I'm all fired up and ready to read. Well...I've been reading all along but have fallen down on the posting about it bit. My husband got me a kindle for our 10th year wedding anniversary so I am going to renew myself this time and keep up with all my reading notes. I'm really loving the kindle. I've gotten so many free books...it's awesome! So not only will I review the best selling books I get from the library, but will be telling you all about some good but not 'huge' authors and indie authors as well. So! Look for many posts to come.

Ok, wow. I haven't updated in over two months. Eeek. I know I'll forget to list some of the books I've read. I haven't been reading as much, with cubby starting preschool and I'm trying to get the house organized. I've been doing a little nonfiction reading as well...mainly parenting, motivational type stuff but I don't blog about that. Ok lets see... I read Sucks to Be Me: The All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton, Teen Vampire (maybe) and Still Sucks to Be Me: More All-True Confessions of Mina Hamilton Smith, Teen Vampire These were cute books, light easy readying of the obviously teen vamp genre. I actually won an autographed copy of the 2nd novel. That was pretty cool! And I also read the last (currently) Vampire Academy books, Spirit Bound. There's another coming out this winter, which really is the last...at least the last centered on Rose. (good cause I'm a little bit tired of this story line. A bit drawn out). I've read there is going to be a spin off of the series. OK I know I've read a few more books than that I just have to think about what they are. It's still too early for me to think right now LOL. As I said on facebook the other day: It's not that I am not a 'morning person'...I'm not an 'awake person'.
Ciao!

2 more down

Ok... I haven't read too much the last week. But I finished Rick Riordan's Red Pyramid. I liked it although not quite as much as the Percy Jackson series. It followed a brother and sister, Carter and Sadie Kane who are descendants of great Egyptian pharaohs. After their father releases 5 Eqyptian gods, they are able to host 2 of the gods, and have magical abilities. they have to travel to Phoenix to destroy Set, the evil god and the pyramid he is building to gain the power to turn the US (or beyond) into a desert, and hopefully save their father as well. I liked some of the minor characters more than Carter and Sadie though!

I also read Shadowland by Alyson Noel. It was the 3rd one in the Immortals series. It was pretty good although poor Ever just can't listen to what people advise her. If she listened to others she wouldn't get in half the trouble she ends up in. It was good although it didn't solve the problem that was created in the LAST novel...they haven't found the antidote to the cursed antidote. Luckily the next novel (Dark Flame) came out this summer and it's on hold at the library. Yay! Just gotta figure out what to read next. It should be easy though....I have a lovely stack of books I've checked out recently.

7/8/2010

well as it seems I **obviously** can't find the willpower to post after every book I read I will try for weekly updates. Maybe that's more a more realistic goal? Well here is what I've read since my last update. And I've been reading a lot...
* The Secret Zoo by Brian Chick
* Blood Promise by Richelle Mead
* Heart to Heart by Lurlene McDaniel
* The Long Wait for Tomorrow by Joaquin Dorfman
* The Smoke Thief by Shana Abe
* Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: Stories by Vincent Lam
* Birthmarked by Caragh O'Brien

The Secret Zoo was a bit too juvenile for my tastes....and the Smoke Thief was a bit too adult. By juvenile, I don't mean as a bad thing, just more of a kids book. And The Smoke Thief had several sex scenes in it...which I don't like to read about. Romance, sure, just not...details. Ug. I just skipped over those parts. I mean it did have a good fantasy plot, about a race of dragons that can change to human and smoke form...it's not a trash romance with fabio making out with someone on the cover, but still. I don't know if I'll read anymore of it or not. Most likely not. Just stick with my YA books. Which usually don't go into graphic details.

Continuing with the vampire Academy Series, in Blood Promise Rose is tracking down Dimitri to kill him after he was turned into a strigio. She travels to Siberia and after spending some time in his clutches she kills him, or so she thinks. When she gets back to Lissa at their school, she finds out that it wasn't successful. Can't wait for the next one...it's on hold at the library and hopefully won't take too long> i like this series.


Heart to Heart was a quick read about a girl whose best friend died in a car accident. Her organs were donated and the recipient begins to develop some of the same likes and feelings of the donor. It explored the 'cellular memory' theory that some (especially heart recipients) feel after transplant.

