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Just my list for myself.

1. Briar Rose, Jane Yolen
2. Gentlemen Prefer Succubi, Jill Myles
3. Julie & Julia, Jule Powell
4. Cockatiels at Seven, Donna Andrews
5. Heaven and Earth, Nora Roberts
6. Fall into Fire, Nora Roberts
7. We'll Always Have Parrots, Donna Andrews
8. Six Geese A-Slaying, Donna Andrews
9. Believe It, Be It, Ali Vincent
10. A Wizard's Dilemma, Diane Duane
11. Soulless, Gail Carriger
12. Changeless, Gail Carriger
13. Succubi Like It Hot, Jill Myles
14. Cover Her Face, PD James
15. Her Side, Mur Lafferty and JR Blackwell
16. Quarter Share, Nathan Lowell
17. Red Hot Fury, Kasey Mackenzie
18. Blameless, Gail Garriger
19. Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
20. A Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie
21. Bag of Bones, Stephen King
22. Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
23. Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
24. The Way of the Cheetah, Lynn Viehl
25. Geist, Philippa Ballantine
26. The Private Patient, PD James
27. Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal
28. Christmas Memories with Recipes
29. After the Diagnosis by Dr. Julien Seifter
30. The Plum Pudding Murders

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Which is probably why I'm wiped today, lol.

8. Six Geese A-Slaying, by Donna Andrews

Yeah, another Meg Langslow mystery. I'm addicted, what can I say? Fun, as always, although in this one I spotted the murderer fairly early on. Then again, maybe I'm just getting better? And there was Spike! And Dr. Langslow, who is just too much fun.

I need more of these.

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I've added three books to my 52-book challenge since I last updated.

4. Cockatiels after Seven, by Donna Andrews
I love the Meg Langsdow mysteries, and was lucky enough to be on an email group with Donna Andrews back when she was starting out. Meg and Michael are hysterical, her family is awesome (although she doesn't like to admit it) and Spike is great. Trust me on this one - if you want some fun mysteries with a bit of family madness thrown in, this is a great series. The very first one is Revenge of the Wrought Iron Flamingos.

5. Heaven and Earth, by Nora Roberts
6. Fall into Fire, by Nora Roberts
These are the second and third books respectively of the Three Sisters Island trilogy (I read the first one, To Dance Upon the Air, in December and fell in love with the series), and I gobbled them up. Nora is hit or miss with me - I adored the Born In series, but haven't really found too many since then that I liked. I do love these. Nell, Ripley and Mia are wonderfully strong women in their own rights, and the way they deal with magic is pretty cool. Book two is Earth, Ripley's book. Book three is Mia, Fire.

More coming. I'm still reading. Any bets on when I'll hit 52? :D

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Julie & Julia, My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Julie Powell

My mother said this book was whiny. I can kind of understand that - Julie Powell was definitely going through a "OMGMYLIFESUCKS" phase when she decided to cook her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and you get the sense of that in her writing. That being said (and having gone through at least one phase like that), I enjoyed this book. Yes, she was whiny. She was also funny, frank and entirely self-conscious throughout the book (maggots??? Dude, if there were maggots growing in my drip pan, I wouldn't tell ANYONE, nevermind the entire world), which was pretty cool. It's like looking in someone's diary.

I'm not a fan of French cooking (heavy food doesn't do it for me anymore), but it was fun to read her trials and tribulations. And she learned a lot.

I probably wouldn't read again, but it was fun.

(No, I haven't seen the movie yet. I'm waiting for it to come on On-Demand.)

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Book 2 - Gentlemen Prefer Succubi by Jill Myles

Yum. That's really the most succinct way to put my reaction to this book. I love the characters - Jill has a wonderful grasp of them, and they all came off the page at me, full of life and lust. Jackie, her main character, is great as she struggles with life (or Afterlife, as the case may be) as a new Suck in New York City, and her new best friend Remy is a hoot. I'm a Noah girl personally after the end of the book, but apparently I'm in the minority - I like Zane, but he's...I dunno. Too devil-may-care for me. :)

No spoilers, because I'm giving a copy away, and I want you all to enjoy it. Suffice to say that I'm already planning on haunting the bookstores on the 19th (or sooner!) for my copy of Succubi Like it Hot, the next book in the series. And you know, I think there might be two copies.

One of them might be signed.

It might even be given away here. :D

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Going to do this challenge - and see how long it takes me. I'm making sure it's new to me books - I tend to do a LOT of rereading, because I have a lot of comfort books.

#1 - Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

This was a disturbing book for me, mostly because a big part of the story deals with the Holocaust. My family is Jewish - my mother's parents came from Poland after the War, and so I really felt for the protagonist's grandmother. There were two stories here: the contemporary story of Becca as she tried to figure out where her grandmother came from, and Gemma's story.

Really, the romance in this between Becca and Stan felt almost like an afterthought to me, and I'll admit to skimming the little interludes where Becca is remembering Gemma tell the story of Briar Rose. Really, the book came alive for me in Poland, where Becca finally discovers who Gemma really was.

I'm not going to grade these, but I don't think I'll read this again.

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