Is anybody planning to start a 50 in 2012 community? I enjoyed reading with you all this year & happy new year of reading to you all!

17: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente
18: Shatter Me, Tahereh Mafi
19: Ten Rules for Living With My Sister, Ann M. Martin
20: Incarnate, Jodi Meadows
21: The Kitemaster and Other Stories, Jim C. Hines
22: Goblin Tales, Jim C. Hines

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own ( Read more... )

Woo-hoo - made it to 50! I'm guessing my total books read in 2011 will be 52-54 by Dec. 31...

Book #49 was "Gormenghast," the second of three books in a series by Mervyn Peake. Our main character, Titus, comes of age in this book and really becomes the 77th Earl of Groan in his own right - only to relinquish the role at the very end. I love the ( Read more... )

Book #47 was "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by David Eggers. It's a memoir about him losing both his parents within a month's time and ending up raising his much-younger brother when he is only just barely an adult (21 when his parents die) himself. He is very upfront about the fact that he's massaged some dates, times and names and ( Read more... )

I haven't added books in a while.
I've read Dune Road by Jane Green, Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Boys and Girls Like You and Me by Aryn Kyle ( Read more... )

I've discovered that I can post from the browser on my not-so-smartphone, so here goes.

13: Namaah's Curse, Jaqueline Carey.
14: Skin Trade, Laurell K. Hamilton
15 4: Bullet, Laurell K. Hamilton
15: The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate

Namaah's Curse is part two in Carey's last Terre D'Ange story trilogy. She has openly said that this will be the ( Read more... )

Book #45 was "Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America" by Erik Larson. I picked this up on the recommendation of a friend and really liked it. Larson writes in a very novelistic narrative way, and so this was a fun and relatively easy read, while I still learned a ton about the history of Chicago, the ( Read more... )

Book #43 was "A Night in the Lonesome October" by Roger Zelazny, as an audiobook, read by the author. I LOVED this book! I don't think Zelazny is the best reader ever, but it's always interesting to me to hear a book read by the author. It's his last book before he died, and he recorded the audiobook days or weeks before his death. The recording ( Read more... )

Book #41 was "Silver on the Tree," the last in the 5-book series "The Dark is Rising" by Susan Cooper. I think I liked book #4, "The Grey King," the best, but this one was quite satisfying as well, as she wrapped up all the threads in the previous books. I was sad about what happened to a few of the characters, but it seemed entirely fitting. I ( Read more... )

Book #39 was "Titus Groan," the first in a series of books by Mervyn Peake, all set in the same castle, Gormenghast. The series was made into a really fun mini-series some time ago, and that was my introduction to Peake's universe. I find the books are very funny, though it's a dark and dry sense of humor. They get classified as fantasy, but really ( Read more... )