KateKintail's February Reading Log

[katekintailbc]

This is a recap of my February reading, for a swap-bot swap I signed up for. I chose to post it here so that I can format it the way I want. See below for a very brief recap of what I thought of the books along with a link to read more about my thoughts, if you so desire.

For a while there, I wasn't sure I'd have very many books to report this time around, then I ended up plowing through some graphic novels.

Here's a list of books I read during the month but didn't finish (or haven't finished yet):

• Star Wars Jedi Apprentice: The Death of Hope by Jude Watson


• The Green Mile by Stephen King


• Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters


• The Dark Half by Stephen King


• Marvel Adventures Iron Man: Iron Armory (Vol 2) by Fred Van Lente, Rafa Sandoval et. al

Here are the books I finished this month:

1. The Ties that Bind (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice 14) by Jude Watson
   http://katekintailbc.livejournal.com/163238.html
   I didn't like where this book went at all.


2. Midnighters *!: The Secret Hour by Scott Westerfeld
   http://katekintailbc.livejournal.com/163736.html
   Definitely a series I plan to devour, because this was so much fun and such a quick read. I loved the concept of the secret hour (the 25th hour of the day that only a select number of people and a lot of monsters are aware of). I look forward to seeing where the teens (which their gifts) go from here in the next book in the series.


3. Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
   http://katekintailbc.livejournal.com/163977.html
   Awww. Kitten thinks the full moon is a bowl of milk and tries to drink it. Kitten doesn't succeed, but it's cure watching the attempts.


4. Dr. Horrible and Other Horrible Stories by Zach Whedon
   http://katekintailbc.livejournal.com/164343.html
   Awesome collection of Dr. Horrible comics. Creative takes and explorations on the great characters.


5. Boston Boys Club by Johnny Diaz
   http://katekintailbc.livejournal.com/164363.html
   After a year of trying to read this, I finally gave up a third of the way in. Bad writing, characters I didn't like or care about, and just drama after drama with no real plot.


6. 13 Gifts by Wendy Mass
   http://katekintailbc.livejournal.com/164789.html
   I earread this not knowing that it was the middle book in a series. Oops! It's okay coming in on this book, though, as the main character is new to Willow Falls along with me, the reader. What a fun town full of magic and coincidences that are definitely not coincidences. I certainly want to find the others in the series now.


7. Supernatural: The Roads Not Taken by Tim Waggoner
   http://katekintailbc.livejournal.com/164995.html
   A Supernatural tv tie-in done in the style of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Apart from the fact that I kept immediately choosing the paths that killed off my Sam & Dean, I loved the book. Well written, clever, and fun!


8. Uncanny X-Men: Quarantine by Fraction, Gillen, Land
   http://katekintailbc.livejournal.com/165452.html
   A great collection/story. Not entirely self-contained, so at times I felt a little lost as far as subplots went. But the overall was a great story arc with some moments I adored. Possibly one of the best X-Men stories I've ever read.


9. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
   http://katekintailbc.livejournal.com/165858.html
   A return to the kind of Sedaris humor I like the best: his personal essays. I was crying I was laughing so hard at times. He reads the essays himself, which is great, and some of them are recordings in front of live audiences, which turned out really nice as well. I highly recommend this book.
   

That's my February. I read some fanfiction as well (a novel-length one) at the end of the month that I haven't quite finished yet. So my March reading is slow until I get that finished. But I'm working on audio books in the meantime.

Happy reading, everyone!