Because of many personal issues in 2005, I wasn’t able to keep a record of the books I read that year. I simply didn’t have energy left for that task. But I do know I read many books even after giving up on listing them.
sweetpea0678 is hoping 2009 is a Good Year
didn’t meet the goal but not bad….........
I did a final and official count. I had to add 1 because I listened to an audio book which I consider to be a real book, so the official count for 2005 was: 44.
Not quite 100, but I knew I would never make it that far. I still trumped my number in 2004 which was 18. I’m very proud of myself. :)
not as good as I wanted but I think i did read more books than I bought or received
This is the last book I read in 2005, finished on December 30th. From this point forward, I’ll be counting my books read and logging reviews to the new goal of Read 100 books in 2006. I came close to 100 thisw year, but not quite so we’ll see if I make it in 2006. I’ve enjoyed doing this with y’all. Happy New Year, and I hope to see y’all over at the new goal!
I found this, the second book of the Vampire Huntress series, slightly better than Minion, the first. However, some of the same things that bothered me about that book came to surface in this one too.
I’m glad I hung onto Minion because The Awakening picked up right where that left off, and I had to reread certain portions of that first book to reacquaint myself with some of the things that went down already. I don’t think the author did a very good job of allowing this book to stand on it’s own. Granted, series such as this are meant to be read in order anyway, but like Laurell K. Hamilton does in her Anita books, if she needs to refer to an incident from a previous book, she’ll usually provide enough additional detail so that new readers can continue reading, albeit with a little less knowledge and detail than someone who’s been reading the series in order. This was not the case here; if you didn’t read the previous book, and remember all of it’s little nuances, you’re going to need to before starting on this one. As it stands, I still had to refer back to things from book one since I’d read it 8 months prior to this one.
The story line is still interesting enough to hold interest, and because Banks doesn’t go into detail on each of the main characters in this book like she did in Minion, we don’t have as many passages that drag on too long like in the first book, though they’re certainly not gone completely. At times while reading, I felt that maybe the writing was done in discrete parts, not necessarily in sequence, since sometimes the scenes didn’t seem to blend transparently as they could’ve. Like maybe she’d forgotten she wrote something in an earlier scene, and then describes or talks about it again in a later scene, which may or may not completely jive with what was stated previously. Again, I noticed this behavior much more prominently in the first book than this one.
I won’t go into a synopsis of the story itself, since you can read that at the BookCrossing journal page for this book. But suffice to say, this series looks like it’s going to get even better going forward.
This was a great goal. It ended up that I exceeded the goal by 119 books!!! Yes, next year’s goal is 200 again.
Thanks to everyone for their support!!
finished with a day to spare!!!
definitely worth the effort but isnt it annoying when life gets in the way!! :lol:
I finished my 100th book on friday 30th December :D
Yay for me !!!
100) A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
99) Meet Addy: An American Girl
98) Meet Kirsten: An American Girl
97) Meet Molly: An American Girl
96) Meet Samantha: An American Girl
95) Meet Felicity: An American Girl
