Books Read in 2013

Everyone, here is a mostly accurate list of what I read in 2013. Its missing December. But 11 out of 12 months is good enough that I can live with it. If you want to see what I read in December check out Goodreads. Apologies for any misspellings or transpositions!If anyone has any questions about any of them, or wants to hear more about them let me know!

20-Something, 20-Everything: A Quarter-Life Woman's Guide to Balance and Direction - Christine Hessler

7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess - Jen Hatmaker

A German Requiem (Bernard Gunther, #3)- Philip Kerr

A Gracious Plenty - Sheri Reynolds

A Quiet Flame (Bernard Gunther, #5) - Philip Kerr

A Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Pirates, Skinflints, Patriots, and Other Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History - Michael Farquhar

A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World - Tony Horwitz

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail - Bill Bryson

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis

An Exclusive Love: A Memoir - Johanna Adorjan

Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir - Susan E Isaacs

Around the World in 80 Dates - Jennifer Cox

Article 5 (Article 5, #1) - Kristen Simmons

Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia - Tony Horwitz

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Sijie Dai

Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities - Alex Marshall

Beneath the Sands of Egypt: Adventures of an Unconventional Archaeologist - Donald P Ryan

Bill Bryson's African Diary- Bill Bryson

Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality - Donald Miller

Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm - Mardi Jo Link

Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It - Peggy Klaus

Carrie - Stephen King

Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed - Glennon Melton

City of Women - David R Gillham

Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein

Company Of Liars - Karen Matiland

Countdown City (The Last Policeman, #2) - Ben Winters

Dad Is Fat - Jim Gaffigan

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse - Alida Nugent

Doomed Queens: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, From Cleopatra to Princess Di - Kriss Waldherr

Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness - David Weeks

Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) - Orson Scott Card

Europe on 5 Wrong Turns a Day:  One Man, Eight Countries, One Vintage Travel Guide- Doug Mack

Eva Moves the Furniture - Margot Livesey

Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things - Laurence Gonzalez

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman

Faces from Dante's Inferno: Who they are, what they say, and what it all means - Peter Celano

Fever (The Chemical Garden, #2) - Lauren DeStefano

Firestarter - Stephen King

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores  the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt

From the Earth to the Moon - HG Wells

Fuse (Pure #2) - Julianna Baggot

Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle - Rachel Dratch

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies  of Agnes Nutter, Witch - Neil Giaman

Grendel - John Gardner

Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles,  and So-Called Hospitality - Jacob Tomsky

How to Be a Woman - Caitlan Moran

Howards End Is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home - Susan Hill

Hugh and Bess: A Love Story - Susan Higginbotham

I'm Perfect, You're Doomed: Tales From A Jehovah's Witness Upbringing - Kyria Abrahams

In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson

In the Devil's Garden:  A Sinful History of Forbidden Food - Stewart Lee Allen

In the Shadow of Blackbirds - Cat Winters

Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4) - Dan Brown

Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents - Jim Malusa

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) - Mindy Kaling

Jungleland: A True Story of Adventure, Obsession,  and the Deadly Search for the Lost White City - Christopher S. Stewart

Last Train From Liguria - Christine Dwyer Hickey

Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir - Jenna Lawson

Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home  the Lost Children of Nepal - Connor Grenan

London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets - Peter Akroyd

Looking for Palestine: Growing Up Confused in an Arab-American Family - Najla Said

March - Geraldine Brooks

March Violets (Bernard Gunther, #1) - Philip Kerr

Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall:  How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year - Kjersten Gruys

Mistress Of Nothing - Kate Pullinger

Montana 1948 - Larry Watson

More Than This - Patrick Ness

Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe - Bill Bryson

Not My Blood - Barbara Cleverley

Notes from a Small Island - Bill Bryson

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are - Ann Voskamp

Pagan Holiday: On the Trail of Ancient Roman Tourists - Tony Perrottet

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind

Plane Insanity - Eliott Hester

Prague Fatale (Bernard Gunther, #8) - Philip Kerr

Ragtime in Simla (Joe Sandilands, #2) -Barbara Cleverly

Round the Moon - Jules Verne

Running the Books: The Adventures of an  Accidental Prison Librarian - Avi Steinberg

