| Cover | Title | Authors | Date Read | Rating | Notes |
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 | Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightning | Danette Haworth | 10/5/2008 | 5 | Beth read this book for a report in school, and we read too so we could help out (if needed). All loved it. The character interactions rang true and it was pretty funny. |
 | The Grift: A Novel | Debra Ginsberg | 9/17/2008 | 4 | Really liked it, but it lost me a few times. The story is as much about the people who seek out the psychic, as the psychic herself. |
 | The Accidental Time Machine | Joe Haldeman | 9/8/2008 | 4 | Good time travel story with a so-so ending. |
 | Gale Force (Weather Warden, Book 7) | Rachel Caine | 9/4/2008 | 5 | I really liked it, but I was pissed off it ended in the middle of a story line with very little resolved. I was tempted to give it a low rating on principle. but I liked it too much. |
 | Lottery | Patricia Wood | 8/31/2008 | 5 | Great story about friendship and one person's secret to leading a happy life. |
 | Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives | Jim Sheeler | 8/29/2008 | 3 | Hard to read, glad I did. |
 | What the Dead Know | Laura Lippman | 8/19/2008 | 4 | More than just a transitional book. A good story about parents grieving the loss of children. |
 | Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, Book 4) | Stephenie Meyer | 8/12/2008 | 5 | I didn't realize this was intended as the final book until I finished, and read the amazon description. I'm usually a little disappointed when I finish a book I really enjoy... and I really enjoyed this one. But knowing it might be the last I read of Bella and Edward is really sad. |
 | Chronospace | Allen Steele | 8/1/2008 | 3 | OK time travel story. Starts with a NASA scientist suggesting that UFO sitings were due to time traveling, future humans rather than alien intelligence. |
 | They'd Rather Be Right | Mark Clifton | 7/17/2008 | 3 | |
 | The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 7/9/2008 | 5 | I didn't think I'd like this book, but I'd heard it was good and I'd dared myself to try something a little different.
It paid off. I have no other point of reference, but it seemed like a great story about Afghanistan, and the devestating toll the old Soviet Union and the Taliban has taken. Yet, there's a lot more to the book. I know it's kind of cliche, but I felt like I really knew the characters... and didn't know them at all, at the same time. A lovely book. |
 | No Country for Old Men | Cormac McCarthy | 7/2/2008 | 3 | OK. Didn't live up to it's billing. Didn't miss the quotes (cues as to who's speaking) so much in The Road, but I really missed them here. |
 | Odd Hours | Dean Koontz | 6/25/2008 | 5 | Back to form. My last Koontz book was a disappointment. This one wasn't. As always, loved the dialog... lots of chuckles. |
 | From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 8) | Charlaine Harris | 6/22/2008 | 5 | A lot happens in this one, compared to prior installments. It's fully involved. |
 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | 6/20/2008 | 5 | Blew me away. Too many tears to count. Clare and Henry are characters that will stay with me for a long time. |
 | All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 7) | Charlaine Harris | 6/18/2008 | 4 | I was disappointed in the last book in the series, but this one was pretty good. I couldn't quite embrace the Quin character before... until this one. Liked the story as a whole better. |
 | Spin | Robert Charles Wilson | 6/6/2008 | 5 | i dug it. I different kind of first contact story. I could relate to the main character. |
 | Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 1) | Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson | 6/2/2008 | 2 | Disappointing. I don't mind it when stories jump around between events/characters, but this one did it so often it was a little hard for me to keep my interest up. It didn't help that there were a few recurring parts that didn't hold my interest as much. |
 | The Host: A Novel | Stephenie Meyer | 5/24/2008 | 5 | Loved this book. I can see why folks might not like the author's books, but I'm consistently touched by the character's vulerability. |
 | Spindrift | Allen Steele | 5/17/2008 | 4 | I was tempted to give this one five stars, but I'm worried about grade inflation. I'd make a lousy critic.
I story that builds on one of the side stories of the Coyote series. |
 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | 5/9/2008 | 4 | Told completely from the point of view of a boy with some form of autism (possibly Asperger's syndrome?). |
 | Camouflage | Joe Haldeman | 5/5/2008 | 4 | I haven't been disapponted by one of the author's books. A good "aliens among us" story. |
 | Eternity Road | Jack Mcdevitt | 4/30/2008 | 3 | Love the post-apocalypse stories... but not this one (quite as much). It was still good, but it seemed to fizzle at the end. |
 | Something from the Nightside (Nightside, Book 1) | Simon R. Green | 4/23/2008 | 2 | I wanted to like this book. |
 | Thunderbird Falls (The Walker Papers, Book 2) | C.E. Murphy | 4/18/2008 | 3 | |