Sunday, January 02, 2011

2010 Book List

I ended at 52 books in 2010. With everything else on my plate, I'm happy with that number. Here's how I rated them.

5 star books:
  • The Help
  • Nurtureshock
  • Uglies
  • Drop City
  • Retirement Savings Time Bomb
  • Little Bee
  • Hunger Games
4 star books:
  • Girl with Dragon Tattoo
  • Reliable Wife
  • Raising Your Spirited Child
  • Shanghai Girls
  • Bad Mother
  • Your Four Year Old
  • Eating Animals
  • One Second After
  • The Big Short
  • Catching Fire
  • Expressive Photography
  • Under the Dome
  • Dead Until Dark
  • Five Dysfunctions of a Team (had to read for work and really enjoyed it)
There were 25 3 star books in the mix. I like to "clear my mind" in between great reads so I am okay with that number. There were two 1 star books:
  • Cutting for Stone. BORING AS HELL. This is my 2010 Twilight - the book everyone else loves but I totally hate.
  • I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. I will consider my parenting a complete failure if either of my children acts even 1% this horrible and disrespectful to women.
Most notable reading: I read the entire Hunger Games trilogy at the beach (re-read of first two for me).

Books I'm excited about for 2011:
  • Freedom
  • Zeitoun
  • Room
  • Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk
  • Packing for Mars

3 comments:

Amanda said...

I'm excited about Freedom also. I'm hoping my book club will take it on so I can kill two birds with one stone. I've been contemplating Eating Animals, I suspect you recommend it since you gave it 4 stars.

Marcia (123 blog) said...

I love your categories and your stars :) I rate my books out of 10 and I have a rule - I only keep 8, 9 and 10 - the rest get given away or resold to 2nd hand bookstores.

I need to go count mine.

Stacey said...

Thanks for the recommendations...Jeremy will love all the new Kindle purchases coming this weekend! I also LOVED the Hunger Games trilogy. I question how it will be made into a PG-13 movie.