: On the third night after the day her father died, Liesl saw a ghost.
Notable Quotes: “People need other people to feel things for them. It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.”
“When people were afraid, they did not always do what they knew to be right. They turned away. They closed their eyes. They said, tomorrow, tomorrow, perhaps, I’ll do something about it. And they said that until they died.”
A few thoughts on Goodreads:
The Book of Elsewhere: Spellbound by Jacqueline West
First Sentence: Everyone who lived in the big stone house on Linden Street eventually went insane.
Ship of Fools by Richard Paul Russo
First Sentence: We had not made landfall in more than fourteen years.
The Liszts by Kyo Maclear
First Sentence: The Liszts made list.
Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell
First Sentence: “Every day is ordinary,” Father Willibald said, “until it isn’t.”
The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell
First Sentence: A dark sky.
Dingo by Charles de Lint
First Sentence: No one likes to think it of their father, but there are days when I can’t help but feel that somehow I got stuck with the biggest loster of all loser dads.
Notable Quote: “But that’s the problem with words. Once you let them out of your mouth, there’s no taking them back again.”
Reviews to come:
After Alice by Gregory Maguire
First Sentence: Were there a god in charge of story – I mean one cut to Old Testament specifics, some hybrid of Zeus and Father Christmas – such a creature, such a diety, might be looking down upon a day opening in Oxford, England, a bit past the half-way mark of the 19th century.
Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman
First Sentence: This morning on planet Earth, there are one thousand, six hundred, and eighty-six enhanced, gifted, or otherwise-superpowered persons.
The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan
First Sentence: There are three suns in the sky ad it is the last day of autumn – perhaps forever.
May Wrap Up
May!
This month I read 9 books for a total of 3,079 pages and an average of 99 pages per day! I’m really happy with my stats this month, and more importantly I really enjoyed almost all of the books I picked up! I was especially enamored with The Wild Robot and Alias Hook!
My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
First Sentence: The exorcist is dead.
The Mark of the Dragonfly by Jaleigh Johnson
First Sentence: Micah brought the music box to her on the night of the meteor storm.
Emperor of the Eight Islands by Lian Hearn
First Sentence: “Did you see what happened?”
Sung in Shadow by Tanith Lee
First Sentence: “And do you not know, then?”
Risuko by David Kudler
First Sentence: My name is Kano Murasaki, but everyone calls me Risuko.
The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
First Sentence: Our story begins on the ocean, with with and rain and thunder and lighting and waves.
Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen
First Sentence: Second star to the right of what?
Notable Quote: “Kindness freely offered that asks for no reward, love that values another above yourself, the wisdom to live without fear. This is the best of life.”
Wolf Road by Beth Lewis
First Sentence: I sat up high, oak branch ‘tween my knees, and watched the tattooed man stride about in the snow.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
First Sentence: Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened.
Notable Quotes: “Kissing looks like too much of someone else’s dental hygiene if you ask me.”
“Our mother used to have mystery under her skin, and we paid not the slightest attention.”
“…it’s still frightening when the things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.”
