Book List
I always seem to forget what books I read. I can remember the content, but rarely the titles. Sometimes I have to get partway through a book before I realize that I've read it before. Therefore, I am going to copy Rayet. This is a list of the books I have read, starting on January 1, 2004.
The angel chickie indicates that the book was good.
The yelling chickie indicates that the book was not worth reading.
The number of chickies indicates just how much I feel that way.
Scale of 1 to 5.
5 Angel Chickies: Best
5 Yelling Chickies: Worst
I always seem to forget what books I read. I can remember the content, but rarely the titles. Sometimes I have to get partway through a book before I realize that I've read it before. Therefore, I am going to copy Rayet. This is a list of the books I have read, starting on January 1, 2004.
The angel chickie indicates that the book was good.
The yelling chickie indicates that the book was not worth reading.
The number of chickies indicates just how much I feel that way.
Scale of 1 to 5.
5 Angel Chickies: Best
5 Yelling Chickies: Worst
| Rating/Comment |
Title |
Genre |
(Best yet) |
Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce |
Fantasy |
(Bad ending; too much fighting) |
The Tribune by Patrick Larkin |
Historical Fiction |
|
(Good book, like the style) |
The Wholeness of a Broken Heart by Katie Singer |
Jewish Fiction |
| N/A (Very informative) |
Ask the Rabbi by Rabbi Ron Isaacs |
Nonfiction--Jewish |
|
(No comment) |
Fertile Ground by Rochelle Krich |
Jewish Mystery |
|
(Very pointless book) |
The Kingsbridge Plot by Maan Meyers |
Historical Mystery |
|
(No comment) |
Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen |
Fantasy |
|
(No comment) |
White Jenna by Jane Yolen |
Fantasy |
|
(Religiously factual to a point) |
The Daughters Victorious by Rabbi Shlomo (Stanley)
Wexler |
Jewish Fiction |
|
(Movie is better than book) |
The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera |
General Fiction |
|
(Best in quartet) |
Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce |
Fantasy |
|
(Power to the Wolf!) |
Wolf-Speaker by Tamora Pierce |
Fantasy |
|
(Starts to slip--but still good) |
Emperor Mage by Tamora Pierce |
Fantasy |
|
(Really could have been better) |
The Realms of the Gods by Tamora Pierce |
Fantasy |
| N/A (Wow. Complicated...) |
Keeping Kosher by Samuel H. Dresner |
Nonfiction--Jewish |
|
(Horrible Nazis...) |
The Devil's Arithmatic by Jane Yolen |
Historical Fiction |
|
(No comment) |
Nice Jewish Girls (edited) by Marlene Adler Marks |
Jewish Fiction Nonfiction--Jewish |
|
(Too many sad stories Prequal was much better) |
The Girls in the Back of the Class by LouAnne Johnson |
Nonfiction--Memoir |
|
(Always read First Test first) |
Page by Tamora Pierce |
Fantasy |
|
(Funny scenes!) |
Squire by Tamora Pierce |
Fantasy |
|
(Why'd the horse have to die?) |
Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce |
Fantasy |
|
(Best in series--go Tris!) |
Shatterglass by Tamora Pierce |
Fantasy |
|
(Can't stand journey books-- otherwise good) |
Green Rider by Kristen Britain |
Fantasy |
|
(Good book, touching stories) |
Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul (edited?)
by Jack Canfield et. al. |
Nonfiction--Jewish |
|
(Rather boring...) |
Witch Child by Celia Rees |
Historical Fiction |
|
(Devo's a sucker for memoirs... hard to read emotionally) |
Living at the Edge of the World by Jamie Pastor
Bolnick and Tina S. |
Nonfiction--Memoir |
|
(Rather boring. Just glad to be done with it) |
Tomorrowland (edited) by Michael Cart |
General Fiction |
|
(Much better than the prequal) |
Sorceress by Celia Rees |
General Fiction |
|
(How come these books are always better when you're younger?) |
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi |
General Fiction |
|
(Hated the characters... Definitely a BG book) |
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory |
HIstorical Fiction |
|
(Slow start, good overall) |
Foreign Correspondence by Geraldine Brooks |
Nonfiction--Memoir |
|
(Josh, I don't see your point) |
Camilla by Madeleine L'Engle |
General Fiction |
|
(It had better never get like that. That's a true nightmare) |
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
Classics |
|
(Of all her series, Trickster is definitely the best) |
Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce |
Fantasy |
|
.5 (Not much of a story... That town's worse than here!) |
Drummers of Jericho by Carolyn Meyer |
General Fiction |
|
(Again, much better in 5/6th grade) |
Behind the Bedroom Wall by Laura E. Williams |
Historical Fiction |
|
(Wasn't as interesting as I hoped) |
The Cure by Sonia Levitin |
Historical Fiction Science Fiction? |
|
(I like Evvy. She's cool) |
Street Magic by Tamora Pierce |
Fantasy |
|
(I didn't want to put it down...) |
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum |
Historical Fiction |
|
(How is this school book worthy?
