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1norabelle414
Merry Christmas, from Rory.
Goals for 2013:
- Read 75 books
- Catch up on my LTER reading / reviewing
- Read more books than I acquire (acquire fewer books than I read?)
- Tag all of my books owned and read by decade in which they take place
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Plan & attend the National Book Festival LT meet-up in DCdone!
Previous Threads:
2013, part IX
2013, part VIII
2013, part VII
2013, part VI
2013, part V
2013, part IV
2013, part III
2013, part II
2013, part I
2012, module eta
2norabelle414
Books read in 2013:
January:
1) The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories by H. G. Wells
2) Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
3) In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber by L. A. Meyer
4) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
5) The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby
6) Redshirts by John Scalzi
7) Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
8) Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West by L. A. Meyer
February:
9) Looking for Alaska by John Green
10) John Dies at the End by David Wong
11) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
12) The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
13) Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
14) Paper Towns by John Green
15) My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War by L. A. Meyer
16) The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
March:
17) The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
18) Graceling by Kristin Cashore
19) Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy by L. A. Meyer
20) Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
21) Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
22) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
April:
23) I am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
24) The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book I: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood
25) Wrapped by Jennifer Bradbury
26) The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, On Her Way to Botany Bay by L. A. Meyer
27) The Incorrible Children of Ashton Place, Book II: The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Wood
May:
28) The Incorrible Children of Ashton Place, Book III: The Unseen Guest by Maryrose Wood
29) The Gunslinger by Stephen King
30) Wool by Hugh Howey
31) Watership Down by Richard Adams
32) Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen
June:
33) Fables Vol. 5: The Mean Seasons by Bill Willingham
34) The Grand Tour, or The Purloined Coronation Regalia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
35) Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
36) Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
37) War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
July:
38) Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
39) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
40) The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kitteridge
41) Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich
42) Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
43) Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
August:
44) Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
45) A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
46) Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
47) The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty
48) Austenland by Shannon Hale
49) The Mark of the Golden Dragon: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Jewel of the East, Vexation of the West, and Pearl of the South China Sea by L. A. Meyer
50) The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
51) 666 Park Avenue by Gabriella Pierce
September:
52) Viva Jacquelina!: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Over the Hills and Far Away by L. A. Meyer
53) Cursed Pirate Girl by Jeremy A. Bastian
54) How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
55) Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood
56) The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde
October:
57) Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
58) Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
59) Lexicon by Max Barry
60) Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
November:
61) The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
62) The Circle by Dave Eggers
63) The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
64) Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross
65) The Walking Dead, Volume 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman
December:
66) Deadline by Mira Grant
67) Fables, Vol 6: Homelands by Bill Willingham
68) The Walking Dead, Volume 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman
69) The Walking Dead, Volume 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman
70) The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
71) Rotters by Daniel Kraus
72) Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
73)
January:
1) The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories by H. G. Wells
2) Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
3) In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber by L. A. Meyer
4) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
5) The Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge by Jeremy Narby
6) Redshirts by John Scalzi
7) Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
8) Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West by L. A. Meyer
February:
9) Looking for Alaska by John Green
10) John Dies at the End by David Wong
11) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
12) The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
13) Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
14) Paper Towns by John Green
15) My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War by L. A. Meyer
16) The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
March:
17) The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
18) Graceling by Kristin Cashore
19) Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy by L. A. Meyer
20) Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
21) Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick
22) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
April:
23) I am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
24) The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book I: The Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood
25) Wrapped by Jennifer Bradbury
26) The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, On Her Way to Botany Bay by L. A. Meyer
27) The Incorrible Children of Ashton Place, Book II: The Hidden Gallery by Maryrose Wood
May:
28) The Incorrible Children of Ashton Place, Book III: The Unseen Guest by Maryrose Wood
29) The Gunslinger by Stephen King
30) Wool by Hugh Howey
31) Watership Down by Richard Adams
32) Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen
June:
33) Fables Vol. 5: The Mean Seasons by Bill Willingham
34) The Grand Tour, or The Purloined Coronation Regalia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
35) Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
36) Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
37) War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
July:
38) Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
39) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
40) The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kitteridge
41) Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich
42) Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
43) Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
August:
44) Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
45) A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
46) Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
47) The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty
48) Austenland by Shannon Hale
49) The Mark of the Golden Dragon: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Jewel of the East, Vexation of the West, and Pearl of the South China Sea by L. A. Meyer
50) The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
51) 666 Park Avenue by Gabriella Pierce
September:
52) Viva Jacquelina!: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Over the Hills and Far Away by L. A. Meyer
53) Cursed Pirate Girl by Jeremy A. Bastian
54) How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
55) Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood
56) The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde
October:
57) Where'd You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple
58) Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
59) Lexicon by Max Barry
60) Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
November:
61) The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
62) The Circle by Dave Eggers
63) The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
64) Neptune's Brood by Charles Stross
65) The Walking Dead, Volume 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman
December:
66) Deadline by Mira Grant
67) Fables, Vol 6: Homelands by Bill Willingham
68) The Walking Dead, Volume 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirkman
69) The Walking Dead, Volume 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman
70) The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
71) Rotters by Daniel Kraus
72) Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
73)
3norabelle414
I'm going to try keeping a closer eye on the books I acquire throughout the year. Perhaps that will keep the numbers down.
Books acquired in 2013:
January:
1) Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger (free)
February:
None!
