Booking Through Thursday: Annual Review

What’s the best book you read this year?

Worst?

Favorite?

For the best (and my favorite!), I refer you to my 2010 in Review post—the top spot on my top ten list went to, of course, The Lord of the Rings, which I reread in the spring. As I walked the dog yesterday, I pondered the pre-The Lord of the Rings world; it was kind of frightening.

As for the worst? C. J. Cherryh’s The Paladin, a novel that tries to get you to sympathize with a protagonist who believes in corrective rape. Disgusting. Corrective rape is still a problem in our world; if you’ve a moment, please take it to sign this petition to make corrective rape a hate-crime in South Africa (it’s commonly used to assault lesbian women). It’ll make me feel better about having read this.

An honorable mention must go to Abby from Tyger Tyger, an annoyingly unfunny sassy best friend who absolutely infuriated me, although the book itself was decent. I hope she gets eaten by goblins, that binary-reinforcing, disrespectful, pace-destroying twit.

Review: Tyger Tyger

Tyger Tyger by Kersten Hamilton

I have to admit, my initial perusal of NetGalley descended into childishly greedy glee pretty much immediately, although I did maintain some level of control–I requested Tyger Tyger because of Celia’s glowing review. After Sisters Red, I needed something restore my faith in young adult supernatural fiction. Tyger Tyger didn’t succeed, but it was a step in the right direction.

Teaser Tuesday: Tyger Tyger

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

“Took one look at him, I did, and my heart stopped beating.”
“You’ve had heart trouble that long?”

pg. 172-173 of Tyger Tyger by Kersten Hamilton

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!