The Long Wait for Tomorrow by Joaquin Dorfman was a combo of the movies Seventeen Again, Donnie Darko, and The Butterfly Effect. It's weird how books remind me of movies. A teen starts acting weirdly and claims he's forty years old and in a mental institution...and is in a dream of his youth or then thinks he's gone back to prevent some tragedy from occurring. it's got a suspenseful edge that keeps you reading to find out what happens. Some parts are a little confusing and it doesn't wrap up as neatly as I'd like though.

Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures: Stories by Vincent Lam follows 4 people, Fitzpatrick, Ming, Chen and Sri as they go from college to med school and beyond. It was a good book, not my favorite though. I couldn't help picturing the characters as ones from the show ER though. Fitz was carter, Ming was Neela (although Ming is Chinese, Neela was more in my head). It's short stories rather than one continuous novel, but it was about the same people so it read to me more like a choppy novel that switched points of view.

I just finished Birthmarked. It's a dystopian (for some reason I really dislike that word, dystopian...bleh) tale..."Gaia's world is outside the wall. She is a midwife and those outside the wall are required to give up three of their babies to the enclave inside the wall where they will live the privileged life every month. When Gaia's parents go missing she suddenly questions her existence and the rules that her society has always followed. She breaks into the enclave and finds that things there aren't as perfect as they've always seemed." It was good, I'll be looking forward to the next one.

Whew. I am currently reading The Red Pyramid, the first of Rick Riordan's newest series (The Kane Chronicles). Not very far into it though. I'll post again in a week or so. ciao~

what I've been reading.....

Ok, let's see. What have I read? Lament, which is the book after Ballad, by Maggie Steifvater. Loved it:) It threw me off because I was expecting it to be from Dee's point of view, but it was about James. That doesn't happen often that I've seen. But it was still very good. I like having a male protagonist. The vast majority of YA fiction have female leads, main characters. Target audience, I guess. Girls read more than guys(?) The next two books in the Vampire Academy series (Frost Bite and Shadow Kiss). I few graphic novels, and one graphic autobiographical book, which I won't even count. I just finished The Reckoning, which is the third novel in the Darkest Powers trilogy by Kelly Armstrong. I'm sad that's over...it was really starting to get good. Derek was finally able to Change and become a werewolf in the last 3rd of the book. Him and Chloe were finally starting to connect. Then bye bye. Something about werewolves, I really like. I was always a Jacob fan in Twilight. Then I read Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater, got me totally hooked on them. Not wild crazy drooling werewolves but you know, the sweet sensitive ones. LOL. I'm a little afraid to tackle some non-YA werewolf stuff though. Not really into reading about sex in books. Love the falling and romantic stuff, just not anything more. right now I'm in between two books, The Secret Zoo...which is a JF book about a boy whose sister is missing and he and his friends are trying to save her, from a secret hidden world (literally) connected to his local zoo. I'd have Darrell start reading it to Corbin but it's kinda long. the other book I am reading is The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud. It's about Charlie St. Cloud's choice between keeping a promise he made to his brother, who died in a car accident, or going after the girl he loves. I checked it out because I saw a preview of the movie that's coming out and it looked good. So far, it's ok....some bits are boring but I'll trudge through it because I suspect that the ending is gonna be amazing. One thing I do have to say the characters in the book are much older than the ones in the movie. It will be interesting to see how that changes the dynamic, if at all. (The movie stars Zac Efron who was 21 when the film was made, and already looks younger than he is, but Charlie is 28 in the book). I suppose to appeal to a younger audience. Well gotta go for now and take care of the chicklets so I'll update more later.
ciao!

i HAVE been reading....

Read a few books over the last week or so.
*Neil Gainman's The Graveyard Book (Boy raised in graveyard by ghosts after family is murdered)
*Amelia Atwater-Rhodes' Hawksong (Girl-hawk shape-shifter and boy-snake shape-shifter must marry to stop a centuries long war between their two kinds)
*William P Young's The Shack (man returns to place of his young daughter's murder to meet with God)

These were all good books. The Shack is thought provoking, and was something that I'll like to read again one day. The conversations between Mack and the different parts of God (think: trinity) were great...I'd re-read it again just for those parts. Hawksong was romantic, and you really root for both sides. I can't wait to read the next one. And The Graveyard Book was good, although I'm not such a huge fan of his as some...I mean the praise is fairly well heaped on the back of the book, but i guess they only do use the most exuberant ones LOL.

