On a roll...

I finished six more books! Go me! It helps that four of them are technically children's books, but they were all at least 200 pages so that's got to count for something. They were:

Duty and Desire
These Three Remain
Coraline
The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Llyr

The first two went with An Assembly Such as This to finish up the Fitzwilliam Darcy novels. They were actually pretty good. Duty and Desire was my least favorite since it's mostly made up, new stuff filling in the time when Darcy isn't around in Pride and Prejudice. It's not terrible, I enjoyed it, just not my favorite of the three books.

Coraline is a great little book that scared the dickens out of me even though I have already seen the movie and knew the whole story. Something about the way Neil Gaiman writes just gets to you. I had freaky dreams while reading this book, and my dreams are rarely effected by things I read or watch. I loved the book, though. Coraline is a great character and I want to name something after her. A child or a puppy or a kitten or something. And now I am going to watch the movie again so I can get the full effect. We'll see if the creepy dreams come back.

The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron and The Castle of Llyr (all by Lloyd Alexander) were all good, I enjoyed them each for different reasons. I am looking forward to watching The Black Cauldron even though I hear it's crap. I've never seen it, and I want to see how they butcher a good book. That has always interested me. haha. I really love the characters in the books. They are simple and sweet and heroic and brave for all kinds of different reasons. All three books are quick and easy to read, they capture your attention and hold on to it, and they each offer a great little adventure that could stand individually.

And now I'm up to 15 or 16 books, I think. Still so far behind, but doing much better than I thought I would be. I'm about to start on Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thieves, then I'm on to a biography about the Brat Pack that I'm reading because The Pioneer Woman read it and because I love the Brat Pack.

As of today...

Okay. Here's a list of what I have finished as of today.

The Enchantress of Florence
Through the Wardrobe
The Magician's Nephew
The Silver Chair
Forest Born
Stop in the Name of Pants
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Julie and Julia
An Assembly Such As This
Inkheart
Ender's Game

That's 11 books in January and February.

I'm half way through Duty and Desire (book two in the Fitzwilliam Darcy novels) and I've started several others (Coraline, The Actor and the Housewife, The Book Thief and The Outsiders). I'm pretty happy with my pace, but hoping to get the ones I've started already finished this month.

Inkheart was great, although I don't know if I could have read the whole thing for this challenge. I'm glad I found it on audio.

I LOVED Ender's Game. I shouldn't be surprised by this since I'm pretty sure I know a lot of people who at least really liked it. It was another audio book, but I think that enhanced it a lot for me. I found myself sitting in my car after arriving to where ever I was going and listening. I loved the narrator's voice for Ender and I loved that they used several different narrators for which ever character's point of view was being read. I got a little frustrated toward the end, but still loved the book.

Finished:

Say You're One of Them, in my foreign category.

http://mirishorten.blogspot.com/2010/03/say-youre-one-of-them-by-uwem-akpan.html