4/52 The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss

Posted by Leah Andres, 2 years ago

This is the 2nd time I've read this, and it was just as amazing as I remembered it! If you haven't gotten to this one yet, put it on the top of your "to-read" pile, you won't be disappointed.

And now is the perfect time, since the sequel - Wise Man's Fear - is due for release on March 1st.

5/5

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#4 & #5

Posted by CeyLo, 2 years ago

Some light books I read on the beach... They were both a little disappointing actually :(

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I Don't Get It

Posted by Mike Barat, 2 years ago

I recently finished a book with the tittle Legs, written by William Kennedy. This book has won a Pulitzer prize ( Granted it was in the 1970's ) and yet I'm the only one that has wrote a review about this books. This just makes no sense to me. I don't get it. Do you?

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January Books

Posted by Bookworm, 2 years ago

1. Spellbound by Nora Roberts-Audio Book -3/5
2. Sizzle by Julie Garwood-Audio Book -3/5
3. The Shop on Blossom Street-Audio Book -4/5
4. Maybe This Time by Jennifer Cruise-Audio Book -4/5
5. Secret Vampire #2 by L. J. Smith-Audio Book -3/5
6. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot-Audio Book -3/5
7. The Wolves of Andover by Kathleen Kent-Audio Book -4/5
8. The Long Road Home by Danielle Steele-Audio Book -5/5
9. Heart of the Sea by Nora Roberts-Audio Book -4/5
10. Tears on the Moon by Nora Roberts-Audio Book -4/5
11. You've Been Warned by James Patterson-Audio Book 3/5
12. Plainsong by Kent Hauf-Audio Book -5/5
13. White Fang by Jack London-Audio Book -4/5
14. Rescue by Anita Shreve-Audio Book -5/5
15. Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens-Audio Book-4/5
16. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Vergnese-Audio Book-3/5
17. Black Out by Lisa Unger-Audio Book-5/5
18. A Good Yarn by Debbie McComber-Audio Book-4/5
19. Risky Business by Nora Roberts-Audio Book-3/5
20. Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok-Audio Book-5/5
21. Oogy by Larry Lavin-Audio Book-5/5
22. Everything Changes by Jonathan Tropper-Audio Book-4/5
23. Witch & Wizard the Gift-James Patterson-Audio Book-4/5

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#3 - Too Naughty

Posted by Virtopia, 2 years ago

Rating: 5/5

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Another great read from the Naughty series! Jaylin, Scorpio, Shane, Stephon, Nokea and Felicia are back at it once again and it was entertaining, to say the least. It's just the type of drama I enjoy reading about. There were a few boring moments, but it didn't take long to pick back up.

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3/52 The Princess Bride - William Goldman

Posted by Leah Andres, 2 years ago

Truly one of my favorite books. If you haven't read it, you're missing out!

Pirates, sword fights, an evil Prince, a beautiful Princess, torture, friendship, laughter, R.O.U.S.'s, a giant, love, loss, the Spaniard, the Six-Fingered Man, a daring rescue, the Man in Black, death, revenge and redemption. Oh, and 3 of the most powerful words I have ever come across ...

"As you wish ... "

5/5

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2/52 Lily of the Nile - Stephanie Dray

Posted by Leah Andres, 2 years ago

I love anything Egyptian, so when I heard about this book, I just had to check it out!

The story begins with the death of Cleopatra and the capture of her children by Octavian. Upon their arrival in Rome, they must struggle to survive in a city that hates them, and to out-maneuver an Emperor hell-bent on having a "Cleopatra" of his own.

Full of magic and political intrigue, I couldn't put it down. A promising beginning to a great new series!

4/5

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1/52 - Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

Posted by Leah Andres, 2 years ago

The first installment in the Mistborn series could prove to be the beginning of an epic ... or an epic flop.

While the magic system is solid and unique, the storyline is predictable, and VERY slow at times. I often found myself waiting for something big to happen, or just anything at all! The main characters were a little flat, and I had a hard time connecting with them. The characters I wanted to learn more about just seemed to fade into the background.

