First Quarter Update

I hate to say that I'm a very busy woman and have not been able to take the time to write a blog entry about the books I have read, but the sad truth is that I have barely been able to read books in the first place.  Balancing teaching, work, school, wedding planning, friends and family has become a daunting task and I am surprised when I find myself with spare time at all.  Nevertheless, I am sitting at home with a cold right now, and if you know me well, you know that I have found time to sneak in reading despite my schedule.  So, drumroll please, I will now list the books I have read this year... all 12 of them... how sad... (not including the bodice ripping smut I read out of sheer boredom.)

January 2010

Soulless by Gail Carriger - A   Bawdy, clever steampunk fun.  I can't wait to read Changeless, which comes out on Tuesday.  What awaits the new Lady Maccon?

Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon  - A very surprising A-   I bought this book to tease Ai Ling, but I actually am really looking forward to the sequel!

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa - A+   Beautiful stuff.  It made me cry at work.

Magic Study by Maria Snyder - B   YA foolishness.  Not as good as the first one.

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld - A   Awesome re-imagined WWI.  Clankers VS Darwinists, who will win?

The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo - B+  

Fire Study by Maria Snyder - B-  I only read this to finish the series... honestly not that great.  It only gets a B because it finished the story I wanted to read.

February 2010

The Mark by Jean Nadol - B  Kinda surprised where the end of the book went.  Interesting, but not that special.

Going Bovine by Libba Bray - A+  Seriously, I was surprised by how much I liked this book.  It was amazingly sad and I honestly loved it.  I recommend it to anyone who can stand a bizarre tale of mad cow disease, Schroedinger's cat, a garden gnome who thinks he is a Norse God, a death obsessed dwarf and a punk angel.

March 2010

The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1) by Jasper Fforde - A+  A book for bibliophiles.  Thank you Michelle, for getting me into this series.  I am now obsessed, if you cannot tell by the next two books I have read.  I want to be a Special Ops Literatec.

Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next #2) by Jasper Fforde - A  Nevermind, I want to work for Jurisfiction!

The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next #3) by Jasper Fforde  - A  I still want to work for Jurisfiction!

So there we have it.  Only a measly 12 books read so far this year.  I am in the middle of deciding if I want to keep reading the Thursday Next series (there are 2 more) or read something else to break it up... I'm leaning towards breaking it up...  And, what makes it harder is that in the next two weeks, four books I have been waiting for come out.  Four!  I am dying to run and out buy them, but have no time for them.  I hate to see unread books on my shelf!!!  

Sigh, I will now bid adieu before I give myself another coughing fit.  

What is the most interesting book you have read this year, dear reader?