March:
2) Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman by Tara Prescott (free)
April:
3) Wool by Hugh Howey (new, $12)
4) The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (used, $7.99)
5) Zone One by Colson Whitehead (used, $7)
6) The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (used, $7)
May:
7) Matched by Ally Condie (used, $.50)
8) Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce (used, $.50)
9) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (used, $1)
10) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (used, $1)
11) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (used, $1)
12) Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (used, $1)
13) Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (used, $1)
14) 11/22/63 by Stephen King (used, $3)
15) The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Two-volumes (used, $3)
16) Bullfinch's Mythology - 1947 edition (used, $3)
17) The Tesseract by Alex Garland (used, $3)
18) The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith (used, $3)
19) Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (used, $3)
20) In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (used, $3)
21) The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (used, $.10)
22) Wicked by Gregory Maguire (used, $.10)
23) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (used, $.10)
24) The Maze Runner by James Dashner (used, $.10)
June:
25) Vogue Knitting Knitopedia edited by Carla Scott (new, $18.98)
26) Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore (new, $5.98)
27) Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi (new, $13.95)
28) Maus I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman (new, $15.95)
29) Cursed Pirate Girl by Jeremy A. Bastian (new, $24.95)
30) Changeless (used, $1.50) and
31) Blameless by Gail Carriger (used, $1.50)
32) The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Volume II by Diana Wynne Jones (used, $1.50)
33) Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (used, $3) - first edition
34) Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card (used, $1.50)
35) Old Man's War by John Scalzi (used, $1.50)
36) The Mislaid Magician; or Ten Years After by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer (used, $4)
July:
None!
August:
37) Coraline: The Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell (used $0.10)
September:
38) Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (new, $15.25)
39) H. P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror by H. P. Lovecraft (new, $7.61)
40) Deadline by Mira Grant (new, $9.54)
41) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (new, free)
42) The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde (new, $12.17)
43) Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates (new, $26.70)
44) Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (new, $9.54)
45) Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black (new, $18.13)
October:
46) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (used, $2)
47) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (used, $2)
48) The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde (used, $2)
49) Getting Started Knitting Socks by Ann Budd (used, $2)
50) Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore (used, $2)
51) The Fairy's Mistake by Gail Carson Levine (used, $2)
52) Count Zero by William Gibson (used, $2)
53) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (used, $2)
54) Un Lun Dun by China Mieville (used, $1)
55) Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (used, $1)
56) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (used, $1)
57) The Borrowers by Mary Norton (used, $1)
58) Hyperion by Dan Simmons (used, $1.40)
59) Scandinavian Mythology by H. R. Ellis Davidson (used, $1.40)
60) I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle (used, $1.40)
61) Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson (used, $1.40)
62) A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (used, $1.40)
63) The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (used, $1.40)
64) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (used, $1.40)
November:
65) The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (used, free)
66) Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (used, free)
67) A Severed Wasp by Madeleine L'Engle (used, free)
68) The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte (used, free)
69) The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances by Peter S. Beagle (used, free)
70) The Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore (used, free)
71) Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (used, free)
December:
72) Summer Falls and Other Stories by Amelia Williams (new, $11.69)
73) The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan (new ARC, free)
74) The Book of Jezebel by Anna Holmes (new, free)
75) Storm Riders by Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes (new ARC, free)
76) (Doctor Who Cookbook) (new, gift)
77) (book about animal poop) (new, gift)
78) City of Trees (new, gift)
79) The Most Famous Man in America (new, gift)
Books acquired in 2013:
January:
1) Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger (free)
February:
None!
March:
2) Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman by Tara Prescott (free)
April:
3) Wool by Hugh Howey (new, $12)
4) The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (used, $7.99)
5) Zone One by Colson Whitehead (used, $7)
6) The White Queen by Philippa Gregory (used, $7)
May:
7) Matched by Ally Condie (used, $.50)
8) Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce (used, $.50)
9) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (used, $1)
10) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (used, $1)
11) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (used, $1)
12) Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (used, $1)
13) Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (used, $1)
14) 11/22/63 by Stephen King (used, $3)
15) The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Two-volumes (used, $3)
16) Bullfinch's Mythology - 1947 edition (used, $3)
17) The Tesseract by Alex Garland (used, $3)
18) The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith (used, $3)
19) Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (used, $3)
20) In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (used, $3)
21) The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (used, $.10)
22) Wicked by Gregory Maguire (used, $.10)
23) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (used, $.10)
24) The Maze Runner by James Dashner (used, $.10)
June:
25) Vogue Knitting Knitopedia edited by Carla Scott (new, $18.98)
26) Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore (new, $5.98)
27) Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi (new, $13.95)
28) Maus I: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman (new, $15.95)
29) Cursed Pirate Girl by Jeremy A. Bastian (new, $24.95)
30) Changeless (used, $1.50) and
31) Blameless by Gail Carriger (used, $1.50)
32) The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Volume II by Diana Wynne Jones (used, $1.50)
33) Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (used, $3) - first edition
34) Red Prophet by Orson Scott Card (used, $1.50)
35) Old Man's War by John Scalzi (used, $1.50)
36) The Mislaid Magician; or Ten Years After by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer (used, $4)
July:
None!
