Comments on: November Reading Wrap-Up

By: Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog

Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:54:11 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation! I looked it up, and you’re right–I’m definitely interested. I’ve added it to my reading list for 2010, and I would LOVE to know how you connected it to Twilight.

By: Lyndale Press

Lyndale Press — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:26:42 +0000

I started reading Transforming A Rape Culture in November — a book I’d been meaning to pick up for years but finally got to for a school project (on Twilight! ha!). I think you would…enjoy is the wrong word… but appreciate it’s importance and relevance more than 15 years after it was published.

By: Tanya Perez

Tanya Perez — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:41:32 +0000

LOL, I too have a 100 book per annum standard and, factoring in what I can reasonably complete before the end of the year, I will be seven short (and it’s killing me!) Of course, I did go through a four month reading slump after having my love of reading nearly annihilated after reading Eclipse (the third book in the Twilight Saga by Stehenie Meyer) but still…

The best book I read in November was THE NEON RAIN by James Lee Burke. It’s the first in the Dave Robicheaux mystery series and I loved the viscous quality to the descriptive language. The time and the place are New Orleans in the 1980′s and the context of the story involves the US involvement with illegal arms shipments to Central America and, the protag’s flashbacks to his tour in VietNam. Some may demur at the violence in the story, but I really don’t think the bad guys could have been nearly so intimidating had they just been going around giving dirty looks! I’m not a particular advocate of graphic violence but I do think it served to illustrate the true threat of the bad guys in this story.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:10:28 +0000

I just started reading Always Looking Up and am enjoying it and have heard great things, it might be an enjoyable but quicker read to add for the big December push!

By: Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog

Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:29:51 +0000

Hey! Thanks for stopping by. I haven’t read any Laurie Halse Anderson yet, but it sounds like everything she’s done is amazing, so I’ll have lots of good choices. Putting her on the list for 2010.

By: Rebekah

Rebekah — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:20:17 +0000

The best book I read in November was Chains by Laurie Halse Andersen. AMAZING. SOOOOO much better than any of her other books, which I have loved. You must check it out …. even if you’re out of the bookfair biz.

By: Jenners

Jenners — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:34:36 +0000

I’m always always always behind on my book reviews … it is my modus operandi! I’m going for a big push of shorter reviews to get rid of my backlog and start 2010 with a clean slate! The thing is … I don’t even read near 100 books in a year!

And I believe I recently added the Tana French book to my TBR list based on your review.

By: Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog

Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:56:24 +0000

I’ve been forgetting details too, but I write in my books & underline passages, so going back to those has been helping. And I SO hope I meet the 100 because at this point, if I miss it, I’m only going to miss it by a few, and that would just suck.

By: lena

lena — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:20:00 +0000

I also read In the Woods in November (still no review though). For the last two months I’ve been letting stuff get backlogged as well. For me, it makes for crappy reviews later because I forget the little details that I loved.

I hope you succeed in your goal of 100 books (that’s quite a lot!).

By: bermudaonion

bermudaonion — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:28:33 +0000

My best book for November was The Wife’s Tale by Lori Lansens. I loved it!