Cupid Bow Mouth

For the first time ever I finished the 50 book challenge! YAY!! Okay, so they weren't all works of literary gravitas (50 Shades that definitely means you), but they did all help me to complete one goal that I set myself in 2012. I re-visited my romance roots hard core, and recalled the wacky path that led me to my interest in medieval lit. It's a schizophrenic list, to say the least.

( Toni Morrison to E.L. James, here is my list of 50 books read in 2012! )

Every year for the past two years I am aim to meet the 50 book challenge. Last year, my first year participating, I came in at just under the half-way mark with 21. This year ... well, this year can safely be declared a bust.

1. Family Man - Jayne Ann Krentz (re-read)
2. Morning Glory - LaVyrle Spencer (re-read)
3. The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddord
4. Threshold - Caitlin R. Kiernan
5. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
6. Silk - Caitlin R. Kiernan
7. Dangerous Angels - Francesca Lia Block
8. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
9. Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons - Lorna Landvik
10 Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr
11. Ink Exchange - Melissa Marr
12. Low Red Moon - Caitlin R. Kiernan
13. Alabaster - Caitlin R. Kiernan
14. The Dry Salvages - Caitlin R. Kiernan
15. To Charles Fort with Love - Caitlin R. Kiernan


Considering my new library card and the one hundred dollars in gift certificates to the bookstore that I received for my birthday, you would think that I'd have read loads and loads. Yeah, me too. What I did do, was buy a lot of books and stick them on my bookshelf. In fact, last night I bought two more: Laura Weiss' Such a Pretty Girl and another one that I can't remember the title of but am totally excited to read. (And isn't that just sad!)

It would also appear that 2008 was the year of Caitlin Kiernan. With most of her novels in reprint by the ROC imprint of Penguin-Putnam, I was able to finally snatch up all of the out of prints. With the exception of Five of Cups which hasn't gone into reprint. My library card got me three more Kiernan's: Alabaster, The Dry Salvages, and To Charles Fort with Love.

More reading in 2009 is the vow that I make. I'm even aiming to re-read the Harry Potter series. I'd like to say that I'll do it all in one fell swoop, but who really knows. All of the things sitting on my shelf that need to be read, hopefully, will be read. In the meantime, I still have Hogfather to finish re-reading. It's a story about Christmas (mostly) and gods and crack-brained lunatics, wizards and worlds where magic goes twing! in the air. I love it.

Rec me a book, if you like, and we'll add it to the list. I've got fifty books to get through, after all.