Posted August 26, 2012 Book Number: 7 Number Of Pages: 384 Book Title: The Poisoned Serpent Author: Joan Wolf Summary: Hugh De Leon, the heir to an earldom in Medieval Norman England, Has to solve a murder case so that he can save his friend from being put to death for a crime he didn't commit. Rating: 4.8/5 Share this post Link to post
Posted August 27, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 36 Number Of Pages: 468 Book Title: Daughter of the Red Deer Author: Joan Wolf Summary: When the prehistoric Tribe of the Horse loses the majority of its women to tainted water, the young men of the tribe come up with the audacious plan of kidnapping the women of the Red Deer Tribe. They specifically choose them, because of all tribes of the Kindred, only that one still follows matriarchal ways, and they believe that the men of the Red Deer must be weaklings who will not fight, since they willingly follow a woman leader. All their problems will be over, or so they think... until they discover that women led by a woman are just as competent and more subtle at fighting back than any man of the Horse. Book Number: 37 Number Of Pages: 443 Book Title: The Horsemasters Author: Joan Wolf Summary: The Tribe of the Red Deer faces internal division, when it becomes apparent that the daughter of the tribal Mother is unfit to take on the mantle of leadership, but her son is. Adamant that a man will never rule the Red Deer, she exiles her son. He builds his own tribe from the outcasts and runaways of many other tribes of the Kindred. He is also the first to notice and heed the danger posed by the Horsemasters, a strange tribe with the ability to ride horses, and who are determined to conquer all the tribes of the Kindred and steal their lands, women, and wealth. But can he bring all of the Kindred together in time to stand against them? Book Number: 38 Number Of Pages: 245 Book Title: Carrie (re-read) Author: Stephen King Summary: Carrie White has always been a social outcast mostly thanks to her abusive mother's extreme religious indoctrination. She also has the power of telekinesis. After a particularly mean and ugly confrontation between Carrie and the popular girls after gym class, one of the girls feels remorseful enough to ask her own boyfriend to escort Carrie to the prom, hoping it will give the sorry girl one good time to recall of her high school years. But the ringleader of the group, angry over having been caught and punished for the confrontation, engineers what she considers the ultimate prank on Carrie... who snaps, and uses her power to take the whole town down with her. Book Number: 39 Number Of Pages: 351 Book Title: Gossamer Axe (re-read) Author: Gael Baudino Summary: At seventeen, Chairiste ni Cummen and her lover, students at the mystical Harpers' School, sought to listen to and learn from a bard of the Sidh, but were captured instead. Centuries later, Chairiste escaped, but the door between worlds closed too quickly for her lover to follow. Now in modern Denver and living as harp teacher Christa Cruitaire, she is introduced to rock music and realizes that it has a power the Sidh bard cannot possibly know... power that could free her lover at long last. Now all she needs to do is learn guitar and put together a band that won't mind playing in stranger worlds than New York or Los Angeles. Book Number: 40 Number Of Pages: 377 Book Title: The Duchess Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Allegra, daughter of Lord Morgan, is heiress to the richest man in England. Quinton Hunter, Duke of Sedgwick, is impoverished, but holds the highest title available. Knowing that any man seeking her hand has his eyes on her fortune, Allegra agrees to marry Quinton in the match of the season, believing they have a businesslike arrangement and that love will not need to enter the picture. But then her father remarries and his new wife gives birth to a boy, making Allegra realize just how much she's come to love Quinton even as she realizes she might lose him because she is no longer the richest girl in England. Edited August 29, 2012 by catstaff Share this post Link to post