Sever (The Chemical Garden, #3) - Lauren DeStefano

Sky on Fire (Monument 14, #2) - Emmy Laybourne

Slave - Mende Nazer

Sober Mercies: How Love Caught Up with a Christian Drunk  - Heather Hopham Kopp

Stalin's children : three generations of love and betrayal - Owen Matthews

Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator - Gary Noesner

Strange Images of Death (Joe Sandilands, #8) - Barbara Cleverly

Superman: Red Son - Mark Millar

The Astronomer - Lawrence Goldstone

The Bee's Kiss (Joe Sandilands, #5) - Barbara Cleverly

The Bite of the Mango - Mariatu Kamara

The Blood Royal - Barbara Cleverley

The Book of Madness and Cures - Regina O'Melvenely

The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love, and Lit - Jen Adams

The Butterfly Cabinet - Bernie Mcgill

The Children of Men - P.D. James

The Damascened Blade (Joe Sandilands, #3) - Barbara Cleverly

The Dark Heart of Italy - Tobias Jones

The Elite (The Selection, #2) - Kiera Cass

The End of Your Life Book Club - Will Schwalbe

The Flanders Panel - Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Forest of Hands and Teeth (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #1) - Carrie Ryan

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun - Gretchen Rubin

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1) - Douglas Adams

The J.M. Barrie Ladies' Swimming Society - Barbara J Zitwer

The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest  to Become the Smartest Person in the World - AJ Jacobs

The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl, #1) - Pam Jenoff

The Last Kashmiri Rose (Joe Sandilands, #1) - Barbara Cleverly

The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book - Wendy Welch

The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Lost Garden - Helen Humphreys

The Magician's Wife - Brian Moore

The Man in the Picture - Susan Hill

The Monks of Tibhirine:  Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria - John W Kiser

The Morning Star (Katerina, #3) - Robin Bridges

The Night Strangers - Chris Bohjalian

The Obituary Writer - Ann Hood

The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman

The One from the Other (Bernard Gunther, #4) - Philip Kerr

The Orphanmaster - Jean Zimmerman

The Palace Tiger (Joe Sandilands, #4) - Barbara Cleverly

The Pale Criminal (Bernard Gunther, #2) - Philip Kerr

The Peshawar Lancers - S.M. Stirling

The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels - Ree Drummond

The Plot Against America - Philip Roth

The Righteous:  The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust - Martin Gilbert

The Road of Lost Innocence:  The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine - Somaly Mam The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman #1) - Neil Gaiman The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll's House (The Sandman #2)

The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country (The Sandman #3) -Neil Gaiman

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists (The Sandman #4) - Neil Gaiman

The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You (The Sandman #5) - Neil Gaiman

The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables and Reflections (The Sandman #6) -Neil Gaiman

The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives  (The Sandman #7) - Neil Gaiman

The Sea Captain's Wife - Beth Powning

The Selection (The Selection, #1) - Kiera Kass

The Skies Belong to Us:  Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking - Brendan I Koerner

The Storm - Margriet de Moor

The Twelfth Department  (Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, #3) - William Ryan

The Unfailing Light (Katerina, #2) - Robin Bridges

The Very Thought of You - Rosie Alison

Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands - Tony Wheeler

Tug of War (Joe Sandilands, #6) - Barbara Cleverly

Uncorked: My Journey Through the Crazy World of Wine - Marco Pasanella

Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith,  Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land - Nina Burliegh

Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter - Steve Dublainica

Waltz With Bashir: A Lebanon War Story - Ari Folman

We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese - Elizabeth M Norman

Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide - Peter Alison

Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories  Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books - Jenny Bond

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the  Battle for France's Greatest Treasure - Don Kladstrup

Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1) - Lauren DeStefano

Yes, Chef: A Memoir - Marcus Samuelsson

You're Not Doing It Right: Tales of Marriage,  Sex, Death, and Other Humiliations - Michael Ian Black

Books Read in 2012

2012 was the first year that I kept track of every book I read that year. I thought that you guys might want to see some recent books that probably wont be getting reviews on the blog.This is every book I read in 2012. The ones I truly enjoyed I highlighted.If you want more info, look at my Goodreads shelf or just ask!  (Also a lot of this was by hand so I apologize for the spelling mistakes that I'm sure are in here!) Also I have no idea why my text is formatting like this, oh well. My apologies again.

Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption - Katie J Davis
The Black Tower - Louis Baryard
Sashenka - Simon Montifeore
The Outcast - Sadie Jones
Random Acts Of Heroic Love - Sanny Schieman
Through the Shadowlands: The Love Story of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman - Brian Sibley
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism - Chuck Thompson
Hunting Unicorns - Bella Pollen
Anansi Boys (American Gods, #2) - Neil Gaiman
Bossypants -Tina Fey
Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits - Jack Murningham
Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life -Father Martin
The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies
On Hitler's Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood - Irmgard Hunt
The Savage Garden - Mark Mills
Cross My Heart (Cross My Heart, #1) - Sasha Gould
The Gathering Storm (Katerina, #1) - Robin Bridges
The Poisoned House - Michael Ford
Genesis-Bernard Beckett
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France -Caroline Moorehead
The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
The Four Loves-CS Lewis
My Life With the Saints
Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life -Father Martin
Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis - Lauren F Winner
Girl Meets God: A Memoir - Lauren F Winner
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why - Laurence Gonzalez
What Is Left the Daughter - Howard Norman
Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of  Resilience-Laurence Gonzalez
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
The Absolutist - John Boyne
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up - Richard Lloyd Parry
A Thread of Grace - Mary Doria Russell
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust - Edith Hahn Beer
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Letters from a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity - Gregory A Boyd
Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R. - Julie Holland
American Gods (American Gods, #1) - Neil Gaiman
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
Memory - Phillippe Grimbert
The Bride's Farewell - Meg Rosoff
In Our Strange Gardens - Michael Quint
Fatherland - Robert Harris
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden - Helen Grant
A Very Long Engagement - Sebastian Jaspriot
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1) - Ben Winters
The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic - Penney Darby
A City of Broken Glass  (Hannah Vogel, #4) - Rebecca Cantrell
Night  (The Night Trilogy, #1) - Elie Weisel
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History Robert M Edsel
The Strangers on Montagu Street (Tradd Street, #3) - Karen White
Away (The Line, #2) - Teri Hall
Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals - Christopher J Payne
Rosa (Berlin Trilogy, #1) - Jonathan Raab
The Spiritualist - Megan Chance
The House at Midnight - Lucie Whitehouse
The Girl On Legare Street (Tradd Street, #2) - Karen White
Far to Go - Alison Pick
The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin
The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground - Rosemary Mahoney
The House on Tradd Street (Tradd Street, #1) - Karen White
Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1) - Emmy Labourne
The Line (The Line, #1) - Teri Hall
Resistance: A French Woman's Journal of the War - Agnes Humbert
The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes - Carl Hoffman
Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down - Rosencranz Baldwin
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home- Lucy Worsley
Blindness (Blindness, #1) - Jose Saramago
City - Clifford D Simak
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
The Tale of Halcyon Crane - Wendy Webb
Mere Christianity - CS Lewis
Passage - Connie Willis
The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, from Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder - Erin Blamkemore
Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason - Nancy Pearl
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie - Wendy McClure
The Way We Fall (Fallen World, #1) - Megan Crewe
Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris - David King
A Game of Lies (Hannah Vogel, #3) - Rebecca Cantrell
In the Shadow of Gotham (Simon Ziele, #1) - Stefanie Pintoff
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana - Stephanie Elizondo Griest
The Sadness of the Samurai - Victor de Arbol
The Dogs Who Found Me: What I've Learned from Pets Who Were Left Behind - Ken Foster
Half a Crown (Small Change, #3) - Jo Walton
Ha'penny (Small Change, #2) - Jo Walton
The Unit - Ninni Holmqvist
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art - Don Thompson
The Kommandant's Mistress - Sherri Szeman
A Night of Long Knives (Hannah Vogel, #2) - Rebecca Cantrell
The Cove - Ron Rash
Far North - Marcel Theroux
Children of Wrath - Paul Grossmann
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul - Karen Abbott
Snow-Storm in August: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835 - Jefferson Morley
Solitary (Escape From Furnace, #2) - Alexander Gordon Smith
The Mercy of Thin Air - Ronlyn Domingue
A Simple Murder - Eleanor Kuhns
Death Sentence (Escape From Furnace, #3) - Alexander Gordon Smith
The Soldier's Wife - Margaret LeRoy
The Death Cure (Maze Runner, #3) - James Dashner
A Trace of Smoke (Hannah Vogel, #1) - Rebecca Cantrell
The Scorch Trials (Maze Runner, #2) - James Dashner
Lockdown (Escape From Furnace, #1) - Alexander Gordon Smith
The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, #1) - James Dashner
Into the Forest - Jean Hegland
The Girls of Room 28: Friendship, Hope, and Survival in Theresienstadt - Hannahlore Brenner
The Story Sisters - Alice Hoffmann
The Little Red Guard - Wenguang Huang
Hark! A Vagrant - Kate Beaton
The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father's Nazi Boyhood - Mark Kurzem
When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man - Nick Dybek
The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery - DT Max
Afterlands - Steven Heighton
Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service - Maryn McKenna
Pure (Pure, #1) - Julianna Baggot
Daughters of the North - Sarah Hall
The First Men in the Moon - HG Wells
Pavane - Keith Roberts
The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco - Marilyn Chase
Archive 17 (Inspector Pekkala #3) - Sam Eastland
A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness
The Graveyard Book -Neil Gaiman
I Heard the Owl Call My Name - Margaret Craven
The Sleepwalkers - Paul Grossmann
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia - Tim Tzouladis
Four and Twenty Blackbirds (Eden Moore, #1) - Cherie Priest
The Darkening Field (Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, #2) - William Ryan
Farthing (Small Change, #1) - Jo Walton
Pale Horse, Pale Rider - Katherine Anne Porter
Shadow Pass (Inspector Pekkala #2) - Sam Eastland
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkein
Resistance - Owen Sheers
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa - R.A.Scotti
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3) -Stieg Larsson
The Holy Thief (Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev, #1) - William Ryan
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2) - Steig Larsson

