2018 Year of Reading Review

 

 

Number of books read: 639.  This numbers includes short eBooks and single-issue comic books. 

 

Best Debut: The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

 

Best Cat Book: Fuddles series of children books

 

Best Poetry: Emergencies of the Heart

 

Best Memoir: Widower’s Notebook.  Michelle Obama’s Becoming is a close second.  But I didn’t think I would like Widower’s Notebook and it made me buy a book, so it just gets the win.

 

Best Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Graphic Novel

 

Best Travel: Tale from the Haunted South

 

Best Comic Series: Sensation Wonder Women

 

Best Current Events: Suspect Citizens tied with Crashed

 

Thought it was going to suck but it didn’t: Ella

 

OMG Finally a Sequel: Once Upon a time Machine Greek Myths

 

Best Biography:  David Blight’s biography of Frederick Douglass. 

 

Will I Ever Stop Loving This Book:  Watership Down tied with Possession

 

Looks like a Lifetime movie but is so much better: What Happened that Night

 

Best Book of the Year: Niirlit

 

Children’s Book: Suite for Human Nature

 

Red Riding Hood Story: Little Red Riding Sheep

 

Well, if you are going to end it, at least it’s good: I Hate Fairyland  Vol 4

 

Started Good but WTF happened to that: The Darkest Thread

 

So that’s why everyone talks about this book: Tales of the City

 

Sherlock Holmes rift: Warlock Holmes

 

True Crime: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

 

Best Book about Reading: A Dreadful Fairy Book

 

Best Parody:  Besides the Cocky parody books, The Wordsmiths of Grosmere simply because of Tim Curry as Lord Byron.

 

Best Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View

 

Ghost Story: The Family Plot

 

WTF Did I just Read; it is great: Dinosaur Dump

 

Werewolf Book: Werewolf Haiku

 

Best Troy Retelling: Age of Bronze Vol 1

 

 

 

For this year: I want to knock out the books I have but have not read in various series I have started.