August:
37) Coraline: The Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell (used $0.10)
September:
38) Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (new, $15.25)
39) H. P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror by H. P. Lovecraft (new, $7.61)
40) Deadline by Mira Grant (new, $9.54)
41) Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (new, free)
42) The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde (new, $12.17)
43) Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates (new, $26.70)
44) Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (new, $9.54)
45) Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black (new, $18.13)
October:
46) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (used, $2)
47) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling (used, $2)
48) The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde (used, $2)
49) Getting Started Knitting Socks by Ann Budd (used, $2)
50) Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore (used, $2)
51) The Fairy's Mistake by Gail Carson Levine (used, $2)
52) Count Zero by William Gibson (used, $2)
53) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (used, $2)
54) Un Lun Dun by China Mieville (used, $1)
55) Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (used, $1)
56) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (used, $1)
57) The Borrowers by Mary Norton (used, $1)
58) Hyperion by Dan Simmons (used, $1.40)
59) Scandinavian Mythology by H. R. Ellis Davidson (used, $1.40)
60) I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle (used, $1.40)
61) Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson (used, $1.40)
62) A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (used, $1.40)
63) The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (used, $1.40)
64) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (used, $1.40)
November:
65) The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde (used, free)
66) Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (used, free)
67) A Severed Wasp by Madeleine L'Engle (used, free)
68) The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte (used, free)
69) The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche and Other Odd Acquaintances by Peter S. Beagle (used, free)
70) The Island of the Sequined Love Nun by Christopher Moore (used, free)
71) Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (used, free)
December:
72) Summer Falls and Other Stories by Amelia Williams (new, $11.69)
73) The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan (new ARC, free)
74) The Book of Jezebel by Anna Holmes (new, free)
75) Storm Riders by Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes (new ARC, free)
76) (Doctor Who Cookbook) (new, gift)
77) (book about animal poop) (new, gift)
78) City of Trees (new, gift)
79) The Most Famous Man in America (new, gift)
4norabelle414
Quick Christmas Recap:
Things have been crazy around here, as usual for late December, and they're going to continue to be crazy as I have more family coming into town today.
On the 22nd of December I got to meet the baby panda at the National Zoo and she was so adorable! I was allowed to take pictures, but not share them electronically. So if you want to see pictures you'll have to come visit me :-) She'll make her public debut on January 18th, at which point the zoo will be NUTS for several months. I'm looking forward to it!
My crazy aunt got here on Sunday and it's been super stressful because she is extremely weirdly sensitive and endlessly anxious and has self-worth problems. She does things like clog the toilet and not tell anyone about it, then break the toilet when she tries to fix it without help. Fun stuff.
My aunt leaves tomorrow, but today my uncle (brother of my aunt and my mom) and cousin are coming. My aunt refuses to talk to my uncle, and no one can figure out why, so tonight should be interesting. And my mom is stressed out about it so she's being passive aggressive and projecting her anxiety onto me. Because there are so many people here at once, my cousin is staying with me, just for tonight, which means I've spent my few free hours over the past several days cleaning my apartment. And then once they're gone I get to spend the remaining week getting ready for Iceland. And somewhere in there I need to buy myself a new computer because my 2009 computer is dying.
But I got a new digital camera for Christmas! A Nikon Coolpix S5200. In purple, of course.
Things have been crazy around here, as usual for late December, and they're going to continue to be crazy as I have more family coming into town today.
On the 22nd of December I got to meet the baby panda at the National Zoo and she was so adorable! I was allowed to take pictures, but not share them electronically. So if you want to see pictures you'll have to come visit me :-) She'll make her public debut on January 18th, at which point the zoo will be NUTS for several months. I'm looking forward to it!
My crazy aunt got here on Sunday and it's been super stressful because she is extremely weirdly sensitive and endlessly anxious and has self-worth problems. She does things like clog the toilet and not tell anyone about it, then break the toilet when she tries to fix it without help. Fun stuff.
My aunt leaves tomorrow, but today my uncle (brother of my aunt and my mom) and cousin are coming. My aunt refuses to talk to my uncle, and no one can figure out why, so tonight should be interesting. And my mom is stressed out about it so she's being passive aggressive and projecting her anxiety onto me. Because there are so many people here at once, my cousin is staying with me, just for tonight, which means I've spent my few free hours over the past several days cleaning my apartment. And then once they're gone I get to spend the remaining week getting ready for Iceland. And somewhere in there I need to buy myself a new computer because my 2009 computer is dying.
But I got a new digital camera for Christmas! A Nikon Coolpix S5200. In purple, of course.
5MickyFine
Sorry to hear about all the holiday stress, Nora. Crossing appendages that everything goes smoother than anticipated.
But yay for new camera and increasing proximity of trip to Iceland! Happy Boxing Day or as it's known in your neck of the woods - plain ole day after Christmas. :P
But yay for new camera and increasing proximity of trip to Iceland! Happy Boxing Day or as it's known in your neck of the woods - plain ole day after Christmas. :P
6leahbird
So excited to hear about your trip when you get back! Hope things aren't to bad until you leave.
7RosyLibrarian
I hope you had a nice Christmas, even with all the stress! I love Nikon cameras. They are my favorite.
8LauraBrook
You can make it through the next couple of crazy stressful days and then soon be off to Iceland! Rory will be (im)patiently waiting for you.
9norabelle414
>8 LauraBrook: Rory is going to have his favorite auntie @Soraya71 come over and spoil him, so I think he will be just fine. I'm pretty sure he got more Christmas presents than I did this year! His new favorites are ping-pong balls.