I have several books in transit at the library and I really hope some come in tomorrow.

Oh and something really cool! I won an autographed copy of Still Sucks to be Me by Kimberly Pauley. It's a teen vampire novel. Now I just gotta get the first one from the library to read it first!

The Devil's Labyrinth

Just forced myself to finish The Devil's Labyrinth by John Saul. I've read several of his books, in fact in high school Creature was one of my favorites. I just couldn't get into this book. Ug, I don't want to even try to come up with a synopsis...but let me try to be as succinct as possible. (warning: spoiler-ish) Boy gets sent to catholic boarding school after being beat at school...mom's new boyfriend (boy's dad dies in war 2 years earlier) is not who he seems and neither are the priests. Priest trying to do exorcisms...or are they?! Evil plot to kill the Pope by the priest who is really a muslim!
Too many questions in this book are left unanswered and the ending is really abrupt and unfulfilling. I don't recommend this book.

Vampire Academy

After I read those books in the below post I was itching for a little bit of my usual fare of supernatural. I read Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. It was weird but not too bad. It was about Rose, a half human half vampire- (a 'dhampir') and the living mortal vampire ('Moroi') princess Lissa that she is sworn to protect from the evil undead immortal vamires ('Strigoi'). After running away from their boarding school they are captured and sent back. Rose is bonded to Lissa and must protect her from the strange things that have been happening.
Have you ever read a novel that's part of a series, out of order of a series? well that's kinda what reading this book was like...constantly referencing to things that have happened in the past. You don't know what's going on, but everything is told by the end. But it just seemed a little jumbled to me. Hopefully the next one is better...but I think it will be. It's a very popular series after all!

L. McDaniel & C. Cooney

Went to the library last Thursday, the one in Braselton near my mom's house. I talked to the girl at the checkout...she loves YA books too. She suggested a couple authors to try so I checked some out. I read two of them in one day: Telling Christina Goodbye and Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep by Lurlene McDaniel. I remember I used to read her books in highschool. Super easy reads about kids dealing with tragedy or disease. Telling Christina Goodbye is about a girl who is in a car wreck with her friends and having to deal with the loss of her best friend, the anmesia of her boyfriend, and the animosity she feels to the driver (who was her best friends boyfriend). Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep was about a girl who is in remission from cancer when her friend from her support group's cancer comes back. It's impossible to treat. He goes into hospice and her and both families have to cope with the events. These were ok books, not as sad as I remember them in high school. they didn't move me to tears, unlike the book I read the next day...

A Friend at Midnight, by Caroline B Cooney. Another fast read, I read it in a day. But literally, I couldn't stop reading it. It starts off with a little boy 8 years old, being dumped off at the airport(no luggage, no ticket, nothing)! You find out it's his father that does this. He calls his sister, 15 year old Lily who is the main character of the book. She rescues him but keeps the secret of what really happened at her brother's request. It is a religious book but it's not too preachy. The last chapter had me in tears. I don't know why this book touched me so much, other than me thinking about the little boy being abandoned by his father...now that I have kids myself the thought of anything like that happen makes me . I will look forward to reading more by this author; I hope they are all as good as this one. It's probably for a younger audience BUT I enjoyed it anyways.

Hush, Hush and Skeleton Creek

last night after finishing Harvest Home, I started Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick. I finished it today. It's a good book for a first time author, a very fast read....although it has some flaws I enjoyed it regardless. It was about a girl named Nora. She is drawn to a new boy at school Patch...and struggles with her attraction but also her fear of him. After some strange and dangerous happenings, she finds out who, and what, Patch really is...a fallen angel. I liked the ending, and I look forward to reading the next one. Some things don't make a lot of sense, and Nora can make some stupid decisions...but really, if a character did everything they way you think they should have, you wouldn't have the book now would you? like a movie where you're screaming, don't go through that door! and they do, if they didn't then the monster wouldn't have got them, but it needed to FOR THE STORY.

