print-stained heart

29 December 2010 @ 05:33 am

print-stained heart

got this idea from

and i want to thank her for a lot of suggestions.

this is my reading list for the year two thousand eleven. it is hefty. it contains old, new, and repeats (just because everyone needs a security blanket). i will mark them off as i finish - rate 'em - and maybe write a post with my more detailed opinions... maybe. you know how i love opinions.

this list is far from what it could be... yet i feel 60+ is a good goal for the year. however, i am always up for new suggestions so feel free to share! i like fiction, fantasy mostly, adventure and a little smidgen of romance is always nice. really anything well-written is pretty much a go. vampires are my weakness but sadly overdone these days... plus i am too darn picky on that front. i don't like things like gossip girl and "real life" b*tch fests, nor do i like stories about teenagers who are experiencing "love" for the first time and the sub-sequential torrid and ridiculous affair with some stupid boy -- i have enough caddy females in my life, i don't need to read about them. i like sweeping epics and humor and 3 dimensional female characters and i appreciate brilliant plots and well-developed characters. i can be persuaded to read non-fiction, but persuaded i must be. :D

i am very excited. whether i complete all or not, i now have all the books that snagged my fancy in one pile, which is something i have been wanting to do for a long time. here they all are, pretty little things, with no escape...

XD

<< 2011 READING LIST >>

~~strikethrough~~ = mission successful

1. i am number four - pittacus lore abandoned
2. witness - whittaker chambers
3. the demon's lexicon - sarah rees brennan
4. generation dead: kiss of life - daniel waters
5. pride and prejudice - jane austen
6. the hunger games - suzanne collins
7. the girl with the dragon tattoo - stieg larsson
8. the maze runner - james dashner
9. breathless - dean koontz
10. forest of hands and teeth - carrie ryan
11. nicholas nickleby - charles dickens
12. the secret year - jennifer hubbard
13. child 44 - tom rob smith
14. wuthering heights - emily bronte
15. what the night knows - dean koontz
16. charlie st. cloud - ben sherwood
17. deadly little secret - laurie faria stolarz
18. incarceron - catherine fisher
19. defiance - nechama tec
20. green witch - alice hoffman
21. the red garden - alice hoffman
22. sarah's key - tatiana de rosnay
23. ~~a flavia de luce mystery: the sweetness at the bottom of the pie - alan bradley~~
24. discworld: the wee free men - terry pratchett
25. his magesty's dragon - naomi novik
26. reckless -- cornelia funke
27. the replacement - brenna yovanoff
28. peter pan - j.m. barrie
29. levathian - scott westerfeld
30. the gone-away world - nick harkaway abandoned
31. the host - stephenie meyer
32. ~~fallen - lauren kate~~
33. the zombie survival guide - max brooks
34. disreputable history of frankie landau-banks - e. lockhart
35. paper towns - john green
36. the thin man - dashiell hammett
37. crescendo - becca fitzpatrick
38. night runner - max turner
39. matched - ally condie
40. if i stay - gayle forman
41. the warrior heir - cinda williams chima
42. intertwined - gena showalter
43. artemis fowl: the lost colony - eoin colfer
44. artemis fowl: the time paradox - eoin colfer
45. artemis fowl: the atlantis complex - eoin colfer
46. ~~night - elie wiesel~~
47. harry potter and the deathly hallows - jk rowling
48. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time - mark haddon
49. the screwtape letters - cs lewis
50. ~~magic of ordinary days - ann howard creel~~
51. the big over easy - jasper fford
52. the maltese falcon - dashiell hammett
53. the "good war" - studs terkel
54. jane eyre - charlotte bronte
55. the line - teri hall

(upcoming releases)

~~mortal instruments: city of fallen angels - cassandra clare~~
infernal devices: clockwork prince - cassandra clare

(to finish)

discworld: equal rights - terry pratchett
discworld: guards! guards! - terry pratchett
discworld: mort - terry pratchett
odd thomas - dean koontz
great and terrible beauty - libba bray
collected works - o. henry
sherlock holmes: complete collection - sir arthur conan doyle

(rereads -- ok and i know these shouldn't technically count, so that is why they are not being counted :/ )

~~mortal instruments: city of bones - cassandra clare~~
mortal instruments: city of ashes - cassandra clare
mortal instruments: city of glass - cassandra clare
good omens - terry pratchett/neil gaiman
the book thief - marcus zusak
i am the messenger - marcus zusak

Tags: bookage

Here: home

Mood: calm

Beats: sing - my chemical romance

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megyal on December 29th, 2010 01:16 pm (UTC)

Oh wow, those are a LOT of books. Do you have a goodreads acccount?

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madlyxxmadd on December 29th, 2010 06:07 pm (UTC)

no, what's that?

