Sunday, December 26, 2010

What I Read in 2010

I feel like quite the slacker - less than 100 books this year. Here they are with the number of stars I gave them.

Five stars means flawless.

Here they are:

 One star means complete waste of time, but I had to find out what happened.

* Green Angel Hoffman May
* Scars Rainfield May   
  Two stars means it has some value, but a big flaw like good storytelling with crap writing, too dark a story with no emotional payoff, great writing but not very compelling story or a fun read but awfully embarrassing for a grown woman to be seen with.
** Wintergirls Anderson February       
** Scratch Beginnings Shephard February
** A Reliable Wife Goolrick March
** When Irish Guys Are Smiling Supplee March
** A Match Made in High School Walker March
** The Grift Ginsberg April
** Paul and Me Hotchner April
** The Dead Tossed Waves Ryan April
** Is It Night or Day Chapman June
** Rose Sees Red Castelucci September
** No Compromise: The Story of Harvey Milk Aretha November
** Sir Charlie Chaplin Fleischman November
** Yummy:the Last Days of a Southside Shorty Neri December

Three stars means I liked it a lot.
*** Princess of the Midnight Ball George January
*** The Frog Scientist Turner January
*** Girl Overboard Headley February
*** Panic in Level Four Preston February
*** Geekspeak Tattersall February
*** Spellbinder Lalicki March
*** The Trouble Begins at Eight Fleischman April
*** I am Not Myself These Days Kilmer-Purcess April
*** Chasing Lincoln's Killer Swanson April
*** Karma For Beginners Blank May
*** A Brief History of Montmaray Cooper May
*** My Invisible Boyfriend Day May
*** Three Junes Glass May
*** Savvy Law May
*** Gimme a Call Mlynowski May
*** The Irresistable Henry House Grunwald June
*** Sophomore Switch McDonald June
*** Extra Lives Bissell July
*** Prairie Tale Gilbert July
*** Bad News for Outlaws Nelson July
*** Fireboat Kalman August
*** Girl Who Played With Fire Larsson August
*** Rapture of the Deep Meyer September
*** Three Rivers Rising Richards September
*** The Replacement Yovanoff October
*** Getting Revenge on Lauren Wood Cook November
*** Annexed Dogar November
*** Painted Ladies Parker December


Four stars means I loved it.
**** Britten and Brulightly Berry January
**** Virginia Lee Burton: A Life in Art Elleman January
**** Liar Larbalestier January
**** Flygirl Smith January
**** I'm Down Wolff January
**** The Knife of Never Letting Go Ness February
**** Ghosts of War Smithson February
**** Somebody Everybody Listens To Supplee February
**** Knights of the Hill Country Tharp February
**** The Postmistress Blake March
**** A Girl From Yamhill Cleary March
**** Forest of Hands and Teeth Ryan March
**** My Own Two Feet Cleary April
**** The Lonely Hearts Club Eulberg April
**** My Enemy's Cradle Young April
**** Birthmarked O'Brien May
**** The Bedwetter Silverman May
**** Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Simonson May
**** American Wife Sittenfield May
**** The Passage Cronin June
**** Sisters Red Jackson June
**** The Clearing Davis July
**** God is in the Pancakes Epstein July
**** Backseat Saints Jackson July
**** Commuters Tedrowe July
**** Confessions of a Prairie Bitch Angrim August
**** The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo Larsson August
**** My Bonnie Lighthorseman Meyer August
**** The Wake of the Lorelai Lee Meyer September
**** Girl Stolen Henry October
**** Zombies VS Unicorns Black and Larbalestier November
**** The Nobodies Album Parkhurst November
**** Secret Subway Sandler November
**** Numbers Ward November
**** The Mockingbirds Whitney December

Five stars means flawless.
***** Someone Knows My Name Hill January
***** Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Kelly January
***** Day of Tears Lester January
***** The Help Stockett February
***** Fortune's Folly Fagan March
***** Nurture Shock Bronson May
***** The Leisure Seeker Zadoorian June
***** Gods in Alabama Jackson July
***** One Day Nicholls July
***** The Invisible Bridge Orringer July
***** Sorta Like a Rock Star Quick July
***** Free Range Kids Skenazy July
***** Lucy Gonzales August
***** Room Donoghue September
***** Revolutionary Road Yates October
***** How I Live Now Rosoff November
***** Incarceron Fisher December
***** Moonlight Mile Lehane December















































































































































































































































































































































































































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