Place your booklogs

Okay, start placing your bets now on whether or not I will be able to finish this by the end of the year. I am so far behind it's hysterical—as in, I may become hysterical if I think too much about how behind I am.

( 61. I’d Rather We Got Casinos — Larry Wilmore )

it made me uncomfortable, but that’s kind of the point.

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( 62. Seeking Whom He May Devour — Fred Vargas )

Equally puzzling: why I persisted in reading this book to the end. Maybe it was so I could discover that the killer was exactly who I expected, based on the character serving no other purpose in the narrative.

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( 63. Christine Falls — Benjamin Black )

We sell a lot of copies of this novel (and its sequel, which I now have no intention of reading) at my store, but when there are exciting and complex literary mysteries out there like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo to read, I really do not understand why.

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( 64. The Best of Everything — Rona Jaffe )

this is a wonderful read that—unfortunately?—will continue to resonate with the working women of today.

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( 65. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater — Kurt Vonnegut )

Hurrah, another review that’s more about me than about the book! \o/

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( 66. Dance Dance Dance — Haruki Murakami )

I’d mark this as one for the completists only.

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( 67. Jingo — Terry Pratchett )

even a Terry Pratchett novel that you don’t love tends to be pretty darn enjoyable, and this was.

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( 68. Geek Charming — Robin Palmer )

Gosh, thank goodness Dylan didn’t have to suffer through being INDEPENDENT.

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( 69. The Fairy Rebel — Lynne Reid Banks )

There are delightful pink-haired fairies to enjoy!

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( 70. I’m the One That I Want — Margaret Cho )

Which doesn't in the least make this a book that shouldn't have been written, but does make it one that I don't really want to read.

Total Reviews: 70/191

The elegance of the booklog

Sorry for the spammage. For some reason I am on a roll tonight.

( 71. The Elegance of the Hedgehog — Muriel Barbery )

I’m gonna go read something with spaceships or explosions with the rest of the plebes.

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( 72. The Sharing Knife: Horizon — Lois McMaster Bujold )

I pretty much enjoyed this book while I was reading it, but the more I think of it, the most frustrated I am by this as the conclusion to the series and by what that says about the priorities of the series in general.

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( 73. Fear and Trembling — Amélie Nothomb )

I might be interested in reading Nothomb on another topic, but this one made me vastly uncomfortable.

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( 74. Crooked Little Vein — Warren Ellis )

I enjoyed it, almost in spite of itself.

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( 75. Repossessed — A.M. Jenkins )

you’ve probably read variations on this story a thousand times, but I continue to find them enjoyable, and this one is well done.

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( 76. I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie — Roger Ebert )

reading a good excoriation of a stinky piece of crap is like a balm on my withered old snarky soul.

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( 77. Star Trek: Countdown — Roberto Orci, et. al. )

complaints aside, this was very shiny. So there’s that.

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( 78. Corner Shop — Roopa Farooki )

I still enjoyed this and look forward to reading more of Farooki’s work.

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( 79. The Wentworths — Katie Arnoldi )

the book, in general, isn't quite as funny and clever as it thinks it is.

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( 80. Quantum Lyrics — A. Van Jordan )

I really wish I still had this book to look through and reread; it’s one I really wish I could have stolen from the library.

Total Books: 80/191