Books of 2011

[shanmonster]

I want to get reading regularly again. I've let it slide the last couple of years, and fear I may soon be joining the unwashed, semi-literate masses.

(I'm leaving out all the bridge books I proofread.)

Here goes...

1. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick - cut from the same cloth as the Twilight books. A piece of crap.
   
2. Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (unfinished)
   
3. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
   
4. The Book of Human Skin by Michelle Lovric
   
5. Yarn by Jon Armstrong
   
6. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
   
7. For The Win by Cory Doctorow
   
8. Scroogled by Cory Doctorow
   
9. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
   
10. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
    
11. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
    
12. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
    
13. A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
    
14. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
    
15. Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
    
16. The Naked Warrior by Pavel Tsatsouline
    
17. Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
    
18. The Sexes by Dorothy Parker
    
19. Relatively Honest by Molly Ringle
    
20. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
    
21. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle
    
22. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle (abandoned because it really sucks)
    
23. Silverlock by John Myers Myers (unfinished)
    

Comments

[megalith.livejournal.com]

I've read Perfume, and rather strangely (for me), actually enjoyed the movie a lot more. It translated very well to screen.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I've read it before and seen the movie. I preferred the book, although I thought the movie was a decent adaptation. I think the ending is incomprehensible unless you've read the book, though.

[harukoraharu.livejournal.com]

What a coincidence, I'm also partway through Rashomon, on story #7. Not started Seraphita by Balzac. Just picked by chance starting at A-B authors

[forestmaster.livejournal.com]

Are these the books you have read so far or plan to read? Think it's what you've read so far... I picked up a copy of Perfume but haven't read it yet... I want to read The Naked Warrior but haven't gotten a copy yet...

Just finished reading The Secret Lives of Bees and it was a decent fairly quick read while traveling...also on the list is a book about how NASA builds teams and the third in the Monster Hunter International series...

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

These are all books I've finished, unless it says unfinished in parentheses.