Rating system:
1 star - Terrible
2 stars - Just Okay
3 stars - Good
4 stars - Very Good
5 stars - Brilliant, Wonderful, Excellent, Fabulous
Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
by Steve Martin (audiobook) - 3 stars - related post
Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult (audiobook) - 4 stars - related post
T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton - 2 stars - related post
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos - 5 stars - related post
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England by Daniel Pool - 3 stars - related post
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke (read-aloud) - 4 stars
The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1) by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi (read-aloud) - 3 stars
Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends by Sarah, Stephen, and Grace Mally (read-aloud) - 3 stars
Standing by Words: Essays by Wendell Berry - 3 stars - related post
Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier (audiobook) - 4 stars - related post
The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 2) by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi - 3 stars
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - 4 stars - related post
Lucinda’s Secret (Spiderwick Chronicles #3) by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi (read-aloud) - 3 stars
The Ironwood Tree (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 4) by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi (read-aloud) - 3 stars
The Wrath of Mulgarath (Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 5) by Holly Black & Tony DiTerlizzi (read-aloud) - 3 stars
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop by Lewis Buzbee - 4 stars - related post
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein (read-aloud) - 3 stars
The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz (audiobook) - 3 stars
Matrimony by Joshua Henkin - 2 stars
Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis (read-aloud) - 4 stars
Winter Haven by Athol Dickson - 4 stars - related post
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby - 4 stars - related post
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake - 5 stars - related post
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (read-aloud) - 4 stars
The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller (audiobook) - 2 stars
Heart of Darkness & Selected Short Fiction by Joseph Conrad - 3 stars - related post
Heidi by Johanna Spyri - 4 stars
The Softwire: Virus on Orbis 1 by P.J. Haarsma - 3 stars - related post
Ararat (American Poetry Series) by Louise Gluck - 4 stars
The Softwire: Betrayal on Orbis 2 by P.J. Haarsma - 4 stars - related post
A Window to the World by Susan Meissner - 4 stars
Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon (audiobook) - 4 stars - related post
Heaven for Kids by Randy Alcorn and Linda Washington (read-aloud) - 5 stars
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick - 4 stars - related post
Blasphemy by Douglas Preston (audiobook) - 3 stars
The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L’Engle - 5 stars - related post
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick - 4 stars
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - 4 stars - related post
The Radiation Sonnets: For My Love, in Sickness and in Health by Jane Yolen - 4 stars
About My Sisters by Debra Ginsberg - 4 stars
Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders by Neil Gaiman (audiobook) - 3 stars
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - 5 stars
The House at Midnight (ARC) by Lucie Whitehouse - 2 stars
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (audiobook) - 2 stars
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer - 3 stars
Fly by Night by Francis Hardinge (read-aloud) - 3 stars
What the Light Was Like: Poems by Luci Shaw - 3 stars
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (audiobook) - 4 stars - related post
The Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King - 3 stars - related post
Doesn’t She Look Natural by Angela Hunt - 4 stars - related post
The Quiet American by Graham Greene - 4 stars - related post
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (audiobook) - 3 stars -related post
Gone by Michael Grant - 4 stars - related post
Tigerheart by Peter David - 5 stars - related post
New Moon by Stephenie Meyer - 4 stars - related post
She Always Wore Red by Angela Hunt - 5 stars
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, Book 3) by Stephenie Meyer - 4 stars
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat (audiobook) - 3 stars
Belong to Me by Marisa De Los Santos - 5 stars - related post
Magyk (Septimus Heap, Book 1) by Angie Sage - 4 stars
Life Studies: Stories by Susan Vreeland - 4 stars - related post
Life Class by Pat Barker (audiobook) - 3 stars
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman - 5 stars - related post
The Complete Maus by Art Speigelman - 4 stars - related post
The Host by Stephenie Meyer - 5 stars - related post
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn’t by Judy Jones & William Wilson - 4 stars - related post
Booked to Die (A Cliff Janeway Mystery) by John Dunning - 3 stars - related post
The Woman Who Can’t Forget: The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science by Jill Price & Bart Davis (audiobook) - 3 stars - related post
The White Mary by Kira Salak - 3 stars - related post
Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France’s Cote d’Azur and Italy’s Costa Bella by David Shalleck and Erol Munuz - 3 stars - related post
The Bookman’s Wake (A Cliff Janeway Mystery) by John Dunning - 3 stars
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P.D. James - 4 stars
Eric Liddell: Something Greater Than Gold by Geoff and Janet Benge (read-aloud) - 4 stars
Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Sigrid Undset - 4 stars - related post
The Bookman’s Promise by John Dunning - 4 stars
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi - 3 stars
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi - 3 stars
Penny From Heaven by Jennifer Holm (audiobook) - 4 stars
This Charming Man by Marian Keyes - 2 stars
Inglorious by Joanna Kavenna - 2 stars - related post
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich (audiobook) - 3 stars
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer - 4 stars - related post
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein (audiobook) - 3 stars
My Husband’s Sweethearts by Bridget Asher - 4 stars - related post
Stealing Athena by Karen Essex - 4 stars - related post
The Cross-Time Engineer (Book 1 in The Adventures of Conrad Stargard) by Leo Frankowski (re-read) - 3 stars - related post
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by James Shapiro - 3 stars - related post
Half-*ssed: A Weight-Loss Memoir by Jennette Fulda - 4 stars - related post
The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen - 5 stars - related post
Guernica by Dave Boling - 5 stars - related post
Books I started but didn’t finish:
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (I made it to page 56. Ugh.)
Dream When You’re Feeling Blue by Elizabeth Berg (I tried to listen to the audio version read by the author. She shouldn’t read her own books. I may try to read the print version one of these days.)
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult (I couldn’t get past the fact that she stole much of the storyline from Stephen King’s The Green Mile.)
The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer (It didn’t grab me. Every time I started to get interested in a character’s storyline, she switched to a different character. It was just kind of blah, and there are too many other books waiting to waste any more time on this one.)
Petite Anglaise (ARC) by Catherine Sanderson (Just didn’t like it.)
Passion on the Vine: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Family in the Heart of Italy by Sergio Esposito (Just couldn’t get into this one - it’s very well-written, though. I think it was too similar to another book I had recently read.)
When We Were Romans by Matthew Kneale (The book is narrated by a 9-year-old boy. I have son who will be 9 in a little over two weeks. I talk to him on a daily basis. I love him - very much - but I don’t think I’d want to read a novel that is entirely made up of his inner thoughts and narration of daily events. However, I loved To Kill a Mockingbird, which is narrated by a 9-year-old girl, so maybe it’s purely the execution. Author Matthew Kneale has written not only in Lawrence’s voice, but with lots of misspellings, as if he actually wrote the book. Maybe that’s what pushed it over the top. I also couldn’t take the descriptions of his sister Jemima’s misbehavior - it made me want to lock her in an eternal time-out. I did, however, find another reviewer who enjoyed the book - and several Amazon reviewers liked it enough to give it at least three stars. So it’s probably just me. 
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