Reading with The Domestic Goddess

I started keeping a note of every book I read in 2005, after realising that I’d just started re-reading a book unintentionally (it was a book I’d not particularly enjoyed first time round and had left so little impression on me that I had read almost all of it again before realising why it was so familiar – and still not enjoying it all that much!).  I used to finish every book I started, regardless of how little I might be enjoying it, but came to realise that my precious time can be better spent doing things I enjoy, so that means if I’m really not getting into a book, it gets ditched.

Check out all my current reading challenges HERE

Please note that the ratings out of five are not necessarily related to any particular literary merit, but to how much I enjoyed them for whatever reason.

These are the books I’ve read this year…

KEY:
K = Kindle e-book
G = Graphic novel
R = Reviewed for publisher or author
Dire – don’t waste your time
OK, but nothing to write home about
Very good – worth a read
Excellent
Superb – read it immediately!

CURRENTLY READING:

• Jude Morgan – The Secret Life of William Shakespeare (R)
• Everett Peacock – Death By Facebook (K)

READING NEXT (in order):

• Michael Arnold – Devil’s Charge (R)
• L.R. Fredericks – Fate (R)
• Richard Castle – Heat Rises (Nikki Heat 3)
• Catherynne M. Valente – The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
• Malinda Lo – Huntress (sequel to Ash)
• Simon Scarrow – Praetorian (Romans 11)
• A Game of Thrones (Song of Ice and Fire 1) by George R R Martin
• Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

FINISHED IN 2012:

1. Jenn Ashworth – Cold Light (R)
2. Anne Brontë – Agnes Grey (K) 
3. Frances Hodgson Burnett – Little Lord Fauntleroy (K)
4. John H Carroll – The Emo Bunny That Should (K)
5. Richard Castle and Brian Bendis – Deadly Storm (G) 
6. Catherine Cooper – The Golden Acorn (K)
7. Patrick deWitt – The Sisters Brothers
8. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations (K)
9. Anne Frasier – Hush (K)
10. Anna Katharine Green – X Y Z A Detective Story (K)
11. Philippa Gregory – The Women of the Cousins’ War
12. Caroline Hanson – Bewitching the Werewolf (K)
13. Charlaine Harris – Dead Reckoning (Southern Vampires 11)
14. Simon Haynes – Hal Spacejock (K)
15. Richard Herley – The Penal Colony (K)
16. Georgette Heyer – Regency Buck
17. Susan Hill – Howards End Is On the Landing
18. Thomas Hoover – Caribbee (K)
19. Tony Levy – A Turnkey Or Not? (K/R)
20. Stuart McBride – Birthdays for the Dead
21. Marissa Meyer – Cinder
22. David Nordmark – Lose Weight Without Dieting The Animal Kingdom Way (K)
23. SJ Parris – Heresy (K)
24. Jackson Pearce – Sisters Red
25. Jonathan Pinnock – Mrs Darcy Versus the Aliens
26. Terry Pratchett – Snuff (Discworld 39)
27. Steven Scaffardi – The Drought (R)
28. Mark Stevens – Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Assylum (K)
29. Joss Stirling – Stealing Phoenix (K)
30. Amor Towles – Rules of Civility (R)
31. Jules Verne – Around the World In 80 Days (K)
32. Cody Young – Johnny Doesn’t Drink Champagne (K) 
33. Cody Young – The Lady and the Locksmith (K)
34. Robyn Young – Insurrection (Insurrection Trilogy 1) (R)

ABANDONED UNFINISHED:

• M. D. Keating – Sunburnt
• Lew Wallace – Ben-Hur (K)
• Jules Verne – The Mysterious Island (K)