Giving Thanks

Oh Thanksgiving, the one time a year that I am proud about the amount of mashed potatoes I can eat in one sitting instead of being ashamed.Hope everyone had at least one grand meal, spent time with friends and family, enjoyed a day or two off work if you're lucky, and maybe even got some good deals on Black Friday.

Not pictured,me trying to button my pants the next day.

I've seen a few people on Facebook writing everyday one thing that they are thankful for, for each day in November. I thought I would do that but keep it into one little post that will only pop up in your feed once instead of multiple times,because that can be annoying.

So, here she goes. In no particular order I am thankful for these things:

1. Books (mmm duh)
2. Libraries (where you get books that you don't have to pay for, except you know, taxes)
3. Social Media (Sometimes you're annoying but you're usually handy)
4. My husband (who is awesome. Even if sometimes we think the other one is crazy)
5. My sisters
6. My parents
7. Cricket and Kwik -and Neptune (I love dogs, especially my families.Usually more than people)
8. A reliable car (especially after having an unreliable one that gave me heart palpitations)
9. The apartment
10. Faith
11. Modern medicine (so many horrible things that can be fixed. Except tetanus.Freaking tetanus)
12. Friends who are like family (I've got a wonderful group of friends. A tremendous blessing)
13. A job
14. Nice coworkers (you spend more time with them then practically anyone and I am blessed)
15. A short commute (25 minutes on a slow day)
16. A passport (passports are like little glimpses that dreams can come true if you save your pennies)
17. Airplanes (I don't love to fly but I'd rather be on a plane for 8 hours then however long a boat to Europe takes)
18. Hour long lunch breaks (this is where the reading - and occasionally eating-happens)
19. Living near family
20. Good health (how easy this one is to take for granted)
21. My future dog (no dog has been so wished for as that dog has been)
22. Target (when you need tights, thank you cards and bananas)
23. Health Insurance
24. Yoga class (anytime you don't have to wear shoes to work out is a good thing)
25. Crock pots (I wouldn't do much cooking without these)
26. The Internet
27. Meteorology
28. Not having to do the cooking everyday (crockpot chicken again?!)
29. My sewing machine (it's a love/hate relationship but I love having one of my own!)
30. You all! I can't believe that anybody takes the time out of their day (even if you're just trying to not do work) and read what I have to say. Wonderful. I'm so thankful for you.

Favorite Words!

