booklist 2005
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fiercebunnyOkay, I had some pizza/nap/more pizza and I feel better now.
It looks (looked) horrible outside today. It was so windy that garbage and little debris were blowing over the roads and there is a brown fog hovering over all of Oklahoma from all the dust and smoke from wildfires. It made my eyes feel all dry and icky and also like I should put on some Woody Guthrie music.
Now, onto
Reread books marked with (rr)
The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. LeGuin
Donald and the. . . - Peter Neumeyer and Edward Gorey
Glimmering - Elizabeth Hand
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Life of the World to Come - Kage Baker
The Vile Village - Lemony Snicket
The Horrid Hospital - Lemony Snicket
Madame Serpent - Jean Plaidy
The Stupidest Angel - Christopher Moore
A Very Long Engagement - Sebastian Japrisot
The Probable Future - Alice Hoffman
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - Gideon Defoe
The Italian Woman - Jean Plaidy
The Sixth Wife - Jean Plaidy
Katherine of Aragon - Jean Plaidy
Holy Cow - Sarah MacDonald
Metallic Love - Tanith Lee
The Carnivorous Carnival - Lemony Snicket
The Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket
Maison Ikkoku, vol 1 - Rumiko Takahashi (rr)
Point of Honour - Madeleine E. Robins
Out - Natsuo Kirino
The Dark Queen - Susan Carroll
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
The Grim Grotto - Lemony Snicket
Piratica - Tanith Lee
Tales from Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Vanished Child - Sarah Smith (rr)
Wolf Tower - Tanith Lee
XXXholic, vol 2 - Clamp
The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman (rr)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (rr)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams (rr)
Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams (rr)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams (rr)
Green Darkness - Anya Seton
The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman (rr)
Victoria Victorious - Jean Plaidy
Fire and Hemlock - Dianne Wynne Jones (rr)
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
A Factory of Cunning - Phillipa Stockley
Lamb - Christopher Moore
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Persuasion - Jane Austen (rr)
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
Ruslan - Barbara Scrupski
The Courtesan - Susan Carroll
Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way - Bruce Campbell
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Earthly Joys - Phillipa Gregory
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin - Marion Meade
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Joanne Greenberg
Wolf Star - Tanith Lee
Wolf Queen - Tanith Lee
Wolf Wing - Tanith Lee
Sunshine - Robin McKinley
The Seer and the Sword - Victoria Hamley
Spindle’s End - Robin McKinley
The Innamorati - Midori Snyder
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Island - Richard Laymon
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susannah Clarke
The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket
Queen of this Realm - Jean Plaidy (rr)
The Loves of Charles II - Jean Plaidy
The Perfumed Sleeve - Laura Joh Rowland
Shaman's Crossing - Robin Hobb
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (rr)
The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (rr)
In the Dark - Richard Laymon
The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis (rr)
Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis (rr)
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
I read 80 books last year, compared to last year where I read 81 so I fell short of my goal to read more than before.
Favorite books of the year
Piratica - Tanith Lee
Ruslan - Barbara Scrupski
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Most Overrated book of the year
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova. I cannot believe this boring book is so popular. It was so boring, I read the new Harry Potter book in the middle of reading The Historian, and that turned out to be the only enjoyable part.
Most Disappointing Books
Metallic Love - Tanith Lee. Sequel doesn't live up to the original
Red Queen - Margaret Drabble. Only book I couldn't bring myself to finish.
Goals for the new year
More historical fiction, as usual
Wilkie Collins (any suggestions?)
Jane Austen's unfinished works and juvenilia
More nonfiction (like Alison Weir) and biographies
*oops! edited to add a Robin Hobb book I forgot about*
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booktards
It looks (looked) horrible outside today. It was so windy that garbage and little debris were blowing over the roads and there is a brown fog hovering over all of Oklahoma from all the dust and smoke from wildfires. It made my eyes feel all dry and icky and also like I should put on some Woody Guthrie music.
Now, onto
Reread books marked with (rr)
The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. LeGuin
Donald and the. . . - Peter Neumeyer and Edward Gorey
Glimmering - Elizabeth Hand
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Life of the World to Come - Kage Baker
The Vile Village - Lemony Snicket
The Horrid Hospital - Lemony Snicket
Madame Serpent - Jean Plaidy
The Stupidest Angel - Christopher Moore
A Very Long Engagement - Sebastian Japrisot
The Probable Future - Alice Hoffman
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists - Gideon Defoe
The Italian Woman - Jean Plaidy
The Sixth Wife - Jean Plaidy
Katherine of Aragon - Jean Plaidy
Holy Cow - Sarah MacDonald
Metallic Love - Tanith Lee
The Carnivorous Carnival - Lemony Snicket
The Slippery Slope - Lemony Snicket
Maison Ikkoku, vol 1 - Rumiko Takahashi (rr)
Point of Honour - Madeleine E. Robins
Out - Natsuo Kirino
The Dark Queen - Susan Carroll
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
The Grim Grotto - Lemony Snicket
Piratica - Tanith Lee
Tales from Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Vanished Child - Sarah Smith (rr)
Wolf Tower - Tanith Lee
XXXholic, vol 2 - Clamp
The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman (rr)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (rr)
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams (rr)
Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams (rr)
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams (rr)
Green Darkness - Anya Seton
The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman (rr)
Victoria Victorious - Jean Plaidy
Fire and Hemlock - Dianne Wynne Jones (rr)
A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray
A Factory of Cunning - Phillipa Stockley
Lamb - Christopher Moore
The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Persuasion - Jane Austen (rr)
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
Ruslan - Barbara Scrupski
The Courtesan - Susan Carroll
Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way - Bruce Campbell
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Earthly Joys - Phillipa Gregory
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin - Marion Meade
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden - Joanne Greenberg
Wolf Star - Tanith Lee
Wolf Queen - Tanith Lee
Wolf Wing - Tanith Lee
Sunshine - Robin McKinley
The Seer and the Sword - Victoria Hamley
Spindle’s End - Robin McKinley
The Innamorati - Midori Snyder
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Island - Richard Laymon
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susannah Clarke
The Penultimate Peril - Lemony Snicket
Queen of this Realm - Jean Plaidy (rr)
The Loves of Charles II - Jean Plaidy
The Perfumed Sleeve - Laura Joh Rowland
Shaman's Crossing - Robin Hobb
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (rr)
The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (rr)
In the Dark - Richard Laymon
The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis (rr)
Prince Caspian - C.S. Lewis (rr)
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
I read 80 books last year, compared to last year where I read 81 so I fell short of my goal to read more than before.
Favorite books of the year
Piratica - Tanith Lee
Ruslan - Barbara Scrupski
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
Most Overrated book of the year
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova. I cannot believe this boring book is so popular. It was so boring, I read the new Harry Potter book in the middle of reading The Historian, and that turned out to be the only enjoyable part.
Most Disappointing Books
Metallic Love - Tanith Lee. Sequel doesn't live up to the original
Red Queen - Margaret Drabble. Only book I couldn't bring myself to finish.
Goals for the new year
More historical fiction, as usual
Wilkie Collins (any suggestions?)
Jane Austen's unfinished works and juvenilia
More nonfiction (like Alison Weir) and biographies
*oops! edited to add a Robin Hobb book I forgot about*
Crossposting to
booktards
