2015 Reading: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 books)

I listened to these straight through on my way to work or any car ride that would take longer than 20 minutes. All 13. I originally started them because I had seen the movie and I heard that Tim Curry read the audiobooks and then I just wanted to know more about them. It's very seldom that you get a young children's novel (or set of novels) that have no happy endings in them at all. (I'm fond of Summer of My German Soldier and Jacob Have I Loved as well.)

I really enjoyed listening to them. I can honestly say that there were parts that made me laugh out loud and other parts that made me grip the steering wheel in anger.

This brings my total up to 44 for the year so far and I'm in the middle of another that I hope to finish before New Year's. Better than I was thinking. Still worse than last year.

2015 Reading: Shattered Mirror

This was another one of those books that was on my shelf that I still had not read. I knew it would be a fast read so I went ahead and powered through it. I've read this author before and I know she was a young girl at the time she wrote this and I can't help noticing that it's a little obvious. I liked her other book Demon in My View, but I was much younger when I read it. I guess tastes do change as you get older. Or something.

Another one of those teen angst vampire/witch dangerous romance books. Teenage hunter witch ends up falling for vampire dude, angst and despair. The end. Blah. I don't care. This is one of the books that might fall victim to my next library purge since I think just once is enough. I mean, it was a good book, but it's not something memorable that I'm going to think of fondly ad reread for nostalgia purposes. We'll see.

On to the next.