This week, I read Beloved. I'm not sure I have much else to say here except I checked it off the list. I didn't care for this book at all on several different levels. It was creepy, oddly written (I had an immensely hard time getting it started - I was lost and confused for the first 3 chapters) and I'm still not sure what it's about. If that was it's intent, then it scored an A+. Would I recommend it to anyone? No. I didn't like it and it gave me nightmares.
The library didn't have a copy of The Last Unicorn, so I requested it via interlibrary loan - we'll see if I can get it before the end of the year!
I did order a 99-cent copy of Muse in print, which should be here this week to start, so I'll read that first.
I was happy to see our library had an audiobook copy I could borrow (plus an easy-to-use audiobook app to download) of Cinder, so I grabbed a copy of that and have been listening to it while I spin. Interesting premise (a retelling of Cinderella), but while it's a Young Adult category book, I don't think I'd want my 12 or 13-year-old reading it. (References to the plague and the main character being used for biological experimentation.) It's an entertaining read.... just not exactly what I was expecting here.
I have been working on my 2016 Challenge List. I think I may fill in more things as I go this year (although I do have maybe a third of it planned out already), but try to utilize the library and free audiobooks for some of the topics, based on what our library has available. I'll post topics for next year here next Monday, so if anyone wants to join in, they can see what's on the list so far!
WEEKS & TOPICS
The library didn't have a copy of The Last Unicorn, so I requested it via interlibrary loan - we'll see if I can get it before the end of the year!
I did order a 99-cent copy of Muse in print, which should be here this week to start, so I'll read that first.
I was happy to see our library had an audiobook copy I could borrow (plus an easy-to-use audiobook app to download) of Cinder, so I grabbed a copy of that and have been listening to it while I spin. Interesting premise (a retelling of Cinderella), but while it's a Young Adult category book, I don't think I'd want my 12 or 13-year-old reading it. (References to the plague and the main character being used for biological experimentation.) It's an entertaining read.... just not exactly what I was expecting here.
I have been working on my 2016 Challenge List. I think I may fill in more things as I go this year (although I do have maybe a third of it planned out already), but try to utilize the library and free audiobooks for some of the topics, based on what our library has available. I'll post topics for next year here next Monday, so if anyone wants to join in, they can see what's on the list so far!
WEEKS & TOPICS
1. a book with more than 500 pages: Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth. FINISHED.
2. a romance: Katherine by Anya Seton. FINISHED
4. a book published this year: The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck. FINISHED.
5. a book with a number in the title: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. FINISHED.
6. a book written by someone under 30: Eragon by Christopher Paolini. FINISHED.
7. a book with nonhuman characters: The Greyfriar by Susan Griffith. FINISHED.
8. a funny book: Bossypants by Tina Fey. FINISHED.
9. a book by a female author: Fever 1793 by Laurie Anderson. FINISHED.
10. a mystery or thriller: Séance in Sepia by Michelle Black. FINISHED.
12. a book of short stories: Tapping the Dream Tree by Charles deLint. FINISHED.
13. a book set in a different country: The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak. FINISHED.
14. a nonfiction book: The Fossil Hunter by Shelley Emling. FINISHED.
15. a popular author's first book: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. FINISHED.
16. a book from your favorite author that you haven't read yet: Forests of the Heart by Charles deLint. FINISHED.
17. a book a friend recommended: Botelo by Alyson Hagy. FINISHED.
18. a Pulitzer-prize winning book: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. FINISHED.
19. a book based on a true story: The Wild Princess by Mary Hart Perry. FINISHED.
20. a book at the bottom of your to read list: Before I Go To Sleep by S.J Watson. FINISHED.
21. a book your mom or dad loves: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. FINISHED.
22. a book that scares you: The Blackhouse by Peter May. FINISHED.
23. a book more than 100 years old: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. FINISHED.
24. a book based entirely on its cover: Twilight of Avalon by Anna Elliot. FINISHED.
25. a book you were supposed to read in school but didn't: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. FINISHED.
26. a memoir: Two Rings by Millie Werber and Eve Keller. FINISHED.
27. a book you can finish in a day: India Black by Carol Karr. FINISHED.
28. a book with antonyms in the title: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt. FINISHED.
29. a book set somewhere you've always wanted to visit: Iceland by Betsy Tobin. FINISHED.
30. a book that came out the year you were born: Mary, Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser. FINISHED.
31. a book with bad reviews: The Last Unicorn.
32. a trilogy (the first): Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clarke. FINISHED.
33. a trilogy (the second) Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clarke. FINISHED.
34. a trilogy (the third) Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clarke. FINISHED.
35. a book from your childhood: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell. FINISHED.
36. a book with a love triangle: Muse by Mary Novak.
37. a book set in the future: Cinder by Marissa Meyer.
38. a book set in high school: The Small Rain by Madeline L’Engle. FINISHED.
39. a book with a color in the title: Scarlet by A.C Gaughen. FINISHED.
40. a book that made/makes you cry: Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. FINISHED.
41. a book with magic: Grave Witch by Kalayna Price. FINISHED.
42. a graphic novel: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith.
43. a book by an author you've never read before: My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira. FINISHED.
44. a book you own but have never read: The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro. FINISHED.
45. a book that takes place in your hometown: Magic America by C.E. Medford. FINISHED.
46. a book that was originally written in another language: Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende. FINISHED.
47. a book set during Christmas (or similar holiday): A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas. FINISHED
48. a book written by an author with your same initials: Silver Lies by Ann Parker. FINISHED.
49. a play: The Odd Couple by Neil Simon. FINISHED.
50. a banned book: Beloved by Toni Morrison. FINISHED.
51. a book based on OR turned into a tv show: Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs. FINISHED.
52. a book you started but never finished: The Tudor Rose by Margaret Campbell Barnes. FINISHED.
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