Yeah it’s the end of 2011 and close coming in 2012,
which is a big year for me (my sons starting Kindy) but I thought, since
really, it’s something that I have been looking into over the last couple of
days, I thought I would put this up as a show of all the books that I have
read, like, for the first time, in 2011 (though this one started up in April) they
are in order of when I read them.
Friday 30 December 2011
Thursday 29 December 2011
when I look back
So, I have been noticing that
a lot of people are doing a look back over the year and giving us there
favourites out of the lot of them. You know, the different genre and all that
crap.
Well, I thought, well, it
wasn't pleasant because I'm not in the best of moods, and more to the point I
like the idea but didn't. so instead of that crap I'm going to tell you the
books that are most rememberable, being that in the next couple of days I will
be doing a post of all the books that I have read this year and going
over that list I hadn't realised that I had read half of them, mostly because
they just were....well, they didn't hit it with me, even though I liked them a
lot while reading them.
So my most read book of 2011
was.....
ONE PIECE vols 26-39
Prod dets
One
Piece series, Vols 26—39
Pub: SHUEISHA Inc, Tokyo
Author & Art: Eiichiro Oda
Cat: pirates
Format: graphic novel, paperback; chapters
237 to 377
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
As
a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming king of the Pirates. But his life
changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber....at the
cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search
of the “One Piece,” said to be the greatest treasure in the world...
ADVENTURE ON KAMI’S
ISLAND
The
Straw Hats have made it to the ocean in the sky, but not everything is as
angelic as they had imagined charged with the illegal entry, they are being
pursued by not only the Skypiea Police, but all the other inhabitants of the
sky too! Everyone wants them out, but will these outlaws be allowed to leave in
peace?!
Wednesday 28 December 2011
review (replacements)
(read: April ‘11)
The Replacements
Replacement
series, book 1
Pub: 2010, Razorbill
Author: Brenna Yovanoff
Cat: fiction
Format: paperback (ful); 375 pp w/ 32
chapters
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
Mackie
Doyle is the Replacement. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, Mackie
comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls
ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement – left in the crib of
a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood,
and consecrated ground, Mackie is slowly dying in the human world.
Mackie
would give anything to live among us, to practise on his bass guitar spend time
with an oddly intriguing girl called Tate. But when Tate’s baby sister goes
missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as
Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful
place – in our world, or theirs.
my Thoughts (review)
Tuesday 27 December 2011
what I got for christmas
I know it's a little late, but
since my man had the days off and well...he's really into battleship on
facebook, or at least he plays it and so, he's had control of the computer
(mostly because, well, I let him I guess, I could have bitched and wined, like
a good woman, but fuck it, I had One Piece to read so I was cool with it)
So I got the BEST present for Christmas
this year!
(sorry 'bout the crap photo)
See what I
mean?! Awesomely cool. My sister’s man made it for me, because I, well, wanted
a new blanket with a satin edging because, well, I love running that shit threw
my fingers. Really, it's nice, you should try it.
that's it, just
wanted to brag a little about my present because it's just so nice and soft and
cuddly and it's just one of those presents you get that you can't stop touching
and using, and well, I can’t all that much because it's summer and over Christmas
has actually been hot these last couple of days (miracle as this is, it
sucks because I want to cuddle under my blanket.
Well that's all
Thanks for the time
Sunday 25 December 2011
Happy Christmas Everyone!
Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
hope you are having a great day something that you can reflect upon when you have to pull down all the christmas decorations.
Saturday 24 December 2011
REVIEW (dead girls dance)
Good news, girls: your
dates are here!
Bad news, girls:
they’re dead.
The Dead Girl’s Dance
Prod dets
Morganville
Vampires series, book 2
Pub: 2007, (razor bill) Penguin Group
Author: Rachel Caine
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 380 pp w/ 13
chapters
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
Claire
Danvers has had her share of challenges – like being a genius in a school that
favours beauty over brains, dealing with the homicidal girls in her dorm and,
above all, finding out that her college town is overrun with blood-sucking
fiends. On the plus side, so far Claire and her friends have managed to survive
getting on the wrong side of some Morganville VIPs...Vampire Important Persons.
