Hi! It's been several months since I posted any kind of book list, so this covers the last three months of the year. I felt all year that I wasn't reading very much, but in the end my total was fine. Not as high as some years, but totally acceptable.

( Hoozah! )

moredetails asked... and I aim to please :-)

Faves

The Girl with All the Gifts - M.R. Carey. A very unusual zombie-story - partly because the zombie is the main character, and the story is (mostly) told from her viewpoint! She's able to think, feel and even empathise, and knows absolutely, positively that eating her favourite teacher is wrong! Brilliant ( Read more... )

Happy new year, community! I didn't read any books in December, hence my non-post. But I am enjoying your posts and I hope some of you might want to share your favs and least-favs from 2016, and/or books you're looking forward to reading this year.

And don't forget your usual book lists each month (or whenever)!

Also: do you have any reading ( Read more... )

Lesley Gould - Courting Cate 4/5
In this Amish novel inspired by Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Cate Miller is known for her sharp tongue and fiery temper around Paradise, Pennsylvania in contrast to her sweet sister Betsy. Exasperated by his daughter, their father sets a rule: Cate must marry first before Betsy can court. And when the free ( Read more... )

I didn't post for October or November because I didn't finish any books then.  I finished one in December.

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven 4/5Libby is 16.  When she was 13, she was named "America's Fattest Teen" and had to be cut out of her house.  Now, she's lost a lot of weight, but she's still pretty big.  She's finally going back to ( Read more... )

( Ten books this month! That's more like it )

Winter - Marissa Meyer
Final book in the Lunar Chronicles Series. Way too long with too many unnecessary scenes.

Eligible - Curtis Sittenfeld
A modern take on Pride and Prejudice. This one takes place in Cincinnati and everyone is older with Jane nearing 40 and Lydia around 26, I believe. There are some interesting and somewhat scandalous ( Read more... )

I only managed 5 books this past month! No special reason - I've just been too wrapped up in knitting first my Paradise Cardigan and then my HamilKnit hat that I've been more inclined to pick up my knitting rather than my books (also, I'm in the middle of a book that just CAN'T catch my attention, but which I've borrowed off a friend and therefore ( Read more... )

The past couple months, as it happened, were all about children's and young adult books -- pretty unusual for me!

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Rachelle Dekker - The choosing 4/5In a Dystopian American city, women have no value unless they are chosen to be a man's wife. Carrington Hale leaves her Choosing ceremony alone and has to resign herself to live the rest of her life as a servant, a Lint, the lowest level of society. But rumours of rebellion and a different truth reach her and ( Read more... )