Sunday, January 25, 2015

What to read next?

I met my goal of 50 books last year so this year, to help me choose books and broaden my horizons, I'll try to meet each of the categories below.  My goal for this year is 55 books, and this list just happens to be 55 books in this list (counting three for the trilogy).

For the most part, I'll go through the list from the top to choose which the category rather than subjectively trying to figure out which fits best.  I'll also list the month in which I finished the book.

6 of 55 books, 11% complete (3 books ahead of schedule)
January: 6 books


2015 Reading List (Source: Popsugar.com)

  • A book with more than 500 pages (Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child - January)
  • A book that became a movie (Gone Girl - January)
  • A book with nonhuman characters (Undead and Uneasy - January)
  • A book set in a different country (The Serpent of Venice - January)
  • A nonfiction book (Eat Move Sleep - January)
  • A book form an author you love that you haven't read yet (Sycamore Row - January)
Undead and Uneasy was a part of a MaryJanice Davidson, vampire-queen series.  I finished it on January 1.  These are okay books, and easy reads.  But they don't really bring me a lot of fulfillment.  I've always enjoyed Julia Child and was interested in her life.  She was pretty amazing and so much more than the cooking woman with the high-pitched voice.  Gone Girl was the first book like it that I read, with a very dramatic plot twist and ending.  The movie was a good adaptation.  Serpent of Venice I was slightly disappointed with.  I love Christopher Moore books and didn't hit the spot like it usually does.  It was the second book in the Fool series, a parody of Shakespearan works.  Eat Move Sleep was the worst stereotype of self-help dribble.  Sycamore Row was the second book in The Time to Kill series from John Grisham. I haven't read Grisham in a long time, and he was just as good as prior novels I read from him.