After I finished Hush, Hush, I picked up a book I got from the library yesterday. It's a REALLY quick read: Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman. It's written in journal format, complete with ruled lines on the pages, and a font that looks like hadwriting. Ryan is the journal's author: a teen who has recently been in the hospital after breaking his leg after snooping around with his best friend Sarah (they are trying to figure out why their town is names Skeleton Creek). They are forbidden by their parents to have contact but they manage through email and Sarah sends Ryan passwords to go onto a site and see the videos she has posted online. What's different about this book is that you can actually log onto the internet, enter the passwords, and see the videos yourself. I think that was really neat...I've never seen any other book do that before. I think it's great...and I think it will encourage a lot of young readers to check out this novel. I finished in in less than 2 hours. It's spooky and makes you want to run to the bookstore and get the next one. Not deep by any stretch BUT fun.

Harvest Home

I just finished Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon. It was written in 1973. It'a about a family from new York who go to live in a small isolated town in the country. The villagers are very old fashioned and it's easy to see they are hiding something. By the time Ned, the protagonist, finds out what...he is, let's say, severely punished.

It takes a LONG time to get to the interesting part of the novel. Parts of it were very graphic, and I didn't like that too much. It was slow in parts (mainly first half to 2/3rds of the book!)...I found myself skimming in places. It reminded me of (why do all these books remind me of movies?) the Nicholas Cage movie The Wicker Man. which was kinda interesting, the original Wicker Man movie had been filmed the year before this novel but had not been released yet, but very similar themes. I'll have to see the original, it's supposed to be A LOT better...so much that the director and people involved with the first, completely disassociated themselves from the remake!

but I digress. This book is ok, but not for the faint of heart. It's very adult themed (rape, murder, etc). Not something I will re-read, but not something I regret reading either.

Where I am now....

See here, that's what I get for not blogging...I forget what I read. I know I read something else between Going Bovine, and Abarat, but i cant' remember what it is. Some YA books I'm sure. well all I can do is just start keeping track again and hope I don't forget any more, maybe if I think hard I can recall the ones I've read in the last month or so.
I just finished Horns by Joe Hill. My librarian said I should also read his other novel, Heart Shaped Box. I read a blurb about it and realized, I HAVE read it already! I didn't realize then that Joe Hill is Stephen King's son though. Horns was pretty good, I liked the plot though it was a bit crude in spots. I guess I really do prefer YA for it's relative cleanness: none of the YA books I've read ever gets that... crude. (can't think of a better word to describe it)

Right now I am reading Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon. Another grown up book! LOL I am about 100 pages in and still haven't gotten the point of the book yet. Keep wondering when the conflict's gonna start! Usually 100 pages is at least enough to get moving at least a bit.

OOHH my gosh, I remember now one of the books I read after Going Bovine now. It was Secret Whispers, a VC Andrews novel. Possibly the worst book I've read in a few years. This novel... it was vapid, empty, the evil stepmom that I suppose was the antagonist of the story never really even did anything bad. It's one of the reasons I'm trying to read a few heavier books lately. Need to get all that fluff out of my head. ~shudders~

Edit: OH! I also read Blue Moon by Alyson Noel. It was pretty good. can't wait to see what happens in the next book.

trailer for Linger, by Maggie Stiefvater

The kids have been really sick lately so I haven't had much time to read. I also have a cold now but hopefully get this book list of mine caught up soon. In the mean time, please check out this awesome trailer from one of my FAVORITE authors, Maggie Stiefvater.

Going Bovine by Libba Bray

Going Bovine by Libba Bray, is nothing like the Emma Doyle books. Wow. It's funny and thought provoking, it's a good read. If it ever goes to movie format, it will be a cult classic in the steps of Donnie Darko. Now there were some elements I didn't like, pot smoking, stuff like that. I wouldn't want my kids to read it until they are old enough to not be attracted to something like that. The whole book is trippy though....it reminded me of the swiftly tilting planet books. (Weirdly enough I feel as though I understood those books more when I read them as a kid than when I re-read them a few years ago:/ ) Here: Going Bovine book Summary is a pretty concise synopsis of it. I think my husband would like it more than I did. It was worth reading though. I mean, how often are you ever going to read a book where the main character has mad cows disease?

