The Good, The Best, and all The Rest
The Good
Heartsick by Chelsea Cain
Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain
Evil at Heart by Chelsea Cain (sense a pattern?)
Creepers by David Morrell
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
The Best Book of October:
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Recommended by one Carrie Harris, this well read YA book is about a death game occuring in a futuristic setting. I read it and then gave it to my roommate who also devoured it. I don't remember books being this violent when I was a YA, but I like it!
Runner-ups:
Speak by Laurie Halse Andersen. The second book I've read by this author, I was impressed by how the author handled serious subject matter (rape) in a creative and innovative manner.
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. A modern mystery with a deeply scarred heroine and a gothic tint to it, and I loved it.
The Rest
The Rest are not "bad" books. The books I do not like or wish to read, I stop reading. Period (these books are never listed by the way). And while the books below may not have hit me in just the right way, I did take the time to finish each and every one of them.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev
Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry
A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans
I'm always open to book suggestions for the future (though with Nano starting tomorrow, I don't think November holds many books for me).
In Honor of Halloween, I give you Jack! (The Pumpkin King)
Happy Halloween!
Speak is a perrenial favorite with the girls at school. I'll have to check out the others. All the best for NaNo!
ReplyDeleteThere's the song that's been in my head all afternoon! Fortunately I love it. :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Halloween, and good luck to both of us for Nano!
Aaron - good to know i'm still young at heart :^)
ReplyDeleteKC - I love it too. and i'll need the luck!
I loved Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson so I'll have to pick up Speak, whereas Eyes Like Stars is one of my favourite books of 2009.
ReplyDeleteGood grief you read a lot of books. Good luck NaNoing.
ReplyDeletecate - thanks for the recommedation! i love book rec.
ReplyDeletejamie - i get twitchy if i don't have a book in mid read somewhere. and good luck yourself!
I was looking at the Chelsea Cain books at the bookstore the other day. Might have to give them a go.
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