[What are you listening to?]

Talk Talk - The Party's Over

[Liz K's Reading for 2010]

I have a slow start this year.

[What have you been watching at the cinema? (Cont..)]

Saw Avatar, that was awesome. Saw it in 3-D also.

 

Last movie I saw was Sherlock Holmes. Pretty good version, lots of action, and I can't resist Robert Downey Jr. anyway!!

[Favorite authors from your native country?]

What a great question.

I'm from the U.S of A.

 

 

Edith Wharton (1862-1937) - One of the few Classic authors I read from my native country.

 

Stephen King - What's not to love.

 

Richard Paul Evans - He writes mostly Christian Fiction (Christmas stories). He has branched out some, but I really like the Christmas stuff. Read a new one every year.

 

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) I've read so many of her Asian novels. I just love them and her.

[2010 Reading Lists / Blogs]

Hmm, how odd. I shall go in and change it for you then.

 

ETA: Done.

 

You're the BEST! Thank you.

 

[2010 Reading Lists / Blogs]

If you edit it in the first post it should change the whole thread for you.

 

It didn't. The post says 2010, but the title of the thread still says 2009.

[Liz K's Doorstep Challenge]

I tend to read a few chunkies a year. They are time consuming though, but if the story is good, then it doesn't seem so bad.

 

2009

 

Outlander - Diana Gabaldon (627)

Duma Key - Stephen King (769)

[2010 Reading Lists / Blogs]

Hi Janet,

 

Would you guys be so kind as to change my title to say 2010? I tried myself, but it only changes it in the post.

 

Link in signature. THANK YOU!

[Star Trek & Stargate (& other Sci-Fi)]

Not into Stargate.

 

Into Star Trek. My favorite series is Voyager, but also really like TNG. My mother & father used to watch (re-watch) the original series when I was a kid, it was still sort of new then. I'm not a fan of Deep Space Nine as a whole, but I do like some of the actors, and Enterprise....blah!!

[The last DVD you watched? (Cont..)]

Four Christmases

[Never ending BOOK titles: words in common]

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot D

[2010 Reading Lists / Blogs]

Actually I thought it would be better if in my case I just combined the two. I had an extra space when I started so I just moved 2009 down and will put 2010 on top. My thread isn't many pages as all since I consolidated all the books in one post. Hope that's ok.

[Never ending BOOK titles: words in common]

The Other Side of Midnight - Sidney Sheldon

[Never ending BOOK titles: words in common]

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea - Chelsea Handler

[Liz K's Reading for 2010]

There were some standouts yes.

 

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - I've never read this, and this is the favorite of the year.

 

Silas Marner by George Eliot- Audio, one of the best classics I've come across.

 

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield - Audio, from what I have heard, it is better in Audio format. The narrators were interesting and made the story move.

 

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Children's book but very good, one of those books that make you think.

 

The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Mulock - Another children's book that had one of those real heart wrenching morals.

 

Beasts of New York by Jon Evans (ebook format only) - Only found on line, not in any store (online). Read this on my Kindle, it is labled as a fairy tale for adults, and what a ride.

[Liz K's Reading for 2010]

I've done it. I've reached my goal of 75 books for this year.

Next year I will really challenge myself and aim for 100!

[Never ending BOOK titles: words in common]

The Next Queen of Heaven - Gregory Maguire

[Last Letter Word Game (part 3)]

euthanasia

[Your surprise book of 2009]

As odd as it may sound it was "To Kill a Mockingbird". Yeah Yeah it won the Pulitzer, Yeah yeah I've heard countless times it was excellent, but I wasn't sure I'd like it. I'd seen the movie, which was good, but I didn't think the book would interest me as much, but it did and more. By far my favorite book of 2009 (and probably all time).

[Top 5 books you would not recommend]

I have some...but I will go back to them........maybe.

 

 

1. Bleak House - Charles Dickens (oh lord, so wordy)

2. Middlemarch - George Eliot (sad thing is this is an audio book, I just can't get into it)

 

These are the only 2.

[Last Letter Word Game (part 3)]

intelligentsia

[Liz K's Reading for 2010]

3 more to go, I can't believe I'm almost there.

[Never ending BOOK titles: words in common]

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

[Times Best 100 books of the decade]

I didn't do as bad as I thought I would.

 

44 Freakonomics: by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

30 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

25 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

17 Harry Potter andthe Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

10 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

7 Life of Pi by Yann Martel

 

And quite a few on my TBR list.

[Have you read a book more than once?]

I have never in my life re-read a book.

 

I will re-read a book soon though. "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, because I don't remember it, I read it in High School and probably skimmed through most of it. Now I want to enjoy it.

 

Outside of that I probably will never re-read another book.