I sound like a broken record here, don’t I? Among the Mad was excellent. Another great Maisie Dobbs book. I keep waiting for a bad one. Or a not excellent one. A mediocre one. You know there are always a couple that just aren’t amazing when you’re reading a series.
I think I’m going to call 2013 the year of Maisie Dobbs because I’ve enjoyed these so darn much.
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Another great Maisie Dobbs, on audio. I love these. An Incomplete Revenge was awesome — I loved the setting, hop picking in Kent (fascinating) and the Roma. I also loved B.T. Drummond. I love the way the book ended. I just plain loved everything about it.
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Ghost Writer — it was on some list of creepy books I saw around Halloween. I’d never read it. I reserved it. It stunk.
So slow.
I tried to get through it. I gave it a full week and was half way through and for two days I just couldn’t bring myself to pick it up so I quit and it’s back at the library where I hope it finds someone who enjoys it. That someone would not be me.
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I’m not a fan of “boy” YA and when the boy YA is also sportscentric, I know it’s either going to be a total snoozer for me OR it’s going to be one of the best books ever.
Boy21 — one of the best books ever.
I was worried, particularly at the beginning, but right about the time Finley met “Boy21” I had settled in and was hooked. I read the book straight through after that. Now I’m left wondering what happened to Finley, Erin and Russ. I hope they all three had good, happy lives.
I hadn’t planned on reading The Prayer Box but TW said it was good and nothing else looked very appealing so… I read it. Great chick lit. I enjoyed it. It was just the right easy, feel good, read for a busy few days.
Now I’m tempted to reserve The Sea Glass Sisters (a prequel to The Prayer Box…)
I had planned to read Me and Earl and the Dying Girl last because it’s the book I’d meant to read before it actually hit the Cybils shortlist. But, Boy21 is still on my holds list and the other one I haven’t read isn’t available at my library and I’m either going to have to buy it or be content with not reading all of the books on the shortlist…
So, I read it ALMOST last and enjoyed it.
I was afraid I’d see too many similarities with The Fault in Our Stars but it’s not that book AT ALL. Not at all. Yea, a girl dies and these are teens and that’s pretty much the only similarity. I liked Earl an awful lot and I totally groked Greg. This one might make a better movie than a book… I can really see this as a film.
Good book, not the best — but good. Very good. I wasn’t disappointed at all.
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(Just a note for myself: Finished in November and counted in November’s reading count.)
I spent a lot of time looking for a new book from the author of The Thirteenth Tale because that book was awesome. Right about the time I gave up on ever seeing a new book from her, I discovered Bellman & Black and reserved it right away. And then I forgot about it until I realized it was due back to the library and couldn’t be renewed. I hate it when that happens.
It wasn’t as good as The Thirteenth Tale but it wasn’t horrible. Rooks can be creepy, under the right circumstances — but whatever you do, don’t hit one with a damn slingshot, ‘k?
A few weeks ago, I saw a blog post that had a list of creepy books (or maybe it was creepy book covers?) for Halloween. Oh, well. Maybe it was a month ago, not a few weeks ago? Whatever. Time flies and I still haven’t caught up with book blogging. Whatevs. I’ll get there. Eventually.
Anyway, on this list were a couple of books that I realized I had not read. One of them was Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived In the Castle. I like Shirley Jackson. This one was available on audio and we didn’t have any other audios to listen to so… I reserved it.
Weirdest book EVER.
Very creepy.
I think TW and I will always say “Silly Merricat” and “Lazy Merricat”, just out of the blue, forever and ever. It’s that kind of book.
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Still playing catch up on my Cybils blogging but the end is in sight!
Fourmile — I liked it a lot which is unusual since it’s a boy book and boy books don’t always work for me. Watt Key, the author, is excellent though so I shouldn’t be surprised to have liked it. It didn’t feel so much like middle grade but more like YA. The violence seemed awfully violent for middle graders.
Almost Home was very middle grade fiction sort of trouble book. Homeless kid finds herself with a community of awesome adults (and kids). And, she has a cute puppy who seems to not prevent her from landing in a shelter, a group home, or a foster home. (Which would never happen, sigh.) A very feel good book, even though there are places that made me almost cry.
The Adventures of Beanboy was so much fun. I loved it. The development of Beanboy as a character… fantastic.
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I wasn’t expecting to like Vessel as much as I did — it sounded a lot like another book I read recently… the one where the girl had a gem in her navel and that marked her as… whatever it marked her as.
This book was sort of like that — but better, I think. I do have a little bit of the love/hate with the fables. They were good but sometimes a little mixed up and not quite right in places. But, overall, excellent fantasy.