Not a huge disappointment, but definitely not the best fantasy I've read. I've heard that the series gets better, and I'm hoping to get to the rest of it sometime this year.

3/5

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Promising new series for Becca Fitzpatrick

Posted by CANDI, 2 years ago

This wasn't the only book I read this week, but it is the favorite of the two. It is a teen read, but anyone who enjoyed Twilight may find their next fix here. Patch is infinitely sexier than old what's his name vampire and much more interesting! Nora is a much better heroine than Bella, smarter and you don't always want to punch her :-)
I would love to read an adult novel by Becca Fitzpatrick to get a more mature storyline going, but I am on the waiting list to read the Hush Hush sequel, which will have to do for now.

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3/52 - The Emperor's Tomb by Steve Berry

Posted by CANDI, 2 years ago

Another fun action adventure by Steve Berry. The plot deals with an ancient Chinese Emperor's tomb and the current oil crisis.
The relationship between Cotton and Cassiopeia is finally heating up, and I can't wait to read the next one!

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Book 5/52 The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and the 82 days that inspired America

Posted by Nettie, 2 years ago

The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and the 82 days that inspired America By Thurston Clarke was a really good recount of the last 82 days of Robert F. Kennedy's life while campaigning. I don't think there has been any policitian anywhere that passionate about changing the lower class. He travelled into the ghettos of town and indian reserves (something I didn't know). It's heartbreaking to know that America would have been so different if he did become president. It's would be nice to have a policitian in Canada to be that, to care so much about people's needs instead of the wealth's needs.

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Book #2 & #3

Posted by CeyLo, 2 years ago

Book#2 for 2011 - Always looking up by Michael J Fox.

Book #3 for 2011 - Room - very good but very sad... had me almost in tears...

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Book 2 of 52: Frostfire

Posted by Sue Kupka, 2 years ago

This is the 3rd book in Lynn Viehl's Kyndard series. I liked the beginning of the story but found the end getting a bit confusing.

Why?

This is the first novel where Viehl's Kyndard series and Darkyn series overlap and we see several characters from the original series come over to this new series.

There were 4 plot lines going on and they all are pretty complex and get tough to follow, just when you are sorting them out - a ton of action happens in one place and then sorta of in another but you don't read about it (only that there are injured parties) and then the book ends in 3 pages...

So it almost needed to be 100 pages longer so the action played out a bit more ...

Liked it but not as much as other....

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Book 4/52 The Time Machine By H.G. Wells

Posted by Nettie, 2 years ago

I got a Ninetendo DS Cartridge for Christmas that holds 100 classic books. I just finished by first book The Time Machine. I never read anything from this author before and that's my motive this year is to try to read more authors I've never tried before. It was a good story and definately ahead of his times. It's about an inventor who creates a time machine and tells his dinner guests how he travelled to the future and how mankind changed so drastically. Really good read.

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Book 3/52 Things I want my daughters to know

Posted by Nettie, 2 years ago

Things I want my daughter to know by Elizabeth Noble was sucha great book. From the first page I started with the tears. A mother finds out she has cancer and decide to write each of her four girls a letter before she passes. She also writes a journal for her daughters to share about them growing up, raising the three girls on her own, falling in love, marriage and a few lessons. It was such a good book that I am recommended the book to my mother and mother-in-law.

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#2 - Red Light Wives

Posted by Virtopia, 2 years ago

Rating: 4/5

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This was a pretty good read; anchored by Clyde with his wives: Lula Mae, Esther, Rockelle, Rosalee and then you had Helen and Megan. Each woman had their own story, which made it interesting. The ending definitely surprised me, which I was glad to see.

