Reading Lists

A Month of Books – February

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Let’s see how I did in February – pretty darn well, I think. Maybe?

Starting with my Challenges:

Audiobooks – 3 (Finally finished The Marriage Plot and then listened to Dexter and finished up with  A Monster Calls, which was amazing but read the full post before you decide to read it.)

Steampunk – 3  (Which means I’ve pretty much exceeded the initial goal I set for myself for this challenge – too easy, particularly when the Souless series was too good not to read. Let’s see if I can do 9 total this year.)

Adoption – 0 (Sheesh. I need some recommendations.)

Queer – 1 (Gah, seriously? We need more gay fiction.)

From the Stacks – 1 (Two for one! Chasing Lightning from the stacks and queer – sweet!)

Cybils – 8 (Mostly graphic novels but I’ve made a good start.)

Nancy Drew – 0

Total Books Read – 24

–          YA 2 (Really? Just 2? That’s crazy)

–          Non-fiction 2 (Really? Gah! I thought it was more.)

–          Graphic Novels 4 (Now we’re getting somewhere)

–          Children’s books 4 (Ah hah, now I remember what I read in February)

–          1 eBook

Books Quit – 1, though I don’t consider it a quit since I read one paragraph and put it down. I didn’t even know whether I wanted to read it – I just plucked it from the shelf without looking to see what it was.

Books in Progress – 2 (One print, one eBook.)

Shoot. Maybe I didn’t do quite as well as I thought?

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A Month of Books – January

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I’m going to try and take do a better job of tracking my book challenges and stuff in 2012 and I thought a good way to do that would be to do a month in review on the last day of every month – so here’s the first shot at it.

–          Audio books – still, yes STILL, listening to The Marriage Plot. (We may never finish – even though I’m enjoying it.)

–          Steampunk – 1

–          Adoption – 0

–          Queer – 2

–          From the Stacks – 1

–          Cybils – 0

–          Nancy Drew – 0

–          1001 Books to Read Before You Die and 1001 Books to Read Before you Get Old – well I looked at both lists. I made a cursory shot at figuring out which ones I’ve read and have determined, nope. Can’t even begin to think about doing either of these.  There are too many books and not enough time. Maybe when I retire. Or something.

Total books read – 11 12

Total books quit – 1

Print books still in progress – 1 0

–          YA – 6

–          Non-fiction – 1

–          Graphic Novels – 1

Oy. I need to pick up the pace a bit, don’t I?

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Bibliotherapy

2010, Books in Bed, Chick Lit, Non-Fiction, Reading Lists /

I wrote briefly about Bibliotherapy in BlogHer’s Book Club – go over there and read the post (and tell me about your favorite bad girls.) But more importantly, think about books that have become like a kind of therapy to you, even if you didn’t read them with that intention. And then go leave a comment on this post: Books Make a Difference – each comment means a free book for Head Start!

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Ophelia Joined the Maidens Who Don’t Float Group

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Ophelia Joined the Maidens Who Don’t Float Group is the funniest book I’ve read in ages.

I’ve been trying to describe it, over in the BlogHer Book Club, and I think I can sum it up best like this:

1) Take cliff notes of all of the classics and hire someone to rewrite them.

2) Hire Christopher Moore to rewrite them.

3) Chris Moore decides to use the Facebook style interface to rewrite them.

Tada – this is the book you get.

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Wednesday Wars

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I have been in bed almost all day. Sort of an accidental participation on Bring a Book to Bed Day due to some combination of exhaustion and a cold or something. I slept a good bit but I also read quite a lot.

I finished Wednesday Wars, which I discovered when I was looking at the list of YA finalists for Cybil Awards.

I laughed my way through it. I laughed a lot more than TW did when she read it. Possibly because of the “rats” or possibly because of the Shakespeare. Or maybe it was all of the death threats a 7th grader can get.

Great book.

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My 2006 Reading List

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I read far too many books in 2006 to give a rundown of best/worst so all I’m going to do is make a list and be done with it.  Next year I’ll be tagging the books I read with "2007" so that will make it easier than sifting through the monthly archives – I wish I’d thought of that sooner!