10scaifea
Good luck with the nutbar family members. I sympathize; I'll be spending two days with my in-laws this weekend. Sigh.
New camera, though - exciting! And Iceland soon! WooHoo!!
New camera, though - exciting! And Iceland soon! WooHoo!!
11dk_phoenix
Just stopping in to say Merry Belated Christmas!
12Ape
Sorry you've been having to deal with someone who sounds remarkably like myself. That must have been torture! :P
I hope you have a great time in Iceland. Sounds like the perfect place to test that new camera.
I hope you have a great time in Iceland. Sounds like the perfect place to test that new camera.
13lkernagh
Belated Merry Christmas, Nora and all the best in 2014. A trip to Iceland sounds like a great way to start of 2014!
14alcottacre
Happy Holidays, Nora! A trip to Iceland in 2014?! I am jealous!
15UnrulySun
Happy Holidays, Nora! Looking forward to reading all about your Iceland trip in the new year, hopefully illustrated with loads of photos as well. ♥
16norabelle414
Hi Micky, Leah, Marie, Laura, Amber, Faith, Stephen, Lori, Stasia, and Kathy! Thanks for sticking with me through the home stretch! My current plan is to start my 2014 thread as soon as I finish my darn 75 books! I'm almost done with an audiobook, and almost done with Saturn's Children, and then I just have to read one more! I can do it!
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So yesterday about noon I got a text from my brother telling me that my aunt had checked into a hotel so that she wouldn't have to stay in the same house as her brother. I was supposed to go to a museum with my aunt and so I continued with that plan, pretending that I didn't know that she had moved from my mom's house into a hotel. We went to our exhibit and then took the Metro back toward my mom's and had the following conversation:
Aunt: Thanks for going to the museum with me, I had a very nice time. It was good to see you. I'm getting off at {next Metro stop} because your mom is mad at me. (untrue)
Me: That shouldn't stop you from coming to dinner. I go to her house for dinner when she's mad at me all the time.
Aunt: (laugh, pause) Well, I also don't want to see your uncle.
Me: Why?
Aunt: (very long pause) He puts me down a lot. (untrue. he totally coddles her)
Me: You should come up with some good comebacks for him.
Aunt: (another long pause) Well, it is a very recent thing and I'm still deciding how I'm going to deal with it.
And then she gets up and gets off the train without saying goodbye or anything else.
So then my mom and I talked to my uncle about it when he got to our house later. We figured something had happened at Thanksgiving (my aunt was supposed to go over to my uncle's house for Thanksgiving) because when my mom asked her how her Thanksgiving was, she got flustered and walked out of the room. (She does that a lot, as you can tell.) My uncle says that he asked everyone to be at his house at 1pm and said they would be eating promptly at 2pm. My aunt shows up at his house at 2:30, without any kind of phone call or text or anything. They only live an hour away from each other so she definitely could have called from her house, regardless of the fact that she won't let anyone in our family have her cell phone number because it's "for emergencies only". My uncle told her that she should have called to say she was being late, and then asked her why she was so late (expecting her to say she had a flat tire or something, in which case he would understand) and she got flustered and left and now won't talk to anyone about it.
♥ The End ♥
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So yesterday about noon I got a text from my brother telling me that my aunt had checked into a hotel so that she wouldn't have to stay in the same house as her brother. I was supposed to go to a museum with my aunt and so I continued with that plan, pretending that I didn't know that she had moved from my mom's house into a hotel. We went to our exhibit and then took the Metro back toward my mom's and had the following conversation:
Aunt: Thanks for going to the museum with me, I had a very nice time. It was good to see you. I'm getting off at {next Metro stop} because your mom is mad at me. (untrue)
Me: That shouldn't stop you from coming to dinner. I go to her house for dinner when she's mad at me all the time.
Aunt: (laugh, pause) Well, I also don't want to see your uncle.
Me: Why?
Aunt: (very long pause) He puts me down a lot. (untrue. he totally coddles her)
Me: You should come up with some good comebacks for him.
Aunt: (another long pause) Well, it is a very recent thing and I'm still deciding how I'm going to deal with it.
And then she gets up and gets off the train without saying goodbye or anything else.
So then my mom and I talked to my uncle about it when he got to our house later. We figured something had happened at Thanksgiving (my aunt was supposed to go over to my uncle's house for Thanksgiving) because when my mom asked her how her Thanksgiving was, she got flustered and walked out of the room. (She does that a lot, as you can tell.) My uncle says that he asked everyone to be at his house at 1pm and said they would be eating promptly at 2pm. My aunt shows up at his house at 2:30, without any kind of phone call or text or anything. They only live an hour away from each other so she definitely could have called from her house, regardless of the fact that she won't let anyone in our family have her cell phone number because it's "for emergencies only". My uncle told her that she should have called to say she was being late, and then asked her why she was so late (expecting her to say she had a flat tire or something, in which case he would understand) and she got flustered and left and now won't talk to anyone about it.
♥ The End ♥
17MickyFine
Ugh. I'm so sorry about all the family drama. Maybe this will make it a bit better:
I'm not leaving my thread until January 1. I'm stubborn that way. :P
I'm not leaving my thread until January 1. I'm stubborn that way. :P
19norabelle414
>17 MickyFine: That does make me feel better. Thanks :-) My aunt's flight was this afternoon and so it should be smooth sailing from here. My uncle and cousin will be around and so I won't have much Nora-time (or Nora-Rory-time) but they are decidedly low maintenance so it won't be difficult.
