2013 ~ What I Want To Read & Why

[Ken, Moderator]

Sounds intriguing. And so catty and gossipy (only with the extra oomph of royal cats and gossip and beheadings).

OK, so I got one book for Christmas from the daughterage, completely out of the blue. She bought it based on reviews and on her knowledge (such as it is) of me (such as I am). So it goes on the TBR list for '13:

My Poets

[l]

I really want to read Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal by Chris Colfer. I just watched the movie and I thought it was amazing, I'd love to read the novel it was based on.

[Maria Ella]

Les Miserables is the plan at the start of 2013. But because of the friends and of the movie that is now showing in theaters, I am starting the book.

Next in line is Please Look After Mom an addition to the list of tear-jerkers. :)

[Ken, Moderator]

Maria Ella wrote: "Les Miserables is the plan at the start of 2013. But because of the friends and of the movie that is now showing in theaters, I am starting the book.

Next in line is Please Look After Mom an addi..."

Hey, some readers love to be scared (horror fans) and some love to cry (do we actually call these readers "tear-jerker fans," or is there another term for it?)...

Lauren ~Dyed my hair RED yo~ wrote: "I really want to read Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal by Chris Colfer. I just watched the movie and I thought it was amazing, I'd love to read the novel it was based on."

Never heard of this book, and when I saw it I assumed it was something new from .

Wonder if they're related.

[Ken, Moderator]

So far in My Poets I'm enjoying the poets a lot more than the my. That will be the first line of my review. I'm determined to finish before midnight so I can begin the new year fresh. With which book, I cannot say.

[Carol]

I finishedBring Up the Bodies , and I am also waiting to start a new book in the new year .

[Ken, Moderator]

Was it as good as the first one, or better?

[Carol]

I found Wolf Hall hard to follow , what with all the Thomas's. You really do need a spreadsheet to keep them all straight. They are both well written, but you have to be interested in that historical time era. Mantel breathes life into a man that was cold, calculating and willful. I keep imagining Cromwell as a politician in today's world, and it is scary.

There will be one last book, I am told. It will be about Cromwell's downfall. In answer to your question, both are equally good. You do need to read Wolf Hall first.

[Ruth]

I bailed on Wolf Hall. Just wasn't in the mood for struggling to keep everyone straight.

[Joanne]

Maybe they weren't born that way.

[Ruth]

Joanne wrote: "Maybe they weren't born that way."

Hee!

[Ken, Moderator]

The wolves? Are we on Romulus and Remus now?

[Ken, Moderator]

I've added two YA books to read and then put in the classroom library, both appearing in many "Best of" lists:

The False Prince

One for the Murphys

[Carol]

What a nice teacher you are, NE. Teacher's didn't provide classroom books for middle school children at the schools I attended. I don't recall books in my kids classrooms at that level either.

[Ken, Moderator]

I've got a hugola classroom library, thanks to my ARCs-for-Reviews deal with amazon. I most always choose YA.

[Stephen]

Might I suggest that while making your lists of what to read in 2013 you consider...The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time It tells of The founding of TEAL (Typo Eradication Advancement League) and the amazing lengths a few editors at large went to to correct America's grammar.

Perhaps they went too far... they were charged with defacing government property (and violating government statues) but got off on the lesser charges of punktuating without a permit and orthografy with intent when the presiding judge fell into a comma.

[Ken, Moderator]

Typos in books are becoming more commen. ;-)

[Ruth]

Newengland wrote: "Typos in books are becoming more commen. ;-)"

That's because edirs no longer edit.

[VickiLee]

Every year I promise to reread some of my favourite classics that help create who I am - then I get blown off my feet by all the new novels that hit the bookstores, books that are hot and everyone is talking about. I often give in because these books are relatively easy to read (and I am tired from teaching) but I yearn for enough quiet time to read through some of Dickens or the Bronte's work.

[Sonali]

Vicki Lee, absolutely agree with you. I've been meaning to re-read Gunter Grass and Michel Foucault for several years now.