Percy Jackson Books 3-5

I finished the Percy Jackson series a few days ago. They are good books...not sure I'll re-read them or not but they were enjoyable. Here's a quick summary of them so I'll be able to remember:

#3 The Titan's Curse : Annabeth is captured by Luke and tricked into Atlas' job of holding up the sky. Percy and gang must save her. Two children of Hades, Nico and Bianca, appear after being released from the Lotus Hotel.
#4 The Battle of the Labyrinth : Annabeth's quest...Percy, Tyson, and Grover must enter The Labyrinth with her to find Daedalus and stop Luke from destroying the camp. They do so with the help of mortal Elizabeth Dare.
#5 The Last Olympian : Percy and his friends fight a battle to stop the Titan lord Kronos from destroying Olympus and the gods.

I enjoyed these books. I hope that Rick will create another series based on what happens at the very end of book 5...the next major prophecy is revealed....but I guess I will just have to wait and see.

It's been a busy 10 days. My kids fell ill and my 3 year old son had to go to the ER with breathing problems. He has been diagnosed with asthma. Poor guy.
I did manage to finish off the last 3 Percy Jackson books. I'll have to post about them tomorrow. I'm currently reading Inkspell, a book I've read before. I want to read the rest of the ones in that series so I'm rereading it. Luckily it's a book i don't remember that well. Sometimes that makes it much easier to re-read a book...sometimes it's tedious to re-read something for me. I am also starting Going Bovine by Libba Bray.

The Sea of Monsters

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan.
What a short book! I started this afternoon and read it off and on today while my toddler climbed all over me. In this book, the tree that protects the camp of the demi-gods has been poisoned and Percy's best friend is being help captive by a cyclops. Percy and co. must save the day. LOL I never know how much to write on here about the plot. I don't want to give anything away. What's the blogging etiquette on that, anyways?? I read somewhere that this is the shortest of all the books in the series. I hope so because that was not meaty enough for me!

Now off to start book 3, The Titan's Curse.

Jarvis The Sorcerer's Apprentice

I finished Jarvis The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Jesper Ejsing today. Sometimes when I read books that were originally written in another language (in this case Danish), they seem awkward because the translation isn't perfect but it seemed decently done in this book. This book is about a boy, Jarvis, who is chosen to be an apprentice to a wizard, along with other boys. But only one will become the magician's apprentice in the end.
I think this book would appeal most to a group a little younger than young adult though, maybe middle schoolers would enjoy it the most.

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

I started The Forest of Hands and Teeth yesterday and finished it this morning. It was an interesting book. It kind of put me in the mind of M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Village" meets '28 Days Later". It was interesting. It's about a girl, Mary, who lives in a fenced in village. Outside the village are zombies...infected with some kind of virus, which is spread by biting. When they over-run the town, Mary and some others escape down the secret path. Where it goes and who made it, are questions that are part of the mystery; and there's the romantic tangle that Mary is in that has to be confronted. It leaves some things unfinished, so I hope there will be a sequel.

about time....

Whew! Finally finished The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey. I think this is a series I probably won't be revisiting. I was vaguely interested enough about the story to wonder what happens next: I'll probably look for an online synopsis that gives away the entire plot and ending when the sequel comes out. But I don't really see myself reading the whole thing. This book was about a 12 year old boy, Will Henry, who lives with a doctor of monstrumology after his parents die. In the story, they are battling a creature called the anthropophagi. The story itself was ok, it was just dry and stuffy to me. Probably because it was set in the 1800s (although I did enjoy the Libba Bray books)....oh it had plenty of gore but I lost myself in the language of it and it never was suspenseful for me. I didn't really care about the characters. But lots of people have liked it. So if you have read it, let me know how you liked it.

Two books by Two Rick's

I started The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey Thursday. It's a slow book. Then yesterday I put it down for a bit and picked up The Lightning Thief, the first in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. I started, and finished it yesterday too. I was told that it was a quick read by a lady that works at the library (Hi, S!!!! :)) Quick, yes, and enjoyable. I really liked that the adventure starts right away. It doesn't tell a long drawn out back story before you get to see anything happen. (Let me explain something right quick. I say things like that...using the verb 'see' when obviously I'm reading, not watching, right?....but for me it's true. Once I read the first few lines, I no longer am even consciously reading the book. I am watching it in my mind, watching the story unfold as if in a movie. I don't know, maybe it happens to everyone when they read novels. But that's why sometimes I slip into saying things like 'I see' when I am talking about something that I read.) Percy Jackson is a likable character and I can't wait to read more, and see the actual movie too.

