The final book update for 2009
Dec. 30th, 2009 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carolanne5Book 49 The Best of British Festivals by Barney Jefferies. A catalog of all the British festivals by region and month, a very useful read indeed.
Book 50 Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. A very engrossing read although I'm not entirely sure why. The premise of dragons in the Napoleonic era is just so well done and the characters engaging.
Book 51 Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris. A enjoyable quick read, despite not realising it was actually the second in the series not the first. Must remember to dig out the first in the series.
Book 52 Temeraire: The Jade Throne. Not as engrossing as the first but enjoyable and I would have read the third in the sequence but it was out of stock in all four bookshops I tried!
Book 53 Sovereign by C J Sansom, kindly lent by TQ and much enjoyed. A legal whodunnit set in the Tudor York of Henry VIII.
Book 54 Budapest guide by Lonely Planet, a lovely city well described.
Book 55 Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (most delightfully sent by slowfox), the latest Sookie installment did not disappoint.
Book 56 Dissolution by C J Sansom, the first of the Shardlake Tudor mysteries, great fun.
Book 57 Tutankhamun: the eternal splendor of the boy pharaoh. A deliciously photographed reference work of the key items discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun, with introductory chapters on Egypt in his time and the Carter digs leading to the discovery.
Book 58 The Vampire Prince by Darren Shan, the end of the first six book story arc. A very light read. I enjoyed it but I feel this is a good point to discontinue reading the series.
So a grand total of 58 books read in 2009, slightly less than usual but still exceeding my long term goal of a book a week. More importantly they were all books I enjoyed, fingers crossed for 2010.
Book 50 Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. A very engrossing read although I'm not entirely sure why. The premise of dragons in the Napoleonic era is just so well done and the characters engaging.
Book 51 Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris. A enjoyable quick read, despite not realising it was actually the second in the series not the first. Must remember to dig out the first in the series.
Book 52 Temeraire: The Jade Throne. Not as engrossing as the first but enjoyable and I would have read the third in the sequence but it was out of stock in all four bookshops I tried!
Book 53 Sovereign by C J Sansom, kindly lent by TQ and much enjoyed. A legal whodunnit set in the Tudor York of Henry VIII.
Book 54 Budapest guide by Lonely Planet, a lovely city well described.
Book 55 Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris (most delightfully sent by slowfox), the latest Sookie installment did not disappoint.
Book 56 Dissolution by C J Sansom, the first of the Shardlake Tudor mysteries, great fun.
Book 57 Tutankhamun: the eternal splendor of the boy pharaoh. A deliciously photographed reference work of the key items discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun, with introductory chapters on Egypt in his time and the Carter digs leading to the discovery.
Book 58 The Vampire Prince by Darren Shan, the end of the first six book story arc. A very light read. I enjoyed it but I feel this is a good point to discontinue reading the series.
So a grand total of 58 books read in 2009, slightly less than usual but still exceeding my long term goal of a book a week. More importantly they were all books I enjoyed, fingers crossed for 2010.
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Date: 2009-12-31 02:33 pm (UTC)I didn't finish any book this year, the one I'm currently reading was started already in 2008...
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Date: 2009-12-31 09:54 pm (UTC)And wasn't Dead and Gone a complete bloodbath?? And the ending, with Sook's grandfather telling her that the vamp is a good man, and does love her, but neglecting to specify which??? :D We've got new Sook due in 2010, rest assured I'll be picking it up very rapidly indeed, at which point you'll be second only to Comradette K at work on the lending list!
I'm not sure where I'm at in terms of book numbers - low 50s, maybe? I couldn't say if I matched a book a week or not - I'm setting next year's target at three books/month, as I just can't seem to find the time to read much more than that :-/
Hope you have a good New Year!
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Date: 2010-01-01 09:53 pm (UTC)Bloodbath is an understatement, brutal. It makes my mind spin that she took several books to build upto the fairy story line and then ended to suddenly in the one book. Although I guess the unaccounted for fairies may well turn into players later in the series.
Three books per month seems a good goal. I only manage to read more because I have an hour's commuting time on the tube each day. Perfect reading time to ignore the crowd of humanity pushing in against you.