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Tiffani Tore Up 2012! (100 books and beyond!)
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Thanks for the inspiration this year, Tiffani; I felt a bit like I was cheating finding and counting quick reads in my total so I added a goal. Hoping to read 60, surpass last year's page count of 14,000+ pages AND set even more ambitious goals for next year!!
Kate wrote: "Thanks for the inspiration this year, Tiffani; I felt a bit like I was cheating finding and counting quick reads in my total so I added a goal. Hoping to read 60, surpass last year's page count of..."Aw that's great Kate! I love goals, I'm fanatic about them haha. I always feel like once I set a goal, I go into overdrive trying to surpass it just for the challenge. How's your count going so far this year? :D
I'm at 56 books but 13,349 pages. Hoping to finish 15,000 pages the week after Christmas~
how are u doing on The Color Of Magic? i finished it last week and am not sure im gonna read any more of his books. too out there for me! at least it shortens up my too long to read list!
Alison wrote: "how are u doing on The Color Of Magic? i finished it last week and am not sure im gonna read any more of his books. too out there for me! at least it shortens up my too long to read list!"I haven't been able to read anymore lately. I can only read things from my Kindle right now because I can't hold open a book anymore due to hand injury. I want to keep reading it to see if I like it though!
Kate wrote: "I'm at 56 books but 13,349 pages. Hoping to finish 15,000 pages the week after Christmas~"Yay, Kate! That's pretty dang close, I think you'll make it. I'll be looking for your new goals come January ;)
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700 Sundays by Billy Crystal
What touched me the most, was the tenderness he spoke about his Mother and Father. He had rougly 700 Sundays to spend with his Father before his untimely death in the 1960s. He was 15 years old. By those calculations, I got to have about 936 Sundays with my Father before we lost him. It's funny how I would trade all 900 of those Sundays in exchange for just one more with him.
Short review here.
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Meet the Skeptic by Bill Foster
"Does a basically good football player make the NFL? Then why would a basically good person get into heaven?" (Author's quote)
- Clearly, the author has never really gotten into the NFL world. Has he ever heard of a 6th round draft pick? A 4th string quarterback who spends 5 seasons never playing in a live game? Those are "basically good" football players who got into the NFL.
I wrote a real review here!
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Raising Blaze: Bringing Up an Extraordinary Son in an Ordinary World by Debra Ginsberg
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Meant to Be: The True Story of a Son Who Discovers He Is His Mother's Deepest Secret by Walter Anderson
im so excited about the theme group this next month! i can finally knock some of the free books from my Nook off the list! :) hope your hand is getting better!
Alison wrote: "im so excited about the theme group this next month! i can finally knock some of the free books from my Nook off the list! :) hope your hand is getting better!"Same here! Thanks for sentiment about my hand, it's been over 5 months now and I'm definitely ready to be all clear and healed, haha!
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The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Page Count Update: 27,736/25,000
I'm almost 3 thousand pages over my 3rd goal increase of the year. So, I think I'll raise it to 32,000 and see how it goes!
If I count the children's books I've read then I'm at 98 books and 28,993 pages total. Yee-haw!
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Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
It's a toss-up because this book is single-handedly the reason it has taken me 12 days to read a mere 300 pages. She is almost impossible to tolerate. But...she did have some pretty funny anecdotes that redeemed her a little bit.
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Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale & Stan Redding
I know this book was sensationalized and grossly exaggerated by ghostwriter Stan Redding, but I still enjoyed it overall. The last half of the book was rushed and flimsy with some pretty obvious embellishments. But, what would a con-man's story be without a few cons thrown in ;)
is that book the same as the movie with Leo Dicaprio?
Alison wrote: "is that book the same as the movie with Leo Dicaprio?"Yea, haha. It's the book the movie was based off of. And the book was based off the true life story of con-artist Frank Abagnale. :)
ill read it then. cause the movie was awesome!
Oh you totally should, the book was a good, fun read!
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I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
aka James Frey; egomanaic and liar extraordinaire! I have no respect for this author but was hoping maybe his fiction would be better. It isn't, it read like a over-charged 14-year old who spent a lot of time daydreaming about over-the-top cheesy powers he wished he had. One of the biggest wastes of time I've read this year.
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The Hole We're In by Gabrielle Zevin
A disappointing letdown from one of my favorite authors. The blurb and the cover are very misleading and it's not razor sharp or witty like they insinuate. *sigh*
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
I feel like I have mostly read 3 authors this year: Zevin, Kingsolver, Hornby. And I've still got more books by all of them to polish off before the end of the year :D
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Where the Hearth Is by Billie Letts
I didn't like the ending much, as much as I loved the movie's ending anyway. But, the book is so different from the movie in such a great and deeper way. I love The Whitecottons and Sister Husband. And the terribly sad side story that happens with Lexi Coop and her kids. They are so much more developed in the book than in the movie. Love it!
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lisa wrote: "it's interesting to me that ROOM is in your book graveyard list because i haven't been inclined to pick that book because i think it would really depress me. i read enough depressing literature in ..."Subject matter in books doesn't tend to alter my mood negatively too much, thankfully. Im more fascinated by them than anything I tried to read ROOM but it just came off so cheesy and I wasn't able to get into it much. Everyone keeps telling me that it's amazing and I should give it another go..
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Damaged by Cathy Glass
Only given a 3 because author, while seemingly an amazingly caring woman, is not the best writer.
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We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive by Laurie Notaro
Total Page Count: 34,437
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Notes from the Underwire: Adventures from My Awkward and Lovely Life by Quinn Cummings
Really enjoyed this one! She is so refreshingly easy to relate to, funny and quick-witted. It is a step-above the usual stream of humorous-memoirs-by-bloggers-turned-authors. (IE: Laurie Notaro who has a bit of a hateful streak towards women who differ from her).
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The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Interesting concept, decent writing, extremely lackluster overall delivery/ending and the character's voice did not seem believable for the 11-year old it was supposed to representing. There was just some spark missing from this book to really push it over.
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Everything Is Wrong with Me: A Memoir of an American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong by Jason Mulgrew
There were some extremely funny parts of this book that gave me great hope of ending the year on a humorous memoir. It fell flat somewhere around the middle and never really picked up again. I didn't like his excessive footnotes (which is mainly because they are fairly tedious to view on the Kindle) and skipped the last half of them during the book. I also didn't like how much he made light of driving drunk, it just rubs me the wrong way.
Overall, he seems like a pretty funny guy who should have just stuck to Blog Land. I've never seen his blog but I have a feeling his writing fits a little better in a shorter, more freelance environment.
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The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
I've been a fan of John Green since his brother, Hank, and him started their Vlog brothers project many years ago. Every one of his books just gets better and better..