What good are books if you can't pick up a fun new word to add to your vocabulary every once in awhile? Here are some of my favorites:


Licentious
Juggernaut
Shitstorm
Libation
Bulbous
Kerfuffle
Incubus
Loquacious
Ingenue
Acerbic
Cloister
Crimea
Slipshod
Mea Culpa (technically a phrase, so sue me)

Mmmm...words. I seem partial to the words with u's.

What are some of your personal favorites?

I Know I'm Supposed to Like These, But I Don't. Or I Don't Care Enough to Try...

We've already discussed my snobby aversion to reading incredibly popular books, and that bad attitude probably plays a strong part to some of these book choices. There seem to be some books and authors that are nearly universally loved that I just don't understand. I don't mean any of this in a book bashing way, and feel free to persuade me otherwise if you really adore any of these books.

Jane Austen.I don't have a good track record with Ms Austen. I have started and stopped "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense & Sensibility" after getting no further than 30 pages in. I just wanted to strangle the Mom in the first couple pages of P&P. Blegh! Maybe it's because I'm not a hopeless romantic or maybe I will just appreciate them more when I'm older, I don't know. But for right now I'm taking a pass. 

Though I am pro-Colin Firth in anything.

This place is probably haunted by the spirits of women who weren't married of by 18 and died being old maids at 30.

The Harry Potter books. Don't chase me with torches and pitchforks. I don't have anything against these books I just don't feel the need to read them.It probably has something to do with Harry Potter overexposure. I mean, just the Pinterest boards alone are enough to keep the Potter Phanatics up and at it for years. Also probably has something to do with my aversion to reading overly popular books.

Though having said all that I do enjoy some of the movies.But I have to say my boarding school experience was less magical. But also less ghosts.

Shakespeare's comedies. I love Shakespeare. I am in awe and wonder of most everything he writes. His comedies,not so much. I love his tragedies; they are emotional and sweeping and show us characteristics in humans that we pray are not reflected in our own selves. 

But the comedies...Maybe I'm just a Morbid Milly (?) but the "Oh I love him but he can't know because I'm cross dressing and he thinks I'm a man because I'm on the run" blah blah blah just gets on my nerves and annoys me. Again, not being a hopeless romantic is a problem here too? I find myself thinking "if everyone was just honest with everyone else right away this play would be 30 pages max!" 

Though in "Winter's Tale" (a tragi-comedy) someone gets eaten by a bear. So that's good.

I talk about cross dressing a lot. Is that weird?

So I'm sure that some will think I'm being vapid or unfair but that's what great about books, everyone gets to read what they want and it's all good.

Are there any books that you just can't finish or that you feel like you should like and you just don't?

I'm a Wuss: A Tale of Two Books

I am a wuss.

Since I'm a wuss I don't read scary books. In the last 3-ish years I have probably read two of them and one of them has scarred me emotionally for life.

So in honor of Halloween, here's a post about the two scary books I've read.

American Psycho- Bret Easton Ellis
One of my nearest and dearest friends recommended this book to me.I knew that it would be a little bit out of my comfort zone, but I'm all about stretching out of my zone.
I shouldn't have.I shouldn't have stretched for this.
So this book is filled with torture,sexual torture,drugs, murder and all kinds of inter-workings of a super deranged mind.(Honestly I can't believe they made a movie out of this, is it rated X?) The book is interesting in that this man is insane, and yet he still holds down an important job,people go on dates with him,and no one seems to be like "do you think that guy is ok?". There is also the distinct possibility that everything he did was just imagined because he's INSANE and also high on cocaine.

World War Z - Max Brooks
One thing I'm actually not scared of is zombies. With my very tenuous grasp of science and how the body works I have decided that this really can't happen.(I won't listen to anyone who tries to convince me otherwise, it's a coping mechanism). So when ANOTHER dear friend recommended this book to me I was down.
This was a good stretch out of my comfort zone.
I really liked this book, borderline loved it. I liked how it was written in the past tense like a government report. I liked that it covered different places all around the world without feeling overly stretched. I was legitimately scared when they talked about how zombies could reach people on boats because they DON'T NEED AIR! (Strangled shriek).
(A note on the movie, I enjoyed the movie, but it's nothing like the book. Just know that.)

  (What do these books have in common? Sharp things. And bludgeoning.)