Saturday, January 3, 2009

Book & Magazine Reviews 2009

Collection, BookLabel, Releases, ESpot, Previous,
Reviews: '08, '07, '06, '05, My Shelfari Page

Top 5 Non-Fiction: 1. UJ's BR 16th Unstoppable, 2. Secret Lives of the US Presidents, 3. UJ's BR Certified Organic, 4. ACR The Colossal Reader.
Top 5 Fiction: 1. The Last Oracle, 2. Event, 3. The Big Book of Lies.
Top 5 Magazines: 1. The Week Magazine, 2. Mental Floss, 3. BBC Knowledge, 4. History Magazine, 5. Science News Weekly.

Total: 35. Rated: A-1, B-18, C-13, D-2, F-0.
J-6, F-4, M-7, A-5, M-6, J-4, J-1, A-2, S-0, O-0, N-0, D-0.
NonFiction: 17. Fiction: 18. Comics: 5. Audio (A): 0.


Ancient - David Golemon (5.26) B-
Big Book of Little Criminals (1.17) B
Big Book of Vice (1.31) C-
Big Book of Weirdos (2.21) B
Big Book of the Berenstain Bears (5.13) A
Book of Lies - Brad Meltzer (6.16) B
ACR - The Colossal Reader (1.31) B
ACR - The Book of Incredible Information (3.24) B-
ACR - The Book of Myths & Misconceptions (5.6) C+
ACR - Weird, Scary & Unusual Stories & Facts (3.4) B-
Cross - James Patterson (3.12) C+
Cross Country - James Patterson (8.4) D
Dangerous Days of Daniel X - James Patterson (7.31) D
Double Cross - James Patterson (3.27) C
Event - David Golemon (3.12) B
Hot, Flat & Crowded - Thomas L Friedman (1.13) B
The Ice Limit - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (6.25) C
Indiana Jones (#2) & the Dance of the Giants - Rob MacGregor (4.30) C
Indiana Jones (#1) & the Peril at Delphi - Rob MacGregor (3.5) C-
The Last Oracle - James Rollins (6.10) B+
Legend - David Golemon (4.12) B-
Little Critter Storybook Collection (5.13) C+
Mental Floss - What's the Difference (1.27) B-
My Boring Ass Life - Kevin Smith (6.3) C-
Scarecrow - Matthew Reilly (4.27) B-
Secret Lives of the US Presidents - Cormac O'Brien (3.26) B+
The Six Sacred Stones - Matthew Reilly (2.27) C+
UJ's BR - Certified Organic (4.20) B
UJ's BR - Plunges Into Hollywood (2.17) C-
UJ's BR - Plunges Into Music (5.11) C+
UJ's BR - Sports Spectacular (1.20) B-
UJ's BR - Salutes the Armed Forces (4.28) C
UJ's BR - 16th Unstoppable (2.9) B
What if? Classic Vol. 5 - Marvel (5.2) C-
Wrapped-Up FoxTrot (Treasury 11) - Bill Amend (8.10) B+

Magazines
Subscriptions: The Week Magazine, Mental Floss, BBC Knowledge, Science News Weekly, Blender, CMJ New Music Monthly, Popular Science, Wired, Costco Connection.
Others I Enjoy: History Magazine, Popular Mechanics, Biography Magazine, Penny Press Quarterly - All Star Variety Plus Easy Sudoku, The History Channel Magazine, & Games Magazine.

Books in Que
Year's Best SF14 - Hartwell & Cramer, Third Term - Paul Begala.
Books That Seem Interesting
Essential - Spider-Man Vol. 9 (5.20.09)
Essential - Peter Parker Spectacular Spider-Man Vol. 4
Essential - Marvel Team-Up Vol. 3
Shootin’ The Sh*t with Kevin Smith (9/22)
Censored 2010-Top 25 Stories v.32 - Project Censored (Oct)
UJ's BR - Wise Up (Oct)
UJ's BR - 22nd Endlessly Engrossing (Nov)
Best American Science & Nature Writing 2009 v.10 (Oct)
The Associate - John Grisham (9.22.09)
Mental Floss/Maggie Koerth-Baker - Be Amazing (2009)
Blue Bike Bathroom Book of Colorado Trivia ISBN-13: 9781897278451
David Rubel - The Bedside Baccalaureate Second Semester (2009)
Jon Land - The Seven Sins (2009)
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest (1996)
Steven Levitt - Freakonomics (2005)
Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point (2000)
Yes We Can! - Paula Munier (2008)
Only in Harback (I will be interested once in Paperback)
Jake Ransom & the Skull King's Shadow - James Rollins (4.28)
Doomsday Key - James Rollins (Sigma #5, 6.23)
The Altar of Eden - James Rollins (10.28)
Leviathan - David Golemon (8.4.09)
Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton (11.24.09)
Ford County - John Grisham (10.20.09)
The Five Greatest Warriors - Matthew Reilly (10/09)
Cemetery Dance - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child (5.12.09)

Alex Cross's Trial - James Patterson (8.24.09)
I, Alex Cross - James Patterson (11.16.09)