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Book 2/52 - Daniel X: Demons and Druids

Posted by Nettie, 2 years ago

Daniel X: Demons and Druids by James Patterson and Adam Sadler is the next installment in the Daniel X series. It continues with the alien hunter Daniel hunting down the aliens living on the earth and trying to get to Number 3 on "The List" while learning that he has more powers that he has grown into. It was a good read, but the first bok was still better. The storyline seemed pushed, but I will still read the next book that comes out in the series.

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Post 2 of 52 - Russian Winter

Posted by CANDI, 2 years ago

Russian Winter started a bit slow, but that is sometimes required to build a fantastic story such as this one. Switching from Stalinist Russia to present day Boston, the story follows prima ballerina, Nina reliving her glorious, but painful past as she decides to auction off her jewelery collection. I found this to be one of the best books I've read in quite a while, just start it and let yourself be absorbed in the story. You won't regret it!

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Book 1/52 - Haunted by Kelley Armstrong

Posted by Nettie, 2 years ago

I really like the series women of the underworld, and this book continues with Eve Levin (Savannah's mom) who is in the ghost world. I liked the story but I think I still prefer the werewolves stories better, but still a good read.

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Book 1 of 52: Eternal Hunger

Posted by Sue Kupka, 2 years ago

So I have to admit to being addicted to the vampire series and have found 4 that I love, but have caught up on all of them and am awaiting the new releases for 2011 in all 4 series! So I went looking for a new series and found Laura Wright. This is her first book in a vampire theme and I am DYING for the next that will be released in April 2011.

This is the story of Alexander Roman, a vampire who has 2 brothers and chooses to live outside of the vampire communities. The action packed, story is his journey to protect a stranger who saved his life while he was undergoing his "morpho" the stage where he goes from junior vampire to all out vampire - it is painful and he is unable to go out in the sun.

Sara is the woman who saves him and is human - so they struggle with their attraction and her loyalty to her brother, who she has sworn to heal after a fire in his youth has left him almost catatonic.

Fun read!

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Book #1

Posted by CeyLo, 2 years ago

A good quick read on a cold winter afternoon. Although I am still reading a Prayer for Owen Meany, I was in the mood for something light today.

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2 and 3 of 52: The Chosen, and Soulmate by L.J. Smith

Posted by Samia, 2 years ago

Night World 2 contains three novels: Dark Angel, The Chosen, and Soulmate

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SOULMATE - 3/5

The story starts with Hannah Snow, a girl with a large birthmark on her face, in the psychologist's office, telling him that she has finding notes in her room in her own handwriting but she has no recollection of writing them. She writes notes such as: "Dead before seventeen." (435)

Then the bell rings and Paul the psychologist goes to open the door even after Hannah instinctually warns him not to, and at the same time a wolf breaks in through the window and tries to attack Hannah.

Only with the help of her psychologist will she be able to find out why she keeps writing notes to herself about death. How many past lives has she had? And why does Hannah keep dying before the age of seventeen in each one of them? How did the birthmark on her face come to be?

THE CHOSEN - 3/5

On Rashel's fifth birthday party, inside a tube structure, she saw a man with red hair who seemed to be devouring her friend, Timmy. When her mother comes, the vampire broke the mother's neck. Rashel then got sent to her only relative's house to live, but that same vampire set the house on fire, and Rashel's relative died.

After that, Rashel started moving around a lot, going from one foster family to the next. But what she knew most was that she must learn to protect herself from vampires, and that she wanted that very vampire, the one that killed her mother and Timmy, dead.

In the future, Rashel becomes a vampire hunter, and has a few vampire hunter friends. They are observing a warehouse area because they suspect something is going on there. Rashel has knocked down a vampire named Quinn and they have taken him to a room. She tells her fellow vampire hunters that she will look after the vampire until go run an errand. Secretly she thinks about staking him.

Everything goes wrong and Rashel willingly allows the vampire to escape. Now, she's all on her own to discover what's going on in the warehouses and to win back the respect she has lost from her fellow vampire hunters. They no longer believe her when she finds out that something big is actually going on in those warehouses.

