Time for another catch-up on my reading! I'm not entirely sure I'll get to 100 books this year but it's going to be close I think...
69. Smokin' Seventeen- Janet Evanovich
The latest in the Stephanie Plum novels. It wasn't the best in the series but it was fun and readable, like so many of the others once I started it I had to finish it pretty much the same day.
70. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner- Stephanie Meyer
So, I had a thing for Twilight. I thought this book might totally suck, just a way for Meyer to make some extra cash on the back of the Twilight love in. In actuality it was perfectly readable and it doesn't seem like a pointless add on. It didn't detract from the original series and actually fleshed out a character that I did feel needed a little more page time in the original books. It was strange knowing exactly how the book would end before starting it and I thought it would suffer for that but strangely it didn't make me care any less.
71. Mondegreens- J.A. Wine
This was one of those random books I picked up because it looked a bit interesting and in the same vein as "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" or "Schotts Miscellany" and it was. Just not as good as those really. Oh well, some you win, some you lose.
72. Artemis Fowl & The Atlantis Complex- Eoin Colfer
I have really loved the Artemis Fowl books but I struggled to get into this one at all. It seemed to be a lot of different bits of story, no overarching plot or danger. If there is another one it will take a lot of convincing to get me to read it. I might be done with the Irish Boy Fairy.
73. Spider Bones- Kathy Reichs
I haven't read one of the Tempe Brennan books for ages, and it takes a chapter of two for me to differentiate the book from the TV Show. I was expecting this to feel really tired like allseries eventually do but it didn't- I loved the references to facebook, blogging and iphones. I loved the Hawaii setting. The on off relationship with Ryan. I hope that she writes another one.
74. Not That Kind of Girl- Catherine Alliott
I've had this book beside my bed for about, ooh 2 years. No idea why I haven't read it before now. I guess the best way to describe it would be Chick-Lit for the old married be-childrened among us. I haven't read any proper Chick-Lit since the start of the year and I forgot how much I enjoyed the escapism of it all.
75. To The Shrines- Sir Richard Burton
Another of the Penguin Travel series. This time an Englishman pretending to be an Indian Muslim travelling to Mecca.
76. Sad Cypress- Agatha Christie
Poirot sets out to find out whether the accused heiress in the dock actually committed the crime. I was convinced I had it totally solved and everything, and I kind of did. Except not at all, oh so frustrating and oh so, so good.
Only 24 to go...