>18 leahbird: Whoops..... good catch! I'm terrible at remembering what year it is.
I got *the email* yesterday - The Interrupted Tale audiobook is ready for me to download! And I'm really enjoying The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates, Book 1: The Magic Marks the Spot audiobook, also narrated by ♥Katherine Kellgren♥. AND one of my many libraries got Boston Jacky: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Taking Care of Business audiobook and I'm #1 on the waiting list. It's going to be a great few weeks for my ears! (and I really deserve it after listening to Rotters.)
>18 leahbird: Whoops..... good catch! I'm terrible at remembering what year it is.
I got *the email* yesterday - The Interrupted Tale audiobook is ready for me to download! And I'm really enjoying The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates, Book 1: The Magic Marks the Spot audiobook, also narrated by ♥Katherine Kellgren♥. AND one of my many libraries got Boston Jacky: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Taking Care of Business audiobook and I'm #1 on the waiting list. It's going to be a great few weeks for my ears! (and I really deserve it after listening to Rotters.)
20Morphidae
I'm being stubborn. I'm at 252 posts and refuse to start another one just for five days. You have my admiration!
21UnrulySun
Haha me too morphy! I'd be utterly frustrated to see a thread sit at maybe 10 replies and have to abandon it. :p
Nora doesn't have that worry though, she is far too popular to ever have a smallish thread.
Nora doesn't have that worry though, she is far too popular to ever have a smallish thread.
22norabelle414
Well, I *would* have let it sit except that I knew I was going to have at least three more reviews, and those usually garner a fair number of posts. I didn't want people to feel like they shouldn't comment because my thread was 350 posts long or something. And Stephen needs to be able to load it!
23RosyLibrarian
Yuck, family drama. That is why I live 3000 miles away from my family.
24qebo
I'm at over 300 posts, surprisingly, and I'm staying put through book #75. However, I've prepped for 2014 by un-starring and un-xing 2013 threads, and starring and xing 2014 threads, so I missed this thread and the family drama until it showed up on Hot Topics. Good thing you have your own apartment.
25norabelle414
It is very nice that I have my own apartment so I can get away from it. Actually I've been getting along with my mom and my brother better than ever lately, so that makes it a lot easier.
27Ape
It's true! It's incredibly difficult to have a good relationship with someone when you live with them.
28SqueakyChu
Nora, your family stories are so funny. Too bad they're also sad. I know some family members in my husband's family who do the same thing. There's often no rhyme nor reason to what they do (or so it seems to me). I think how you react to you aunt is fine and comforting. That's the best you can do in such a situation.
Have a terrific trip to Iceland. I can't wait to see the pix from your new camera. What fun!
Stay warm. Hope to see you again this spring.
Have a terrific trip to Iceland. I can't wait to see the pix from your new camera. What fun!
Stay warm. Hope to see you again this spring.
29SqueakyChu
> 27
It's true! It's incredibly difficult to have a good relationship with someone when you live with them.
LOL! Stephen, I'll have to let my husband know that. To where should he move? ;)
It's true! It's incredibly difficult to have a good relationship with someone when you live with them.
LOL! Stephen, I'll have to let my husband know that. To where should he move? ;)
30norabelle414
Book #73: Saturn's Children by Charles Stross - Freya Nakamachi is a sexbot who was unfortunately "born" shortly after the human race went extinct. So she and her sisters spread out across the solar system, without much meaning in their lives. Since they are so fundamentally useless, they're at the bottom of the social scale. On Venus, Freya accidentally pisses off a very rich and powerful aristocrat. Freya books a quick passage off-world by getting a job as a courier to far-off Eris, and finds out that some of her sisters have been down this road before, and maybe they were up to more than she thought.
This is actually the FIRST book in a series of which I already read the SECOND book, Neptune's Brood. They take place in the same world, but thousands of years apart and there's no character overlap. It's really fascinating to see the progression of "human" civilization over the course of so many years. As you might expect, there is some mildly graphic sex in here, but it's not cheesy or flowery, and most of it is sexbot + spaceship or sexbot + robotic sleeping bag, so it's just funny. As with Neptune's Brood, the mostly-female characters are spectacularly written. It's a solidly good read, for sure, but not as fabulous as its sequel. Freya is interesting and believable, but not as awesome as Krina.
P.S. Don't judge this book by its terrible U.S. cover - the author says on his blog that he doesn't like this cover and he had no say in the matter.
Currently reading:
Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Currently listening to:
The Very Honorable League of Pirates, Book One: The Magic Marks the Spot by Caroline Carlson, read by Katherine Kellgren (96%)
Coming soon:
The Walking Dead Volume 4 by Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead Volume 5 by Robert Kirkman
The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
Summer Falls and Other Stories by Amelia Williams
BOOKS READ: 73
BOOKS BOUGHT: 62
BOOKS ACQUIRED: 79
BOOKS DEACCESSIONED: 0
DAYS REMAINING: 3
BOOKS REMAINING: 2
DAYS PER BOOK: 1.5
31Ape
Haha, yeah, that cover is truly horrendous. It looks like digital art performed on a computer from 15 years ago. :P
Sexbot + Spaceship? .....
