Books of 2007

[cornerofmadness]

since all the cool kids are doing it and since a fellow writers' group member got me hooked on compulsively recording what I read here are 99% (because I probably forgot a few) in 2007. Most reviews can be found at bookheaven (come, join, review) or you can just plain ask me and test my memory (have i mentioned I'm the model for Dorrie in Finding Nemo?) I fell short of my goal of 200 books. Pout.



Mystery

Echo Park - Michael Connelly
Antiques Roadkill - Barbara Allen
A Prayer for the Night - P. L. Gaus
Storm Front
Fool moon
Grave Peril - Jim Butcher
Born in Death – J.D. Robb
The Big Over Easy – Jasper Fforde
Bad Blood – Linda Fairstein*
Seventy-Seven Clocks – Christopher Fowler
Dead Canaries Don’t Sing – Cynthia Baxter
Flesh and Bone- Jefferson Bass
Saintly Murders – C.L. Grace
On the Wrong Track – Steve Hockensmith
Zombies of the Gene Pool – Sharyn McCrumb
The Lost Bird – Margaret Coel
Not a Girl Detective - Susan Kandel
The Face of Death – Cody McFadyen
Bones to Ashes - Kathy Reichs
The White Corridor - Christopher Fowler
Dexter in the Dark - Jeff Lindsay
Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
Relic by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Why Mermaids Sing - C. S. Harris
Blood Retribution by David & Aimee Thurlo

Horror/Urban Fantasy

The Vampire Files: Cold Streets – P.N. Elrod
The Vampire Files: Song in the Dark – P.N. Elrod
Club Dead – Charlaine Harris
Dead to the World – Charlaine Harris
Dead as a Doornail –Charlaine Harris


Fantasy
Brother Odd – Dean Koontz *
The Children of Hurin – JRR & Christopher Tolkein

Young Adult
Blood and Chocolate - Annette Curtis Klause (x reference – fantasy)
Midnighters: The Secret Hour –Scott Westerfeld (x reference – fantasy)
Gifts- Ursula K. LeGuin (x reference – fantasy)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -Rowling
The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman
The Subtle Knife - Phillip Pullman
Magic or Madness – Justine Larbalestier
Magic Lessons - Justine Larbalestier
Evil Star - Anthony Horowitz
Nightrise - Anthony Horowitz

Nonfiction
Grave’s End: a true ghost story – Elaine Mercado
American Sideshow - Marc Hartzman
Pirates: Scourge of the Seas – John Reeve Carpenter
Haunted Castles of the World –Charles A. Coulombe
Backgammon - Kazuya Minekura (art book)
Kazuya Minekura Illustrations (art book) - Kazuya Minekura
Crime Beat - Michael Connelly
BTK: The Unholy Messenger by Stephen Singular
The Miracle of Water by Masaru Emoto

Manga/Graphic novel

D. Gray-Man #3-7 by Katsura Hoshino
Cain Saga #1-4 by Kaori Yuki
Saiyuki 4-9 by Kazuya Minekura.
Saiyuki Reload #1-7 by Kazuya Minekura.
Le Portrait de Petite Cossette – Cossette House
Loveless 1- Yun Kouga
Her Majesty’s Dog #5- 6 - Mick Takeuchi
The Kindaichi Case Files: Kindaichi the killer part 1 - Yozaburo Kanari
Black Cat #3-9 - Kentaro Yabuki
Lament of the Lamb #3 - Kei Toume
Judas - Suu Minazuki
Psychic Academy #8 - Katsu Aki
Death note #-7-12 – Tsugumi Ohba
Bleach #17-20 – Tite Kubo
Fruits Basket #14-17 – Natsuki Takaya
Godchild #4 -6- Kaori Yuki
Kuro Gane #1-5 - Kei Toume
Trinity Blood #2 – SunaoYoshida
Mark of the Succubus – Ashly Raiti
Descendants of Darkness 1-3 - Yoko Matsushita
Rurouni Kenshin #2-15– Nobuhiro Watsuki
After School Nightmare #1-3 – Setona Mizushiro
Vampire Knight #1-2 – Matsuri Hino
Wild Adapter1-3 – Kazuya Minekura
Cantarella 1-2 - You Higuri
Innocent Bird – Hirotaka Hisaragi
Yurara 1-2 - Chika Shiomi
Buso renkin #1-4 – Nobuhiro Watsuki
Il Gatto sul G 1 - 2 - Tooko Miyagi
Ouran High School Host club1-9 – Bisco Hatori
Million Tears – Yuana Kazumi
Seven – Momoko Tenzen
Peacemaker Kurogane 2 – by Nanae Chrono
Soul Rescue#1- 2–Aya Kanno
Princess Resurrection #1 – Yasunori Mitsunaga
Apothecarius Argentum #1-2 – Tomomi Yamashita
Night of the Beasts #1 – Chika Shiomi
Mugen Spiral 1-2 - Mizuho Kusanagi
Ghost Hunt #7-9 – Shiho Inada & Fuyumi Ono
Gorgeous Carat: Galaxy - You Higuri
Anne Freaks #1 Yua Kotegawa
Claymore #1 – Norihiro Yagi
Black Knight – Kai Tsurugi
Chrono Crusade vol 1-8 by Daisuke Moriyama
Le Chevalier d’Eon #1-2 – by Tou Ubukata and Kiriko Yumeji
Jazz – Sakae Maeda and Tamotsu Takamure
Venus Vs Virus #1-2 - Atsushi Suzumi
Genjuno Seiza #1 – Matsuri Akino
Black Sun Silver Moon #1 by Tomo Maeda
Zombie Loan #1 - Peach Pit
Spiral: the bonds of reasoning by Kyo Shirodaira
Shiki Tsukai by To-Ru Zekuu
Fullmetal Alchemist: Under the Faraway Sun by Makoto Inoue



