I really sucked last year and stopped updating my list. I probably only read 20 books in total. So I've started off with a blast this year. Here's what I've read and the ratings I gave them.
21/50
1. Dash & Lily's Book of Dares - Rachel Cohn, David Levithan 5/5
2.Homer's Odyssey - Gwen Cooper 5/5
3.The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson 2/5
4.The Girl Who Played With Fire - Stieg Larsson 3/5
5.The Fault In Our Stars - John Green 5/5
6.Shiver - Maggie Stiefvator 3/5
7.Trusting a Stranger (Harlequin Intrigue #1170) - Kerry Connor 2/5
8.The Lover's Dictionary - David Levithan 5/5
9.The Missing Ink (Tattoo Shop Mystery #1) - Karen E. Olson 4/5
10.Fair Game (Alpha and Omega #3) - Patricia Briggs 5/5
11.Green Witch - Alice Hoffman 5/5
12.Supergirl Vol. 6: Who is Superwoman? (Supergirl #6) - Sterling Gates 3/5
13.Fables, Vol. 14: Witches (Fables #14) - Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham 5/5
14.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer 5/5
15.Spider's Bite (Elemental Assassin #1) -Jennifer Estep 3/5
16.Ultimate Comics Spider-man Vol.1 - Brian Michael Bendis, Sara Pichelli 4/5
17.Grimspace (Sirantha Jax #1) - Ann Aguirre 5/5
18.Wanderlust (Sirantha Jax #2) - Ann Aguirre 5/5
19.Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax #3) - Ann Aguirre 5/5
20.Killbox (Sirantha Jax #4) - Ann Aguirre 5/5
21.Aftermath (Sirantha Jax #5) - Ann Aguirre 5/5
Stand outs so far the Sirantha Jax series. oh god. I devoured them....and then re-read them again. The world, the characters, the plot, and pace...everything was just spot on. I'm obsessed with Ann Aguirre as an author now.
I really loved The Gueurnesy Literary and Patato Peel Pie Society. It's in my 'all time favorites' category on GoodReads along with all the Sirantha Jax books. Not many books make it in there.
The Fault In Our Stars made me bawl my eyes out. Which is definitely good.
Melissa:: I still need to read The Fault in Our Stars. One of our friends gave a signed copy to my fiance but neither of us have read it yet. He's still reading The Girl in the Steel Corset and I've got a bunch of library books to read. XD
Kitami, TFIOS is definitely John Green's best book to date. I have a copy sign by both him and his brother Hank Green. I've been following them both on YouTube 5 years I think.
The enjoy Green's characters. He's been criticized many times for writing about smart teenagers. Criticized for making them too smart but I really like them. They are much more preferable than Stephanie Meyer's characters or Cassandra Claire's.
Melissa - You got a Hanklerfish'd copy? Me too! I went to three stores to find it, but I found it!
Yeah, it made me bawl like a baby, too. I had to actually stop for a moment at one point because I had so many tears in my eyes that I couldn't see the words anymore. Why would John Green do that to me,. He is cruel. :gonk:
LFA was sad, but it didn't make me cry. I had difficulty liking any of the characters (as people - nothing wrong with the writing), so that probably contributed to it. :lol:
Papllion, I started AF a looong time ago. Couldn't get into it. Can't really remember much from it except small faeries and a boy.
Cherry, haha yep! Mine is a long story...I preordered the book the day it was up using my main credit card. By time the book came out a year later that credit card was invalid and I had forgotten. So the day of the book I'm sitting around waiting for fedex....and nothing. So I check my email and I had one message from Amazon from 7am saying they cancelled my book. uggh. So I ran to B&N and the first book I checked was Hanklerfished. :D The store I went to also only had 4 signed copies with normal green J scribble.
Cherry & Kitami, I really enjoyed Looking for Alaska. I didn't like Alaska but I figure you weren't supposed to in the first place. I did cry like a baby reading it. I just really liked the book because I felt like the whole story felt real. I could picture me and my friends from high school doing that stuff....and we did do some of it. XD
Okay, I tried doing my own synopsis, but the trilogy is ... layered. So it's kinda hard to describe it. So, I posted the synopsis from the back of the first book here:
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When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana's quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too - but on his own terms.
Shocked yet thrilled by Grey's singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success - his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family - Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey's secrets and explores her own dark desires.
(Directly from the back of the book)
I heard that people either hate or love it (And personally, I thoroughly enjoyed it! Read the first one in two days, second in three, and third in two) I couldn't put it down. I will warn you, it does have a high rating.
I'd heard of the story behind 50 Shades of Grey (fanfiction adapted to original novel) and I'd seen the cover but I didn't associate them with each other and was left thinking "It's a picture of a tie, I have no idea what this book is about. Why are they advertising it everywhere?" So at least that mystery is solved!
I read the preview chapters on the Waterstones website and it wasn't my cup of tea but to each their own. :)
Back to slogging through a very interesting but very detailled book about football with lots of different names to try to remember.
I've never read Shades of Grey, but a friend of mine recently wrote a short blog about it. It seemed pretty spot-on from what I've heard about the writing. I'm sure she wouldn't mind if I shared it:
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I'm kind of amused that this book, 50 Shades of Grey is apparently a best-seller. I'm pretty sure this author has nothing on de Sade or the other erotic novelists who have been doing this for years. :)
I think it might be because so many Americans and consumers are into the "new and latest" - they don't bother to consider how many ideas have a lot of history and have been explored before. Plus, culture's tendency to be prudish in regards to sex makes anything that appears to be out of the "norm" exciting or new.
I never expected everyone to be jumping for joy over it. The reviews of the book have been to one side or the other, with some liking and the others criticizing it. Yes, erotica has been around for a long while, but so have stories about vampires and werewolves, and wizards have been around as well. The same worlds of Harry Potter and Edward Cullen spread like wildfire, just as Christian Grey has.
Variety is the spice of life. Not everyone is going to like the same things, and that's what makes life interesting.
Well I still need to read it, but the reason behind the name of the series is the fact that the society's nobles can use magic and their magical class is represented by jewels. Black ones are the most powerful.
Roxxi Shiagami: I thought I'd tell you that I added Fifty Shades of Grey (the first of the trilogy) to my Wanted list on my library's website. Unfortunately there are nearly 700 current holds on it, so it will be a while. :XD
I'm currently reading a book called Ash by Malinda Lo. :yes: Has anyone heard of it?