Sexbot + Spaceship? .....
32dk_phoenix
WOW, that's a terrible cover! But your description is hilarious enough to intrigue me...
33norabelle414
>32 dk_phoenix: I think you in particular would enjoy the two books a lot, Faith. They're really well written and the world-building (the solar system/galaxy/universe, post-humans) is imaginative and fascinating.
34Ape
I can see why a sexbot would go for a spaceship. I understand those things have a lot of thrust.
35norabelle414
Book #74: Magic Marks the Spot (The Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates, Book 1) by Caroline Carlson, read by ♥Katherine Kellgren♥ - Audiobook from the library - Young Hilary Westfield wants so very badly to be a pirate. There are only two problems: 1) her father is an Admiral in the Navy, and 2) the Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates (VNHLP) won't accept young girls! How rude! In fact, they forward Hilary's rejected VNHLP application to Admiral Westfield, which gets Hilary shipped off to a prestigious finishing school. She promptly escapes and joins a rag-tag band of reject pirates. The crew includes a young boy named Charlie, a budgerigar named Fitzwilliam Fletcher, the gargoyle from Hilary's home bedroom, and Hilary's own governess. Their mission is to do what all pirates do, of course - find buried magic! The pirate ship is shortly followed by Admiral Westfield's best Naval vessel and the headmistress of the finishing school, who want to catch up with Hilary and bring her back home. Or do they?!?
SO CUTE! It's like a younger, funnier, lighter Bloody Jack, with magic. And a talking, overwrought, romance-novel-obsessed gargoyle. Recommended if you like children's books and pirates, and/or if you're addicted to Katherine Kellgren. It's not as fantastic as the Bloody Jack series or the Incorrigible Children, but it's a nice way to pass the time while you're waiting for the next volume in those series.
Currently reading:
Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Currently listening to:
The Interrupted Tale (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book 4) by Maryrose Wood, read by Katherine Kellgren (11%)
Coming soon:
The Walking Dead Volume 4 by Robert Kirkman
The Walking Dead Volume 5 by Robert Kirkman
The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
Summer Falls and Other Stories by Amelia Williams
BOOKS READ: 74
BOOKS BOUGHT: 62
BOOKS ACQUIRED: 79
BOOKS DEACCESSIONED: 0
DAYS REMAINING: 2
BOOKS REMAINING: 1
DAYS PER BOOK: 2
36norabelle414
Three scenarios for the end of the year:
1) As I'm almost halfway done with Curtsies & Conspiracies, it will most likely be my 75th book.
2) Should something happen to prevent me reading much today and tomorrow, I have The Walking Dead, Volume 4: The Heart's Desire on my bedside table, which should only take an hour or so to read.
3) Under some circumstance I can't even think of right now, it's possible I'll finish my audiobook, The Interrupted Tale, before the end of the year. But very unlikely.
Other Notes:
I have to return Ancillary Justice to the library as it's due tomorrow and I can't renew it because it now has a LONG wait list. *sigh* io9.com called it the best science fiction/fantasy book of 2013. Hopefully I'll get to pick it back up shortly after returning from Iceland. Speaking of which, I soon need to start planning what books to take with me on my trip. Decisions, decisions.
1) As I'm almost halfway done with Curtsies & Conspiracies, it will most likely be my 75th book.
2) Should something happen to prevent me reading much today and tomorrow, I have The Walking Dead, Volume 4: The Heart's Desire on my bedside table, which should only take an hour or so to read.
3) Under some circumstance I can't even think of right now, it's possible I'll finish my audiobook, The Interrupted Tale, before the end of the year. But very unlikely.
Other Notes:
I have to return Ancillary Justice to the library as it's due tomorrow and I can't renew it because it now has a LONG wait list. *sigh* io9.com called it the best science fiction/fantasy book of 2013. Hopefully I'll get to pick it back up shortly after returning from Iceland. Speaking of which, I soon need to start planning what books to take with me on my trip. Decisions, decisions.
37MickyFine
>35 norabelle414: And onto the list it goes. Whimsy and pirates? It's a no-brainer.
38norabelle414
>37 MickyFine: For sure. There's a major plot point involving magical crochet hooks.
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I'VE MADE A THREAD IN THE NEW CHALLENGE GROUP! Because I am very bored today. Go bother me over there! And also continue to bother me here! At the same time!
http://www.librarything.com/topic/163083
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I'VE MADE A THREAD IN THE NEW CHALLENGE GROUP! Because I am very bored today. Go bother me over there! And also continue to bother me here! At the same time!
http://www.librarything.com/topic/163083
39lkernagh
It's like a younger, funnier, lighter Bloody Jack, with magic.
Well, you got me with that one.
:*heads off to see if library has copy*:
Well, you got me with that one.
:*heads off to see if library has copy*:
40_Zoe_
Yup, I also added Magic Marks the Spot to my wishlist, even though I should probably read the rest of the Bloody Jack books first. And I haven't read the latest Incorrigibles either, for that matter. So many books and so little time....
41foggidawn
I'm going to have to listen to Magic Marks the Spot now. Also, I think I will start putting hearts around ♥Katherine Kellgren♥'s name. Are we the unofficial fan club? Is there an official one, and where do I sign up?
42norabelle414
>40 _Zoe_: I suggest all of them in audiobook. It's possible Magic Marks the Spot is actually terrible, and only ♥ Katherine Kellgren ♥ makes it good. Plus you can listen at times when you physically can't be reading, like while walking or driving, or in the dark.