Posted August 29, 2012 Updated to here @catstaff: You counted the numbers 31-35 twice (with different books; on pages 5 and 6), so if I didn't make a mistake you're now at 40. @Zaxian: The example you put doesn't sound like a textbook to me, although the only thing I know about the book is what wikipedia says. What I would consider textbooks are schoolbooks and college books like Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology. Biographies are non-fiction and they are accepted. I'll PM one of the other updaters before giving you a definitive answer. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 29, 2012 Whoops! I fixed it. This is what happens when you're a fast reader who is unemployed -and- currently without a vehicle... spend all day reading, but forget how to do math, lol! Thank goodness for the local library! Book Number: 41 Number Of Pages: 256 Book Title: The Best Little Girl in the World Author: Steven Levenkron Summary: A fictional account of a girl with anorexia nervosa, this story portrays the insidious way the disorder slowly takes over the lives of her entire family as they try to keep her alive. Book Number: 42 Number Of Pages: 260 Book Title: The Last Jews in Berlin (nonfiction) Author: Leonard Gross Summary: The true story of a handful of Jewish men and women who survived the Nazi regime and WWII in the very heart of Nazi Germany, and of the people who befriended and aided them. Book Number: 43 Number Of Pages: 600 Book Title: Love and Glory Author: Jeane Westin Summary: Set against the backdrop of WWII, four young women answer the call to arms, joining the first class of female officer candidates to become part of the very beginning of the Women's Army Corps. Their friendship spans the globe, from their basic training in Iowa, to the beaches of Normandy and the small but military-crucial islands of the Pacific, as they all hope for a bright future when the war is over. Book Number: 44 Number Of Pages: 453 Book Title: The Stork Club Author: Iris Rainer Dart Summary: Judith never had a steady boyfriend, so she had two children by donor insemination. 50-year-old commitment-phobe Rick gained his son through open adoption. Lanie and Mitch had their baby via surrogate after Lanie had an emergency hysterectomy. And Ruthie and Sheldon, best friends and writing partners, also had their baby via artificial insemination, only to discover not long afterwards that the gay Sheldon was HIV-positive. They all bond with each other over their children in a parental support group especially put together for unconventional families. Book Number: 45 Number Of Pages: 351 Book Title: Deceived (re-read) Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Valerian Hawkesworth, Duke of Farminster, is surprised to learn that he's been betrothed since childhood to the heiress of a sugar plantation in the Caribbean, but nonetheless sets out to claim his bride. But Charlotte Aurora Kimberly has no intention of marrying anyone just yet, and especially not some pompous duke who has never before bothered to contact her. Going over the betrothal contract for herself, she discovers that it merely states that Charlotte Kimberly is to wed Valerian Hawkesworth when she is seventeen... and her socially ambitious stepsister's first name is also Charlotte. But what will happen if the duke learns of the deception? Share this post Link to post
Posted August 29, 2012 Updated to here @catstaff: You counted the numbers 31-35 twice (with different books; on pages 5 and 6), so if I didn't make a mistake you're now at 40. @Zaxian: The example you put doesn't sound like a textbook to me, although the only thing I know about the book is what wikipedia says. What I would consider textbooks are schoolbooks and college books like Guyton's Textbook of Medical Physiology. Biographies are non-fiction and they are accepted. I'll PM one of the other updaters before giving you a definitive answer. Looks like my question about manga was overlooked: Quick question: if I read several volumes of a manga that altogether add up to 500 pages or more, can I count them together as one book? Share this post Link to post
Posted August 30, 2012 Book number: 11 Number of pages: 176 Title: Star Trek 1 Author: James Blish Summary: An anthology containing novelizations of 7 Star Trek TOS episodes: Charlie's Law; Dagger of the Mind; The Unreal McCoy; Balance of Terror; The Naked Time; Miri; The Conscience of the King. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 30, 2012 I would like to join up, please. I signed up at last year but stopped posting early on because of work and school and such. Ironically, I did actually manage to read over 250 books/stories. Well, hopefully I'll actually post them all this year. Share this post Link to post
