Here we are, the last Monday of the year; also, the last accounting of books I’ve read in 2007. I finished the last book last night, a collection of short stories by Neil Gaiman. I like Mr. Gaiman — except for the whole Beowulf movie thing — and am glad I picked up this collection awhile ago.
- Night Pleasures — Sherrilyn Kenyon
- The Naming — Alison Croggon
- The Best American Poetry 2007 — Heather McHugh, Ed.
- Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders — Neil Gaiman
This is the last book update for a long time. I’ve decided in 2008 to only update the actual booklist page, since this year taught me that I’m not good at doing things on time.
I hope to soon talk about book stats — which author I read the most (probably J.K Rowling, since I don’t think any other author made it to seven), which genre I read the most, which month had the most books read, that sort of thing.
 However, that will have to wait until the macbook comes back, which isn’t until next year.
Thank god next year is only a day away.
Thank god that finals are over; I can finally read for fun again. Alturas loaned me a book over a month ago, and I finally got to read it on Friday.
- Hogsfather — Terry Pratchett
- Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery — Dave Roman; various illustrators.
She’s right. Terry Pratchett is exactly the author I was looking for. I imagine that I’ll own (or at least have read) the entire current Discworld series before the end of 2008.
And having bought Agnes Quill something like three months ago, I was very pleased when I got to it, although I was surprised when each of the “chapters” were illustrated by different artists. However, it makes sense within the story itself.
Yay! two whole books. One, of course, was for a paper I had to write. Can you guess which one?
- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot’s Guide to the Land of Knitting — Stephanie Pearl McPhee
- The Hound of the Baskervilles — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I heart Stephanie Pearl- McPhee. She’s one blogger who’s books I’ll always buy.
Nothing. At all. Again. Too many papers due this week to actually read something important.
Is it any surprise at all that the only book I managed to read this week is the one that was assigned for class? No? I didn’t think so.
- Daniel Deronda — George Eliot
Freakishly long book — nearly a thousand pages — and would take me a good five minutes to summarize the plot, which is four minutes too look. Decently good though, and yet unsurprising with the end.
Yay! for finally getting to read some books for fun. Of course, I had to read part of Daniel Deronda as well for Victorian Literature, but I’m nearly done, so yippy!
- Jack Sprat Investigates: The Fourth Bear – Jasper Fforde
- The Dream-Hunter — Sherilyn Kenyon
- Elemental Magic — Sharon Shinn; Rebecca York; Carol Berg; Jean Johnson
Slightly disappointed with Elemental Magic, only because I bought it thinking it was romance, but it wasn’t really. Four short fantasy stories, each with a central couple–but none felt like a romance story, really.
Absolutely nothing.
It was a sad sad week indeed. At least next week is a vacation, and I do nothing better on vacation than read.
I wish I could say I read more but no. Only one romance, and it was from the junk pile to boot.
- The Blanchland Secret– Nicola Cornick
It was decently okay, but I mainly picked it because I needed something to entertain myself while waiting for my carpool ride to show up, and it was raining. Might as well go with a book that I could stand to get wet. And still, it made me cry. It may move to the keeper pile.
Only one book this week (seems like I’m saying that a lot). This one is the second in the Looking Glass Wars series, and can I just say? Absolutely love it.
- Seeing Redd — Frank Beddor
I can’t wait for the third book in this series to come out (and I seriously hope it’s longer than a trilogy), and I love it so much that I have been known to buy a comic or two, chronicling the adventures of Hatter M, when he’s not with Alyss.
At least I managed to read one non-assigned book this week.
- The Law and the Lady – Wilkie Collins
- A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Fantasy Lover — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fantasy Lover was brilliant, right up until the heroine seemed to become someone else at the end. Still, can’t wait to start my next book by Kenyon.