>41 foggidawn: I don't know anything about a fan club, but I definitely follow her on Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/katherinekellgren
A couple times she has posted videos of herself recording a bit of an audiobook. Really cool!
>41 foggidawn: I don't know anything about a fan club, but I definitely follow her on Facebook!
https://www.facebook.com/katherinekellgren
A couple times she has posted videos of herself recording a bit of an audiobook. Really cool!
43leahbird
>35 norabelle414: There seem to be a lot of seagoing people (or birds) named Fletcher these days....
44norabelle414
>43 leahbird: Yeah. Fitzwilliam Fletcher is the beloved pet of disgraced pirate Jasper Fletcher. It is weird. At least he's too old to be a love interest for the main character.
Also, I'm 90% certain my brother has a friend named Jamie Fletcher. But I'm not actually going to ask him.
Also, I'm 90% certain my brother has a friend named Jamie Fletcher. But I'm not actually going to ask him.
46norabelle414
I'm about 20 pages away from finishing my 75th book! But I'm going to shut off my computer and read in bed, since I have to get up at 5:45 tomorrow. I'll have a bright shiny review for you tomorrow! Yay!
47norabelle414
Book #75: Curtsies & Conspiracies (Finishing School, Book 2) by Gail Carriger - Sophronia Temminick gets the highest grades in the class on her six-month exam, and all her friends ostracize her. How is she supposed to uncover the purpose of the mysterious prototype and solve any new mysteries that might arise without her diverse and most capable friends? And to cap it all off, there are BOYS from Bunson and Lacroix’s Boys Polytechnique School on the dirigible! And one of them is determined to court Sophronia! Oh, the scandal!
Let me tell you a little something about the things I love in this world: well-written YA, boarding school stories, Regency/Georgian/Victorian historical fiction, steampunk, dirigibles, British humor, bad-ass ladies, complete and utter weirdness, mechanical wiener dogs, and Gail Carriger. I could tell I loved this book because when Sophronia made a face, I made a face, and I spent the last 50 pages alternating between squealing with delight and laughing until my sides hurt. I loved this one even more than the first. I especially love seeing the evolving politics and how they might influence the events of the original series, and how the characters grow between the two series.
Currently reading:
The Walking Dead Volume 5 by Robert Kirkman
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Currently listening to:
The Interrupted Tale (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book 4) by Maryrose Wood, read by Katherine Kellgren (21%)
Coming soon:
The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
Summer Falls and Other Stories by Amelia Williams
BOOKS READ: 75!
BOOKS BOUGHT: 62
BOOKS ACQUIRED: 79
BOOKS DEACCESSIONED: 0
48norabelle414
How appropriate that I began the Finishing School series in January and now the second book is my 75th book of the year! Also, look at this!
49norabelle414
Book #76: The Walking Dead Volume 4: The Heart's Desire by Robert Kirkman - The gang is overrun by zombies just as Dexter is threatening to kill them all if they don't leave the prison. In the ensuing chaos, Rick shoots Dexter, and later has to deal with the consequences of his actions. Also, a mysterious woman shows up at the prison with two armless, jawless zombies in tow.
Perhaps it's just because I'm so used to the TV show by now, but I totally didn't get why everyone was so upset with Rick. Dexter was threatening to either kick them onto the zombie-ridden streets, or kill them. I don't think there's any question that Rick did the right thing.
Currently reading:
The Walking Dead Volume 5 by Robert Kirkman
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Currently listening to:
The Interrupted Tale (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book 4) by Maryrose Wood, read by Katherine Kellgren (21%)
Coming soon:
The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
Summer Falls and Other Stories by Amelia Williams
BOOKS READ: 76
BOOKS BOUGHT: 62
BOOKS ACQUIRED: 79
BOOKS DEACCESSIONED: 0
51RosyLibrarian
Yay, congratulations on hitting 75! See you next year Nora.
53norabelle414
I'm probably going to read this other Walking Dead graphic novel today, just so I don't start the new year with a middle-of-the-series graphic novel. and not to boost my 2013 numbers at all. nope.
54qebo
53: You're a better person than I am. With 75 in the bag for 2013, I'd be holding off on the last page until January.
55norabelle414
>54 qebo: Noooo I'm trying to get started on a better foot in the new year.
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WELL Stephen has added more stuff to his stats this year, which means I have to steal them again. Ugh. Plagiarism is so much work.
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WELL Stephen has added more stuff to his stats this year, which means I have to steal them again. Ugh. Plagiarism is so much work.
58MickyFine
Felicitations on reaching (and surpassing) the magic number, Nora!
>48 norabelle414: Love it! Whether it's authentic or not. :)
>48 norabelle414: Love it! Whether it's authentic or not. :)
60alsvidur
Woooo! Congrats on 75!
And Magic Marks the Spot seems adorable; I'll have to watch out for that one!
And Magic Marks the Spot seems adorable; I'll have to watch out for that one!
61norabelle414
Book #76: The Walking Dead Volume 5: The Best Defense by Robert Kirkman - The gang starts to get comfortable and relaxed in their prison home. One day they see a helicopter crash and follow it to discover a nearby town, sheltered from the zombies and run by an evil man known only as The Governor. Also Carol weirdly keeps hitting on both Rick and Lori.