Now I need to finish The Monstrumologist, if I can!

And because I don't really enjoy coming up with quick plot summaries, here's the publisher comments for The Lightning Thief.

Publisher Comments:

What if the gods of Olympus were alive in the 21st Century? What if they still fell in love with mortals and had children who might become great heroes — like Theseus, Jason and Hercules?

What if you were one of those children?

Such is the discovery that launches twelve-year-old Percy Jackson on the most dangerous quest of his life. With the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction — Zeus' master bolt. Along the way, he must face a host of mythological enemies determined to stop him. Most of all, he must come to terms with a father he has never known, and an Oracle that has warned him of betrayal by a friend.

Shiver and Lament

Hm, something's not quite right with this new layout. Should have a date on the tab that's reading as 'undefined'. Gotta figure out how to fix that in a bit.

Well first book post is actually about a new favorite author of mine, Maggie Stiefvater. The first book I've read by her was Shiver. It's about a teenage girl named Grace, her wolf, and a boy named Sam. It's a story about werewolves and love. I really liked this book. One interesting thing is that the POV changes with each chapter between Grace and Sam. I loved being in both of their heads. The next book, Linger, comes out in July. Hopefully I am getting an autographed copy for my birthday (July 17th)! A lot of people have wound up with advanced copies and I must say I am uber jealous. LOL A third book is due out in July 2011, and I will be sad because that would be the end of the trilogy.

I just finished her first novel, Lament. This one is about fairies, not werewolves. Dierdre can see fairies, and they want her~ dead. She is also in love with the fairy assassin sent to deal with her. It's really good; great plot, characters, etc....but I didn't like it quite as much as Shiver, because Shiver was truly something special, and I've got a fondness for werewolves (team Jacob all the way). However, it was a good book, and I have the next book after it, Ballad, on hold at the library. Can't wait to see what happens next.

Intro: Bookwormommy

My name is Julie and I am a mom of two. I have a son who's 3 (4 soon!!) and a 15 month old daughter. When I'm not taking care of them, or cleaning, or taking photos, you're very likely to find me with a book in my hands. This is my blog to keep a record of what I read...if I liked it, my thoughts, my notes to myself on whether I read the next in a series. I am very much a serial reader...that's probably not a real thing...but I do like to read books that continue. Robert Jordan, Terry Goodkind....they're heroes of mine because their stories are epic...so long and involved. I hate to say goodbye to characters. I re-read them because I don't want to let them go.

Here lately, I've been reading a lot of YA novels. I'm a 31 year old mom of two and I'm reading books that 16- and 17-year-olds favor. Oh well. A lot of novels written today for young adults fall under my preferred genres, fantasy and science fiction. I love some of the stuff I've read lately. It's really good stuff. Sometime, I'll have to make a list of the books that are some of my favorites from over the years. Here are the novels I've read this year.
2010: Fiction Books I've read this year:

1-3 Circle Trilogy Ted Dekker
4. Under The Dome by Stephen King
5.The Heavenstone Secrets VC Andrews
6. Peeps by Scott Westerfield
7. Breathless by Dean Koontz
8. A Great & Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
9. Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
10. The Choice by Nicholas Sparks
11. The Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray
12. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
13. Fairy Tale by Cyn Balog
14. Looking for Alaska by John Green
15. Evermore by Alyson Noel
16. Magic or Madness by Justine Larbalestier
17. Lament by Maggie Stiefvater

I think I've left a few off because I forgot to write them down. That's kinda why I am starting this blog, to keep up with the things I've read. LOL, my memory is not that great.

I am not that good of a writer. I'm not going to write eloquent book reviews extolling the finer points of authors' expositions or berating plot holes or anything like that. I don't read to critique, I read to live it, to enjoy the story. I'll let you know if I think it's a good or great book, or crap that I couldn't finish (very rare) and maybe why, and hopefully my grammar mistakes won't be too glaringly obvious.

Well let me know if you are reading, I love comments:) And follow my blog if you'd like!