[What I've read so far this year]

Pledged,Alexandra Robbins

Deja Dead,Kathy Reichs

Bare Bones,Kathy Reichs

The Good Lord Bird,James McBride

Deadly Decisions,Kathy Reichs

Shark Skin Suite,Tim Dorsey

My Promised Land, Ari Shavit

Mindhunter,John Douglas

Devil Bones,Kathy Reichs

Leaving Before The Rains Come,Alexandra Fuller(no relation to Bryan, AFAIK)

[What I'm reading March 2015]

Just finished Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs. I've decided that I like the Bones books a whole lot more than I do the TV show(I like the show fine;but the season finale last year was just a hot mess. I've liked quite a few episodes this season,I must say..)

Before that, I read The Good Lord Bird by James McBride. It takes place before the Civil War. The abolitionist John Brown becomes the guardian of a young slave boy named Henry.He thinks that Henry is a little girl,because when they meet,Henry is wearing a sack. Henry tries to correct him but gives up after a few times.

The book is based on fact(the raid on Harper's Ferry, though as with a lot of things,McBride takes quite a few liberties with history. John Brown's family *are* in this book, as are Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman(who John Brown calls "General".)

One aspect of the book that may bother people is usage of words that would have been common in John Brown's day. Yes, it's jarring. For the most part,The Good Lord Bird avoids the horrors of slavery.

There are three sections to the book- Free Deeds(Kansas), Slave Deeds(Missouri) and Legend(Virginia) The first two are shorter and are fairly quick reads;the third is much longer and covers  the lead up to the raid at Harper's Ferry.

Well worth reading if you have any sort of interest in history(which I do-it's hard to find *good* historical fiction.)

[100 books-and I've read quite a few of them!]

Our local library had a list of Amazon's 100 books to read in a lifetime in 365 days.

I usually make it to 50 books(and a few more) in the course of a year.

On the list, the ones I read were:

Cutting For Stone-Abraham Verghese

Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury

Unbroken-Laura Hillenbrand

Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas-Hunter S. Thompson

Me Talk Pretty One Day-David Sedaris

Midnight's Children-Salman Rushdie

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao-Junot Diaz

The Fault In Our Stars(and no,I haven't seen the movie)

The Golden Compass-Philip Pullman

Persepolis-Marjane Satrapi

[what i'm reading]

Just finished reading The Midnight Queen by Sylvia Izzo Hunter-really good-a sort of AU(alternate universe) book set in a proto Regency England(the comparison that I would make is to The Golden Compass  by Philip Pullman-it's very similar.) It took me a while to read, and that's even with me reading every chance I get(waiting for the bus, on the bus, at my favourite coffee house.)

I'm just starting my 51st book for the year(so I made it to 50-the 50 Book Challenge goes from January 1st to December 31st..and I've finished it with 3 weeks to spare. I'm starting Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. I haven't read a lot of his stuff, but I LOVED what I read of his(American Gods)

One  trend that I would love to see end:Dystopic books, especially the YA(Young Adult) ones. There are *way* too many of them right now. It amazes me that the whole mashup genre(classics-Little Women And Werewolves was a particularly barrel scraping moment)lasted as long as it did.

And now everyone wants to be the next George R.R. Martin.. with varying degrees of success, I might add.

[what i've been reading]

I am starting my 48th book for the year(hope to get to 50 by New Year's Eve..a pretty safe bet that is going to happen, don't you think? ;)  )

I just finished Prince Lestat by Anne Rice. It was the first book of hers that I have ever read, and I think you could read this without reading any of the other Vampire Chronicles books. In fact, she has a TL:DR(Too long, didn't read) summary of characters and the books. For those of us that don't want to read all of the books(though admittedly Prince Lestat has piqued my interest in her Vampire Chronicles books so imma try to read at least one of them, I think..)

 Anyways, I enjoyed it, and it was a quick read-it went everywhere with me-I take whatever I'm reading with me and read at the bus stop, on the bus, you name it.

Right now, I'm going through jags of reading certain authors-I've read several of Kathy Reichs' Bones books(which I like a lot better than the TV show-the books are *quite* a bit different than the TV show!)

[book post!]

Finally, a book post!

I'm doing pretty good on my goal to read 50 books by the end of the year. I think I'll get there in plenty of time, even if I read a lot of  long books. I read Outlander by Diana Gabaladon, but it took me two weeks, and that was reading it every chance I get(I take whatever I'm reading with me wherever I go.)

I'm not sure if I want to commit to reading the whole Outlander series(I bought the second book and am going to read it, but they're HUGE books. I had told myself, no more series books after reading the Game Of Thrones series(as much fun as those are to read)

The last 2 books I've read (counting the one I'm reading right now) are one or two day reads.  I've got an ever-growing "to read" pile-hoping  that I can get it down to a manageable level(it's actually not that big;I'm exaggerating just a little!)

[what i'm reading,september 2014]

The Magician's Land,Lev Grossman

Siege And Storm, Leigh Bardugo

Florida Roadkill,Tim Dorsey

Tiger Shrimp Tango,Tim Dorsey