Books I've read this year

[hils]

1. The Odyssey - Homer
2. Smallville: The Comics - Misc
3. The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray - Chris Wooding
4. Lex Luthor: Man of Steel - Brian Azzarello & Lee Bremejo
5. The Ultimates: Super-Human - Mark Millar
6. The Ultimates: Homeland Security - Mark Millar
7. Supreme Power - J. Michael Straczynski, Jeff Youngquist, Gary Frank
8. Cursed - Med Odom
9. The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
10. Fantastic Four: Imaginauts - Mark Waid
11. Ultimate Spider-Man - Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley & Bill Jemas
12. Mr Midshipman Hornblower - CS Forester
13. Fantastic Four: Unthinkable - Mark Waid
14. Ultimate Spider-Man vol 2 - Brian Michael Bendis
15. Astonishing X-Men: Gifted - Joss Whedon
16. The Ultimates: Gods & Monsters - Mark Millar
17. Great Vampire Stories - Misc
18. My Take - Gary Barlow
19. Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous - Joss Whedon
20. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
21. Lieutenant Hornblower - C.S. Forester
22. Fantastic Four: Authoritative Action - Mark Waid
23. We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
24. Hornblower and the Hotspur - C.S. Forester
25. Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 - David Peterson
26. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
27. Ultimate Spider-Man vol 3 - Brian Michael Bendis
28. Ultimate Spider-Man vol 4 - Brian Michael Bendis
29. Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean - Justin Somper
30. The Ultimates: Grand Theft America - Mark Millar
31. Liquor - Poppy Z. Brite

I'm so glad I waited until now to read this book. Poppy's writing style has matured in the same way that my reading tastes have. I know people have accused her for selling out now that she writes more mainstream stuff but I call it maturing.

I still love Lost Souls and Drawing Blood but they are vastly different to Liquor. She's much lessed focussed on the sex and violence and more on the characters and their lives. It's easy to forget that the two main characters are a gay couple because she doesn't make a big deal about it and I kind of like that.

Anyway, she is still my favourite author and she still hasn't lost her ability to create wonderful characters and really suck me into the world she has created. I absolutely loved it and next on the list, not surprisingly, is Prime, her next book in the series. Looking forward to it already.

Comments

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

If I could only recall all of the books I have read this year.... mind if I gank yer idea and make up a list myself?

[hils.livejournal.com]

Not at all. I've been updating this every time I finish one so I don't forget :)

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

So far my list has surpassed thirty o_0 I hadn't realized just how much I really did read. Haha. *feels like a loo-zar now*

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! That's good, though. I wish I had time to read more.

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

There are three weeks or so left until 2008 - you've still got time! *pressurerushrushpressure*

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! I might get one more book read but it's unlikely. LOL!

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

Random but... spending four and a half hours carefully decorating the Luthor manor only to find you made the entire thing IN THE WRONG NEIGHBOURHOOD is a kick in the figurative gonads.

Seriously. I just spent twenty minutes backing up my familes and such I had made earlier today and another ten uploading them/recreating family ties via the CAS.


*eyetwitch* As a fellow Simmer, I'm sure you've had your fair share of annoyances with the game, si?

[hils.livejournal.com]

Ya! You know you can move houses into other neighbourhoods, right?

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

Yeah but this is a custom neighbourhood I'd spent a few days on and yeah, my Sims were stuck back in Veronaville XD



...I've the urge to read Shakespeare...

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! I think it's an easy fix though :)

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

Reading Shakespeare or moving my sims? lol.




....also Lex just got rejected from private school! AHAHAHA! That's never happened to my sims before! I'm like, the king of sending kids away. It's my thing. Jeeezus.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Moving the Sims

Although reading Shakespeare should be easy to do as well. LOL!

Aww! Poor Lex! Is he crying?

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

Haha, nope! He's now playing piano (http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l125/heygreaser/snapshot_d46cd78e_346cdb59.jpg) while Lionel's throwing a fit in the study.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hee! Brilliant!

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

I want to kill a Sim so the manor is haunted >;p Would be funny seeing either Lex or Lionel piddling in fear ahahaha.


*iz evilz*

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hee! I don't have any ghosts in my game. Maybe it's time someone died *grins*

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

a friend of mine got really evil and told me to make jonathan kent snuff it. i snorted my hot chocolate xD


though he'd wind up haunting the kent farm and that would be boring.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Who have you got haunting the mansion?

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

no one. yet.

[hils.livejournal.com]

You should make a wife for Lionel and then kill her ;)

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

Bravo! You got quite the response from me with that one. You're evil, and, haha, I can't believe you suggested that!


Nevermind that I just might go ahead and do that. . .

[hils.livejournal.com]

*grins*

Will we get screencaps?

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

that thread got too skinny and i could no longer make it out xD



yes, you shall get screencaps, but unfortunately, the only way i know how to kill a sim is by burning them alive.


lionel has a vase in his study, that can set fire to any sim he chooses >;p

[hils.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHA! Smallville!Lionel needs one of those so he can kill Lana *g*

[ghosts.livejournal.com]

lana's only a child now - perhaps once she grows up >;p