You know which books are which, and you’re not afraid to tell. Email me or post below your top favorite book and one stinker reviewed in #CBR7 for a post I’m compiling for Pajiba to run at the end of the year. Oh all right, send me your top 3 favorites, and 1 crappy book.
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Please include for each:
- book title
- book author
- link to your review on the group blog
Deadline is 12/18.
Top 3 favs:
1. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern: http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/09/a-circus-i-really-wished-was-real/
2. Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel: http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/02/because-survival-is-insufficient/
3. Heyday by Kurt Andersen http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/11/in-which-inspector-javert-goes-to-america/
Worst book of the year:
Charming by Elliot James http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/01/i-wasnt-charmed/
Yessss I love this part!!!
The worst was easy, I have to think about the best.
I still need to do some careful pondering about which book gets the coveted third spot of all the good books I’ve read this year. The worst book was also easily picked.
Blonde Date? Is it Blonde Date because that was a goddamn classic, is what it was.
Speaking of classics, I should re-read A Kiss for Midwinter for the yule season.
I have yet to read ANY of the Sarina Bowen books (although thanks to various Amazon sales and your kind gift card, I now own all of them except that last 0ne that all the romance-reading Cannonballers seemed to dislike). They’re most likely going to be read in early 2016.
No, I’m having to choose between The Martian, The Legend of Lyon Redmond and Furiously Happy for my coveted third spot – they are all great in different ways and it’s an extremely difficult choice.
Owning all of them except the last one is a sound policy.
What Mrs. Julien said.
Yeah, definitely easiest to pick the worst one. That honor goes to the horrific, offensive Crazy in Alabama, by Mark Childress.
Best books? Discounting any I’ve ever read before (sorry Gaiman & King), that would be:
1. The Martian by Mark Weir
2. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (which I haven’t reviewed yet but will tmw. Actually, any of the Strike books would hit this list but I think this was my favorite)
3. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
It was so, so hard not to fill this list with Jojo Moyes & Liane Moriarty books, but since they began to run together after a while, I decided to leave them ALL off.
Now with links!
The worst: Crazy in Alabama (http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/09/i-think-you-mean-selfish-bitch-flees-alabama/)
The best:
1. The Martian by Andy (not Mark, that’s the astronaut…) Weir (http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/08/have-you-read-this-yet-read-it/)
2. Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/12/you-hear-that-thats-the-sound-of-thousands-of-shippers-screaming-their-hearts-out/)
3. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/03/pop-culture-like-you-wouldnt-believe/)
I read soooooooooo many good books this year :(
Why am I frowny facing at that? It’s good I read good books! But so hard to pick for a list.
I stand by my frowny-face, and I give him a brother: >:(
My favorites:
1. Slavery by Another Name by Douglas Blackmon: http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/08/more-than-any-other-ive-reviewed-i-recommend-this/
2. Moby Dick by Herman Melville: http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/11/moby-dick-is-a-sperm-whale-lets-all-just-laugh-about-that-now-so-we-can-get-on-with-the-review/
3. Decision Points by George W. Bush: http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/01/how-do-you-rehabilitate-the-devil/
Worst book of the year:
That’s more difficult. I’m currently reading a book on Nixon that I’m not enjoying at all, but I’m struggling with whether it’s a bad book or not. Right now, though, I have to go with:
Zoe’s Tale, by John Scalzi: http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/09/if-you-think-youve-been-here-before-you-have/
The worst book is easy. The three best? I’ve broken my brain trying to choose. In the end, I’ve had to go with three that I’ve been recommending to others and not shutting up about:
1. Wild by Cheryl Strayed: here.
2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr: here.
3. All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely: here
I still feel like I left off ten more amazing books…
And the worst book I read, by far, was:
Prudence by David Treur: here
Ummm, something went bad with that formatting. I’m such a Luddite.
Okay, trying again, thanks to MsWas.
Best:
Wild by Cheryl Strayed: http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/07/getting-lost-going-wild-finding-yourself/
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr: http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/03/finally-got-to-read-this-totally-worth-the-wait/
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely: http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/12/rashad-is-absent-again-today/
Worst:
Prudence by David Treuer: http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/04/npr-betrayed-me-cbr7s-big-disappointment-so-far/
Picking my worst book of the year really was very easy. It’s the only one star review I have.
Malin’s Worst of the Year:
A Kiss in the Dark by Kimberly Logan (1.5 stars): http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/12/a-regency-romance-where-the-hero-has-violet-eyes/
My best of the year was much harder, because I’ve read some really great books this year. The first two had no competition, and for the third spot, I really struggled to narrow it down. I have finally decided:
Malin’s third best in 2015:
Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson (5 stars): http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/09/benedict-cumberbatch-is-like-alan-rickman-benjamin-buttoning/
Malin’s second best in 2015:
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (5 stars): http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/03/and-another-one/
Malin’s absolutely best read of 2015 – no contest:
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (5 very shiny stars): http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/10/rainbow-rowell-ya-fantasy-perfection/
thanks, Malin and everyone!
Of the books I reviewed this year, I would say my three favorites were:
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/09/if-i-ever-meet-her-i-will-embarrass-ursula-k-le-guin-with-my-fangirl-weeping/
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/03/objectivity-is-for-the-weak/
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/10/29378/
And my least favorite book was:
Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer
http://cbr.bgwdesigns.com/2015/07/if-negative-stars-were-possible-thats-what-i-would-give-this-book/