Posted August 30, 2012 I would like to join up, please. I signed up at last year but stopped posting early on because of work and school and such. Ironically, I did actually manage to read over 250 books/stories. Well, hopefully I'll actually post them all this year. I did the same thing so what I'm doing this year is that I'm keeping a word doc of the book I have read, fill out the form and everything and then i update it here when I have time Share this post Link to post
Posted August 31, 2012 Book Number: 2 Number Of Pages: 304 Book Title: Bella at Midnight Author: Diane Stanley. Summary: Too religious for me. Bella's father was very much in love with her mother, but when his wife dies in childbirth, he sends the child away to be fostered in a family, the same family that fostered the King's third son. Never told of her true standing, Bella grew to 14 in her country home, one with who the prince visits often. Wrenched away and thrown into a family she can't fit into, Bella becomes the maid. Book Number: 3 Number Of Pages: 320 Book Title:Hot Head (reread) Author: Damon Suede Summary: Griff, a firefighter, almost lost his best friend, Dante, in 9/11. Since then he's feared for Dante's life and slowly falls in love with him. What happens when you throw in a decrepit old house, a bank warning of foreclosure and a guy promising to pay money to film Dante and Griff together in the very way Griff has been fighting? Book Number: 4 Number Of Pages: 464 Book Title: Spirit's Princess Author: Esther Friesner Summary: Himiko lives in a Japan before it was Japan. She wants to be like her brothers, but can't because she is a girl. Instead she must find her own way, the shaman way. Book Number: 2 Number Of Pages: Book Title: A Wise Man's Fear (Audiobook, reread) Author: Patrick Rothfuss Summary: Book Number: 3 Number Of Pages: Book Title: The Host (Audiobook, reread) Author: Stephanie Meyer Summary: Book Number: 4 Number Of Pages: Book Title: Endgame Author: Nancy Garden Summary: Share this post Link to post
Posted August 31, 2012 Book Number: 46 Number Of Pages: 374 Book Title: The Innocent Author: Bertrice Small Summary: Eleanore of Ashlin had been in a convent since childhood, her life promised to God. But just weeks before she was to take her final vows, her brother, the lord of Ashlin, died without children, making Eleanore his heiress. Given Ashlin's strategic placement on the Welsh border, King Stephen orders her to wed one of his knights instead, wishing to assure the manor's continued loyalty. The king's choice, Ranulf de Glandeville, is a patient and surprisingly gentle man, who soon wins Eleanore's love and loyalty. But evil lurks in the form of Eleanore's former sister-in-law, who believes that she should have inherited Ashlin with her husband's death despite her barrenness. Book Number: 47 Number Of Pages: 213 Book Title: The Girls of Huntington House Author: Blossom Elfman Summary: An English teacher takes a job at a school for pregnant teenagers. Somewhere in between teaching Julius Caesar and The Scarlet Letter, she discovers that she's learning as much or more from her students as they are from her. Book Number: 48 Number Of Pages: 534 Book Title: Air Force Wives Author: Ruth Walker Summary: The story of four friends, whose lives are bound up in the Air Force: Tai, the daughter of a noncom forced to retire in disgrace due to the actions of his superior officer, vows to get her own back somehow. Bobby Jo, the sheltered daughter of a chaplain, falls for the charm of a cocky Academy senior with devastating results. Privileged Shelley, daughter of a general, seeks the love she never found from her parents in the arms of a noncom mechanic from a coal town. And ambitious Crystal, her father's low rank denying her the sort of opportunities Shelley had, is determined to do whatever it takes to marry a man with rank and status. Book Number: 49 Number Of Pages: 473 Book Title: The Club Author: Ruth Walker Summary: Having delayed her own post-graduate work to support her husband through his, Janice is finally starting on her doctoral dissertation in sociology, and is wracking her brain for something new. When going to meet her divorce-lawyer godfather for lunch, she meets several of his clients in his office waiting room, and conceives a plan for her dissertation: following the lives of several women through the year following the breakup of their marriages. Presenting herself as another client, she coaxes the other four into forming a support group with her, to meet monthly and discuss their lives as newly-single women. But before the year is over, Janice's work begins to expose the cracks in the marriage she once believed perfect. Book Number: 