But their temporary peace is in danger of collapsing, thanks to the arrival of
her new boyfriend’s scary father and his vampire-fighting supporters.
my Thoughts (review)
Friday 23 December 2011
Why I love ONE PIECE! #1
This is odd but I made a decision when I started
doing the big reviews that I wasn’t actually going to fully review mangas because
you would basically have a whole lot of....
OMG they are so awesome, really!!!! You’re a dick if you don’t
read them Now!!!
Honestly they are the best, read it. Now!!!!
Ahhhhhh, this is the greatest, honestly, the best so
far!!!
And so on and so on, kinda to a point that you'll never actually read my post because they are nothing but me telling you that I love'em, and you have to have guessed that I do by now, right?
so instead I'm going to do this post ever 25 books, or so. this is were I tell you all about my deep seeded love for draw characters and how much of a love struck idiot I am. though the good news is that when we get to the 60 something books, when they come ever two months or something it will be longer between these post, so that's good.
anyway, let the fun begin.....
One Piece (20-25)
Showdown at Alubarna to
The
100 Million Berry Man
Prod dets
OnePiece series, Vols 20--25
Pub: SHUEISHA Inc, Tokyo
Author & Art: Eiichiro Oda
Cat: pirates
Format: graphic novels, paperback
Synopsis
As
a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life
changed when he accidently gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost
of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search of the
“One Piece,” said to be the greatest treasure in the world....
Showdown at Alubarna
When
leaving Rainbase to head off the rebels in the capital city of Alubarna, Luffy
gets pulled aside by Crocodile for some cozy one-on-one time! With only three
minutes to fight, can Luffy take on the sand pirate on his domain?! The rest of the crew must help Vivi stop the rebels,
but the formidable Officer Agents have been waiting for them at the city gates!
Will Vivi be in time to stop the inevitable clash between the rebels and the
Army?!
Tuesday 20 December 2011
okay....
...my lovely, I have just been looking up books, because I have the time and am bored out of my mind. why I don't write, it's because....
I found this on Gena Sowalter.... [infor from fan sight]
I found this on Gena Sowalter.... [infor from fan sight]
Wicked Nights is the first book in the Angels
of the Dark series--a spin off from the Lords of the Underworld. This is a June
26, 2012 release.
From the New York Times bestselling
author who brought you the Lords of the Underworld comes a dark, seductive new series
featuring angels poised at the brink of destruction…
Leader of the most powerful army in the heavens, Zacharel has been deemed too dangerous, too ruthless, and if he isn’t careful, he’ll lose his wings. But this warrior with a heart of ice will not be deterred . . . until a vulnerable human tempts him with a carnal pleasure he’s never before known.
Leader of the most powerful army in the heavens, Zacharel has been deemed too dangerous, too ruthless, and if he isn’t careful, he’ll lose his wings. But this warrior with a heart of ice will not be deterred . . . until a vulnerable human tempts him with a carnal pleasure he’s never before known.
Accused of a crime she did not commit, Annabelle Miller has spent four years in
an institution for the criminally insane. Demons track her every move,
and their king will stop at nothing to have her. Zacharel is her only
hope for survival, but is the brutal angel with a touch as hot as hell her
salvation—or her ultimate damnation?
Monday 19 December 2011
REVIEW (vampire kisses)
the begining
(26) (25/April/11)
Vampire Kisses
Vampire
kisses series, book 1
Pub: 2003, HarperCollins, USA
Author: Ellen Schreiber
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 196 pp w/ 22
chapters
Age Range: YA
Borrowed this from my local library
Synopsis
sixteen-year-old
Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some
day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he
can make her dreams come true.
my Thoughts (review)
Lame as we know me
Hey, hi, how are ya doin'?
let's here it quick, before we start! a random unanswerable question: Can God create a bigger boulder than he can roll?
it's come to my notice that I'm sucking something chronic
with the whole reading books thing, and it’s not all that bad, I don't think,
because I've never actually said that I was a review blog (okay, okay, I
haven't ON my blog, but when you all come on over you think that I might be--I
think, really I'm not quite sure what interests you in my blog, but anyway....)
The last couple of days I have been doing nothing by revisions
with all the books that I have already written. I see this as a lame attempt to
not say they words 'I'm a lazy ass who can't write anymore' not that it's true
I'm also writing something new--yeah, aren't I always. I think so.
