Cover to Cover Challenge discussion

I didn't know Crystal had started this, but I love it. I need to get back to more reading. So I finished my first book today: Mischief by Douglas Clegg. By far, not a favourite, but a finish none-the-less!

I just finished Eragon by Christopher Paolini. I don't know what I was expecting, but it was a much lesser written LotR in my opinion. I only rated it as 3 stars.

January Reads
1. Mischief by Douglas Clegg **
2. Eragon by Christopher Paolini ***
3. Shock Rock edited by Jeff Gelb ***
4. Hide and Seek by James Patterson ****
5. A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam ****
6. Truffled Feathers by Nancy Fairbanks ****
7. A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer *****
8. My Life In France by Julia Child and Alex Prudhomme ****
9. Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride *****
10. Deadly After Dark: The Hot Blooded Series edited by Jeff Gelb ***
11. Offspring by Jack Ketchum ***
12. Blood Lite edited by Kevin J Anderson *****
13. The Night Spider by John Lutz ***
14. Obsessed by Ted Dekker *****
15. THR3E by Ted Dekker ***
16. Sickended: The Memoir of a Munchasen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory ***
17. Night Screams edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H Greenberg ***
18. The Upright Man by Michael Marshall ***
19. Cat O Nine Tales by Jeffrey Archer *****
20. As The Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer ****
21. BoneMan's Daughters by Ted Dekker ***
22. Blood Born by Kathryn Fox ****
23. Boneyard by Michelle Gagnon ***
24. Tell No One by Harlan Coben ****
25. The Know by Martina Cole ****
26. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen ****
27. More Twisted: Collected Stories, Vol II by Jeffrey Deaver ****
28. Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer ***
29. Angels by Marian Keyes ****
30. The Swine's Wedding by Daniel Evan Weiss ***
31. Man Is Wolf To Man by Janusz Bardach ****
32. A Spell For Chameleon by Piers Anthony ****

Book number three is Shock Rock, Volume I edited by Jeff Gelb. Some of the short stories were really well-written and unique but I found a lot of them left me feeling unfulfilled. I'd still like to read the second book in the series, though.

Book number four is Hide & Seek by James Patterson. It's been a long time since I have read one of his. I enjoyed the short chapters as it made for a quick read. I also always enjoy a good twist in my thrillers.

Book number five is A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam. It takes place in the 1970s before Bangladesh came into being and revolves around one woman's pact to herself to keep her teenage children safe during the revolution.

Book number six is Truffled Feathers by Nancy Fairbanks, the second in the Carolyn Blue culinary mystery series. A good read that will make you change your mind many times over as to who-dun-it.

Book number seven was A Prisoner of Birth by Jeffrey Archer. I truly enjoyed this fast-paced twisting book. my mum read it first and thought I would enjy it as it was well-written and hard to put down. So hard to put down that I read it in a 24 hour period and at just over 600 pages that was no mean feat!

Book number eight is My Life in France by Julia Child. I started this shortly after finishing Julie and Julia but put it to one side as I think I was a bit "cheffed" out. I also found it a but daunting at times with the French language, the food descriptions and the countryside descriptions. A good read at 4 stars.

Book number nine is Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride. I love this thriller series with Lucas and will read any Mr. MacBride will write!

Book number ten is Deadly After Dark edited by Jeff Gelb. Some of the authors in this are still kicking and writing really good horror (Bentley Little) and others are unknowns and are somewhat old. I liked some of the stories but it's obvious that the erotica was written for men not women.

Book number eleven is Offspring by Jack Ketchum. Not my favourite Ketchum book, but a fairly decent sequel.

Book number twelve is Blood Lite edited by Kevin J. Anderson. This was an awesome short story collection by some of the best paranormal writers out there.

Book number thirteen is The Night Spider by John Lutz. Rated as 3 stars, not one of my favourite Lutz books. A little slow going in the beginning, but had an interesting twist at the end.

Book number fourteen is Obsessed by Ted Dekker. My first book by Dekker and I aboslutely loved it. It kept me turning pages late into the early morning and had me sat on the edge of my seat until I was done.

Book number fifteen is Three by Ted Dekker. I did not find this one as enthralling as Obsessed, but a good read none-the-less. I found I had guessed who-dun-it and the twist wasn't quite as good as the one in Obsessed.

Book number sixteen is Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory. I only gave it three stars as I have read quite a few abuse cases and as much as this was interesting it just seemed to be lacking something.

Book number seventeen is Night Screams by Clive Barker although it's a short story book and edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H Greenberg. I only gave it three stars as some of the stories I truly didn't enjoy and skipped through.

Book number eighteen is The Upright Man by Michael Marshall Smith. I couldn't remember what happened in The Straw Men so it was a little hard to follow in places. A fairly good thriller but had a lot of different plots in places making it somewhat difficult.

Book number nineteen is Cat O' Nine Tales: And Other Stories by Jeffrey Archer. I think Archer's time in prison has aided in his abilities to tell a story. All of these tales were given the thumbs up by me. Definately a 5 star read.

Book number twenty is As The Crow Flies by Jeffrey Archer which was another winner. I did find it a little ifficult to keep reading when he went off to serve in World War 1, but when I picked the book back up I found the remaining pages to be quite the page-turners. I think his writing has definately improved since he spent some time in jail, oddly enough.

Book number twenty-one is BoneMan's Daughters by Ted Dekker. As much as I liked the subject of this book, I didn't find it as compelling as the previous two I read this year.

Number twenty-two is Blood Born by Kathryn Fox. This is the fourth (I think) in the Dr. Anya Chrichton series. One of the shorter novels, and not so thrilling, but a fairly decent read.

Number twenty-three is Boneyard by Michelle Gagnon. I think I should have found and read the first book before this one. I had a hard time distinguishing between the unnamed/nicknamed killers and found it a little hard to get through in a short timeframe.

I've missed a few in here somewhere. I'll have to backtrack to jump from 24 to 32. Maybe at some point soon I'll do a super quick synopsis type of thing! :)

Just letting you know that I've moved this thread to the 2010 Archive folder, in preparation for 2011. If you wish to find this thread later, please keep a copy of the link to this page. Thanks!