Decembre 2009 Book Challenge - Page 6

[cathe]

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

I got The Girl Who Played With Fire for xmas and found out it was a sequel so I had to go get this one to read first. It took me a little bit to get into this . . . I think mostly because I'm not so much a thriller reader--plus the translation made for some bad writing in spots . . . the last half got very exciting however and I enjoyed it.

[kofduke]

Angels of Destruction, Donohue



Really, really interesting take on angels -- arriving when we most need them, but not necessarily doing exactly what we expect. Ending could've been better, but overall I really liked it.

tells the story of Norah, a nine-year-old who appears on the doorstep of Margaret Quinn, a widow living a solitary existence in a small Pennsylvania town in 1985. Margaret eagerly takes in Norah to make up for the loss of her own daughter, Erica, who disappeared 10 years earlier after running away to join the Angels of Destruction, a West Coast revolutionary group...unexplained origins form the enigmatic core of this story, and though she comes across as more of a novelistic conceit than a flesh and blood character, the novel movingly illustrates the quest for connection hardwired into every human heart.

[Bufomander]

#142 Leviathan by Scott Westerfield
by the author of the Uglies series. (which I haven't read). I liked this more than I thought I would. alternate history of WWI (the very beginning of it). Steampunk. Going to be a second, I'll probably read it.

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

Originally Posted by Bufomander

#142 Leviathan by Scott Westerfield
by the author of the Uglies series. (which I haven't read). I liked this more than I thought I would. alternate history of WWI (the very beginning of it). Steampunk. Going to be a second, I'll probably read it.

This is on my list to read.

[kangamitroo]

ending the year on a high note:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is so good. really, really good. it will be hard to choose my next book. i resisted reading it (nazis=blech). but as i read....somewhere....it is not about WWII, it is about the power of words.

[kaliki_kila]

115. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

I wanted to see what all the fuss is about. I'm not sure yet if I liked this enough to read the rest of the series. It was very engrossing, though.

[Daffodil]

#24 - So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

The narrator recalls a murder that took place in his town when he was a boy, a murder committed by the father of a boy he knew. He tells a bit about the sad part of his own childhood, then imagines the events that led up to the murder, from the points of view of the various people involved. I didn't love it, but I liked it.

#25 - Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

The sequel to Ender's Game. I enjoyed it, but also found it annoying in some ways. For instance, there's this big mystery about the behavior of the creatures called "piggies" that the people in the book don't figure out until nearly the end, even though it's pretty obvious to the reader right from the start. It's not believable that they have such a hard time seeing what's going on - and there are a lot of other things about people's motives and behavior that aren't believable, not to mention an important premise that was too biologically implausible for me.

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

Well, first things first: January 2010's Thread (can you believe a whole year has passed already?) can be found HERE and is up and running.

Second, I have three last minute books to post, oddly enough, all three have a Pacific Northwest theme to them.

Thirdly, with these final three I'll have read 75 books this year, well short of my stated goal of 105. *sigh*


#73 Simone Goes to the Market: A Children's Book of Colors Connecting Face to Food
by David Westerlund

My review can be found HERE


#74 There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout
by Teri Sloat
ilustrated by Reynold Ruffins