50 Number Of Pages: 535 Book Title: Rings Author: Ruth Walker Summary: The story of three generations of women whose lives are tied up with the circus: Romany Mara, cast out of her tribe, finds fame as an aerialist and love with a wealthy Bostonian. Her daughter Vicky, brought up by her prejudiced grandparents to believe both her parents are dead, is rejected following an innocent mistake. In desperation she takes a job as assistant to a trick rider in the circus, where she attracts the attention of the owner's son. And her daughter Michelle, who's sole ambition is to run the circus herself one day, despite her mother's efforts to groom her for an advantageous marriage and her grandfather's insistence that she as a female is less suited to the job than her ne'er-do-well brother. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 1, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 1 Number Of Words: 117,007 Book Title: Unplanned Paternity Author: TwinTrouble Summary: Naruto fanfic, After baby Naruto is attacked by the villagers, the Hokage decides the best way to protect him is to give him a new identity while killing his old one. Thus Hatake Naruto was born. Rating: 5/5 Review: This is rated T, so while minors can read it, it's more PG-13. Note: Is it all right for me to post the link in that case? Edit Note: Link has been taken out. Edited September 8, 2012 by clara954 Share this post Link to post
Posted September 1, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 8 Number Of Pages: 228 Book Title: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Author: Agatha Christie Summary: A dentist has apparently committed suicide, but Poirot thinks that it is murder. He delves into the mystery of missing women, foreign guns, and influential persons to find the truth. Edited September 1, 2012 by Nimrodel Share this post Link to post
Posted September 1, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 2 Number Of Words: 29,626 Book Title: The Wizard of Gotham Author: Skysaber Summary: Harry Potter/Batman crossover, The Dursleys take Harry to Gotham while Vernon is making a deal with Bruce Wayne. Wayne, being smart, decides not take the deal and Vernon somehow sees this as Harry’s fault. Vernon then orders Harry out of the car before driving off. Harry is lost in Gotham but manages to find his way to a greenhouse where he watches over the “pretty ballerina’s” plants in exchange for food and warmth. Rating: 5/5 Review: This is rated T, so while minors can read it, it's more PG-13. Edited September 8, 2012 by clara954 Share this post Link to post
Posted September 2, 2012 Book Number: 31 Number Of Pages: 332 Book Title: The Tuesday Erotica Club Author: The Tuesday erotica Club Summary: Four women meet for a Tuesday literary club along the way they become friends forever. Book Number: 32 Number Of Pages: 196 Book Title: the five People You Meet in Heaven Author: Mitch Albom Summary: Eddie a war veteran dies in an accident at his local amusement park when he wakes up in heaven there are 5 people who he meets who help him understand the purpose of his life. Book Number: 33 Number Of Pages: 360 Book Title: The House of Thunder Author: Dean Koontz Summary: Susan awakes in the hospital after an accident that left her in a coma for three months. Soon after she beginning to have strange visions and flashbacks to a traumatizing event that happened in her youth Book Number: 34 Number Of Pages: 270 Book Title: Pacific Vortex!! Author: Clive Cussler Summary: Dirk Pitt’s first adventure where he helps search for a nuclear submarine that vanished without a trace six months ago in a deadly version of the Bermuda triangle. Book Number: 35 Number Of Pages: 277 Book Title: Fresh Disasters Author: Stuart Woods Summary: stone barringtons is once again forced to deal with the bane of his existence herpie fisher, which throws him into a complicated lawsuit against one of the city’s biggest mobsters. Book Number: 36 Number Of Pages: 285 Book Title: Lucid Intervals Author: Stuart Woods Summary: Herbie fisher has come into some money and has decided once again to hire Stone Barrington to protect him. Simultaneously a woman comes to meet stone in order to hire him to find a person that others want dead. Book Number: 37 Number Of Pages: 342 Book Title: Angel of Wrath Author: Bill Myers Summary: Retired Special Ops Charlie, his niece Jazmin & their ex-FBI friend Lisa come to the assistance of Lisa’s brother who is a pastor in a mega-church. There they are faced with forces they have never encountered