Schweinsty vs. the Bookcano, 2013

Heh! Meant to get my thread up the first week of the year - and I ended up getting bronchitis (aggravated by my asthma) instead :P. As a result, I've got a slower start than I'd hoped for, but it's good to be back! Hopefully I can spend more time here in the lt community this year :). The last couple of years I mostly ended up just using this as a list for my own reference.

Also this year, I'm trying to do a review (or at least a few notes) for every book I read :D.

Currently reading:
The Vikings
City of Ashes

January (so far):
1. City of Bones
2. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles: Art & Design

February:
3. Dead Man's Folly
4. Death at Bishop's Keep
5. Working for the Devil
6. Rebecca
7. Death at Gallows Green
8. Daughter of Witches
9. Wide Sargasso Sea
10. Murder in Mesopotamia

March:
11. The News from Spain
12. Cottage Witchery
13. Dear Mr. Darcy
14. The Wretched of Muirwood
15. The Ruins of Gorlan
16. The Burning Bridge
17. The Icebound Land
18. Oakleaf Bearers
19. The Sorcerer of the North
20. The Siege of Macindaw
21. The Kings of Clonmel
22. Halt's Peril
23. Nightlife
24. Moonshine
25. Madhouse
26. Deathwish
27. Roadkill
28. Blackout
29. Doubletake
30. Slashback
31. City of Ashes

April:
32. City of Glass
33. The Obsession of Victoria Gracen
34. Rosemary and Rue
35. Discount Armageddon

June:
36. By Way of the Silverthorns
37. Marigold
38. Rose Galbraith
39. In Tune With Wedding Bells
40. The Prodigal Girl
41. The Doomsday Vault
42. Head of the House
43. The Roman Hat Mystery
44. The French Powder Mystery
45. The Dutch Shoe Mystery

July:
46. Affairs of State
47. Forgiven but not Forgotten
48. The Greek Coffin Mystery
49. The Egyptian Cross Mystery
50. Nemesis

August:
51. Nicholas Nickleby
52. Writing the Paranormal Novel
53. The Thousand Names
54. A Discovery of Witches
55. In His Brother's Place
56. Royal Rebel
57. The Rebels of Cordovia
58. The Rock Star's Daughter
59. The Siamese Twin Mystery

September
60. The Goddess is in the Details
61. Robyn Hood: A Girl's Tale
62. Robyn Hood: Fight for Freedom
63. Enthroned: King Arthur and Her Knights
64. The Deputy Gets Her Man
65. An Irish Country Doctor
66. The Crown Conspiracy
67. A Room With a View
68. Avempartha
69. My Life Next Door
70. Book of Shadows
71. Graceling
72. Lady of the Forest
73. Blessed is the Busybody
74. The Goddess Test
75. Storm
76. The Lost Stories

October:
77. Throne of Glass
78. Hopeless
79. No Plot? No Problem!
80. Divergent
81. Spark
82. Mrs. Jeffries Takes Stock
83. Charming

November:
84. Journey to the Center of the Earth
85. Mrs. Jeffries on the Ball
86. The Lost World

City of Bones - YA paranormal romances are a guilty pleasure of mine, so I'd had this on my to-read list for a while, but I bumped it up when I saw the trailer for the movie :P. It was actually lots of fun! I love the relationship between Clary and Luke in particular, though Alec and Isabelle interested me more as characters, I think. The pacing did lag in a few places, and the confrontation at the end was a bit disappointing, but I'm still keen to finish the series :).

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles: Art & Design - I wasn't sure if I should count this, since it is more of a coffee table book really, but eh. It's a fascinating look behind the scenes for the design of the Hobbit. I've been an avid Rings fan since before the first movies came out, and I love finding out about the thought process behind the look and feel of Jackson's movies. Well worth the buy for any Rings geek out there.

Hi there, just stopping in after seeing your post on the introductions thread. When you say soccer, what kind of soccer are you watching? MLS, Premier League, other? I used to follow Italy's Serie A, but I've fallen out of the habit in the last year or so. I've been to a handful of Rapids games (I live in Denver), but I wouldn't say I really follow them.

Welcome!

:D. Heh, I will watch pretty much anything, as long as there's a good game on. I'm half Mexican and spent a lot of time over there when I was younger, and my cousins instilled in me a huge love of the Mexican Liga (go Tigres!), which is still my main - uh, sports fandom, I suppose? I watch as much of it as I can, though work and RL have interfered the last couple of seasons.

I also watch quite a bit of the EPL and the Spanish Liga (Liverpool and Real Madrid, respectively) and, when I have time left over from all that, I try to keep abreast of Germany's Bundesliga (I like Schalke, from what I've seen). My ex also got me into Portuguese footie as well - she was a lifelong fan of Sporting Lisbon, and I still have a soft spot for them). I watch a bit of Serie A now and then too - a friend of mine is a diehard AS Roma fan, so I am somewhat acquainted with the league.

I actually have not watched that much of the MLS, unfortunately, though I've caught a few really good matches here and there.

Heh, I'll hush now - I could talk about footie for hours - but thank you very much for the welcome!

Welcome! Glad you're well enough to come back.

I'm a fan of Real Madrid as well! I miss following the games, but time is often at a premium and I don't really miss getting up at 5 AM to watch them, I'll admit. MLS is fun in the sense that it's nice to be able to see live soccer, but the level of play is not always there.

Happy reading!

Thanks! It's great to be back :D - I'm looking forward to taking down my TBR list this year :P.

Welcome back, Im sure you will catch up soon enough. I feel the same way, im hoping this year to make some friends and actually chat, not just one lines here or there.

I enjoy both YA and paranormal too.... and I quite liked City of Bones. I had no idea there was a movie coming out!! Thanks for that newsflash.

Thanks, xymon81 :). And TinaV95, the movie's coming out sometime in the fall, I think :).

Welp, reading's going quite slowly as RL issues keep taking up most of my evenings/days off, but I managed to get through:

Dead Man's Folly - Unfortunately, I glanced at a massive spoiler when I was checking the pagecount, but it was still a really fun read :D. It was differently structured than some other Christies, with more buildup before the murder and, unlike in a lot of other mysteries, once the murder did happen you didn't get a lot of suspects with motives or whatnot; there were quite a few red herrings, but the solution came pretty suddenly and lacked some buildup, I think. Overall, though, I still enjoyed it, and it was a very quick read.