The graphic novel Governor is less scary than the TV one, I think. Mostly because the TV one takes longer to reveal his secrets, I think. Either way, this was a really good one.
Currently reading:
The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Currently listening to:
The Interrupted Tale (The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place, Book 4) by Maryrose Wood, read by Katherine Kellgren (21%)
Coming soon:
Summer Falls and Other Stories by Amelia Williams
BOOKS READ: 77
BOOKS BOUGHT: 62
BOOKS ACQUIRED: 79
BOOKS DEACCESSIONED: 0
62norabelle414
And with that, I'm done with reviews for 2013. Get ready for some really depressing statistics.
63norabelle414
2013 End-of-the-Year Summary
*stats mostly stolen from Stephen*
Books read: 77 (up 2 from last year!)
Books purchased (paper+audio): 62 (down 24)
Books acquired (purchased+free, not audio): 79 (down 15)
Total $ spent on books: $269
Average price per book: $4
Books read before acquired: 15
Books borrowed (friends+library): 59 (way up)
Books read that were on the shelf for a year or more: 3 (way down)
Books deaccessioned: 0 (way down)
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Books read: 77 (paper+audio)
Paper books: 55 (+2 from last year)
Audiobooks: 22 (same as last year)
Pages read: 16,938 (down 3,000 from last year :-( (no audio)
Average paper book length: 307 pages (down 70 pages)
Median paper book length: 310 pages (down 60 pages)
Average pages read per day: 46.4 (down almost 10 pages)
Average pages read per week: 324.8 (down 60.2 pages)
Average pages read per month: 1.411.5 (down 260 pages)
New reads: 77
Rereads: 0
~~Fiction/Nonfiction~~
Fiction books read: 73
Nonfiction books read: 4
~~Gender~~
Books by female authors: 35
Books by male authors: 42
Female authors - average rating: 4.1
Male authors - average rating: 3.8
Books from the female perspective: 42
Books from the male perspective: 22
Female perspective - average rating: 4.1
Male Perspective - average rating: 3.6
~~Owned vs. Library~~
Owned books read: 15
Library checkouts: 56
~~Best books~~
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (audiobook)
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Wool by Hugh Howey
~~Worst books~~
Rotters (audiobook) by Daniel Kraus
The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby
The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kitteridge
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (audiobook)
Looking for Alaska by John Green
*stats mostly stolen from Stephen*
Books read: 77 (up 2 from last year!)
Books purchased (paper+audio): 62 (down 24)
Books acquired (purchased+free, not audio): 79 (down 15)
Total $ spent on books: $269
Average price per book: $4
Books read before acquired: 15
Books borrowed (friends+library): 59 (way up)
Books read that were on the shelf for a year or more: 3 (way down)
Books deaccessioned: 0 (way down)
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Books read: 77 (paper+audio)
Paper books: 55 (+2 from last year)
Audiobooks: 22 (same as last year)
Pages read: 16,938 (down 3,000 from last year :-( (no audio)
Average paper book length: 307 pages (down 70 pages)
Median paper book length: 310 pages (down 60 pages)
Average pages read per day: 46.4 (down almost 10 pages)
Average pages read per week: 324.8 (down 60.2 pages)
Average pages read per month: 1.411.5 (down 260 pages)
New reads: 77
Rereads: 0
~~Fiction/Nonfiction~~
Fiction books read: 73
Nonfiction books read: 4
~~Gender~~
Books by female authors: 35
Books by male authors: 42
Female authors - average rating: 4.1
Male authors - average rating: 3.8
Books from the female perspective: 42
Books from the male perspective: 22
Female perspective - average rating: 4.1
Male Perspective - average rating: 3.6
~~Owned vs. Library~~
Owned books read: 15
Library checkouts: 56
~~Best books~~
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (audiobook)
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Wool by Hugh Howey
~~Worst books~~
Rotters (audiobook) by Daniel Kraus
The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby
The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kitteridge
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (audiobook)
Looking for Alaska by John Green
64mahsdad
Totally agree on Night Circus and Wool. I liked Alaska, but then it takes a LOT for me to not at least like a book. Sea of Monsters? Well that's just pulp fiction for tweens, not much to it.
Congrats on making the "goal". Didn't make it this year. But that's the beauty of books, there's always more to read.
Happy New Year.
Congrats on making the "goal". Didn't make it this year. But that's the beauty of books, there's always more to read.
Happy New Year.
65norabelle414
Thanks Jeff! Happy New Year to you, too.
68Ape
Me too. Screw the holidays, it's the year-end stats that make this time of year so wonderful. :)
70TinaV95
You did it!!! Congrats on 75/76, Nora!!
Whoop whoop!!
I'm going to visit specifically to meet you (of course), Rory, and see those secret panda pictures!! :)
Whoop whoop!!
I'm going to visit specifically to meet you (of course), Rory, and see those secret panda pictures!! :)
72norabelle414
Thanks Stephen, Micky, Kathy Tina, and Katie!! Happy New Year! I now direct everyone to my new "prologue" thread, here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/163083 , which needs some more visitors so I can make a REAL thread :-)
You can keep talking about stats over there, or join in the discussion about which is your favorite non-Colin O'Donoghue Captain Hook!
You can keep talking about stats over there, or join in the discussion about which is your favorite non-Colin O'Donoghue Captain Hook!