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megyal on December 30th, 2010 01:34 pm (UTC)

Take a look!

http://www.goodreads.com/

It's like a site where you can record what you've read, are reading and going to read. You can review and share with your friends, so that they have an idea of what you're reading and maybe get some reading in themselves. :D

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madlyxxmadd on December 31st, 2010 04:10 am (UTC)

i did! i like it. i joined. thank you M!

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megyal on January 2nd, 2011 04:23 am (UTC)

Sweet! Hey, I think you can add me by email! But here's my profile, if you'd like to add me!

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madlyxxmadd on January 5th, 2011 08:33 am (UTC)

of course i want to add you!!! :D done and done and M! you've read anansi boys?! isn't it absolutely SUPERB!!!!

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megyal on January 5th, 2011 10:33 pm (UTC)

Added you back? I DID AND I LOVED ITTTTT.

Oh! I'm looking at your LJ in your own style and you have a quote from a fic of mine! I'm so pleased and honoured!

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madlyxxmadd on January 6th, 2011 07:29 am (UTC)

yes ma'am. its here and on the side bar of my facebook. it's positively one of my favorite written things ever. you influence my heart... and i want others to be influenced too :D

oh and yes! 'anansi boys' is just so GREAT! i love how gaiman can craft this epic journey of self-discovery and adventure and lore and romance... and in the story world, only a few days have passed. its such a hearty read... and so damn good! :D

i saw you didn't get into 'good omens', but that is another of my favorites. plus i ADORE 'neverwhere' and highly recommend it :D and 'american gods' was a fantastic trip... anansi makes a cameo appearance :D

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megyal on January 6th, 2011 05:30 pm (UTC)

I'm so very delighted. I didn't get into it much, but I wager I was distracted at the time. Ooohh Anansi!

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madlyxxmadd on January 7th, 2011 08:24 pm (UTC)

it is possible. i get distracted all the time. hehe :D

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murphstheman on December 29th, 2010 02:45 pm (UTC)

love the mortal instruments series myself...I'm reading clockwork angel as I write this...it's a prologue to the moral instruments and it's pretty good so far.... I may have to give some of the books on the list a read...really enjoy Emily Bronte also. Happy Reading!!!

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madlyxxmadd on December 29th, 2010 06:08 pm (UTC)

i love tmi too! and clockwork was wonderful! hope you enjoy it!!! i would just love to have jem come stay at my house for a few days... :) hehe

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mizra on December 29th, 2010 06:45 pm (UTC)

Wow, this is quite a list. I think I got through about 40 of mine... but I kept adding to it, so that makes up a lot for it. I only gave up on 4 of them.

DO NOT READ FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH. I think it was such a horrible, horrible book. Nothing good happens to those characters at all. NOTHING. It gets worse and worse as time goes on. It's beautifully-written, I can totally give her that. Even the worst of scenes looks so picturesque in my head. She writes well, but the plot? Ugh, please, no.
Just fair warning.

The Host was decent. I like Sci-Fi, so it was OK for me. It was more like a romance novel than a sci-fi novel, for sure. But there were a bunch of characters I kinda fell in love with, so, it happens. Look out for Ian! :D

Some of these books look oddly familiar. ;)

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madlyxxmadd on December 29th, 2010 07:31 pm (UTC)

the forest of hands and teeth was a hard one for me. i have picked it up a few times but the back cover always put me off. i feel i should give it a chance (mostly so because i put it on this darn list) but i don't think i will get very far. i do appreciate good writing and to be honest, its the title that grabbed me... but i will be wary; i trust your opinion.

i started the host a long time ago but at the moment the twilight saga wasn't finished and all i wanted was more bella/edward angst :D i had to put it down for a later date. the story also opened up other doors for me... made me start contemplating what i really thought about 'alien invasions' and the like and who is the more evil forces: unknown others or humans, ourselves. it made for a horrid distraction whilst i was trying to concentrate.

hehe, you should. a lot are from your post :D hehe THANK YOU! :D

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mizra on December 29th, 2010 09:10 pm (UTC)

The cover and the writing itself is beautifully done. I agree to that. But the actual plot was so tragic and angsty and horroric (in the horror genre, that is). Just putting that out there.

lol, I picked it up waiting on Breaking Dawn, too. It was a different take, but still very similar. Lot of the same imagery from Bella and her time in Phoenix.

lol, you're welcome. ;)

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madlyxxmadd on December 30th, 2010 06:33 am (UTC)

agreed. we'll see what happens. i am sure i will be sending you a message telling you that you were so right and lamenting the minutes wasted :D

yes. agreed, that's what i thought. apparently sequels are on their way... did you know this? i didn't. well its good to know she's continuing on in her craft :D

THANK YOU!

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mizra on December 30th, 2010 01:44 pm (UTC)

I dunno. A lot of people liked it and there's talk about a movie. To me, I always pictured scenes from The Village, so haha, I don't think that plays out the same way.

I heard she was making a sequel. I'd like to read that.

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