booklist 2 ( 2012)
Faerie War by Herbie Brennan ( library Kindle) YA – parallel universes – hell ,Faerie, and our world so far. maybe 13 and up
Zombie autopsies by Steven Scholzman, MD Not a novel in a the traditional sense - just some ‘scientific notes’ that give a snippet of time. feels real. and is gross. but good
Virals Kathy Riches (libkindle) Seriously good sci-fi adventure books for teens. read it on my kindle and was annoyed I couldn’t take in the bath. review here
Scored by Laurie Mclaughlin (lib book) What if instead of the SAT – you whole life was scored. – Started out really good,I want ed to make someone else read it . It ended well, but I didn’t have the same urge to make people read it. I guess it answered enough of the books questions
Secret garden ( kindle free classic) – reread.
Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children by Ransom Riggs (library book ) creepy, amazing, different all based on a bunch of found photos. Has to be read in a form where you can see the photos.
Sew Deadly (kindle library) Elizabeth Lynn Casey mystery - south – librarian and sewing . fun, but a little too – “look at the odd rules of the south “- not subtle.
A Modern Witch by Debra Geary ( amazon loan) silly modern witch book , with romance
Heart of evil by heather Graham kindle library loan paranormal romance
Bones of Fairie by Jamie Lee Simner .library book .Beautiful, lovely horror/fairy tale that takes place in the near future after a horrible , devastating war between faerie and our world.
So 2 plus 10 is 12 for January 2012
First book list for 2012
Mind Over Monsters ( a F. R. E. A. K. S. squad investigation ) by Jennifer Harlow LB
Perdido Street Station China Meiville . ( shelf book ) This one has been stiing on my shelf for awhile. Not sure why . I read King Rant and Un Lon Dun a while ago and enjoyed them. This one is wierd, and fanastial , far beyond the other too. I just finished this last night - a long book , souch incredible world building, really good and 700 pages long. which isn’t really a negative, but it took a long time to read , because it was a whole new world. I kept having to pause to absorb.
so 2 for January so far
resolved:
So I am not unhappy with last year – the less than idea things , were not things I could do much about. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t changes I want to make.
I have this challenge to read at least one book a month off my to-be-read shelves. I like fun goals!
For fun and to make me happy – I resolve to pay more attention to my hair. Since it hasn’t seen a pair of scissors in over 12 months , we aren’t talking a major challenge. But I am still thinking streaks.
and I want to start walking to work again and doing yoga on a regular basis. I just don’t want to lose what I gained last year. I just got to get it on the schedule. But more dancing is something we should do. We means a whole bunch of people I know, lots of people thought it sounded great when I mentioned it on facebook. For me dancing feels good. no pain no tiredness, I can dance for a long time and it never feels hard. When dancing is hard, life is not good.
reading summary for 2011
So it was 104 books. ( even if all I did was read today – the book I am reading now is long and complex – I won’t finish it) A few rereads and a few graphic novels. , a lot of YA ( surprise ) a couple of children and a real mix of adult books. I just went through my list to see which one were the positive stand outs
Hominids Robert J. Sawyer ( now I have 2 series by him I want to read)
Jigs and Reels by Joanne Harris ( need to read everything by her)
The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skoot
The marriage bureau for rich people Farahad Zama sweet
Every me Every you David Levithan Teen well done – photos are important, so Not an ebook choice.
Deadline Mira Grant (READ THIS BOOK) politics, medical/science ethics/media/zombies
Cloaked by Alex Finn modern fairytale with a ton of winks and nods to fairy tales
Scepter of the Ancients by Derek Landry kids books, skeleton detective , fun
The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher a world with limited water, maybe
Going Nowhere Faster by Sean Beaudoin coming of age teen age boy
Hacking Timbuktu by Stephen Davis fun – adventure hacking and pakour
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride It is hard to find your place and then being surprised at your mcjob by someone telling you that you are a necromancer just makes it more complicated.
Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Mayberry well done after the Zombie apocalypse
and here are the books I am saying not to bother:
Prime Cut Diane Davidson Sorry, no more of these — they aren’t that interesting – and Goldy feels sort of whinny and I don’t really like her.
Spray by Harry Edge It was just silly
Ripple effect by Paul McCusker boring time travel – christian fiction with no story
Subject Seven by James Moore horror, dull, gross, flat characters
Brain Jack by Brian Falkner techno not thriller
Now , about the numbers – in high school I read close to a book a day. As an adult, my peak was somewhere in the neighborhood of 120 -144 books in a year. I am happy with about 100 in a year – it makes sense for what I do for a living and what I really like to do. A long time ago , I took a lot pride in my reading speed. I can only say now, that while I read fast, speed varies. Some books are more thought provoking so they go slower. Some are much more angsty ( and I need a cheerful break) .
Why Keep track ? First, it is my memory when I need to recommend books. Second, when I get in a lazy space and don’t do much reading, it spurs me on to pick up another book.
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Hominids Robert J. Sawyer lb parallel universe, neandertals are t he dominant species in a very different world – that intersects with ours
Geektastic - lb fun bunch of geeky short stories
Jigs and Reels by Joanne Harris tobereadshelf short stories by the author of Chocolat she writes really good short stories, if rather creepy
Zone One Colson Whitehead Kindle library literary Zombie Novel not great
One thing at a time Cindy Glovvinsky off the bookshelf organization – fit well with the flylady
Serenity: The Shepard’ s Tale off the bookshelf graphic novel book’s back story
10 books for December, 104 for the year.
I have one book I might finish before the end of the year
one was off my bookshelf two were off my bookshelf but xmas presents
done is better than perfect
Came across this article. It resonates.
I’ll start with flylady - despite the over excitement about a clean house – if you really read what is going on , it is about good enough, improvement and better, not perfect. And yes, I know she says everyday is antiprocarstination day, however that’s the point. What makes sense to you? If you need a day off – take it. As long as it is done, and it works for you, just fine.
I hear a lot of not done yet , I have so much to do for christmas… my thought , do less. Or change how you do it.
Now I came across this article on the everybody walk page. Exercise and diet – another place where I hear ‘not enough, too much , is heard a lot. One of the great places where a little improvement is a very good thing.
So what am I going to do with this. I don’t know yet. Resolutions came up at the cafe this morning. I think I’d like to come up with something. not to improve me , but to add to my quality of life.