and this was just funny.

You Are Green Tea Pocky

Your attitude: natural and zen Peaceful yet full of life. Deep and thoughtful. You're halfway to tantric bliss!

What Flavor Pocky Are You?

Comments

[nowhere-winry.livejournal.com]

...yay for inadvertant typoes. Yay, I say.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hush you

[nowhere-winry.livejournal.com]

"member." *giggles*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hush

[nowhere-winry.livejournal.com]

*giggles more*

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

was it a large member? *snicker*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

naturally

[nowhere-winry.livejournal.com]

Member's Only-size. *grin*

[saphira112.livejournal.com]

What Flavor Pocky Are You? (http://www.blogthings.com/whatflavorpockyquizareyouquiz/)

Mwaha. and I agree with Winry up there. Yay for typoes. XD

P.S. *TACKLE GLOMP* Yay! DoD/YnM FAN! *huggles*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes I did enjoy DOD

[saphira112.livejournal.com]

Tis so hard to find fans of that manga nowadays. You're the first in a while.

Oh, and wanna know something? They completely dropped the 12th book of the manga. Tis discontinued.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah i know that. Actually several of my flist still write DoD fanfic

[saphira112.livejournal.com]

Hee, I write it, too!

Wish they hadn't dropped book 12 *ish peeved*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes, back in the 80's that happened all the time. always annoyed me

[saphira112.livejournal.com]

*nods* My friend was about ready to murder someone when she found out. She's CRAZY about that series 9and yaoi in general; she has Yellow which equals the Holy Yaoi Book)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i know. I don't like Yellow all that much. I don't like most yaoi books really. Too many of them have rape as a theme and frankly I'm not too comfortable with that

[saphira112.livejournal.com]

Neither am I, really. I'm not friend with someone anymore cause they showed me Enzai... *shudder at the memory* I wanted to murder myself. She was LAUGHING at the rape scene... she's insane... Never go around her. You are lucky you are not in Colorado and my high school (or are you...? O_o)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I am a fair distance from both Colorado and high school

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

I'm the same flavor of Pocky.... Kind of wish I could try some but I haven't seen it here. The only kinds I saw in Chinatown were chocolate, strawberry and the almond ones. :-(

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

my store has it. Next time i'm up in Columbus i'll get you some.

[marlex.livejournal.com]

I am shamed by your reading prowess. I bow to you and pledge to serve under your banners.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

snickers. Nice to have admirerers

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

What Flavor Pocky Are You? (http://www.blogthings.com/whatflavorpockyquizareyouquiz/)

Hey, have you ever read 'Blackout' by Keith DeCandido or 'The Lost Slayer' (all 4 in one) by Christopher Golden? I bought those for Aron, but I could never pique her interest and they just aren't my cup-o-tea. I'd like to find them a nice home where they'll be appreciated.

And, P.S. What's a 'pocky'?

And the answer is:

[nowhere-winry.livejournal.com]

Biscuit stick covered in icing, basically. Winry's eating Pocky in this illo.

(eld in one of her other journals)

Re: And the answer is:

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

Ahh, okay. Coolness. I was thinking they might be some kind of cigarette or something - but a biscuit is better.

And I didn't know nowhere_winry was you :)

Re: And the answer is:

[nowhere-winry.livejournal.com]

Pocky's yummy. I likes it. *grin* Strawberry's my favorite.

Yeah, I'm also nowhere_winry. *grin*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

read the lost Slayer but not Blackout

and ELD explained pocky for you

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

Would you like to have Blackout? I'd be more than happy to send it to you. I just hate having books sitting around, going to waste.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

sure if you don't want it

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

Coolness - I'll get it in the mail this afternoon

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

[kashicat.livejournal.com]

Oh. my. god. I know how busy you are, with work, with how much writing you do -- where on earth do you get time to read so much on top of that??

I read constantly, and only managed 52 books last year. I'm stunned. (And envious!)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Well a lot of that is manga. but i usually take an hour for bath and reading time