Very much not a good story) |
Night by Elie Wiesel |
Historical Fiction |
|
.75 (Curse my ability to find errors) |
Pella's Angel by Meredith Bean McMath |
Historical Fiction |
|
(Leave the cat alone!) |
Katapult by Karen Kijewsiki |
Mystery |
|
.5 (Please tell me there's a sequel) |
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray |
Historical Fiction |
|
(Still just as good Still just as bi) |
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown |
Romance |
|
.5 (Got through it within 48 hrs Couldn't put it down/off) |
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier |
Historical Fiction |
|
.5 (To each her own) |
Lord of the Flies by William Golding |
Classics |
|
(Meredith Bean McMath's version is better) |
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw |
Play |
|
(Good stories; good collection) |
Am I Blue? (edited) by Marion Dane Bauer |
General Fiction |
|
(Religious stories!) |
The
Soul of the Text |
Nonfiction--Jewish |
|
(Raped when she was eight?) |
I Know
Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou |
Nonfiction--Memoir |
|
(If you're looking for Plague fiction, I highly recommend this book) |
Year
of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks |
Historical Fiction |
|
.5 (A bit dull... I didn't quite see the point) |
Maps
to Anywhere by Bernard Cooper |
Nonfiction--Essays Nonfiction--Memoir? |
|
(The last 84 pages were the best...) |
Robinson
Crusoe by Daniel Defoe |
Classics |
|
(Blah) |
Walking
Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton |
General Fiction |
|
(Someone tell me the point?) |
The
Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald |
Classics |
|
.25 (I honestly can't remember... wasn't too impressed, though) |
"A"
is for Alibi by Sue Grafton |
Mystery |
|
(More generational Jewish stuff.... anyone spot a theme here?) |
Four
Mothers by Shifra Horn |
Jewish Fiction |
|
(Why aren't my classes that interesting?) |
Dangerous Minds by LouAnne Johnson |
Nonfiction--Memoir |
|
.5 (Katapult was definitely better) |
Kat Scratch Fever by Karen Kijdwski | Mystery |
|
.5 (Is that really a L'Engle book? I expected much better) |
Meet
the Austins by Madeleine L'Engle |
General Fiction |
|
.5 (Good memoir, bad ending) |
Angela's
Ashes by Frank McCourt |
Nonfiction--Memoir |
|
(Plot too scattered Worst of its kind) |
Cry
of the Peacock by Gina B. Nahai |
Jewish Fiction |
|
(Pretty good for a school book) |
Animal Farm by George Orwell |
Classics |
|
.5 (The Circle Opens books are better than the Circle of Magic books, I think) |
Water
and Fire by Tamora Pierce (Sandry's
Book and Tris's Book bindup) |
Fantasy |
|
(The style's not so great... similarities are very amusing) |
Empress
of the World by Sara Ryan |
Romance |
|
(What's the point?) |
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger | Classics |
|
(The author really needs to stick to writing non-fiction...) |
The Unorthodox Murder of Rabbi Wahl by Joseph Telushkin | Mystery |
|
(*blink*) |
Cat's
Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
Classics |
|
(Not bad, but not gonna read the others) |
The Student Body by Valerie Wolzien | Mystery |
|
(Probably would have enjoyed it more if I was younger) |
Briar
Rose by Jane Yolen |
Historical Fiction? |
|
(Devo doesn't understand Shakespeare) |
Henry
V by Shakespeare |
Play Classics |
|
(Horrible ending ruined the book) |
Speak
No Evil by Rochelle Krich |
Jewish Mystery |
|
(Again on the Shakespeare) |
Richard
III by Shakespeare |
Play Classics |
|
(Not the worst read ever, but what's the point?) |
Old
Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway |
Classics |
|
.5 (Definitely recommend) |
Blues
in the Night by Rochelle Krich |
Jewish Mystery |
|
.5 (Definitely recommend, especially if Jewish or struggling with any type of religion) |
Generation J by Lisa Schiffman | Nonfiction--Jewish |
|
(Second best thing I had to read for Heitschmidt's class) |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Classics |
|
.75 (It's interesting just how much of her
books are based on her life...) |
Rita
Will by Rita Mae Brown |
Nonfiction--Memoir |
|
.5 (Too deep for the amount of time given)
|
Under
Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad |
Classics |
|
(Easy to read and to relate to, plus some of the stories were rather amusing) |
Lost & Found (edited) by M. Jerry Weiss and Helen S. Weiss | General Fiction |
|
(Not bad for a classic, but wonderful) |
Candide by Voltaire | Classics |
|
(How idiotic can that guy get?) |
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes | Classics |
|
.5 (Movie is better than book, but the book filled in some holes that the movie missed) |
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux | Classics |
|
.5 (All things non-Jewish are not evil, Mrs. Bronson! Even I know that...) |
The Jew Store by Stella Suberman | Nonfiction--Memoir Nonfiction--Jewish |
|
(What luck to find random refrence to sucha good book) |
The Ritual
Bath by Faye Kellerman |
Jewish Mystery |
|
(And the series goes on, and gets people hooked....) |
Sacred
and Profane by Faye Kellerman |
Jewish Mystery |
|
(It's bad when you care only about who did it and not about how the story goes) |
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie | Mystery |
|
(This is the best book I ever had to read for Heitschmidt's class) |
Man's
Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl |
Nonfiction--? |
|
(Okay, now Peter's treatment of Rina is starting to get on my nerves) |
Milk
and Honey by Faye Kellerman |
Jewish Mystery |
|
(Brings up some very good points...) |
Venus
Envy by Rita Mae Brown |
General Fiction |
|
(I don't care who wrote it, it's a good story) |
Sarah
by Marek Halter |
Historical Fiction |
|
(That fish thing is just sorta freaky...) |
Day
of Atonement by Faye Kellerman |
Jewish Mystery |
|
(I think her writing's going downhill...) |
False Prophet by Faye Kellerman |
Jewish Mystery |
|
(Info might be old, but it's still a worthwhile read) |
Twice Blessed by Christie Balka and Andy Rose |
Nonfiction--Jewish Nonfiction--Gay |
|
(Celeste should have lived!) |
Six of One by Rita Mae Brown |
General Fiction |