I read a total of 149 150 books: there were 38 non-fiction and 111 112 fiction.  Of those, 21 22 were young adult/children’s books, 6 were audio, 10 were classics and 15 were GLBT or had strong GLBT themes.  Not a bad reading year.  Lots of favorites in there, not too many duds.  That’s all I can ask in a year of books!

If you’re interested in more reading lists from 2006, you can fine a nice group of them at Semi-colon

January:
Clearcut
Breakfast With Tiffany
Wed and Buried
THe Peabody Sisters
The Killing Art
Sky Pirates (The Edge Chronicles)
Over Easy
Uncontrolled Flight
What Do You Do All Day?
Grace At Low Tide

February:
Rococo
The Tent
The Devil’s Picnic
The Email Murders

March:
Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocolypse
Jesus Land
The Leopard Hat
Sock
Money Secrets
Night
For Whom the Minivan Rolls
Ourland
She Got Up Off the Couch

April:
Farewell Legs
A Dirty Job
Whale Season
The Wright Three
Anyone But You
Weekend Makeover
Emotionally Weird
In the Company of the Courtesan
Tithe
The Understudy

May:
The Tenth Circle
To Hell With All That (I didn’t finish it)
Carolina Isle
Pitching My Tent
Rose of No Man’s Land
The Egg & I
Odd Girl Out
Odd Girl Speaks Out
Hot Fudge Sundae Blues
Penelopiad
Girls of a Tender Age

June:
Valiant
Cloud Atlas
Witness
Dragonflight
If You Could See Me Now
Here Be Dragons
The Naked Woman
The Moonstone
Tummy Trilogy
Bullshit
The Day My Butt Went Psycho
Blue Shoes and Happiness
The Lost Painting
Are We There Yet
Dinner With Anna Karenina

July:
The Shadow of the Wind
Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson)
Vanity Fair
The Ancient Child
The Book Thief
Kindred
Black Elk in Paris
The Night Watch
Four and Twenty Blackbirds
The Crucible
Adam & Eve

August:
The Odd Women
The Bullet Trick
The Stolen Child
The Sculptress
The Year of Magical Thinking
Tamburlaine Must Die
The Crying of Lot 49
The Prophet of Yonwood
The Woman Warrior
Some Pig
The Girls
The Effect of Living Backwards
Midwives
Mrs Shakespeare
The Land of Women
Gravity’s Rainbow (I didn’t finish it)
Kristin Lavransdatter

September:
The Story of Lucy Gault
Fan-Tan
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Welcome to Lizard Motel
Snapshots of Bloomsbury
The Sun and the Moon
Soul Kitchen
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Voyage in the Dark
Anybody Can Do Anything
Drive
Freeglader (The Edge Chronicles)
The Dark Lady of DNA
Confessions of a Pagan Nun
Robinson Crusoe
Misquoting Jesus

October:
Maps for Lost Lovers
Soiled Doves
Crocodile Soup
The Masque of the Black Tulip
The Zombie Survival Guide
The Things That Matter
The Inheritance of Loss
The Devil’s Feather
Now it’s My Turn
The Birth House
Carry Me Down
The Secret River
The Teahouse on Mulberry Street
Mother’s Milk

November:
Killer Dreams
The Rules of Survival
Diary
Hancock Park
Frangipani
The Fourth Bear
Goodnight Nobody
From Here to Reality
Fun Home
The Emperor’s Children
Autobiography of a Face
There is No Me Without You
The Third Policeman
The Coroner’s Journal
The Ice House
As Seen on TV
Acorna’s Children
Lesbian Images
The Creation
The Painted Drum

December:
The Secret of Sarah Revere
Absurdistan
Class Matters
Liberty Square
Happiness Sold Separately
Dirty Blonde
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
No Reservations Required
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
Black Swan Green
Tanglewreck
The Iron Girl
Stage Fright
A Bad Boy Can Be Good For a Girl
The Glass Books of the Dreameaters

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