Best Books of November 2006

December 1st, 2006 (05:14 am)

Current Mood: thirsty
Current Song: Only Hope by Mandy Moore

November 2006: 42 books read

Highly Recommended for Adults and Teens
Stay with Me by Garret Freymann-Weyr

More Teen Picks
Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
Angelmonster by Veronica Bennett
The Wish House by Celia Rees

Shared in our new three-person book club
Incantation by Alice Hoffman
Angelica by Sharon Shinn
I'd Tell You I'd Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe

Comments

Posted by: Lisa Yee (

lisayee)

Posted at: December 3rd, 2006 07:46 am (UTC)

When you say November 2006: 42 books read, is that a running total for the year? Please tell me it is.

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Posted by: Little Willow (

slayground)

Posted at: December 3rd, 2006 07:09 pm (UTC)

No, that's the total for the month.

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Posted by: Lisa Yee (

lisayee)

Posted at: December 3rd, 2006 07:40 pm (UTC)

OMG. I am such a slacker.

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Posted by: Little Willow (

slayground)

Posted at: December 3rd, 2006 08:07 pm (UTC)

Last year, at the urging of friends and co-workers, I kept a tally. The total was 402 last year, and is 401 so far this year.

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Posted by: Lisa Yee (

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Posted at: December 3rd, 2006 08:13 pm (UTC)

Can you retain what you read? Sometimes I can remember big concepts, but not details of books. Or I can remember the stories, but not the titles. Then again, I have this short-term memory loss thing that leaves me standing in the living room wondering why I am there.

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Posted by: Little Willow (

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Posted at: December 3rd, 2006 08:25 pm (UTC)

Yes, I have a good memory. Family members call me trivia queen. Co-workers dubbed me the walking encyclopedia. 'Tis fun.

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Posted by: Little Willow (

slayground)

Posted at: December 3rd, 2006 08:08 pm (UTC)

You are not a slacker. I am insane.

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Posted by: nrkii (

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Posted at: December 4th, 2006 12:26 am (UTC)

I think my tally for November was 2 + 6 halves. Maybe more, but I doubt it.

Ack!

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Posted by: Little Willow (

slayground)

Posted at: December 4th, 2006 12:33 am (UTC)

I have to finish a book once I start it, no matter how poor I think it is - and I had one of those this week. Sigh.

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Posted by: Jocelyn Pearce aka Teen Book Reviewer (

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Posted at: December 4th, 2006 02:37 am (UTC)

Wow, how fast do you read? I think I read about twenty books a month...I read forty sometimes during the summer, but it's November! That's a busy month! Anyway, I've read most of those--great picks. Stay With Me & Angelmonster are both on my to-read stack right now; I'm more anxious to check them out with your reccomendations!

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Posted by: Little Willow (

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Posted at: December 4th, 2006 02:47 am (UTC)

I average a book a day. Depends on how much time I find to read and how interesting the book is to me.

Stay With Me is PHENOMONAL. Incredibly well-written.

I've just read a slew of historical fiction, and Angelmonster was the best of that slew.

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Posted by: queen_of_ocd (

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Posted at: December 4th, 2006 03:54 am (UTC)

Ohh, Stay With Me was so good!

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Posted by: Little Willow (

slayground)

Posted at: December 4th, 2006 02:18 pm (UTC)

Agreed.

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