(in case you were wondering about the title…) I made it to fifty-three books. So damn close. I’m too damn lazy to review all of them, so here’s the list. It wasn’t as good a year as 2010 (despite my also failing to reach my goal then too) where I finished fifty-nine books, started fifty-four [...]
Tagged books, French language, readingOr: the post where Gem bulks up on trade paperbacks and graphic novels to meet desired 2011 quota…yep, it’s over halfway through the year and I’m resorting to dirty means to try and make it to 60 books though according to Goodreads, only books begun and finished can technically be counted and they have to have an [...]
Tagged Anya's Ghost, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Ballou, Fables comic book series, graphic novel, Jamie McKelvie, Ken Follett, Kieron Gillen, Phonogram comic, poetry, Susan Coolidge, The Darwin Poems, The Pillars of the Earth, Vera BrosgolWhoops, I miscounted – I’ve read ten more books since my last post for a while and yes I am counting a poetry chapbook even though it doesn’t have an ISBN…sue me though it does have an ISSN. Anyway, here’s my next ten books that I’ve been trying to devour as making it to sixty [...]
Tagged Bill Willingham, book reviews, Fables comic book series, Frans Masereel, Geoff Lemon, Going Down Swinging, Jack of Fables, Jay Wiseman, Jessica Friedmann, Miriam Wei Wei Lo, No Pretty Words, Rachael Hale, SM 101, SmittenMy bad. For the two of you that actually pay attention to my book-reading habits, you can be forgiven for thinking I haven’t been reading at all. I haven’t been reading as much as I’d like because I’ve spent the last three or so months a. really, really unwell and b. apparently making up for [...]
Tagged A A Milne, Allen Ginsberg, Blood and Guts In High School, book review, Burnings, DailyLit, E H Shepard, Emily Dickinson, G, Gardens of the Moon, Just So Stories, Kathy Acker, Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder, Ocean Vuong, poetry, R L Stevenson, reading, Rudyard Kipling, short story, Steven Erikson, Treasure Island, Winnie the Pooh