Friday, July 23

Reading Rainbow


Since I've had so much time on my hands recently, I've had a lot of time to spend with my books. I generally prefer to read science fiction and mysteries, but I've been trying to mix it up a bit.

Going forward, I may start doing reviews on the books I read, but in the meantime, if anyone is curious about any of the books on the list below, let me know and I can give you a rundown.

Without further ado, here is a list of the books I have read in the last 7 and a half months or so (in no particular order). And if anyone has any recommendations, send them my way!
  • A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (didn't like this at first, but ended up really liking it!)
  • Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card (loved, sequel to Ender's Game although it was good enough on it's own)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clark (book club - loved)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tijuania Striats by Kem Numm (book club - one of the few books I didn't like, which is unfortunate because I've read some of his other books and really liked them.) 
  • The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (book club - didn't really like it much as I was reading it, but looking back I liked it)
  • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (loved the whole series, 1st two movies are great too!)
  • The Girl With Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson 
  • The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
  • Big Machine by Victor LaValle (book club - this was just weird)
  • A Wind at the Door by Madeleine L'Engle 
  • A Touch Of Dead by Charlaine Harris (short stories around the Sookie Stackhouse novels) 
  • Dead And Gone by Charlaine Harris (I've read all of the Sookie Stackhouse books (what True Blood is based on), as close to chick lit as I get) 
  • Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
  • The Shack by William P. Young (this was an accident, from what my mom told me, I thought it was a murder mystery. I didn't realize it was a Christian book until I already bought/started reading it, so I figured I should finish it. That being said, I didn't like it.)
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (the movie wasn't bad, but the book was better) 
  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy (read the entire book in one sitting, on a flight from NY to CA)
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (reread it for about the 10th time) 
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (book club)
  • Xenocide by Orson Scott Card (3rd book in the Ender series, currently reading) 

2 comments:

  1. I didn't end up liking A Reliable Wife that much. And I think it's hilarious that you mistakenly read The Shack. I wouldn't touch that book with a ten foot pole. ;)

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  2. Haha, yeah, regarding The Shack, my mom had said it was a really good, so I picked it on a whim without reading the back cover. Once I read about a chapter or two, I realized what I was in for. I cannot not finish a book, so I read it all. Uhm, yeah, it was pretty ridiculous. I told my mom I felt like it was more of a sci-fi book than some of the sci-fi I had been reading at the time. She got pretty upset.

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