false18538186true5732251read0true461437currently-reading352true461436to-read19false2162462books-i-was-asked-to-read8false2681429books-i-could-would-not-finish8false4322373tried-but-decided-to-save-for-later6false1898081my-reading-for-the-next-six-months-
<![CDATA[K added 'Living Dead in Dallas']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31803740
to: Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2)byCharlaine Harris
totally bummed about this one, it so didn't work for me. i enjoyed the first sookie book, thought it was great fun. this one goes a little too far for me, and i think bill has even less of a personality. i hope the other sophomore efforts in harris' other series don't disappoint.
]]>
<![CDATA[K added 'The Information Officer']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76489321
to: The Information Officer (Paperback)byMark Mills bookshelves: books-i-could-would-not-finish,
books-i-was-asked-to-read
i have slogged about halfway through this book, and i'm just giving up. i simply cannot get excited enough about it to find out whodunnit. i don't care about malta, i don't care about the war, i don't care about the characters. i really enjoyed mills' amagansett...loved the characters and thought he did a great job of evoking a sense of place. and the mystery was pretty darn good, too. clearly, mills has done extensive research, but it's not enough (or maybe it's too much) to save "the information officer." there's nothing thrilling about it. it's even difficult to distinguish when he switches characters...the first time he did it, i didn't even realize it until the second switch, and had to go back and read the first switch chapter again. B O R I N G.
]]>
<![CDATA[K added 'A Thousand Splendid Suns']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76465249
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Paperback)
byKhaled Hosseini bookshelves: to-read,
tried-but-decided-to-save-for-later
]]>
<![CDATA[K added 'Still Life']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74495118
to: Still Life (Armand Gamache, #1)byLouise Penny
ah, this book is SO good. so very good. a mystery wrapped in a character study with lots of good nuggets about human nature. i like my detectives sharp but not perfect, wise but not smug. my friend pw says she'd like to marry armand, and i would, too!
fortunately for me (or maybe not, depending on how you like your mysteries), i wasn't sharp enough to see past all the red herrings penny leaves...and there are a gracious plenty. so i enjoyed trying to figure this one out with every twist and turn. and how cool is it that her title actually gives away the ending...but not 'til the ending.
]]>
<![CDATA[K added 'Across the Endless River']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72989520
to: Across the Endless River (Hardcover)byThaddeus Carhart bookshelves: books-i-was-asked-to-read
i very much enjoy LT's Early Reviewers program, and i received "across the endless river" through it. i've been in a reading slump for over a month, since finishing "the shadow of the wind." i was hopeful "river" could pull me out of it. unfortunately, it did not.
"river's" subject matter intrigued me, as i know little about sacagawea, other than her association with lewis and clark (and her appearance in the ben stiller flick, night at the museum - sad, i know!). anyway, i also adore historical fiction. while i found "river" to be well written in a technical sense...and apparently, well researched...it was SO boring. the characters were cardboard, one dimensional - they never come alive on the page, and there's little conflict, if any, between them. i just couldn't get excited about them or their lives. perhaps the story would have been more interesting if the author had focused on sacagawea, b/c she was clearly ahead of her time. i feel bad not giving it more than two stars, b/c it's perfectly...serviceable...and that's my problem with it. i want more than that. life's too short for perfectly serviceable!!
]]>
<![CDATA[K added 'The Beekeeper's Apprentice']]>
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58169184
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell, #1)
byLaurie R. King bookshelves: to-read,
tried-but-decided-to-save-for-later
]]>
<![CDATA[K Honsharuk
voted on the book list Best Stephen King]]>
http://www.goodreads.com/list/user_vote/185006
K
added Pet Cemetary to the book list Best Stephen King