Tallulah_Rose's 2013 challenge

I'm back again for another year and another try to hit the 50s mark!
In 2011 I fell two books short, in 2012 I overwhelmed myself with reading 64 books due to my train riding time to go to work. Let's see what 2013 will bring for me and my books. I desperately hope that I will finally reduce my overlarge TBR-pile.




Books finished in January:
1. (1.) A Caribbean Mystery - 06.01.2013 - ****
2. (2.) Unseen Academicals - 07.01.2013 - ****1/2
3. - Achtung Baby! - 12.01.2013 - **1/2
4. (3.) Die Instrumente des Herrn Jørgensen - 20.01.2013 - ***
5. * Witches Abroad - 24.01.2013 - ****1/2
6. - Mort - 26.01.2013 - *****

Books finished in February:
7. * Sorry, wir haben uns verfahren - 03.02.2013 - ****1/2
8. * Before I Fall - 03.02.2013 - *****
9. * Sourcery - 11.02.2013 - *****
10. - I'm Off Then - 23.02.2013 - ***

Books finished in March:
11. - Mutant Message Down Under - 03.03.2013 - *
12. * The Truth - 19.03.2013 - *****

Books finished in April:
13. - Norwegian Wood - 07.04.2013 - ****1/2
14. (4.) Der satanarchäolügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch - 12.04.2013 - ****1/2
15. (5.) Still Life - 15.04.2013 - ****
16. (6.) Die Therapeutin - 28.04.2013 - ***1/2

Books finished in May:
17. (7.) The Logic of Failure - 17.05.2013 - ***1/2
18. - Sorry, wir haben die Landebahn verfehlt - 18.05.2013 - ***
19. - Sorry, ihr Hotel ist abgebrannt - 19.05.2013 - **
20. * A Murder is Announced - 25.05.2013 - ****
21. - Bones Are Forever - 30.05.2013 - ****

Books finished in June:
22. - The Time of my Life - 05.06.2013 - *****
23. (8.) Die stolze Rebellin - 13.06.2013 - *****
24. * Ruby Red - 14.06.2013 - 14.06.2013 - ****1/2
25. * The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - 17.06.2013 - ****
26. * Sapphire Blue - **** - 18.06.2013
27. * Emerald Green - **1/2 - 20.06.2013
28. - Protokollführung leicht gemacht - **** - 25.06.2013

Books finished in July:
29. * Er ist wieder da - *** - 23.07.2013
30. - Perfekt im Office - ** - 24.07.2013

Books finished in August:
31. - Traumberuf Sekretärin - *** - 29.08.2013
32. * Wie halte ich das nur alles aus? - **** - 29.08.2013

Books finished in September:
33. (9.) The Far Pavillons - ***** - 08.09.2013

Books finished in Oktober:
34. # Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone -14.10.2013
35. # Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - 22.10.2013
36. # Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 27.10.2013

Books finished in November:
37. (10.) Der Laden. Erster Teil- **** - 07.11.2013
38. * The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - **** - 12.11.2013
39. # Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 13.11.2013
40. (11.) The Alchemist - *** - 21.11.2013
41. # Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - 30.11.2013

Books finished in December:
42. (12.) Das Vampirbuch - **1/2 - 04.12.2013
43. # Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 11.12.2013
44. # Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - 22.12.2013
45. (13.) Inkheart - *** - 30.12.2013

legend:
* = new
- = borrowed/library
# = reread
(x.) = BOMBS

good luck and happy reading :-)

Sure I do, it's already posted Ameise1's 50 in 2013

So, first book of the year done. It was the audio version of A Caribbean Mystery which I started in 2012 already. Since it took me a rather long time to finish it and I listened to some chapters more often, because I didn't catch something due to distraction, I cannot say that I am flattered by this book. But when I think a bit more about it, I must say it was a well put mystery. It was, what is best, even a mstery for the reader/listener to try his own abilities to solve it. That is rare with Christie's novel as I experienced them. And I really i love the reader, Rosalind Ayres. She did a great job. So therefore I gave it 4 stars and enjoyed this little mystery.
(The best about the bok as such: It's my first ROOT ukled for the year as well ;-) )

Off to a good start with an Agatha Christie! I read so much of her stuff last year that I might have to give it a rest this year, I think!

Yesterday I finished Ruby Red which was an excellent YA novel. I promised one of my cousins to read to the movie start back in march, but didn't get to it. So Now I saw it in the library took it away and finished it in 2 days. It started up really good, but annoyed me a bit with the delay of Gwen telling her mother about her abilities, but it got really really good in the end. It is also the start of a trilogy, so when I'm back home on Monday I'll go and get the whole lot of it.

This last week I read through the Ruby Trilogy. I really liked the first book (Ruby Red), I cannot seem to remember what happened in the second (Sapphire Blue). I do remember, it was a fine read and a good YA-story, but somehow it didn't get in with the story. The third one (Emerald Green) was... difficult. It was easy enough to read. But it was too long in the first half and than the end was too rushed and short for my expectations. The authors had such long episodes where nothing really would happen and than she rushes through the ending. It was unsatisfactory, but I liked the story and it's characters and I would recommend it as an YA-book. Although the main character sometimes really is dumb...