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L's Books for 2010
Great job on your two firsts for the year!
L wrote: "Starting out slow for the new year1. The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
I liked this one for it's references to the making of lace itself not so much for the witchcraft portions. That is sort o..."
The Lace Reader wasn't a favorite of mine either, for those very reasons.
3. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson I saw the movie years ago and didn't like it but since the book is usually always better I gave it a try. still wasn't amazing but I liked it better than I expected.
4. Deja Dead by Kathy Reichs really the only tv show I watch is Bones so I had to give the books that inspired it a try. Yet another series I'm hooked on now.
5. Three to Get Deadly by Janet EvanovichI just started the series last year so I'm way behind the latest book. Love the series not this particular one as much though.
6. Blue Water by A. Manette Ansay emotionally painful to read
L wrote: "5. Three to Get Deadly by Janet EvanovichI just started the series last year so I'm way behind the latest book. Love the series not this particular one as much though."
I'm right about where you are! I read one then read a bunch of others in betweeen the next! At this rate I'll have them all read by oooh 2020! lol They are fun light reads to settle in with after a classic or harder reading.
7. A great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Brayended up enjoying this one. I wanted to read it for a long time, but didn't know it was a gothic twist to historical fiction until I picked it up.
8. High Five by Janet EvanovichStill catching up in this series and wondering why I never read them earlier. Very fun read.
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Definitely Andrea! I am so hooked on those books.
9. Alice I Have Been by Melanie BenjaminI didn't realize Alice in Wonderland was based on a real little girl or that the story behind the story was so heartbreaking. Alice in Wonderland would be so much different to read after reading this book.
10. Around the world in Eighty days by Jules Verne.
11. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold Didn't enjoy this book as much as all the hype suggested to me.
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12. Eucalyptus: A NovelBy Murray Bail. A little hard getting started but a good story once I got into it.
13. Four to Score by Janet Evanovich. I read 4 and 5 out of order because I had a hard time finding #4 but I do love that series.
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14. The Girl with the Dragon TattooBy Stieg Larsson.Loved this book, it definately lived up to all the great reviews I have read about it.
16. Kentucky Rich by Fern MichaelsI live near where this novel is set so this time of the year (near Derby Days) is the perfect time to read this. I wish I would have enjoyed it a little more.
17. At Home in Mitford by Jan Karonjust when I start to really get into reading life gets crazy,and I have to push reading to a back burner. This book was perfect for the time I read it...a very comforting and easy read.
L wrote: "17. At Home in Mitford by Jan Karonjust when I start to really get into reading life gets crazy,and I have to push reading to a back burner. This book was perfect for the time I read it...a very c..."
I love this series for that very reason. Sometimes you just need a gentle comforting read. The Number One Ladies Detective series by Alexander McCall Smith is another series that does the same for me.
20. In the Season of the Sun by Kerry Newcomb an unexpected good read out of the stacks of paperbacks my mother in law passes on to me. I usually just skim through them and pass them on to someone else.
22. His Robot Girlfriend by Wesley Allison a great futuristic, yet very believable sci-fi e-book even if you don't usually read sci-fi. It is a very readable look at what happens when technolgy literally tries to take over the world.
24. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon this was a re read for me but it is one of the few books I could read over and over again.
L wrote: "17. At Home in Mitford by Jan Karonjust when I start to really get into reading life gets crazy,and I have to push reading to a back burner. This book was perfect for the time I read it...a very c..."
I love the mitford series, it's like Chicken soup in reading form, comfort food in pages! lol
Joy wrote: "L wrote: "17. At Home in Mitford by Jan Karonjust when I start to really get into reading life gets crazy,and I have to push reading to a back burner. This book was perfect for the time I read it..."
My thoughts exactly Joy!
25. Killing Floor by Lee Child. I was sceptical about it for the first bit, but was soon sucked in and found it to be the page turner that was recommended so well to me. Caution to the more delicate sensibilities readers out there. (won't recommend this to my mother) the action can get to be a little brutal, the revenge scenes a little over the top, and most would agree to be too harsh.
35. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon Such a great series of books with characters I will think about long after I finish the series.
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I liked Freedom in the beginning, the story was a page turner but it's the kind of story that made me want to take it slow for all the deeper meanings. For example freedom to one person may not be for someone else. It was long, and the characters were hard to love... and I like to care about the characters in books which in this book was difficult.
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1. The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
I liked this one for it's references to the making of lace itself not so much for the witchcraft portions. That is sort of a background, little mentioned part of the book, but which I took a philosophical attitude toward.
2. Tropical kiss by Jan Coffey
this was a little too much of a teen romance novel for me, but know that if I had read it at 18 instead of 38 I would have liked it a little better.