Read My Own Books Month: Day 15

This week, Michelle from That’s What She Read asks: “Do you find your genre preference in review books differs from your genre preference in your personally owned books? Do you tend to select literary fiction to review but secretly adore chick lit or YA? What about thrillers or cozy mysteries?”

I read what I think I’ll like and I review what I think I’ll like. Since I read a wide variety of books anyway, I don’t think I have to stretch myself to request books that are outside my norm. My current review copies are:

If Jack’s In Love by Stephen Wetta (fiction; LibraryThing)

PrayerWalk by Janet Holm McHenry (Christian nonfiction; LibraryThing)

House of Prayer #2 by Mark Richard (memoir; LibraryThing)

Enemies of the Heart by Andy Stanley (Christian nonfiction, Waterbrook Multnomah)

The Jesus Inquest by Charles Foster (Christian nonfiction; BookSneeze)

I usually have a greater variety, but it looks like the Christian nonfiction is what’s stacking up. I think lately I’ve been into fiction — getting lost in the magic instead of dealing with reality. Also most of my sources of review copies are Christian publishers…so there you have it.

Oh, and I also have some from NetGalley on my Kindle. I haven’t even thought about my Kindle as “books I own,” especially because I’m a download-the-free-ones kind of girl. Maybe I’ll tackle that as a topic some other day this week.

I’m also going to continue to answer these two questions each week:

How many of your own books were you able to finish this week?

Three: March by Geraldine Brooks (audio), Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller, and Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (audio). Still working through The Stand and Game of Thrones, too.

Which one is your favorite?

That’s a hard choice. I love love loved the Donald Miller book — he always gives me so many things to think about, and after I finish his books I find I need to go buy new highlighters because all of mine have run out. I also really loved Never Let Me Go. I’m not sure what I expected (it’s been sitting on my shelf for ages), but an odd semi-dystopian love story was not it.

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7 Comments to “Read My Own Books Month: Day 15”

M-----l
August 15, 2011 at 11:21 am

I find it hard to believe that you haven’t gone nuts from trying to read The Stand and Game of Thrones at the same time. I’ve read them both and think there must’ve been at least 600 named characters between the two books.

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- Cori
  August 15, 2011 at 11:25 am
  
  I’ve never had a problem keeping books straight, really. People in The Stand are named Stan and Bob and Nick. People in Game of Thrones are named Petyr and Sansa and Sir Hugh of the Vale. It’s not too bad, really. If I was reading two similar fantasy novels, I’d probably have a tougher time.
  
  Also, I’ve been watching the Game of Thrones miniseries, so all of those characters have faces. And all of the people in The Stand look like Gary Sinese, because he’s on the cover of my copy.
  
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Michelle
August 15, 2011 at 6:45 pm

I am so impressed that you are tackling THE STAND! It is not among my current TBR, but it is one I hope to read some day.

I am also impressed with how much you have been able to finish this week! I must admit I am slightly jealous. Glad to hear that your non-review and review books are so similar. There are days I wish mine were because I wouldn’t feel so crazy jumping from a classic to a YA to a paranormal to a lit fic.

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- Cori
  August 15, 2011 at 9:29 pm
  
  Two of them were audio! My print books are sloooowly getting read. But at least the audio books were books I have in print that I can now shift over to the “I’ve Read It” shelf. :)
  
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bernadette
August 17, 2011 at 9:36 pm

I’m also jealous of how much you were able to read this month! I’m still slogging away at the first book I picked this month. I like it, but it’s a Vietnam memoir and can get a bit unsettling….

I hope you like Game of Thrones. I really like the series although it does get rather bloody. I just finished watching the HBO series. It’s been years since I read Game of Thrones (I recently finished the latest installment and found that I had forgotten a bit) so the show felt like a nice refresher on how it all started.

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- Cori
  August 19, 2011 at 12:03 pm
  
  I am liking the miniseries, though it’s a little sexually graphic for my taste. Doesn’t seem necessary compared to what’s in the book.
  
  The book so far is really good! I’m glad I started the miniseries, though, before I started reading…all the characters were so easy to remember because they had faces!
  
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  - bernadette
    August 19, 2011 at 3:32 pm
    
    I completely agree about the gratuitous nudity and sex scenes. I was really annoyed by it and hope that they figure out that the show’s best scenes are the ones where all the characters are clothed!
    
    Since I read the series first, I have a very definite image of the characters in my mind. Danaerys didn’t look how I imagined her – I thought the actress was good but she didn’t look how I pictured her – but Peter Dinklage as Tyrion was perfect. And I thought they got Jaime right. I wonder if the HBO actors will start replacing the images I have in my head. I hope not but it’s fun to see how they present the story.

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