Angie's comments

Angie's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.

Note: Angie is no longer a member of this group.

Hey Carol. Sorry it took me so long to reply. I got a new job recently and have been absolutely swamped. Which is also why my reading has taken a hit lately :)

I really like the Uglies series. This is actually my second read through it. There are a few elements you have to just roll your eyes at and overlook but ultimately the story is great. Especially if you like distopias.

May


32. Pretties by Scott Westerfeld - 05/06/09 - 370
33. Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris - 05/25/09 - 312

May Total - 682

Yearly Total - 13431

April


29. Blue Noon by Scott Westerfeld - 04/02/09 - 512
30. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist - 04/04/09 - 528
31. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - 04/10/09 - 425

April Total - 1465

Yearly Total - 12749

March


22. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer - 03/01/09 - 563
23. Frostbite by Richelle Mead - 03/07/09 - 372
24. Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, Book 3) by Richelle Mead - 03/08/09 - 443
25. Hunted by P.C. Cast - 03/20/09 - 323
26. Personal Demon by Kelley Armstrong - 03/23/09 - 352
27. The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld - 03/28/09 - 297
28. Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld - 03/31/09 - 336

March Total - 2686

Yearly Total - 11284

February


13. No Humans Involved by Kelley Armstrong - 02/02/09 - 352
14. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead - 02/04/09 - 332
15. Dark Lover by J.R. Ward - 02/06/09 - 404
16. Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward - 02/08/09 - 441
17. Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward - 02/09/09 - 464
18. Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward - 02/10/09 - 455
19. Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward - 02/12/09 - 502
20. Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward - 02/14/09 - 534
21. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer - 02/25/09 - 498

February Total - 3982

Yearly Total - 8598

I'm doing a few other challenges this year so I decided to make this one a bit different. I'm going to shoot for at least 50000 pages this year.

Here's what I have so far.

January

1. Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong - 01/02/09 - 448
2. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer - 01/05/09 - 629
3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - 01/07/09 - 311
4. Howl by Allen Ginsberg - 01/08/09 - 208
5. Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong - 01/10/09 - 528
6. Lord of Misrule by Rachel Caine - 01/10/09 - 244
7. Digital Fortress by Dan Brown - 01/13/09 - 512
8. Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore - 01/15/09 - 300
9. You Suck A Love Story by Christopher Moore - 01/17/09 - 328
10. Haunted by Kelley Armstrong - 01/24/09 - 528
11. Broken by Kelley Armstrong - 01/31/09 - 444
12. Buffy the Vampire Slayer The Long Way Home by Joss Whedon - 01/31/09 - 136

January Total - 4616

I finally got back into reading this year after barely reading anything for a couple of years. I had really bad anxiety problems and couldn't focus enough to get into a book. I finally found some meds that helped in August and once my focus was back I started reading again with a vengeance. It feels so good to be able to immerse myself in books again!

From Sept - Dec I read 29 books. I'm really curious what my number will be for 2009 now :D.

Some of my highlights were Bitten, Little Brother, the Twilight Saga and Invisible Monsters

The only book that I absolutely hated and couldn't even finish was Starship Troopers

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie-the-Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - A. S. Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I have a Sony Reader and love it! Since I live in a tiny apartment, it's really nice having my entire library in one little device. I donated tons of books to my local library and really decluttered my house.

I chose the Reader over the Kindle because you can put PDFs and pretty much any other text document on it. The books are also quite a bit cheaper.

Edit: Kimberly, where can I download your book? I'd love to read it!

Becky, your comment shows that it takes something big to catch my attention. I've read all of the books and didn't pick up on any of those lol.

I don't mind a few spelling or grammatical errors but story mistakes grate on me. I've been reading a series recently where one of the main characters gets shot in the first book. Every time it's been mentioned since, he got stabbed instead of shot. It bugs me every time they mention it and kind of pulls me out of the story.