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The Winter Ghosts Book 1 of 52

Posted by CANDI, 2 years ago

I did write a review on this which can be seen in my profile, but I want to add it here too.
The Winter Ghosts, by Kate Mosse is a moving ghost story of loss and moving on afterward. I can't say too much as I don't want to spoil it. That it's a ghost story isn't a surprise, and I can't say the story wasn't at all predicatable, but it was still a lovely story.

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#1 - Naughty By Nature

Posted by Virtopia, 2 years ago

Rating: 5/5

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I'm completely addicted to this series! It once again continued with the drama and I find myself so drawn to the lives of Jaylin, Nokea, Stephon, Shane, Scorpio and Felicia. I'm on a search for the rest of the series .. I was left with a major cliffhanger!

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Book 1 of 52

Posted by Manda, 2 years ago

Here's to another 52 weeks of reading. I look forward to seeing everyone's reads and opinions for another year.

I started this at the end of December but I read the bulk this week so I will count it as my first read of the year.

Malice by Lisa Jackson ~ Lots of twists and turns in this Bentz and Montoya novel. I did however start to get my suspicions about who was behind the Bentz mind tricks a little earlier than I would have liked.

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Book 1 of 52: Dark Angel by L.J. Smith

Posted by Samia, 2 years ago

Night World 2

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One day, while walking home from school, Gillian hears a child crying near the creek. She has to help and thinks that the child might be drowning, so she looks into the creek only to lose her balance and falls in.

Somehow she manages to make it out of the creek, but it’s wintertime and she’s freezing. Her body eventually stops creating heat and she has no strength to move. She sees a tunnel with light at the end of it. Then she hears a beautiful boy who asks her if she wants to live. But she doesn’t know what to live for since her mother is an alcoholic, her parents are unhappy together, and she is unpopular in school. But somehow the beautiful boy makes her see that there are things to live for and so Gillian chooses to live.

She is told by the beautiful boy’s voice to go in front of the car that is passing by. It’s David’s car, the boy that she has had a crush on for a long time. He helps get her home.

She starts to hear the voice of the beautiful boy inside her head. He tells her what she must do in order to become popular. And he tells her to trust him and to call him ‘Angel’ because he’s her guardian angel.

But who really is Angel? And how difficult will it be for Gillian to become popular and get David, the boy she likes?

www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Dark-Angel-Night-World-4-L-j-Smith/9780671551360-602193-Review.html

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52/52-Mozart's Sister

Posted by Lana, 2 years ago

Here is my last book for 52/52. Saved the best for last. This book was beautifully written. Nannerl older sister to Wolfgang was a music prodigy in her own right. Forced to give up her dream and ambitions to support her brother, Nannerl stops playing the piano altogether. The reader can't help feeling Nannerl's anger, bitterness and depression. Falling in love gives Nannerl the passion to once again find her love for music. After years of no contact with brother and then learning of his death, Nannerl takes it upon herself to preserve Wolfgang's transcripts for the future generations to enjoy.

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The First of 2011

Posted by emerson entwistle, 2 years ago

This is the second book that I just finished. If you're going to read them start with the first book, Darkfever :)

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To be honest, I started this book in 2010, late December, but I finished the bulk of it today.
Bloodfever by Karen Marie Moning is the second of five books, the last of which is coming out on the 18th, which is why I'm re-reading the series. It's a fantastic series, if you haven't read it you should...at the very least look into it. The characters are so well written, you feel like you know them, and the conversations between Mac and Barrons are irresistible and provide a laugh every so often. And even though it's my second time reading them, I'm getting just as much if not more enjoyment from them.

Also, one of my resolutions this year is to read more books, I only read 20 last year :(

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Last book of the year 53/52

Posted by Nettie, 2 years ago

Dirt by Stuart Woods was a really good book. I can't believe that I haven't read any of his books before this series. Stone Barrington, a retired cop turned lawyer/detective ends up having to figure out how people got dirty information on the people who are editors of the typical tabloid magazines. Really good read. Love this series.

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