before. Book Number: 38 Number Of Pages: 313 Book Title: The Seeing Author: Bill Myers Summary: Luke is struggling to get away from his smothering father after his experience which left him visually impaired. With a set of goggles that give him glimpses into diminutions around him he prepares for a final showdown. Book Number: 39 Number Of Pages: 455 Book Title: The God Hater Author: Bill Myers Summary: A Professor who enjoys destroying the beliefs of incoming students has be hired to create a philosophy for a computer generated world. Along the way he will learn some interesting lessons. Book Number: 40 Number Of Pages: 414 Book Title: A Devil is Waiting Author: Jack Higgins Summary: Sara Gideon a war hero has just joined the Prime Minister’s ‘private army’ which includes Sean Dillon & General Ferguson. Mullah Ali Selem has just offered a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President who is scheduled to visit London. Dillon, Ferguson and the others will not rest until they have stopped him. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 2, 2012 Book Number: 3 Number Of Pages: 168 Book Title: The Fairy Ring or Elsie and Frances Fool the World Author: Mary Losure Summary: Frances moves to Cottingley, Yorkshire, England during World War I and begins to see fairies at the beck (stream). She tells her cousin Elsie, who believes her despite not being able to see them herself. When they tell their families, they are met with much teasing. They decide to take pictures as “proof,” the fairies being paper cutouts painted by Elsie. Rating: 5/5 Review: This is a very interesting nonfiction book. While short, it is enjoyable. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 2, 2012 Looks like my question about manga was overlooked: Quick question: if I read several volumes of a manga that altogether add up to 500 pages or more, can I count them together as one book? I'm sorry, I missed it. Yes, you can count several volumes to reach the necessary number of pages, for example "Bleach volumes 1, 2, 3...". Share this post Link to post
Posted September 2, 2012 I'm sorry, I missed it. Yes, you can count several volumes to reach the necessary number of pages, for example "Bleach volumes 1, 2, 3...". Awesome! I'll include them in this update then. Book Number: 9 Number Of Pages: 279 Book Title: My Soul to Take Author: Rachel Vincent Summary: Kaylee Cavanaugh suffers from debilitating panic attacks when all she can do is scream bloody murder. What she doesn't know is that she is really a bean sidhe (a banshee) who sings when someone is about to die. And when local girls start dropping dead for no apparent reason, it's up to her and her newfound crush Nash to figure out why. Book Number: 10 Number Of Pages: 422 Book Title: Ranger's Apprentice: The Lost Stories Author: John Flanagan Summary: A collection of short stories about Will, Halt, and the rest of John Flanagan's Araluen characters, including the story of how Halt became a Ranger. Book Number: 11 Number Of Pages: 352 Book Title: Team Human Author: Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan Summary: When a vampire begins attending Mel's high school and her best friend Cathy begins falling in love with him, Mel takes it upon herself to keep them apart to prevent Cathy from making what Mel sees as the worst mistake of her life--becoming a vampire. Book Number: 12 Number Of Pages: 320 Book Title: Blood Moon Author: Alyxandra Harvey Summary: With vampire clans gathering for the queen's coronation, life in Violet Hill is quickly becoming more dangerous. Solange Drake, daughter of the soon-to-be queen and a new vampire, is not acting like herself, and renegade vampire hunters are taking it upon themselves to exterminate any vampire they see. Book Number: 13 Number Of Pages: 592 Book Title: Vampire Knight Volumes 1-3 (manga) Author: Matsuri Hino Summary: Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are members of the disciplinary committee at Cross Academy, a private school attended by a Day Class and a Night Class. It is their job to keep the peace and the secret that the Night Class are all vampires. In these volumes Yuki discovers a shocking secret Zero has been keeping, a vampire hunter investigates the school, and a strange new Night Class student transfers in. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 2, 2012 Book Number: 4 Number Of Words: 25,272 Book Title: Logic of Steel Author: Fjord Mustang Summary: How to Train Your Dragon fanfic, Hiccup and Toothless the Night Fury meet Flashburn the Stupendous Swordsman after Hiccup crashes on the Mainland in an attempt to avoid the girls on Berk. Rating: 5/5 Review: You should at least watch the movie and maybe read the books if you want to make any sense of this story. Book Number: 5 Number Of Words: 27,862 Book Title: Knapping the Bone Author: Fjord Mustang Summary: How to Train Your Dragon fanfic, Gobber begins acting strangely when his house catches on fire, insisting that there is a dragon out to get him. As the young Vikings are leaving on a ship to help him investigate, Toothless’s attention is called away by an impersonator. Rating: 5/5 Review: You need to watch the Boneknapper short to even begin to understand this. You might also want to read To Soar into the Sunset: A Night Fury's Odd Memoir to understand the allusions made in this story. Book Number: 6 Number Of Words: 20,478 Book Title: Through Dragon Eyes Author: EmpireofShadow Summary: How to Train Your Dragon fanfic, Toothless tells the story from his point of view from that first raid up through when he and Hiccup launch into the air to fight the Red Death. Rating: 5/5 Review: You need to watch the movie to understand this. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 2, 2012 Book number: 12 Number of pages: 800 Title: Shanghai Author: David Rotenberg Summary: A historical fiction about Shanhai - from the Opium Wars to WWII and the coming of Mao Zedong - in the background of a prophecy from the First Emperor of China. Book number: 13 Number of pages: 174 Title: We Author: Yevgeniy Zamyatin Summary: In future world where all individuality is erased a man, the chief engineer working on the building of the spaceship INTEGRAL, suddenly discovers he has a "soul". Share this post Link to post
Posted September 2, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 7 Number Of Pages: 351 Book Title: Under a Vampire Moon Author: Lynsay Sands Summary: For mature readers only. Carolyn is on a Caribbean vacation with her friend Bethany in an attempt to have fun despite still being in the process of a divorce after two years. She meets Christian, an immortal and distinctly not a vampire, who finds out she is his lifemate. Rating: 5/5 Review: This book is for a mature reader and has more intrigue than you would expect. Edited September 8, 2012 by clara954 Share this post Link to post
Posted September 2, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 9 Number Of Pages: 208 Book Title: Evil Under the Sun Author: Agatha Christie Summary: Poirot is on holiday, and observes as a man is having an affair with a very beautiful woman (who is also married) under the nose of his wife. This beautiful lady is then murdered, but it seems like none of the "likely murderers" could have done it. Poirot must once again find the truth. Edited September 2, 2012 by Nimrodel Share this post Link to post
Posted September 2, 2012 (edited) Book Number: 10 Number Of Pages: 384 Book Title: Run To Ground Author: D.P. Lyle Summary: When the murderer of their child is release from prison, Tim and Martha plan to kill him and disappear. Not everything is as simple as it looks though, because they are not the only ones who wanted to see the man dead. Book Number: 11 Number Of Pages: 256 Book Title: Doctor Who: The Stone Rose Author: Jacqueline Rayner Summary: The Doctor and Rose travel back in time to ancient Rome after seeing a 2000 years old statue of Rose in a museum. Book Number: 12 Number Of Pages: 224 Book Title: When Irish Guys Are Smiling Author: Suzanne Supplee Summary: Delk Sinclair, an American girl, goes to Ireland to study for some months, hoping to escape her life at home. Edited September 3, 2012 by Raistlin24 Share this post Link to post
Posted September 2, 2012 Book Number: 8 Number Of Pages: 230 Book Title: A Gift of Magic Author: Lois Duncan Summary: Three children move to Florida with their mother after their parents decide to get a divorce. Kirby has a talent of dance that she uses daily, Brendon has a gift of music that he puts aside for mischief and building, and Nancy has a gift of several psychic powers. Rating: 5/5 Review: This is a more moving book than I expected and the plot is well done. Share this post Link to post
Posted September 3, 2012 Book number: 14 Number of pages: 212 Title: The #1 Ladies' Detective Agency Author: Alexander McCall Smith Summary: The book follows some of the cases of maa Precious Ramotswe - the first and only female detective in Botswana. Share this post Link to post
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