(017) This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All — Marilyn Johnson
I have a love of books involving librarians and libraries. Possibly because I want to be a librarian and I currently work in a library. They’re easy to relate to. This book is no different. This is one of those books I want to hand people when they make stupid comments about me becoming a librarian and shout “SEE WE ARE IMPORTANT.”
(016) The Reckoning — Kelley Armstrong
This is the third and final book in a trilogy. I think between the three books maybe a month passes. Time moves very slowly between the three books and yet I couldn’t read these books fast enough. I know, and understand that paranormal is a big thing right now in the YA genre and it makes sense. Twilight took off and it became huge. This was also paranormal, but in a very different way (ie, no vampires.) I actually enjoyed it. Even the love story had me cheering them on! Which is something I haven’t been doing recently with YA books. I have been finding them harder and harder to get into because they’re all paranormal and all about the love story. Even I, the hopeless romantic, am over the lovelovelove stories.
I also enjoyed the books because when this book ended, the series ended. Could Armstrong continue? Yeah. She can. But it’s so ‘perfect’ in it’s ending that I hope she doesn’t.
(015) Deadly Little Secret: A Touch Novel — Laurie Faria Stolarz
I saw the second book in the series at work, looked good, so I started it. Until I found out that was the second book, put the first book on hold and started from the beginning. I looked into it and found out that this is going to be a five book series, with the third coming out later in the year. This kind of kills me because I like reading finished series. But that is just my opinion.
Anyhoo. This book starts with off so much promise. I got into it really easily and then it kind of had Twilight parallels. I know any book can have Twilight parallels. But this has a girl, who meets a guy that saves her life from a moving vehicle. Later they have chemistry class together and then she finds out his secret ‘power.’ If he touches someone he can tell what’s going on in their lives (this is not a spoiler, it’s told in the blurb.) The novel is about the girl dealing with the problems of the ‘bad’ guy who saved her life and intrigued her, her parents, her two best friends, and that pesky guy who is stalking her and some times has chapters himself (from his POV.)
The thing is though, that no matter how much this has Twilight parallels to me (and oh does it. More so in the second book I’m currently reading.) I’m hooked. I want to know is the girl going to get the guy. Is everything going to be okay? What’s going to happen in the end? And that is why I like series to be finished when I read them!!
(014) Sizzle — Julie Garwood
I have had the hardest time getting into books lately. It is my main complaint on my main tumblr recently. My currently being read pile is around 10 books tall because I get 50 pages into a book and just get bored. Even if it’s by my favorite author. It kind of kills me. But here I am. I finished a book.
What I didn’t know is that it’s part of a series. A loooooong series. However, I didn’t find out this factoid until I finished it and I had no idea that it was part of a series. Thank you authors for doing that. I can see how other couples from other books in the series were thrown in, but I don’t feel like I exactly missed anything.
Getting on to the actual book now. I enjoyed it. But it’s a very me book. I would not recommend it to half of my friends because they would hate it. It’s fiction, with a hint of romance and a lot of murder-mystery. It’s also one of those books where everything fits together neatly in the end. Which after discussing books with my friends I’ve found out not everyone likes that! Who knew?!
(013) Stand-in Groom — Suzanne Brockmann
I can’t find the picture on the phone for the life of me. Anyhoo, this was pure fluff trash that I read for the first time in awhile. Lately I’ve been reading YA books that have some sort of substance to them, which isn’t bad! Not at all, I just also really enjoy books that have this plot line: boy meets girl, boy and girl date, have sexy times, break up because one of them is stupid, the stupid one figures it out and wins other party back. So this was lovely to throw in the mix of angsty YA books I’ve been reading.
This had a simple premise, girl is going to marry boy so she can get her inheritance, boy dumps her, she gets saved by other boy and he fills in. Of course they don’t plan on falling in love or what happens when they fall in love. Would I buy it? No. Am I glad I borrowed it from the library? Yeah. It was a quick read that didn’t take much brain power and helped me procrastinate the GRE, for the umpteenth time.
(012) Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire — Edited by Graydon Carter
This could be argued that it’s not a book because it’s just a bunch of interviews in a book. But it’s hardcover and able to be checked out from work. I’m going with book.
Some of my favorite answers are:
Which living person do you most despise?
Me! Myself! Me! Hey, I spend around 10 minutes every morning in bed reviewing the despicable misdeeds committed yesterday. “(You) didn’t listen.” “(You) talked too much.” “(You were) boorish, arrogant, self-indulgent.” “Just a Senile Sunset Stripper, a Geriatric Party Animal. A fringe celebrity in this bizarre village of stellar talent.”-Timothy Leary.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Being on Nixon’s enemies list.-David Steinberg
What is your greatest regret?
Doing this interview.-Howard Stern
Sometimes I said “Yes”-Liv Ullmann
When and where were you happiest?
The 24 hours when I gave birth and looked at her in my arms and knew that life was a miracle-Liv Ullmann
What do you most value in your friends?
That they like to laugh. That they feel for others and that they have wisdom to share.-Liv Ullmann
What is your motto?
From my high-school yearbook, “Hold the fort, I’m coming.” Now? “Fuck em.”-Mike Wallance
What is your most treasured possession?
My library. -John Waters.
(011) Abraham Lincoln-Vampire Hunter — Seth Grahame-Smith
Hmm, well. It’s..okay. I’m not sure how to review this book, honestly. I’ve been in a weird mood lately when it comes to books. I’ve had issues with them grasping my attention and this was no different. Plus this is a “history” book and I’m extremely picky when it comes to historical type books. That being said, this was okay. I’ve read better but at the same time I’ve read a hell of a lot worst. Will I rec it to my friend who loves Lincoln? Probably.
So, forever ago on my livejournal, I promised my friend Deb that I would take pictures of my bookshelves once I cleaned them up. I didn’t think cleaning would take two months (plus.) And I’ve started to feel bad that I have yet to post them. Well, I posted them at my livejournal today and I figured I should put them on my bookblog, too. So when I complain about the fact that I have nothing to read I can come back to this and think, “No. I definitely have something to read.” Now I’m going to go hide and twitch.
(010) Hush, Hush — Becca Fitzpatrick
My friend Hayley recommended this book to me months ago. Thanks to school, graduation and an extremely long hold list I didn’t get a chance to read it until now. I really wish I wouldn’t have waited. I am addicted and in love. There was enough angst that I could handle it and enough progression that the book was a really quick read. Nora, the main character, is relate able, and to a point so is her best friend Vee. And Patch, the main love interest, oh Patch. In an email to Hayley I said “I’m also a sucker for bad boys, as you know, so Patch was kind of perfect.” I do love bad boys, not exactly sure why, but Patch. Oh Patch. I wouldn’t mind a Patch. We can file him under literary boyfriends I wouldn’t mind having.
The book also ended well enough that if it wasn’t to continue I would have been a content person. When I finished though I noticed that the next book in the series is coming out in October. Of course I can’t wait.
(009) Dangerous Lover — Lisa Marie Rice
I grabbed this on a whim. My pile at home was tall as usual so I really shouldn’t have been grabbing random books from work. Yet this looked just bad enough that I had to pick it up. So I did. I read it in one day. If that. It was pure romance with a tad of a mysterious backstory. The lead male has known the girl and loved her for years, she barely knows who he is. “Shocker.” He comes back into her life after a decade under a different name and sexy times occur. But what happens when she finds out he’s been deceiving her? Will everything be okay? I don’t want to give away the ending, but it is a romance novel!
Are you judging me yet for the trashy romance novels I’ve been reading? It’s okay, I’ve been judging myself.
