I’m on a reading binge again.
I have no idea what order I read these in, as I entered them into GoodReads.com all at once in some cases, but here’s the list:
7. Halting State by Charles Stross
This was really interesting, but took me forever, it seemed, to get through because of the multiple viewpoints. I wasn’t really emotionally invested in any of them, which may have been part of the point.
8. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks
Surprisingly, I was unable to finish this book. In part because it’s listed at “New Fiction” at my public library and I’d had it out, then renewed it once, then tried to recheck it out the day I returned it (but they don’t let you do that). But really it was because all the case studies sounded freakishly the same after a while and I was tired of hearing about people with perfect pitch whining about no longer having it.
9. The Bible: A Biography by Karen Armstrong
Another book I didn’t finish, but by choice. It just went on and on and I found that I wasn’t really that interested.
10. Atonement by Ian McEwan
I loved it up to the last section and then I loathed it. Read it, you’ll see why.
11. Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
The usual, pretty muchly.
12. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Omnibus 2
More yummy extra stories to my favorite vampire series.
13. Magic’s Child by Justine Larbalestier
You know what? While I loved this book, I was still disappointed by the lack of tying things up at the end.
14. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
Lovely.
16. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
I’d seen all the movie versions (and loved them all in their differentness), but never read the book. Wow. This was sooo boring.
17. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Yum.
18. The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards
The movie was coming on in 24 hours, so I sped through this one. It was readable, but not as outstanding as the recommendations would have had me believe.
19. Devilish by Maureen Johnson
This was so good & cute and I wanted so much more.
20. Mozart’s Sister by Rita Charbonnier
Umm, I was once again thwarted by our library’s weird check-out rules (although I guess since I’d had it a month and hadn’t finished it, I can see their point a bit), so I didn’t finish it, but by about half-way through I was annoyed with the “And so yet again, while I was more talented, my brother got all the credit/attention/women/etc.”
21. The Forgetting Room by Nick Bantock
Either his books are A)getting predictable or B)lost they’re magic or C) I’ve just read too many of them now. (I’m thinking the answer is A.)
22. A Year Without ‘Made In China’ by Sara Bongiorni
This was an interesting look at one family’s decision to stand up for what they believed in. I learned a lot about where a bunch of products come from. It was entertaining, too.
23. Sky Coyote by Kage Baker
Steph warned me that this one would be harder to get through than the first one and it was, sort of. Technically I got through it faster than the first book in The Company series, but it wasn’t as interesting. I felt like they just made up the tribe and location (though they didn’t) and the language versus the setting was a bit weird. Still I’ll read the next book (the worldview it’s set in is very interesting to me)
I’m currently reading: 1) The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and 2) The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff
Lisa Holcomb 