and we're back!

Well well well, what have we here?

Hello constant readers-- I'm back. It's been awhile-- almost exactly a year, in fact-- but since we didn't all die last month, I figured I had no excuse not to dust off my reviewing gloves and get back in the ring. (For the record, the reviewing gloves are less like boxing gloves than you might think, mostly due to being fingerless and made of stretchy cotton.)

I've got a few doozies to review for you after I get back from my trip to San Diego in February, and a prodigious to-read pile I hope you'll be as excited to hear about as I am to read. Either way-- thanks for being here. And if there's anything you think I ought to be reading, let me know in the comments and I'll add it to the list.

Cheers, and see you soon!
<3 emily="">

schedule... again.

Hope you guys aren't getting sick of these yet. Next up on Plenty of Pages:

• 'Sweetly' by Jackson Pearce - finished reading, review by 1/13
• 'Hounded' by Kevin Hearne - finished reading, review by 1/16
• 'Hexed' by Kevin Hearne - 1/18
• 'Hammered' by Kevin Hearne - 1/21 
• 'Ghostopolis' by Doug TenNapel - 1/25
• 'Lonely Werewolf Girl' by Martin Millar - 1/30

As always, recommendations and comments are welcome. :)

--emily

screw fitzgerald; i like exclamation marks

In the absence of recommendations from my friends or other blogs I read, I tend to head to the bookstore or the library and use my inner divining rod to lead me in the direction of stuff I'll like. This works well sometimes (I discovered Sarah Rees Brennan and the Kushiel series this way) and not so well other times. Like now, when I'm slogging through a book I'm not in love with, but don't hate enough to abandon. I should've known better than to try an experiment in reading during the week before Christmas when I work in retail...

At any rate, I bring you an updated schedule. Please note that I post these mostly for self-accountability; I don't really expect most of you to care what I plan to read and when. But if I tell you all when something will be posted, there's a much higher likelihood that it will actually get written on time. :)

• The Stranger by Max Frei - December 22
• Treasure Island!!! by Sara Levine - December 26 (library)
• Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore - December 31 (optimistically; might be rearranged depending on the effects of too much holiday punch on my ability to read before bed)
• Sweetly by Jackson Pearce - January 3 (library)
• Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel - January 6 (library)
• The Godfather of Kathmandu by John Burdett - January 10
• Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar - January 13

I hope that those of you celebrating holidays over the next weeks celebrate them in good spirits. And as always, if you're reading anything interesting, drop me a comment and let me know. Especially heading into 2012; there are only so many books I can read before the end of the world. I want to make sure I prioritize. 

--emily

scheduling

Well, we're coming up on the end of the year here, and I'm going to try like the dickens to make sure I finish this list in time. This schedule thing is working out; I can't remember the last time I read six books in a month, unless you count the month I was reading the Lemony Snicket books. Anyway : a schedule.

• Green by Jay Lake   11/16


• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest   11/21


• ⇒ Crossed by Ally Condie - 11/26


• Embassytown by China Miéville   12/1


• ⇒ Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce - 12/3


• The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett   12/7


• The Stranger by Max Frei - 12/19


• Goliath by Scott Westerfeld - 12/31

Then, heading into the new year, I'm picking up a few more urban fantasies, as well as a straight mystery, because I'm obsessed with Burdett's Bangkok Detective series and I can't not snap that up as soon as I see it.

• Bloodsucking Fiends : A Love Story by Christopher Moore - 1/5


• The Godfather of Kathmandu by John Burdett - 1/10


• Lonely Werewolf Girl by Martin Millar - 1/17

I'd love some recommendations for what to add to the list, if any of you have read anything interesting lately and want to pass it along. Til next time! --emily

updated schedule

Well, I blew through Boneshaker in the reading equivalent of fifteen minutes, so I'm adding a book to the list of things I'd like to finish before the end of the year.

• Green by Jay Lake   11/16


• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest   11/21


• Embassytown by China Mieville - 12/1


• The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennet - 12/7


• The Stranger by Max Frei - 12/19


• Goliath by Scott Westerfeld - 12/31

Also, I couldn't wait, I had to start Embassytown now. I'm 60 pages in and loving it so hard. (I'm kind of a Miéville fangirl... sorry in advance to anyone who doesn't like him.) So that's next. I'm putting 12/1 on the date not because I anticipate taking a long time to read it, but because I work in retail, and it's the week of Thanksgiving. :/

As for what's to come in 2012, the short answer is I have no idea yet. I have a stack half a mile tall of books I haven't read, courtesy of Borders closing sales [ :( forever] and pillaging my friend Steph's collection before she moved. I also have about fifty books on my Nook that I haven't read yet. However, I love recommendations, so please let me know if you've read something recently that you loved, no matter the genre. I will say I probably won't be reviewing any bestsellers (because there are tons of people already doing that very well) and I would love any good mystery recommendations, especially period mysteries. Love those.

Okay, time for me to go to work, and to count the hours til I can sit down and read more Embassytown. Cheers!
--emily