Confessions of a Book Addict

Well, it's the cease of the twelvemonth already. I completed my destination of reading fifty books, together with ended upwards at the count of 67. I'm working on ii more, but I gauge they'll convey to count for 2012 since they aren't done yet. Did yous convey whatever goals? Did yous run across them? I'm considering upping my destination for the coming twelvemonth to 75 books, but I'm non certain if I'll brand it. But who cares? As long every bit I'm reading I'll live on happy. I've been asked to beta read a mass for mortal really special, which is making me really excited! Great root to the novel year, right? I'm also planning on reading simply about to a greater extent than mainstream books ( The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is on its fashion to me every bit nosotros speak), together with seriously looking forwards to seeing how A Princess of Mars has been translated onto the big enshroud inwards John Carter . Since Goodread...

Remember how I said that sometimes I dream nearly the books I'm reading ? Last nighttime I dreamed nearly The Hunger Games . I dreamed that I was Katniss in addition to mortal else I knew was Peeta. We were working together to avoid the other tributes in addition to ended upwardly fighting dinosaurs inwards a video game-like setting. It was real odd, peculiarly considering I haven't fifty-fifty gotten to the actual games yet. Sorry for such a brusk postal service today, I only felt the withdraw to percentage :)

Below is my review of Room , but start I wanted to utter virtually it inward a dissimilar context. There are some books that when I read them I can't halt thinking virtually them. They pervade my thoughts in addition to sometimes I fifty-fifty dream virtually them. When I conduct hold to halt reading them, tell at the halt of a run break, they're all I tin move mean value about. I mean value virtually them when I'm working, when I'm cooking, when I'm reading something else. They larn in addition to hence into my caput that I necessitate to destination them every bit shortly every bit possible. I necessitate to pass every bit much fourth dimension every bit I tin move alongside them inward fellowship to destination them in addition to mean value virtually them some more. Since I started reading Room , I haven't been able to mean value virtually much else. Jack is ever inward my mind, his idioms in addition to spoken language patterns are constantly maki...

Sorry for all the reviews lately, but I similar to part :) Here's some other mass I would recommend! Noah Zarc: Mammoth Trouble yesteryear D. Robert Pease My rating: 4 of v stars ***There are spoilers inward this post*** Noah Zarc is a 12-year-old time-traveling airplane pilot who helps collect 2 of each species of fauna for the hereafter earth, along amongst his family. The championship in addition to grapheme yell are non inward the to the lowest degree a subtle tribute to the Noah's Ark story, which is essentially what this storey is loosely founded on. While I appreciate the pun, I produce want it had been to a greater extent than subtle alone because the mass was rife amongst other references to the Biblical story. Considering I'm a adult woman inward my belatedly 20's, I really enjoyed this book, which was evidently aimed at younger boys around Noah's age. And that's fine - because fifty-fifty if it is a YA SF written for teen boys, I all t...

Kaddish For An Unborn Child yesteryear Imre Kertész My rating: 5 of v stars Kaddish for an Unborn Child is really worthy of its esteem, together with Imre Kertesz is absolutely worthy of his Nobel Prize. I read the Wilkinson translation, unaware that at that spot was around other translation available. Now that I know it has been translated before, I am curious to run across for myself how they differ inwards language, poetics together with style. I establish the Wilkinson translation haunting, musical amongst a unique musical rhythm to its words. How gain y'all depict something that is together with thence perfectly beautiful? The stream-of-consciousness trend of writing is hard to digest (much similar the storey that is beingness told - it is non a drinking glass of milk y'all swallow downwardly easily; rather, it is to a greater extent than similar something y'all request to mash your agency through), but nonetheless shows off what Kertesz ends upwardly stating o...