This is the list of books I’ve read for fun, and does not include books I’ve worked on in any professional capacity. I read some of them for book club(s), and there are a lot of mystery/thrillers in there because that’s what I tend to read when I travel, and I did a lot of that in 2007. Thirty-nine books that I remember reading; not bad considering how much I edited!
ETA: And sure enough, I forgot some titles. Sigh.
Reiko’s Garden, Barbara Adcock
Bitten, Kelley Armstrong
Stolen, Kelley Armstrong
Dime Store Magic, Kelley Armstrong
Industrial Magic, Kelley Armstrong
Haunted, Kelley Armstrong
Broken, Kelley Armstrong
Exit Strategy, Kelley Armstrong
No Plot? No Problem, by Chris Baty
Speak No Evil, Allison Brennan
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel, Susanna Clarke
Dead Witch Walking, Kim Harrison
The Good, The Bad, and The Undead, Kim Harrison
Every Which Way but Dead, Kim Harrison
Hot Blooded, Lisa Jackson
Cold Blooded, Lisa Jackson
Shiver, Lisa Jackson
Fantasy Lover, Sherrilyn Kenyon
Through a Glass, Darkly, Donna Leon
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
A Dirty Job, Christopher Moore
The Eight, Catherine Neville
Dead Famous, Carol O’Connell
Honeymoon, James Patterson
Cross Bones, Kathy Reichs
Break No Bones, Kathy Reichs
Bones to Ashes, Kathy Reichs
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling
Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death, Jessica Snyder Sachs
Bully: A True Story of High School Revenge, Jim Schutze
The Cobweb by Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George
It’s All Smoke and Mirrors, Therese Szymanski
When Good Girls Go Bad, Therese Szymanski
When the Corpse Lies, Therese Szymanski
When First We Practice, Therese Szymanski
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Paul Torday
The Italian Boy, Sarah Wise
Need more reading time
No Plot? No Problem, by Chris Baty
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling
These are the two out of those I got to read, but a ton of that list I want to get to this year. Maybe if I force myself to read a book a week and post it on my blog, it will also force me to take time away from my kids to do it.
“It’s All Smoke and Mirrors” just arrived Monday. I started it last night and…well, let’s just say that a couple of times I found my self muttering out loud at Reese over the rollercoaster ride she has put me on.
So, um, Jean… is that a good thing or…???
Yes, that’s a good thing! *although just a bit frustrating* lol
I started out thinking it would be a pleasant mystery and perhaps love story. So, I was bebopping along to the beach house when all of a sudden the bottom of the tracks fell out and I found myself in a completely different kind of story. Then, just as I was getting my bearings once again….the bottom was pulled right out from under me again.
I’ve just started the second part of the story and am just as wary of everyone as Shawn is! I have a feeling that “It’s all Smoke and Mirrors” is going to be a very appropriate title.
Not saying any more incase someone who hasn’t read it is reading this and I wouldn’t want to spoil the experience for them.
Sorry about the edits – I should have ‘spell checked’ first.
I didn’t do 6 edits either…
just the system messing around. It was only 2.
Re: I didn’t do 6 edits either…
LOL!
But thanks! (I always sit on pins and needles until I start getting feedback on a book.)
I had to laugh at Shawn’s thoughts about her boss not knowing how quickly she did her work – leaving her free to do other things. Or…how she was so much faster than her predecessor so she could take on extra work and STILL have time to do personal stuff and look like a super hero at the same time. (obviously I’m not the only one who does that then. LOL)
Some things are based on my time at MARS Advertising, where they used to make me take my lunch in the closet so I could take a nap and not finish my work quite so early. (And that was even after I took on A LOT of extra work (I was a junior media buyer/planner, but also research director.))
Some people never quite grasp the concept of working smarter, as I’m sure you know. (I had a task that took 8 hours every two weeks. One time, I spent 7.5 hours creating an Excel workbook for it. From then on, it only took me 1/2 an hour every two weeks to do it. Do enough of that sort of thing — along with bringing paper over by the case instead of by the ream — and you soon have a lot more time. Duh.)
I guess you’re enjoying Kelly Armstrong, eh?
I read her first two a few years back (Bitten and Stolen) and two things bugged me -
– Her bf seemed to be necessary to save the day.
– sex scenes were getting a bit too close to rape for my tastes (not that I have much taste for het sex
I was tempted to try her other series (the dimestore magic etc) but haven’t gotten around to it. I thought she was a great writer but the above two issues turned me off her wearwolf stories.