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100 books in a year
Books read 2011
6
Books started but not completed for various reasons are not counted, naturally!
A Gentle Axe: R N Morris
I broke my YA addiction with this, picked it up from the Recommended Books stand in the library, incorrectly thinking it was an historical fiction, but it is just a Russian based Murder Mystery. Quite sweet and an interesting mix of characters. I enjoyed it and will probably hunt out the other one he wrote - which is actually about an earlier murder (this being the second book about the detective involved). Go on, read it.
Andrew Lost: In the kitchen - J C Greenberg
I bought this one for school - you can't get them in NZ yet - they are about a kid being shrunk and going through a whole lot of different places as a tiny thing. It was badly written - but it is for 10 year olds, and there is a wealth of science information in it, so it will be useful for teaching the kids how to find information in texts and then to find out whether it is reliable. Also will be a good kicker for science topics hopefully.
Unread...
Cast In silence: Michelle Sagara
I thought this would be awesome - there is a hot girl on the front running, it is about mystery solving and fantasy, and is utterly dreadful. The woman writes like I talk - off on random tangents left, right and centre... I couldn't follow the narrative because she kept on shoving random information and back filling each statement with information that you needed to know to understand the statement - which just seemed all wrong to me... Yes, it was the third in a series, but still, it was basically unreadable and I won't be digging out the first one any time soon. :-(
6
Books started but not completed for various reasons are not counted, naturally!
A Gentle Axe: R N Morris
I broke my YA addiction with this, picked it up from the Recommended Books stand in the library, incorrectly thinking it was an historical fiction, but it is just a Russian based Murder Mystery. Quite sweet and an interesting mix of characters. I enjoyed it and will probably hunt out the other one he wrote - which is actually about an earlier murder (this being the second book about the detective involved). Go on, read it.
Andrew Lost: In the kitchen - J C Greenberg
I bought this one for school - you can't get them in NZ yet - they are about a kid being shrunk and going through a whole lot of different places as a tiny thing. It was badly written - but it is for 10 year olds, and there is a wealth of science information in it, so it will be useful for teaching the kids how to find information in texts and then to find out whether it is reliable. Also will be a good kicker for science topics hopefully.
Unread...
Cast In silence: Michelle Sagara
I thought this would be awesome - there is a hot girl on the front running, it is about mystery solving and fantasy, and is utterly dreadful. The woman writes like I talk - off on random tangents left, right and centre... I couldn't follow the narrative because she kept on shoving random information and back filling each statement with information that you needed to know to understand the statement - which just seemed all wrong to me... Yes, it was the third in a series, but still, it was basically unreadable and I won't be digging out the first one any time soon. :-(