Saturday 17 December 2011
responding to a blog/vlog
hey y'all I was just watching Book Chat: series vs.
stand-alone books from Misty
the Book Rat, and thought I'd respond.
I was really thinking about it
when she spoke, about the fact that some books just work well as a series and
other tend to feel as if they are just creating it to gain money, I even
thought I spoke about this because I read one like it. But I'm not 100%
sure.
I really like series when it
comes to romances, the series that hold the same world, the same style, and
even the same people, but each book is a different couple. I just don't seem to
like, nor do I more one when a series is set in a one person mind. there are
only three I have that I have done will with but mostly because they were all
there when I started the series rather than me having to wait--that's when I
tend to forget about it, also when I have a problem with the main characters
personality, because it's never going to get better, more than not, that crap
part of their personality actually gets more pronounced.
ONE PIECE
Prod dets
OnePiece series, Vols 14—19
Author & Art: Eiichiro Oda
Cat: pirates
Format: graphic novel, paperback; 1216 pp w/
chapters 118 to 187
Age Range: YA
Synopsis
Baroque works part 3 of
13
As
a child Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life
changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the
cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search
of the “One Piece”, said to be the greatest treasure in the world....
Instinct
Someone
has given Dorry the Giant exploding ale and he’s not happy! Assuming it was
Luffy and crew; he launches an all-out attack and is soundly defeated by the
rubbery power of the Gum-Gum Rocket! But mystery is afoot—if Luffy didn’t slip
the giant the exploding brew, just who did?
Catch up....
Monkey D. Luffy started out as just a kid with a dream—and that dream was to
become the greatest pirate in history! Stirred by the tales of pirate
“Red-Haired” Shank, Luff vowed to become a pirate himself. That was before the
enchanted Devil Fruit gave Luffy the power to stretch like rubber, at the cost
of being unable to swim—a serious handicap for an aspiring sea dog. Undeterred,
Luffy sat out to sea and recruited a couple of crewmates: master swordsman Zolo
and treasure-hunting thief Nami and lying sharp-shooter Usopp, and Sanji, the
high-kicking chef.
REVIEW (Pleasure of a Dark Prince)
‘Gifts from gods always
come with a price. Are you ready to pay mine?’
(read: 16/Dec/11)
Pleasure of a Dark Prince
Immortal
After Dark series, book 7
Pub: 2010, Simon & Schuster
Author: Kresley Cole
Cat: Paranormal Romance
Format: paperback (mid); 431 pp w/ 54
chapters
Whose: Lucia & Garreth
Age Range: Adult
Synopsis
In
exchange for her life, Lucia the Huntress has made a promise to the Goddess
Skathi, a promise she is determined to keep. Like her saviour, Lucia is now an
Archer, but her immeasurable skills as a hunter are on loan, and conditional
upon her word.
If
she is to defeat the evil Cruach once and for all, and save her world from apocalypse,
she cannot risk her talents as a hunter. But when she meets Garreth MacRieve,
prince of the Lykkae, her extraordinary strength of will is truly tested.
MacRieve
is determined to win the Valkyrie and keep her safe from harm. But despite the
surprising force of her attraction to him, Lucia will not give in, for she
knows it is not safe for her to be with the fierce werewolf whose smouldering
eyes weaken her resolve each time she sees him.
The
secrets she harbours could destroy her—and those she loves –and every day
brings more danger. MacRieve could help her, but will she trust him with the
truth?
my Thoughts (review)
Tuesday 13 December 2011
some more books
Since I can't seem to walk into a shop without looking at the books and mostly I end up buying 1 or 2 no matter what I just can't seem to help myself.
anyway, I only got 2 and they were cheep as shit.
Stephanie Draven, Poisoned Kisses, b3, Mythica series
I'm also half way threw Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresely Cole. I would have finished it but it seems that all her books, all the characters found there mates in the same week and so I'm now up to the part that actually matters, the parts that weren't in someone elses books. so... look forward to that review which will be coming in the next couple of says I think.
That's all for me this day.
Oh, I also bought series 2 of Criminal Minds, not that it's a book, but the price of the series has been dropped from like $70 or $30 so I thought, why not. at least I did with series 1, series 2 I really needed because of the killer chif hanger at the end of the 1st one.
Thanks for the time
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