My review can be found HERE


#75 Wheedle on the Needle
by Stephen Cosgrove
illustrated by Robin James

My review can be found HERE


#1 The King in Yellow, #2 Ghost Story, #3 Twilight (Audio), #4 Nice Work, #5 The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged, #6 Collected Poems 1909-1962 (T.S. Eliot), #7 New Moon (Audio), #8 Selected Poems (William Carlos Williams), #9 The Pearl, #10 The Blackwater Lightship, #11 100 Selected Poems (e.e. cummings), #12 The Grapes of Wrath, #13 Eclipse (Audio), #14 A Bit on the Side, #15 East of Eden, #16 As I Lay Dying: Redux, #17 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance—Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!, #18 Breaking Dawn (Audio), #19 A Streetcar Named Desire: 25th Anniversary Edition, #20 The Short Stories: The First Forty-Nine Stories with a Brief Preface by the Author, #21 New British Poetry, #22 Brick Lane, #23 Maps for Lost Lovers, #24 The Silence of the Lambs (Audio): Redux, #25 Pride and Prejudice, #26 Poe: A Life Cut Short, #27 Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, #28 The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obession in the Amazon (Audio), #29 Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America, #30 The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Russia, #31 Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible (Audio), #32 The Composer is Dead, #33 Shakespeare's Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook, #34 Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories, #35 The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran, #36 The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science: 64 Daring Experiments for Young Scientists, #37 The Road, #38 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, #39 How to Draw Washington's Sights and Symbols, #40 My Hippie Grandmother, #41 Alfred Hitchcock Presents 12 Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do On TV, #42 My Favorite Horror Story, #43 Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America, #44 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, #45 Dead Until Dark, #46 Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils, #47 'salem's Lot (Audio): Redux, #48 How to Survive a Robot Uprising: Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion (Audio), #49 Darwinia: A Novel of a very Different Twentieth Century, #50 Why Did It Have to be Snakes?: From Science to the Supernatural, the Many Mysteries of Indiana Jones, #51 Road Rage: Two Novellas (Audio), #52 The Science of Stephen King: From Carrie to Cell, the Terrifying Truth Behind the Horror Master's Fiction, #53 Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island (Audio), #54 Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, #55 Dragons of the Hourglass Mage, #56 Doctor Who: Pest Control, An Exclusive Audio Adventure (Audio), #57 The Hunger and Other Stories: A Collection of Violent Entertainments, #58 The Spellman Files, #59 All the King's Men (Audio), #60 Doctor Who: Forever Autumn (Audio), #61 The Peshawar Lancers, #62 Doctor Who: The Nemonite Invasion, An Exclusive Audio Adventure (Audio), #63 An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition, More Than 1,000 Terms, #64 Star Wars: Death Troopers, #65 The Last Town on Earth (Audio), #66 The Lost Symbol, #67 Doctor Who: The Feast of the Drowned (Audio), #68 Rose Madder, #69 Gerald's Game, #70 The Terror (Audio), #71 Worlds That Weren't: All-New Novellas of Alternate History, #72 The Flock, #73 Simone Goes to the Market: A Children's Book of Colors Connecting Face to Food, #74 There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout, #75 Wheedle on the Needle

[fremontmama]

Originally Posted by NewCrunchyDaddy

Well, first things first: January 2010's Thread (can you believe a whole year has passed already?) can be found HERE and is up and running.

Second, I have three last minute books to post, oddly enough, all three have a Pacific Northwest theme to them.

Thirdly, with these final three I'll have read 75 books this year, well short of my stated goal of 105. *sigh*


#73 Simone Goes to the Market: A Children's Book of Colors Connecting Face to Food
by David Westerlund

My review can be found HERE


#74 There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Trout
by Teri Sloat
ilustrated by Reynold Ruffins

My review can be found HERE


#75 Wheedle on the Needle
by Stephen Cosgrove
illustrated by Robin James

My review can be found HERE

We LOVE the Wheedle on the Needle!

And as far as your goal goes, it's not like you didn't have anything going on this year or anything.

2010 is going to be quite a year for us all I think!

[fremontmama]

Originally Posted by NewCrunchyDaddy

Just wondering ... is anyone else having trouble with their computer keeping them logged in to MDC since they started doing the pop-up ads? I have to re-log in every time I come ever since the pop-up ads started.

Yeah, that's happening to me too. Pretty fun right? I forgot my password!

Originally Posted by NewCrunchyDaddy

You're almost there ... I believe Book the Sixth is when he takes it back up again. Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket just doesn't match Tim Curry, does he.

We've been reading the Austere Academy at bedtime instead of listening to this one. My five year old even asked when the "other guy" is going to read the books again. I think it's the next one? The Ersatz Elevator

[NewCrunchyDaddy]

Originally Posted by fremontmama

Yeah, that's happening to me too. Pretty fun right? I forgot my password!

It has finally resolved itself for me in the last day or two.

Originally Posted by fremontmama

My five year old even asked when the "other guy" is going to read the books again. I think it's the next one? The Ersatz Elevator

... and yeah, I'm pretty sure that "other guy" comes back in Ersatz.